Questions at the Shabbat Table

Jewish wisdom traditions for curious minds

Ezequiel Rosenfeld2 episodes2 min of audio86 playsEpisodic

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S1 · E2Jun 10, 20260:5749 plays Preview

Forgiving someone who never asked, with Dalia Grinberg

Dalia Grinberg's grandmother survived Auschwitz and refused to forgive. Dalia and Ezequiel read what Maimonides says about forgiveness, who must ask, and whether a victim is ever obliged to grant it.

S1 · E1Mar 8, 20260:5537 plays Members

Why the rabbis argued, and kept both answers

Ezequiel explains why the Talmud records the losing side of every argument, introduces the houses of Hillel and Shammai, and asks a rabbi what it means to say both are the words of the living God.

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Questions at the Shabbat Table is a weekly show about Jewish wisdom traditions, recorded in Buenos Aires by a man who was raised secular, found his way into Talmud study at 34, and still does not have all the answers. Ezequiel Rosenfeld is a lawyer by training and a student of a small Conservative study circle in the Once neighbourhood, and each 35-minute episode takes one question the way a study partnership would: what does Judaism say about forgiving someone who has not apologised, why argue with God, what is the point of a rule about mixing wool and linen, what the rabbis meant by repairing the world. Ezequiel reads a passage from Torah, Talmud or a later commentary, explains it without assuming Hebrew, and talks it through with a guest, a rabbi, a Holocaust survivor's granddaughter, a convert, a secular novelist. The show welcomes Jews of every stripe and anyone else who likes a good argument.

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