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Xava brings a story of politically useful sinning, the Rashbi, a suspiciously convenient demon friend and a truly bizarre system of law abolishment. Sign up for her next class here: https://bit.ly/thornsinthevineyard To ask us questions, text or leaves us a voicemail at the Talmud Hotline at 401-484-1619 or email us at [email protected]. Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou. Music by Ben Schreiber.

Michael returns us to the topic of charisma with a fascinating exploration of the holy spirit in Torah, how it appears linguistically, what kind of powers and effects it gives, and its potential pitfalls. Become a Shel Maala Member here: https://bit.ly/shelmaalajoin, Sign up for Heeling Our Soles here: https://bit.ly/heelingoursoles, Sign up for Thorns in the Vineyard here: https://bit.ly/thornsinthevineyard To ask us questions, text or leaves us a voicemail at the Talmud Hotline at 401-484-1619 or email us at [email protected]. Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou. Music by Ben Schreiber.

We're finally answering a listener question! In this case, what's the deal with hatafam dam brit for NB and trans folks and why does it seem like we're following Shammai when the halakaha is like Hillel?! Sign up for Heeling Our Soles here: https://bit.ly/heelingoursoles To ask us questions, text or leaves us a voicemail at the Talmud Hotline at 401-484-1619 or email us at [email protected]. Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou. Music by Ben Schreiber.

Oops! Both of us forgot who was actually supposed to prepare this episode, so enjoy this minisode about charisma, our personal issues and hints at what our next actual episode will be about. To ask us questions, text or leaves us a voicemail at the Talmud Hotline at 401-484-1619 or email us at [email protected]. Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou. Follow us on twitter @xaihowareyou and @miss_figured. Music by Ben Schreiber.

Author and scholar Rafael Neis joins us to talk about their book, "When a Human Gives Birth to a Raven: Rabbis and the Reproduction of Species", featuring a riveting discussion of furries, gender, what happens if your brother is a bird, gay demon divorce and much more! Keep up with them on insta @postrafelite and on their website at https://rachelrafaelneis.com. To ask us questions, text or leaves us a voicemail at the Talmud Hotline at 401-484-1619 or email us at [email protected]. Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou. Follow us on twitter @xaihowareyou and @miss_figured. Music by Ben Schreiber.

Michael brings a bounty of sources from Talmud to Kabbalah to Xasidut on anger and what the Rabbis say we should do about it (but often don't do themselves). To ask us questions, text or leaves us a voicemail at the Talmud Hotline at 401-484-1619 or email us at [email protected]. Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou. Follow us on twitter @xaihowareyou and @miss_figured. Music by Ben Schreiber.

Part 2 of Xava's spontaneous series on foxes! Featured are Babylonian pedagogy, greedy wolves, overzealous interpretation and selfishness in the Rabbinate. Sign up for Sacred Wiggles here: https://bit.ly/sacredwiggles To ask us questions, text or leave us a voicemail at the Talmud Hotline at 401-484-1619 or email us at [email protected]. Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou. Follow us on twitter @xaihowareyou and @miss_figured. Music by Ben Schreiber.

Michael has brought us some luscious Xasidic and Kabbalaistic wisdom on the soul, two major Jewish holidays and the extremes of human experience. Sign up for Building Our Brakhas here: bit.ly/3IsrEBj Visit our website to ask us questions at xaihowareyou.com and call or Text the Talmud Hotline at 401-484-1619 and leave us a voicemail. Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou. Follow us on twitter @xaihowareyou and @miss_figured. Music by Ben Schreiber.

Something's fishy as frenemy of the pod Rabbi Akiva returns with a parable about a fox...maybe the start of a fox series? We'll see! Also featuring: love of Torah and struggling with loving Judaism. Sign up for Sacred Wiggles at https://bit.ly/3IsrEBj Visit our website to ask us questions at xaihowareyou.com and call or Text the Talmud Hotline at 401-484-1619 and leave us a voicemail. Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou. Follow us on twitter @xaihowareyou and @miss_figured. Music by Ben Schreiber.

Michael continues his archaeology rampage with some tales and tidbits about burial practices in the first century, which sheds some light on social structures, Jewish denominations in the time and collaborative funeral cookouts. Sign up for Building Our Brakhas here: bit.ly/buildingbrakhas Visit our website to ask us questions at xaihowareyou.com and call or Text the Talmud Hotline at 401-484-1619 and leave us a voicemail. Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou. Follow us on twitter @xaihowareyou and @miss_figured. Music by Ben Schreiber.

Xava brings a source sheet from friend of the pod Olivia Devorah Tucker about bodies, fluids, clay and the strange ways they mix. Sign up for Building Our Brakhas here: https://bit.ly/buildingbrakhas Visit our website to ask us questions at xaihowareyou.com and call or Text the Talmud Hotline at 401-484-1619 and leave us a voicemail. Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou. Follow us on twitter @xaihowareyou and @miss_figured. Music by Ben Schreiber.

Michael has brought our very first archaeology episode, in which we learn about the cultural significance of frittatas in the first century CE, ceramic studio pop ups and pre-revolt material culture. Sign up for Building Our Brakhas Here: https://bit.ly/3wgc215 Visit our website to ask us questions at xaihowareyou.com and call or Text the Talmud Hotline at 401-484-1619 and leave us a voicemail. Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou. Follow us on twitter @xaihowareyou and @miss_figured. Music by Ben Schreiber.

Xava brings us a (maybe) allegorical story about conquest, revenge, bloodshed and breaking cycles of violence. Visit our website to ask us questions at xaihowareyou.com and call or Text the Talmud Hotline at 401-484-1619 and leave us a voicemail. Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou. Follow us on twitter @xaihowareyou and @miss_figured. Music by Ben Schreiber.

Michael brings us a sugye exploring the restrictions and stigma surrounding an "am ha'aretz", plus some historical speculation and context about how that role has shifted over time. Listen to Sam's 2023 Year in Review episode here: https://soundcloud.com/historiansplaining/2023-in-historical-context-dividing-the-harvest. Sign up for The Priests Eat at Midnight here: https://bit.ly/TPEAM Visit our website to ask us questions at xaihowareyou.com and call or Text the Talmud Hotline at 401-484-1619 and leave us a voicemail. Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou. Follow us on twitter @xaihowareyou and @miss_figured. Music by Ben Schreiber.

Finally, part 2 of the TOS series is here! We're discussing the trends in computing that inspired Terry, the meaning of mysticism and the modern in spiritual thought along with friend of the pod, Sam! Sign up for The Priests Eat at Midnight here: https://bit.ly/TPEAM To ask us questions, text or leaves us a voicemail at the Talmud Hotline at 401-484-1619 or email us at [email protected]. Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou. Follow us on twitter @xaihowareyou and @miss_figured. Music by Ben Schreiber.

We all know how the story of Shimon Bar Yoxai ends, right? Right? Wrong, turns out there's agricultural infrastructure projects, moral backsliding, secret sex work detail and edible flowers left to discover. Sign up for The Priests Eat at Midnight here: https://bit.ly/TPEAM To ask us questions, text or leaves us a voicemail at the Talmud Hotline at 401-484-1619 or email us at [email protected]. Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou. Follow us on twitter @xaihowareyou and @miss_figured. Music by Ben Schreiber.

Michael is bringing two tasty listener queries this week that get us talking about the first cis nonbinary person in history, as well as fairies, tree antics and the mouth in the earth. Sign up for Who Created These here: https://bit.ly/whocreatedthese To ask us questions, text or leaves us a voicemail at the Talmud Hotline at 401-484-1619 or email us at [email protected]. Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou. Follow us on twitter @xaihowareyou and @miss_figured. Music by Ben Schreiber.

Xava's brought a big long daf with 9 headed demons, bad father son relationships, arrogance, punishment, gay content and everything else you could possibly want in a few short paragraphs. Sign up for Who Created These here: https://bit.ly/whocreatedthese To ask us questions, text or leaves us a voicemail at the Talmud Hotline at 401-484-1619 or email us at [email protected]. Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou. Follow us on twitter @xaihowareyou and @miss_figured. Music by Ben Schreiber.

Continuing our theme of continuing our theme, this week Michael helps us explore the legacy, vibes and snappy one liners of the Kotzker Rebbe, a famed purveyor of misanthropy and shower thoughts. Sign up for Who Created These here: https://bit.ly/whocreatedthese Visit our website to ask us questions at xaihowareyou.com and call or Text the Talmud Hotline at 401-484-1619 and leave us a voicemail. Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou. Follow us on twitter @xaihowareyou and @miss_figured. Music by Ben Schreiber.

Michael brings some deep lore on the 4 branched shin, the new Torah, the World to Come and our eventual dinner of mythical creatures. Sign up for Divine Decay here: bit.ly/divinedecay Visit our website to ask us questions at xaihowareyou.com and call or Text the Talmud Hotline at 401-484-1619 and leave us a voicemail. Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou. Follow us on twitter @xaihowareyou and @miss_figured. Music by Ben Schreiber.

Time to get down to brass tacks about reincarnation, gender ghosts, punishment for past lives and where it all comes from. Content Warning: This episode contains mention of animal death. Sign up for Divine Decay here: https://bit.ly/divinedecay Visit our website to ask us questions at xaihowareyou.com and call or Text the Talmud Hotline at 401-484-1619 and leave us a voicemail. Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou. Follow us on twitter @xaihowareyou and @miss_figured. Music by Ben Schreiber.

Michael brings us all some theology about halos, gender roles, secret torah and the world to come. Donate to support mutual aid in Gaza here: https://bit.ly/472xmUR. Sign up for Shel Maala's Divine Decay in Portland, OR here: https://bit.ly/divinedecay Visit our website to ask us questions at xaihowareyou.com and call or Text the Talmud Hotline at 401-484-1619 and leave us a voicemail. Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou. Follow us on twitter @xaihowareyou and @miss_figured. Music by Ben Schreiber.

Xava gives a primer on mitzvot that women (supposedly) aren't obligated in and why, what even is a gender, why we get left out of the fanciest mitzvahs and whether we're okay with that. Donate to support mutual aid efforts in Gaza here: https://secure.everyaction.com/b00t33wD-EOVJ1cNTyHixg2 Visit our website to ask us questions at xaihowareyou.com and call or Text the Talmud Hotline at 401-484-1619 and leave us a voicemail. Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou. Follow us on twitter @xaihowareyou and @miss_figured. Music by Ben Schreiber.

Michael brings us a walk through several pages of Talmud covering gender, sex, risk, isolation and sexy ladder leaping shenanigans. Sign up for The Sheydy Bunch here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-sheydy-bunch-halloween-talmud-series-on-amulets-the-demons-next-door-tickets-686988459977 Visit our website to ask us questions at xaihowareyou.com and call or Text the Talmud Hotline at 401-484-1619 and leave us a voicemail. Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou. Follow us on twitter @xaihowareyou and @miss_figured. Music by Ben Schreiber.

Xava brings in some texts and talks to explore the concept of basic dignity, honor and human rights. Sign up for CTNTC here: https://svara.org/course/trans-codex/ Visit our website to ask us questions at xaihowareyou.com and call or Text the Talmud Hotline at 401-484-1619 and leave us a voicemail. Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou. Follow us on twitter @xaihowareyou and @miss_figured. Music by Ben Schreiber.

Michael has brought a sexy Mishnah about vegetarian food, kosher restaurants, avodah zara and other hot, hot topics. Visit our website to ask us questions at xaihowareyou.com and call or Text the Talmud Hotline at 401-484-1619 and leave us a voicemail. Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou. Follow us on twitter @xaihowareyou and @miss_figured. Music by Ben Schreiber.

The very first episode of our Temple OS series is finally here! We'll be releasing them slowly as we get them edited over the next few months. This week we're introducing you to what the heck is TOS, who was Terry Davis, and why we decided to create this series. Check out Shel Maala's Fall offerings here: https://www.shelmaala.com/classes/fall-in-love-with-shel-maala/ Visit our website to ask us questions at xaihowareyou.com and call or Text the Talmud Hotline at 401-484-1619 and leave us a voicemail. Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou. Follow us on twitter @xaihowareyou and @miss_figured. Music by Ben Schreiber.

A listener asked us: does that Talmud have anything to say about getting married for immigration or citizenship purposes? This week Xava brought us the answer (which is not legal advice but just a fun podcast episode)! Visit our website to ask us questions at xaihowareyou.com and call or Text the Talmud Hotline at 401-484-1619 and leave us a voicemail. Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou. Follow us on twitter @xaihowareyou and @miss_figured. Music by Ben Schreiber.

Michael unearths a treasure trove of dino details from the Rabbis, plus some paleontology simps explain kashrut and a mysterious bone tunnel appears. Visit our website to ask us questions at xaihowareyou.com and call or Text the Talmud Hotline at 401-484-1619 and leave us a voicemail. Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou. Follow us on twitter @xaihowareyou and @miss_figured. Music by Ben Schreiber.

Finally, we're covering one of the wisest and wiliest women of the Talmud, Bruriah! This week, she corrects her husband, is a paragon of learning, gets slandered and gets redeemed. Visit our website to ask us questions at xaihowareyou.com and call or Text the Talmud Hotline at 401-484-1619 and leave us a voicemail. Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou. Follow us on twitter @xaihowareyou and @miss_figured. Music by Ben Schreiber.

Inquiring listeners want to know: if HaShem is all good and all powerful, what do Jews have to say about why evil exists? You'll be shocked to learn the answer is complicated! But it involves a hippopotamus. Visit our website to ask us questions at xaihowareyou.com and call or Text the Talmud Hotline at 401-484-1619 and leave us a voicemail. Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou. Follow us on twitter @xaihowareyou and @miss_figured. Music by Ben Schreiber.

Michael brings us all a story of a rabbi slash con man extraordinaire on a spree of theft, trickery and death avoidance. Visit our website to ask us questions at xaihowareyou.com and call or Text the Talmud Hotline at 401-484-1619 and leave us a voicemail. Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou. Follow us on twitter @xaihowareyou and @miss_figured. Music by Ben Schreiber.

This episode, it's giving tree y'all! Listen in for a date with dates, mystical plant revelations and Xava's favorite verse from Tehillim. Sign up for Frootcamp here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/frootcamp-a-summer-shiur-series-to-up-your-practical-gay-talmud-skills-tickets-657309780247 Visit our website to ask us questions at xaihowareyou.com and call or Text the Talmud Hotline at 401-484-1619 and leave us a voicemail. Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou. Follow us on twitter @xaihowareyou and @miss_figured. Music by Ben Schreiber.

Our tale of the demon lord and the "wisest" ruler continues with glass domes, crimes against roosters and super strength king tosses. Sign up for Frootcamp here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/frootcamp-a-summer-shiur-series-to-up-your-practical-gay-talmud-skills-tickets-657309780247 Visit our website to ask us questions at xaihowareyou.com and call or Text the Talmud Hotline at 401-484-1619 and leave us a voicemail. Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou. Follow us on twitter @xaihowareyou and @miss_figured. Music by Ben Schreiber.

Ashmodai, king of the demons is coming to the pod! We've got Solomonic war crimes, earthworks projects, demon tzadakim and random acts of kindness. Sign up for Frootcamp: A Summer Shiur Series to Up Your Practical Gay Talmud Skills here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/frootcamp-a-summer-shiur-series-to-up-your-practical-gay-talmud-skills-tickets-657309780247 Visit our website to ask us questions at xaihowareyou.com and call or Text the Talmud Hotline at 401-484-1619 and leave us a voicemail. Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou. Follow us on twitter @xaihowareyou and @miss_figured. Music by Ben Schreiber.

Michael brings us a case of civil law that devolves/evolves into a story about the magical power of oaths, swearing, divorce and deriving benefit from bread (or the absence thereof). Visit our website to ask us questions at xaihowareyou.com and call or Text the Talmud Hotline at 401-484-1619 and leave us a voicemail. Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou. Follow us on twitter @xaihowareyou and @miss_figured. Music by Ben Schreiber.

This episode is the bee's knees...and that is only one of the many horrible bee puns you'll be subjected to! Xava brought a talmudic cornucopia about bees and their place in the world, both metaphysically and culinarily. Sign up for The Flavor of Text here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-flavor-of-text-a-deep-dive-into-melody-in-the-beit-midrash-tickets-657305076177 Visit our website to ask us questions at xaihowareyou.com and call or Text the Talmud Hotline at 401-484-1619 and leave us a voicemail. Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou. Follow us on twitter @xaihowareyou and @miss_figured. Music by Ben Schreiber.

Michael brings us some delicious drash on the Torah's most cringe stories where the bad guys are good and the good guys are not what they seem. Sign up for The Flavor of Text here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-flavor-of-text-a-deep-dive-into-melody-in-the-beit-midrash-tickets-657305076177 Visit our website to ask us questions at xaihowareyou.com and call or Text the Talmud Hotline at 401-484-1619 and leave us a voicemail. Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou. Follow us on twitter @xaihowareyou and @miss_figured. Music by Ben Schreiber.

Listener questions return! This week, we explain some Rabbinic apocalypse ramblings, little white lies, moral absolutism and the Messianic age. Visit our website to ask us questions at xaihowareyou.com and call or Text the Talmud Hotline at 401-484-1619 and leave us a voicemail. Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou. Follow us on twitter @xaihowareyou and @miss_figured. Music by Ben Schreiber.

Jonah Mac Gelfand of Gashmius Magazine joins us to talk about neo-xasidut, the transcendent nature of taste, sacrifices and a wonderful text from the Me'or Einayim! Check out the source sheet from this episode here: https://rb.gy/hza6e and check out Gashmius at https://www.gashmiusmagazine.com/ Visit our website to ask us questions at xaihowareyou.com and call or Text the Talmud Hotline at 401-484-1619 and leave us a voicemail. Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou. Follow us on twitter @xaihowareyou and @miss_figured. Music by Ben Schreiber.

Professor of philosophy and law Martha Nussbaum joins us to talk about her life, her journey with Judaism, emotional politics, agnosticism and a bunch of other cool stuff! Visit our website to ask us questions at xaihowareyou.com and call or Text the Talmud Hotline at 401-484-1619 and leave us a voicemail. Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou. Follow us on twitter @xaihowareyou and @miss_figured. Music by Ben Schreiber.

Sam Biagetti of “Historiansplaining” comes on the show to discuss Solomon’s Temple – both the real historical building as it can be reconstructed from ancient texts and archaeology, and the symbol that has been endlessly appropriated to represent humankind’s relationship to the cosmos, from Jewish mysticism, to Christian theology, to early Islam, to medieval magic, to Renaissance humanism, to the rituals of Freemasonry, to modern Jewish and evangelical fundamentalism. Check out Sam's lectures on Freemasonry: soundcloud.com/historiansplaining/the-freemasonry-its-origins-its-myths-and-its-rituals soundcloud.com/historiansplaining/freemasonry-its-growth-and-spread-before-1789 Visit our website to ask us questions at xaihowareyou.com and call or Text the Talmud Hotline at 401-484-1619 and leave us a voicemail. Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou. Follow us on twitter @xaihowareyou and @miss_figured. Music by Ben Schreiber.

What did the Rabbis know about the stars? Was the moon a bossy bottom? Can we remember facts from previous episodes? Find out all the answers in this epi! Visit our website to ask us questions at xaihowareyou.com and call or Text the Talmud Hotline at 401-484-1619 and leave us a voicemail. Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou. Follow us on twitter @xaihowareyou and @miss_figured. Music by Ben Schreiber.

Turns out our favorite trans feminine rabbi literally glows in the dark! Which turns out to be surprisingly relevant to Rabbi Elazar's existential crisis. All that and more in this week's epi! Visit our website to ask us questions at xaihowareyou.com and call or Text the Talmud Hotline at 401-484-1619 and leave us a voicemail. Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou. Follow us on twitter @xaihowareyou and @miss_figured. Music by Ben Schreiber.

You've heard of smikha, but did you know that Jews have had different thoughts and opinions about it over time? Listen to this episode to hear them, and the petty dramas that gave us the system we have today. Sign up for Alefbet Soup here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/alefbet-soup-for-the-soul-a-crash-course-in-the-magical-letters-of-judaism-tickets-621639680017 Visit our website to ask us questions at xaihowareyou.com and call or Text the Talmud Hotline at 401-484-1619 and leave us a voicemail. Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou. Follow us on twitter @xaihowareyou and @miss_figured. Music by Ben Schreiber.

What can a nazirite shave with and who cares? A listener wanted to know and we did our best to find out! Discover the hair raising results on this week's episode. Sign up for Revealing God's Face here: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYsduqurzIoGtT0NLAyioV8UaEBajNXMGV8 Visit our website to ask us questions at xaihowareyou.com and call or Text the Talmud Hotline at 401-484-1619 and leave us a voicemail. Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou. Follow us on twitter @xaihowareyou and @miss_figured. Music by Ben Schreiber.

A listener asks: what's up with Jewish ideas and practices about breath? The answer will take your breath away! Featuring Adam, Moses, kabbalah and mystical head nodding. Visit our website to ask us questions at xaihowareyou.com and call or Text the Talmud Hotline at 401-484-1619 and leave us a voicemail. Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou. Follow us on twitter @xaihowareyou and @miss_figured. Music by Ben Schreiber.

Michael brings a juicy tidbit about what to do if you miss out on sacrificing your lamb plus other repeat holidays! Sign up for Xava's class, Beyond Measure, here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/beyond-measure-recovering-talmudic-wisdom-on-life-learning-and-love-tickets-594079998267 Visit our website to ask us questions at xaihowareyou.com and call or Text the Talmud Hotline at 401-484-1619 and leave us a voicemail. Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou. Follow us on twitter @xaihowareyou and @miss_figured. Music by Ben Schreiber.

We won’t have a regular episode coming out this week because of Passover! We’ll be back next week with our normal nonsense, in the meantime, sign up for this class that Xava is teaching on some Mishnah that she absolutely loves and adores! https://www.eventbrite.com/e/beyond-measure-recovering-talmudic-wisdom-on-life-learning-and-love-tickets-594079998267 Visit our website to ask us questions at xaihowareyou.com and call or Text the Talmud Hotline at 401-484-1619 and leave us a voicemail. Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou. Follow us on twitter @xaihowareyou and @miss_figured. Music by Ben Schreiber.

Dr. Rebecca J. Epstein Levi returns to the show to talk more about her book, "When We Collide", and the methodology we can use to figure out how to really use Jewish text in our lives. Check our her work (including this book!) at www.rjelevi.com/ Visit our website to ask us questions at xaihowareyou.com and call or Text the Talmud Hotline at 401-484-1619 and leave us a voicemail. Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou. Follow us on twitter @xaihowareyou and @miss_figured. Music by Ben Schreiber.

Author and presidential contender Marianne Williamson joins us to talk about her politics, spirituality, Jewishness and transforming a broken system. Learn more about her and her campaign at www.Marianne2024.com Visit our website to ask us questions at xaihowareyou.com and call or Text the Talmud Hotline at 401-484-1619 and leave us a voicemail. Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou. Follow us on twitter @xaihowareyou and @miss_figured. Music by Ben Schreiber.

Dr. Rebecca J. Epstein-Levi joins us to discuss her new book, "When We Collide", an exploration of Jewish sexual ethics. We talk drash, poop, BDSM, practical impurity and a bunch more. Check our her work (including this book!) at https://www.rjelevi.com/ Visit our website to ask us questions at xaihowareyou.com and call or Text the Talmud Hotline at 401-484-1619 and leave us a voicemail. Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou. Follow us on twitter @xaihowareyou and @miss_figured. Music by Ben Schreiber.

A listener question about the multiverse is here! Just because HaShem knows everything, does that mean everything exists? And more importantly, does it matter? Visit our website to ask us questions at xaihowareyou.com and call or Text the Talmud Hotline at 401-484-1619 and leave us a voicemail. Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou. Follow us on twitter @xaihowareyou and @miss_figured. Music by Ben Schreiber.

Michael brings us a selection from famous (big trans energy) Jew Franz Kafka's Parables and Paradoxes. Featured are sexy sad sirens, a very suggestive dragon and Moses. Visit our website to ask us questions at xaihowareyou.com and call or Text the Talmud Hotline at 401-484-1619 and leave us a voicemail. Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou. Follow us on twitter @xaihowareyou and @miss_figured. Music by Ben Schreiber.

A listener asks, why do we see so few women do hagba? The answer probably won't surprise you but it's very fun anyway! This episode, lift Torah, get swole. Visit our website to ask us questions at xaihowareyou.com and call or Text the Talmud Hotline at 401-484-1619 and leave us a voicemail. Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou. Follow us on twitter @xaihowareyou and @miss_figured. Music by Ben Schreiber.

Following up on our WiFi episode, Michael has brought some tidbits about what the Rabbi's thought about lightning, duality, lungs and clapping. Sign up for InTensions of the Heart here! https://www.eventbrite.com/e/intensions-of-the-heart-how-deafness-and-disability-define-halakha-tickets-523288930277 Visit our website to ask us questions at xaihowareyou.com and call or Text the Talmud Hotline at 401-484-1619 and leave us a voicemail. Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou. Follow us on twitter @xaihowareyou and @miss_figured. Music by Ben Schreiber.

Xava brings a survey of halakhic rulings that help us make sense of the ethics of "stealing" WiFi. Visit our website to ask us questions at xaihowareyou.com and call or Text the Talmud Hotline at 401-484-1619 and leave us a voicemail. Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou. Follow us on twitter @xaihowareyou and @miss_figured. Music by Ben Schreiber.

The first episode of our whole new deal! Ingenious waterworks, forbidden blessings, mouth to mouth and adorable puppies are all featured. Visit our website to ask us questions at xaihowareyou.com and call or Text the Talmud Hotline at 401-484-1619 and leave us a voicemail. Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou. Follow us on twitter @xaihowareyou and @miss_figured. Music by Ben Schreiber.

This episode, we're announcing our next big project as a pod! Plus reflecting on everything we've done so far. We're gonna be putting together a deep and juicy researched series on Temple OS! If you don't know what that is, tune in to find out. Visit our website to ask us questions at xaihowareyou.com and call or Text the Talmud Hotline at 401-484-1619 and leave us a voicemail. Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou. Follow us on twitter @xaihowareyou and @miss_figured. Music by Ben Schreiber.

Ritual purity law? In my trans gender? It's more likely than you think! Xava is finally unveiling the general vibe and arguments of her paper on niddah for trans women, it's a bloody good time. Visit our website to ask us questions at xaihowareyou.com and call or Text the Talmud Hotline at 401-484-1619 and leave us a voicemail. Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou. Follow us on twitter @xaihowareyou and @miss_figured. Music by Ben Schreiber.

The peanut in the matryoshka is finally revealed! It's the finale of our Russian Doll series and we're finally giving birth, going to the underworld, partying in a fish, finding the cosmic mikveh and healing our trauma. Visit our website to ask us questions at xaihowareyou.com and call or Text the Talmud Hotline at 401-484-1619 and leave us a voicemail. Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou. Follow us on twitter @xaihowareyou and @miss_figured. Music by Ben Schreiber.

The penultimate Russian Doll episode! This time we're orbiting the whirlpool of birth, the multiverse, yearning, demanding your conjugal rights and four cats guarding your bed from snakes. Visit our website to ask us questions at xaihowareyou.com and call or Text the Talmud Hotline at 401-484-1619 and leave us a voicemail. Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou. Follow us on twitter @xaihowareyou and @miss_figured. Music by Ben Schreiber.

Nadia goes to Budapest and discovers...inter-generational trauma! In this episode, I finally connect this whole Russian Doll series to my own mother, we talk about the sacredness of the ordinary, broken tablets, and the futility of time travel. Visit our website to ask us questions at xaihowareyou.com and call or Text the Talmud Hotline at 401-484-1619 and leave us a voicemail. Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou. Follow us on twitter @xaihowareyou and @miss_figured. Music by Ben Schreiber.

We're taking a week off. See you all in 2023! Visit our website to ask us questions at xaihowareyou.com and call or Text the Talmud Hotline at 401-484-1619 and leave us a voicemail. Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou. Follow us on twitter @xaihowareyou and @miss_figured. Music by Ben Schreiber.

The first Alan episode! We get goodies like gay exploration, loosening of the past, place lag, the decay of location, doing DMT at a warehouse party in Hungary, and a bunch of other stuff. Visit our website to ask us questions at xaihowareyou.com and call or Text the Talmud Hotline at 401-484-1619 and leave us a voicemail. Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou. Follow us on twitter @xaihowareyou and @miss_figured. Music by Ben Schreiber.

Nadia gets haunted by her mom! And vice versa? Plus, reincarnation, magnetic souls, the epigenetic K Hole and learning to accept the limits of our agency. Visit our website to ask us questions at xaihowareyou.com and call or Text the Talmud Hotline at 401-484-1619 and leave us a voicemail. Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou. Follow us on twitter @xaihowareyou and @miss_figured. Music by Ben Schreiber.

We're answering a bunch of questions at once! Thanks to all our listeners for such wonderful topics: vampires, evil, BDSM, the origins of the minyan, and the mussar movement. Visit our website to ask us questions at xaihowareyou.com and call or Text the Talmud Hotline at 401-484-1619 and leave us a voicemail. Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou. Follow us on twitter @xaihowareyou and @miss_figured. Music by Ben Schreiber.

Can any of us escape our pasts? Is time travel Jewish? We explore these questions on today's Russian Doll epi! Also featured: spiritual ennui, living in the present, and Satanist pawn shops. Visit our website to ask us questions at xaihowareyou.com and call or Text the Talmud Hotline at 401-484-1619 and leave us a voicemail. Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou. Follow us on twitter @xaihowareyou and @miss_figured. Music by Ben Schreiber.

A listener asks why we pray facing east, and the answer lies somewhere along this episode's meandering path through Talmudic disagreements, shifting historical meanings, and a discussion of sacred place. Visit our website to ask us questions at xaihowareyou.com and call or Text the Talmud Hotline at 401-484-1619 and leave us a voicemail. Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou. Follow us on twitter @xaihowareyou and @miss_figured. Music by Ben Schreiber.

A listener asks: what's the deal with halakhic water rights? The answer? Flooding the world, a floating throne, legislating the commons and proximity to the source. Visit our website to ask us questions at xaihowareyou.com and call or Text the Talmud Hotline at 401-484-1619 and leave us a voicemail. Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou. Follow us on twitter @xaihowareyou and @miss_figured. Music by Ben Schreiber.

Season 2 premiere of Russian Doll is finally here! It asks us the question we're all always thinking about: are we all pregnant with ourselves? Is HaShem pregnant with themselves? Visit our website to ask us questions at xaihowareyou.com and call or Text the Talmud Hotline at 401-484-1619 and leave us a voicemail. Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou. Follow us on twitter @xaihowareyou and @miss_figured. Music by Ben Schreiber.

Listener question time! What is tzedek, who is Tzadok, and would we hook up with the wife of Potiphar? The answers are in this episode! Featured: venn diagrams, outfit repeaters, awkward dudes and the 8 levels of charity. Visit our website to ask us questions at xaihowareyou.com and call or Text the Talmud Hotline at 401-484-1619 and leave us a voicemail. Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou. Follow us on twitter @xaihowareyou and @miss_figured. Music by Ben Schreiber.

Finally, listener questions return! This week: Talmudic insults, arguments, and lessons about distrusting the government. Anarchism, communism, friendship and ostriches all make an appearance. Visit our website to ask us questions at xaihowareyou.com and call or Text the Talmud Hotline at 401-484-1619 and leave us a voicemail! Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou. Follow us on twitter @xaihowareyou and @miss_figured. Music by Ben Schreiber.

Finally, the Russian Doll season finale! It is a true quagmire of sincerity. We've got Jodorowsky, getting to be alone with ourselves, Maimonides returns and some Pirkei Avot greatest hits. Register for It Is In The Heavens here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/it-is-in-the-heavens-jewish-astrology-in-the-talmud-and-beyond-tickets-422556155837 Visit our website to ask us questions at xaihowareyou.com and call or Text the Talmud Hotline at 401-484-1619 and leave us a voicemail! Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou. Follow us on twitter @xaihowareyou and @miss_figured. Music by Ben Schreiber.

We're taking another vacation week, so here's replay of a patron episode. We'll be back next week! Michael has a Talmudic tale that nearly passes the Bechdel test! It features fake bread, smoke, nosy neighbors, miracles, and a humble guy who (maybe) sustains the world by only eating carobs. Visit our website to ask us questions at xaihowareyou.com and call or Text the Talmud Hotline at 401-484-1619 and leave us a voicemail! Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou. Follow us on twitter @xaihowareyou and @miss_figured. Music by Ben Schreiber.

Xava is getting new boobies, so we're taking a week off. Enjoy this patron replay, and we'll be back next week! Michael brings a sugye addressing the age old question: are halakhic loopholes more like a barrel of cucumbers or a vat of honey? Visit our website to ask us questions at xaihowareyou.com and call or Text the Talmud Hotline at 401-484-1619 and leave us a voicemail! Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou. Follow us on twitter @xaihowareyou and @miss_figured. Music by Ben Schreiber.

It's time for our Rabbi Akiva omnibus episode! Where did he come from, where did he go? Was he cool, or not so much? Also, is he sort of also an allegory for the process of history? We will try to find out! Visit our website to ask us questions at xaihowareyou.com and call or Text the Talmud Hotline at 401-484-1619 and leave us a voicemail. Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou. Follow us on twitter @xaihowareyou and @miss_figured. Music by Ben Schreiber.

The penultimate episode of season one of Russian Doll takes us on a journey through our own guilt, survivor's guilt, blessing really special trees, Elisha Ben Abuya and making Xava cry. Visit our website to ask us questions at xaihowareyou.com and call or Text the Talmud Hotline at 401-484-1619 and leave us a voicemail. Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou. Follow us on twitter @xaihowareyou and @miss_figured. Music by Ben Schreiber.

It's double feature time! A listener wanted to know what the Talmud has to say about dancing, and also I randomly wanted to talk about all the wild stuff the Talmud says about dogs. Featuring: prophecy, Babylonian strippers, the angel of death and a Passover mystery. Visit our website to ask us questions at xaihowareyou.com and call or Text the Talmud Hotline at 401-484-1619 and leave us a voicemail. Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou. Follow us on twitter @xaihowareyou and @miss_figured. Music by Ben Schreiber.

Our series exploring the book God Is Here continues by exploring one of our favorite metaphors for God, HaMakom! Join us in a soup of transcendence, absence, concentric circles and confusion. Visit our website to ask us questions at xaihowareyou.com and call or Text the Talmud Hotline at 401-484-1619 and leave us a voicemail. Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou. Follow us on twitter @xaihowareyou and @miss_figured. Music by Ben Schreiber.

Mirror, mirror on the wall: do we even exist at all? Maybe! This episode of our show and of Russian Doll explores subjectivity, existence, mirrors and weird sex. Register for How to Be a Xevruta here: https://www.judaismunbound.com/classes/p/xevruta ! Visit our website to ask us questions at xaihowareyou.com and call or Text the Talmud Hotline at 401-484-1619 and leave us a voicemail. Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou. Follow us on twitter @xaihowareyou and @miss_figured. Music by Ben Schreiber.

Part one of our exploration of "God Is Here" by Toba Spitzer, we're talking about the concept of God metaphors and specifically God as water. Featuring: magical wells, our own cynicism, divine bathtubs and how Xava learned to believe in stuff again. Visit our website to ask us questions at xaihowareyou.com and call or Text the Talmud Hotline at 401-484-1619 and leave us a voicemail. Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou. Follow us on twitter @xaihowareyou and @miss_figured. Music by Ben Schreiber.

It's our first experimental long episode, and our fifth Russian Doll episode! We spent a long time talking about soul soup, mortality, Maimonides being a sneaky boy, and the oneness of all joy. This one is a doozy y'all! Visit our website to ask us questions at xaihowareyou.com and call or Text the Talmud Hotline at 401-484-1619 and leave us a voicemail. Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou. Follow us on twitter @xaihowareyou and @miss_figured. Music by Ben Schreiber.

What happened to the Nazarite that was too pretty for his own good? Why did the Rabbis not like Nazirites to begin with? Did the Jews have our own Narcissus? Today, we find out! Visit our website to ask us questions at xaihowareyou.com and call or Text the Talmud Hotline at 401-484-1619 and leave us a voicemail. Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou. Follow us on twitter @xaihowareyou and @miss_figured. Music by Ben Schreiber.

Finally, a listener question episode! This time: what is the Jewish history of chicken and chicken soup? Turns out it's terrifying toddler toys, disgusting concoctions, forbidden magic and lovable scamps. Visit our website to ask us questions at xaihowareyou.com and call or Text the Talmud Hotline at 401-484-1619 and leave us a voicemail. Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou. Follow us on twitter @xaihowareyou and @miss_figured. Music by Ben Schreiber.

Finally, the second main character of Russian doll is introduced! Also, the danger of compassion, humble brags, Xava's type and a pair of Rabbinic lovers. Visit our website to ask us questions at xaihowareyou.com and call or Text the Talmud Hotline at 401-484-1619 and leave us a voicemail. Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou. Follow us on twitter @xaihowareyou and @miss_figured. Music by Ben Schreiber.

Our third Russian Doll episode is here! Featured are: heavy hair, kindness as the way out, the most Jewish stuff yet, more mommy issues, and the sad tale of Absalom! Visit our website to ask us questions at xaihowareyou.com and call or Text the Talmud Hotline at 401-484-1619 and leave us a voicemail. Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou. Follow us on twitter @xaihowareyou and @miss_figured. Music by Ben Schreiber.

We're answering a listener question about harpist, sexy lady, secret keeper, midrashic queen and potential immortal being, Serach Bat Asher. Visit our website to ask us questions at xaihowareyou.com and call or Text the Talmud Hotline at 401-484-1619 and leave us a voicemail. Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou. Follow us on twitter @xaihowareyou and @miss_figured. Music by Ben Schreiber.

What kinds of dudes get to be on the Sanhedrin? The Talmud, unshockingly, has weird opinions and so do we! Also featured: Michael predicting my arguments ahead of time. Visit our website to ask us questions at xaihowareyou.com and call or Text the Talmud Hotline at 401-484-1619 and leave us a voicemail. Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou. Follow us on twitter @xaihowareyou and @miss_figured. Music by Ben Schreiber.

The Russian Doll series continues with episode two! This team featuring anger, friendship, mommy issues and ketamine! Visit our website to ask us questions at xaihowareyou.com and call or Text the Talmud Hotline at 401-484-1619 and leave us a voicemail. Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou. Follow us on twitter @xaihowareyou and @miss_figured. Music by Ben Schreiber.

When do you say Kaddish for a non-Jewish relative? Enquiring minds want to know! And the Sages have....suggestions. Plus, the special benefits of being a delicate baby!

We shot off some hot takes about math in our episode discussing svara, so now math maven Ada Morse is here to educate us on the philosophy of math, its spiritual dimensions and its relationship to svara. Visit our website to ask us questions at xaihowareyou.com and call or Text the Talmud Hotline at 401-484-1619 and leave us a voicemail. Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou. Follow us on twitter @xaihowareyou and @miss_figured. Music by Ben Schreiber.

We're kicking of our grand experiment of discussing Russian Doll and Talmud with Season 1, Episode 1, which features Israeli joints, Yeshiva ghosts, reincarnation, and self sabotage! Visit our website to ask us questions at xaihowareyou.com and call or Text the Talmud Hotline at 401-484-1619 and leave us a voicemail. Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou. Follow us on twitter @xaihowareyou and @miss_figured. Music by Ben Schreiber.

A listener asks: do monotheism and monogamy have to go hand in hand? We answer: emphatically no! Plus a bunch of sources as to why that's the case, and one guy who had 300 wives. Visit our website to ask us questions at xaihowareyou.com and call or Text the Talmud Hotline at 401-484-1619 and leave us a voicemail. Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou. Follow us on twitter @xaihowareyou and @miss_figured. Music by Ben Schreiber.

I (Xava) was INCREDIBLY depressed this week, so we're re-releasing a patron episode for y'all! I'm sorry for the inconsistency recently but I'm feeling better and bringing you lots of new episodes soon. Thank you for your support, we literally couldn't do it without y'all. Episode Description: Want to know how the way you measure bread influences your fitness for the priesthood? Listen and find out! Plus, pork talk! Visit our website to ask us questions at xaihowareyou.com and call or Text the Talmud Hotline at 401-484-1619 and leave us a voicemail. Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou. Follow us on twitter @xaihowareyou and @miss_figured. Music by Ben Schreiber.

We've got a sugye today about the mystical past of babies raised in courtyards who ride on oxen with doors for saddles. Totally normal stuff. Visit our website to ask us questions at xaihowareyou.com and call or Text the Talmud Hotline at 401-484-1619 and leave us a voicemail. Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou. Follow us on twitter @xaihowareyou and @miss_figured. Music by Ben Schreiber.

Svara is a concept that comes up a LOT in queer Talmud world, and listeners want to know what it is. Trying to answer that got us into a juicy discussion on the nature of rationality and math, and what makes Talmud special. Visit our website to ask us questions at xaihowareyou.com and call or Text the Talmud Hotline at 401-484-1619 and leave us a voicemail. Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou. Follow us on twitter @xaihowareyou and @miss_figured. Music by Ben Schreiber.

Xava got COVID but is recovering and feeling a lot better. We're taking this Sunday off, but back with a bonus episode later in the week. Visit our website to ask us questions at xaihowareyou.com and call or Text the Talmud Hotline at 401-484-1619 and leave us a voicemail. Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou. Follow us on twitter @xaihowareyou and @miss_figured. Music by Ben Schreiber.

What's the deal with Elisha Ben Abuyah, a.k.a the Axer, a.k.a the ultimate emo bad boy of Talmud, the only guy who HaShem (maybe) told not to repent? Listen and find out! Visit our website to ask us questions at xaihowareyou.com and call or Text the Talmud Hotline at 401-484-1619 and leave us a voicemail! Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou. Follow us on twitter @xaihowareyou and @miss_figured. Music by Ben Schreiber.

A Patron was wondering if the tradition had anything to offer to help us in times of heartbreak and being wronged by loved ones, so naturally we studied a story about a fox in the temple and what preceded creation. Visit our website to ask us questions at xaihowareyou.com and call or Text the Talmud Hotline at 401-484-1619 and leave us a voicemail! Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou. Follow us on twitter @xaihowareyou and @miss_figured. Music by Ben Schreiber.

Was Benjamin a werewolf, or one of the world's first serial killers? Inquiring minds wanted to know! The answer (as you may have guessed), is complicated. Visit our website to ask us questions at xaihowareyou.com and call or Text the Talmud Hotline at 401-484-1619 and leave us a voicemail! Sign up for Planting Cucumbers by Magic here: www.eventbrite.com/e/planting-cucu…ts-309952645707 Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou. Follow us on twitter @xaihowareyou and @miss_figured. Music by Ben Schreiber.

A listener wants to know why we say brakhot and why all the rabbis seem gay, which leads to a discussion of the perils of divine parenting. Visit our website to ask us questions at xaihowareyou.com and call or Text the Talmud Hotline at 401-484-1619 and leave us a voicemail! Sign up for Planting Cucumbers by Magic here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/planting-cucumbers-by-magic-or-how-to-get-away-with-jewish-witchcraft-tickets-309952645707 Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou. Follow us on twitter @xaihowareyou and @miss_figured. Music by Ben Schreiber.

A dear listener writes in about an incredibly challenging roommate situation, and we discover that saying your sorry, in Judaism, requires knowing what you did! Visit our website to ask us questions at xaihowareyou.com and call or Text the Talmud Hotline at 401-484-1619 and leave us a voicemail! Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou. Follow us on twitter @xaihowareyou and @miss_figured. Music by Ben Schreiber.

Can dogs go to heaven? What even is a soul, in Judaism? Why is it that there are so many righteous donkeys? We're doing our best to track down an answer. Visit our website to ask us questions at xaihowareyou.com and call or Text the Talmud Hotline at 401-484-1619 and leave us a voicemail! Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou. Follow us on twitter @xaihowareyou and @miss_figured. Music by Ben Schreiber.

What's the deal with secular humanist conversion? In this episode, we're doing our best to bring our own hot takes and the takes of the sages. Visit our website to ask us questions at xaihowareyou.com and call or Text the Talmud Hotline at 401-484-1619 and leave us a voicemail! Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou. Follow us on twitter @xaihowareyou and @miss_figured. Music by Ben Schreiber.

Xava is at a wedding in Texas so we're replaying a recent bonus episode. What are the various stages of male hyena transformation? What do our spines turn into after we die? Which animals are inherently naughty? Barukh HaShem, Michael is here to help us find out. Visit our website to ask us questions at xaihowareyou.com and call or Text the Talmud Hotline at 401-484-1619 and leave us a voicemail! Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou. Follow us on twitter @xaihowareyou and @miss_figured. Music by Ben Schreiber.

A listener wanted to know: what's the deal with animal sacrifice in the world to come?! So we had the honor of having Sara Eifler of Jewish Veg on to enlighten us about some Jewish views on eating (or not eating) animals! Check out the Passover Zeder here: https://tinyurl.com/yc44c6v8 Visit our website to ask us questions at xaihowareyou.com and call or Text the Talmud Hotline at 401-484-1619 and leave us a voicemail! Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou. Follow us on twitter @xaihowareyou and @miss_figured. Music by Ben Schreiber.

Is saying the pledge of allegiance avodah zarah? Is it an oath, and if so is it allowed? A listener wanted to know, so we did our best to find out! Tune in for our findings and our usual nonsense. Visit our website to ask us questions at xaihowareyou.com and call or Text the Talmud Hotline at 401-484-1619 and leave us a voicemail! Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou. Follow us on twitter @xaihowareyou and @miss_figured. Music by Ben Schreiber.

Xava got her wisdom teeth out, so we're taking the week off. Enjoy this formally Patron-only episode about what we can learn from animals. Visit our website to ask us questions at xaihowareyou.com and call or Text the Talmud Hotline at 401-484-1619 and leave us a voicemail! Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou. Follow us on twitter @xaihowareyou and @miss_figured. Music by Ben Schreiber.

A listener wants to know: do the Rabbis have anything to say about mental and emotional readiness to convert to Judaism? Well, they do and they don't! They thought a lot of different things, and we're bringing some of them to you in this hot, tasty episode. Visit our website to ask us questions at xaihowareyou.com and call or Text the Talmud Hotline at 401-484-1619 and leave us a voicemail! Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou. Follow us on twitter @xaihowareyou and @miss_figured. Music by Ben Schreiber.

Listeners wanna know and we wanna tell you! We got a couple sugyes on how the Rabbis felt their feels and how they though we should feel ours. Some of it is good! Some of it is...weird. Visit our website to ask us questions at xaihowareyou.com and call or Text the Talmud Hotline at 401-484-1619 and leave us a voicemail! Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou. Follow us on twitter @xaihowareyou and @miss_figured. Music by Ben Schreiber.

A wonderful listener question came in about gender presentation and yarmulkes, so we're explore the origins of the kippah and the Torah verses on gendered clothing. Visit our website to ask us questions at xaihowareyou.com and call or Text the Talmud Hotline at 401-484-1619 and leave us a voicemail! Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou. Follow us on twitter @xaihowareyou and @miss_figured. Music by Ben Schreiber.

Joanna Ware and Jordan Gershon Mann of the Jewish Liberation Fund join us today to talk funding the left, the woes of Torah scholars, Rabban Gamliel and redistribution of power. Check out and support JLF at https://www.jewishliberation.fund/ ! Visit our website to ask us questions at xaihowareyou.com and call or Text the Talmud Hotline at 401-484-1619 and leave us a voicemail! Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou. Follow us on twitter @xaihowareyou and @miss_figured. Music by Ben Schreiber.

The fabulous and insightful Abraham Riesman returns to the show! He's here to talk apocalypse, creation, Torah trope, staying in our leyn, and to help us pick apart some rabbinic discourse. Check out his work at abrahamriesman.com! Visit our website to ask us questions at xaihowareyou.com and call or Text the Talmud Hotline at 401-484-1619 and leave us a voicemail! Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou. Follow us on twitter @xaihowareyou and @miss_figured. Music by Ben Schreiber.

Sometimes, no matter how much want them to endure, friendships come and go. The Talmud has stuff to say about this, and today we're digging it up! Visit our website to ask us questions at xaihowareyou.com and call or Text the Talmud Hotline at 401-484-1619 and leave us a voicemail! Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou. Follow us on twitter @xaihowareyou and @miss_figured. Music by Ben Schreiber.

We're taking on lots of listener issues today, like where does the term shiur come from, why don't we make longer episodes and creating a glossary of Talmudic terms! Visit our website to ask us questions at xaihowareyou.com and call or Text the Talmud Hotline at 401-484-1619 and leave us a voicemail! Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou. Follow us on twitter @xaihowareyou and @miss_figured. Music by Ben Schreiber.

Today's listener question is about conversion under a Rabbi who seems to view Zionism as mandatory. Michael and Xava bring a relevant Talmudic tale and our own experiences to answer. Visit our website to ask us questions at xaihowareyou.com and call or Text the Talmud Hotline at 401-484-1619 and leave us a voicemail! Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou. Follow us on twitter @xaihowareyou and @miss_figured. Music by Ben Schreiber.

A listener wrote in to ask us whether anthrophagy was ever allowed by halaxa, so we're diving into the range of scenarios it might be, and the many situations where it's definitely not. Visit our website to ask us questions at xaihowareyou.com and call or Text the Talmud Hotline at 401-484-1619 and leave us a voicemail! Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou. Follow us on twitter @xaihowareyou and @miss_figured. Music by Ben Schreiber.

Goy Goth Girl wrote in to ask about practicing while not Jewish, which helped us discuss the concept of commandedness as it applies to a lot of different folks! Visit our website to ask us questions at xaihowareyou.com and call or Text the Talmud Hotline at 401-484-1619 and leave us a voicemail! Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou. Follow us on twitter @xaihowareyou and @miss_figured. Music by Ben Schreiber.

A listener wrote us a question about their ex, who only wants them when they're not there, so we're doing our best to answer it with a little piece of divorce contract law. Visit our website to ask us questions at xaihowareyou.com and call or Text the Talmud Hotline at 401-484-1619 and leave us a voicemail! Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou. Follow us on twitter @xaihowareyou and @miss_figured. Music by Ben Schreiber.

We got an awesome listener question/response to our anal sex episode, so this week we're finding sources we can use to reflect on BDSM and Kink in the tradition! Visit our website to ask us questions at xaihowareyou.com and call or Text the Talmud Hotline at 401-484-1619 and leave us a voicemail! Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou. Follow us on twitter @xaihowareyou and @miss_figured. Music by Ben Schreiber.

We got a wonderful listener question this week about how to handle the memories of widely beloved figures who also behaved quite badly during their lives. Weirdly enough, the Talmud has something straightforward to say about this! Visit our website to ask us questions at xaihowareyou.com and call or Text the Talmud Hotline at 401-484-1619 and leave us a voicemail! Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou. Follow us on twitter @xaihowareyou and @miss_figured. Music by Ben Schreiber.

On Kiddushin 82a, we find some wild anti-doctor sentiment. A listener was wondering how to square that with the iconic status of the Jewish Doctor, so we're doing our best to find an explanation. Visit our website to ask us questions at xaihowareyou.com and call or Text the Talmud Hotline at 401-484-1619 and leave us a voicemail! Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou. Follow us on twitter @xaihowareyou and @miss_figured. Music by Ben Schreiber.

Shockingly, the answer is complicated! Thanks to a wonderful listener question, we're diving into the punishments and practicalities of the Jewish afterlife. Visit our website to ask us questions at xaihowareyou.com and call or Text the Talmud Hotline at 401-484-1619 and leave us a voicemail! Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou. Follow us on twitter @xaihowareyou and @miss_figured. Music by Ben Schreiber.

A wonderful listener asked us our opinion on the Spring 2021 DSA shabbat scandal, so we're doing our best to use Talmud as a way to understand secular-religious relations in Judaism. Visit our website to ask us questions at xaihowareyou.com and call or Text the Talmud Hotline at 401-484-1619 and leave us a voicemail! Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou. Follow us on twitter @xaihowareyou and @miss_figured. Music by Ben Schreiber.

Why does the Talmud care if we wash our hands after cutting our hair? How did they even decide what shoe we are supposed to put on first? And why should we care, today? We do our best to answer on this episode. Visit our website to ask us questions at xaihowareyou.com and call or Text the Talmud Hotline at 401-484-1619 and leave us a voicemail! Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou. Follow us on twitter @xaihowareyou and @miss_figured. Music by Ben Schreiber.

Tying up our arguments from last week's episode, we're finding out what the Talmud and halaxa have to say about "overturning the table", sexually. Visit our website to ask us questions at xaihowareyou.com and call or Text the Talmud Hotline at 401-484-1619 and leave us a voicemail! Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou. Follow us on twitter @xaihowareyou and @miss_figured. Music by Ben Schreiber.

We're analyzing the gender and sexuality categories of the Talmud and Leviticus, and how they might transform our understanding of the verse about men lying with men. Visit our website to ask us questions at xaihowareyou.com and call or Text the Talmud Hotline at 401-484-1619 and leave us a voicemail! Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou. Follow us on twitter @xaihowareyou and @miss_figured. Music by Ben Schreiber. CW: This episode contains mention of biological essentialism, sexual abuse and homophobia.

We're diving into that sweet listener question backlog! In this episiode, we explore the origins of Jewish hair covering, as well as some interesting edge cases like hair covering for single women and a ruling exempting women from it entirely! You can get our merch here: https://xai-how-are-you.creator-spring.com/ Visit our website to ask us questions at xaihowareyou.com and call or Text the Talmud Hotline at 401-484-1619 and leave us a voicemail! Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou. Follow us on twitter @xaihowareyou and @miss_figured. Music by Ben Schreiber.

My friend Abraham Riesman, author of True Believer: The Rise and Fall of Stan Lee, comes on the show to talk X-Men, origins of Magneto's Jewishness, collective storytelling, apocalypse and queer allegories. Visit our website to ask us questions at xaihowareyou.com and call or Text the Talmud Hotline at 401-484-1619 and leave us a voicemail! Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou. Follow us on twitter @xaihowareyou and @miss_figured. Music by Ben Schreiber.

Friend of mine, friend of the show and Judaism Unbound co-host Lex Rofeberg returns to the show to discuss Neo-Hasidism, its connections to Paleo-Hasidism, plus its future, problems, benefits and history. Visit our website to ask us questions at xaihowareyou.com and call or Text the Talmud Hotline at 401-484-1619 and leave us a voicemail! Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou. Follow us on twitter @xaihowareyou and @miss_figured. Music by Ben Schreiber.

Sam Biagetti and Michael continue our series by exploring the rise of the Baal Shem, Jew castles, asceticism, young men frolicking in the woods and how Hasidism became what it is today. Visit our website to ask us questions at xaihowareyou.com and call or Text the Talmud Hotline at 401-484-1619 and leave us a voicemail! Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou. Follow us on twitter @xaihowareyou and @miss_figured. Music by Ben Schreiber.

In our new series on Hasidism, Sam Biagetti returns to the show to set the stage with a full, fabulous history of Jewish schisms up to the early modern era and the invention of Orthodox Judaisms. Visit our website to ask us questions at xaihowareyou.com and call or Text the Talmud Hotline at 401-484-1619 and leave us a voicemail! Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou. Follow us on twitter @xaihowareyou and @miss_figured. Music by Ben Schreiber.

Today: a medieval Jewish poem about the existential dread of being a trans girl and a dive into what it means to "bless", and specifically what it means to bless the bad along with the good. Visit our website to ask us questions at xaihowareyou.com and call or Text the Talmud Hotline at 401-484-1619 and leave us a voicemail! Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou. Follow us on twitter @xaihowareyou and @miss_figured. Music by Ben Schreiber.

Today's episode is brought to you by the word: pitchfork! We're learning about theurgy, we're learning about trancestors, we're learning about the devil and it is all very gay. Visit our website to ask us questions at xaihowareyou.com and call or Text the Talmud Hotline at 401-484-1619 and leave us a voicemail! Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou. Follow us on twitter @xaihowareyou and @miss_figured. Music by Ben Schreiber.

We're tackling a listener question about the high holidays and what to do when other people aren't taking part in the tradition of repentance during this time of year. Plus a really fun Talmud Final Destination story. Visit our website to ask us questions at xaihowareyou.com and call or Text the Talmud Hotline at 401-484-1619 and leave us a voicemail! Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou. Follow us on twitter @xaihowareyou and @miss_figured. Music by Ben Schreiber.

We're unearthing ancient union law, comparing it to Ordinance of Laborers 1349, connecting the post Black Death period and COVID, and figuring out what the hell Judaism has to do with any of this. Visit our website to ask us questions at xaihowareyou.com and call or Text the Talmud Hotline at 401-484-1619 and leave us a voicemail! Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou. Follow us on twitter @xaihowareyou and @miss_figured. Music by Ben Schreiber.

Michael is (non-Covid) sick! So, we decided not to record but instead release this amazing, formerly Patron only episode where Never Angeline North returns to the show to read her short story, "A River Walks on Nineteen Legs"! Visit our website to ask us questions at xaihowareyou.com and call or Text the Talmud Hotline at 401-484-1619 and leave us a voicemail! Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou. Follow us on twitter @xaihowareyou and @miss_figured. Music by Ben Schreiber.

On Bava Metzia 83a, we're studying contract law, labor rights and collective bargaining. Then we'll be diving a bit into the Haymarket Massacre and how our Talmud skills can be helpful in understanding our history. Visit our website to ask us questions at xaihowareyou.com and call or Text the Talmud Hotline at 401-484-1619 and leave us a voicemail! Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou. Follow us on twitter @xaihowareyou and @miss_figured. Music by Ben Schreiber.

Inspired by a listener suggestion, we delve into the possibility of asexual Talmud ancestors and how it relates to our framework of collective responsibility for the mitzvot. Visit our website to ask us questions at xaihowareyou.com and call or Text the Talmud Hotline at 401-484-1619 and leave us a voicemail! Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou. Follow us on twitter @xaihowareyou and @miss_figured. Music by Ben Schreiber.

We're diving headfirst into our mailbag with questions about imposter syndrome, shades of grey, and problematic prayer language. Visit our website to ask us questions at xaihowareyou.com and call or Text the Talmud Hotline at 401-484-1619 and leave us a voicemail! Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou. Follow us on twitter @xaihowareyou and @miss_figured. Music by Ben Schreiber.

Michael teaches us the origins of city mouse vs. country mouse and introduces us to a debate on the culinary benefits of accidental mouse infusion. Sign up for A Nightmare on Chelm Street here: https://forms.gle/HLYT66nxFYLPZFhN9 ! Visit our website to ask us questions at xaihowareyou.com and call or Text the Talmud Hotline at 401-484-1619 and leave us a voicemail! Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou. Follow us on twitter @xaihowareyou and @miss_figured. Music by Ben Schreiber.

Michael introduces us to an education fish pit and the Talmud's first baby makeover. Visit our website to ask us questions at xaihowareyou.com and call or Text the Talmud Hotline at 401-484-1619 and leave us a voicemail! Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou. Follow us on twitter @xaihowareyou and @miss_figured. Music by Ben Schreiber.

We're taking a vacation this week, so we're giving you a formerly Patron-only episode to enjoy! Michael brings us an incredible word of the week: חול. Join us in falling down a rabbit hole of learning about the sexiest, fieriest, buffest, humblest burning bird in the bible that you never knew about. Visit our website to ask us questions at xaihowareyou.com and call or Text the Talmud Hotline at 401-484-1619 and leave us a voicemail! Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou. Follow us on twitter @xaihowareyou and @miss_figured. Music by Ben Schreiber.

And not in a fun way! Michael brought us a sugye about bears, lions and a sexy Jewish ex-gladiator we all know and love. Visit our website to ask us questions at xaihowareyou.com and call or Text the Talmud Hotline at 401-484-1619 and leave us a voicemail! Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou. Follow us on twitter @xaihowareyou and @miss_figured. Music by Ben Schreiber.

We're going on a wild demon hunt! Starting from a Gemara discussion of tefillin for two headed people, then on to Tosafot, Zohar and finally, obscure Gnostic sects. Visit our website to ask us questions at xaihowareyou.com and call or Text the Talmud Hotline at 401-484-1619 and leave us a voicemail! Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou. Follow us on twitter @xaihowareyou and @miss_figured. Music by Ben Schreiber.

Through the lens of a listener question, we explore our ideas about why some American Jews are willing to excuse pretty much anything the Israeli government does. Then some Talmud and Ramban come through to help us make meaning out of that. Visit our website to ask us questions at xaihowareyou.com and call or Text the Talmud Hotline at 401-484-1619 and leave us a voicemail! Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou. Follow us on twitter @xaihowareyou and @miss_figured. Music by Ben Schreiber.

It's crossover time! Xava went on her friend J's podcast to talk about the poetry of Yehudi Amichai and Nazim Hikmet, and we thought you all would wanna hear it. Discussion of communisim, myticism and kosher slaughter all rolled into one! Go find the rest of their episodes at https://soundcloud.com/couplet-pod. Visit our website to ask us questions at xaihowareyou.com and call or Text the Talmud Hotline at 401-484-1619 and leave us a voicemail! Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou. Follow us on twitter @xaihowareyou and @miss_figured. Music by Ben Schreiber.

For the finale of our Art series, artist and writer Never Angeline North comes on to discuss transcendent queer filth as a lifestyle, conversion to Judaism, and the connection between her work and Talmud. Visit our website to ask us questions at xaihowareyou.com and call or Text the Talmud Hotline at 401-484-1619 and leave us a voicemail! Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou. Follow us on twitter @xaihowareyou and @miss_figured. Music by Ben Schreiber.

In the second episode of our Art and Talmud series, musical sensation Ezra Furman graces us with her wisdom on the intersection of songwriting, text study, the seduction of Orthodoxy and a sugye about forbidden singing. Visit our website to ask us questions at xaihowareyou.com and call or Text the Talmud Hotline at 401-484-1619 and leave us a voicemail! Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou. Follow us on twitter @xaihowareyou and @miss_figured. Music by Ben Schreiber.

In this first episode of our series on the relationship between art and Talmud, transdisciplinary artist Nicki Green comes on the show to share their take on the gemara of ritual objects, multivocality, 5 gallon buckets and returning to Judaism through art. You won't want to miss it! Visit our website to ask us questions at xaihowareyou.com and call or Text the Talmud Hotline at 401-484-1619 and leave us a voicemail! Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou. Follow us on twitter @xaihowareyou and @miss_figured. Music by Ben Schreiber.

We conclude our series on Yoma 82a with an anecdote about murder for hire, a discussion of the four humors and of course, ACAB in the Talmud. Visit our website to ask us questions at xaihowareyou.com and call or Text the Talmud Hotline at 401-484-1619 and leave us a voicemail! Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou. Follow us on twitter @xaihowareyou and @miss_figured. Music by Ben Schreiber.

A special stupendous crossover between Judaism Unbound and our show! We talk with Lex and Dan about Talmud, xutzpah, Shabbatai and of course, the future of Judaism. Visit our website to ask us questions at xaihowareyou.com and call or Text the Talmud Hotline at 401-484-1619 and leave us a voicemail! Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou. Follow us on twitter @xaihowareyou and @miss_figured. Music by Ben Schreiber.

We continue our Kosher Pork series by moving on to the first of three issues that can override the protection of life. Plus, lots of teasers for upcoming content and a discussion of alternative conceptions of martyrdom in contemporary life. Visit our website to ask us questions at xaihowareyou.com and call or Text the Talmud Hotline at 401-484-1619 and leave us a voicemail! Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou. Follow us on twitter @xaihowareyou and @miss_figured. Music by Ben Schreiber.

A passage on Yoma 82a teaches us about juicy, juicy kosher pork, ancient gender politics, and non-binary approaches to observance. Visit our website to ask us questions at xaihowareyou.com and call or Text the Talmud Hotline at 401-484-1619 and leave us a voicemail! Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou. Follow us on twitter @xaihowareyou and @miss_figured. Music by Ben Schreiber.

We're finally having another listener question episode! This time, we answer all the dating questions we have saved up, like how to date as an observant queer. Plus a weirdly big amount of Animal Crossing discussion. Visit our website to ask us questions at xaihowareyou.com and call or Text the Talmud Hotline at 401-484-1619 and leave us a voicemail! Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou. Follow us on twitter @xaihowareyou and @miss_figured. Music by Ben Schreiber.

On Yevamot 47a, we encounter the curious case of the secret conversion and along the way we learn a lot about how our attitude about inclusivity has changed over the centuries. Visit our website to ask us questions at xaihowareyou.com and call or Text the Talmud Hotline at 401-484-1619 and leave us a voicemail! Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou. Follow us on twitter @xaihowareyou and @miss_figured. Music by Ben Schreiber.

On Bava Metzia 21b, Michael and Xava explore yeush shelo mida'at, the observer effect in halakha, Xava's formerly lost Jewish heritage, and the genders we never knew we had. Visit our website to ask us questions at xaihowareyou.com and call or Text the Talmud Hotline at 401-484-1619 and leave us a voicemail! Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou. Follow us on twitter @xaihowareyou and @miss_figured. Music by Ben Schreiber.

In our thrilling finale, guests Binya Koatz and daph ben david dazzle us with Shabbatean trans love poetry in Ladino, trancestors in the Torah and little bit of analysis on Frankism. Visit our website to ask us questions at xaihowareyou.com and call or Text the Talmud Hotline at 401-484-1619 and leave us a voicemail! Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou. Follow us on twitter @xaihowareyou and @miss_figured. Music by Ben Schreiber.

Sam Biagetti returns in the second installment of the Shabbatai series, where we move on to discussing the legacy of the Shabbatean movement, Jewish renewal, buyer's remorse, conversos and Bernie Sanders. Visit our website to ask us questions at xaihowareyou.com and call or Text the Talmud Hotline at 401-484-1619 and leave us a voicemail! Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou. Follow us on twitter @xaihowareyou and @miss_figured. Music by Ben Schreiber.

In a special crossover episode, @Historiansplaining podcast host Sam Biagetti and Michael kick off our Shabbatai series by doing a deep dive into the facts, foibles and little known intricacies of the failed messiah's rise and fall. Visit our website to ask us questions at xaihowareyou.com and call or Text the Talmud Hotline at 401-484-1619 and leave us a voicemail! Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou. Follow us on twitter @xaihowareyou and @miss_figured. Music by Ben Schreiber.

We journey to Shabbat 54b to explore lemonology, parasocial relationships, the interconnectedness of injustice and our own obligation to act up. Visit our website to ask us questions at xaihowareyou.com and call or Text the Talmud Hotline at 401-484-1619 and leave us a voicemail! Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou. Follow us on twitter @xaihowareyou and @miss_figured. Music by Ben Schreiber.

Michael and Xava talk stonks, hierarchy, the commons, tzedakah and the benefits of collective ownership using a sugye from Eruvin 3a. Plus we reveal that our theme song can be found at https://youtu.be/sJnE616RucQ! Visit our website to ask us questions at xaihowareyou.com and call or Text the Talmud Hotline at 401-484-1619 and leave us a voicemail! Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou. Follow us on twitter @xaihowareyou and @miss_figured. Music by Ben Schreiber.

We welcome an incredible guest, Azariah, to talk about phlegm, death fetishes, masking, disability in the Beit Midrash and edge cases. You can find KC Tenants Union at https://kctenants.org/ . Visit our website to ask us questions at xaihowareyou.com and call or Text the Talmud Hotline at 401-484-1619 and leave us a voicemail! Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou. Follow us on twitter @xaihowareyou and @miss_figured. Find Azariah @onservantswings and at http://onservantswings.com/ Music by Ben Schreiber.

We answer a listener question about the overwhelming nature of starting Talmud, share our personal experiences and a TON of resources for starting your study journey. Visit our website to ask us questions at xaihowareyou.com and call or Text the Talmud Hotline at 401-484-1619 and leave us a voicemail! Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou. Follow us on twitter @xaihowareyou and @miss_figured. Music by Ben Schreiber.

We made this episode during an attempted coup! Podcast news part deux, personal depression experiences and advice, plus a mystical gate of feelz. Visit our website to ask us questions at xaihowareyou.com and call or Text the Talmud Hotline at 401-484-1619 and leave us a voicemail! Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou. Follow us on twitter @xaihowareyou and @miss_figured. Music by Ben Schreiber.

It's more likely than you think! We talk banned books, foolishness, Heidegger vs. Neo-Kantianism, and movie stars as sources of scriptural authority. Visit our website to ask us questions at xaihowareyou.com and call or Text the Talmud Hotline at 401-484-1619 and leave us a voicemail! Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou. Follow us on twitter @xaihowareyou and @miss_figured. Music by Ben Schreiber.

In-Laws and outlaws, gender roles and gender trolls, Michael and I argue about exegesis plus a fun side bit about doulas. Visit our website to ask us questions at xaihowareyou.com and call or Text the Talmud Hotline at 401-484-1619 and leave us a voicemail! Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou. Follow us on twitter @xaihowareyou and @miss_figured. Music by Ben Schreiber.

The Hot Debate of 1848, Michael's etymology corner, Xava breaks her absolute self-determinist streak. Anecdote from Contemporary Halakhic Problems Volume 4, Chapter 7. Visit our website to ask us questions at xaihowareyou.com and call or Text the Talmud Hotline at 401-484-1619 and leave us a voicemail! Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xavadecordova. Follow us on twitter @xaihowareyou and @miss_figured. Music by Ben Schreiber.

The thrilling conclusion of the Rabbi Meir trilogy, where we meet his prize pupil, Michael challenges my epistemological frame, and I mistakenly say a snake is a sheretz don't come for me. Visit our website to ask us questions at xaihowareyou.com and call or Text the Talmud Hotline at 401-484-1619 and leave us a voicemail! Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou. Follow us on twitter @xaihowareyou and @miss_figured. Music by Ben Schreiber.

The most powerful booty in the Talmud, the virtue of truthiness, temporal-spatial orientations and genius that goes unrecognized. Visit our website to ask us questions at xaihowareyou.com and call or Text the Talmud Hotline at 401-484-1619 and leave us a voicemail! Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou. Follow us on twitter @xaihowareyou and @miss_figured. Music by Ben Schreiber.

The start of a trilogy on one of Xava's faves, Rabbi Meir. We wonder whether ontological truth matters in Talmud, who is a good teacher, what it means to be too cool for school and whether it pays to be a smarty pants. Visit our new website to ask us questions at xaihowareyou.com and call or Text the Talmud Hotline at 401-484-1619 and leave us a voicemail! Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou. Follow us on twitter @xaihowareyou and @miss_figured. Music by Ben Schreiber.

Another wonderful listener voicemail, more talk about fascism and our response to it as conditioned by Talmud, and some banter about our personal dramas. Visit our new website to ask us questions at xaihowareyou.com and call or Text the Talmud Hotline at 401-484-1619 and leave us a voicemail! Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou. Follow us on twitter @xaihowareyou and @miss_figured. Music by Ben Schreiber.

We answer a listener question about abolition, celebrate Michael's first lady pill, do an unboxing and deal with issues of anachronism when discussing police. Call or Text the Talmud Hotline at 401-484-1619 and leave us a voicemail! Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xavadecordova. Follow us on twitter @xaihowareyou and @miss_figured. Music by Ben Schreiber.

We're taking a week off this week, but enjoy this really cute and soothing message that Michael made!

One changed letter and a listener question lead us down a rabbit hole of epistemological silliness and materialist feminist reinterpretation. Call or Text the Talmud Hotline at 401-484-1619 and leave us a voicemail! Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou. Follow us on twitter @xaihowareyou and @miss_figured. Music by Ben Schreiber.

Binya Koatz returns! Find her at binyakoatz.com and find the laws of Spookot at https://rb.gy/y3higw . We talk with her about this ancient and much venerated holiday, plus as usual, lots of gay stuff! Call or Text the Talmud Hotline at 401-484-1619 and leave us a voicemail! Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou. Follow us on twitter @xaihowareyou and @miss_figured. Music by Ben Schreiber.

We dive back into Sanhedrin 65b to talk about raising the dead, joints, Heroes of Might and Magic, and mystic politics in ancient Israel. Call or Text the Talmud Hotline at 401-484-1619 and leave us a voicemail! Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou. Follow us on twitter @xaihowareyou and @miss_figured. Music by Ben Schreiber.

We explore the Rabbi's obsession with sexual perversion, give some listener shout outs, and interrogate the divine monopoly on fortune telling. Call or Text the Talmud Hotline at 401-484-1619 and leave us a voicemail! Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou. Follow us on twitter @xaihowareyou and @miss_figured. Music by Ben Schreiber.

Zombie rabbi rap battle, 'nuff said. To register for my Mishna Beit Midrash, just go to https://www.teprov.org/form/adultedfall20 and select Mishnah Beit Midrash! Call or Text the Talmud Hotline at 401-484-1619 and leave us a voicemail! Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou. Follow us on twitter @xaihowareyou and @miss_figured. Music by Ben Schreiber.

The beginning of our Halloween series! What does it mean to be god-like, what is a golem, Xava's health, malarkey and the mysteries of alternate fractal realities. Call or Text the Talmud Hotline at 401-484-1619 and leave us a voicemail! Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou. Follow us on twitter @xaihowareyou and @miss_figured. Music by Ben Schreiber.

Michael does a transcendent interview with Sam Biagetti of the Historiansplaining podcast about belief in God, the movies, Jewish particularity and the non-existence of religion. Follow Historiansplaining at @historiansplaining. Call or Text the Talmud Hotline at 401-484-1619 and leave us a voicemail! Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou. Follow us on twitter @xaihowareyou and @miss_figured. Music by Ben Schreiber.

Demon Babies! Lilith, neo-Dworkinism, mpreg and the existential and sexual import of our historical moment all make an appearance. You won't wanna miss it! Call or Text the Talmud Hotline at 401-484-1619 and leave us a voicemail! Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou. Follow us on twitter @xaihowareyou and @miss_figured. Music by Ben Schreiber.

It's more likely than you think! Fractal primordial beings, queer representation in history, being sad about texting and much much more. Call or Text the Talmud Hotline at 401-484-1619 and leave us a voicemail! Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou. Follow us on twitter @xaihowareyou and @miss_figured. Music by Ben Schreiber.

We try a special new kind of episode! Michael interviews their dad about Jewish life in the former Soviet Union and we provide commentary. Plus a special shout out and plenty of banter. Call or Text the Talmud Hotline at 401-484-1619 and leave us a voicemail! Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou. Follow us on twitter @xaihowareyou and @miss_figured. Music by Ben Schreiber.

Senator Sanderz calls the show, Rabbis in their economic context , Xava mixes up Yehuda and Shimon, and we deal with persistent class antipathy. Call or Text the Talmud Hotline at 401-484-1619 and leave us a voicemail! Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou. Follow us on twitter @xaihowareyou and @miss_figured. Music by Ben Schreiber.

We welcome back special guest Binya Koatz, discuss Yochanan a.k.a the hottest trans girl in the Talmud, magical beauty spells, queer yeshiva love and much more! Check out Binya's poetry and other work at https://www.binyakoatz.com/ Call or Text the Talmud Hotline at 401-484-1619 and leave us a voicemail! Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou. Follow us on twitter @xaihowareyou and @miss_figured. Music by Ben Schreiber.

We welcome a very special guest, Maimonides Nutz! Support her on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/maimonides_nutz Talking healing, Jewish goth vibes, a dimension of suffering and how we handle Jewish childhood trauma. Call or Text the Talmud Hotline at 401-484-1619 and leave us a voicemail! Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou. Follow us on twitter @xaihowareyou and @miss_figured. Music by Ben Schreiber.

Talmudic Rip Van Winkle, Wellbutrin, what sweet dreams are made of, revenge of the carobs, plus fan mail, and anxiety as Jewish practice. Call or Text the Talmud Hotline at 401-484-1619 and leave us a voicemail! Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xavadecordova. Follow us on twitter @xaihowareyou and @miss_figured. Music by Ben Schreiber.

Honi bologna, historical construction of sexualities, conservatism versus radicalism plus emergency fast days. Call or Text the Talmud Hotline at 401-484-1619 and leave us a voicemail! Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou. Follow us on twitter @xaihowareyou and @miss_figured. Music by Ben Schreiber.

How to "get" from A to B, divorce documents, boring Talmud, socialist terrariums, epistemological panic, and why the Rabbis weren't radical enough. Call the Talmud Hotline at 401-484-1619 and leave us a voicemail! Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xavadecordova. Follow us on twitter @xaihowareyou and @miss_figured. Music by Ben Schreiber.

Smutty gossip, Jewish sensuality, our 60th patron, translation, plus koshering the unkosherable. Call the Talmud Hotline at 401-484-1619 and leave us a voicemail! Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou. Follow us on twitter @xaihowareyou and @miss_figured. Music by Ben Schreiber.

Aesthetic value as moral virtue, sorcery, transmisogyny in the Jewish community, the issues with leftist fashion, plus now you can call in and tell Michael what to do, Jewishly! Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou. Follow us on twitter @xaihowareyou and @miss_figured. Music by Ben Schreiber.

Undermining capital punishment, undoing expertise, the limits of academia, plus Michael designs clothing and goes to an anti-police protest. Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou. Follow us on twitter @xaihowareyou and @miss_figured. Join the Shel Maala FB Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/920910168356795/ Music by Ben Schreiber.

The Talmud says don't talk to cops and practice solidarity! We banter, Xava feels inadequate, historical transmisogyny, we're behind on our reading, and Jewish relationships to the carceral state. Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou. Follow us on twitter @xaihowareyou and @miss_figured. Music by Ben Schreiber.

Gay psalms, the conclusion of our existential debate, metaphysical democracy , and on Mike's Jewish journey, we talk about Jastrows, psychedelics and reasons for Jewish learning. Find a bail fund near you and donate: bailfunds.github.io/

Black Lives Matter, Michael is sad, existential dilemmas, Talmudic attempts to find meaning in life, materialism vs. the transcendent. Find a bail fund near you and donate: https://bailfunds.github.io/

Xava forgets her stuff, Michael shares his opinions on coasters, Hillel and Shammai duke it out, DSA vs. IWW, and on Mike's Jewish Journey, we talk about non-dualism and Shabbat candles. Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou. Follow us on twitter @xaihowareyou and @miss_figured. Music by Ben Schreiber.

The gendered labor of God! Carobs agricultural role, what's so special about bread, and the Talmud as a time capsule of the oppressed. Plus a new segment! On Mike's Jewish Journey we talk about first generation Belarusian immigrant experiences and rediscovering Judaism as adults. Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou. Follow us on twitter @xaihowareyou and @miss_figured. Music by Ben Schreiber.

Gendered labor, good compliments, hiding out from the Romans and learning to accept our own paradoxical origins. Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou. Follow us on twitter @xaihowareyou and @miss_figured. Music by Ben Schreiber.

Twitter crushes, rehashing the Beit Midrash, Yaakov on the run, important tiny jars and my intense love for all our listeners. Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou. Follow us on twitter @xaihowareyou and @miss_figured. Music by Ben Schreiber.

Geocaching, interview with Sam Biagetti, host of Historiansplaining, the Torah as patchwork and quasi -professional history gays. Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou. Follow us on twitter @xaihowareyou and @miss_figured. Music by Ben Schreiber. Follow Historiansplaining at https://soundcloud.com/historiansplaining.

Icosahedrons, chronic depression, what is the Talmud, what does it do, and what does it tell us? Support us on Patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou, follow us on Twitter @xaihowareyou and @miss_figured. Music by Ben Schreiber

Special guest Abhilasha Deka! We eat pizza, repudiate the concept of Rabbis, ponder the afterlife and of course, take hot takes. Support us on Patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou. Follow us on Twitter @xaihowareyou and @miss_figured. Theme music by Ben Schreiber.

We answer a listener question, accidentally discuss the idea of moral goodness, and analyze the Talmudic scripture that is "Friday" by Rebecca Black ( youtube.com/watch?v=kfVsfOSbJY0 ). Also our first episode with music! Music by Ben Schreiber ( bschreiber.com/ ) Join our Patreon on patreon.com/xaihowareyou and follow us on Twitter @xaihowareyou and @miss_figured

Michael and Xava accidentally delve into Platonism, the Rambam, and all our bad COVID feels. Support us at patreon.com/xaihowareyou and follow us onTwitter @xaihowareyou and @miss_figured

Featuring special guest Jaz Twersky of Kosher Queers Podcast(https://www.patreon.com/kosherqueers)! Hair dye, old genders, voices behind thrones and a listener question! Support us at patreon.com/xaihowareyou and follow us on Twitter @xaihowareyou and @miss_figured

We answer all the listener questions pertaining to Passover, complain about COVID, and discuss leather undies at the dinner table. Follow us on Twitter: @xaihowareyou and @mjsokolo Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/xaihowareyou

The Joy of Gleaning! Various takes on Star Trek, structural vs. individual solutions, special guest Molly Hastings, plus some really bad puns. Follow us on Twitter: @xaihowareyou and @mjsokolo Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/xaihowareyou

A corona bonus episode! Why study the Talmud specifically, avoiding postmodern pitfalls, kosher for Passover cookies and the legitimization of queer Talmud learning. Follow us on Twitter: @xaihowareyou and @mjsokolo Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/xaihowareyou

We worry about the potential rise of homegrown Nazis, complain about the Democrats, discuss horrible Talmudic economic reforms, and figure out what to do about parts of the tradition that we really don't like. Follow us on Twitter: @xaihowareyou and @mjsokolo Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/xavadecordova

Emoji names of G-d, debt cancellation, the inherently socialistic Talmud, prosecco and Jewish sweat. Plus our first guest, Binya Koatz!!! PS! Check out this spreadsheet for COVID-19 mutual aid: shorturl.at/aikqZ Follow us on Twitter: @xaihowareyou and @mjsokolo Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/xaihowareyou

Sexy freaky queers, good poly boundaries, talmudic trans tops, hot takes and super Tuesday! Follow us on Twitter: @xaihowareyou and @mjsokolo Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/xaihowareyou

Meta-talmudic systems of illogical value, Xava makes a phone call, Michael goes to California, and we finally find out what Esther tastes like. Follow us on Twitter: @xaihowareyou and @mjsokolo Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/xaihowareyou

Episode two! We're really making a podcast now. And it has a name, which is Xai, how are you? Highlights: Xava gets ignored by an orthodox guy, a thornbush slaps people in the face, Roman princesses are petty, Danny DeVito, and the Talmud is a gender! Follow us on Twitter: @xaihowareyou and @mjsokolo Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/xaihowareyou

Xava De Cordova tells us just how gay the Talmud can get. Gird your everything. Follow us on Twitter: @xaihowareyou and @mjsokolo Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/xaihowareyou