What happens to holiness when there is no Temple?In Episode 3, we uncover the surprising parallels between the Mishkan and the palace of Shushan. Feasting replaces sacrifice. Fasting replaces ritual. And Purim becomes a kind of inverted ...

Redemption does not always come with miracles. Sometimes it comes through politics, courage, and silence.In Episode 2, Rabbanit Shani Taragin shows how the story of Esther mirrors the Exodus but in a radically different key. Moshe confro...

The story of Esther does not begin in Persia. It begins in Bereishit. In Episode 1 of the new podcast series hosted by Rabbanit Shani Taragin, we discover that Megillat Esther is built on the DNA of Genesis itself. Hidden identities, sibling ri...

What if Megillat Esther is not the most hidden book in Tanakh, but the most brilliantly written one? We are launching a powerful 20 episode podcast series hosted by Rabbanit Shani Taragin that uncovers Esther as a text written in code. A story ...