This Jewish Life - With Rabbi Yaakov Wolbe
TORCH
This Jewish Life is Rabbi Yaakov Wolbe’s flagship podcast. Since its founding in January of 2013, This Jewish Life has featured a delightful potpourri of podcast episodes on a myriad of Jewish subjects. In its current incarnation, the podcast focuses on exploring the deeper elements of Jewish life and philosophy. In each episode our objective is to go a bit deeper into subjects that we may be familiar with, to plumb the depths and uncover the essence of the beauty and sublimity of Jewish life and customs, and Torah wisdom. Please email any questions, comments, or feedback to rabbiwolbe@gmail.com.
Episodes
Mentioned books
Feb 2, 2015 • 15min
Q&A: Mixing Fish, Meat and Poultry with Cheese
Feb 2, 2015 • 11min
Q&A: Who Gets Into Heaven?
Feb 2, 2015 • 20min
Q&A: Jewish Stance on Homosexuality
Feb 2, 2015 • 11min
Q&A: Nuclear Iran
Feb 2, 2015 • 1h 52min
Ten Plagues: Ten Faith-Building Tools for Molding a Nation
Feb 2, 2015 • 1h 8min
Exodus: Redemption as Everlasting Inspiration
Dec 23, 2014 • 1h 38min
The Simple and Clear Reasons why Jews Reject Jesus and Christianity
Jesus is not, and never was, the Messiah because he fulfilled none of the personal qualifications of Messiah, accomplished none of the necessary requirements of the Messiah and the Messianic Era is clearly not underway. Jesus is not, and never was, divine because assigning godly qualities to a man is anathema for Jews and against multiple explicit verses in the Jewish Bible. Jews have always rejected Christianity as a whole because it is based on very shaky principles and does not hold a candle to Judaism. Listen if you want to understand why Jews do not believe in Jesus and why Christians probably should not either.
Dec 23, 2014 • 1h 12min
The Mission of Transmission: Why Jews must Believe that the entire Written and Oral Torah is Divine and how that is a Reasonable and Logical
Maimonides, in including this as the ninth of the thirteen principles of faith, makes it abundantly clear: If you do not believe that every word of the Torah is true you have no place in the Jewish people. The Talmud further clarifies (Sanhedrin 99a) that even if someone acknowledges that all the Torah is divine save for a single kal vachomer (Talmudic syllogism) or gezeira shava (analogy by common term) then he has no portion in the world to come. The seriousness of this requirement demands us to investigate this issue in depth. Here we go!
Dec 23, 2014 • 1h 42min
Lessons in Suffering from Jacob and Joseph
Jacob’s life was a seemingly endless streak of suffering and challenges. His own brother was hellbent on murdering him; his father in law tricked him into marrying the woman whom he did not desire to marry; his father in law also marginalized him professionally. Joseph’s life path follows a similar line: His brothers conspire to murder him; ultimately settling on selling him as a slave. Joseph is wrongly accused of misdeeds of carnal nature and unjustifiably imprisoned. These two forbears of Judaism can teach us a lot about the Jewish perspective on challenges, pain and suffering.
This Class was delivered at Shalom Cypress in Cypress, TX
Dec 23, 2014 • 1h 34min
On Love and Relationships: Lessons from the Torah
What does the Torah have to say about love? How can we be required to love God? Why is there an additional mitzvah to love a convert? This class was given in Cypress, TX at Shalom Cypress.
