Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:01:20 — 14.0MB) Vayigash 5772 – Conflict Resolution
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Vayeitze: Going out Into the Real World
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 48:33 — 11.5MB) Jacob’s Ladder One of the most well known biblical images comes from this week’s parsha. “Jacob’s Ladder” is an image described in the Torah as the vision Yakov had while in flight away from his brother Esav on his way to the house of [...]
Read MoreToldos: Our Legacy of Physical and Spiritual Blessings
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Read MoreChayei Sarah: Complete Lives
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (14.7MB) Chayei Sarah 5772 – Complete Lives The Years of Sarah In describing the life of Sarah the Torah uses a description that we don’t find mentioned anywhere else in all of Scripture. “And the life of Sarah was 100 years, and 20 years, and 7 years, the [...]
Read MoreVayeirah: Changing the Fabric of Reality
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 57:36 — 13.2MB) Its All In the Place This week’s portion begins with Avraham Avinu having a prophecy amidst “the trees of Mamre”. Our sages also observed an oddity in this vision in that the Torah stresses that the vision was specifically in the trees of Mamre, [...]
Read MoreLech Lecha: The World was Made for Walking
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:00:40 — 13.9MB) Originally published November 2011. Avraham’s Walking – Walking in the Way of Hashem is Really Teaching In the Midrash Rabbah at the beginning of parshas Lech Lecha there are two consecutive midrashim that plum to the essence of the culmination of Avraham’s search for [...]
Read MoreNoach: The Deterioration of the Individual
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (11.2MB) Originally published October 2011 / 5772 In the aftermath of the tragic fratricide of Hevel, Adam HaRishon separated from his wife. The descendants of Cain developed a civilization possessed of advanced culture and technology, but which was morally infantile. Seeing that his progeny had failed, Adam rejoined [...]
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