Time for Torah: By Rabbi Elimelech Kohn Zt"l

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Parshas Lech Lecha: Bris Milah - Perfect from the Start

Oct 26, 2023

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Shiur from Rabbi Elimelech Kohn Ztl on פרשת לך לך. Discussed: Understanding the argument between Yitzchok and Yishmael regarding the ideal way to perform Mitzvas Bris Milah. Is it better to perform the Mitzvah as an intelligent thirteen-year-old or an innocent baby? Understanding the story of אחר (R' Elisha Ben Avuya), a great sage who went off the Derech. The Gemara cites the Pasuk טוב אחרית דבר מראשיתו, ascribing the father's wrong Kavanah during the Bris, which affected אחר later in life.

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Parshas Lech Lecha: Magen Avraham - Discovering HaShem

Oct 22, 2023

1:17:06

Shiur from Rabbi Elimelech Kohn Ztl on פרשת לך לך. Discussed: The difference in child rearing between someone observant by rote versus someone who chose it through their own conviction. Why do we list the Avos in ascending order? Furthermore, why do we delineate them separately at the beginning of the first Bracha of Shmonei Esrei and then conclude only with Avroham? R’ Shimon Shkup’s incredible prediction, that right before Moshiach we will see an abundance of Balei Teshuva.

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Parshas Lech Lecha: Avraham - the Foundation of the Jewish People

Oct 22, 2023

1:08:53

Shiur from Rabbi Elimelech Kohn Ztl on פרשת לך לך.

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Parshas Lech Lecha: Growing With Change and Enthusiasm

Oct 22, 2023

1:29:38

Shiur from Rabbi Elimelech Kohn Ztl on פרשת לך לך.

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Parshas Lech Lecha: The Rise and Fall of Lot - Part 1

Oct 22, 2023

1:20:07

Shiur from Rabbi Elimelech Kohn Ztl on פרשת לך לך. Discussed: What type of journey was Avrohom Avinu commanded to take? Did he go altruistically or to receive reward? How to understand Lot? Was he a Tzadik, who attached himself to Avrohom, following him through thick and thin, or a Rasha who unhesitatingly abandoned Avrohom and embraced Sodom?

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Israel: One Lamb Surrounded by Seventy Wolves

Oct 10, 2023

55:02

This Shiur was given in May 2002, during the height of the second Intifada. Unfortunately, this Shiur is still relevant in October 2023. May we be זוכה to a swift and complete ישועה. Discussed: Thoughts on why many people, even holocaust survivors, feel that we are living in unprecedented times. A few reasons why modern anti-Semitism is possibly worse and more frightening than in earlier times. How the misleading terminology of the media and the lies of the Arabs confuse the public, even Jews. R' Chaim Volozinher explains the Zohar which writes that the Shechina dresses in woman form, representing motherly love, to descend ברחמים into Galus.