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Rabbi Shais Taub has delivered Torah lectures and classes to audiences on six continents. He writes a popular weekly column in Ami Magazine and is the author of the bestselling book, G-d of Our Understanding: Jewish Spirituality and Recovery from Addiction as well as several groundbreaking works on Tanya including: the Tanya Map teaching tool, the Soul Maps curriculum, and the audio series Mapping the Tanya. He currently serves as scholar-in-residence at Chabad of the Five Towns in Cedarhurst, NY. His lectures and classes may be found on SoulWords.org.

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Check latest episodes from Blood Brothers- SoulWords podcast

We Need a Haircut (Again)

2026/03/09

The brothers reflect on the structure of Jewish mourning, the experience of saying Kaddish three times a day, and some of the strange, funny, and sometimes questionable moments that happen during Shiva. Along the way they explore the psychological wisdom built into the halachos of Aveilus, the strange transitional period of Aninus, and why communal […]

The Mourning Episode (Blood Brothers X)

2025/03/17

The brothers talk about mourning and saying Kaddish after the passing of their father, of blessed memory.

Yom Kippur 5785 (Blood Brothers IX)

2024/10/09

Why aren't there two days of Yom Kippur? What makes Die Hard fun? What are the riddles of the rabbi of Baghdad? Brothers Shais and Dovid Taub discuss this and more on this latest edition of your favorite podcast.

Chanukah (Blood Brothers VIII)

2023/12/08

The Blood Brothers talk about miracle oil, saving lives, googly eyes, Chinese accident victims, flying to Martha's Vineyard with Alan Dershowitz, and lots of other stuff in this latest edition to their podcast.

Special Guest R' Bentzi Sudak (Blood Brothers VII)

2022/07/24

On this episode, brothers Shais and Dovid Taub welcome a special guest, their old friend Rabbi Bentzi Sudak from London, UK who was getting ready for his son's bar mitzvah and needed help figuring out some stuff about the mystical bar mitzvah discourse about the meaning of Tefilin. And also the Rubik's cube.

Blood Brothers VI

2022/03/30

Live from SoulWords studios, a special live edition of the Taub Brothers speaking about all kinds of interesting stuff including: ventriloquists, McCarthyism, aliens, paganism, and springtime. As they say at Blood Brothers live, "Anything can happen, and it probably WILL!"

Blood Brothers V

2022/03/29

Live from SoulWords studios, a special live edition of the Taub Brothers speaking about all kinds of interesting stuff including: the lost continent of Atlantis, the color eigengrau, the four states of matter, the etymology of the word "quintessence," and whether Mah Nishtanah can be read as a rhetorical question. As they say at Blood […]

Sukkos (Blood Brothers IV)

2020/05/18

After a hiatus, the Blood Brothers return with a special pre-Sukkos edition of their show. They discuss why cats are afraid of cucumbers as well as various examples of the "makif" encompassing force.

Shavuos (Blood Brothers III)

2020/05/17

This third installment of our show is all about threes! Why was Torah given in the third month? Why does discovering the truth require three viewpoints? Why are there three stooges and to which three sefiros do they correspond according to kabbalah? This episode is dedicated in memory of Moshe Hersch ben Shlomo Nasan HaLevi […]

Lag B'Omer (Blood Brothers II)

2020/05/10

If humor can be a "Trojan horse;" the difference between legitimate art and propaganda; how the National Security Administration can help you learn chasidus; the connection between the Rashbi, the Ari Zal, the Baal Shem Tov, and Moshiach; Laffy Taffy jokes; and much, much more. Buckle up for this 43-minute whirlwind conversation of deep Torah […]

Pesach Sheini (Blood Brothers I)

2020/05/03

Topics from this episode include: Pesach Sheini; synagogue architecture; whether or not people with social anxiety tend to pray longer; if green laser pointers are more dangerous than red laser pointers; Chinese whispers, Chinese apples, and the Chinese government; and much, much more.