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Talmud Unleashed: Liberating the Rabbis’ Brilliant Absurdities

from $239.00

with Olivia Devorah Tucker

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When

Tuesdays - 8 Weeks
8:00 - 9:30 pm ET/5:00 - 6:30 pm PT
Starts October 21, 2025

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You've heard about how the Talmud says that Plague of Frogs was #OneGiantFrog, and you were there when Moses time-traveled to Rabbi Akiva's Classroom -- but what ELSE does the Talmud say? Pop in Olivia Devorah's Talmud Mix Tape and hit play on eight weeks of obscurely delightful Talmud Deep Cuts that'll get you laughing, sighing, squirming, and asking all the right questions! What is THIS doing in the Talmud? What insight does it offer us to the living, tangible, and relatably bizarre world of our ancestors, 1500-200 years ago? How do they make us rethink our own lives and what we'll leave behind?

Because, once we encounter these texts, we get to decide what we want do with them! Inspired by the Sugya Show-and-Tell of my teacher, Julie Batz, I would like to invite us into a practice of creatively processing our weekly learning. During each of our Zoom meets, and then on the class Discord between sessions, we are all invited to share how our learning is working its way through us.

Whatever your medium/mediums they're welcome here - and don't doubt that you have a medium! Fan-fiction, sculpture, watercolous, poetry, meditation prompts, skits, sketches, songs, chants, collages, mocktail recipes, puppet shows, zines, zingers, interpretive dances, your thing you're pretty sure only you do - we want it all! Your art is the commentary that the Talmud has been waiting for 🌅

This Talmud MixTape TrackList includes: Dogs, Monkeys, Bloody Messes, Women Talking, Loopholes, Puns, The Number 24, and some absolute CLOWN TALMUD. Bring your chevruta(s), discover your drash, and make some art! ~mwah'~—

This class will be recorded and available to enrolled students to watch later.

Cost

This course is available at a sliding scale cost of $359 (the true cost), $299 or $239. If you can afford the full price, we hope you will choose that option, which allows us to continue to offer lower rates and scholarships to those who otherwise would not be able to access this learning because of financial barriers.

If you need financial aid beyond the sliding scale, please fill out this simple form, and we will get right back to you.

Click here to donate to JUs financial aid fund to support financial equity and access to education for all students.

Sliding Scale Prices:

with Olivia Devorah Tucker

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When

Tuesdays - 8 Weeks
8:00 - 9:30 pm ET/5:00 - 6:30 pm PT
Starts October 21, 2025

—

You've heard about how the Talmud says that Plague of Frogs was #OneGiantFrog, and you were there when Moses time-traveled to Rabbi Akiva's Classroom -- but what ELSE does the Talmud say? Pop in Olivia Devorah's Talmud Mix Tape and hit play on eight weeks of obscurely delightful Talmud Deep Cuts that'll get you laughing, sighing, squirming, and asking all the right questions! What is THIS doing in the Talmud? What insight does it offer us to the living, tangible, and relatably bizarre world of our ancestors, 1500-200 years ago? How do they make us rethink our own lives and what we'll leave behind?

Because, once we encounter these texts, we get to decide what we want do with them! Inspired by the Sugya Show-and-Tell of my teacher, Julie Batz, I would like to invite us into a practice of creatively processing our weekly learning. During each of our Zoom meets, and then on the class Discord between sessions, we are all invited to share how our learning is working its way through us.

Whatever your medium/mediums they're welcome here - and don't doubt that you have a medium! Fan-fiction, sculpture, watercolous, poetry, meditation prompts, skits, sketches, songs, chants, collages, mocktail recipes, puppet shows, zines, zingers, interpretive dances, your thing you're pretty sure only you do - we want it all! Your art is the commentary that the Talmud has been waiting for 🌅

This Talmud MixTape TrackList includes: Dogs, Monkeys, Bloody Messes, Women Talking, Loopholes, Puns, The Number 24, and some absolute CLOWN TALMUD. Bring your chevruta(s), discover your drash, and make some art! ~mwah'~—

This class will be recorded and available to enrolled students to watch later.

Cost

This course is available at a sliding scale cost of $359 (the true cost), $299 or $239. If you can afford the full price, we hope you will choose that option, which allows us to continue to offer lower rates and scholarships to those who otherwise would not be able to access this learning because of financial barriers.

If you need financial aid beyond the sliding scale, please fill out this simple form, and we will get right back to you.

Click here to donate to JUs financial aid fund to support financial equity and access to education for all students.

 

Meet Lex

Lex (he/him), in his role as Senior Jewish Educator of Judaism Unbound, co-hosts and produces its weekly podcast, facilitates many of its live digital events, and oversees the UnYeshiva: a digital center for Jewish learning and unlearning. He graduated from Brown University with a degree in Judaic Studies, and was ordained as a rabbi in 2021 by ALEPH: Alliance for Jewish Renewal. You didn't ask, but he would like you to know that his rabbinic ordination speech looked at OutKast's song "Hey Ya" through the lens of Jewish numerology. A native of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Lex lived for two years in Jackson, Mississippi - working for the Institute of Southern Jewish Life - and he currently lives in Providence, Rhode Island, with his wife Valerie. He serves on advisory boards, or boards of directors for The Shalom Center, Tikkun Olam Productions, Evolve: Groundbreaking Jewish Conversations, and Mitzvah Matzos.

 

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