Congregation Beth Sholom - Rabbi Yechezkel Freundlich

Drasha (Matos /Masai) - Revenge Killings: How do we feel about them? 04.08.2024 14:47 ↓

Revenge holds a complicated and multilayered place in Jewish thought

Parsha (Pinchas) - For the Love of the Land and the Daughters of Tzlofchad 24.07.2024 39:29 ↓

Standing up with strength and audacity for what you love.

Drasha (Balak) - Range Finders, Assassination Attempts and The Power to See 23.07.2024 13:38 ↓

Bilaam has much to teach us

Parsha Shiur (Balak) - Two approaches to the Ambiguous Permission Hashem grants Billam 23.07.2024 42:40 ↓

Rashi and Ramban take two important, but very different, approaches

SCP - Bentching on a Cup (2) - Practical halacha 23.07.2024 36:15 ↓

Three opinions

Alei Shur (Gratitude 1) - Giving a gift but not telling the recipient 15.07.2024 11:42 ↓

Are you allowed to do that?

SCP - Bentching on a Cup 15.07.2024 42:03 ↓

Is that required? For an individual, three people, or ten - does it matter if its Shabbos or Yom Tov?

Parsha (Chukas) - Making sense of the harsh response to keep Moshe out of the Land 10.07.2024 40:44 ↓

Three approaches from Rashi Ramban and Rambam, each with much to teach us

Shabbos Drasha (Shelach) - Of Presidential Debates, Spies, and Confronting Lies 30.06.2024 8:40 ↓

There was a very important point to be learned from an otherwise miserable Debate

Alei Shur (Brachos 2) - The pecking order of the brachos 30.06.2024 8:05 ↓

Chazal had one criteria in mind; we would have figured something else

SCP - Mayim Achronim (2) 30.06.2024 41:55 ↓

How much do you need to wash, women

Parsha shiur (Shelach): A Multi-tiered mission and response 26.06.2024 37:46 ↓

Whose idea was this anyways, and what did they do wrong in their initial report? Based on comments from the Ramban

Shabbos Drasha (Behalotcha) - No Kvetching! Only seeing the good 24.06.2024 11:37 ↓

We come by it honestly, but there are things to do to focus our attention on what's important

Alei Shur - 100 Brachos a day 24.06.2024 9:49 ↓

The key to developing Yiras Shamayim

SCP - Mayim Achronim (1) 21.06.2024 39:43 ↓

Two contradictory sources in the gemarah as to why was this instituted.

Parsha (Be'halotcha) - Traveling with kvetchers 20.06.2024 39:53 ↓

Lessons from the backward nun's

Parsha (Bamidbar) - the Complexity of Counting 06.06.2024 41:28 ↓

There are pros and cons, upside and downside

Talking Points - The War on Truth 03.06.2024 15:38 ↓

Combatting a battle for truth in Gaza and in the media

Pirkei Avos (3:19) - Everything is known, Free Choice and an abundance of good deeds 03.06.2024 11:38 ↓

Some famous Theological discussions

Great Jewish Controversies - Zionists and Anti-Zionists 30.05.2024 1:00:49 ↓

Making sense of the return of the Jewish people at the turn of the 20th Century

Pirkei Avos (2:17) - Torah is, and is not, an Inheritance 27.05.2024 10:14 ↓

Make sure you care enough and work enough to receive it!

SCP (Laws of Bentching 1) - Leaving bread on the table 27.05.2024 34:00 ↓

Must you leave some bread on the table, and if so, how much?

Talking Points (Drasha) - Dual Loyalty 19.05.2024 14:03 ↓

A sensitive claim against the Jews in America, because to a degree, it's true.

Great Jewish Controversies: The Prayer for the State of Israel 17.05.2024 45:11 ↓

What could be controversial about that? Turns out, just three words created a firestorm

Pirkei Avos (2:1) - Torah with Derech Eretz 17.05.2024 12:12 ↓

Insights into staying out of trouble and being the most productive (Sunday morning learning)