451 episodes
Machshavah Lab Rabbi Matt Schneeweiss
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- Religion & Spirituality
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4.7 • 9 Ratings
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My name is Rabbi Matt Schneeweiss. My goal as a Torah educator is not merely to teach my students my OWN hashkafah. Rather, my goal is to equip them with the foundations, the methodological training, and the tools which will enable them to arrive at their OWN understanding of Judaism and cultivate their OWN relationship with Hashem and His Torah. This podcast is devoted to the shiurim I give which are geared specifically towards that end. As such, the range of topics covered here will be diverse. There will be shiurim on Jewish philosophy, Chumash methodology, aggadic midrashim, maybe even some non-Jewish philosophy as well. Merriam-Webster defines "laboratory" as a place providing opportunity for experimentation, observation, or practice in a field of study. I call this podcast "Machshavah Lab" because this is where we will conduct Torah "experiments" by exploring questions, texts, and ideas in an effort to develop our machshavah in a "hands on," exploratory, firsthand manner.
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Bechukosai: Rav Hirsch on the Eight Stages of Going Off the Derech
Have any questions, insights, or feedback? Send me a text!Length: 55 minutesSynopsis: This morning (5/31/24), in the SECOND of our Friday morning Machshavah Lab shiurim for women, we learned Rav Hirsch's elucidation of Chazal's outline of the eight regressive stages of abandoning Torah. I initially planned to give a third shiur this morning on a strange midrash on the phrase "I shall cast your corpses onto the corpses of your idols" (Vayikra 26:30), but we discovered that the midrash was conn...
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Bechukosai: Ibn Kaspi on Why the Written Torah Doesn't Mention Olam ha'Ba
Have any questions, insights, or feedback? Send me a text!Length: 33 minutesSynopsis: This morning (5/31/24), in the FIRST of our Friday morning Machshavah Lab shiurim for women, we took up an old problem: Why is Olam ha'Ba only mentioned in Torah she'baal Peh but not Torah she'bi'Chsav. I wrote an article a few years ago in which I summarized seven views on this topic from the Rishonim along with one view of my own (see the show notes for a link to the article). I began this morning's shiur ...
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Behar: The Torah’s Double Standard for Slave Labor (Part 4: Approach #3)
Have any questions, insights, or feedback? Send me a text!Length of the article: 2 pagesLength of the audio: 8 minutes 57 secondsSynopsis: This is the audio version of the 2-page article I published on rabbischneeweiss.substack.com/ on 5/31/24, entitled: Behar: The Torah’s Double Standard for Slave Labor (Part 4: Approach #3). This third and final approach to answering our question about why the Torah permits avodas parech of an eved Canaani is the most radical of them all.-----The Torah cont...
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Avos 4:5 - Rambam's Opposition to Taking Money for Torah (Part 2)
Have any questions, insights, or feedback? Send me a text!Length: 1 hour 33 minutesSynopsis: Tonight (5/30/24), in our Thursday night Pirkei Avos shiur for women, we continued our analysis of the mishnah through the eyes of the Rambam. We began with a VERY in-depth review of everything we covered last time (if you want to skip the review, start around 30 minutes into the shiur). We then read and discussed several additional sources in other works of the Rambam where he discusses this, focusin...
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Behar: The Torah’s Double Standard for Slave Labor (Part 3: Approach #2)
Have any questions, insights, or feedback? Send me a text!Length of the article: 2 pagesLength of the audio: 7 minutes 46 secondsSynopsis: This is the audio version of the 2-page article I published on rabbischneeweiss.substack.com/ on 5/29/24, entitled: Behar: The Torah’s Double Standard for Slave Labor (Part 3: Approach #2). In this third installment, we examine a second approach to our question about the Torah's double-standard of avodas parech for non-Jewish slaves - one which is the oppo...
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Behar: The Torah’s Double Standard for Slave Labor (Part 2: Approach #1)
Have any questions, insights, or feedback? Send me a text!Length of the article: 2 pagesLength of the audio: 9 minutes 26 secondsSynopsis: This is the audio version of the 2-page article I published on rabbischneeweiss.substack.com/ on 5/27/24, entitled: Behar: The Torah’s Double Standard for Slave Labor (Part 2: Approach #1). In Part 1 we raised the question of why the Torah only forbids us to work a Jewish slave with avodas parech but not a non-Jewish slave. Part 2 explores one of three app...