Unperplexed: Parsha Lessons from Maimonides's Guide of the Perplexed

Noach: Speaking to Only to Ourselves

When God decided to destroy the generation of the flood, He did not warn them; He kept it to Himself, so to speak. But the Torah teaches us of His silence and we learn an essential lesson for our own lives from it.

Bereshit: Beginning with the End in Mind

The very first in the Torah is a real doozy and the Sages seem to almost willfully misread it. Yet, we can defend their interpretation. In fact, we will learn an important lesson from it.

Introducing Unperplexed: Parsha Lessons from Maimonides's Guide of the Perplexed

Introducing 'Unperplexed: Parsha Lessons from Maimonides's Guide of the Perplexed.'Unperplexed explores the weekly Torah portion through the lens of Maimonides’ Guide of the Perplexed — one of the most challenging and profound works in Jewish thought.Each week, Rabbi Sprung uncovers how the Rambam’s deepest philosophical ideas illuminate the Torah’s timeless moral and spiritual questions, revealing wisdom for how we think, act, and live every single day.Join us as we bring reason and revelation together, one Parsha at a time.

Ha'azinu: Praying Properly- After Listening and Thinking (Rebroadcast)

First we listen, then we speak. After special days of reflection and repentance, we are ready to offer more refined and defined prayers.

Netzavim: Chasing Fantasies (Rebroadcast)

And all the nations will say, Why did God act this way to this land? Why is this great anger so strong? Unkelos's translation and explanation of the verses that follow give us a powerful insight into the connection between fantasy and suffering.