{"podcast":{"title":"Everything Jewish - 10 Minutes at a Time","slug":"everything-jewish-10-minutes-at-a-time-7523216","podcast_index_feed_id":7523216,"rss_url":"https://feeds.libsyn.com/592205/rss","website_url":"https://sites.libsyn.com/592205","image_url":"https://static.libsyn.com/p/assets/f/f/8/7/ff873758313fc23fd959afa2a1bf1c87/everythingJewishSquare14001400.jpg","author":"Adam Diament","episode_count":300,"summary":"Welcome to \"Everything Jewish - 10 Minutes at a Time!\" The podcast that makes exploring Jewish ideas easy, fun, and inviting. Whether you're Jewish, a little Jew-curious, or simply love learning new things, these bite-sized episodes will give you history, literature, theology, traditions, and cultural gems in just about ten minutes. Think of it as your friendly guide to all things Jewish, without the long sermons or heavy textbooks.","last_synced_at":"2026-09-24T08:19:30.084073+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/everything-jewish-10-minutes-at-a-time-7523216"},"episode":{"title":"Aramaic in 10 Minutes","slug":"aramaic-in-10-minutes","published_at":"2026-07-26T07:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/everything-jewish-10-minutes-at-a-time-7523216/aramaic-in-10-minutes","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/everything-jewish-10-minutes-at-a-time-7523216","url":"https://bb99e661-a60f-4303-be1a-5fc7b99e64c4.libsyn.com/aramaic-in-10-minutes","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/traffic.libsyn.com/secure/bb99e661-a60f-4303-be1a-5fc7b99e64c4/aramaic_3.mp3?dest-id=5146315","summary":"Step into the linguistic time machine as we explore Aramaic , the resilient \"lingua franca\" that served as the heartbeat of the Middle East for over three thousand years. In this episode, we unpack how a language originally spoken by Aramean city-states in ancient Syria transformed into the official administrative tongue of the massive Persian Empire, eventually stretching from Egypt to India. We'll dive into the fascinating paradox of Aramaic's survival: how it became the everyday language of the Jewish people during the Second Temple period—the language of the street, the home, and the marketplace—while Hebrew remained the language of the Temple and prayer.","meta_description":"Step into the linguistic time machine as we explore Aramaic , the resilient \"lingua franca\" that served as the heartbeat of the Middle East for over three…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":496,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/everything-jewish-10-minutes-at-a-time-7523216/episodes/aramaic-in-10-minutes/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/everything-jewish-10-minutes-at-a-time-7523216/aramaic-in-10-minutes.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}