Madlik Podcast – Disruptive Torah Thoughts on Judaism

By Geoffrey Stern

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Episodes: 225

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Madlik – Disruptive Torah thoughts from a post-orthodox Jew with a life-long love and appreciation of Jewish texts and a fresh and sometimes heterodox perspective on their meaning, intent and practical (halachic) implications.

Episode Date
Feast of Fools
Mar 13, 2025
Tribal Revolution
Mar 06, 2025
Torah On the Move
Feb 27, 2025
Torah – Not a Code of Law
Feb 20, 2025
The Art of the Steal
Feb 14, 2025
Root Experiences... Beyond Philosophy
Feb 06, 2025
Solaluna
Jan 31, 2025
Raise Your Hand
Jan 24, 2025
The Nativity of Moses
Jan 16, 2025
unto the third generation - grandparenting
Jan 09, 2025
Making Lemonade from Lemons
Jan 03, 2025
IMAGINE and the jews
Dec 27, 2024
Joseph Slave Trade
Dec 19, 2024
What Israel Means
Dec 13, 2024
Scaling the Temple Mount
Dec 06, 2024
The Philistinians and the Israelites
Nov 28, 2024
The Day After
Nov 21, 2024
God Forbid!
Nov 15, 2024
Radical Disruption and the Birth of Faith
Nov 08, 2024
Words Without Borders
Nov 01, 2024
Splitting the Adam
Oct 24, 2024
The Sukkah Will Rise Again
Oct 16, 2024
The Yom Kippur Sermon I wanted to Hear - Last Year
Oct 09, 2024
What's New with the Jewish New Year (rePlay)
Oct 02, 2024
God in Exile
Sep 27, 2024
Jew as Metaphor
Sep 20, 2024
Lost & Found
Sep 13, 2024
May God Avenge his Blood
Sep 06, 2024
A Time that Never Was (re-cast)
Aug 30, 2024
The whole mitzvah
Aug 23, 2024
What they say about us actually matters...
Aug 16, 2024
just war
Aug 09, 2024
Culture Wars
Aug 02, 2024
Vigilant about Vigilantism
Jul 26, 2024
How good was that!
Jul 19, 2024
Holy Water
Jul 12, 2024
The Spirit of all Flesh
Jul 05, 2024
Wanderlust
Jun 27, 2024
Retirement, Ageism and Age Limits
Jun 21, 2024
Jewish Identity - Nature or Nurture
Jun 07, 2024
DIASPORA
May 31, 2024
Times for Torah
May 24, 2024
Ki ba moed – the time has come
May 15, 2024
Yom Hazikaron - a conversation with Menachem Bombach
May 10, 2024
Life comes first
May 03, 2024
Madlik Model Seder 2024
Apr 18, 2024
From Farm to Table - Organic Israeli Judaism
Apr 12, 2024
Where have all the helmets gone?
Apr 05, 2024
Haredi Soldiers Speak
Apr 01, 2024
Veterans of the Yom Kippur War - Optimism and Protest
Mar 30, 2024
The Next Day with Ruth Calderon
Mar 27, 2024
Torat Cohanim - Then and Now
Mar 22, 2024
Transparency, Accountability and Citation
Mar 15, 2024
Shekels Count
Mar 08, 2024
Human and Divine Interactions
Mar 01, 2024
The Sorcerers Apprentice
Feb 22, 2024
Paradigm Shift
Feb 16, 2024
The Black Church and Israel
Feb 09, 2024
Jethro and the Druze
Feb 02, 2024
Nachshon and Action Bias
Jan 26, 2024
Entitlement Reform
Jan 19, 2024
MLK and Exodus
Jan 12, 2024
Exodus and the birth of a nation
Jan 05, 2024
Until Shiloh Comes
Dec 29, 2023
A Wonderful Life
Dec 22, 2023
Appeasement in its time
Dec 01, 2023
Conflict Resolution
Nov 23, 2023
In Conversation with Rabbi David Stav
Nov 16, 2023
Women Wage War
Nov 10, 2023
Making a Place for the Displaced
Nov 03, 2023
Abraham and the Birth of the Jewish Problem
Oct 27, 2023
A Tzaddik in Peltz
Oct 20, 2023
A Single Life
Oct 13, 2023
Learning Torah for a Living
Oct 06, 2023
The Yom Kippur Sermon I Wanted to Hear
Sep 28, 2023
Inventing Traditon
Sep 22, 2023
What will the goyim say?
Sep 08, 2023
Read it till the end...
Sep 01, 2023
God - hanging here from these gallows
Aug 25, 2023
Courting Justice
Aug 18, 2023
Next Year in Yavneh
Aug 11, 2023
A Jewish Homeland or a Homeland for the Jews?
Aug 04, 2023
Tisha B'Av Came Early This Year
Jul 27, 2023
Eleven Days from Horeb
Jul 21, 2023
no promises
Jul 14, 2023
Party On
Jul 07, 2023
To Hit or not Hit the Rock
Jun 29, 2023
The People v. Korach
Jun 22, 2023
The Grasshopper Mentality and the New Jew
Jun 16, 2023
Kosher Queer
Jun 09, 2023
Truth or Dare
Jun 02, 2023
The Echo from Sinai
May 26, 2023
God wants you to serve
May 19, 2023
Prozbul & Iska LLC
May 12, 2023
rounding the corner
May 05, 2023
women who love women who love The Torah
Apr 28, 2023
Cosmetic Theology
Apr 21, 2023
Prayer and Services and the Sickness unto Death - Replay
Apr 14, 2023
Protest Haggadah cont.
Mar 30, 2023
Protest Haggadah
Mar 24, 2023
man made
Mar 17, 2023
Wash your hands
Mar 10, 2023
Temple Politics
Mar 03, 2023
WHEN GOD gets small cont.
Feb 24, 2023
Shadows of Sinai cont.
Feb 17, 2023
Shadow of Sinai
Feb 10, 2023
High Five
Feb 03, 2023
Hard Hearts
Jan 26, 2023
Thank the Donkey of the Messiah
Jan 19, 2023
Liberation Theology - for Jews
Jan 12, 2023
Imaginary Prayer
Jan 06, 2023
Seventy Faces
Dec 29, 2022
body language
Dec 23, 2022
Joseph and the Spirit of Capitalism
Dec 16, 2022
The Conversion Factor
Dec 09, 2022
Mother Rachel comes to me
Dec 02, 2022
Lost and Found in Translation
Nov 25, 2022
Circumspect about Circumcision
Nov 18, 2022
Unbinding Isaac
Nov 11, 2022
Call me Ishmael
Nov 04, 2022
With regret, God
Oct 28, 2022
Shared Beginnings
Oct 21, 2022
Fallingsukkah
Oct 14, 2022
God Believes
Oct 07, 2022
Free at Last
Sep 30, 2022
Steal This Book
Sep 23, 2022
First Fruits - First Prayers
Sep 16, 2022
Remember to Forget
Sep 09, 2022
Restore our Judges
Sep 02, 2022
A time that never was
Aug 25, 2022
Attitude is Everything
Aug 19, 2022
Enough
Aug 12, 2022
A Second Torah
Aug 05, 2022
The United States of Israel
Jul 29, 2022
The Circle of Life
Jul 21, 2022
God - What's in a Name
Jul 15, 2022
Murder in the Desert
Jul 08, 2022
Milk and Money
Jul 01, 2022
Make Challah
Jun 24, 2022
Joining the Tribe
Jun 17, 2022
Rashi, Women & Wine
Jun 10, 2022
Nachshon
Jun 03, 2022
as a driven leaf
May 27, 2022
this is MY land
May 20, 2022
life after death
May 12, 2022
Divide and Sanctify
May 06, 2022
Scapegoating
Apr 29, 2022
Loose Lips and Leprosy
Apr 08, 2022
of woman born
Apr 01, 2022
No Martyrs No More
Mar 25, 2022
Purim, St. Patrick's Day, Mardi Gras & more
Mar 18, 2022
Oops I did it again
Mar 11, 2022
Temples with no Cloud-Cover
Mar 03, 2022
Jews with Tools
Feb 25, 2022
Architecture in Time
Feb 18, 2022
Why Blue and White?
Feb 11, 2022
WHEN GOD gets small
Feb 04, 2022
What's New with Moses' Code?
Jan 28, 2022
Is Judaism Exclusive or Inclusive?
Jan 21, 2022
God's Gracious Ruse
Jan 14, 2022
Walk Like An Egyptian
Jan 07, 2022
holy crap
Dec 31, 2021
Moses - Reluctant Magician
Dec 24, 2021
Members of the Tribe
Dec 17, 2021
Joseph - Tool of a Repressive Regime?
Dec 09, 2021
Food Fights and Gastro Diplomacy
Dec 02, 2021
Genesis as Her-story
Nov 26, 2021
Arguing with God and Man
Nov 19, 2021
HaMakom - Place / No Place
Nov 12, 2021
Stolen Blessings and the Crooked Timber of Humanity
Nov 06, 2021
Life is with People and so is Death
Oct 29, 2021
The Miraculous Birth and Resurrection of Isaac
Oct 23, 2021
Abraham's Epic Journey and our Own
Oct 18, 2021
Noah's Rainbow
Oct 11, 2021
Exile and Return - From the Beginning
Oct 03, 2021
turn! turn! turn! I hope it's not too late
Sep 27, 2021
Blame it on DAD
Sep 19, 2021
Aleph Bet Revolution
Sep 12, 2021
Not in Heaven
Sep 06, 2021
Chosen
Aug 29, 2021
Listening to the lyrics of Jewish Law
Aug 22, 2021
You Are Not My Boss
Aug 15, 2021
Kashrut, Yashrut and the Flesh of Desire
Aug 08, 2021
Practicing Judaism in and out of your back yard
Aug 02, 2021
Shema Yisrael and the struggle against Cheap Faith
Jul 26, 2021
Tisha B'Av and the Birth of Anti-Semitism
Jul 17, 2021
The Compromised Land
Jul 11, 2021
Zelophehad’s daughters and Who’s a Jew
Jul 03, 2021
Wonder of Wonders, Miracles of Miracles - God made a Donkey Talk
Jun 27, 2021
Salvation through Death - Breaking the Cycle
Jun 20, 2021
Not Holier Than Thou
Jun 14, 2021
Get Guts
Jun 06, 2021
The Jewish Calendar - Hacking the Universe
May 29, 2021
The Biblical Nazarite – lessons in addiction, sobriety and joyful living
May 23, 2021
A Peoples Army
May 16, 2021
Judaism for the Accidental Tourist
May 11, 2021
Handicapping the Torah
May 03, 2021
Thou Shalt Not Lie Alone
Apr 26, 2021
Home Alone no more
Apr 20, 2021
Prayer and Services and the Sickness unto Death
Apr 13, 2021
Finding the Stranger in the Seder
Mar 31, 2021
Let The Sunshine
Dec 13, 2020
A Passover Makeover
Apr 05, 2020
The Audacity of Torah
Mar 02, 2020
Clueless about Avoda Zarah
Dec 14, 2019
Re-imagining God and Man for a New Year
Sep 22, 2019
Why do Jewish Women Rule?
May 10, 2019
Sinning for God
Mar 09, 2019
The Tisha B’Av Syndrome
Jun 28, 2018
Pour out Thy Wrath on my Hametz
Mar 25, 2018
Entitlement Reform - Chosen Children and People
Jan 12, 2017
Life is with People – Immortality in the Hebrew Bible
Jan 06, 2017
The Hanukah Dilemma – The Birth of Judaism
Dec 29, 2016
A Sabbath Bride – Marriage on Shabbat
Dec 22, 2016
Mixed Marriages – In or Out?
Dec 15, 2016
It’s just a Dream – Vayetze
Dec 09, 2016
Lost in Translation - Toldot
Dec 02, 2016
A Thanksgiving Meal – סעודת הודיה
Nov 24, 2016
Abraham's Lost Election - Vayeira
Nov 18, 2016
The land that never has been yet - Lech Lecha
Nov 11, 2016
Jewish Boats - Noach
Nov 04, 2016
Tales of our Fathers - Bereshit
Oct 29, 2016
A Cathedral in Time - A Tabernacle in Space
Oct 22, 2016
The Death of Compromise – The Fast of Gedalia
Oct 16, 2016
What's New in the Jewish New Year
Oct 09, 2016