Sof Pasuk: The Torah Reading Podcast

Moshe Ginsberg joins me to talk about the grammar of the Passover Haggada

Fun with forms

A Torah reading advisory and a reading of the bulls.

Vocalizing the word את and a matter of branches.

Singing, oh please, and why on the dagesh chazak.

Ariella joins me to talk about Megillat Ester.

Moshe Ginsberg returns to talk about a word we've ignored for two long.

Hidden constructs, marking 1 year of Sof Pasuk with a Sof Aliya, and remembering Amalek only once

The man, the ox and the Vulcan.

Moshe Ginsberg joins the podcast to talk about the 10 commandments. (Or, are there 9 of them?)

Singing the Song of the Sea with Moshe Ginsberg

What exactly happens at midnight and what to serve with your sheep-wine.

A mesorah advisory, the 4 languages of redemption and ho-ya!

A Public Mesorah Advisory; and also, where to make an 8th aliya.

This just in! The late breaking bias!

More on the munach (with exceptions!!); and also, how to keep things fair with twins.

Answering your questions, three ways to open a quote and when we like to stop in the middle.

Where to start Chapter 32 and how to not create another realm of the dead.

Correcting 3 big mistakes from the last podcasts; and also, Moshe Ginsberg joins me to talk about the gaya.

Grammar Geeks inherit the podcast. And also, "to you do": it's happens when you drink too much father wine.

Sof Pasuk's exclusive investigation into allegations of fraud: have some letters received a hataf patah when they shouldn't?

Baruch Hashem! Also: a favorite child mistake and why hallelujah is the way it is.

Adding a new vintage to our wine collection. Plus, the 3 ways that Tanach breaks form to tell stories.

More sheep-wine, learning to settle with prepositions, and it is the poor torah reader who blames the text.

My polemic against "aloha", fun with numbers and a game of whose older for the Shabbat table.

A shout-out to another podcast, the controversy of calling in Hashem's name, and whatever did Kain say to Hevel?

Another favorite pasuk and two different ways to start reading "Bereishit".

Why reading Kohelet is not a waste time, how to think about life when there is no life after death, and what a little birdie told me.

What is Hashem's name? Plus: another way to use the High Holiday Torah reading tune on Yom Kippur.

Changing your new year forever: the nusach for kiddush on Rosh Hashana.

An Ashkenazis vs. Sefardit showdown and how to be strong and courageous in the face of Yeshivish. Also, inviting you to my shiur on Tehillim 47 next Sunday, September 13.

What makes a better manuscript, how not to read the tochacha, and a special invitation for podcast listeners.

An anonymous contributor helps me find mistakes, and why I don't repeat "zeicher" (and you shouldn't either).

My favorite child helps me with material for this week's podcast during these unprecedented times.

One of the greatest reading mistakes of all time, my own personal mistake, and what to do if your favorite child missed last week's podcast.

Answering important questions, like: "What does Hashem want from us anyway?" and "Who is my favorite child?"

Never ending or never filling God's kindness, favorite laments (if you can have such a thing), and every day is a good except for today.

The mistakes I heard (or saw) at mincha yesterday... and how many commandments are there anyway?

Reading the hardest pasuk in the parasha and decoding large, many and tall conjunctions.

Finding the reward in the journey and exploring another's tribe.

Sof Pasuk presents Fun with Forms

Yet another favorite pasuk and what happens when you correct me when I don't make a mistake.

Favorite grammatical forms of summer and a challenge in biblical exegesis.

Tackling controversy with why I don't think you can say, "Hashem will die" even if you try, but how it would be possible to send Chaim to the realm of the dead if you aren't careful.

How to read what popularist spies have to say, and parsing adjectives on construct chains.

Sof Pasuk takes on controversy. And also: whose bar mitzvah is it anyway? 

Exploring the often wondered, but rarely discussed differences between: "holy" and "holy".

Special edition podcast for Shavuot: how to "yes" in Tanach, and what's really so great about Rut anyway?

How to apply propretonic reduction in the desert, and the winner of this week's favorite pasuk competition.

The saddest way to read the tochacha

How to make sure you don't get confused when turning on your Ner Tamid.

How not to get kicked out of Israel and a search for would-be favorite pasukim. 

What to stop correcting in Tazria Metzora, and the best way to disinfect your home in biblical times.

An inside look at the argument I have every year with my tikkun.

!כאלה

Here it is with no commentary. Play it on repeat and sing along!

How to read (or not to read) Shir Hashirim this Shabbat Chol Hamoed.

The pasuk that changed my seder and what you need to check in your Haggadah.

Thinking about blood on your ears and the correct way to say, "Next Year in Jerusalem!"

Two things to look for as your read Vayikra at home in lockdown!

A personal message to everyone who is in self-quarantine, and the two things I'll miss most by not reading this week's parasha.

The argument for repealing the quarantine; and also, exploring Moshe's personal relationship with Hashem.

On this podcast: who to quarantine this Purim and what is Mordechai's last name?

The first episode of Sof Pasuk desribes the types of do's and don'ts that we'll discuss each week.