Rabbi Mosheh Lichtenstein
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Lesson Length: 23 minutes
Parashat Para deals with the issue of tum’at met. The Haftara goes an additional step to compare sin to tuma (impurity) and uses the metaphor of tuma and...
Rabbi Ezra Bick
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Lesson Length: 14 minutes
Parashat Ki Tisa has an unusual set of te’amim (cantillation notes) at the beginning of the instructions relating to conducting a census of Bnei Yisrael....
Rabbi Jonathan Sacks
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Lesson Length: 9 minutes
Tetzaveh is the only parsha from the beginning of Exodus to the end of Deuteronomy, that does not contain the word “Moses”. For once Moses, the hero, the...
Rabbi Ezra Bick
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Lesson Length: 4 minutes
What does it mean to collect everyone who is found in Shushan (for Esther’s fast)? Shushan was metropolis hub where people came as individuals. People...
Rabbi Ezra Bick
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Lesson Length: 7 minutes
The parsha begins with Bnei Yisrael not listening to Moshe. What happened? Bnei Yisrael were first excited, and then, after Moshe speaks to Pharaoh again...
Rabbi Ezra Bick
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Lesson Length: 11 minutes
The first verse in Parashat Teruma indicates that the Mishkan was built from voluntary donations. The ambiguity in the phrasing allows us to ask about the...
Rabbi Ezra Bick
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Lesson Length: 20 minutes
The Chida, in a homiletical comment to Parashat Mishpatim, sees the parsha full of laws about man and his fellow as highlighting the importance of...
Rabbi Yosef Blau
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Lesson Length: 14 minutes
Rashi comments that the laws of Parashat Mishpatim are a continuation of Sinai, but there seems to be such a contrast to the lofty ideals and the unique...
Rabbi Yitzchak Etshalom
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Lesson Length: Hour and 10 minutes
What is Tehillim? What is the purpose of the book? How does one properly study the book of Tehillim? This lecture discusses the various options as to the...
Rabbi Moshe Aberman
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Lesson Length: 16 minutes
Alongside the evolvement of the nation is the story of the evolvement of Moshe, the initially reluctant recipient of leadership. God promises Moshe at...
