Holy Madness Pod: Religion, Culture, Love, Israel

Holy Madness comes to you live from shutdown and shut-in Jerusalem with some cutting questions and good thoughts before Pesach in the time of coronavirus.

Living in a Bubble World This episode starts off light and then drills into experiential aspects of the three weeks between the fast of the 17th of the month Tammuz and the fast of the 9th of the month of Av. We discuss that summertime sadness, living in a bubble, preppers (who think they'll make it when the whole system goes down), and what difference your awareness makes. We talk Kohelet (Ecclesiastes), and Tzvi brings out the difference between wisdom and Torah. Tzvi talks about how people are talking about "Off the Derekh" kids, a big assumption in the yeshiva system, and the big problem in Holy Madness - The Show. His "beautiful sad music" faces off against Meir-Simchah's "emo parody" (there's no actual music in the episode, so don't hesitate to listen to it during the nine days). We introduce Eicha (Lamentations), which we'll be reading shortly. Meir-Simchah asks what are the big breakdowns today, and we wind up talking about what gives us hope. If you want to take a short but deep dive into Tisha B'Av, check out this recent bit of Extra Madness, a talk that Meir-Simchah gave at the Omega Institute in Rhinebeck, New York, https://soundcloud.com/holymadnesstheshow/extra-madness-meir-simchah-on-tisha-bav-at-omega-institute-5777. Please subscribe to the podcast on SoundCloud or your favorite app, share it with all the exceptional people you know who may enjoy it, and connect with us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/holymadness.theshow/ or Twitter @holymadnessshow. This episode includes call brief call-backs to previous episodes "2. Why Do Bad Ideas Happen to Good People?" https://holymadness.org/blog/podcast-episodes/why-do-bad-ideas-happen-to-good-people-season-1-episode-2/), "4. Find the Light or Become It?" https://holymadness.org/blog/podcast-episodes/find-the-light-or-become-it-season-1-episode-4/, and 11. Social Justice Worshipers https://holymadness.org/blog/podcast-episodes/social-justice-worshipers-season-1-episode-11/.

This is a mind-blowing, impromptu talk on Tisha B'Av, the day the Temple was destroyed. It was given by Meir-Simchah at the Omega Institute in Rhinebeck, New York, 2017. All the main ideas come from Meir-Simchah's rabbi (a fact noted before the recording started), who has some of his works available here http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/ravmatis. Sorry about the audio quality - it was impromptu. If you find this talk enlightening, please share it with friends, subscribe to the podcast, connect with us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/holymadness.theshow/ and/or Twitter @holymadnessshow, check out additional content at holymadness.org.

Rabbi Reuven Chaim Klein joins us to talk about God vs. gods, his wonderful book about idolatry in the development of Torah. (Throughout the episode, we use the Hebrew term for idolatry, avodah zarah, literally, 'foreign worship' or 'alien work'. If you didn't know the term before, you will by the end of the episode.) Is Hinduism idolatry? Is Christianity? Are ideologies idolatries? ... and why the religious and anti-religious might suggest they are and what they get wrong... (Do we need to revisit our take on Social Justice Worshipers? https://holymadness.org/blog/podcast-episodes/social-justice-worshipers-season-1-episode-11/) We discuss the sensual draw of alien worship, worshiping the poop god, and famous places of worship, including the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, the Sistine Chapel, the Western Wall, May poles, and Meron. Tzvi asks a pointed and loaded question about Ultra-Orthodoxy. Meir-Simchah differentiates avodah from Torah, and Torah from religion. Rabbi Reuven discusses how Molech might have survived into modernity, conjectures that living with morality demonstrates freedom from idolatry, and suggests that Christianity and Islam pave the path to ultimate redemption. Some glowing recommendations: Buy Rabbi Reuven's book G-d Versus Gods: Judaism in the Age of Idolatry - https://amzn.to/2ZZ6LWb Buy his first book, Lashon HaKodesh: History, Holiness, & Hebrew (English, Hebrew and Aramaic Edition) https://amzn.to/32142gP And subscribe to his email series illuminating apparent synonyms' deep differences in the Torah: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/whats-in-a-word Subscribe to Holy Madness here, get more at holymadness.org, and follow us on Twitter: @holymadnessshow, and on Facebook: www.facebook.com/holymadness.theshow/. Intro music by bensound.com, outro music written, performed, & mixed by Meir-Simchah.

What's the place of reason in religion? Among the most reasonable human beings alive, Rabbi Josh Yuter joins the Holy Madness to discuss rabbinic authority, being a community rabbi, Torah law, getting free of ideologies through the caring application of reason. For more on his thoughts about religious politics and rabbinic recognition - a subject he's been writing about for over 15 years - including an MA thesis - read this blog essay: https://joshyuter.com/2019/06/24/judaism/religious-politics-and-rabbinic-recognition/. There's much more there too. You can get Rabbi Josh on Twitter: @JYuter,, and get Holy Madness at holymadness.org, on Twitter: @holymadnessshow, and on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/holymadness.theshow/. Intro music by bensound.com, outro music written, performed, & mixed by Meir-Simchah.

Brace yourself as we go deep with outspoken journalist Ariel Sobel, to get to know her and discuss what it means to be Jewish in today's increasingly hostile world. From facing antisemitism as a young Jew on California campus, to being a Chinese Jew facing state-sponsored antisemitism, and from foisting American social justice categories onto Israeli life, to toxic social media and a world gone off its rails - if this conversation doesn't offend you at least once, you might not have a pulse. Get more Ariel on Twitter: @arielsobelle, get more Holy Madness at holymadness.org, and on Twitter: @holymadnessshow and Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/holymadness.theshow/. Intro music by bensound.com.

We kick off with a lighthearted discussion of how Israelis are portrayed as monsters - senselessly breaching human rights, knocking down houses, making matzah with the blood of innocent children - and then we delve into our inner Sesame Street characters and throw a few punches at Israeli Hasbara. Shifting away from the media image of Israelis, we dive into love of our land, commitments and beliefs vs. politics and voting patterns, and the nature (and etymology) of faith (אמונה). This episode includes an interview with MORIYAH CHERQUI (https://il.linkedin.com/in/moriyah-zik-cherqui-a5828815a)! At Ein Yael! (https://www.einyael.co.il [Hebrew]) We also talk about agenda pushing and call back to our episode on religion, education, and ideology (https://holymadness.org/blog/podcast-episodes/religion-education-vs-ideology-s1e13/). (We recorded this several weeks ago, so the opening reference to the murder and the demolition are not in sync with the date we posted.)

You've heard the controversy about antisemitism and BDS in connection with the Women's March and its co-chairs Linda Sarsour, Tamika Mallory, and Carmen Perez. In this episode, we talk with Bob Bland, Women's March Co-Chair, fashion designer, wife, mother, and old friend of Meir-Simchah. We put the hard questions on the table; we find out about what Bob believes in and cares about; we ask her about the role of faith in social activism and social justice; and we talk about the inner work and interpersonal work needed to move forward together. If this doesn't challenge some of your assumptions and give you some food for thought, you might not have a pulse. Share & subscribe & let's do this together. (Outro music, "A Gentle Touch" by Marty Newman.)

When I listened to Shots Fired, our take on the Pittsburgh massacre (Episode 20), I felt I had to give a short personal coda. Anti-semitism isn't merely another issue, and it's not like other forms of racial bias. It's existential. Are we fertilizer for the process of creation, or lovers of God?

Sigd is a holiday celebrated by the Jewish community from Ethiopia every year. It's about Jerusalem and renewing our relationship with God. In this edition of Extra Madness, Meir-Simchah interviews people from Beta Yisrael, the Ethiopian Jewish community, who came up to Jerusalem for the annual Sigd gathering overlooking the Temple Mount, and shares some thoughts. We touch on the importance of sharing our stories and the universal significance of Sigd for all Jews and all people.

Holy Madness takes to the verbal warpath after the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting - but it's probably the opposite of what you'd expect. We ruminate on the broken glasses people use to process information - the immediate turn to arguing politics instead of any kind of real reflection. We call out the Twitterati who said idiotic things, the antisemitism industry (yes, we went there and called it that), and end with some reflections on what it takes for people to just wake the hell up.

Holy Madness returns from an inexcusably long summer break to discuss truth, connectivity, repentance, reflection, refutation, and Jewish history. We explore the idea that in the modern West, liberty is seen as the freedom from the need to change - and why this is a dead end.

Tzvi's burning question is who wrote the Torah and when? Meir-Simchah is miffed by his co-host's heresy. It ends well. Tzvi neither burns up Torah, nor burns at the stake (yet). Then Meir-Simchah confesses to burning over questions like how do languages work and evolve, how are flocking birds like computers but maybe more like us, and ultimately how does meaning emerge from structure? He also fires a volley in the war over gender and pronouns. Then, nearly doublebacking on our argument against scientism, we look at how nature is the good and (for you kabbalists out there) come to a new understanding of chesed. Some references: Will Stephen's TED parody https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8S0FDjFBj8o, Sam Harris' talk about facts and values https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hj9oB4zpHww (which itself falls into a scientist problem), and Radhika Nagpal's talk on swarm intelligence https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bRocfcPhHU. Work by Lera Boroditsky (http://lera.ucsd.edu/papers/). The oeis.org (music from here: https://oeis.org/search?q=a001414&sort=&language=english&go=Search).

We open up with some extended housekeeping which will excite any Global Zionist Conspiracy theorist. We explain our long hiatus, technical problems, and adventures with the Iranian Revolutionary Guard; we digress about the crash of 2008, Icelandic bankers, and German poo; and we speculate about doing episodes on profanity, on law, and on rabbis. We also celebrate Tzvi’s new job at Proggio! Then, remarking on how we’re the anti-religious religious guys, we smoothly transition into our main topic (brought to you by Holy Madness community member Yonadav!): BURNING QUESTIONS. … a topic which makes Meir-Simchah insecure and defensive because the fire of his burning questions has faded. Instead he has hypotheses. Tzvi then discusses growing up in black hat Brooklyn and how teenagers who asked theological questions were considered troubled… which was true, but not for the reasons their rabbis and parents thought. Questions burn, Tzvi suggests, when they hang your sense of self in the balances; and in contrast with Meir-Simchah, when Tzvi found he was no longer burned by his questions, he felt like he’d gotten somewhere in life. (Did he?) We then stumble over a proof that the Torah was authored by God. Turns out Meir-Simchah’s burning questions in high school were the cutting-edge of the post-modernism against which the “Intellectual Dark Web” has mobilized (we mention metaphor-meister Eric Weinstein, Jordan Peterson, and Bari Weiss). Tzvi remarks that both Social Justice Warriors and the Intellectual Dark Web religify politics converting what could be essentially pragmatic or philosophic matters into burning questions where the self hangs in the balance. Masculinity pops up. These strange appetizers flow into a meaty dialectic. What’s with the weird opposition of Culture vs. Technology, Philosophers vs. Technologists, Ends vs. Means, The Meaning of Life vs. cancer drugs… Not to mention, the Spirituality of Doing Science vs. AI Takeover Dystopias, and Arnold Schwarzenegger vs. Tzvi’s impersonation of Mr. Universe. Then suddenly Meir-Simchah appears to be a closet Marxist! Tzvi reviews Neil Postman’s Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology, and quotes a section in which Postman reviews—and mocks—a New York Times article by Daniel Goleman. This leads into a discussion of how, lately, some public intellectuals try to convert moral questions into technological questions, whether the Talmud does that (it doesn’t), the Naturalistic Fallacy (cf. the Is-Ought Problem), and gay pigeons in Hume's Guillotine (no gay pigeons were harmed in the production of this episode… cisgender pigeons however are Nazis according to Antifa). What’s the difference between Maimonides’ scientific meditations and the Total Perspective Vortex in Douglas Adam’s Hitchhiker’s Guide? Knowing how the world is created for you. If you enjoy the show, there are many ways you can support the show. Please check our previous episodes and subscribe via this site, iTunes, whichever podcast app you like best, etc. Please spread the Holy Madness to your family, friends, and community members! And if you're up for some discussion, join us on our Facebook page "Holy Madness - The Show" and Facebook discussion group "Holy Madness - The Discussion Group". If you would like to contribute some of the money you have for tzadaka or charity, as the saying runs, "no flour, no Torah; no Torah, no flour," please pitch in on our PATREON at www.patreon.com/holymadness. And, finally, as we were saying about live shows... Tzvi and Meir-Simchah do travel down from their mountain periodically, so if you have a synagogue, church, campus, and/or coffee shop in your area where you would like to host us, please get in touch!

Epsiode17 is here, y'all. We discuss free will, providence, intelligent design and evolution, chaos, lag ba'omer, and feature callbacks to episodes 8 and 9. This is a more rambling episode, as Tzvi had a migraine during recording, and Meir Simcha carried the load here. We would love for y'all to comment, critique, and share. If you enjoy the Holy Madness, there are many ways you can support the show. First, please check out previous episodes at www.holymadness.org and SUBSCRIBE to Holy Madness via iTunes, another podcast app, or the website itself. Second, please SHARE the show! Spread the good word to your family, friends, and community members! Third, please join our FACEBOOK page (just search "Holy Madness - The Show") to get updates and our discussion group ("Holy Madness - The Discussion Group") to join the conversation in our community and contribute your ideas to our work. (You can also email us at holymadnesstheshow@gmail.com with question, comments, and technical issues.) Fourth, as the saying runs, "no flour, no Torah; no Torah, no flour," please pitch in on our PATREON at www.patreon.com/holymadness. Fifth, Tzvi and Meir-Simchah do travel down from their mountain periodically, so if you find synagogues, churches, campuses, and/or coffee shops in your area which would like to host us, please get in touch about a LIVE SHOW!

It's been a long break, but we are back, baby! Episode 16 starts with some ruminations on Israel's 70th birthday, specifically zooming in on Israel's marking of Memorial Day and Independence Day back to back and comparing it to the United States. We talk about our experiences of both, but continue on to discuss the difference between having something to die for versus having something to live for (an important distinction, indeed!). Follow us on Facebook - search "holy madness the show" (follow the group, and then join "Holy Madness - The Discussion Group" for thought provoking topics and educational and entertaining talk), or email us at holymadnesstheshow@gmail.com. Spread the good word, y'all. Add us to your RSS feed, to your iTunes, or follow us here on soundcloud. We also now have a Patreon - www.patreon.com/holymadness - so if youd like to help keep this going, head on down there.

Continuing in the Passover suite, here is Holy Madness reading the Haggadah. Insights abound, and for first timers, this is a fantastic way to introduce yourself to the text of the Haggadah! You'll learn different traditional tunes, too. Enjoy, and have a happy Pesach! Follow us on Facebook - search "holy madness the show" (follow the group, and then join "Holy Madness - The Discussion Group" for thought provoking topics and educational and entertaining talk), or email us at holymadnesstheshow@gmail.com. Spread the good word, y'all. Add us to your RSS feed, to your iTunes, or follow us here on soundcloud. We also now have a Patreon - www.patreon.com/holymadness - so if youd like to help keep this going, head on down there.

Let my Episode 14 go! This episode is an overview of Passover - what is being celebrated, why, and how. We discuss the oddly universal celebration of our little nation's holiday commemorating its emancipation, the themes and imagery of the holiday, and we go back to place issues discussed in Episode 12b (freedom and liberty) in the Passover milieu. Ultimately, this is a fantastic overview of the holiday's ubiquitous insistence on freedom through words. We discover a little bit of what that means, and set the stage for the coming episodes - where we will explore the Haggadah in depth and inside. Follow us on Facebook - search "holy madness the show" (follow the group, and then join "Holy Madness - The Discussion Group" for thought provoking topics and educational and entertaining talk), or email us at holymadnesstheshow@gmail.com. Spread the good word, y'all. Add us to your RSS feed, to your iTunes, or follow us here on soundcloud. We also now have a Patreon - www.patreon.com/holymadness - so if youd like to help keep this going, head on down there.

Its the long awaited Episode 13! Sarah returns as a special guest. We discuss our favorite books in the bible (SPOILER ALERT: IT IS NOT CHRONICLES), and segue into a conversation about education within religion. We compare belief and ideology, talk about the effects of religious education on faith, and end with a discussion on the shortcomings of modern "classical liberal" ideology in giving a society a "why" to their lives, as well as something that connnects them all. Along the way, we compare orthodox and orthoprax, define what an "ummah" is, and highlight some of the real aims we ought to have in education. Follow us on Facebook - search "holy madness the show" (follow the group, and then join "Holy Madness - The Discussion Group" for thought provoking topics and educational and entertaining talk), or email us at holymadnesstheshow@gmail.com. Spread the good word, y'all. Add us to your RSS feed, to your iTunes, or follow us here on soundcloud. We also now have a Patreon - www.patreon.com/holymadness - so if youd like to help keep this going, head on down there.

We discuss randomness (with a meandering random way of getting to it), then explain how the random nature of the universe is what gives us choice. Choice is the bedrock of freedom, and liberty. We then discuss the differences between the two, the need for limitations, and end up back in different views of randomness - the postmodern version, and the Torah version. Along the way, we highlight these ideas within the Book of Esther and the holiday of Purim. This is a fun episode, featuring some bad InfoWars Alex Jones impressions, ruminations on apophenia and libations, and some personal anecdotes. Happy Purim! Follow us on Facebook - search "holy madness the show" (follow the group, and then join "Holy Madness - The Discussion Group" for thought provoking topics and educational and entertaining talk), or email us at holymadnesstheshow@gmail.com. Spread the good word, y'all. Add us to your RSS feed, to your iTunes, or follow us here on soundcloud. We also now have a Patreon - www.patreon.com/holymadness - so if youd like to help keep this going, head on down there.

In honor of the upcoming holiday of Purim...here is Episode 12a of the Holy Madness! Join us as we explore a little bit about the holiday, and do a quick overview of the central book about it - the Book of Esther. We tease out the farcical tone it is written in, identify many of its comedic elements, and identify some of its main themes. (Those themes will be more fully explored in episode 12b.) We humbly suggest you read the book along with us! Follow us on Facebook - search "holy madness the show" (follow the group, and then join "Holy Madness - The Discussion Group" for thought provoking topics and educational and entertaining talk), or email us at holymadnesstheshow@gmail.com. Spread the good word, y'all. Add us to your RSS feed, to your iTunes, or follow us here on soundcloud. We also now have a Patreon - www.patreon.com/holymadness - so if youd like to help keep this going, head on down there.

Join us as we explore the odd parallels between the postmodern "social justice" beliefs system and religion. We visit economics and financial markets, black swans, epistemology, facts and "alternative facts", how people form their beliefs, and sink our teeth into the difference between faith and love. We discuss Popper, Taleb, Wittgenstein, Tertullian, and Sartre, plus detour into language, antisemitism, and the difference between staying true to your beliefs and wanting to be proven wrong. Follow us on Facebook - search "holy madness the show" (follow the group, and then join "Holy Madness - The Discussion Group" for thought provoking topics and educational and entertaining talk), or email us at holymadnesstheshow@gmail.com. Spread the good word, y'all. Add us to your RSS feed, to your iTunes, or follow us here on soundcloud. We also now have a Patreon - www.patreon.com/holymadness - so if youd like to help keep this going, head on down there.

Happy Tu B'Shvat to those celebrating or not! This epsiode takes a good look at Tu B'Shvat the holiday, tracing it from the Mishna to modern day. Along the way we discuss the halachot (Jewish Law) of produce, why Man likes tree metaphors so much, what the Tree of Knowledge actually was, means and ends (which justifies which?), Spinoza and Plato, and end off with a nice insight into the deeper meaning of the holiday. Tzvi's daughters make a guest appearance in the introduction. Follow us on Facebook - search "holy madness the show" (follow the group, and then join "Holy Madness - The Discussion Group" for thought provoking topics and educational and entertaining talk), or email us at holymadnesstheshow@gmail.com. Spread the good word, y'all. Add us to your RSS feed, to your iTunes, or follow us here on soundcloud. We also now have a Patreon - www.patreon.com/holymadness - so if youd like to help keep this going, head on down there.

We've done it again! The Episode 9 has landed! This is one small step for Holy Madness, but one great leap for all mankind. We explore why Tzvi won't convert to Christianity. (Yes, he is just as surprised as you are.) Along the way, we get into Pascal's Wager, sin, salvation, the afterlife and the world to come, Christian music (again), community, prayers, and more. Where else can you get a detailed discussion on salvation and the afterlife together with sampling Christian music? Okay, quite a few places as it turns out. But we can guarantee none of those will get you to think into your cherished beliefs or question things the way we do. Okay, we can't guarantee it, but at least we'd wager on it. Unlike wagering on Pascal. Follow us on Facebook - search "holy madness the show" (follow the group, and then join "Holy Madness - The Discussion Group" for thought provoking topics and educational and entertaining talk), or email us at holymadnesstheshow@gmail.com. Spread the good word, y'all. Add us to your RSS feed, to your iTunes, or follow us here on soundcloud. We also now have a Patreon - www.patreon.com/holymadness - so if youd like to help keep this going, head on down there.

It's Episode 8 as the Holy Madness continues, this time welcoming special guest Adam K into the studio to discuss happiness! Listen in as we question, what is happiness? How do people find it? Is it worth looking for? Where would be a good place to start finding it? Why care about happiness at all? Can you be happy without G-d? Can you be happy with G-d? Is happiness an emotion, a choice, something else? As always with a special guest, we adopt a conversational style. Come for the rambling, stay for the ambling, and walk away with some thought provoking points to consider. Follow us on Facebook - search "holy madness the show" (follow the group, and then join "Holy Madness - The Discussion Group" for thought provoking topics and educational and entertaining talk), or email us at holymadnesstheshow@gmail.com. Spread the good word, y'all. Add us to your RSS feed, to your iTunes, or follow us here on soundcloud. We also now have a Patreon - www.patreon.com/holymadness - so if youd like to help keep this going, head on down there.

Oh my, we've done it again! Another fantastic episode, this time about Iran/Persia, exile, redemption, identity, and way, way more. (This episode was recorded during the protests taking place in Iran in 2018.) We discuss Iran as a country (taking care to avoid politics as always), its history, and the Jewish People's history with Persia - and that takes us to Exile and Redemption, the World to Come, identity, peoplehood, and the unique conception of exile/redemption that the Jewish people has forged and crafted in its development. Come for the banter, stay for the knockout insights, and enjoy the show! :) Follow us on Facebook - search "holy madness the show" (follow the group, and then join "Holy Madness - The Discussion Group" for thought provoking topics and educational and entertaining talk), or email us at holymadnesstheshow@gmail.com. Spread the good word, y'all. Add us to your RSS feed, to your iTunes, or follow us here on soundcloud. We also now have a Patreon - www.patreon.com/holymadness - so if youd like to help keep this going, head on down there.

Episode 6 is finally here, and with a special guest in the studio! Sarah joins us in our meandering exploration of prayer. We go through some Facebook comments on Meir Simcha's post on prayer, discuss different conceptions of prayer, introduce theme music for one avid listener (and commenter), and suggest a paradigm shift on what prayer really might be. There is even a suggestion for a great Christian prayer song, too, from your favorite Jewish podcasters, along with quite a few callbacks to concepts introduced in previous episodes as well. The format is a little different than shows of late, with a more natural conversational presentation than a "tight" sound. We felt that this would be the best way to present the ideas we had, and if you have as much fun listening to it as we did creating it, you'll be in for a treat! Follow us on Facebook - search "holy madness the show" (follow the group, and then join "Holy Madness - The Discussion Group" for thought provoking topics and educational and entertaining talk), or email us at holymadnesstheshow@gmail.com. Spread the good word, y'all. Add us to your RSS feed, to your iTunes, or follow us here on soundcloud. We also now have a Patreon - www.patreon.com/holymadness - so if youd like to help keep this going, head on down there.

Join us as we take a look at Jerusalem, moving from sacred cities and divided cities in general to Jerusalem in particular, and ending up with a deep look at what makes Jerusalem so special in the first place. (This episode comes at the point where the United States announced its recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital, and faced a UNGA resolution objecting to their accepting a fact...) We also discuss city-specific mental illnesses, welcome our first special guest into the studio, make some oddly rap-fueled sound gags in opportune places, and feature topical musical breaks throughout. Merry Christmas to those of you celebrating! Follow us on Facebook - search "holy madness the show" (follow the group, and then join "Holy Madness - The Discussion Group" for thought provoking topics and educational and entertaining talk), or email us at holymadnesstheshow@gmail.com. Spread the good word, y'all. Add us to your RSS feed, to your iTunes, or follow us here on soundcloud. We also now have a Patreon - www.patreon.com/holymadness - so if youd like to help keep this going, head on down there.

Grab some latkes and/or eggnog and join us for our fourth episode, where we discuss winter light festivals, light and darkness, metaphors, get into some of the differences between Christmas and Hannukah, reminisce on holiday season growing up, and make a key point about Light in our lives. We also celebrate our one hundredth download, give some shout outs to our listeners, and throw in some holiday gags too! Follow us on Facebook - search "holy madness the show" (follow the group, and then join "Holy Madness - The Discussion Group" for thought provoking topics and educational and entertaining talk), or email us at holymadnesstheshow@gmail.com. Spread the good word, y'all. Add us to your RSS feed, to your iTunes, or follow us here on soundcloud. We also now have a Patreon - www.patreon.com/holymadness - so if youd like to help keep this going, head on down there.

Join us as we talk about the German migrant issue, teasing apart the political talking points to get into the heart of the matter - identity. We clocked in at just about an hour here, and hopefully addressed some of the sound issues. As always, here are links to the articles discussed in the chat: Economist, Germany article - https://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21720578-rest-country-and-large-swathes-europe-will-face-similar-problems Spectator, Norway article - https://www.spectator.co.uk/2017/11/norway-is-hard-on-migrants-but-tough-love-works/ Standpoint, David Goldman article - http://standpointmag.co.uk/node/7031/full Follow us on Facebook - search "holy madness the show" (follow the group, and then join "Holy Madness - The Discussion Group" for thought provoking topics and educational and entertaining talk), or email us at holymadnesstheshow@gmail.com. Spread the good word, y'all. Add us to your RSS feed, to your iTunes, or follow us here on soundcloud. We also now have a Patreon - www.patreon.com/holymadness - so if youd like to help keep this going, head on down there.

It's Episode 2! Where else can you find an earnest discussion of Richard Dawkins, sin and mistakes, evolution, paradigm shifts, and Torah, that isn't a sarcastic take down of religion, but a search for self improvement and spiritual growth? Right here! Follow us on Facebook - search "holy madness the show" (follow the group, and then join "Holy Madness - The Discussion Group" for thought provoking topics and educational and entertaining talk), or email us at holymadnesstheshow@gmail.com. Spread the good word, y'all. Add us to your RSS feed, to your iTunes, or follow us here on soundcloud. We also now have a Patreon - www.patreon.com/holymadness - so if youd like to help keep this going, head on down there.

Our maiden voyage! Join us as we discuss a news article about the horrors of daily life in Gaza, and tackle some points about Israel-Palestine. Article discussed in the podcast available here - https://www.haaretz.com/middle-east-news/palestinians/1.821771 We explore the issues while keeping our discussions as agenda-free as humanly possible. Come for the thought provoking conversation, stay for the oftentimes funny results of two guys still figuring out the medium of podcasting, sound editing, and making coherent points. Follow us on Facebook - search "holy madness the show" (follow the group, and then join "Holy Madness - The Discussion Group" for thought provoking topics and educational and entertaining talk), or email us at holymadnesstheshow@gmail.com. Spread the good word, y'all. Add us to your RSS feed, to your iTunes, or follow us here on soundcloud. We also now have a Patreon - www.patreon.com/holymadness - so if youd like to help keep this going, head on down there.