Torah Weekly

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-The parshiyos of 30,40, and 52 pesukim

-The woman’s two roles and why Rochel felt dead

-The reward for shem and yefes and punishment of cham

-Why are africans generally unclothed compared to westerners

-Escaping the curse; How Osnas avoided woke mentality on a spiritual level

-Why does the wife get double the husbands challah on shabbos?

-The mitzvah that gives women schar of tefillin, tzitzis and more

-The incredible light during the avelus for mesushelach

-Eisav’s plot to have his father killed and his schar of kibbud av

-The reward for dogs not barking during yetzias mitzrayim

-What the raven taught a distraught Adam Harishon

-The two runner up mountains to Har Sinai and their reward

-R Shteinman on the point of inanimate objects getting rewarded

-How to see reward and punishment in a constructive way

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-Why is the Yefas Toar only forbidden from 7 nations?

-Why having a Ben Sorer Umoreh as a Child isn’t such a bad thing

-If one partner goes off the derech should a frum couple divorce?

-David Hamelech, Avshalom, and his joyous song

-The worst type of mother

-The harlots of Moav and their innate tznius

-The “abomination” of cross-dressing

-Three “twisted hashkafos” that are fundamentals of abomination

-The twisted Mormon swingers, R Dovid Leibowitz and the Mikva

-Conservative Influence or no Judaism - what’s preferable?

-Why cheating while engaged is worse than cheating while married

-Trans vs Homosexual, two different aspects of To’eivah

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-Re’eh as prophecy on the years 5300-5400

-Shabtai Tzvi and Yeshu as prototypical Navi Sheker

-Why is Hashem giving “powers” to false prophets?

-The girl who “tested” the bachur on the shidduch date

-The connection between Navi Sheker and loving Hashem

-Nekudas Habechirah and being raised up by Nisayon

-Yosef, David Hamelech, and the power of a Nisayon

-The story of the Levush and R Michel Yehudah Lefkowitz

-Navi Sheker and the fight against Dveikus and Ahava

-The Umnus of Emunah and the daily nisayon in our lives

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-The overlooked mitzvah to focus on before Elul

-Two reasons we say Birkas Hamazon even outside Israel

-Benching led Yosef to lead the entire world

-R Chatzkel and davening not to need blood transfusions

-Why are people in kollel when they daven not to need tzedaka?

-Why the Chofetz Chaim sighed in Benching

-Breaking up with an Arab over benching

-The Satan, Destructive Malachim, and Benching

-The Segulos of one who is careful with benching

-Eyes shut or looking at bencher? Arizal vs Shelah

-Stories of gedolim and yeshuos with benching

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-Aharon dying with the kiss of death

-How Moshe was convinced Aharon was alive even in death

-Rav Elazar’s life after death

-Rebbi saying kiddush after death

-The voice from the grave

-Visits from Reuven and Rashi

-The lost eyeball and Ezra Hasofer

-The Auschwitz fathers return

-Chozeh on Eliyahu vs others

-Why davka some tzaddikim return

-Is dead Tarik Chayav in mitzvos

-Isn’t it mocking dead to daven at their kever?

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-Christians and the Propserity Gospel

-The curse the Steipler never imagined

-How did Rothschild get their riches?

-The bracha of Shelo Asani Gvir

-Moshe’s fear of Korach’s wealth

-The rich segulah of honoring one’s wife

-Korach’s wife as the root of all evil

-The three hidden treasures of Yosef

-Korach taking riches he could never use

-The prince and the pauper in Osher

-Money after death

Korach | where did you come from where did you go, maybe because הטעתו עינו -Tzvi Eckhardt

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-The meraglim and nazir as opposites in learning from others

-The spirit of fighting against your own best interest

-The pious naive gadol vs the wily trickster gadol

-Yehoshua marrying rachav because he was too pure

-The pitfall of the tzaddik who can’t see bad in others

-Reverse projection and why Rabbis miss pedophiles

-Suddenly not believing its Hashem when you have to work

-The three neshamos who came to help Kalev

-A wife and a chavrusa; which is better?

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-The Meraglim as Shlichim of both Man and Hashem

-The Chidushei Harim on how we are all shluchim in this world

-The idea behind name pesukim of Shelah at end of Shemoneh Esrei

-When does our name precede us? The difference in a rasha and tzaddik

-The connection between Tzitzis and the time leading up to Mashiach

-Our times as similar to Yehoshua before Yud added to his name

-Rav Dessler on our Reaction to our true selves in Shamayim

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-Why are there backwards Nuns separating Vayehi Binsoa Ha’aron?

-The idea of 7 Chumshei Torah instead of 5

-Why separate between sin if we did those sins in a row?

-Why are these psukim specifically the ones that separate?

-Rabbeinu Bechaye on the whole of time included in these pesukim

-Destruction after 6,000 years and rebirth a thousand years later

-There is no light other than that which comes out of darkness

-The idea of a jew never being a sinner

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- Why is nazir after Sotah in Torah but first in Masechtos?

- Why Litvaks shouldn’t drink wine but Chassidim should

- Why should seeing the sotah create need to become a nazir

- Every sight we ever see is for a purpose

- Why frum Jews secretly like Xmas music

- The Chofetz Chaim’s special seder when he turned 90

- The Shem Mishmuel on why inspiration means nothing

- Why its our fault when the Sotah sins

- Naso and Connecting to every jew, especially the distanced ones

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-Our encampment mirroring yaakov’s deathbed

-The 4 sections of the camp and the powers of the 4 directions

-The letters of Hashem’s name on the flags

-The power of Hagbaa as the letters of our times

-Reuven and Korach, Yehuda and Moshe, Koach Haseviva

-A sharp Novardokher Vort on Oppositional Defiance

-The missing Hei of Avraham on the flags

-Our jealousy of the malachim, and the nations jealousy of us

-The ishbitzer, the maor vashemesh, and rav shteinman on the power of the flags

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-Thoughts on the story with the Avnei Nezer and the Shem Mishmuel

-The Megadef who cursed the name of Hashem’s origins

-The medrash on how his mamzer history came to light

-The Chasam Sofer on Moshe’s Ruach Hakodesh about the Megadef

-The Panim Yafos on how moshe was allowed to kill a mitzri for hitting

-The Mekoshesh, the Gra and Avraham Ben Avraham

-The Megadef and Yeshu according to R Yehuda Fataya’s Dream

-The parallels in their stories and R Chaim Vitals remez

-The tikkun of Unkelus to Elifaz and the way Yeshu helped him

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-Why does 5 chase 100 but 100 chase 10,000?

-Why do the Goyim chase us at a much higher ratio than we chase them?

-Superlineal Scaling and Metcalfes Law

-The “weak” and the power of one step into Kedusha

-The Alshich Hakadosh on the power of a Jewish Face

-The Gra, the Beis Halevi and the Baal Hatanya’s Faces

-How tall will our bodies be in the time of mashiach?

-A perfect 50. A chiddush of the Birkas Shmuel

-A chiddush on the ratio of words in the Torah to the Torah Sheba’al Peh

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-The segulah of the “Lashem” goat being picked with the right hand

-Israel belongs to Yishmael. Until Hashem joins us on our right

-Halachic Exceptions to the order for putting on shoes

-A harrowing story about putting on shoes in the proper order

-If Hashem loves us, why does he control every little thing we do?

-Going up stairs right foot first and down left foot first

-Buttoning mens shirts, womens shirts, kittels, and the klausenberger Rebbe

-Is the girsa in Yigdal “Yishlach Leketz Yamin” or “Leketz Yamim?”

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-Korban Nachshon as precious to Hashem as the Song at the Yam Suf

-The mesirus Nefesh in the Korban Nesiim

-Dying Al Kiddush Hashem and living Joyfully when he gives you life

-Zeh Korban Nachshon - becoming singular like Hashem

-The duality of these korbanos leading to future sin

-Was Nachshon part of Korach's Rebellion

-Vayidom Aharon - how do we know Aharon's silence was not one of sadness and pain?

-How do we know if an early death is punishment or purposeful?

-Hints from Hashem in the timing of Nadav and Avihu's death

-The unique time of Iyar and specifically Rosh Chodesh

-What does dying on your birthday indicate and why is it opposite for tzaddikim and reshaim?

-The gilui of a death on a birthday indicating a death is not premature

-The absolute simcha as the through line of Nachshon's life

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-The Haggada counteracting the idiocy of Yishmael

-The Galus of Speech and building up our Emunah

-How to have regain emunah when you are a trauma victim

-Echad Mi Yodea vs Echad Ani Yodea - recognizing Hashem

-The unique level of Krias Shma of Shacharis we reach seder night

-Hashem telling Moshe to tell over Exodus to his Rasha grandchild

-Yehonasan Ben Gershom and Yehonasan Eibushitz

-Three Matzos that become another 4 seder night

-Iyunim in the seemingly anticlimactic nature of Mashiach

-A new calculation as to how 210 is 430

-The Ben Ish Chai on how Hashem saves us through the rasha’s own hands

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-The Ohr Haganuz in Shabbos Neros

-Chanukah Neros as Preparation for Shabbos Neros

-The Chozeh’s wife and the light of Shabbos Neros

-The gift of being burned by Shabbos Neros

-Why do women specifically light Shabbos Neros?

-The Melacha of Lighting Fire: Anger on Shabbos

-The Avoda Zara in Anger on Shabbos

-No anger on Shabbos even towards Reshaim and Averos

-Shabbos under the constellation of Anger and War

-What is the Neshama Yeseira?

-Crowns of Naaseh V’nishma, light of Moshe in Shamayim

-A specific new neshama and letter powers each shabbos

-The light of our mitzvos over the week and their malachim

-Why we mourn losing the neshama yeseira already by Friday Night?

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-Why have our names on both the shoulders and the heart?

-Why did Aharon merit to have the Urim V’tumim?

-Flipping the Nachash into Choshen, and stone to flesh

-The Urim Vtumim coming from a tikkun of Adam and Nachash

-The Urim Vtumim as the 13th path, the kollel

-Flipping the frown upside down in Sefer Yetzira

-Do we say Lo Bashamayim Hi about the Urim Vtumim?

-Parallels between the Urim Vtumim and AI as a posek

-Learning how to never go off the derech from Rabbi Akiva

-Fighting Amalek and Safek with Ohr and Temimus

-The unique aspect of the Urim V’tumim seen in the Chofetz Chaim

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-Why is adar a time of Mazal? I thought we are above Mazal

-Hashem’s handicapped Kisei Hakavod as a tool against Amalek

-The 7 Stars in Shamayim Paralleling the Purim Actors

-Charvona and the Undecided Voter, then and by Mashiach

-Betzalel flipping Moshe’s order for the Mishkan and Keilim

-Haman’s attack on Bnei Yisrael’s Looking Different

-Should I worry about my externals and what type of hat with Mashiach wear?

-Marbim B’simcha; Purim and Pesach? Why does Purim lead to love more?

-Khomeini as a follower of Thank You Hashem and the true creator of Simcha

-The Lubavitcher Rebbe on Flipping vs Nullifying Your enemy

-Why did Rashi speak and quote French, the language of adultery?

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-The Segulah of The Baal Shem Tove against Witches

-Why only witches and not wizards? A great vort to offend your wife

-The fallen angels, the mountain of darkness, and Bilam

-The best sin to prepare for a career in sorcery

-The Kishuf at the Yam Suf

-The inability of Kishuf and Shedim to operate in live water

-R Tzadok Hakohen on mitzrayim and sorcery

-The wonders of technology as a proxy for today’s sorcery

-Mummies as the best kishuf creators to speak to the dead

-The two types of kishuf in mitzrayim and how they were both defeated

-The Arvei Nachal on Zeh Leumas Zeh of Terafim and Urim V’Tumim

-Was Mordechai a bigger tzaddik than Haman was a Rasha?

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-Moshe being involved in the bones of Yosef

-Isn’t Bnei Yisrael Also doing Mitzva taking spoils?

-Whats in the heart when doing mitzvos

-The backwardness of “Extravagant” Frumkeit

-Achus enabling us to do all mitzvos

-Admit You are an Israeli - or else!

-Moshe, Yosef, and the sense of smell

-Moshe the Kohen’s involvement with a dead body

-Not letting sevaros get in the way of mitzvos

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-Why of all Mitzvos was this practiced in mitzrayim?

-The unique hope in Kiddush Levana

- R Chaim Shmuelevitz and the holocaust survivor

-The value of the life of one with altzeimers or special needs

-Why don’t women say Kiddush Levana?

-The shelah’s shitta that women caused the moons problems

-Why do we say Shalom Aleichem three times?

-Why say it specifically Motzaei Shabbos?

-Why repeat Aleinu afterwards?

-Stories and Segulos in Kiddush Levana

-A meaningful diyuk in comparison to krias yam suf

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-Names as mission statements for life

-Why do we remember our names at the end of Shemoneh Esrei

-Rav Dessler on why we won’t recognize ourselves in Gan Eden

-The Goal of Eisav’s Malach, to make us forget our Names

-The merit of not changing our names in Mitzrayim

-The danger of changing one’s name when sick

-Stories about Rav Yosef Chaim Sonnenfeld’s Crazy Gematriyos

-The deeper meaning in Moshe’s name

-Why do we wish reshaim’s name be wiped out?

-Why are nicknames such a big deal in halacha?

-The embarrassment of using a name to fit in with non jews

-The maharam shick on last names

-R Chaim and R Mordechai Eliyahu davening for the same name

-Why don’t we bless to be “like Avraham” anymore?

-The Pitfall in placing too many expectations upon our children

-The first brothers in the Torah who didn’t fight

-Focusing on the Positivity of Efraim and not the Negativity of Menashe

-Blessing our Children to be Leshem Shamayim whatever their path

-Why is this bracha davka given on Shabbos?

-The only way to give a no strings attached bracha to a child

-No aveiros can get in the way of bracha and shefa on Shabbos

-How can we give a bracha of birkas kohanim when we are not?

-The Lubavitcher Rebbe and the Gra

-Should I bless with one hand or two? In Halacha and Kabbala

-The same story about the Gra told in completely opposite ways

-The extended nusach of Birchas Habanim

-The mother as the main bracha giver Friday night

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​Why do all pesukim in Vayeshev start with the letter Vav other than 8?​The fight against the greeks and their nature only view​The danger in connecting to the wrong people - Misyavnim and Inquisition Spain​The power of Peretz and connection of Rus to Vayeshev​The theme of the missing 11, and this parsha’s twins fixing Yaakov and Eisav​The fight between Eisav and Yaakov over the letter Vav​The plot against Yosef to take his Vav​Yaakov and Yosef’s Reunion planting the seeds of the Chashmonaim’s Victory​Tetzaveh and its Vavs, Amalek and their Vavs

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‘Lzecher Nishmas Ben Tzion Ben Tzvi Hakohen

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-The Potential Chilul Hashem of Simchas Torah

-David Hamelech as the Esrog - parallel tikkunim

-Adam Harishon committing the three unforgivable

-The Avos as the Tikkun to these three sins

-Adam Harishon as David Hamelech and its myriad explanations of David Hamelech's life

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Stories and lessons about the Chofetz Chaim - To many topics to list!

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Timestamps:

(0:00) – The Arizal and speaking about someone on their yahrtzeit

(2:15) – R Moshe Feinstein and the issur of seeing an aveira

(9:25) – Palm Reading – the wisdom the Arizal kept secret

(11:00) – We get Palm Reading from Aristotle?!

(15:45) – Reading the Letters of the Soul

(21:20) – Pre-Arizal Palm Reading

(23:45) – R Mordechai Sharabi and Palm Reading

(28:40) – Is Palm Reading Assur?

(32:20) – Contemporary Palm Reading Stories

(37:25) – How is a Palm Read? The 5 Lines of the Hand

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(00:00) - Should one say Shed or the names of Shedim?

(3:55) - R Ruderman on Moshe Vs Bilam

(8:45) - Zeh Leumas Zeh of Avoda Zara and Nevuah

(11:00) - Zeh Leumas Zeh of Bas Kol and Shedim, Nissim and Dibbukim

(13:45) - How can the Rambam say Shedim don’t exist if the Gemara says they do?

(17:30) - When you wish upon a dibbuk

(19:30) - Shedim today, lessons from Abaye - R Kaduri, Chazon Ish

(24:50) - Was Hitler a שד?

(31:50) Zeh Leumas Zeh and Hamas PR

(38:10) - Why are there non-kosher fish?

(40:15) - Who is Zeh Leumas Zeh of Hashem?

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(00:00) - Why do Pirates have Peg Legs and Eye Patches

(04:22) - Eisav and Yishmael - The Ox and the Donkey

(10:04) - Eisav and Yishmael - Fire and Water

(14:49) - Eisav and Yishmael together destroying the world

(17:55) - The Nachash as the donkey and ox

(20:22) - Amalek as the donkey and ox

(22:00) - Bilam and Amalek

(27:00) Balak and Bilam as Amalek

(30:24) Lavan and Yaakov and the Donkey and Ox

(32:45) - Bilam's Sons and the Eigel of ox and donkey

(37:20) - Galus Yishmael the fifth Galus (37:20)

(40:00) - Iran as the melding of Amalek and Yishmael

(41:47) - Mashiach Ben David, Yosef, and Eisav and Yishmael

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Yahrtzeit of Nachshon Meir Eckhardt

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Midweek Special -Tzvi Eckhardt

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Baba Sali on yaakov sending malachim to check on his face in shamanism

Eisav’s gilgulim - the mekalel, Titus, Yeshu

The similarities between yeshu and the mekalel

The story of Yeshu- origins

Yeshus ball game and Achilles heel

Elifaz son of eisav and his gilgul as onkelos the ger

Yeshus good advice to Onkelos and tikkun for eisav

Onkelos’ power to convert others

How Onkelos perhaps helped partial tikkun for Yeshu

Why only a ger could write the Targum

Why we say Yeshu and leave out the ayin

What’s the story with the cross?

Yeshu’s burial place in the Baal Shem Tov forest

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The holiness of sleep - Arizal, Gra, Chaim Kanievsky

The level of the Malachim compared to the child of the king

Yaakov Avinu as the fourth leg of the kisei hakavod

Adding the Avos to 26/91

Is the lion kosher?

The depth of meaning in the fight between yaakov and eisavs malach

Yosef on the kisei Hakavod in addition to yaakov

A chiddush in Rivka Imeinu’s worries while pregnant

How yaakov knew he would live a long life