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Parshas Chukas - Para Aduma & Learning Torah: A Dual Power

Jul 1, 2025

4:58

Parah Aduma is called a chok. By the same token, Torah in a way is also a chok. They both have different ways to affect a person.

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Parshas Ki Savo - Happiness is the Key

Sep 16, 2024

4:44

Doing a mitzvah with simcha is extremely integral to doing a mitzvos. Also, one who does them with simcha gets double the reward for doing it with happiness and enthusiasm.

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Parshas Ki Savo - So Much Good

Sep 18, 2024

4:33

With Rosh Hashana rapidly approaching, maybe it is a good idea to look back and realize how much good Hashem has given them this year.

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Parshas Ki Savo - It's Not You, It's Him

Sep 20, 2024

4:01

Bikkurim shows us that what we yield is only due to Hashem's help. That could be why it's read before Rosh Hashana. To remind us who the Real King is.

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Parshas Nitzavim - It's Your Choice

Sep 23, 2024

4:32

We as human beings have the free will to do as we wish. But how do we know that's true? What's the source? The answer is found in this weeks parsha.

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Parshas Vayeilch - Writing a Sefer Torah

Sep 25, 2024

3:46

Writing a sefer torah is a mitzvah upon everyone. Why? To make sure you can use it at any time.

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Parshas Nitzavim - We Have The Power

Sep 27, 2024

4:15

We down here in this world have the power to make Halachic decisions. How is that possible? Isn't the Torah spiritual? Yes, it is. But we mortals can become immortal through it.

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Parshas Hazinu - Sleep & Death

Sep 30, 2024

3:28

Sleep and death are related not just because we're not (totally) here. It could also be because a person can't be told to do either of them by someone else.

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Rosh Hashana - Confidently Confident

Oct 1, 2024

3:51

There is a Halacha that one should bathe and have a haircut before Rosh Hashana because we're confident in the outcome. However, the Gemara tells us that we don't say Hallel on Rosh Hashana due to its severity. So what is it? It seems like a contradiction?!?!?

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Aseres Ymei Teshuva - Is Teshuva Necessary?

Oct 7, 2024

4:22

Must one do teshuva to get into the category of a tzaddik? Why not just do another mitzvah?

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Aseres Ymei Teshuva - Use The Big Three

Oct 9, 2024

4:24

Teshuva, Tefilla, & Tzedaka are the most powerful tools to use now during these days. They have the most potency to turn over a bad decree.

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Yom Kippur - Complete Transformation

Oct 11, 2024

4:21

When one does teshuva, he doesn't just get forgiven - he becomes a new person and is beloved by H-shem even more than one who didn't sin.

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Sukkos - Intent Matters

Oct 14, 2024

4:13

There is a way to do certain mitzvahs that change the act entirely. The mitzvah of Sukkah is one of those.

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Sukkos - Sukkah & Daled Minim: A Theme

Oct 20, 2024

4:39

It isn't a coincidence that the two mitzvos of Sukkos come together. They definitely have a theme to them. Perhaps it is to show us that we aren't here in this world.

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Hoshana Rabah - Simchas Torah Prep

Oct 22, 2024

4:17

Why do we hit the Aravos? What is the significance? Perhaps we are preparing ourselves for the sweetest gift of all.

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Parshas Bereishis - A Ponderable Point

Oct 27, 2024

3:09

The way the Torah structures the pesukim at the beginning of the parsha needs explanation.

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Parshas Noach - Be Like Shem

Oct 29, 2024

4:55

Shem was not just doing the right thing, he did it based not on his desires. Very much unlike his brother, Cham.

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Parshas Noach - Inflence Matters

Nov 1, 2024

4:14

Noach was a tzaddik, but his generation was not. But if he lived in the time of Avraham Avinu, he would have been a greater tzaddik by his influence rubbing off on him.

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Parshas Lech Lecha - The Best Bracha

Nov 4, 2024

3:31

How does one get real bracha? What is the secret? The answer lies right here.

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Parshas Lech Lecha - Pass on the Faith

Nov 6, 2024

3:15

What was the first comment mentioned in the Torah that Avraham said to Hashem?? It was simply about making sure there was someone to pass on his wisdom to.

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Parshas Lech Lecha - Bris Millah 101

Nov 8, 2024

3:03

Why is one punished so severely with כרת if a bris is never done? The answer may lie in the reason for having a bris

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Parsha Vaeira - Defining a Test

Nov 11, 2024

3:56

Why isn't the story of Avraham Avinu waiting outside his tent for guests included in one of the 10 tests? The answer explains how a test is defined

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Parshas Vayeira - Akeidas Yitzchak: Who's Test Was It?

Nov 15, 2024

3:29

Why is this test of Akeidas Yitzchak attributed to a test for Avraham? Was it not a test for Yitzchak?

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Parshas Chayei Sara - Explaining Death of The Avos

Nov 18, 2024

4:46

The Torah uses different terms for death regarding the Avos. (״מיתה, גויעה, אסיפה״) But by Moshe Rabbeinu, it uses just the term ״מיתה״. Why the different terms, and why is it different by Moshe?

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Parshas Chayei Sarah - The Overarching Middah in Shidduchim

Nov 21, 2024

4:39

Eliezer saw Rivka and asked for water. She came back and gave the camels as well. We see from here the key middah to look out for in shidduchim

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Parshas Toldos - How Low Did Eisav Go

Nov 25, 2024

3:48

Eisav wasn’t just a rasha after he was born. Even before he was born, his intent was to do bad not just to him, but to Yaakov as well.

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Parshas Toldos - What Was Bothering Rivkah?

Nov 27, 2024

3:14

The Brisker Rav zt”l gives us an insight to Rivkah’s dilemma when she was pregnant

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Parshas Vayeitzei - The Masmid Closes the Gemara

Dec 2, 2024

4:48

Learning Torah is paramount to us. However, Yaakov teaches us that the Gemara must be closed for one specific purpose.

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Parshas Vayeitzei - Chanukah Revealed

Dec 5, 2024

4:46

Leah showed us the way to show thanks, which is the real point of Chanukah.

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Parshas Vayeitzei - Chanukah Revealed

Dec 5, 2024

4:46

Leah showed us the way to show thanks, which is the real point of Chanukah.

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Parshas Vayeitzi - Lavan Teaches Us a Halacha

Dec 6, 2024

3:38

We learn a Halacha from Lavan about marriage, and some ramifications that comes with it.

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Parshas Vayishlach - Was Yaakov a Baal Bitachon?

Dec 9, 2024

4:09

Yaakov Avinu made an effort to ensure that he greats Eisav. Why such an all-out effort? Did he not believe in what Hashem told him?

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Parshas Vayishlach - Keep Battling

Dec 11, 2024

3:34

The Malach chanhed Yaakov’s name to Yisrael to show us a very important lesson.

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Parshas Vayishlach - Explaining Dina's Character

Dec 13, 2024

3:02

The Sefer Apiryon (written by the author of the Kitzur Shulchan Aruch) gives us an amazing insight into Dina's wandering outside.

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Parshas Vayeishev - What Did Yosef Do Wrong?

Dec 16, 2024

4:09

What did Yosef Hatzaddik do wrong by asking the butler to remember him? Is this not a normal thing to do? Why did that warrant an additional two years in prison?

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Chanukah - You Are Pure

Dec 18, 2024

4:26

The Gemara explains what Chanukah is not just to tell us the story but to tell something much deeper.

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Parshas Vayeishev - Can an Animal Kill?

Dec 20, 2024

4:32

When the brothers throw Yosef into the pit, he could have been killed very easily by the snakes and scorpions inside it. Or could he? The Ohr Hachaim Hakadosh tells us it's not that simple.

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Parshas Vayeishev- The Salvation Will Come

Dec 23, 2024

3:59

Yosef Hatazadik was pulled out of the dungeon in an instant. The same happened by Yitzias Mitzrayim, and will happen Leasid Lavo. And the same will happen to us all!!

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Chanukah - From Impossible To Possible

Dec 25, 2024

4:30

Chanukah teaches us that things that look impossible are very much attainable. For Chanukah to happen seemed impossible, yet it did. So, too, we all can make the seemingly impossible possible.

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Parshas Vayigash - Yaakov Gets Invigorated

Dec 30, 2024

4:28

Yosef reveals himself to his brothers and then asks if his father is alive. This wasn't a question, but he told the brothers that Yaakov wasn't the same since they sold him. After Yaakov sees the wagons, he gets a jolt of energy, seeing that his son Yosef is still the same as when he left.

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Parshas Vayigash - True Life

Jan 1, 2025

3:57

Yosef and Yaakov had the same thought process when they heard about each other. They both overcame their circumstances and both took satisfaction that the other did so.

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Parshas Vayechei - Yaakov Lives On

Jan 6, 2025

4:48

The pasuk does not mention Yaakov dying; rather, it uses other terms to refer to death. He was very different from his predecessors, Avraham and Yitzchak, as all his kids went on the path of the Torah. Someone who passes on and has children on the correct path is as if they are still alive.

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Parshas Vayechei - First Pasuk Ponderables

Jan 8, 2025

4:53

The opening pasuk in the parsha is hard to understand. There are lots of questions we may ask. Perhaps these are some ways to answer them up..

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Parshas Vayechei - Magical Mishnayos

Jan 10, 2025

4:26

Want a way to get out of Gehinom? Asher ben Yaakov will make sure you'll get out if you do a certain task. Just make sure you do it correctly.

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Parshas Shemos - We Are A Miracle

Jan 13, 2025

4:42

The Torah tells us the number of people who came down to Mitzrayim to tell us how improbable it is that we are still here.

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Parshas Shemos - From Worst To First

Jan 15, 2025

4:04

Moshe Rabbeinu grows up in Pharaoh's palace, and the most unlikely scenario occurs. He turns out to be the savior of Bnei Yisrael. The same can happen to us all. We can be in the worst scenario, but the salvation will come in the end

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Parshas Vaeira - The Miraculous Hail

Jan 20, 2025

4:26

The Brisker Rav zt'l illuminates our eyes, explaining how miraculous this plague was.

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Parshas Vaeira - Trump, Paroh, & You

Jan 22, 2025

4:48

Donald Trump and Paroh show us a powerful lesson in how we can end up where we ultimately want to.

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Parshas Vaeira - Cloudless Hail

Jan 24, 2025

4:42

This was no regular hail. Regular hail (or any precipitation) needs clouds. This was no ordinary hail.

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Parshas Bo - Why Nissan?

Jan 28, 2025

3:30

Why was Nissan chosen over any other month to be the head of the year? The Ran illuminates our eyes/

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Parshas Bo - The Merits To Leave Mitzrayim

Jan 31, 2025

4:22

Bnei Yisrael kept their names, clothes, and language while in Mitzrayim. If so, why did they need more merits to leave? Why add Korban Pesach and Bris Milah? The answer tells us a fundamental part of being Yidden.

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Parshas Beshalach - Prepare for Battle

Feb 3, 2025

3:43

Just because Bnei Yisrael was leaving Mitzrayim didn't mean they could be confident that they didn't need to prepare for war. A person must abide by what circumstances dictate and not rely on a miracle.

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Parshas Beshalach - Yehoshua & Yaakov: A Common Denominator

Feb 5, 2025

4:38

Yehoshua takes center stage here and later on in Parshas Shelach. What is the common theme throughout? What is the common thread?

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Parshas Beshalach - Elephant Syndrome

Feb 7, 2025

4:15

Why do elephants not knock down a circus tent? Why didn't Bnei Yisrael wage battle against Mitzrayim? Because they both thought that there was no way they would win.

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Parshas Yisro - Matan Torah & Tu Bishvat

Feb 10, 2025

4:00

Just like Tu Bishvat celebrates the rejuvenation of the trees, so too, Matan Torah should be a newness, a rejuvenation amongst everyone.

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Parshas Yisro - Kibbud Av: To Wake Up Or To Not Wake Up?

Feb 13, 2025

4:38

Should one wake up a parent for them to gain? A machlokes amongst modern-day poskim.

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Parshas Mishpatim - Our Halachos, Not Theirs

Feb 17, 2025

4:37

The Parsha talks about a lot of halachos that we have between people. Do these pertain to between a Jew and a non-jew? Certainly not.

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Parshas Mishpatim - Shavous: A Deeper Look

Feb 19, 2025

4:49

Shavous seems to have more significance than due to Matan Torah.

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Parshas Mishpatim - An Eye For An Eye: Why Not Literal?

Feb 21, 2025

2:27

The Vilna Gaon illuminates our eyes as to why the pasuk isn't to be taken literally.

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Parshas Terumah - Today's Beis Hamikdash

Feb 24, 2025

4:50

How do we feel the inspiration we once had when the Beis Hamikdash was around? Go to the shuls and Batei Midrashim, places where spirituality reigns, and see people to look up to.

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Parshas Terumah - Learning Like a Child

Feb 26, 2025

4:06

The Kruvim represents two people learning. But not just any two people. Two children. Perhaps to signify how one needs to approach learning.

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Parshas Shekalim/Adar - Unity Breeds Happiness

Feb 28, 2025

3:59

When everyone gives the same half of a shekel, it means that no one is bigger or better than anyone else. And when that happens, it makes everyone happy.

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Parshas Tetzaveh - Clothing Matters

Mar 3, 2025

4:01

Why do the Kohanim need to wear certain clothes? Could they not just wear simple clothes? No, they can't. What you wear defines you.

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Parshas Tetzavah - The Torah Takes Moshe's Feelings into Account

Mar 5, 2025

4:18

Moshe's name isn't mentioned in the parsha to teach us a very powerful lesson.

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Purim - A Common Theme

Mar 10, 2025

3:41

What do three out of the four mitzvos on Purim have in common? They bring people together.

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Purim - Take It With You All Year

Mar 13, 2025

4:33

Purim is a day that is filled with simcha. All the mitzvos bring us to that state of glee. When you do that, it can be a catalyst for the whole coming year.

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Parshas Vayakhel - The Chofetz Chaim's Tears

Mar 17, 2025

4:57

The Chofetz Chaim affected someone so deeply that he stopped being mechalel Shabbos.

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Parshas Vayakhel - The Miniature Mishkan

Mar 20, 2025

4:04

The Chasam Sofer zt"l tells us an astounding chiddush regarding the building of the Mishkan

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Parshas Pekudei - Moshe's Part In The Mishkan

Mar 24, 2025

4:45

What did Moshe do to contribute to the Mishkan? It's a very big one. Maybe the most significant of all.

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Parshas Pekudei - Moshe's Part in the Mishkan part 2

Mar 26, 2025

4:56

A different way to understand the work 'pekudei'

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Chodesh Nissan - We Are A Miracle

Mar 28, 2025

3:31

The word Nissan comes from the word ״נס״. As we enter the month, we should realize it's a miracle we're still here.

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Parshas Vayikra - Korban Pesach Prep

Apr 1, 2025

2:57

Sefer Vayikra deals mainly with Korbanos. It is no coincidence that it falls out right when the one Korban that everyone must do without exception.

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Parshas Vayikra - What We're Missing

Apr 3, 2025

4:17

Without the Beis Hamikdash, it's just that we're in Galus and we don't have a clear vision like it should be. We also don't have a way to achieve atonement as we used to.

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Leil Haseder - Counteracting Lavan

Apr 7, 2025

5:00

Lavan was the ultimate Rasha. We talk about him during the Seder to counteract his doing.

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Pesach - Foursomes and Their Signifigance

Apr 10, 2025

4:41

We have so many things at the Seder that we do in fours at the Seder. Perhaps to allude to our original, central foursome that we had, and keeps us around till this day.

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Pesach - Yetzer Hara Be Gone

Apr 16, 2025

4:26

Matzah represents having no Yetzer Hara. When we became a nation, when we left Mitzrayim we were perfect. Therefore only on Pesach do we have the prohibition of eating chametz.

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Shevei Shel Pesach - It makes no sense

Apr 17, 2025

4:38

Krias Yam Suf makes no sense. This is a fundamental part of the whole Yom Tov of Pesach.

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Parshas Shemini - Take Pesach With You

Apr 23, 2025

4:30

Yiddishkeit gives us structure daily and tells us what we can and cannot do. If we comprehend this, we can apply it to our personal lives.

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Parshas Shemini - Understanding Kosher Animals

Apr 25, 2025

4:53

Kosher animals have an innate trait that other animals do not have. It's not just the physical attributes, it's a certain nature.

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Sefiras Haomer - Rebbe Akiva's Talmidim Death: Why Now?

Apr 28, 2025

4:50

Did Rebbe Akiva's talmidim need to die now? Why not at any other time during the year? The answer perhaps proves a point the sefarim tell us.

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Parshas Tazria/Metzora - Talking Like Birds

Apr 30, 2025

4:46

When someone speaks too much, they're prone to say something derogatory. When that happens, they are likened to someone else.

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Sefiras Haomer - Up, Up, & Away

May 5, 2025

3:18

We count sefira in ascending order, not descending. That may be because of the significance and importance of the matter.

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Parshas Acharei Mos - Defining Holiness

May 7, 2025

4:50

Holiness isn't just some intangible concept that is above us. It's putting into practice certain guidelines that we must not cross.

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Parshas Emor - Seven Complete Weeks

May 12, 2025

4:16

Should every day need to be a complete day? Why do we wait till it's night only on Shavous? The Netziv zt"l illuminates our eyes.

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Pirkei Avos - Not Just For Show

May 15, 2025

4:35

The Dubna Magid z"l gives us an insight into what it means to be a frum upstanding jew.

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Parshas Behar - Shmeita & The Jews: A Common Theme

May 19, 2025

4:53

The connection between Shmeita and the Jews is the same. They both make no sense.

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Parshas Behar - Bechukosai - It Isn't a Punishment, It's a Result

May 22, 2025

4:43

The connection between Bhar & Bechoshai seems to lie in the simple understanding of the Parsha themselves. If you don't follow the Halachas in Behar, then Bechukosai will take place, ח״ו.

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Parshas Bamidbar - Self-Worth

May 26, 2025

4:30

On the one hand, we must be extremely humble, but on the other hand, we must know we are great.

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Shavous - Where It All Started

May 29, 2025

4:40

What is the celebration of Shavous? The Torah we have today is not the Torah of Shavous. We made a major mistake then. So why the fuss?

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Parshas Naso - Hashem Saves The Day

Jun 6, 2025

4:25

Why is it that by a Sotah, there is no other way to check if she was guilty? Can it not be like any other halacha where we can testify, swear, or the like? Why is Sotah so different?

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Parshas Beha'aloscha - Understanding Aharon's Role

Jun 9, 2025

4:37

What was it that Hashem told Aharon that made him feel better? What is it about the Menorah that helped him?

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Parshas Beha'aloscha - Israel On The Attack

Jun 13, 2025

3:13

The Rambam tells us how to conduct ourselves in a time of war.

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Parshas Shelach - What Do You See?

Jun 17, 2025

4:44

The Meraglim saw the same exact thing as Yehoshua and Calev. So why did they come back with such a terrible report?

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Parshas Shelach - True Intentions

Jun 19, 2025

4:22

Were the Meraglim tzaddikim or reshaim? An apparent contradiction needs explanation.

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Parshas Korach - Korach Was No Fool

Jun 23, 2025

4:39

Korach knew what he was doing. He asked very pointed questions. But he was missing the boat.

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Parshas Korach - Earthquake, Sinkhole, Both, Or None?

Jun 25, 2025

4:40

What happened to the earth that swallowed these wicked people alive? Was it a natural occurrence like we have today, or a one-time phenomenon?

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Parshas Mishpatim - A Table Set of 40s

Feb 13, 2026

4:45

How does one not only get clarity, but also remember their learning? It has to do with a magic number.

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Parshas Terumah - Adar and The Mishkan

Feb 20, 2026

4:39

What does Adar have to do with the Mishkan/Beis Hamikdash?

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Parshas Terumah - The Yeshivas Live On

Feb 18, 2026

4:41

Rav Moshe Feinstein zt"l reveals why it is necessary to have the same yeshivas from Europe still around today.

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Parshas Tetzaveh - Clothing 101

Feb 25, 2026

4:23

What is the purpose of all the clothing the Kohanim wear? The answer is extremely fundamental.

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