Episodes

  • Behar – Intractable Land

    Behar – Intractable Land
    May 23 2024
    The Land of Israel is special: It is the land of God. All other lands were given by God to humanity. The land of Israel He reserved for himself. The Torah gives us comprehensive laws regarding every element of our life. Many of the laws are only applicable in the land of Israel. The commentaries […]
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    1 hr and 2 mins
  • Behar – The Jubilant 50’s (5782)

    Behar – The Jubilant 50’s (5782)
    May 21 2024
    Being a farmer in antiquity was a hard job. Without any mechanized tools and plows, farming demanded a great deal of sweat and toil. But what choice did you have? If you want to feed your family, you need to work the land. Then comes the Shemitah. Every 7th year, the farmers in the Land […]
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    1 hr
  • Parshas Behar (Rebroadcast)

    Parshas Behar (Rebroadcast)
    May 19 2024
    At Mount Sinai, the Almighty instructed Moshe to convey a series of laws to the Jewish people. The first is the mitzvah of Shemittah, the prohibition of engaging in any agricultural work every seven years. What is the lesson inherent in this mitzvah and what are the consequences of transgressing it? – – – – […]
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    59 mins
  • Emor – Simulated Martyrdom

    Emor – Simulated Martyrdom
    May 16 2024
    Humans have a very important role to play in God’s world. The Almighty created a world in which He is obfuscated. It is possible to live a whole life without acknowledging the one, singular reality of existence: God. The world was designed with the capacity for that reality being ignored. But we are here to […]
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    1 hr and 14 mins
  • Emor – Spiritual Fingerprint (5782)

    Emor – Spiritual Fingerprint (5782)
    May 14 2024
    The Kohanic family is the most prestigious and sanctified family in our nation. Direct descendants of the legendary Aaron, this family was consecrated as the priests of our nation. They oversee the temple and its operations, they do the service of the Temple, they process the sacrifices – they are the spiritual leaders of our […]
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    1 hr and 4 mins
  • Parshas Emor (Rebroadcast)

    Parshas Emor (Rebroadcast)
    May 12 2024
    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 ends with a very unusual episode that happened at Sinai. – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – […]
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    1 hr and 3 mins
  • Kedoshim – Loving the Unlovable

    Kedoshim – Loving the Unlovable
    May 9 2024
    Some people are easy to love. They are good people. They have a good character. They are righteous and noble and pleasant. People like that are very lovable. But there are other people. The second group of people are very hard to love. They may have a very execrable character. They may have very unlikable […]
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    52 mins
  • Kedoshim – The Superhuman Imperative (5782)

    Kedoshim – The Superhuman Imperative (5782)
    May 7 2024
    Our Parsha begins with an unusual ceremony: Moshe gathers the entire Jewish Nation, men, women, and children, to convey to them the mitzvos of our Parsha. Unlike the rest of the Torah where the nation is conveyed the Law in shifts, in this week’s Parsha everyone has to be together. When we examine the reasons […]
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    46 mins