Wayward Children: Jewish Monsters, Magic, and the Stories We Tell
According to Jewish tradition, the world around us is filled with demons, ghosts, giants and angels, and creatures of all types. But Judaism today tends to downplay and rationalize them away, to the point where they’re just forgotten dusty metaphors. But for millenia, Jews have lived with these creatures and have had practical means for coping with them.
Join Jack Zaientz a scholar of all things Jewish folklore and mythology and John Baltisberger, the award-winning author of Jewish horror and fantasy as they explore the topics of mythic Judaism and discuss it's survival and use in modern day culture both pop and otherwise.
Wayward Children: Jewish Monsters, Magic, and the Stories We Tell
Chassidic Magic
An amazing special episode, we bring on a descendent of the Rebbe to discuss his storied and near-mythic family history,
- Story of Rabbi Menachem Tzvi of England (Rabbi with an Earring #2) https://ascentofsafed.com/cgi-bin/ascent.cgi?Name=1148-11
- The wedding memento of Pessi and Dovie Levy (Rabbi with an Earring #3 and other family stories) https://collive.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Levy-Fischer-Memento.pdf
- Sefer Shimmush Tehillim https://halakhah.com/rst/tehillim.pdf
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