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The Missing Shevatim and the Secret of the Night - VaYechi
Season 5
In this week’s EJSNY 11AM class, we open Parashat Vayechi with one of the strangest questions Ya‘aqob Avinu ever asks: “מִי אֵלֶּה?” — “Who are thes…
9 months, 3 weeks ago
When Exile Stops Feeling Like Exile - VaYechi
Season 5
Not when a people are enslaved—but when they become comfortable. In this mornings class on Parashat Vayechi, this class reframes galut not as geograp…
9 months, 4 weeks ago
From Babylon to Broadway: The Siege Then, the Siege Now - Asara BeTevet
Season 5
From Babylon to Broadway: The Siege Then, the Siege Now
Most people think destruction begins with fire. With shattered walls. With exile.
This class…
9 months, 4 weeks ago
The Blessing That Ends a Pattern VaYechi
Season 5
This Sunday’s breakfast class wasn’t prepared in an office or a study hall. It was spoken after to a berit milah in Yerushalayim — a Jewish child ent…
10 months ago
Ani Yosef - how we fool ourselves and how to stop - VaYigash
Season 5
A great story anchors today’s special edition of
“Breakfast & a Class” on Parashat Vayigash, dedicated le‘iluy
nishmat Adele bat Victoria—a woman of c…
10 months ago
One Parent, Ten Children, and a Week of Kaddish
Season 5
This morning’s class was recorded in Jeruslem, at 7:00 in the morning, in a synagogue where “Breakfast and a Class” meant something very different.
T…
10 months ago
When Truth Is Strong Enough to Be Gentle - VaYigash
Season 5
Vayigash opens like a courtroom hanging over a cliff: Binyamin is “caught,” the goblet is the evidence, and the verdict is already on the table. But …
10 months, 1 week ago
Sweetening the Channels — How Hidden Light Rewrites the Script
Season 5
Set
against the convergence of Chanukah, Shabbat, and Rosh Ḥodesh Tevet, this
episode reveals why the darkest month of the year is not a verdict — but…
10 months, 1 week ago
Two Pharaohs in One Heart - How Comfort, Self-Interest, and Perspective Rewrite Our Moral Vision
Season 5
Why do we embrace truth when it benefits us — and resist
it when it costs us? In this powerful Breakfast & a Class, we explore one
of the most unsettl…
10 months, 1 week ago
The Two Words That Echoed for Two Years
Season 5
From the stones of the Kotel at sunrise to the darkness of Yosef’s prison cell, this episode is about the kind of power we forget words carry. Paras…
10 months, 1 week ago