Episodes

  • Loving Rebuke (6.6.34)

    Loving Rebuke (6.6.34)
    May 8 2024
    No one likes criticism. To receive criticism is painful. To be told what we did wrong stings. We bristle at the notion that we are flawed and imperfect. The mere knowledge of the existence of our shortcomings causes us discomfort. But receiving criticism is actually highly productive. It’s a good thing. It is very beneficial […]
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    35 mins
  • Loving Straightness (6.6.33)

    Loving Straightness (6.6.33)
    Apr 15 2024
    Straightness is a virtue. Straightness means to be proper and upstanding in all of your conduct. It means doing what’s proper and just and good. It also references thinking. Straight, sensible, logical, clear, cogent thinking is better than crooked thinking. Way number 33 to wisdom is about this virtue. – – – – – – […]
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    25 mins
  • Loving Charities (6.6.32)

    Loving Charities (6.6.32)
    Apr 1 2024
    Charity is a big element of religious life. Our Sages tell us that the mitzvah of charity equals all the mitzvos of the Torah combined. But monetary charity is only one type of charity. There are many different types of charity, in the love of charities is a means to acquire higher levels of wisdom. […]
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    22 mins
  • Loving Humanity (6.6.31) + TORCH Fundraiser

    Loving Humanity (6.6.31) + TORCH Fundraiser
    Mar 19 2024
    TORCH Fundraiser — support the Ethics Podcast Our organization, TORCH, does only one fundraiser a year, and that is happening right now at giveTORCH.org. This is a matching campaign and every donation will be DOUBLED. Please support the Ethics Podcast right now at giveTORCH.org The website for the Fundraiser is giveTORCH.org Click and donate to support the Ethics Podcast […]
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    33 mins
  • Loving God (6.6.30) + TORCH Fundraiser

    Loving God (6.6.30) + TORCH Fundraiser
    Mar 13 2024
    TORCH Fundraiser — support the Ethics Podcast Our organization, TORCH, does only one fundraiser a year, and that is happening right now at giveTORCH.org. This is a matching campaign and every donation will be DOUBLED. Please support the Ethics Podcast right now at giveTORCH.org The website for the Fundraiser is giveTORCH.org Click and donate to support the Ethics Podcast […]
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    58 mins
  • Beloved (6.6.30 Intro)

    Beloved (6.6.30 Intro)
    Mar 6 2024
    Torah was not given to angels. Torah was given to humans. One way to expand our ability to acquire Torah is by enhancing our humanity. The more human we are, the more we are a worthy receptacle of Torah. But what does it mean to be a human? – – – – – – – […]
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    18 mins
  • Sense of Mission (6.6.29)

    Sense of Mission (6.6.29)
    Feb 5 2024
    We love Torah. Torah study is our national pastime and obsession. It is enjoyable; it is fun; it is interesting — but to acquire it – we have to now that it is imperative: It is as indispensable as water, oxygen and bread. – – – – – – – – – – – – […]
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    30 mins
  • Making Fences (6.6.28)

    Making Fences (6.6.28)
    Nov 15 2023
    Humans are fallible. We are imperfect, yet we are tasked with being the stewards and the guardians of the perfect. We hold the Almighty’s Torah in our hands. We are tasked with perpetuating it from generation to generation and with rendering rulings in line with the will of God. The only way that we can […]
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    30 mins