
Xai, how are you?
Queer Jews Michael Sokolovsky and Rabbi Xava De Cordova play with the multi-millennial dialectic that is the Talmud. Join them as they throw drash, seek prophetic insight and uncover the rabbinic smuttiness inherent in the system.
Latest episodes

Feb 14, 2023 • 18min
157. Do Not Covet Your Neighbor's WiFi
Xava brings a survey of halakhic rulings that help us make sense of the ethics of "stealing" WiFi.
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.

Feb 6, 2023 • 19min
156. Pipe Dream
The first episode of our whole new deal! Ingenious waterworks, forbidden blessings, mouth to mouth and adorable puppies are all featured.
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.

Jan 30, 2023 • 24min
155. Temple OS Reveal
This episode, we're announcing our next big project as a pod! Plus reflecting on everything we've done so far. We're gonna be putting together a deep and juicy researched series on Temple OS! If you don't know what that is, tune in to find out.
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.

Jan 23, 2023 • 50min
154. Niddah For Trans Women
Ritual purity law? In my trans gender? It's more likely than you think! Xava is finally unveiling the general vibe and arguments of her paper on niddah for trans women, it's a bloody good time.
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.

Jan 16, 2023 • 49min
153. Russian Doll Finale
The peanut in the matryoshka is finally revealed! It's the finale of our Russian Doll series and we're finally giving birth, going to the underworld, partying in a fish, finding the cosmic mikveh and healing our trauma.
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.

Jan 8, 2023 • 36min
152: Russian Doll 2:6
The penultimate Russian Doll episode! This time we're orbiting the whirlpool of birth, the multiverse, yearning, demanding your conjugal rights and four cats guarding your bed from snakes.
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.

Jan 2, 2023 • 38min
151. Russian Doll 2:5
Nadia goes to Budapest and discovers...inter-generational trauma! In this episode, I finally connect this whole Russian Doll series to my own mother, we talk about the sacredness of the ordinary, broken tablets, and the futility of time travel.
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.

Dec 26, 2022 • 1min
150. Vacation break
We're taking a week off. See you all in 2023!
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.

Dec 19, 2022 • 44min
149. Russian Doll 2:4
The first Alan episode! We get goodies like gay exploration, loosening of the past, place lag, the decay of location, doing DMT at a warehouse party in Hungary, and a bunch of other stuff.
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.

Dec 12, 2022 • 39min
148. Russian Doll 2:3
Nadia gets haunted by her mom! And vice versa? Plus, reincarnation, magnetic souls, the epigenetic K Hole and learning to accept the limits of our agency.
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.