In this episode of Hebrew Voices #254 - October 8th Jew Makes Aliyah: Part 1, Nehemia sits down with his niece, Maayan Gordon, who made aliyah to Israel in the middle of a war. Maayan shares how October 7th awakened her Jewish identity, the warm welcome she found at a Chabad event in Birmingham, Alabama, and how rediscovering the weekly Torah portion turned the commandments into vehicles for connection.
In this Partner Study of Torah in Context: Noach, Nehemia and Lynell show how the 150 days of the flood point to the Biblical lunisolar calendar, discuss whether God created us with a desire to do evil, and look at David's prayer in 1 Chronicles 29 asking God to prepare our hearts.
In this episode of Torah in Context: Noach, Nehemia and Lynell uncover the Hebrew wordplay behind Noah's name, explore why flood traditions appear all over the ancient world, and close with a sobering account from Auschwitz and a warning not to ignore the signs of our own time.
In The Truth About Sukkot | 2026, Nehemia and Lynell answer the most-asked questions about the Feast of Booths. They look at what the word sukkah means in the Hebrew Bible and why a tent counts. Nehemiah 8 shows how the "four species" were used to build the booths rather than to wave them. Along the way, Nehemia tells the story of his father's famous U-Haul sukkah.
In this episode of Torah in Context: Bereshit, Nehemia and Lynell dive deep into the first verse of the Bible- Who created what? When? How long did it take? Let’s see what the original Hebrew and the commentators have to say!
In this Partner Study of Torah in Context: Bereshit, Nehemia and Lynell consider the ancient debate over whether an infinite God can interact with the universe directly or only through intermediaries as well as the importance of understanding all possibilities before rejecting them.
In this Bonus episode of Torah in Context: Bereshit, Lynell puts Nehemia through a lightning round of questions touching on what the Torah actually commands us to believe, the first “fence around the Torah,” and why God’s “book of instructions” actually starts out with a whole book plus 11 chapters of storytelling.
In this episode of Hebrew Voices #253 – Seven Years of Work - Gone!, Nehemia Gordon tells how seven years of manuscript research, data from the Vatican, the British Library, and the Russian National Library, vanished when Microsoft erased his organization's OneDrive. He's joined by Hans Brender, known internationally as "Mr. OneDrive," and by computer engineer Lynell Gordon to explain the trappings behind it. Essential listening for anyone whose life's work lives in the cloud.
In The Truth About Yom Kippur | 2026, Nehemia and Lynell ask what atonement really means: does the Hebrew word kippur mean to cover sin, or to wipe it away? Nehemia traces the root through a puzzling verse in Isaiah 28 and through ancient Aramaic and Akkadian texts, including a surprising line from the Epic of Gilgamesh. He then brings it all back to the Yom Kippur service in Leviticus 16.
Discover the biblical meaning of Shemini Atzeret in this short episode of our new series, Hebrew Fundamentals. Bringing together the best of Nehemia’s teachings in one accessible introduction, it’s the perfect opportunity to explore—or revisit—his material on this joyful appointed time.