Four Entered the Pardes: An Exploration With An Agenda

About this episode

The episode explores the aggadah of the four Tannaim who entered Pardes, focusing on their insights and interpretations.

Have any questions, insights, or feedback? Send me a text! Length: 1 hour 35 minutes Synopsis: Tonight (6/4/26), in our Thursday night Machshavah Lab series for women, was not a shiur but an exploration with an agenda (which I explain toward the beginning and won't divulge here). We read the famous aggadah about the four Tannaim who entered Pardes - R. Akiva, Acher, Ben Zoma, and Ben Azzai - along with several other sources that comment directly or indirectly on it. Our goal was not to conduc...

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Host: Rabbi Matt Schneeweiss

Topics covered

• Pardes
• aggadah
• Tannaim
• Jewish thought
• spiritual exploration

Keywords

• Pardes
• Tannaim
• aggadah
• Rabbi Akiva
• spirituality
• Jewish education

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