The Torah could’ve sufficed by saying that every Nasi brought the same korbanos. But it didn’t. Everyone counts. Yes, even you.
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Shavous - Eat Like A Yid
Shavous - Eat Like A Yid
Jun 7, 2024
4:00
The Gemara tells us that everyone agrees that on Shavous you must have a meal. Why? Because the Torah isn’t just an abstract thing; it’s something that needs to be applied at all times.
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Parshas Bamidbar - It Makes No Sense
Parshas Bamidbar - It Makes No Sense
Jun 5, 2024
4:43
Shevet Levi was not counted amongst the rest of Bnei Yisrael. They were on a higher plateau. When one’s on such a level, you can’t count them in the same league.
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Parshas Bamidbar - Deserts, Asking, Knowing
Parshas Bamidbar - Deserts, Asking, Knowing
Jun 3, 2024
3:41
To know Torah a person needs to make himself into a desert. Only then can he come out on top with knowledge.
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Parshas Bechukosai - A Shavous Prelude
Parshas Bechukosai - A Shavous Prelude
May 31, 2024
4:32
The Parsha clearly spells out that Shavous is in the air. Get ready.
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Pirkei Avos - Machlokes 101
Pirkei Avos - Machlokes 101
May 29, 2024
4:30
The difference between a Machlokes which is lshem shamayim and one that not is stark. It’s that both sides come from a good place, and thus the result is extremely different.
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Parshas Bechukosai - Learning Is A Chok
Parshas Bechukosai - Learning Is A Chok
May 27, 2024
3:56
Learning Torah isn’t just to know what to do. It’s also a means in itself. And with that it requires effort and toil.
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Lag Baomer - Be Like Rebbe Akiva
Lag Baomer - Be Like Rebbe Akiva
May 24, 2024
4:13
Rebbe Akiva tragically lost 24,000 students. He could very well of gave up then and there. But he didn’t. He went on. As a result, the Torah is alive and well.
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Pirkei Avos - Elisha Ben Avuya & Pesach Sheini
Pirkei Avos - Elisha Ben Avuya & Pesach Sheini
May 22, 2024
4:46
Elisha Ben Avuya unfortunately didn’t end up in a good place. He didn’t take to heart that there’s always a time to get better, to do more, & to improve.
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Parshas Behar - Shmeita: The Ultimate Proof
Parshas Behar - Shmeita: The Ultimate Proof
May 20, 2024
4:42
The Torah singles out Har Sinai regarding Shmeita and no other mitzvah to show that the this mitzvah isn’t like any other. You see the the reward much more easily.
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Parshas Emor - Holy Days
Parshas Emor - Holy Days
May 17, 2024
4:36
Yom tov gets its kedusha because it was already setup that way back. Now that those days have that kedusha we do more mitzvos as a result.
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Pirkei Avos - Slow And Steady
Pirkei Avos - Slow And Steady
May 15, 2024
4:40
The mishna tells us that there needs to be a slow process to get to the point of not doing an aveira. One cannot go to the end point right away.
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Parshas Emor - Understand Your Value
Parshas Emor - Understand Your Value
May 13, 2024
4:36
The Torah only tells us now the halachos of the Kohanim after the korbanos in order that a person should first understand his worry, understand the reason it’s being done. It’s not just a Halacha, it’s because you’re on a higher pedestal. This applies to not just kohanim, everyone in klal Yisrael is included.
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Sefiras Haomer - Is Hearing and Writing Like Saying?
Sefiras Haomer - Is Hearing and Writing Like Saying?
May 10, 2024
4:28
Can one fulfill his obligation of counting sefira in a way other than saying it? There’s one opinion that holds yes…
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Pirkei Avos - Learning To Do
Pirkei Avos - Learning To Do
May 9, 2024
4:22
Learning Torah isn’t the end game. It needs to bring one to act on it.
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Parshas Kedoshim - Shavous Preparations
Parshas Kedoshim - Shavous Preparations
May 6, 2024
3:54
The parsha starts out telling us that we must be holy. It’s no coincidence that this falls out during Sefiras haomer when we prepare to receive the Torah on the Yom tov of Shavous.
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Parshas Acharei Mos - A Thought
Parshas Acharei Mos - A Thought
May 3, 2024
3:29
When the Torah uses the word “Mos” perhaps it’s to teach us that the death of Nadav and Avihu wasn’t a good one.
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Shvei’i Shel Pesach - Two Miracles in One
Shvei’i Shel Pesach - Two Miracles in One
Apr 28, 2024
4:30
What perspective do you look at Krias Yam Suf with? The Jews, or the Egyptians? Maybe both!!
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Shabbos Hagadol - Don’t Stop Believing
Shabbos Hagadol - Don’t Stop Believing
Apr 19, 2024
3:03
Chazal coin this Shabbos, Shabbos Hagadol to hammer into us that the arrival of Mashiach inevitable. Don’t think otherwise.
220
Parshas Metzorah - The First Step
Parshas Metzorah - The First Step
Apr 17, 2024
4:36
One who is a metzorah is simultaneously to teach us that once the first step is taken that’s a step to purity
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Pesach - Motzei Matzah, or just Matzah 🫓?
Pesach - Motzei Matzah, or just Matzah 🫓?
Apr 15, 2024
3:14
Of course there’s a chiyuv to eat matzah on pesach. But with that a person needs to have the Motzei as well.
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Parshas Tazria - A Bris Isn’t Just One Day
Parshas Tazria - A Bris Isn’t Just One Day
Apr 12, 2024
4:50
The Torah interjects to tell us that a baby boy has a bris on the eight day to tell us that it’s not just a technicality. There’s a build up to the momentous occasion.
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Pesach - Not Your Regular Kiddush
Pesach - Not Your Regular Kiddush
Apr 10, 2024
4:12
When we make kiddush at the Seder, it’s not just a kiddush like we make all year round- it’s the first of the four cups that must be drunk.
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Parshas Tazria - Experts Only
Parshas Tazria - Experts Only
Apr 8, 2024
4:27
Only a doctor can tell you about your sickness. Only a Kohein can tell if a person has tzaras. And only Hashem can take us out of Mitzrayim.
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Parshas Hachodesh - Above Nature
Parshas Hachodesh - Above Nature
Apr 5, 2024
4:10
From both Parshas Hachodesh and Parshas Shemin we see that there’s things above and beyond nature, beyond our comprehension .
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Parahas Shemini - It’s Easier To Be A Tzaddik
Parahas Shemini - It’s Easier To Be A Tzaddik
Apr 3, 2024
4:23
When a person wants to be a Tzadik he gets an infinite amount of heavenly assistance. Thus, it’s easier to be a Tzaddik and receive that assistance than be a rasha and not get it at all.
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Parahas Shemini - Striving For Greatness
Parahas Shemini - Striving For Greatness
Apr 1, 2024
4:37
Nadav and Avihu were punished for bringing a Korban they weren’t commanded to. But their desire for greatness was there, albeit done incorrectly.
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Parshas Parah - Preparing For Pesach
Parshas Parah - Preparing For Pesach
Mar 29, 2024
4:19
Parshas Parah comes immediately following Purim to show us that it’s time to get ourselves ready for Pesach. Not just cleaning for chametz, but ourselves too.
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Parshas Tzav - Learning Is Like Doing
Parshas Tzav - Learning Is Like Doing
Mar 26, 2024
4:27
Unfortunately we don’t have a Beis Hamikdash to bring korbanos today. However, there’s a way to make like they are brought.
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Parshas Vayikra - Purim Revealed
Parshas Vayikra - Purim Revealed
Mar 18, 2024
4:27
The Torah uses the term of affection at the outset of the parsha. There’s a similar word in the Megilla as well that could perhaps connote the same theme.
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Parshas Pekudai - Just Hold On
Parshas Pekudai - Just Hold On
Mar 15, 2024
4:26
Sefer Shemos is a blueprint for our history. All the way from the enslavement in Mitztrayim, to the building of the Mishkan.
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Parshas Pekudai - Details Matter
Parshas Pekudai - Details Matter
Mar 13, 2024
4:41
The Torah spells out each time that Moshe did it because Hashem said to. I wasn’t just an overall nice thing. He focused on each thing individually which contributed to the overall picture.
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Chodesh Adar - True Joy
Chodesh Adar - True Joy
Mar 11, 2024
4:47
Rashi tells us the Purim & Pesach are times that miracles took place. Thus, there’s more happiness in these days. Why specifically them? We have other Yamim Tovim also? Maybe it’s because we came out alive on the other end of it.
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Parshas Shekalim - Doing It 100% Correctly
Parshas Shekalim - Doing It 100% Correctly
Mar 8, 2024
4:37
HKB”H showed Moshe Rabbeinu a coin of fire to show that even if you may not have the best of intentions, it’s as if you’re doing it for it totally correctly for no external reasons.
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Parshas Vayakhel - You Bring The Shechina
Parshas Vayakhel - You Bring The Shechina
Mar 6, 2024
4:30
The Mishkan could have had donation by just one or two individuals. However, that wasn’t the case. Everyone has a portion in bringing the Shechinah down to this world.
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Parahas Vayakhel - Wisdom Is In The Heart
Parahas Vayakhel - Wisdom Is In The Heart
Mar 4, 2024
4:36
When one thinks about wisdom, you’d assume it about what’s in a persons mind. But the Torah tells us that’s not true.
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Parshas Ki Sisa - You Are Beloved
Parshas Ki Sisa - You Are Beloved
Mar 1, 2024
4:28
Moshe Rabbeinu wanted to know why bad things happen to good people. But Hashem wouldn’t tell him. What he did do was show him that after all is said and done, you are beloved in my eyes.
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Parshas Ki Sisa - A Purim Prelude
Parshas Ki Sisa - A Purim Prelude
Feb 28, 2024
4:50
The Chiet Haegel was a prelude of sorts as how the Purim story took place years later.
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Parshas Ki Sisa - Intentions 101
Parshas Ki Sisa - Intentions 101
Feb 26, 2024
4:41
Bnei Yisrael's error with the Eigel was that it wasn't commanded of them. If so, that could be why Moshe Rabbeinu's name is omitted specifically from Parshas Tetzaveh.
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Purim Katan - We’re Still Here
Purim Katan - We’re Still Here
Feb 23, 2024
4:37
Purim Katan shows us that we have to be so ever grateful for the fact we’re still here. Yes, even though it’s not the actual Purim, it still needs to be shown.
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Parshas Tetzaveh - You Can Also Be A Kohein. Part 2
Parshas Tetzaveh - You Can Also Be A Kohein. Part 2
Feb 21, 2024
4:15
Just because one isn’t near the Kosel Hamaravi, doesn’t mean that The Shechina isn’t available to him. Not only is it accessible, it’ll even come to you.
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Parshas Tetzaveh - You Can Also Be A Kohein
Parshas Tetzaveh - You Can Also Be A Kohein
Feb 19, 2024
4:32
Shevat Levi was specifically chosen to be the ones to do the daily tasks in the Beis Hamikdash. However, that doesn’t mean everyone else isn’t one.
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Parshas Terumah - Bring Out Your Inner Shechina
Parshas Terumah - Bring Out Your Inner Shechina
Feb 16, 2024
3:51
The Shechina dwells inside everyone.. The challenge is to manifest it to its full potential.
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Parshas Terumah- The Significance Of 40
Parshas Terumah- The Significance Of 40
Feb 14, 2024
4:32
The end of Mishpatim and the beginning of Terumah teach us a lesson as how one acquires Torah, and makes it his own.
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Parshas Trumah - Come Get It —It’ll Carry You
Parshas Trumah - Come Get It —It’ll Carry You
Feb 12, 2024
4:34
The Aron was very unique in that the poles were never allowed to be removed from it. This shows us the power of the Torah, and how it can carry and lift a person.
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Chodesh Adar - A Double Dose
Chodesh Adar - A Double Dose
Feb 9, 2024
4:28
Adar is the month that we have two of during a leap year. There’s a reason why it was chosen over the other 11 months of the year.
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Parshas Mishpatim - Loving To Lend
Parshas Mishpatim - Loving To Lend
Feb 7, 2024
3:58
The Torah tells us the obligation of lending money in a roundabout way, to teach us a valuable lesson for both the borrower and the lender alike.
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Parshas Mishpatim - Our Laws Are Different
Parshas Mishpatim - Our Laws Are Different
Feb 5, 2024
3:46
The many halachas we have are vastly different than those of the world. Thus we have to use a Beis Din and not a secular court in order to bring that out, in any and all circumstances.
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Parshas Yisro - A New Twist On Mitzvos Bein Adam Lchaveiro
Parshas Yisro - A New Twist On Mitzvos Bein Adam Lchaveiro
Feb 2, 2024
4:16
The Rambam reveals to us a new meaning as to what Mitzvos Bein Adam L’chavairo are. It’s not just the mitzvah alone, it’s the benefit of the mitzvah down here in this world.
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Parshas Yisro - Knowing & Doing
Parshas Yisro - Knowing & Doing
Jan 31, 2024
4:34
When Bnei Yisrael heard the first two of the Aseres Hadibros from HKB”H they knew it was the real deal. The next step however, is to take that knowledge into action.