We The Tribes

Madlik Podcast – Torah Thoughts on Judaism From a Post-Orthodox Jew by Geoffrey Stern

May 13, 202632:23Religion & Spirituality

We usually think of the ancient world as being ruled by dangerous, power-hungry kings, but the Torah actually commanded a radical, unified democracy thousands of years before America. What if the Book of Numbers is not r...

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