Holy Madness - The Show

Holy Madness - The Show


Latest Episodes

Season 2, Episode 2: Shots Fired
October 30, 2018

Holy Madness takes to the verbal warpath after the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting - but it's probably the opposite of what you'd expect. We ruminate on the broken glasses people use to process information - the immediate turn to arguing politics instead o.

Season 2, Episode 1: The Past Isn't Done With You
September 25, 2018

Holy Madness returns from an inexcusably long summer break to discuss truth, connectivity, repentance, reflection, refutation, and Jewish history. We explore the idea that in the modern West, liberty is seen as the freedom from the need to change - and w.

Extra Madness by Meir-Simchah: On Tisha b'Av, Day of the Temple's Destruction, Day of Truth
July 17, 2018

We interrupt the regular flow of Holy Madness to bring you this Extra Madness in preparation for Tisha b'Av (the 9th day of the month of Av). Tisha b'Av is the day the 2nd Temple was destroyed, the day the 1st Temple was destroyed, and the day the twelve.

Episode 18b: The Answers - What Are The Questions?
June 14, 2018

Tzvi's burning question is who wrote the Torah and when? Meir-Simchah is miffed by his co-host's heresy. It ends well. Tzvi neither burns up Torah, nor burns at the stake (yet). Then Meir-Simchah confesses to burning over questions like how do languages .

Episode 18a: Burning Questions, Burning Bush
June 05, 2018

We open up with some extended housekeeping which will excite any Global Zionist Conspiracy theorist. We explain our long hiatus, technical problems, and adventures with the Iranian Revolutionary Guard; we digress about the crash of 2008, Icelandic banker.

Episode 17: Unintelligent Design
May 03, 2018

How can there be both free will and divine providence? If divine providence is everywhere and all the time, does everything have meaning or nothing? When doesn’t God care about you? Could unintelligent design be better for God? What’s the role of chaos i.

Episode 16: What To Live For?
April 21, 2018

Episode 16 starts off with some light and personal review of Passover, then charges forward in time (and the counting of the omer) to Israel's 70th birthday. We zoom in on how Israel marks Memorial Day and Independence Day back-to-back and compare it to .

Episode 15: Holy Madness Reads The Haggadah
March 24, 2018

Continuing in the Passover suite, here is Holy Madness reading the Haggadah. Insights abound, and for first timers, this is a fantastic way to introduce yourself to the text of the Haggadah! You'll learn different traditional tunes, too.  Enjoy, and have.

Episode 14: Passover Introduction - Freedom Through Words
March 15, 2018

Let my Episode 14 go! This episode is an overview of Passover - what is being celebrated, why, and how. We discuss the oddly universal celebration of our little nation's holiday commemorating its emancipation, the themes and imagery of the holiday, and w.

Episode 13: Religion - Education vs Ideology
March 12, 2018

Its the long awaited Episode 13! Sarah returns as a special guest. We discuss our favorite books in the bible (SPOILER ALERT: IT IS NOT CHRONICLES), and segue into a conversation about education within religion. We compare belief and ideology, talk about.