Rabbi Ezra Bick
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Lesson Length: 31 minutes
When the brothers are accused of being spies and one is held hostage in Egypt until the return of the others, their reaction is to see this as punishment...
Rabbi Ezra Bick
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Lesson Length: 33 minutes
Most of the parasha is about Yosef, but in the middle is a story about Yehuda. Why does this story appear as an interruption in the middle of the Yosef...
Rabbi Menachem Leibtag
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Lesson Length: Hour and 6 minutes
The Ramban, in his introduction to Parshat Terumah, proves how the Mishkan serves as an eternal reflection of the key events that took place at Har Sinai...
Rabbi Mosheh Lichtenstein
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Lesson Length: Hour and 7 minutes
The Book of Ruth opens with a situation of dire straits: Boaz leaves the Land because of despair, and Naomi cannot rebuild when she returns. The actions...
Rabbi Daniel Wolf
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In this shiur, we examine the burial processes of Yosef and Yaakov. Why were they embalmed? Was Yosef wrong to have his father embalmed? Was this Egyptian...
Rabbi Dov Berkovits
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Lesson Length: 59 minutes
King David requests that the prophet Natan agree to his plan to take the "Ark of God out of the tent" and place it in a "house made of cedar trees" - at...
Rabbi Moshe Taragin
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Parashat Hayyei Sara contains two negotiation stories that parallel each other: Avraham's request to buy a burial plot in Hebron from Ephron the Hittite,...
Shani Taragin
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Lesson Length: 5 minutes
Chapter 15 of Shmuel Alef relates the tragic failure of Shaul to complete the war against Amalek. The text emphasizes that he does not listen to God. But...
Shani Taragin
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Lesson Length: 5 minutes
We open Chapter 17, which tells the famous story of David and Goliat. But why is it that neither King Shaul nor his army general, Avner, know who David is...
Shani Taragin
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Lesson Length: 3 minutes
Rabbanit Shani Taragin focuses on a contrast in the second chapter of Ruth. Boaz is introduced by name, and reflected in his name isthat there is strength...
