Category: Blood Brothers

Pesach Sheini (Blood Brothers I)

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Topics from this episode include: Pesach Sheini; synagogue architecture; whether or not people with social anxiety tend to pray longer; if green laser pointers are more dangerous than red laser pointers; Chinese whispers, Chinese apples, and the Chinese government; and much, much more.

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Lag B'Omer (Blood Brothers II)

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If humor can be a "Trojan horse;" the difference between legitimate art and propaganda; how the National Security Administration can help you learn chasidus; the connection between the Rashbi, the Ari Zal, the Baal Shem Tov, and Moshiach; Laffy Taffy jokes; and much, much more.

Buckle up for this 43-minute whirlwind conversation of deep Torah ideas and humor that moves so quickly from subject to subject you’ll have to watch three times just to catch it all.

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Shavuos (Blood Brothers III)

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This third installment of our show is all about threes! Why was Torah given in the third month? Why does discovering the truth require three viewpoints? Why are there three stooges and to which three sefiros do they correspond according to kabbalah?

This episode is dedicated in memory of Moshe Hersch ben Shlomo Nasan HaLevi (Moe Howard.)

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Sukkos (Blood Brothers IV)

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After a hiatus, the Blood Brothers return with a special pre-Sukkos edition of their show. They discuss why cats are afraid of cucumbers as well as various examples of the "makif" encompassing force.

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Blood Brothers V

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Live from SoulWords studios, a special live edition of the Taub Brothers speaking about all kinds of interesting stuff including: the lost continent of Atlantis, the color eigengrau, the four states of matter, the etymology of the word "quintessence," and whether Mah Nishtanah can be read as a rhetorical question.

As they say at Blood Brothers live, "Anything can happen, and it probably WILL!"

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Blood Brothers VI

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Live from SoulWords studios, a special live edition of the Taub Brothers speaking about all kinds of interesting stuff including: ventriloquists, McCarthyism, aliens, paganism, and springtime.

As they say at Blood Brothers live, "Anything can happen, and it probably WILL!"

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Special Guest R' Bentzi Sudak (Blood Brothers VII)

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On this episode, brothers Shais and Dovid Taub welcome a special guest, their old friend Rabbi Bentzi Sudak from London, UK who was getting ready for his son's bar mitzvah and needed help figuring out some stuff about the mystical bar mitzvah discourse about the meaning of Tefilin. And also the Rubik's cube.

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Chanukah (Blood Brothers VIII)

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The Blood Brothers talk about miracle oil, saving lives, googly eyes, Chinese accident victims, flying to Martha's Vineyard with Alan Dershowitz, and lots of other stuff in this latest edition to their podcast.

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