Xai, how are you?

Tying up our arguments from last week's episode, we're finding out what the Talmud and halaxa have to say about "overturning the table", sexually. Visit our website to ask us questions at xaihowareyou.com and call or Text the Talmud Hotline at 401-484-1619 and leave us a voicemail! Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou. Follow us on twitter @xaihowareyou and @miss_figured. Music by Ben Schreiber.

We're analyzing the gender and sexuality categories of the Talmud and Leviticus, and how they might transform our understanding of the verse about men lying with men. Visit our website to ask us questions at xaihowareyou.com and call or Text the Talmud Hotline at 401-484-1619 and leave us a voicemail! Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou. Follow us on twitter @xaihowareyou and @miss_figured. Music by Ben Schreiber. CW: This episode contains mention of biological essentialism, sexual abuse and homophobia.

We're diving into that sweet listener question backlog! In this episiode, we explore the origins of Jewish hair covering, as well as some interesting edge cases like hair covering for single women and a ruling exempting women from it entirely! You can get our merch here: https://xai-how-are-you.creator-spring.com/ Visit our website to ask us questions at xaihowareyou.com and call or Text the Talmud Hotline at 401-484-1619 and leave us a voicemail! Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou. Follow us on twitter @xaihowareyou and @miss_figured. Music by Ben Schreiber.

My friend Abraham Riesman, author of True Believer: The Rise and Fall of Stan Lee, comes on the show to talk X-Men, origins of Magneto's Jewishness, collective storytelling, apocalypse and queer allegories. Visit our website to ask us questions at xaihowareyou.com and call or Text the Talmud Hotline at 401-484-1619 and leave us a voicemail! Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou. Follow us on twitter @xaihowareyou and @miss_figured. Music by Ben Schreiber.

Friend of mine, friend of the show and Judaism Unbound co-host Lex Rofeberg returns to the show to discuss Neo-Hasidism, its connections to Paleo-Hasidism, plus its future, problems, benefits and history. Visit our website to ask us questions at xaihowareyou.com and call or Text the Talmud Hotline at 401-484-1619 and leave us a voicemail! Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou. Follow us on twitter @xaihowareyou and @miss_figured. Music by Ben Schreiber.

Sam Biagetti and Michael continue our series by exploring the rise of the Baal Shem, Jew castles, asceticism, young men frolicking in the woods and how Hasidism became what it is today. Visit our website to ask us questions at xaihowareyou.com and call or Text the Talmud Hotline at 401-484-1619 and leave us a voicemail! Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou. Follow us on twitter @xaihowareyou and @miss_figured. Music by Ben Schreiber.

In our new series on Hasidism, Sam Biagetti returns to the show to set the stage with a full, fabulous history of Jewish schisms up to the early modern era and the invention of Orthodox Judaisms. Visit our website to ask us questions at xaihowareyou.com and call or Text the Talmud Hotline at 401-484-1619 and leave us a voicemail! Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou. Follow us on twitter @xaihowareyou and @miss_figured. Music by Ben Schreiber.

Today: a medieval Jewish poem about the existential dread of being a trans girl and a dive into what it means to "bless", and specifically what it means to bless the bad along with the good. Visit our website to ask us questions at xaihowareyou.com and call or Text the Talmud Hotline at 401-484-1619 and leave us a voicemail! Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou. Follow us on twitter @xaihowareyou and @miss_figured. Music by Ben Schreiber.

Today's episode is brought to you by the word: pitchfork! We're learning about theurgy, we're learning about trancestors, we're learning about the devil and it is all very gay. Visit our website to ask us questions at xaihowareyou.com and call or Text the Talmud Hotline at 401-484-1619 and leave us a voicemail! Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou. Follow us on twitter @xaihowareyou and @miss_figured. Music by Ben Schreiber.

We're tackling a listener question about the high holidays and what to do when other people aren't taking part in the tradition of repentance during this time of year. Plus a really fun Talmud Final Destination story. Visit our website to ask us questions at xaihowareyou.com and call or Text the Talmud Hotline at 401-484-1619 and leave us a voicemail! Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou. Follow us on twitter @xaihowareyou and @miss_figured. Music by Ben Schreiber.