Rabbi Alex Israel
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Lesson Length: 30 minutes
Perek 12 begins the Avraham narratives with God’s commandment to relocate to Canaan, and continues with Avraham and Sara’s journey to Egypt. We learn of...
Rabbi Alex Israel
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Lesson Length: 28 minutes
Perek 11 describes God’s shift from a universalistic approach to the world to His focus on a specific person, family, and ultimately, nation.
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Rabbi Alex Israel
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Lesson Length: 36 minutes
What messages can be learned from the story of the Tower of Bavel? Through an analysis of the text as well as classical commentaries we can understand why...
Rabbi Alex Israel
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Lesson Length: 33 minutes
This section of Parshat Noah deals with the aftermath of the flood. What is the hidden symbolism behind the rainbow? What can we learn from the narrative...
Rabbi Alex Israel
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Lesson Length: 29 minutes
In the aftermath of the flood, there is a covenant between Noah and God, and between God and all of mankind. An analysis of the laws for the newly re-...
Rabbi Alex Israel
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Lesson Length: 34 minutes
Through an analysis of the perek describing the flood, we can glean within the text hints to a re-creation of the world by God, utilizing the pattern of...
Vivien Hidary
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Lesson Length: Hour and 7 minutes
The genre for Megillat Esther seems to be cryptology - the message is encrypted, because otherwise it would have been censored by the ruling powers in...
Rabbi Dr. Martin Lockshin
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Beginning with biographical sketches, we compare and contrast, Ibn Ezra and Rashbam, two Torah commentators who claim to look for the plain meaning of the...
Rabbi Alex Israel
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Lesson Length: 32 minutes
What was the purpose of the flood in Parshat Noah? What was God’s plan? Through an exploration of the text we can understand that God’s plan wasn’t to...
Rabbi Alex Israel
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Lesson Length: 34 minutes
This podcast explains the end of Parshat Bereishit- through the detailed genealogies and the decline of mankind. The structure of the entire parsha sheds...
