Ep. 27: Tazria/Metzora - Bioethics feat. Paul Root Wolpe

04/16/21 • 44 min

Dr. Paul Root Wolpe, Director of the Center for Ethics at Emory University, joins Rabbi Batshir Torchio and Raviv to discuss how secular bioethics and Jewish law intersect and diverge, the role of bioethics in today's ongoing pandemic, and ways to read peculiar passages about cleanliness and purity in this week's Torah portion.

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Ep. 26: Shmini - Psychedelics & Judaism feat. Zac Kamenetz

Rabbi Zac Kamenetz of Berkeley, CA and founder of Shefa joins Raviv and Rabbi Batshir Torchio of JCC San Francisco to help us understand how psychedelic experiences fit into Jewish practice, where he sees the work going in the future, how he plans to help that future come into being- and what it all has to do with this week’s torah portion, parsha Shmini.

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Ep. 28: Achrei Mot/Kedoshim - Confronting Torah feat. Jhos Singer

Jhos Singer joins Rabbi Batshir and Raviv to talk about a line from the so-called “clobber passages” that have been at the heart of a lot of pain for a lot of people: “a man shall not lay with a man as he does with a women.”
Our conversation aims to understand possible aspects of the historical context behind this law and those like it, as well as the damage it’s done, and how we as a people can and should overcome it.