Rabbi Ezra Bick
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Lesson Length: 35 minutes
In his introduction to Parashat Teruma Ramban focuses on introducing the concept of the Mishkan and its placement in the Torah immediately after Parashat...
Rabbi Ezra Bick
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Lesson Length: 36 minutes
Parashat Bo features the first mitzvah given to the Nation of Israel: that of sanctifying the months. Ramban explains that the Torah is teaching us that...
Rabbi Ezra Bick
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Lesson Length: 33 minutes
We will examine Ramban’s comments to the verse about the special grant from Yaakov to Yosef. Is this grant referring to the city of Shechem, or to an...
Rabbi Ezra Bick
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Lesson Length: 27 minutes
In Parashat Vaera, God informs Moshe that it is not going to be an easy process before Pharaoh lets Bnei Yisrael out. But then God adds “And I will harden...
Rabbi Jonathan Sacks
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Lesson Length: 13 minutes
Was Jacob right to take Esau’s blessing in disguise? Was he right to deceive his father and to take from his brother the blessing Isaac sought to give him...
Rabbi Ezra Bick
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Lesson Length: 31 minutes
In this final instalment of the Akeida shiurim, we will examine some comments of the Abarbanel on the Akeida. Are tests for the benefit of the “tester” or...
Rabbi Ezra Bick
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Lesson Length: 30 minutes
In this shiur, we will discuss comments by the Mei HaShiloach on the Akeida – different from anything we have seen thus far. What was the big test of the...
Rabbi Ezra Bick
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Lesson Length: 33 minutes
In this shiur, we examine a strange midrash whose implications are not entirely clear. In the midrash, the Accusing Angel goads Avraham, trying to...
Rabbi Ezra Bick
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Lesson Length: 30 minutes
In this shiur we look at some more comments by the Sefat Emet. Why does the Torah mention that Avraham “saw the place from afar?” The Sefat Emet explains...
Rabbi Ezra Bick
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Lesson Length: 34 minutes
We will look at a midrash with a different approach to what we saw last time in the Sefat Emet. The midrash looks at a verse from the Book of Yirmiahu (...
