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Vayishlach- Twelve Against Eleven - How Yisrael Overcomes Eisav
Season 5
This week’s episode uncovers one of the most hidden structures in the Torah: the cosmic war between the twelve channels of kedushah and the eleven fo…
10 months, 3 weeks ago
Taryag Shamarti — The Torah That Accompanies a Man Into the World - VaYishlach
Season 5
“Taryag Shamarti — The Torah That Never Leaves a Jew”
Parashat Vayishlaḥ — Sunday Morning Breakfast Class Edition
Life doesn’t pause for Torah. Ya‘a…
10 months, 4 weeks ago
THE ROLE OF HEAVEN IN HISTORY — FROM THANKSGIVING TO YA‘AQOV, FROM 1492 TO TODAY
Season 5
11 months ago
THE BALANCE THAT CREATES A NATION - Yaakov Ish Tam Vayesse
Season 5
Ya‘akov Ish Tam — master of balance, not a naïve soul.
This episode explores why HaShem waited for Ya‘akov — and only Ya‘akov — to father the Twelve …
11 months ago
Eliphaz and the Gates of Gilgul — From Robbing Yaakov to the Voice of Onkelos and why Amalek
Season 5
This week’s 48-minute lunch class follows Ya‘aqov Avinu on the road out of Be’er Sheva — alone, stripped of everything — and uncovers the hidden dram…
11 months ago
Jacob, Esav, and the Shadow of Lavan
Season 5
In this mornings class inspired by an insight by our dear friend Terry Oved, we follow Ya‘akov Avinu into the darkest house in the Torah — Lavan the …
11 months ago
Ya‘akov’s Night, Our Darkness — and the Light of a Home
Season 5
L’N Rabbi Jay Marcus, HaRav Yaakov Zvi ben Harav Yosef Yechezkel zt”l
In this morning’s class, we walk with Ya‘akov Avinu into the darkness — and dis…
11 months ago
KISLEV — THE GATE OF LIGHT IN THE DARKEST MONTH – Parshat Toledot and the permutations - OPENING — THE FIRST TO DO TESHUVAH Rosh Ḥodesh always carries the quiet hum of renewal. It slips in without trumpets, without fanfare, yet Chazal paint it as a spiritual reset button. Why? Because the moon was the first creation ever to do Teshuvah. The Gemara tells the story plainly: “אֵין שְׁנֵי מְלָכִים מִשְׁתַּמְּשִׁים בְּכֶתֶר אֶחָד.” The moon complained: “Two kings cannot share one crown.” HaShem answered: “Go and make yourself small.” (Chullin 60b) The moon recognized its mistake. It accepted the consequence. It did Teshuvah. And so, every Rosh Ḥodesh becomes a mini-Yom Kippur. This is stated explicitly in Musaf: “רֹאשׁ חֹדֶשׁ … זְמַן כַּפָּרָה לְכָל תּוֹלְדוֹתָם.” The Beit Yosef (O.C. 423) explains this phrase literally: Rosh Ḥodesh atones for the spiritual stains of the previous month. HaShem “remembers” us and lifts us from the Yetzer Hara. But Rosh Ḥodesh Kislev is different. It carries a sharper edge, a d
Season 5
Kislev enters in darkness, but it carries the oldest light in creation.
This shiur uncovers why Rosh Ḥodesh Kislev is called a mini–Yom Kippur, how Ya…
11 months, 1 week ago
Why Yitzḥak’s Quiet Digging Holds the Secret to Water, Earth, Mikveh and Ourselves
Season 5
Our Class today uncovers the hidden meaning behind Yitzḥak’s wells—and the secret of the waters of the mikveh. From Ramban and Midrash to the Sefat E…
11 months, 1 week ago