In this month’s episode of The Joy of Text, “Navigating Niddah“, the primary discussion is on the topic of how couples navigate the difficulties of הרחקות – distancing during the wife’s menstrual impurity. As opposed to other episodes in which...
For its tenth episode, “The Joy of Text” went with its second ever mini-episode focussing on a Talmudic text. This month’s episode, which was published a week ago, focussed on the following Talmudic text on one of the ways that...
After a one-month break from its regular monthly podcast, “The Joy of Text” returned last month with a much-awaited topic. Having come up in multiple previous episodes, [male] masturbation was finally discussed. After taking its first month off since it...
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