Lulav Arnow 9/23/21 Lulav Arnow 9/23/21

100 — V'Zot HaBerachah: What If The Real Blessing…

This week, it’s our last regular episode! We talk about crumbling empires, quibble about city names, and reflect on what we’ve learned about the text over the last two years.

Lulav Arnow 9/17/21 Lulav Arnow 9/17/21

99 — Haazinu: Can I Get a Selah?

This week, Lulav dabbles in limericks while David dabbles in being jock!Moshe, and we talk victorious puberty and becoming ungovernable

Lulav Arnow 9/9/21 Lulav Arnow 9/9/21

98 — Vayelech: Ice-Skating Tzadikim

This week, we talk DM slides, slippery roads, and smooth moves by Talmudic interpreters.

Lulav Arnow 9/2/21 Lulav Arnow 9/2/21

97 — Nitzavim: Am Bartholomew Chai

Ending the Consolations by judgementally flirting with G-d, with listener input!

Lulav Arnow 8/26/21 Lulav Arnow 8/26/21

96 — Ki Tavo: The Top Surgery of Kings

This week, we go back to our very first text! And talk different ways to make meaningful relationships.

Lulav Arnow 8/19/21 Lulav Arnow 8/19/21

95 — Ki Teitzei: Queer Futurities

This week, we discuss metaphorical tent design, not getting back with your exes, and the wonders & horrors of journaling

Lulav Arnow 8/12/21 Lulav Arnow 8/12/21

94 — Shoftim: Go Touch Grass

This week, we discuss contradictory approaches to consolation.

Lulav Arnow 8/5/21 Lulav Arnow 8/5/21

93 — Re’eh: SHABBATPISODE

This week, the Shabbat bride brings a dowry of relaxation.

Lulav Arnow 7/29/21 Lulav Arnow 7/29/21

92 — Eikev: What Makes a Parent

This week, we talk about bioessentialist familial claims, metaphorical home renovations, Detransition, Baby via dash osmosis, and what Jeff has coming to him.

Lulav Arnow 7/22/21 Lulav Arnow 7/22/21

91 — Va’etchanan: All Flesh Is Grass

This week, we talk highways, similes, and living with suicidality

Lulav Arnow 7/15/21 Lulav Arnow 7/15/21

90 — Devarim: When Your Kid Becomes A Cop

This week, we talk about paradigms of childrearing, giving people space for low-stakes disagreement, and also Kanye lines from 2010.

Lulav Arnow 7/8/21 Lulav Arnow 7/8/21

89 — Matot-Masei: Born All at Once

This week, we talk about the human capacity to change large social institutions and which of us would fight Hashem behind a Denny’s

Lulav Arnow 7/1/21 Lulav Arnow 7/1/21

88 — Pinchas: Treated Like Children, Acting Like Adults

This week, we talk dream puns, new relationship energy, and famed pancake maker Jack Johnson

Lulav Arnow 6/24/21 Lulav Arnow 6/24/21

87 — Balak: The Rest is Commentary

This week, there’s mountains, love, and anti-assimilationist interpretations.

Lulav Arnow 6/17/21 Lulav Arnow 6/17/21

86 — Chukat: The Other Woman’s Son

This week, we dip into Judges for some half-sibling drama and its frankly unearned resolution

Lulav Arnow 6/10/21 Lulav Arnow 6/10/21

85 — Korach: Party Down In Stone Town

This week, we talk positive vs negative mitzvot, perennial queer discourse, and Shaul's coronation

Lulav Arnow 6/3/21 Lulav Arnow 6/3/21

84 — Shelach: Historical Hotties and Horrible Hebrews

In which one of the hottest women in history semi-inexplicably helps rando invaders.

Lulav Arnow 5/27/21 Lulav Arnow 5/27/21

83 — Behaalotecha: He’s Not Being A Yankee

This week, we talk dual loyalties — not in the antisemitic way, but rather in terms of when policy critiques are a call-in vs a call-out

Lulav Arnow 5/13/21 Lulav Arnow 5/13/21

81 — Bamidbar: SWERP

This week, we dip back into pornoprophetics with a sex-work-exclusionary radical prophet

Lulav Arnow 4/29/21 Lulav Arnow 4/29/21

79 — Emor: Big Transliteration would have you believe it's "zedakah"

This week, we talked hereditary leadership, divorce contracts, and illegal sweat.