Spark Torah Podcast

Hello and welcome to the Spark Torah podcast! I am Chana Miriam Bouskila and today we will be learning parsha Shemot. We will discuss what this parsha has to do with names… Why Hashem appeared as a bush… Why and when we should remove our shoes… Whether or not we can question… Why does life have to be this way?… And a mini deep dive into four incredible women who help shape the redemption in its ea...

Hello and welcome to the Spark Torah podcast! I am Chana Miriam Bouskila and today we will be learning parsha Vayechi. We will discuss why the years in Egypt were the happiest of Yaakov’s life… if Yaakov’s children were too comfortable in Egypt… why Yaakov’s name switches back and forth… why the brachot Yaakov gave his children don’t always sound like brachot… why people lived so long back then co...

Hello and welcome to the Spark Torah podcast! I am Chana Miriam Bouskila and today we will be learning parsha Vayigash. We will talk about: What rebuke Yosef gave and how it relates to us… Did Benyamin miss Yosef?… And other life lessons we can carry from the parsha… Please leave a review on Spotify or Apple Podcasts, which is an entirely free way to support the pod. And hop on over to our Substac...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit sparktorahpodcast.substack.com Hello and welcome to the Spark Torah podcast! I am Chana Miriam Bouskila and today we will be learning about Yehudit in this special episode for paid subscribers. We will go through Yehudit’s story in dramatic fashion and then bring in how we can use our inspiration from her, and how her story still applie...

Hello and welcome to the Spark Torah podcast! I am Chana Miriam Bouskila and today we will be learning parsha Miketz. We will talk about: How we can achieve greatness… Who Osnat really was… Why Yosef took so long to contact his father… When we should remain silent… And other life lessons we can carry from the parsha… Please leave a review on Spotify or Apple Podcasts, which is an entirely free way...

Hello and welcome to the Spark Torah podcast! I am Chana Miriam Bouskila and today we will be learning parsha Vayeishev. We will talk about: Whether or not we are allowed to be jealous… How to bring Hashem closer to us… Who really sold Yosef… What made Tamar a hero… And other life lessons we can carry from the parsha… Please leave a review on Spotify or Apple Podcasts, which is an entirely free wa...

Hello and welcome to the Spark Torah podcast! I am Chana Miriam Bouskila and today we will be learning parsha Vayishlach. We will talk about: Fear: how we handle it and how we can avoid it…   The importance of a single mitzvah… How to handle problems… How to ask for what we want… Whether or not our material possessions should matter to us… Why we have so many mitzvot… And other life lessons we can...

Hello and welcome to the Spark Torah podcast! I am Chana Miriam Bouskila and today we will be learning parsha Vayetze. We will talk about: whether or not the ends justify the means… Why we are compared to sand, dirt, and stars… How we should thank Hashem… And other life lessons we can carry from the parsha… Please leave a review on Spotify or Apple Podcasts, which is an entirely free way to suppor...

Hello and welcome to the Spark Torah podcast! I am Chana Miriam Bouskila and today we will be learning parsha Toldot. We will talk about: How we should be spending our spare time… Should we keep trying after we fail… Was the blessing really stolen… And is this week’s parsha the first mention of Chinese food?… And other life lessons we can carry from the parsha… Please leave a review on Spotify or...

Hello and welcome to the Spark Torah podcast! I am Chana Miriam Bouskila and today we will be learning parsha Chayei Sarah. We will talk about: Avraham eulogizing Sarah… Where Avraham was coming from… Regret and joy…Yitzchak finding a wife as well as her role in the family… The influence of women spiritually… And other life lessons we can carry from the parsha… Please leave a review on Spotify or...

Hello and welcome to the Spark Torah podcast! I am Chana Miriam Bouskila and today we will be learning parsha Vayera. We will talk about: Why Avraham needed to be tested… Lot’s hospitality verses Avraham’s hospitality… What Avraham needed to prove and to whom… Plus how we can understand the Akedah… And other life lessons we can carry from the parsha… Please leave a review on Spotify or Apple Podca...

Welcome to the Spark Torah podcast! I am Chana Miriam Bouskila and today we will be learning parsha Lech Lecha. We will talk about: Do our small deeds matter? Why doesn’t Avraham get an introduction? Why so much discussion about Avraham’s age? How should we handle disputes? How should we handle wealth? And other life lessons we can carry from the parsha… Please leave a review on Spotify or Apple P...

Hello and welcome to the Spark Torah podcast! I am Chana Miriam Bouskila and today we will be learning parsha Noach. We will talk about: Why the ark had to be built, respecting others, shining our light, unity and when its not a good thing, how we can have an ark today, and other life lessons we can carry from the parsha… Please leave a review on Spotify or Apple Podcasts, which is an entirely fre...

Hello and welcome to the Spark Torah podcast! I am Chana Miriam Bouskila and today we will be learning parsha Haazinu. We will talk about: Shirat Haazinu, its background and its content… exploring its analogies and deeper meanings… How to bring heaven to earth… And other life lessons we can carry from the parsha… Please leave a review on Spotify or Apple Podcasts, which is an entirely free way to...

Hello and welcome to the Spark Torah podcast! I am Chana Miriam Bouskila and today we will be learning parsha Vayelech. Please leave a review on Spotify or Apple Podcasts, which is an entirely free way to support the pod. And hop on over to our Substack where you can join in our conversation, gain inspiration, and stay up to date on all things Spark Torah. The link is: sparktorahpodcast.substack.c...

Hello and welcome to the Spark Torah podcast! I am Chana Miriam Bouskila and today we will be learning parsha Nitzavim. We will talk about: Why Moshe undercut himself in his speech… If we are really responsible for each other… If teshuvah is actually a mitzvah or not… How everything is good, even if it doesn’t seem that way… Will it ever make sense?… And other life lessons we can carry from the pa...

Hello and welcome to the Spark Torah podcast! I am Chana Miriam Bouskila and today we will be learning parsha Ki Tavo. We will talk about: What it means to be blessed with days… How we should do mitzvot… Where is the comfort in the curses… How we should view our days… Is multitasking a good thing… What’s really going on when we bow… Explaining how we can be on top and not on the bottom… And other...

Hello and welcome to the Spark Torah podcast! I am Chana Miriam Bouskila and today we will be learning parsha Ki Teitzei. We will talk about: Spiritually dangerous places… Attaining a long life… Doing mitzvot accidentally… Remembering and forgetting… And other life lessons we can carry from the parsha… Please leave a review on Spotify or Apple Podcasts, which is an entirely free way to support the...

Hello and welcome to the Spark Torah podcast! I am Chana Miriam Bouskila and today we will be learning parsha Shoftim. We will talk about: What we should do in Elul… How we can be wholehearted with Hashem… Why the king needs two Torah scrolls… If we need two Torah scrolls as well… And other life lessons we can carry from the parsha… Please leave a review on Spotify or Apple Podcasts, which is an e...

Hello and welcome to the Spark Torah podcast! I am Chana Miriam Bouskila and today we will be learning parsha Re’eh. We will talk about: blessings and curses… How to be rich… Appreciation and simcha… And other life lessons we can carry from the parsha… Please leave a review on Spotify or Apple Podcasts, which is an entirely free way to support the pod. And hop on over to our Substack where you can...

Hello and welcome to the Spark Torah podcast! I am Chana Miriam Bouskila and today we will be learning parsha Va'etchanan. We will talk about: What is so special about benching… How we should treat a mitzvah… Why and how to love a ger… All about the test of the manna… And so much more. Please leave a review on Spotify or Apple Podcasts, which is an entirely free way to support the pod. And hop on...

Hello and welcome to the Spark Torah podcast! I am Chana Miriam Bouskila and today we will be learning parsha Va'etchanan. We will talk about: How this parsha connects to comfort… What it means to transmit the Torah… If we should start mitzvot we cannot finish… Why the wording is different in the ten commandments this week… Is there a fifth section of Shulchan Aruch?… Plus a little on the Haftorah...

Hello and welcome to the Spark Torah podcast! I am Chana Miriam Bouskila and today we will be learning parsha Matot-Masei. We will talk about: If Moshe blamed Hashem for the sin of the Golden Calf… Whether or not our mission from Hashem is too hard of a burden… How we should we handle wealth… Internalizing the loss of the Batei Hamikdash… Plus an introduction to Sefer Devarim… And so much more. Pl...

Hello and welcome to the Spark Torah podcast! I am Chana Miriam Bouskila and today we will be learning parsha Matot-Masei. We will talk about: Why the 42 stops in the desert were each listed out in the Torah… Why the clouds of Glory were in the merit of Aaron?… Why we tovel what we own and not what we borrow or rent… How we should use our words and why it matters… Plus an update of Tzelafchad‘s da...

Hello and welcome to the Spark Torah podcast! I am Chana Miriam Bouskila and today we will be learning parsha Pinchas. We will talk about: Whether or not Pinchas’s motives were pure… What happened to the sons of Korach… How important our tefillah is… How all the events in this week’s parsha are connected… And so much more. Please leave a review on Spotify or Apple Podcasts, which is an entirely fr...