Torah In Seven With Baila Olidort
We may know the Torah’s stories — the characters, the drama, the plot lines. But beneath the surface lie layers of meaning that can reshape how we read the text and how we understand ourselves. Torah in Seven explores the weekly parsha in under seven minutes. Each episode pulls a single thread from the narrative and follows it inward, revealing new facets of wisdom. Join host Baila Olidort as she weaves classical commentary, Chassidic insight, and personal reflection into a tapestry that brings ancient stories into conversation with our lives today.
Episodes
21 episodes
Shelach: A Different Spirit
To lose the room... and find the courage to stand alone. Like this episode? Leave us a review!We'd love to hear your feedback and thoughts on this podcast! Please email us at Editor@Lubavitch.com or drop a ...
Behaalotcha:Talking Ourselves Out of the Promised Land
Talking Ourselves Out of the Promised LandThe inclination to self sabotage on the cusp of a arrival Like this episode? Leave us a review!We'd love to hear your feedback and thoughts on this po...
Nasso: Admission Without Guilt
On the honesty of naming what's brokenLike this episode? Leave us a review!We'd love to hear your feedback and thoughts on this podcast! Please email us at Editor@Lubavitch.com or drop a comment below!...
Shavuot: Call Me Mara
Shavuot: Call Me MaraReading the Book of Ruth through the eyes of its most overlooked character.Like this episode? Leave us a review!We'd love to hear your feedback and thoughts on this podcast! Please emai...
Bamidbar: Living in the Twilight Zone
When the old life ends — but the new one hasn't begun . . .Like this episode? Leave us a review!We'd love to hear your feedback and thoughts on this podcast! Please email us at Editor@Lubavitch.com or drop a com...
Vayakhel-Pikudei: Dead Stones, Living Souls
From forced labor to willing hearts — the Book of Exodus ends where it truly begins.Like this episode? Leave us a review!We'd love to hear your feedback and thoughts on this podcast! Please email us at Editor@Lu...
Ki Tissa: The Kid, the Milk, and the Robot
After the collapse of all boundaries at the Golden Calf, Ki Tissa offers an ancient 'Source Code' for a moral society—and a warning about what happens when humans become interchangeable with machines.Like this episode? Leave ...
Tetzaveh: Travel Light. Carry Weight.
Why Aaron’s garments challenge modern ideas of freedom.Like this episode? Leave us a review!We'd love to hear your feedback and thoughts on this podcast! Please email us at Editor@Lubavitch.com or drop a com...
Terumah: Architecture of Desire
The strange tension between structure and desire no one talks about.Like this episode? Leave us a review!We'd love to hear your feedback and thoughts on this podcast! Please email us at Editor@Lubavitch.com or drop a com...
Mishpatim: Conscience and Consensus
How do we live by consensus without surrendering our conscience?Like this episode? Leave us a review!We'd love to hear your feedback and thoughts on this podcast! Please email us at Editor@Lubavitch.com or drop a com...
Yisro: The Sinai Anticlimax
We expected an other-worldly revelation. What happened was something else entirely.Like this episode? Leave us a review!We'd love to hear your feedback and thoughts on this podcast! Please email us at Editor@Lubavitch.co...
Beshalach: The Economy of Trust
What does it mean to let go of the illusion of control—and to learn what it means to have enough. In this episode of Torah in Seven, we look at the slow work of cultivating trust rather than control.Like this episode...
Bo: The Stories We Inherit
This episode reflects on how stories shape moral imagination, how freedom is learned through narrative, and why what we pass down matters as much as what we lived through.Like this episode? Leave us a review!We'd love to...
Va'era: The Slow Unraveling
Vaera traces the slow unraveling of a world that can no longer endure, and asks what it takes to be drawn out from the very heart of its collapse.Like this episode? Leave us a review!We'd love to hear your feed...
Shemot: The Narrow Place
There's a particular violence in having one's pain go unseen, their cry unheard, their voice shut down. The Jewish people understand this. And Parshat Shemot speaks directly to it. What does redemption look like from inside this narrow plac...
Vayechi: An Unfinished Story
In this episode of Torah in Seven, the final one in the Book of Genesis, we explore what it means to live inside an unfinished story—and what the Torah asks of us when escape is not an option and endurance becomes a moral act.Like thi...
Vayigash: Take Me Instead!
What does it mean to step forward in moments of tension and uncertainty? This episode reflects on honesty, responsibility, and the possibility of repair.Like this episode? Leave us a review!We'd love to hear you...
Mikeitz: Life After Trauma
Joseph names his son "God made me forget." But forget what—and why? And why is letting go sometimes the only way to become?Like this episode? Leave us a review!We'd love to hear your feedback and thoughts on this podcast...
Vayeishev: Rupture & Recognition
What truths sit in plain sight, waiting for us to finally recognize them?Discover the power of recognition in this week’s Torah in Seven with Baila Olidort.Like this episode? Leave us a review!We'd love to hear your f...
Vayishlach: Who Am I?
What happens when all your relational anchors are no longer available to you? This week’s episode explores developing a core identity that doesn’t depend on anything external to the self.***We may know the Torah’s stories — the ch...
Vayetzei: Pondering Patience
We may know the Torah’s stories — the characters, the drama, the plot lines. But beneath the surface lie layers of meaning that can reshape how we read the text and how we understand ourselves. Torah in Seven explores the weekly parsha in under...
