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Mashup: Parshah Bereishit, Honey Badger and Numa Numa

October 10, 2012 by Patrick Beaulier

It’s a new year and it’s time for new videos from PunkTorah. Circle Pit the Bimah set the bar really high (thanks Jeremiah!) and it’s tough to meet that challenge.

But this year at PunkTorah, we’re doing something different. This year, we’re using using your favorite viral videos from around the intertubes to tell the stories of the Torah. Videos will be narrated by Patrick Aleph, and anyone else who wants to volunteer!

In Bereishit, we learn that Adam and Eve were stuck in “the friend zone”, that the snake in the Garden of Eden really should have been a honey badger, and that being Jewish requires a higher attention span than the infamous Numa Numa video demands.

Watch and learn! And be sure to comment below.

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You Are Noah’s Ark (and a tribute to Star Wars) – Parshat Noach

October 5, 2010 by Patrick Beaulier

We’ve all heard the Noah story. Blah…blah…animals. Blah…blah…big boat. Blah…blah…evolution and creationism. But maybe the Noah story is about us, about our inner lives. Michael explains how, and makes a nice nod to Star Wars in the process.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Wq6_d6fhQU

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Parshat Noah

October 22, 2009 by Patrick Beaulier

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cW3D-Et6L-U

Parshat Noah, like all the other parshat, plays games with us.
First, what’s the real likelihood that of all the people on Earth, a drunk like Noah and his family are the only righteous people worth saving? And for that matter, how could a loving G_d destroy that many people, just because they had gone astray (which, btw, there was no real covenant at that point–so what was G_d so uppity about)?

Filed Under: Jewish Text (Torah/Haftarah/Talmud), Podcasts & Videos Tagged With: bereishit, bible, creationism, darshan yeshiva, flood, genesis, global flood, Jewish, Jews, Judaism, noah, noah's ark, patrick "aleph" beaulier, patrick aleph, punktorah, rabbi patrick aleph beaulier, Religion, Torah

Richard Dawkins, Gardening and the Number Seven: Parshat Behar-Bechukotai

May 11, 2009 by Patrick Beaulier

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeGhYAF1JyI

I just watched the Richard Dawkins movie, “The God Delusion”. I disagree with Dawkins who thinks that religion is poison (a little too Chairman Mao for me), but he did bring up an interesting point: In one scene, Dawkins confronts a British rabbi about the Genesis account of creationism. The rabbi says that he supports a literal interpretation of Genesis and believes that the world is only 6,000 years old. Dawkins tells the rabbi how stupid this is, because archeologists all agree that humans are millions of years old and that 6,000 years ago was the start of the Agricultural Revolution.
This got me thinking: is there a biblical connection between the agricultural revolution and the laws of Moses? Sure enough, there is…and it’s this week’s Parshat

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