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TORAH 101 - With Rabbi Yaakov Wolbe

TORAH 101 is aptly described as “An Intellectual’s Introduction to Torah”. If you are a person who wants to understand the foundations of Torah in a logical and cogent fashion, if you don’t want to su... Read more

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#24: Prophecy: An Introduction

#24: Prophecy: An Introduction

Rambam’s Thirteen Principles of Faith can be divided into three general concepts: God, Torah, and Reward and Punishment.... Read more

25 Nov 2019

48mins

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#20: Creation Ex Nihilo and the Age of the Universe Question

#20: Creation Ex Nihilo and the Age of the Universe Question

In the Fourth of the Thirteen Principles of Faith, Rambam codifies the distinction between God and everything else and t... Read more

29 Jul 2019

54mins

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#3: Implications of the Authorship of the Torah

#3: Implications of the Authorship of the Torah

Why it matters who wrote the Torah. ——- This podcast was recorded live at the TORCH Centre in Houston, TX. Please visit ... Read more

30 Oct 2016

46mins

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#4: The Cognitive Dissonance to the Veracity of the Torah and why Sinai Denial is on Shakier Intellectual Grounds than Holocaust Denial

#4: The Cognitive Dissonance to the Veracity of the Torah and why Sinai Denial is on Shakier Intellectual Grounds than Holocaust Denial

We face internal resistance to the notion of a God-given Torah because that can create a divide between our beliefs and ... Read more

2 Nov 2016

44mins

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#11: Lost in Transmission: What Happens When Errors Occur in Oral Torah

#11: Lost in Transmission: What Happens When Errors Occur in Oral Torah

The Jewish nation is entrusted with the task of preserving and perpetuating the Torah mistake-free. We have previously s... Read more

4 Jan 2017

1hr 6mins

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#8: Why Moses Didn’t Simply Write Down the Oral Torah?

#8: Why Moses Didn’t Simply Write Down the Oral Torah?

For nearly a millennia and a half, the entire corpus of Oral Torah was transmitted orally from generation to generation;... Read more

15 Dec 2016

52mins

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#22: God Alone is Worthy of Worship

#22: God Alone is Worthy of Worship

In the fifth of the Thirteen Principles of Faith, Rambam codifies that God alone is worthy of our worship and that we ou... Read more

6 Oct 2019

59mins

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#12: The Thirteen Principles of Jewish Faith: God as Creator and Sustainer

#12: The Thirteen Principles of Jewish Faith: God as Creator and Sustainer

The clearest, most universally accepted articulation of the Principles of Jewish Belief are the Rambam’s Thirteen Princi... Read more

14 Mar 2019

58mins

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#18: Why Bad Things Happen to Good People: Three Torah Perspectives on this Vexing Problem

#18: Why Bad Things Happen to Good People: Three Torah Perspectives on this Vexing Problem

The question of theodicy is one that all people of faith grapple with. The Talmud records multiple conversations between... Read more

17 Jun 2019

55mins

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#21: Torah and Science: Can they be Reconciled?

#21: Torah and Science: Can they be Reconciled?

There are many areas where Torah and the consensus of modern scientists seem to irreconcilably differ. The Torah indicat... Read more

16 Sep 2019

57mins

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#5: An Unprecedented Eternal Nation

#5: An Unprecedented Eternal Nation

We explore some predictions in the Torah that have come true and ponder how a human author could have known the future. ... Read more

22 Nov 2016

45mins

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#15: The Singularity of God

#15: The Singularity of God

The Second Principle of Jewish Faith declares that God is One. But not like one of a pair; and not like one of a group; ... Read more

6 May 2019

53mins

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#10: Codifying the Oral Torah

#10: Codifying the Oral Torah

At the end of the second century of the common era a fateful decision was made to commit the Jewish Law, known as Mishna... Read more

28 Dec 2016

54mins

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#7: Introduction to Oral Torah

#7: Introduction to Oral Torah

What are the four components of Oral Torah? What are the four elements of the Oral Torah that are not sourced in the Wri... Read more

8 Dec 2016

48mins

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#17: Why Bad Things Happen to Good People: An Introduction to Jewish Theodicy

#17: Why Bad Things Happen to Good People: An Introduction to Jewish Theodicy

Our nation is no stranger to suffering. Jewish history is a litany of pogroms, holocausts, expulsions, blood libels, and... Read more

3 Jun 2019

1hr

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#6: Incontrovertible Evidence to the Divinity of the Torah

#6: Incontrovertible Evidence to the Divinity of the Torah

We explore the intricate interrelationship between written and oral Torah and determine that the creation of such a laby... Read more

30 Nov 2016

38mins

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#9: Clear and Convincing Evidence to the Error-Free Transmission of the Oral Torah

#9: Clear and Convincing Evidence to the Error-Free Transmission of the Oral Torah

The integrity of Jewish law, and by extension the dream of a great Jewish destiny, hinged upon the accurate transmission... Read more

22 Dec 2016

58mins

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#16: How can Humans have Free Will if God is in Total Control?

#16: How can Humans have Free Will if God is in Total Control?

In the previous podcast we discussed the Second Principle of the Thirteen Principles of Faith, that God is the sole Sing... Read more

20 May 2019

58mins

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#14: Faith vs. Emunah: Understanding the Difference between Intellectual and Instinctual Belief in God

#14: Faith vs. Emunah: Understanding the Difference between Intellectual and Instinctual Belief in God

The Thirteen Principles of Faith are the foundations of our religion. Just as the foundation of a structure is indispens... Read more

22 Apr 2019

55mins

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#13: Does God’s Creation of the Universe Conflict with the Principle of God’s Perfection?

#13: Does God’s Creation of the Universe Conflict with the Principle of God’s Perfection?

This podcast attempts to reconcile a knotty philosophical dilemma: The First Principle of the Thirteen Principles of Fai... Read more

8 Apr 2019

51mins

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