Best Book Ever
Hosted by David Kasher · Rabbi David Kasher
4.8from 53 ratings
- 160
- Episodes
- 16
- Transcribed
- 53
- Ratings
- Monthly
- Cadence
- 2021
- First episode
- 1M
- YouTube views
About Best Book Ever
Every week, Rabbi David Kasher takes us on a 15-minute dive into the Parsha (the weekly Torah portion), to see some of its layers and complexity. We'll try to get a feeling for why this text has captured the human imagination for millennia, and why the Torah truly is the greatest story ever told.
- Publisher
- Rabbi David Kasher
- Category
- religion & spirituality
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 27 Sept 2021
- Latest episode
- 23 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
16 of 160 episodes have a transcript.
23 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Call Him Ishmael / Parashat Lekh Lekha
15 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
After the Flood / Parashat Noah
9 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
The Tree of Sweet and Bitter / Parashat Bereishit
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Call Him Ishmael / Parashat Lekh Lekha
Published 23 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] I'm reading through the Parsha. And this comment of the Sfornos, This is Rabbi Avadia Sforno from 15th, 16th century Italy. This comment of the Sfornos caught my eye and I didn't totally understand it at first. And then the more I kind of meditated on it, the more I felt like, oh, he's making a brilliant connection here. So let's take a look at what the Sforno has to say about Abraham calling the child Ishmael. So the Sforno, again, 15th century Italian commentator, says, he's commenting on this phrase here, the son that Hagar bore him. Okay. And actually, just to make this clearer, the word is, he called the name of his son. […]
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- YouTube views
- 1,421,293
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.8 / 5
- 42 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.6 / 5
- 11 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 80 / 100
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- Quality
- 92
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 86
- Engagement
- 85
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