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    • Shekalim 10 

      Halpern, Stuart
      Rabbi Dr. Stu Halpern joined Tablet's Take One Daf Yomi podcast to discuss the Omer and its connections to Israel and the Peloton workout bike

    • Stuart Halpern: Esther in America. 

      Halpern, Stuart; Finman, Herschel (JCast Network, 2021-02-14)
      Welcome to The Jewish Hour with Rabbi Finman, for February 14, 2021. In this episode, Rabbi Finman talks to Stuart Halpern author of “Esther In America“.

    • Take One Daf Yomi: Shabbat 144 

      Halpern, Stuart; Leibovitz, Liel (Nextbook, 2020-07-28)
      Today’s Daf Yomi page, Shabbat 144, encourages us to question authority. Rabbi Dr. Stuart Halpern joins us to explain why the relationship between rabbis and their congregations is a delicate dance, not a series of dictates. ...

    • Take One: Eruvin 21 and 22. 

      Halpern, Stuart; Leibovitz, Liel (Nextbook, 2020-08-31)
      Today's Daf Yomi pages, Eruvin 21 and 22, raise the question of divine reward: What, in other words, do we get if we’re very good and obey all the commandments? Rabbi Dr. Stuart Halpern joins us with a meditation on prizes, ...

    • Take one: Eruvin 70 and 71. 

      Halpern, Stuart; Leibovitz, Liel (Nextbook, 2020-10-19)
      Today’s Daf Yomi pages, Eruvin 70 and 71, tell us that one point of setting up an eruv is to teach our children about the laws of eruvin. It's a surprisingly profound lesson, as Rabbi Dr. Stuart Halpern argues: In focusing ...

    • Take One: Pesachim 103 

      Koenigsberg, Chaya Sima; Leibovitz, Liel (Nextbook, 2021-03-04)
      Today’s Daf Yomi page, Pesachim 103, gives us strange mnemonics, including one that is making a star turn this year. Dr. Chaya Sima Koenigsberg joins us to talk about the rabbis’ love of acronyms, and why one acronym in ...

    • Take One: Pesachim 31. 

      Halpern, Stuart; Leibovitz, Liel (Nextbook, 2020-12-22)
      Today’s Daf Yomi page, Pesachim 31, is all about the boundaries Jews and gentiles must keep to live peacefully with each other. Rabbi Stuart Halpern joins us to help us to argue that respecting clear distinctions and ...

    • Take One: Shekalim 10 

      Halpern, Stuart; Leibovitz, Liel (Nextbook, 2021-03-31)
      Today’s Daf Yomi page, Shekalim 10, extols the unique sanctity of the Land of Israel, which is intricately tied to the Omer. Rabbi Dr. Stuart Halpern joins us to talk about the Omer, why we count it, and what the experience ...

    • The Tanakh in America with Guest Host Rabbi Dr. Stu Halpern. 

      Horn, Dara; Trapedo, Shaina (Koren Publishers Jerusalem, 2021)
      Although the First Amendment prohibits the state adoption of a single religion, the Tanakh, the Hebrew Bible, has been a core influence on the American people, Republic, and society ever since Christopher Columbus set sail ...