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Parsha: Toldos - Smoking Camels
Two very different boys are born in this week's Parsha. Esau, the older one, is ruddy and hairy and looking for trouble. Jacob, the younger one, is wholesome and right...
Ethics: Making Fences (6.6.28)
Humans are fallible. We are imperfect, yet we are tasked with being the stewards and the guardians of the perfect. We hold the Almighty's Torah in our hands. We are ta...
Parsha: Toldos - Abraham's Torah (5782)
Was Abraham the first Jew? Did Abraham observe the laws of the Torah? The Torah dedicates a huge amount of attention to Abraham and his family. The laws of Torah were ...
History: The Arab-Israeli Conflict: A Historical Background
The Arab-Israeli conflict is front and center on the world stage today. The barbaric October 7th terrorist attacks - where more than a thousand innocent Jewish civili...
Parshas Toldos (Rebroadcast)
In Parshas Toldos we meet twin boys that are polar opposites: Esau, beloved by his father Isaac, is a man of the fields; while Jacob is loved by his mother Rebecca and...
Parsha: Chayei Sarah - Buried Alive
Sarah died at the age of 127. Abraham negotiated with the Hittites for the purchase of a burial plot, the Cave of Machpelah. The objective of the purchase of the Cave ...
Parsha: Chayei Sarah - The Transformation of Eliezer (5782)
Eliezer was Abraham's right hand man. He was in charge of all of Abraham's affairs. According to the Talmud, Eliezer was the consummate student of Abraham, drawing fro...
Mitzvah: Meal Offerings Of/For the Kohein (#134-7)
Meal offerings are a central part of the daily Temple offerings. These Mitzvos cover the Kohanim's relationship with meal offerings.– – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – –...
Discussing Rabbi Shlomo Wolbe on the Chinuch Today Podcast
The Hebrew word for education is "Chinuch". Rabbi Yerachmiel Garfield is the Head of School of Yeshiva Torat Emet, the school in Houston, Texas that we send our childr...
Parshas Chayei Sara (Rebroadcast)
Some of the highlights of this week’s parsha: Immediately after the Binding of Isaac, Sarah passed away at the age of 127, and soon afterward Abraham had to procure a ...
Parsha: Vayeira - Abraham Abraham
On the second day of Rosh Hashanah each year we read chapter 22 of Genesis, the Binding of Isaac episode. Abraham is instructed to take his beloved son Isaac and offer...
Ethics: Joyous With Your Lot (6.6.27)
There is an unequal distribution of talents, gifts, abilities, strengths, and weaknesses. Everyone is different. Everyone is their own world. This applies both in the ...
Parsha: Vayeira - Exodus From Sodom (5782)
For the third time in the Torah, we read about destruction. Previously, the Flood destroyed the world save Noah and family, and the Dispersal ended the universal civil...
The Profound Mystery of Cheshvan with Rabbi Shmuly Botnick
Rabbi Shmuly Botnick returns to the podcast with his most mind-bending and dynamic contribution hitherto. In this exhilarating roller-coaster of a podcast, Rabbi Botni...
Parshas Vayeira (Rebroadcast)
This week’s parsha features several iconic episodes: Abraham was visited by God as he was recuperating from his circumcision, and concurrently engaged in superlative k...
Parsha: Lech Lecha - The Generational Secret
Join us for an exquisite Parsha Podcast as we go deep and deeper into Lech Lecha. The deep idea relates to Lot's fateful decision to choose to move to the sinful citie...
Ethics: Know Your Place (6.6.26)
The greatest pedagogues of history - the Sages of the Mishnah - codified "knowing your place" as a means to acquire Torah, to acquire wisdom. What exactly is intended ...
Parsha: Lech Lecha - Applying for a Name Change (5782)
Abraham and Sarah undergo seismic changes in our Parsha. Their names get changed as does their destiny. Originally, they were barren, but in our Parsha, the founding P...
The Transcendent Power of a Unified Front
It is not exactly clear what the participants in the Tower of Babel wanted. We know they wanted to ascend to heaven and to make a name for themselves, but what precise...
Parshas Lech Lecha (Rebroadcast)
In this week’s parsha, Abraham is instructed to move to Israel, is given divine promises that he will be the father of many nations; his children will be as numerous a...
Parsha: Noach - Secret Of Invincibility
We started this week's Parsha Podcast by talking about the Tower of Babel episode. We gleaned from that story something absolutely transformational and deep. We then p...
Parsha: Noach - Company Loves Misery (5782)
Our Parsha marks a nadir in the story of mankind. Humanity sunk to such spiritual lows that the Almighty decided to destroy the world and start over with just Noah and...
On Parenting with the Podfather, Avi Wolbe
Parents are sent home with newborn babies without an instruction manual. They are expected to raise their child(ren) to become productive, responsible, and successful ...
Parshas Noach (Rebroadcast)
In this week’s parsha: Noah and his family build an Ark as a refuge from an extinction-level Flood brought by God to destroy the world’s sinners.– – – – – – – – – – – ...
Parsha: Bereishis - Microcosm of History
Today is a bittersweet day. Although we are very excited to embark on year 8 of the Parsha Podcast, we are only a few days after the terrible attacks in Israel, where ...
Parsha: Bereishis - Making Partner (5782)
As we begin year 8 of the Parsha Podcast, we are excited and overjoyed to share the plan for this year, with the help of the Almighty: each Sunday, we will release the...
Parshas Bereishis (Rebroadcast)
With praise and appreciation to the Almighty, we begin year 8 of the Parsha Podcast (5784). This year, we will re-upload the Parsha Rebroadcast episode which covers th...
TORAH 101: Messiah Panoply: Messiah Ben Joseph, Gog and Magog, Elijah, Resurrection, etc.
We have studied the subject of Messiah in its length and breadth. In the 16th and final installment of our study of the 12th of Rambam's Thirteen Principles of Faith, ...
Parsha: Vezos Haberacha - A Mission For Everyone
At the very end of Moshe's life, he, like Jacob before him, blesses the tribes. When Jacob was about to pass, he blessed his sons, now Moshe is blessing the tribes tha...
Parsha: Vezos Habracha - Antidotes to Mediocrity (5781)
In the Torah's final Parsha, and indeed, in its final words, we say goodbye to the greatest human to have ever lived. With the passing of Moshe, the Torah ends, and on...