The Kotzk Podcast
By Rabbi Gavin Michal
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Join Rabbi Gavin Michal for a look at some of the lesser-known events, books, and people in Jewish history. New episodes weekly based on articles from the Kotzk Blog, www.kotzkblog.com. This podcast was originated as conversations between Rabbi Gavin Michal and Dr Jordan Wosnick.
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Kotzk Podcast 086: Jewish Mystics and Rationalists seeking Islamic Fatwas during the Maimonidean Conflicts
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Mar 22, 2026 |
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Kotzk podcast 085: Psychedelics: Cutting-edge science or shamanic ritual?
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Mar 15, 2026 |
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Kotzk Podcast 084: Acculturating Alcohol and Sanctifying Psychedelics: It’s time to stand up
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Mar 15, 2026 |
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Kotzk Podcast 083: Where are the first Chassidic texts?
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Mar 14, 2026 |
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Kotzk Podcast 082: Zoharic Kabbalah as mystical resistance to Christianity
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Feb 23, 2026 |
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Kotzk Podcast 081: Theo-politics of early rabbinic printing and the race for first publication
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Feb 07, 2026 |
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Kotzk Podcast 80: The new Rebbe of Thieves
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Jan 26, 2026 |
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Kotzk Podcast 079: Rules for writing a Sefer Torah: Rabbinic innovation or reflection of an existing scribal tradition?
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Jan 20, 2026 |
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Kotzk Podcast: 078: ‘Halachic Fiction’ and ex post facto justification in the modern Halachic process
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Dec 30, 2025 |
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Kotzk Podcast 077: Suspending Judaism between depth and accessibility: Maimonides and Yeshaya of Trani
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Dec 22, 2025 |
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Kotzk Podcast 075: The Seven Laws of Noah: Then and now
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Dec 15, 2025 |
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Kotzk Podcast 076: Between Law and Magic: The Mezuzah as a test case in shifting cosmologies
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Dec 15, 2025 |
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Kotzk Podcast 074: Dialogues of vision: How we view Maimonides and how he might view us (Part II)
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Dec 02, 2025 |
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Kotzk Podcast 073: Dialogues of Vision: How we view Maimonides and how he might view us (Part I)
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Nov 26, 2025 |
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Kotzk Podcast 072: Early textual layering in Zohar and Bahir as clues to their dating
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Nov 17, 2025 |
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Kotzk Podcast 071: Avraham Ibn Daud: Maimonides’ unspoken mentor?
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Nov 09, 2025 |
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Kotzk Podcast 070: Rationalism, Mysticism and Binitarianism
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Nov 08, 2025 |
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Kotzk Podcast 069: Neoplatonic echoes in Chassidic Mysticism
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Nov 08, 2025 |
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Kotzk Podcast 068: Tashlich, water and 'bribing' demons
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Sep 21, 2025 |
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Kotzk Podcast 067: Radical rabbinic models of universalism
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Sep 21, 2025 |
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Kotzk Podcast 066: Editing Jewish texts: Between reverence and revision
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Sep 21, 2025 |
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Kotzk Podcast 065: Italian letters: The battle over the Zohar
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Sep 21, 2025 |
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Kotzk Podcast 064: Confronting or Escaping? -Beyond the "Back of the Wagon of the Baal Shem
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Sep 21, 2025 |
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Kotzk Podcast 063: 'Creating' sacred sites: Who is buried there, and does it matter?
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Aug 10, 2025 |
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Kotzk Podcast 062: When rabbis dared to challenge the Divine: The case of Midrash Tehillim
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Jul 27, 2025 |
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Kotzk Podcast 061: Messianic Immunity - The Perfect Storm: The case of R. Avraham Baruch haRofeh
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Jul 20, 2025 |
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Kotzk Podcast 060: A historical context to Midrashim
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Jul 20, 2025 |
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Kotzk Podcast 059: When Midrash is too much for the Midrash
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Jul 20, 2025 |
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Kotzk Podcast 058: Missing in Manuscript:the additional biblical verses added to the Mishna
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Jul 20, 2025 |
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Kotzk Podcast 057: Kabbalah: From Obscurity to the Defining Essence of Judaism
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Jul 20, 2025 |
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Kotzk Podcast 056: Secret Mystical and Chassidic societies
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Jul 20, 2025 |
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Kotzk Podcast 055: Managing theological differences: Then and now
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May 25, 2025 |
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Kotzk Podcast 054: The Zoharic notion of healing a ‘lovesick’ Shechina: A possible medical context
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May 25, 2025 |
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Kotzk Podcast 053: "Tikla", bringing about the potential for redemption through feminine seductively
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May 25, 2025 |
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Kotzk Podcast 052: When authority becomes the determinator of reason, meaning and truth
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May 09, 2025 |
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Kotzk Podcast 051: The rise of contemporary Religious-Zionism
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Apr 07, 2025 |
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Kotzk Podcast 050: Reading the biblical word אות (‘sign’) in its earlier context
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Apr 07, 2025 |
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Kotzk Podcast 049: The ‘Three Oaths’: Theologies of Cancellation and Resurrection
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Mar 16, 2025 |
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Kotzk Podcast 048: Sebastianism: Crossover messianism that predated Sabbatianism
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Mar 16, 2025 |
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Kotzk Podcast 047: Moshe haGoleh of Kiev: a critical devotee of Avraham Ibn Ezra
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Feb 23, 2025 |
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Kotzk Podcast 046: Were some early Spanish Kabbalists defending a Maimonidean position?
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Feb 23, 2025 |
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Kotzk Podcast 045: Mining Chassidic stories for kernels of historicity
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Feb 23, 2025 |
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Kotzk Podcast 044: The debate over the authenticity of the portrait of R. Shneur Zalman of Liadi
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Jan 27, 2025 |
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Kotzk Podcast 043: Did the Babylonian Talmud create the authoritative rabbi and the passive Jew?
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Jan 19, 2025 |
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Kotzk Podcast 042: Language as incubators of theological ideas
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Jan 19, 2025 |
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Kotzk Podcast 041: Kabbalah: To print or not to print the ‘lost’ mystical tradition
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Dec 13, 2024 |
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Kotzk Podcast 040: Inverted hierarchies: Humans making G-d more moral
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Dec 01, 2024 |
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Kotzk Podcast 039: Carrying on Shabbat: From Jeremiah to the Mishna
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Nov 15, 2024 |
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Kotzk Podcast 038: Are Halachic rulings (Piskei Halacha) open to critical analysis or do they represent Divine Will?
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Nov 04, 2024 |
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Kotzk Podcast 037: A source trail defending the Baal haTanya’s definition of the soul as ‘a part of G-d’
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Oct 28, 2024 |
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Kotzk Podcast 036: How the rabbis used interpretive tools like Kal vaChomer to assert their independence and unseat the Second Temple sects
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Oct 19, 2024 |
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Kotzk Podcast 035: Pharisees and Sadducees: The politics of Sages and Priests
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Oct 01, 2024 |
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Kotzk Podcast 034: Gershom Scholem’s messianic claim
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Sep 29, 2024 |
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Kotzk Podcast 033: Self-promotion or natural authority of the Halachic decisor: The case of Chavot Yair (Second one)
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Sep 29, 2024 |
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Kotzk Podcast 032: Self-promotion or natural authority of the Halachic decisor: The case of Chavot Yair (Part one)
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Sep 08, 2024 |
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Kotzk Podcast 031: An ancient (pre)text of Deuteronomy?
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Sep 08, 2024 |
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Kotzk Podcast 030: Is a Halachic environmental discourse even possible?
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Aug 25, 2024 |
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Kotzk Podcast 029: Babylonian Talmudic notion of 'Temporary Marriage'
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Aug 23, 2024 |
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Kotzk Podcast 028: Religion and (or) Social Justice: A Jewish Perspective
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Jul 29, 2024 |
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Kotzk Podcast 027: What did the Kotzker Rebbe say?
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Jul 21, 2024 |
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Kotzk Podcast 026: R. Yitzchak of Warka and the rise of the Chassidic movement in Poland.
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Jul 14, 2024 |
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Kotzk Podcast 025: 'Fixing' broken Messiahs The extreme messianic mysticism of the students of the Vilna Gaon (Part II)
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Jul 14, 2024 |
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Kotzk Podcast 024: The extreme messianic mysticism of the students of the Vilna Gaon
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Jul 01, 2024 |
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Kotzk Podcast 023: Did the Vilna Gaon’s Religious Zionism precede modern Secular Zionism?
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Jul 01, 2024 |
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Kotzk Podcast 022: Messianic Mitnagdim
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Jun 17, 2024 |
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Kotzk Podcast 021: A mind in motion: Maimonides correcting Maimonides
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Jun 02, 2024 |
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Kotzk Podcast 020: ‘Der Pintele Yid’ − the evolution of the term and concept
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May 30, 2024 |
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Kozk Podcast 019: EXPANDING ON RABBINIC DISTINCTIONS BETWEEN THE TITLES AND TEXTS OF THE PSALMS
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May 19, 2024 |
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Kotzk Podcast 018: Tzafnat Paneach – a ‘counter Rashi’ commentary (Kotzk Blog: 471)
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May 12, 2024 |
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Kotzk Podcast 017: Nineteenth-century Jewish Messianism (Kotzk Blog: 470)
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May 05, 2024 |
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Kozk Podcast 016: Examining an unknown manuscript of the Zohar (Kotzk Blog 469)
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Apr 14, 2024 |
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Kozk Podcast 015: The implications of common textual layering within the Zohar (Kotzk Blog: 468)
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Apr 08, 2024 |
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Kotzk Podcast ep014: Separating the text from the context: an early Chassidic approach to Torah study
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Mar 17, 2024 |
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Kotzk Podcast ep013: Did R. Chaim of Volozhin intentionally alter the image of the Vilna Gaon?
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Mar 17, 2024 |
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Kotzk Podcast Ep012: The Turkish Jews still wave
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Apr 06, 2021 |
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Kotzk Podcast Ep011: Radical Rav Kook
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Feb 28, 2021 |
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Kotzk Podcast Ep010: Angels in Rabbinic literature: can we pray to them?
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Jan 14, 2021 |
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Kotzk Podcast Ep009: The origins of a latecomer davening in full, at the expense of reciting the Amidah with the community
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Dec 08, 2020 |
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Kotzk Podcast Ep008: We have books, we don't need teachers or permission to teach
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Oct 30, 2020 |
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Kotzk Podcast Ep007: Was Rashi a mystic?
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Sep 03, 2020 |
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Kotzk Podcast Ep006: Geniza document reveals first stirrings of anti-Maimonidean sentiment in Egypt
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Aug 09, 2020 |
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Kotzk Podcast Ep005: The shift from Babylonia to the West and the desperate need to re-establish Rabbinical authority
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Jul 19, 2020 |
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Kotzk Podcast Ep004: Why is Masada absent from halachic discussion?
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Jun 22, 2020 |
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Kotzk Podcast Ep003: R' Yaakov Koppel Lifschitz -- A Sabbatean who influenced the Ba'al Shem Tov?
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May 31, 2020 |
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Kotzk Podcast Ep002: Shabbetai Tzvi, as reported in the newspapers of his day
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May 18, 2020 |
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Kotzk Podcast Ep001: Shabbetai Tzvi - Roots Run Deep
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May 04, 2020 |
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Kotzk Podcast Ep000: About the Kotzk Podcast
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May 04, 2020 |