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...
Last month’s episode of “The Joy of Text” switched up its format for what it’s calling a mini-episode. In this mini-episode, in lieu of its typical format of a main topic, a guest interview, and then Q & A all...
Last month’s episode of “The Joy of Text” featured a discussion on educating one’s children on sexual matters, an interview with Dr. Joy Ladin, and a Q & A segment. This episode was the first in the series to have...
In last month’s recent podcast of “The Joy of Text”, the featured discussion was about pornography (“The Pornography Episode”), which provided the most dynamic interaction between the two hosts of the show, Rabbi Dov Linzer and Dr. Bat Sheva Marcus,...
Having regularly written about The Joy of Text series, I realized I haven’t yet gotten around to posting about the two most recent podcasts. In this post, I’ll describe May’s podcast, which came out a month-and-a-half ago (stay tuned for...
A few weeks ago, the fourth “Joy of Text” podcast came out, with a focus on virginity. April’s edition of the podcast in which Rabbi Dov Linzer and Dr. Bat Sheva Marcus discuss sexual matters from an Orthodox perspective also...
The third episode of “The Joy of Text”, following off its first two episodes, returned to the format of the first episode of a main discussion topic, a special guest, and then some Q & A. This episode was also...
An Orthodox rabbi and a sex therapist discuss sex – while this scenario is not common in the real world, a new podcast series discussing sexual matters for Orthodox Jews is focussed solely on that. The new podcast series, “The...
