Explorations

Raba Emunasecha - Modeh Ani Part Three 08.01.2023 2:19 ↓

Exploring the last two words of Modeh Ani

Those who taste the upcoming Shabbos merit life 05.01.2023 3:24 ↓

Exploring the minhag of partaking of some of the Shabbos food on Erev Shabbos

Vayechi - Yaakov asks Yoseph and all Jews to choose 05.01.2023 5:46 ↓

Exploring Yaakov's demand that Yosef swear to commit to not bury Yaakov in Mitzrayim

Tanya Chapter 43 01.01.2023 6:33 ↓

Exploring two fears and two loves

Modeh Ani - A concession speech 01.01.2023 3:18 ↓

Exploring another facet of the Hebrew word "Modeh" in Modeh Ani

Mitzvah 45 - Not to sell a Jewish Maidservant 01.01.2023 3:08 ↓

Exploring the Mitzvah not to resell a women you were meant to marry

Third time (famine) is a charm 23.12.2022 4:39 ↓

Exploring the recurring famines and resulting departure from the Holy Land

Menorah on the left 16.12.2022 4:10 ↓

An exploration into human nature as learned from the Halacha that the Chanukah Menorah should be placed on the left side of the doorway.

Tanya Chapter 42 15.12.2022 4:59 ↓

Exploring Chapter 42 - How to achieve the trait of Yirah

Modeh Ani 12.12.2022 4:08 ↓

Exploring a facet of the awakening prayer "Modeh Ani"

Mitzvah 44 - Redeeming a Jewish maidservant 12.12.2022 4:20 ↓

Exploring the mitzvah to release a Jewish maidservant as soon as you have no intention of having her marry into the family.

Tanya Chapter 41 07.12.2022 5:03 ↓

Exploring Tanya Chapter 41 - How to fear and love God when doing a Mitzvah.

Mitzvah 43 - To marry off a Jewish maidservant 07.12.2022 3:52 ↓

Exploring the mitzvah that someone who has taken a Jewish maidservant should marry her or have his son marry her. 

A facet of praying for rain 04.12.2022 4:50 ↓

Exploring the inconvenience of rain and the prayer for rain

Shabbos is for the Jewish People 02.12.2022 3:34 ↓

Exploring the Jewish particularism of Shabbos

Vayeitzei - Trust and Honesty 02.12.2022 5:53 ↓

What does the brief story of Yaakov at the well tell us about trust?

What Leah teaches us about Tefilla 02.12.2022 3:28 ↓

Exploring the rabbis' understanding of Leah Imeinu and her tefillos

Tanya Chapter 40 29.11.2022 5:09 ↓

Exploring Tanya Chapter 40 - how Love of God and Awe of God elevate mitzvos

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.