{"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":"2026-07-22T16:17:06.262858+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/everything-jewish-10-minutes-at-a-time-7523216"},"episode":{"title":"Rabbi Judah Leow ben Bezalel (The Maharal) in 10 Minutes","slug":"rabbi-judah-leow-ben-bezalel-the-maharal-in-10-minutes","published_at":"2026-05-17T08:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/everything-jewish-10-minutes-at-a-time-7523216/rabbi-judah-leow-ben-bezalel-the-maharal-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/rabbi-judah-leow-ben-bezalel-the-maharal-in-10-minutes","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/traffic.libsyn.com/secure/bb99e661-a60f-4303-be1a-5fc7b99e64c4/judahloewbenbezelmaharal.mp3?dest-id=5146315","summary":"Journey to 16th-century Prague to discover Rabbi Judah Loew ben Bezalel , known as the Maharal , a prodigious Talmudist, philosopher, and mystic whose works profoundly shaped Jewish thought, inspiring both Hasidism and early Zionism. . Rejecting the scholastic pilpul of his era, the Maharal sought the deeper, philosophical meaning in the Talmudic Aggadah (narrative portions), positing a universe based on natural order and asserting that the Jewish people's exile is an aberration that must inevitably be rectified through return to their proper spiritual and physical place. While his sophisticated metaphysical writings—like Tiferet Yisrael —are his true legacy, he is most famously remembered in folklore as the creator of the Golem of Prague , the mute, clay automaton brought to life to defend the Jewish community from persecution and blood libels.","meta_description":"Journey to 16th-century Prague to discover Rabbi Judah Loew ben Bezalel , known as the Maharal , a prodigious Talmudist, philosopher, and mystic whose wor…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":597,"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/rabbi-judah-leow-ben-bezalel-the-maharal-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/rabbi-judah-leow-ben-bezalel-the-maharal-in-10-minutes.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}