Rabbi Natan Trief
This week, we released the 75th episode of Seeking Sinai — a milestone that feels both significant and deeply humbling.
When we first launched this podcast nearly five years ago, I’m not sure I could have imagined what it would become.
In the beginning, Seeking Sinai was a space to explore the nuts and bolts of Jewish life: the rhythms of the calendar, the meaning behind rituals, the “how” and “why” of Jewish living. It was practical, rooted, and curious — an effort to make Jewish tradition more accessible and alive.
Then, as the podcast evolved, so did its focus. For a season, we turned our attention toward individual Jewish journeys — deeply personal stories of searching, belonging, wrestling, and becoming. Those episodes reminded me that Judaism is not only inherited; it is continually discovered, chosen, and renewed.
And then came October 7th.
Like so much in Jewish life, Seeking Sinai changed because the world changed.
Since that day, this podcast has become something else entirely: a place for honest, urgent, and authentic conversations about Jewish peoplehood, Israel, Zionism, antisemitism, and Jewish pride. A place to process pain, ask hard questions, hold complexity, and insist on clarity. A place to strengthen not only our understanding, but our resolve.
Over these 75 episodes, we’ve taken twists and turns I never could have scripted. But in many ways, that’s exactly what Judaism asks of us — to remain seekers. To stay open. To keep wrestling. To keep learning. To keep showing up.
The name Seeking Sinai has never felt more fitting.
Because Sinai itself was never just a place of answers. It was a place of encounter — with God, with truth, with responsibility, and with one another.
I’m incredibly proud of what this podcast has become, and profoundly grateful to everyone who has listened, shared, challenged, and joined the conversation along the way.
This newest episode — our 75th — feels especially meaningful. In it, we tackle one of the most pressing issues of our time: the persistence and evolution of antisemitism, and what it demands of us as Jews and as human beings.
If you’ve been with us from the beginning, thank you. If you’re just joining now, welcome.
There is still so much to seek.
Rabbi Natan Trief
