This episode is part Pardes’s Community Education Fall Lecture Series: Complex Identities in Israeli Society. This episode featured Rabbi Dr. Sam Lebens –…
Teshuva and Time Travel Episode 3: Sacrifice and the Agent Substitution Theory of Atonement
Why kill a goat, or swing a chicken round your head, or throw crumbs into a river to expiate your sins? Is this…
Teshuva and Time Travel Episode 2: Teshuva, Forgetfulness and the Amputation of Sin
Are we supposed to remember our sins forever, even after we’ve repented? Or, should we forget them? The Talmud seems to say one…
Teshuva and Time Travel Episode 1: Reish Lakish and Ockham
When we repent, there is a sense in which we’re seeking to undo damage done. It’s almost as if we’re trying to undo…
