Matan: One on One Parsha Podcast

In this fascinating conversation with Dr. Sharon Galper Grossman, MD-MPh and graduate of Matan Hasharon's Morot L' Halakha program, she speaks about her journey into the world of Halakha and Halachik writing as a radiation oncologist who trained and worked as an attending physician at Harvard. This conversation is a great reminder that life develops in chapters, and that sometimes the most rewarding experiences come when we least expect it.

In this episode, Matan Summer Program coordinator Tamar Weissman movingly discusses her love for the land of Israel and about the writing projects and life adventures that love has inspired. This episode is part of a broader series exploring women writing Torah in diversified forms. Tamar is the author of Tribal Lands: The Twelve Tribes of Israel (2015).

This episode takes us behind the scenes with two wonderful translators-- Sara Daniel and Oritt Sinclair--both currently working on translations of classic Jewish texts. We explore the art involved in their profession as well as their roles and limits as conduits of Torah transmission to a broader audience.

In this kind and transparent conversation, Shayna Goldberg speaks about her motivation for writing and about some of the pragmatic life advice she explores in her forthcoming book What do you Really Want? Trust and Fear in Decision Making at Life's Crossroads and in Everyday Living (2021). Shayna shares modern Jewish wisdom that she has developed in her decades teaching young women in High school, as a Ramit in Migdal Oz, and as a yoetzet halacha.

In this intimate and moving conversation, Simi Peters reflects on her love for midrash, for teaching, and for reading. She speaks about her journey from the uniquely devout home of holocaust survivors in New York to becoming a beloved teacher and writer in Israel. Check out Simi's book Learning to Read Midrash, a Hebrew version is forthcoming this year: https://www.amazon.com/Learning-Read-Midrash-Simi-Peters/dp/9657108578

Welcome to the second season of One on One! In this season we explore women writing Torah, Halakha, Jewish wisdom, midrash, and so much more. What moves them to write? How has writing changed their careers? How can we encourage women to write more? In this insightful and empowering episode, Matan graduates and teachers Rabbanit Surale Rosen and Fran Miller speak about their passion for halakha and Talmud and about their joint endeavor, Shayla: Matan Women's Online Responsa.

In this intimate conversation about the shaping of a world of women's learning, Rabbanit Malka Bina shares Matan history as well as moving personal stories. With this conversation, we close the first season of this podcast, speaking with the unique woman who created it all. Stay tuned for the next season in which we delve into women's Torah writing, leading and other fascinating topics.

In this fun, personable, and honest conversation, seasoned tour guide Shulie Mishkin speaks about her professional life (in corona and non-corona times), raising an observant family in a post-modern age, and the dynamic relationship between Torah and the land of Israel. Note: This episode was recorded at the end of Israel's third lockdown, and this is reflected at several points in the conversation. Shulie Mishkin is a licensed tour guide who in normal times guides all ages all over Israel and gives tour and text courses at Matan and other institutions. She is currently focusing on virtual tours, bringing Israel to the world and the world to Israel. She was a Matan Beit Midrash Scholar in 1993-94.

Dr. Ayelet Hoffmann Libson taught at Matan for over a decade. She is currently a senior lecturer at the Harry Radzyner School of Law at the Interdisciplinary Center, Herzliya. Ayelet is a graduate of Matan's Advanced Talmud Institute as well as the Beit Morasha Program in Jewish Law. In this enlightening conversation, Ayelet speaks about her journey into the Torah learning world and about the fascinating thesis of her book, Law and Self-Knowledge in the Talmud. Ayelet reminds us that the most pressing questions of the modern age are rarely new, and how a deep look at our rabbinic sources can shed endless light on these questions.

In this important and honest conversation, Rabbanit Shani Taragin speaks about her perspective on the Achilles heels of current Torah education and the need for more Torah ambassadors in Israel and beyond.