Simchas Avraham

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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 - 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 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 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 - 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 Seitzei - The Anti Amalek

Sep 13, 2024

3:43

Amalek jumped right into the hot, scalding bath. They did the exact opposite of how one conquers the Yetzer Hara. Don't be like them.

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Elul - The First Step Has Been Taken

Sep 11, 2024

4:36

One may think that to do teshuva you have to take the first step and initiate the process. However, it's not true. The first step has already been taken. Hashem is already here. He's making it so much easier for us than you may think.

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Parshas Ki Seitzei - Beating The Yetzer Hara

Sep 9, 2024

4:37

One who wants to beat the Yetzer Hara should consider it a disgusting piece of filth. Make it disgusting in your eyes and then you can overcome the challenge placed in front of you at that moment.

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Parshas Shoftim - The Anti False Witnesses

Sep 6, 2024

4:47

Eidem Zomimim is paid back with whatever they wanted to be done to the accused. However, HKB"H doesn't act that way towards us. He doesn't deal with us in the same manner. He gives us a lot more wiggle room

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Parshas Shoftim - Use Your Righteousness

Sep 4, 2024

3:47

Everyone has an area that they excel in. During this time of Elul that we're holding in, perhaps its a good idea to use that area to bring it out in the open and get more merits for the coming year.

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Parshas Shoftim - War Exemptions 101

Sep 2, 2024

4:24

There are certain individuals who the Torah lets go home and not go to battle. They are not holding by waging war at this moment. Not only that, but it may be an aveira to go.

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Parshas Reah - Our Father, Our Rebbe

Aug 30, 2024

4:36

The Torah calls us Hashem's sons. What specifically makes us His sons? That we're physically alive, or that we have an eternal life? It's both!!

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Parshas Reah - Mitzrayim vs. Amalek

Aug 28, 2024

3:37

Both Amalek and Mitzrayim played significant roles in our history. As a result, both of them need to be remembered. But how and when to remember them is vastly different.

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Parshas Reah - Perspectives

Aug 26, 2024

3:58

The same exact thing can be seen by two different people in a totally opposite view. What one person may like, the other one may not. It's all up to the individual.

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Parshas Eikev - Every Mitzvah Needs Attention

Aug 23, 2024

3:09

Just accepting upon oneself עול מלכות שמים does not suffice. One needs to accept every mitzvah individually as well. Hashem wants individual attention to everything done. Not just an overall general acceptance.

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Parshas Eikev - An Equilibrium of Fear and Love

Aug 21, 2024

4:38

The passuk asks us to fear Hashem, yet it says that we have to love Him as well. This teaches us how to balance our Avodas Hashem through everything we do. We need to both love and fear. The trick is how to walk that delicate line.

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Tu B'Av - Build Your Own Beis Hamikdash

Aug 19, 2024

4:41

It's no coincidence that Tu B'av follows shortly after Tisha B'av. After mourning the Beis Hamikdash we transition to one of the happiest days of the year. When a couple has peace and harmony in their house, they also have the Shechina there together with them. If we haven't been zoche to have the Beis Hamikash yet, we can have it in every home individually.

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Parshas Veschanan - Hashem's Oneness

Aug 16, 2024

4:29

What is so integral about the pasuk of "Shema"?? Why the repetition of "Hashem" in the pasuk?? The Abarbanel illuminates the pasuk for us.

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Post Tisha Bav Thoughts - The Nechama Proccess

Aug 14, 2024

4:54

After Tisha Bav we have seven weeks of nechama as opposed to three weeks of פרעניות from Shivah Asar Btamuz till tisha Bav. Perhaps it is because we need to feel and commiserate with Shechina for that long and then we can accept HKB"H as our King on Rosh Hashanah.

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Tisha Bav - The Longest Mourning

Aug 12, 2024

4:40

Tisha Bav is not like mourning for a close relative who passes away. If that was the case, we should have ceased to mourn long ago. The mourning signifies that this is very different. We know that it will come to an end. The day will come that redemption will come.

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Parshas Devarim - How To Win A War

Aug 9, 2024

4:19

At the end of the parsha Moshe Rabbeinu tells Bnei Yisrael the secret to winning a war. No, it's not about different tactics on the ground or in the air. It's about the Only One who you can you rely on.

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Parshas Devarim - Moshe Rabbeinu Made a Joke

Aug 7, 2024

3:45

Moshe Rabbeinu started rebuking Klal Yisrael by telling them a joke in order that they should be receptive. When a person is in a jovial mood, he's more receptive to what is being said.

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Parshas Devarim - Eicha Explained

Aug 5, 2024

4:30

Moshe, Yeshaya, & Yermiyah all used the term "eichah". When they said it, they all had the same sentiment. It wasn't to be taken literally. It was more rhetorical. How did such a holy nation fall to such depths?!?! How could it be?!?!?

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Parshas Masei - Enjoy The Journey

Aug 2, 2024

4:02

The Torah goes out of its way to tell us every stop that was made on the way to Eretz Yisrael. Every stop had a purpose, had a reason. It wasn't for naught. So too, a person can have different stops along the way that they didn't to make. In the end though, it too, was for for a purpose.

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Parshas Masei - The Torah Is Given Again

Jul 31, 2024

3:15

One of the places Bnei Yisrael traveled to in the desert was Midbar Sinai. But the Torah here makes no mention of what took place there, unlike by other stops they had along the way. R Moshe Feinstein z'l approaches this in a practical way for us today.

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Parshas Matos - Make Commitments, But Don't Commit‏

Jul 29, 2024

4:15

The Parsha starts out talking about making vows. What does that have to do with the end of the end of the parsha last week? Perhaps it's coming to tell us that when you commit to do an undertaking, it's not to be taken lightly. Make sure you say "bli neder".

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Parshas Pinchas - Leadership 101

Jul 26, 2024

4:50

Pinchas was immensely rewarded for his act. But he didn't take over as leader after Moshe Rabbeinu. That was Yehoshua. Perhaps that could be because when someone does such a cruel act he's viewed differently. He can't be seen as cruel and be a leader at the same time..

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Parshas Pinchas - The Key To Greatness

Jul 24, 2024

3:20

What's the most important pasuk in the Torah?? Lots of choices to choose from. One opinion is that the most important one is the one that breeds greatness.

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Parshas Pinchas - A Three Weeks Theme

Jul 22, 2024

4:44

The parsha has a common denominator. Everything is connected to Eretz Yisrael, the Beis Hamikdash, & of course the final geula. ‏במהירה בימינו אמן

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Parshas Balak - Curses To Blessings

Jul 19, 2024

2:56

Every time Balak tried to curse Klal Yisrael it turned into a blessing. The worst turned into the best. The same can be said by us. It seems like the worst has taken place, but in reality, its the best.

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Parshas Balak - Bilam Didn't Get The Message

Jul 17, 2024

4:53

You'd think that after failing once, Bilam would stop to get rid of Klal Yisrael. But he didn't stop. He refused to get the message. His advise to Pharaoh failed, and now this also did. Not only that, but his curses turned into brachas.

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Parshas Balak - The Depths To Which Bilam Sank

Jul 15, 2024

4:22

The difference between Avraham Avinu & Bilam is very stark in a number of ways. But Bilam took it to a new low. He ended up like an animal.

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Parshas Chukas - The Power of a Gadol

Jul 12, 2024

4:34

In the parsha we have the death of both Aharon & Miriam. When they passed away, something disappeared from within Klal Yisrael. The power that a tzaddik has is enormous. If you know one, don't let him get away.

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Parshas Chukas - Even If You Understand, You Don't

Jul 10, 2024

3:25

The Torah refers to Parah Adumah as a "chok". But it calls it Chukas Hatorah. Why is that? The Torah is teaches us from here that everything is really a chok.

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Parshas Chukas - Don’t Speak To The Rock, Daven!

Jul 8, 2024

4:43

That which Moshe Rabbeinu was told wasn’t meant to be literal. Hashem meant to daven so that water should sprout forth just like water comes from clouds.

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Parshas Korach - Don’t Skip It

Jul 5, 2024

4:21

The tefilla which Moshe and Aharon davened to Hashem alludes to tachanun. That’s the power it has.. To ward off terrible things.

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Parahas Korach - The Non-Argument Argument

Jul 3, 2024

3:31

Korach came to make an upheaval amongst klal Yisrael. In doing so, he wasn’t even arguing with anyone in particular.

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Parshas Korach - Korach Debunked

Jul 1, 2024

4:36

Korach was no dummy. He knew what he was doing. What could he have been thinking in the first place to get to such a lowly point?

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Parshas Shelach - Tzitzis: For Jews and Goyim

Jun 28, 2024

3:26

What does one do if he’s not sure he’s a Jew? Does he keep shabbos? Can he keep shabbos? Wearing tzitzis slopped everything. Halachically and Hashkaficly.

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Parshas Shelach - Calev Teaches Us An Important Lesson

Jun 26, 2024

4:33

Moshe Rabbeinu didn’t feel it was necessary to daven for Calev due to his illustrious wide. However, Calev himself, felt he needed to daven. He needed the Siyata Dishmaya.

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