Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchMitzvah: Priestly Decorum (#149-152)
priests are held to a higher standard. Clergymen are not like everyone else. Especially while working in the Temple/ Tabernacle. They must be on a mu…
1 year, 6 months ago
Parshas Vayechi (Rebroadcast)
Parshas Vayechi is the final portion of the Book of Genesis. Jacob is about to die and he tends to his affairs: He assures that he will not be buried…
1 year, 6 months ago
Parsha: Vayigash - Joseph's Magnanimity
Our Parsha sees the conclusion of the Saga of Joseph. The favorite son of Jacob is finally reunited with his father and his family as the fledgling n…
1 year, 6 months ago
Parsha: Vayigash - Definition of Life (5783)
Jacob relocates in our Parsha. Leaving Canaan once again, Jacob gathers his family and the possessions that he had acquired in Canaan and descends to…
1 year, 6 months ago
Chanukah Capstone with Rabbi Shmuel Botnick
There is no superficiality in Judaism. Everything is multi-layered, multifaceted, multidimensional. That seems to be particularly true with respect t…
1 year, 6 months ago
Parshas Vayigash (Rebroadcast)
Twenty two years have passed since Jacob and Joseph were separated. Ever since Joseph was torn away from him, Jacob was bereft of prophecy and incons…
1 year, 6 months ago
Parsha: Mikeitz - Two and Twenty
Jacob was one of the greatest people of all time. He excelled in all areas of greatness. In this Parsha podcast we examine his superlative reliance u…
1 year, 6 months ago
Parsha: Mikeitz - Paining Grows (5783)
Joseph took a very unusual path to primacy: his brothers thought he was a good for nothing, and sold him as a slave. He was sold to Egypt, accused of…
1 year, 6 months ago
The Light of Chanukah
Everyone loves the festival of Chanukah. There's something so wonderful and enchanting about this festival and its iconic mitzvah, the lighting of th…
1 year, 6 months ago
Parshas Mikeitz (Rebroadcast)
Parshas Mikeitz continues the narrative of Joseph in Egypt. We pick up his story two years after his failed attempt at earning a reprieve via his cel…
1 year, 6 months ago