Explorations

Mitzvah 42 - The Eved Ivri 28.11.2022 4:16 ↓

Exploring the mitzvah of how to treat the Eved Ivri - A Jewish indentured servant.

Shabbos is for music 25.11.2022 3:13 ↓

A brief exploration of the role of music in the Shabbos experience.

Tanya Review - Chapters 18-25 25.11.2022 28:27 ↓

A half-hour review of Tanya Chapters 18-25.

Tanya Review - Chapters 1-17 25.11.2022 31:54 ↓

A half-hour review shiur of the first seventeen chapters of Tanya.

Two kinds of tastiness 24.11.2022 3:30 ↓

Exploring a deeper dimension to the tasty foods that Yitzchak requested.

Mitzvah 41 - Do not take steps to get up on the altar. 21.11.2022 5:09 ↓

Exploring the mitzvah not to use a ladder or staircase to get up onto the altar, and the inferred mitzvah to build a ramp. 

Umeivee Goeil - He brings a redeemer 20.11.2022 4:10 ↓

Exploring the phrase in the first bracha of Shmoneh Esrei that Hashem in the present tense beings Moshiach.

Shabbos is for Torah 18.11.2022 2:48 ↓

Exploring a Jew's opportunity for Torah Study on Friday night.

Say little and do much 17.11.2022 3:34 ↓

Say little and do much; the key to Kindness

Tanya Chapter 39 15.11.2022 7:05 ↓

Exploring Tanya Chapter 39, which speaks of four levels of intent when doing a Mitzva.

Mitzvah 40 - Do not build the altar out of cut stone 14.11.2022 3:59 ↓

Exploring the Mitzvah of not allowing a blade to touch the altar, either during construction or even after it's built.

El Elyon 13.11.2022 4:16 ↓

Exploring the phrase "El Elyon" in the Shmoneh Esrei, and how it expresses a fundamental understanding of God.

Adding to Shabbos - An Autobiography 11.11.2022 4:14 ↓

Exploring ways one can bring the holiness of Shabbos into the week.

Avraham's magnetism 10.11.2022 4:58 ↓

Exploring a little story in Parshas Vayeira about Avraham and Avimelech

Tanya Chapter 38 08.11.2022 5:29 ↓

Exploring Tanya Chapter 38: The relative value of action and intention

Mitzvah 39 - Do not make statues even when not for worship 07.11.2022 3:55 ↓

Exploring the mitzvah not to make any statues, even when you have no intention for the statue to be worshipped

Konei HaKol - God Acquires All 06.11.2022 5:03 ↓

Exploring the short phrase in the Shmoneh Esrei that describers God as the Konei Hakol - Acquirer of All - A phrase taken from Parshas Lech Lecha.

Good Shabbos - Shabbat Shalom 04.11.2022 3:47 ↓

Exploring the practice of wishing people a Good Shabbos when greeting them on Shabbos.

Avraham and Elitism as the solution for humanity 04.11.2022 5:30 ↓

Exploring Hashem's plan for Avraham and mankind

Tanya Chapter 37 02.11.2022 6:48 ↓

Exploring Tanya Chapter 37: The value of a physical act of Mitzvah performance

Mitzvah 38 - Do not covet 31.10.2022 4:37 ↓

Exploring the mitzvah not to want to take something that belongs to someone else.

The obstacles that are behind us 31.10.2022 3:37 ↓

Exploring the line in Birchos Krias Shema that asks Hashem to remove the obstacles that are behind us.

Just Shabbos 28.10.2022 2:36 ↓

Exploring the beauty of an ordinary Shabbos, devoid of prefexes or suffixes.

Tanya Chapter 36 27.10.2022 4:25 ↓

Exploring the idea that God desired to dwell in the world of Action

Mitzvah 37 - Do not testify falsely 27.10.2022 4:52 ↓

Exploring the mitzvah to not lie when giving testimony - and its importance in everyday life