Podcast Episodes

Tzav – Scaling the Rungs of Greatness (Rebroadcast)

Parshas Tzav continues the instructions relating to the Tabernacle and its sacrifices. We learn more details regarding some of the sacrifices mentioned earlier and also we are taught about some new s…

Published on 7 years, 8 months ago

How to be a Great Leader (and Spouse) – Recorded Live at the Kotel in Jerusalem

In the last portions of Exodus, the Torah details the incredible fundraising efforts to assemble the materials needed to build the Mishkan. It records that the nesi’im, the presidents of the tribes, …

Published on 7 years, 9 months ago

Vayikra – Sacrificial Repentance (Rebroadcast)

The Book of Leviticus begins with Parshas Vayikra. In this section we learn about the processes and procedures of many different varieties of sacrifices. What is the reason for sacrifices? Who benefi…

Published on 7 years, 9 months ago

Vayakhel & Pekudei – Blundering to Greatness

In this week’s double parsha we observe something unusual. Unlike its tendency to be concise and succinct and mince words, the Torah finds it necessary to exhaustively detail the implementation of th…

Published on 7 years, 9 months ago

Vayakhel & Pekudei – Rectifying the Golden Calf (Rebroadcast)

Parshiyos Vayakhel and Pekudei retell the implementation of the instructions to build the Tabernacle, its vessels and the vestments of the Kohen Gadol given in the Parshiyos of Terumah and Tetzaveh. …

Published on 7 years, 9 months ago

Purim – A Mitzvah to get Drunk

Besides the four mitzvos of the day, the Talmud states that a person has to get drunk on Purim “until he does not know the difference between Haman is cursed and Mordechai is blessed”. What is the me…

Published on 7 years, 9 months ago

Ki Sisa – Tragedy at Sinai (Rebroadcast)

Parshas Ki Sisa wraps up the instructions regarding the Tabernacle, and then tells the story of perhaps the most shocking and troubling episode in the whole Torah – the Golden Calf episode.

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Published on 7 years, 9 months ago

Purim – Love-Inducing Miracles

The Talmud (Shabbos 88a) teaches that in the aftermath of the Purim miracles the Jewish people re-accepted the Torah out of love. What was so special about the miracles of Purim that fostered this pr…

Published on 7 years, 9 months ago

Tetzaveh – Holy Vestaments (Rebroadcast)

In Parshas Tetzaveh the Torah outlines the various garments needed for the Kohein Gadol, the instruction to raise the funds for the oil for the Menorah, and the incense Altar. What are some practical…

Published on 7 years, 9 months ago

Terumah – The Ark of Torah

This parsha kickstart several Torah sections outlining the structure and the vessels of the mishkan, the Tabernacle. The Talmud brings these ideas closer to our understanding by linking the vessels o…

Published on 7 years, 10 months ago