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Author: Michael Sokolovsky and Xava De Cordova

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Queer Jews Michael Sokolovsky and Rabbi Xava De Cordova play with the multi-millennial dialectic that is the Talmud. Join them as they throw drash, seek prophetic insight and uncover the rabbinic smuttiness inherent in the system.
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274. Known Unknowns

274. Known Unknowns

2026-10-2520:17

Another complication gets added to our last mishnah, the guy walking down the road turns around, and the mystery of a vow with Schrodinger's cat conditions. To ask us questions, email us at [email protected]. Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou. Music by Ben Schreiber.
Ladies, we've all been there: you're out at girls night, then you and your besties make a 5-way interlocking chain of mutually exclusive but causally dependent vows of Naziriteship. What happens next? Only Hillel knows! To ask us questions, email us at [email protected]. Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou. Music by Ben Schreiber.
Can you cancel your Nazirite vow because of force majeure? What about grand theft bovine? Also, a rare rare case of Rabbis straight up calling out their predecessors. To ask us questions, email us at [email protected]. Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou. Music by Ben Schreiber.
Finally someone actually gets read to filth in the Mishnah. Also, our first instance of rabbinic bureaucracy! Check out the HiHos at Shel Maala here: https://bit.ly/shelmaala-5787 To ask us questions, email us at [email protected]. Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou. Music by Ben Schreiber.
Xava was part of making an amazing high holidays resource called Ways of Awe! Check out the episode she was on this week, and check out the full project here: https://waysofawe.buzzsprout.com/ To ask us questions, email us at [email protected]. Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou. Music by Ben Schreiber.
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