Simchas Avraham

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Parshas Chayei Sara - Different Paths, Same Destination

Nov 6, 2026

4:58

Sara, Avraham, & Yishmael all pass away in the Parsha. Coincidence? Of course not!

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Parshas Chayei Sara - Avraham Stays Home

Nov 4, 2026

4:41

Why didn't Avraham Avinu go himself to find a wife for Yitzchack?

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Parshas Vayeira - Bring Out Your Potential

Oct 30, 2026

4:44

When a person is faced with a really tough challenge, he is able to bring out the talent that may lie dormant inside of him.

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Parshas Vayeira - Salty Sedom

Oct 28, 2026

4:45

Why did Hashem use salt to overturn Sedom?

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Parasha Lech Lecha - I can do it

Oct 23, 2026

4:51

When a person has a challenge, it's not just that he can overcome it. It's because Avraham Avinu ingrained in all of us the ability to do it.

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Parshas Lech Lecha - Real Mesiras Nefesh

Oct 20, 2026

5:00

Avraham Avinu performed bris milla only when he was commanded to teach us something very foundational.

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Parshas Noach - The Torah Teiva

Oct 15, 2026

4:30

Why did Noach need to build a teiva? Was there no other way to save him and his family?

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Parshas Noah - Stone Light

Oct 14, 2026

4:50

How did they see in the teiva? Would a window suffice with it pouring outside? Surely not!

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Parshas Bereishis - It's All For Us

Oct 8, 2026

4:52

The beginning and end of the Torah show us that we are the ones the world was created for.

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Geshem Or Gashem? - The Great Debate

Oct 5, 2026

4:53

How should one pronounce the word "geshem" in Mashiv Haruach? It's not so simple.

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Parshas V'zos Harbracha - You Can Be Like Moshe Rabbeinu

Sep 30, 2026

4:55

Moshe Rabbeinu was the greatest person to ever walk on the earth. However, you can be like him in a certain respect.

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Sukkos - It's All Him

Sep 24, 2026

4:58

Sukkos is the next step from the Yamim Noraim, that all is in Hashem's hands.

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Parshas Ha'azinu - Yom Kippur All Year Long??

Sep 17, 2026

4:53

How can one achieve a state of Yom Kippur during the year?

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Aseres Ymei Teshuva - The Real Me

Sep 16, 2026

4:49

What you do now isn't a facade. It's the real you.

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Rosh Hashanah - Born Again

Sep 10, 2026

4:32

Rosh Hashanah is a time to renew ourselves. Not just in the traditional sense as we know it, but also through being toivel in a mikvah.

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Parshas Vayakhel - Hakhel: The Power of the Kids

Sep 4, 2026

4:38

What is the reward for bringing kids to Hakhel?

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Parshas Nitzavim - Two Types Of Standing

Sep 2, 2026

4:48

There's standing in awe and reverence, and there's standing and relaxing. Knowing when to use each is the trick.

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Parshas Ki Savo - How are Ya, Reb Yid

Aug 28, 2026

4:31

Why does the Torah stress "ger" with an orphan and a widow?

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Parshas Ki Savo - Why Are You Happy?

Aug 25, 2026

4:19

The Meshech Chochmah zt"l explains what the Torah means when it warns us that bad things can take place c"v if we aren't happy for the correct reasons.

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Parshas Ki Seitzei - So Many Opportunities

Aug 20, 2026

4:46

Why are there so many mitzvos in this parsha?

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Parshas Ki Seitzei - War Tactics

Aug 18, 2026

4:41

How does one win the war against our arch-nemesis?

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Parshas Shoftim - Noach, Avraham, & You

Aug 14, 2026

4:46

What does it mean to be a tamim? Our great, illustrious predecessors show the way.

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Parshas Shoftim - Tefillin & War

Aug 11, 2026

4:54

How does speaking between putting on the tefillin shel yad and the shel rosh exempt a person from war?

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Parshas Re'eh - Even Better Than Giving Tzedaka

Aug 6, 2026

4:38

If a person can't give tzedaka, there is one way to get even more reward than actually giving.

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Parshas Re'eh - Achieving Happiness

Aug 5, 2026

4:57

One can only achieve happiness through having a sense of peace.

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Parshas Eikev - 45+1

Jul 31, 2026

2:39

A pasuk in the parsha may allude to the days we're currently in and those that are coming in the not-so-distant future.

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Parshas Eikev - Watch Your Step

Jul 28, 2026

4:32

The word "Eikev" tells us where we should avoid walking.

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Parshas Veschanan - Rav Chaim Shmulevitz's zt"l Request

Jul 24, 2026

4:07

Rav Chaim Shmulevitz zt"l shows us what it means to never stop davening.

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Tisha B'av - Pesach Upside Down

Jul 21, 2026

4:20

Pesach and Tisha B'av are connected. But how?

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Parshas Devarim - Directly Indirect

Jul 16, 2026

4:31

Sometimes it's better not to say things directly. Let them be self-understood.

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Chodesh Av - Bracha Needed

Jul 14, 2026

4:17

If there's any month that needs to be benched, it's Av.

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Parshas Matos - It's Obvious

Jul 9, 2026

4:21

There is no need for the Torah to introduce us to the halachos of our speech as all the others. It's obvious.

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The Three Weeks - Joy Will Come

Jul 7, 2026

3:06

The Maharsha compares these three weeks to the three weeks between Rosh Hashanah and Hoshana Rabba. How do we understand that?

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Parshas Pinchas - Korbanos, Torah, & Tefilla

Jul 3, 2026

4:30

Today, much to our chagrin, we can't bring korbanos. But we do have the ability to do things in their stead.

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Parshas Pinchas - Peace Through Destruction

Jun 30, 2026

4:58

Sometimes bringing peace is only possible if done to extremes.

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Parshas Balak - The Greatest Miracle Ever

Jun 25, 2026

4:09

Rav Shimshon Pincus zt"l explains what the greatest miracle ever was.

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Parshas Chukas - Rocks, Water, & Torah

Jun 23, 2026

4:58

How do water going out from a rock and water flowing on a rock connect Moshe Rabbeinu and Rebbe Akiva?

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Parshas Korach - Why Swallowed Alive?

Jun 19, 2026

4:26

Why did Hashem choose Korach's demise most unusually?

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Parshas Korach - Look Like a Yid

Jun 17, 2026

4:52

Korach wanted to get out of doing certain mitzvas that define being a Yid.

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Parshas Shelach - The Potency of Tzitzis

Jun 12, 2026

4:09

Tzitzis is extremely powerful. A true story brings the point out

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Parshas Shelach - The Connection Between Challah & Shabbos

Jun 9, 2026

3:55

Why is the bread we eat on Shabbos called challah? The answer explains the essence of both of them.

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Parshas Beha'aloshcha - True Pleasure

Jun 4, 2026

4:55

The Parsha explains what true pleasure is.

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Parshas Beha'aloscha - Miriam & Yitzias Mitzrayim

Jun 3, 2026

4:41

The Sefas Emes illuminates us as to what the connection is between Yitzias Mitzrayim and Miriam getting tzaraas.

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Parshas Naso -You Have the Power

May 28, 2026

4:49

A Sotah can get blown up or get a bracha from having Hashem's name written and then erased. We, too, have a similar power to use our abilities both ways.

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Parshas Naso - Bring It On

May 26, 2026

3:19

Why does Naso always follow Shavous?

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Shavous - Coercion: Good Or Bad?

May 21, 2026

4:59

Why does the Torah not tell us when the Torah was given? The answer may lie in how to get someone to do something.

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Shavous - Life Itself

May 19, 2026

3:58

Why did Hashem lift the mountain over our heads if we had already accepted the Torah? Because without it, there is no life.

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Parshas Bamidbar - Lost In The Desert

May 15, 2026

4:49

What does one do when lost with nowhere to turn?

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Parshas Bamidbar - A Shavous Prelude

May 12, 2026

3:39

Why does this Parsha always come right before Shavous? The answer is key to Kabbalas Hatorah.

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Parshas Behar - Bechukosai: Entering a New Year

May 7, 2026

4:41

We read the Tochecha this week to usher in the new year and get rid of all the curses.

Simchas Avraham

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