Simchas Avraham

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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 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 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 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 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 - 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 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 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 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 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 - 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 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 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 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 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 - 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 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 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 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 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 - 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 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 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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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 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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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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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 - 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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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 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 - 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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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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 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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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 - 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 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 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 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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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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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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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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