Prepare for Pesach #10- The 5 Rabbis of Bnei Berak; Discussing Yetziat Mitzrayim During the Day?; Transitioning from Spiritual Highs; Religious Experiences and Mitzvot; Geulah as a Trigger for Kabalat Malchut Shamayim
Prepare for Pesach #9 : A Message for All Those Whose Pesach Seder Will Be "Limited" By the War; Rav Amital's Story About Shabbat in The Concentration Camps; Pesach in 1987 During the First Intafada
Prepare for Pesach #5: Tzei U'Lemad- Dashed Expectations; A Tyrant Who Must Prove His Power; Tefilla Isn't Always "Intentioned"; Hashem Invokes Brit Avot; Living in the Land and Shelters of Brit Avot
Prepare for Pesach #4: Learning that Hashem is Unknowable; The Makkot Resembled War; The Egyptian Civil War; Pesach means to "Hover"; A Preloaded "Mateh"; The 10 Makkot Will Return
10 Minute Rashi for Vayikra: Teaching Torah With Love and With a Smile; Chazara is Recall and Internalization; Read Less, Think More; Social Media and Tzniyut; Tzniyut in Talmud Torah
A Neziv for Vayikra (w/source sheet): Is Torah Sheba'al Peh "Recovery of Truth" or "Creating Truth"; Why Are They Referred to as Amoraim; The She'iltot and the Neziv: Finding Sources for Chazal; Why is a Person of Authority more Vunerable to Sin?
A Midrash for Vayikra: Where Does Sin Originate From?; Don't Criminalize the Body; Tzelem Elokim...in Our Bodies; Overusing the Terms Gashmiyut and Ruchniyut
Reclaiming Redemption for Pekudei: The Mishkan is a "Mashkon"; venting Anger on Stones and Wood; We Have a Historical Debt; Hashem Will Return; The Mikdash is Ours
Sichot of HaRav Amital and HaRav Aharon Lichtenstein for Vayakhel- Pekudei: Geulah Isnt "Only' About Land; Repentance And Restoration; A Peculiar Final Scene to Sefer Shemot
Tzidkat Hatzadik for Vayakhel-Pekudei (w/source sheet) - Siman 133- Internalizing Torah; Human Psychology is Like a Parking Lot; Thirstring forr Torah ; Feeling Incomplete Without Torah; Yirat Shamayim; Humility
Sichat Mussar for Vayakhel-Pekudei (w/source sheet): Merging Creativity and Religious Piety; Letting the Genie Out Of The Bottle; Avoiding the Demonization of Sexuality/Women
A Neziv for Vayakhel-Pekudei (w/source sheet): The Menorah and "Secular" Studies; The Difference Between Middot and Derech Eretz; Why Did Volozin Close; Ideological and Altruitsic Philanthropy; Guilt-Giving
10 Minute Rashi for Ki Tisa: Stiff-Necked Aversion to Those Who Challenge Us; Mesirat Nefesh as an Inauguration; Should You Enjoy Torah Study; A Joke for Masehcet Kiddushin
Prepare for Purim Part 12- The Disappearence of Divine Presence in Persia (w/ source sheet) - No Access to Divine Input; Foreign Monarchs Have Forgotten Hashem
Prepare for Purim Part 11: A Sefat Emmet for Purim- Pre-Redemptive Miracles Provide Redemptive Potential; Show No Mercy to Pure Evil; Removing Evil Expands Torah
Prepare for Purim Part 11: Sichat Mussar for Purim10 Parties, Three Letters and The Missing Language; Kosher Food But Toxic Situations; Speaking Hebrew