In this episode of the 18Forty Podcast, Samuel Lebens, a philosophy professor, rabbi, and Jewish educator, discusses the nature of consciousness and its relationship to prayer.

This text is a personal reflection on the author's discovery of their eighteenth-century great-grandmother, Leah Horowitz, who was a scholar and writer of women's supplicatory prayers.

The writer reflects on their profound connection to the study of Talmud at the Drisha Institute, where they first encountered the text and discovered their love for learning and teaching Torah.

Devora Steinmetz responds to Rabbi Saul Berman's essay on Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik's influence on women's Talmud study.