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Torah Smash! The Podcast for Nerdy Jews
Episode 85 - Worse Than Leprosy
July 16, 2025
Torah Smash! The Podcast for Nerdy Jews
Episode 85 - Worse Than Leprosy
This week, we look at what may possibly be the least favorite torah portion: parsha metzorah. It’s tedious, it’s a bit gross, and spoiler alert - it’s not even about leprosy! We clean up our act and take a look at why the portion has such a bad rap. What other Jewish texts are disliked? Can we discover why this bad writing has survived so long into today’s world? We all know stories that we don’t like, but we’d honestly just rather forget they exist. At least, meesuh thinks so.
00:00:42 The Torah portion with the worst reputation
00:02:24 Inspired by a stretch of “meh” movies
00:09:28 It’s not even leprosy
00:11:55 Other least favorite Jewish texts
00:14:40 Let’s just get rid of the bad stories
00:17:03 Dealing with bad stories
00:21:41 Our favorite worst movies
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