Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchParsha: Emor - Snowball's Chance in Heaven
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…
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Parsha: Emor - Sense of Belonging (5781)
Our parsha contains the first recorded instance of capital punishment in Jewish history. A disgruntled man, the son of an Israelite woman and an Egyp…
3 years, 2 months ago
Ethics: Moderation (6:6:17)
Our resources are finite. We must engage in trade-offs, deciding what pursuits to prioritize over others. This, of course, is all well known. But it'…
3 years, 2 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…
3 years, 2 months ago
Parsha: Acharei Mos/Kedoshim - It's a Small World
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…
3 years, 2 months ago
Parsha: Acharei Mos/Kedoshim - Challenge Accepted (5781)
Our Nation has always had bad neighbors. The Midrash in our Parsha states that the Egyptians and the Canaanites, both nations that our people lived i…
3 years, 2 months ago
Conversion in Jewish Philosophy and Law
Our forefather Abraham forged a covenant with God: God shows him to be the forefather of the Jewish people, which includes all sorts of Rights and re…
3 years, 2 months ago
Parshas Acharei & Kedoshim (Rebroadcast)
This week's double-parsha contains a smorgasbord of mitzvos. The three chapters of Parshas Acharei cover three general categories. First we read abou…
3 years, 2 months ago
Parsha: Tazria Metzora - Heaven on the Cheap
This week's double Parsha contains some of the most intricate and complex laws in the Torah, the laws of purity and impurity. This subject remains an…
3 years, 2 months ago
TORAH 101: The Inevitability of Messiah
The sources all agree: Messiah is not a possibility that we can potentially achieve; it is an inevitability. It will definitely happen. Under no circ…
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