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Back to SearchModern Day Heresy
Heresies and idolatries come and go. The idolatry that titillated the ancients no longer excites modern men. The heresies that revolutionized the wor…
1 year, 3 months ago
Parshas Behar & Bechukosai (Rebroadcast)
This week's double-Parsha closes out the Book of Leviticus. Parshas Behar begins at Mount Sinai, where the Almighty instructed Moshe to convey a seri…
1 year, 3 months ago
Parsha: Emor - Lopside Down
Passover marks the Exodus from Egypt. But leaving Egypt was only the beginning of the radical transformation that the Almighty brought about. 50 days…
1 year, 3 months ago
TORAH 101: Venues of Reward and Punishment
Spiritual pleasure is vastly, infinitely greater than physical pleasures, and are completely imperceivable by bodies. Only if you work assiduously to…
1 year, 3 months ago
Parsha: Emor - Snowball's Chance in Heaven (5783)
The story of the first person to ever be executed in a Jewish court of law is featured at the end of this week's Parsha. An unnamed man, the son of a…
1 year, 3 months ago
Mechanisms of Free Will
Is free will limited or unlimited? What is the scope of free will? How much of our decisions must filter through that system of choice? How much can …
1 year, 3 months ago
Parshas Emor (Rebroadcast)
Parshas Emor contains a staggering 56 mitzvos, nearly all of them relating to either to the Kohanim, the priests, or to the Festivals, and the parsha…
1 year, 3 months ago
Parsha: Acharei Mos/Kedoshim - Sparring Mates
If you chanced upon sparring mates going at it, you may come to the mistaken impression that these two are enemies who want each other's throats. But…
1 year, 3 months ago
TORAH 101: The (Near Total) Inaccessibility of Spiritual Pleasure
There is great confusion about what the ultimate reward for righteousness and the ultimate punishment for wickedness are. Rambam's magisterial essay …
1 year, 3 months ago
Parsha: Acharei Mos/Kedoshim - It's a Small World (5783)
Our double Parsha contains many different mitzvos. In this podcast we study a set of mitzvos and a very interesting dispute about their nature. We di…
1 year, 4 months ago