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RabbiPod brings Jewish learning to your iPod or computer screen. This podcast presents a weekly sermon or d’var torah by Rabbi Eli Garfinkel, the spiritual leader of Temple Beth El in Somerset, New Jersey. The five most recent episodes are also available on iTunes; older ones are available in the archive. Subscribe for free by clicking the button below. If the Subscribe button doesn’t work, you need to download and install the most recent versions of iTunes and Quicktime. Both are available for Mac or Windows. Don’t forget to write me a review in the iTunes Music Store! Primary Format : Judaism Also Listed as: Judaism City : Unknown State/Province : Unknown Country : Unknown Country : UN User Tags: User Votes: RSS Feed Website People found this Podcast Searching for: Judaism | View this Podcast on a Google Map. Add to iTunes Text Only listing of RabbiPod Podcasts Trumix.com listings available of RabbiPod Podcasts Click Here to Update the directory of this podcasts programs.

Trumix.com listings available of RabbiPod Podcasts Build your own playlists with this podcast. Emor 5768: The Conversion Crisis In this episode of RabbiPod, I argue that Israel needs to have a law permiting civil marriage, and that the Israeli government should not have the power to decide who and who is not a Jew. That power should be left to individual rabbis and their respective communities. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Kedoshim 5768: General Tso's Torah In this episode of RabbiPod, we learn about the worship of the ancient idol Molech and its connection to modern-day China. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PDF Version of“Four Sons for Four Cups of Wine” Text of my“Four Sons for Four Cups of Wine” sermon. Requires Adobe PDF Reader. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Yizkor Pesah 5768: The Bread of Death In this episode of RabbiPod, we learn about the role our Passover rituals play as a reaction to death. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pesah 5768: The Path to Hell and Good Intentions In this episode of RabbiPod, we learn about the wise child from the Haggadah. Why is he considered wise? What does he know that others don't? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pesah 5768: Four Sons for Four Cups of Wine In this episode of RabbiPod, I explain how each of the four sons in the Pesah haggadah represents one of the four cups of wine. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Metzora 5768: Warning Signs of Love In this episode of RabbiPod, we learn why the Torah lists the different forms of leprosy in a specific order, and what that order teaches us for life today. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tazria 5768: A Plague On Your House, Clothes, and Skin In this episode of RabbiPod, we learn why the Torah says that leprosy (tzara'at) can afflict houses and clothing as well as human skin. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tazria 5768: A Plague On Your House, Clothes, and Skin In this episode of RabbiPod, we learn why the Torah says that leprosy (tzara'at) can afflict houses and clothing as well as human skin. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Shemini 5768: The Governor In this episode of RabbiPod, we learn what Rashi’s comment on Leviticus 9:2 can teach us about the controversy surrounding former New York Governor Elliot Spitzer. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Yitro 5768 In this episode of RabbiPod, we study a fascinating comment by Rashi that consists of three midrashim nested together. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Yitro 5768 In this episode of RabbiPod, we study a fascinating comment by Rashi that consists of three midrashim nested together. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Toledot 5768: Struggling Twins (audio) We study a midrash about Yaakov and Eisav in utero. It suggests that faith may be an innate, genetic trait. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Toledot 5768: Struggling Twins (audio) We study a midrash about Yaakov and Eisav in utero. It suggests that faith may be an innate, genetic trait. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Toledot 5768: Struggling Twins (video) We study a midrash about Yaakov and Eisav (Jacob and Esau) in utero. It suggests that faith may be an innate, genetic trait. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Toledot 5768: Struggling Twins (video) We study a midrash about Yaakov and Eisav (Jacob and Esau) in utero. It suggests that faith may be an innate, genetic trait. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Rosh Hashanah 5768, Day 1 This is a Rosh Hashanah sermon on the theme of self-pity. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Rosh Hashanah 5768, Day 1 This is a Rosh Hashanah sermon on the theme of self-pity. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pinhas 5767: The Custer Connection What counts more in life? What you do in your younger years, or what you do in your later years? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pinhas 5767: The Custer Connection What counts more in life? What you do in your younger years, or what you do in your later years? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Balak 5767: Lions In this episode of RabbiPod, we study Rashi's interpretation of Bemidbar (Numbers) 23:24. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Balak 5767: Lions In this episode of RabbiPod, we study Rashi's interpretation of Bemidbar (Numbers) 23:24. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Shelach Lekha 5767: Grasshoppers In this episode of RabbiPod, we examine two of the claims made by the spies (meraglim) when they return from the Land of Israel. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Behaalotekha 5767: Mistake or Sin? In this episode of RabbiPod, we learn about the mitzvah of Pesah Sheni. This mitzvah teaches us the important distinction between a mistake and a sin.See this episode onYouTube! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Naso: The Nazir In this episode of RabbiPod, we study the Talmud's story about the nazir who violated his vow. (See the source in B. Nedarim 9b) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Emor: The Blasphemer In this episode of RabbiPod, we study Rashi's commentary on the story of the megaddef, or blasphemer, in Lev. 24:10-23. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tazria-Metzora 5767: Tzaraat In this episode of RabbiPod, we learn about the plague of tzaraat, specifically the kind that appeared on people’s houses.This episode has been enhanced with ProfCast. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tzav: Humility and Arrogance In this episode of RabbiPod, we learn about the connection between Parashat Tzav, Passover, and the Haggadah's wicked child. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ki Tissa: The Coarsening of Society In this episode of RabbiPod, we learn what the Torah has to say about the coarsening of our society and the spiritual emptiness that many Americans feel. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mishpatim 5767: Talking With The Dead In this episode of RabbiPod, we learn what the Torah has to say about séances and other efforts to communicate with the dead. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Yitro 5767: I'm So Tired! In this episode of RabbiPod, we learn what the Torah has to say about the tiredness that afflicts society today. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bo 5767: What Goes Around Comes Around In this episode of RabbiPod, we learn a general truth of life: One generally gets out of life what one puts into it. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Va'era 5767: Is Change Possible? In this episode of RabbiPod, we'll see what the Torah has to say about personal change. Is it possible for us to change, or are we doomed to live predestined fates? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Vayehi 5767: Human Dignity In this episode of RabbiPod, Rabbi Garfinkel presents a sermon on human dignity in connection with Parashat Vayehi, the final Torah portion in the book of Genesis. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Vayigash 5767: Dirty Laundry In this episode of RabbiPod, we’ll take a look at the scene in which Joseph is about to reveal his true identity to his brothers. From Rashi’s commentary on this passage, we learn that when we have t Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hayyei Sarah 5767: Good Mourning In this episode of RabbiPod, we learn that although Judaism encourages and obligates us to mourn the death of a loved one, we must not cross the line into despondency. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bereishit 5767: God’s Regret (Video) In this episode of RabbiPod, we examine the phrase at the end of Genesis, “God felt regret.” Why did God regret the creation of humanity, when He presumably knew from the beginning that they would si Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website