72. Piyyut & Midrash | Dr. Tzvi Novick

The Podcast of Jewish Ideas · Aug 28, 2025 · 58m

J.J. and Dr. Tzvi Novick talk prayer, poetry, homily, and some very-old-fashioned exegesis.

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Tzvi Novick is the Abrams Professor of Jewish Thought and Culture at the University of Notre Dame. His first monograph, What is Good, and What God Demands: Normative Structures in Tannaitic Literature (2010), traces foundational…