Contact Chai
Hosted by Lizzi · Mishkan Chicago
5.0from 100 ratings
- 403
- Episodes
- 39
- Transcribed
- 100
- Ratings
- Weekly
- Cadence
- 2020
- First episode
- 215K
- YouTube views
About Contact Chai
Contact Chai is Mishkan Chicago’s podcast feed, where you can hear our Shabbat sermons, Morning Minyans, interviews with Jewish thought leaders, and more.
- Publisher
- Mishkan Chicago
- Category
- religion & spirituality · religion & spirituality · society & culture
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 30 Mar 2020
- Latest episode
- 27 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
39 of 403 episodes have a transcript.
27 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
To Be a Good Partner (for God)
21 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Gilgamesh and the Witness Bearers
16 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Why Wear the Palestinian Flag on A Kippah? A Conversation with Israeli Educator Alex Sinclair
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To Be a Good Partner (for God)
Published 27 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] That's Resh is a word that in Hebrew means Hebrew, but also means to pass, over, to cross. And so Rabbi Judah in the Midrash says, Avram Ha'ivri means the one who crossed over, the one who when the entire world is on one side, he stands on the other side. He is over. Okay? Okay. somebody willing to stand on the other side when everybody else is over here. And so there's more Midrash to give us a sense of what this looks like. So in one story, Avram is a teenager and he's working in his father's store. And his father, Terach, sells, anybody know? Idols, right. And so Avram gets to know the business intimately. […]
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- Julie
- Alex Sinclair
- Steven
- Lizzi Heydemann
- Julie Fishbach
Reach and audience
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- YouTube views
- 214,506
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 5.0 / 5
- 84 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.9 / 5
- 16 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 92 / 100
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- Quality
- 99
- Social presence
- 94
- YouTube
- 86
- Engagement
- 82
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Who hosts Contact Chai?
Lizzi host the show. Published by Mishkan Chicago.
How often do new episodes come out?
The show publishes weekly, based on its RSS feed.
Does Contact Chai take guests?
Yes. Guests have been identified in episode analyses.
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