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This week is dedicated in memory of Harold Pasternak, Hershel ben Dovid. His neshama should have an Aliyah. Enjoyed this episode of The Torah Podcast? Connect with Rabbi Ephraim Nisenbaum at: www.clevelandjlc.com Remember to share this show with your family and friends. Help us spread quality Jewish education. Thinking about starting your own podcast? www.maverickpodcasting.com

Did You Know...? Welcome to our mini series here on The Torah Podcast! Each week along with our traditional episodes, we will also publish a quick tidbit on Halacha (Jewish Law) and the law's sources. Enjoy! This week is dedicated in memory of Harold Pasternak, Hershel ben Dovid. His neshama should have an Aliyah. Enjoyed this episode of The Torah Podcast? Connect with Rabbi Ephraim Nisenbaum at:...

This week is dedicated in memory of Harold Pasternak, Hershel ben Dovid. His neshama should have an Aliyah. Enjoyed this episode of The Torah Podcast? Connect with Rabbi Ephraim Nisenbaum at: www.clevelandjlc.com Remember to share this show with your family and friends. Help us spread quality Jewish education. Thinking about starting your own podcast? www.maverickpodcasting.com

Did You Know...? Welcome to our mini series here on The Torah Podcast! Each week along with our traditional episodes, we will also publish a quick tidbit on Halacha (Jewish Law) and the law's sources. Enjoy! This week is dedicated in memory of Harold Pasternak, Hershel ben Dovid. His neshama should have an Aliyah. Enjoyed this episode of The Torah Podcast? Connect with Rabbi Ephraim Nisenbaum at:...

This week is dedicated in memory of Harold Pasternak, Hershel ben Dovid. His neshama should have an Aliyah. Enjoyed this episode of The Torah Podcast? Connect with Rabbi Ephraim Nisenbaum at: www.clevelandjlc.com Remember to share this show with your family and friends. Help us spread quality Jewish education. Thinking about starting your own podcast? www.maverickpodcasting.com

This week is dedicated in memory of Harold Pasternak, Hershel ben Dovid. His neshama should have an Aliyah. Enjoyed this episode of The Torah Podcast? Connect with Rabbi Ephraim Nisenbaum at: www.clevelandjlc.com Remember to share this show with your family and friends. Help us spread quality Jewish education. Thinking about starting your own podcast? www.maverickpodcasting.com

This week is dedicated in memory of Harold Pasternak, Hershel ben Dovid. His neshama should have an Aliyah. Enjoyed this episode of The Torah Podcast? Connect with Rabbi Ephraim Nisenbaum at: www.clevelandjlc.com Remember to share this show with your family and friends. Help us spread quality Jewish education. Thinking about starting your own podcast? www.maverickpodcasting.com

This week is dedicated in memory of Harold Pasternak, Hershel ben Dovid. His neshama should have an Aliyah. Enjoyed this episode of The Torah Podcast? Connect with Rabbi Ephraim Nisenbaum at: www.clevelandjlc.com Remember to share this show with your family and friends. Help us spread quality Jewish education. Thinking about starting your own podcast? www.maverickpodcasting.com

This week is dedicated in memory of Harold Pasternak, Hershel ben Dovid. His neshama should have an Aliyah. Enjoyed this episode of The Torah Podcast? Connect with Rabbi Ephraim Nisenbaum at: www.clevelandjlc.com Remember to share this show with your family and friends. Help us spread quality Jewish education. Thinking about starting your own podcast? www.maverickpodcasting.com

This parsha is typically read before shavuos? What is the connection between the parsha of Bamidbar and Shavuos. The Book of Numbers opens with a census of the people. Rashi explains because of the love for the Jewish People Hashem constantly counts us. The Torah goes through great length how we were counted. According to their families based on their fathers, their tribes, each male 20 years and...

We will be talking about shavuos. The parsha of Bamidbar is always read before shavuos. Lets talk about this misunderstood Yom Tov (holiday). The Torah doesn’t tell us any reason why we celebrate shavuos. It tells us after Pesach, you’re supposed to count the day after the first day of pesach seven complete weeks. Count a total of 49 days and after that make a holiday and it should be a day where...

This week's Torah portion is Parshas Bechukosai. This is the parsha that's always read a few weeks before shavuos. Its the parsha called, "tochacha" (reproof). The Torah tells describes in great details all the rewards that will come to the Jewish people if they keep the mitzvah properly. As well as all the terrible punishments that will befall the Jewish people if they do not keep the mitzvah. Th...

Shemittah - The Divine Authorship of The Torah! This weeks parsha is Parshas Behar. The mitzvah of shemitah is a mitzvah where every seven years in Israel we cannot work the land. There’s a famous Rashi on the first passuk in the parsha which tells us, Hashem spoke to Moshe at Mount Sinai and gave him the mitzvah of shemttiah. Rashi poses the question, “why does it tell us over here that Gd told M...

Welcome back! This week's parsha is Parshas Emor. The portion itself goes through the different holidays and periods of the year. Pesach and the omer. The Torah tells us that the "korban omer" or "barley offering" was brought the day after the first day of pesach. Its called a "wave offering" where the kohain would wave it in all different directions. Then it says that you should begin counting se...

Parshas Kedoshim discusses many of the mitzvos especially the interpersonal mitzvah. The prohibition of speaking “Lashon Harah”, “Love your neighbor as yourself”, “Not taking revenge”, “Not bearing a grudge”, etc. One of the mitzvos the Torah tells us about is “Betzedek Tishpot Amisecha”. The rabbis understand that to mean that a person should give his friend the benefit of the doubt. While the si...

Parsha Achrei Mos 2022: Immeasurable Value of Life - Torah Podcast This weeks Torah portion is Achrei Mos. The parsha initially begins with the idea of what happened on Yom Kippur in the times of the Beis Hamikdash, the kohen gadol, and the service. Later it goes into the section of prohibited relationships. The Torah introduces the prohibited relationships with a very interesting preface. It uses...

The hagaddah has been published with commentary more than any other book in all of Jewish history. Hundreds of them come out almost every year. Everybody has an approach to the hagaddah be it a more mystical approach or a simple understanding, deeper understanding, etc. There's so many different approaches to the hagaddah. The reason for that is because the scriptural passage regarding the Passove...

The hagaddah has been published with commentary more than any other book in all of Jewish history. Hundreds of them come out almost every year. Everybody has an approach to the hagaddah be it a more mystical approach or a simple understanding, deeper understanding, etc. There's so many different approaches to the hagaddah. The reason for that is because the scriptural passage regarding the Passove...