# 18 Questions, 40 Mystics Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/18-questions-40-mystics-6941776 Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/18-questions-40-mystics-6941776.md RSS feed: https://www.spreaker.com/show/6208531/episodes/feed Official site: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/18-questions-40-mystics--6208531 Author: 18Forty Episodes: 80 ## Resource 18 Questions, 40 Mystics is a new podcast and video series by 18Forty and Share interviewing the leading rabbis, teachers, kabbalists, and artists immersed in the world of Jewish mysticism. Join Rabbi Benji Levy as he asks 18 of the most existential questions to 40 mystics from around the world. If you are looking to dive into the world of spirituality, inspiration, and pnimiyut , then this is the podcast for you. Have questions or comments? Shoot us an email at info@18forty.org. ## Machine-readable JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/18-questions-40-mystics-6941776 Markdown: https://stenobird.com/podcast/18-questions-40-mystics-6941776.md ## Episodes - [Biti Roi: 'Every generation brings mysticism to a different stage'](https://stenobird.com/podcast/18-questions-40-mystics-6941776/biti-roi-every-generation-brings-mysticism-to-a-different-stage) — 2026-05-25T10:00:03+00:00 - [Zvi Leshem: 'Modernity in general was a movement that was anti-mystical'](https://stenobird.com/podcast/18-questions-40-mystics-6941776/zvi-leshem-modernity-in-general-was-a-movement-that-was-anti-mystical) — 2026-05-18T10:00:03+00:00 - [Devori Nussbaum: 'I see God as this one coherent frequency of truth'](https://stenobird.com/podcast/18-questions-40-mystics-6941776/devori-nussbaum-i-see-god-as-this-one-coherent-frequency-of-truth) — 2026-05-11T10:00:03+00:00 - [Simon Jacobson: 'The music of Judaism is what I’m looking for, not just the mechanics'](https://stenobird.com/podcast/18-questions-40-mystics-6941776/simon-jacobson-the-music-of-judaism-is-what-i-m-looking-for-not-just-the-mechanics) — 2026-05-04T10:00:03+00:00 - [Jeremy Tibbetts: 'Being a spiritual seeker is not in vogue'](https://stenobird.com/podcast/18-questions-40-mystics-6941776/jeremy-tibbetts-being-a-spiritual-seeker-is-not-in-vogue) — 2026-04-20T10:00:02+00:00 - [Yehudis Golshevsky: 'The root of all prophecy is spiritual imagination'](https://stenobird.com/podcast/18-questions-40-mystics-6941776/yehudis-golshevsky-the-root-of-all-prophecy-is-spiritual-imagination) — 2026-04-13T09:58:07+00:00 - [Shlomo Katz: 'Today's idol worship is self-persecution'](https://stenobird.com/podcast/18-questions-40-mystics-6941776/shlomo-katz-today-s-idol-worship-is-self-persecution) — 2026-03-30T09:00:20+00:00 - [Tonia Chazanow: 'Every soul has a story'](https://stenobird.com/podcast/18-questions-40-mystics-6941776/tonia-chazanow-every-soul-has-a-story) — 2026-03-23T10:00:02+00:00 - [Daniel Rowe: 'It's very easy to either idolatrize God or just misuse mystical teachings'](https://stenobird.com/podcast/18-questions-40-mystics-6941776/daniel-rowe-it-s-very-easy-to-either-idolatrize-god-or-just-misuse-mystical-teachings) — 2026-03-16T10:00:02+00:00 - [Shoshana Judelman: 'Our greatest challenge is as individuals facing our own demons'](https://stenobird.com/podcast/18-questions-40-mystics-6941776/shoshana-judelman-our-greatest-challenge-is-as-individuals-facing-our-own-demons) — 2026-03-09T09:00:20+00:00 - [David Aaron: 'I believe that the Divine is existence and infinitely more'](https://stenobird.com/podcast/18-questions-40-mystics-6941776/david-aaron-i-believe-that-the-divine-is-existence-and-infinitely-more) — 2026-03-02T11:00:06+00:00 - [Ora Wiskind: 'The presence of God is everywhere in every molecule'](https://stenobird.com/podcast/18-questions-40-mystics-6941776/ora-wiskind-the-presence-of-god-is-everywhere-in-every-molecule) — 2026-02-23T11:00:03+00:00 - [Moshe Idel: ‘The Jews are supposed to serve something’](https://stenobird.com/podcast/18-questions-40-mystics-6941776/moshe-idel-the-jews-are-supposed-to-serve-something) — 2026-02-16T11:00:03+00:00 - [Chava Green: 'From God's perspective, men and women are exactly the same'](https://stenobird.com/podcast/18-questions-40-mystics-6941776/chava-green-from-god-s-perspective-men-and-women-are-exactly-the-same) — 2026-02-09T11:00:02+00:00 - [Shais Taub: ‘God gave us an ego to protect us’](https://stenobird.com/podcast/18-questions-40-mystics-6941776/shais-taub-god-gave-us-an-ego-to-protect-us) — 2026-02-02T11:00:08+00:00 - [David Bashevkin: ‘We are meant to teach the world how to embrace unchosen identity’](https://stenobird.com/podcast/18-questions-40-mystics-6941776/david-bashevkin-we-are-meant-to-teach-the-world-how-to-embrace-unchosen-identity) — 2026-01-26T11:00:09+00:00 - [Shani Taragin: 'It's good that Judaism is hard'](https://stenobird.com/podcast/18-questions-40-mystics-6941776/shani-taragin-it-s-good-that-judaism-is-hard) — 2026-01-19T11:00:08+00:00 - [Moshe Gersht: ‘The world of mysticism begs for practicality’](https://stenobird.com/podcast/18-questions-40-mystics-6941776/moshe-gersht-the-world-of-mysticism-begs-for-practicality) — 2026-01-12T11:00:08+00:00 - [Suri Weingot: ‘The fellow Jew is as close to God as you'll get’](https://stenobird.com/podcast/18-questions-40-mystics-6941776/suri-weingot-the-fellow-jew-is-as-close-to-god-as-you-ll-get) — 2026-01-05T11:00:08+00:00 - [Moshe Weinberger: ‘The Jewish People are God's shofar’](https://stenobird.com/podcast/18-questions-40-mystics-6941776/moshe-weinberger-the-jewish-people-are-god-s-shofar) — 2025-12-29T11:00:08+00:00 - [Zevi Slavin: ‘To be a mystic is to be human at its most raw’](https://stenobird.com/podcast/18-questions-40-mystics-6941776/zevi-slavin-to-be-a-mystic-is-to-be-human-at-its-most-raw) — 2025-12-22T11:00:09+00:00 - [Sarah Yehudit Schneider: ‘Jewish mysticism is not so different from any mysticism’](https://stenobird.com/podcast/18-questions-40-mystics-6941776/sarah-yehudit-schneider-jewish-mysticism-is-not-so-different-from-any-mysticism) — 2025-12-15T11:30:08+00:00 - [Joey Rosenfeld: "All Jews by definition are mystics'](https://stenobird.com/podcast/18-questions-40-mystics-6941776/joey-rosenfeld-all-jews-by-definition-are-mystics) — 2025-12-08T11:00:08+00:00 - [Introducing 18 Questions, 40 Mystics with R' Benji Levy](https://stenobird.com/podcast/18-questions-40-mystics-6941776/introducing-18-questions-40-mystics-with-r-benji-levy) — 2025-12-02T14:57:30+00:00 - ['There is no hope—but there is faith': 5 Israeli Thinkers on the country's future](https://stenobird.com/podcast/18-questions-40-mystics-6941776/there-is-no-hope-but-there-is-faith-5-israeli-thinkers-on-the-country-s-future) — 2025-09-08T14:43:06+00:00 ## Actions Episode pages expose an explicit `request_transcript` action. 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