Podcast Episodes

Vayeira – Reconciling Kindness and Child-Sacrifice (Rebroadcast)

Telling the story of this week’s parsha while gleaning insights and lessons from it. The topics discussed in this episode:

Kindness Superseding Proph…

8 years, 3 months ago

Lech Lecha – The Essence of Bris Milah (Circumcision)

The mitzvah of Bris Milah (circumcision) is unique of several fronts. It is the first mitzvah given to Abraham and the first done to a Jewish child; …

8 years, 4 months ago

Lech Lecha – (Rebroadcast + New Podcast: Eternal Ethics)

Begining this week, we will, God-willing, upload two weekly Parsha Podcast episodes, the one orginally recorded last year on the whole Parsha and a s…

8 years, 4 months ago

Noach – Lessons from an Enigma

For last year’s podcast on Parshas Noach click HERE. In this podcast we draw three lessons from the Torah’s chracter assesments of Noah.

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8 years, 4 months ago

Bereishis – Adam and the Fruit Fly

Welcome to Year 2 of the Parsha Podcast. This year’s cycle will differ from last year’s in that we will only pick an angle or an idea from the parsha…

8 years, 4 months ago

Vezos HaBracha – A Torah Retrospect (Speech at Celebration of Completion of the Torah)

Over the past year we have studied the entire Torah, the five books of Moshe. In this podcast, we try to identify the underlying theme that strings t…

8 years, 4 months ago

Maximizing Yom Kippur

Yom Kippur is associated with prayer and liturgy that we may not understand, very long services and, of course, fasting. Unfortunately, most people a…

8 years, 5 months ago

The Core Theme of Rosh Hashana

Rosh Hashana is the anniversary of the creation of man. It is also the Day of Judgement. What are the various elements and themes of the day and how …

8 years, 5 months ago

Ha’azinu – The Song of History

On the final day of his life, Moshe gathers the nation and sketches out the cycles of history both past and future in a poetic, song like way, all th…

8 years, 5 months ago

Nitzavim & Vayeilech – Eternal Exhortations

In the last few days of Moshe’s life, he gathers the entire nation, men women and children, and presents to them his final, departing message.

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8 years, 5 months ago