Classes by Mordechai Dinerman

Text-based classes on assorted Judaic topics, with a special emphasis on Jewish history.New episodes every week.Made Possible by Unzer-Chadash Shul, Brooklyn NY.

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Recent Episodes
  • The Marranos’ Secret Pesach
    Apr 2, 2025 – 01:11:26
  • The Machine Matzah Controversy
    Apr 2, 2025 – 01:19:20
  • The Story of the Alter Rebbe’s Script
    Mar 26, 2025 – 01:19:49
  • Rambam, the Almohads, and the Secret Jews
    Mar 13, 2025 – 01:09:08
  • Rambam to the Rescue: His Legendary Letter to Yemen
    Feb 28, 2025 – 01:03:30
  • The Regensburg Blood Libel
    Feb 21, 2025 – 01:06:22
  • The Scandalous Marriage, 1348
    Jan 24, 2025 – 01:04:41
  • Taxes and Tensions: The Story of Jewish Tax Disputes in Medieval Spain
    Jan 17, 2025 – 01:06:26
  • Josephus
    Jan 9, 2025 – 01:05:23
  • Lost Lights of Chanukah: Exploring the Books of Maccabees
    Jan 2, 2025 – 01:00:41
  • The Titanic Question: The Halachic Dilemma of Men Lost at Sea
    Dec 13, 2024 – 01:01:35
  • Benches, Bargains, and Bickering: Shul Seating in the Middle Ages
    Nov 29, 2024 – 01:01:53
  • The Climate Clash: Rain, Rabbis, and Rulings for the Southern Hemisphere 
    Nov 22, 2024 – 01:04:26
  • The Warder Cresson Story
    Nov 8, 2024 – 01:08:33
  • The Rebbe’s Rashi: Insights from Manuscripts and Incunabula Editions
    Nov 1, 2024 – 01:01:51
  • Rooted in Tradition: The Calabria Esrog Story
    Oct 10, 2024 – 01:18:14
  • Lost in the Geniza: An Anonymous Teshuvah on the Two-Day Yom Tov Debate
    Sep 28, 2024 – 01:07:25
  • The Vanishing Verses: Curious Cases of Textual Tampering in Our Machzor
    Sep 24, 2024 – 01:09:41
  • Art of the Blast: Shofar Blowing Customs in Medieval Manuscripts
    Sep 11, 2024 – 01:07:10
  • Fowl Play: The Great Turkey-Chicken Debate of the 19th Century
    Sep 4, 2024 – 01:07:25
  • Dreams of Revision: The Role of Dreams in Altering Halachic Rulings
    Aug 21, 2024 – 01:09:49
  • The Rabbi Who Wouldn’t Wait: A Proposal to Reinstate the Korbanos
    Aug 8, 2024 – 01:19:09
  • Unconditional Love: A Commemorative Study of a Talk by the Lubavitcher Rebbe
    Jul 2, 2024 – 01:06:07
  • The Provocative Portrait: Unveiling the True Face of Moshe Rabbeinu
    Jun 18, 2024 – 01:12:18
  • Yom Tov Burial: The Talmud, the Rishonim, and the Baal Shem Tov
    Jun 5, 2024 – 01:08:48
  • The Masada Martyrs: Halachic Perspectives on History’s Hardest Choices
    May 22, 2024 – 01:12:11
  • Grain Matters: Navigating the Chadash Predicament Across the Centuries
    May 15, 2024 – 01:08:49
  • The Frankist Blood Libel
    May 8, 2024 – 01:04:03
  • The Kittsee Haggadah
    Apr 10, 2024 – 00:58:24
  • The Printers’ Clash: The Battle Over Rambam’s Mishneh Torah, Venice 1550
    Apr 8, 2024 – 01:06:25
  • Seduction and Sacrifice: From the Purim Story to the Responsa Literature
    Mar 20, 2024 – 00:57:05
  • Scrolls, Scribes, and Shortcuts: An Incomplete Megilah in the Cairo Geniza
    Mar 13, 2024 – 01:06:55
  • Lost Scrolls, Lost Souls: A Spanish Jew’s Plea to Rediscover Tanach | Favorite Episodes
    Dec 27, 2023 – 01:02:09
  • The Scandalous History of Aleinu
    Dec 19, 2023 – 01:06:17
  • The Meaning of Dreaming: Talmudic Perspectives | Favorite Episodes
    Dec 12, 2023 – 01:02:36
  • Rambam’s Menorah: Insights from Ancient Hebrew Manuscripts | Favorite Episodes
    Dec 6, 2023 – 01:09:06
  • Between Ashkenaz and Sefard: Medieval Women, Biblical Dena, and the Public Square | Favorite Episodes
    Nov 29, 2023 – 00:57:01
  • In the Dungeons of the Inquisition
    Oct 25, 2023 – 00:58:41
  • The Heartless Chicken
    Oct 18, 2023 – 01:01:30
  • The Puzzle of Peshat: Rashbam’s Controversial Commentary
    Oct 11, 2023 – 00:57:37
  • The History of Kol Nidrei
    Sep 20, 2023 – 01:09:39
  • The History and Evolution of the Chabad Machzor
    Sep 13, 2023 – 01:26:31
  • Troubling Tales: The Rebbe’s Approach to Controversial Stories
    Aug 31, 2023 – 01:00:09
  • The Politics of Divorce: King Henry’s Wives and the Italian Rabbis
    Aug 25, 2023 – 01:41:30
  • Dancing with History: The 15th of Av and Its Legacy in Renaissance Jewry
    Aug 2, 2023 – 01:04:46
  • Rambam’s Menorah: Insights from Ancient Hebrew Manuscripts
    Jul 26, 2023 – 01:08:54
  • The Controversial Haskamah
    Jul 19, 2023 – 01:06:44
  • Techeles: A Tangled Tale
    Jul 5, 2023 – 01:05:01
  • The Missing Section in the Shulchan Aruch
    Jun 28, 2023 – 01:09:04
  • Banned and Burned: The 1232 Controversy Surrounding Rambam’s Works
    Jun 21, 2023 – 01:08:05
Recent Reviews
  • shirasch
    Amazing
    Incredible and insightful. I’ve been looking for a podcast like this with a Torah perspective. Thank you so much for making these episodes!! I really appreciate. Tizku lemitzvot
  • Deerish
    Love it
    Is there any way to the source sheet for a clear understanding?
  • shliach770
    Beautiful shiurim
    Amazing, clear, interesting classes on Jewish topics that coalesce a variety of sources into informative takeaways
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