The Jewish Perspective

If you knew for certain that your descendants would be living five hundred years from now, would you make different decisions today? How far into the future can human responsibility extend? Let’s try to see life through the eyes of many generations. Let’s find out in today’s episode of the Jewish Perspective podcast. Watch Rabbi Belinsky's Video Blog on Youtube Chapters (00:00:00) - How to care ab...

Can a person be defined as good or bad based on a single action? Can someone who has made a terrible mistake still be considered a good person, while someone who has done a good deed may not be who they seem? In this episode, we explore why we may be too quick to judge people. Let’s find out in today’s episode of the Jewish Perspective podcast.  Watch Rabbi Belinsky's Video Blog on Youtube Chapter...

Is this a return to an ancestral land or a territorial conquest? Was a peace agreement truly offered before the conflict, and under what conditions? In this episode, we explore where the line lies between ancestral rights and modern territorial claims. Let’s find out in today’s episode of the Jewish Perspective podcast. Watch Rabbi Belinsky's Video Blog on Youtube Chapters (00:00:00) - Israel: The...

Why can the same actions mean completely different things? What has a greater impact—our actions or our intentions? In this episode, we explore where the true meaning really lies. Let’s find out in today’s episode of the Jewish Perspective podcast.  Watch Rabbi Belinsky's Video Blog on Youtube Chapters (00:00:01) - The incoherence of the Torah (00:05:18) - The meaning of prayers in Hasidic traditi...

Can generosity be required, or does it only exist when we choose it freely? What separates duty from compassion? In this episode, we examine that distinction. Let's find out in today's episode of the Jewish Perspective podcast. Watch Rabbi Belinsky's Video Blog on Youtube Chapters (00:00:00) - Law of Charity and Taxation

Why do we fear boundaries, yet feel lost without them? What happens when the line between “mine” and “someone else’s” disappears? This episode explores how boundaries help us stay grounded and not lose ourselves. Let’s find out in today’s episode of the Jewish Perspective podcast.  Watch Rabbi Belinsky's Video Blog on Youtube Chapters (00:00:00) - Israel and the Boundaries (00:08:29) - God's fairn...

Can you become great by doing things that don't bring personal growth? Sometimes, the quietest work is the most important. The story of wood in the Temple is telling us exactly that. Let's explore it in this episode of The Jewish Perspective Podcast. Watch Rabbi Belinsky's Video Blog on Youtube

Before receiving the Torah, the Jews learned from Moses every day—until the day they reached Mount Sinai. Why did that moment of stillness matter? How does awe prepare us to truly receive wisdom? Let’s find out in today’s episode of the Jewish Perspective podcast. Watch Rabbi Belinsky's Video Blog on Youtube Chapters (00:00:00) - Book of Bamidbar (00:05:59) - The Power of Ateying the Torah (00:10:...

Do we have to take every account in the Torah at face value—even when it clashes with historical evidence? Or is it possible that what we label as facts isn’t always as clear-cut as it appears? Let's explore it in this episode of The Jewish Perspective Podcast. Watch Rabbi Belinsky's Video Blog on Youtube Chapters (00:00:01) - The Story of the Rabbi and His Letter (00:08:04) - The Problem of Mezuz...

The history of arrest and liberation of the Previous Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneerson. Let’s find out in today’s episode of the Jewish Perspective podcast.  Watch Rabbi Belinsky's Video Blog on Youtube Chapters (00:00:00) - The Self-Sacrifice (00:06:15) - The Lubavitch Rebbe in communist Russia (00:14:39) - The Trials of the Former Trebbe (00:22:09) - The Life of Rebbe Schneerson

We hear people calling themselves "anti-Zionists", who are they? Let’s find out in today’s episode of the Jewish Perspective podcast.  Watch Rabbi Belinsky's Video Blog on Youtube Chapters (00:00:00) - What is Anti-Zionism?

Do we have control of our destiny? How much of our life is predetermined? How much is in our hands? Let’s find out in today’s episode of the Jewish Perspective podcast.  Watch Rabbi Belinsky's Video Blog on Youtube Chapters (00:00:00) - What is Predestined and What Is In Our Hands?

Is love always good? Is love always selfless? Let’s find out in today’s episode of the Jewish Perspective podcast.  Watch Rabbi Belinsky's Video Blog on Youtube Chapters (00:00:01) - How to Love Ice Cream, Music or Shakespeare (00:00:46) - What is Love?

How would you define the word "spirituality"? Is spirituality subjective? Can something be a form of spirituality for one person and not spiritual for another? How can you tell a spiritual desire from a non-spiritual one? Let’s find out in today’s episode of the Jewish Perspective podcast.  Watch Rabbi Belinsky's Video Blog on Youtube Chapters (00:00:00) - Not by Bread Alone Lives a Person

How Pesach helps us to get to know ourselves better. Let’s find out in today’s episode of The Jewish Perspective podcast Watch Rabbi Belinsky's Video Blog on Youtube Chapters (00:00:00) - What Would You Do If You Became a King?

- Why is converting to Judaism much more difficult than being born Jewish? - Do we need to first fix ourselves,  and then work on our surroundings? - Why do Jews have strange blessings: “Thank You for not creating me a non-Jew,” “Thank You for not creating me a slave,” and why do men also add, “Thank You for not creating me a woman”? Let’s find out in today’s episode of The Jewish Perspective. Wat...

Why do Jews insist on their own calendar? Discover how its unique structure reveals the foundation of our entire faith. Let’s find out in today’s episode of The Jewish Perspective. Watch Rabbi Belinsky's Video Blog on Youtube Chapters (00:00:00) - The Torah and the Jewish Calendar (00:06:49) - Oral Interpretation of the Torah (00:11:50) - The Purpose of Holidays (00:15:00) - What about Orthodox Ju...

The mystical significance of a Talmudic discussion regarding the details of laws.    Let’s find out in today’s episode of the Jewish Perspective podcast.  Watch Rabbi Belinsky's Video Blog on Youtube Chapters (00:00:00) - The Mitzvah of Tefillin (00:06:34) - Tefillin Shalyad and Torah Study (00:12:26) - The Right to Recognize a Higher Authority

Why can't we do only the Commandments of we understand?   Let’s find out in today’s episode of the Jewish Perspective podcast.  Watch Rabbi Belinsky's Video Blog on Youtube Chapters (00:00:00) - 3 Types of Laws in the Torah (00:01:39) - The Second Category of Torah Laws

A Torah lesson in leadership    Let’s find out in today’s episode of the Jewish Perspective podcast.  Watch Rabbi Belinsky's Video Blog on Youtube Chapters (00:00:00) - Noach Noah is called by the Torah a righteous person (00:06:02) - What is the Purpose of Righteous People?

The answer might surprise you...  Let’s find out in today’s episode of the Jewish Perspective podcast.  Watch Rabbi Belinsky's Video Blog on Youtube Chapters (00:00:00) - Marriage of Law of Koskosher and Health

What does the word 'Torah' mean?  How is it different from other books of wisdom?  Let’s find out in today’s episode of the Jewish Perspective podcast.  Watch Rabbi Belinsky's Video Blog on Youtube Chapters (00:00:00) - Are Laws of Nature and Religion Objective or Subjective?

Can people be expected to be altruistic? Can a selfish individual be a good person? Let’s find out in today’s episode of the Jewish Perspective podcast.  Watch Rabbi Belinsky's Video Blog on Youtube

We all feel that we have a soul... but what is it? Do animals have a soul? Let’s find out in today’s episode of the Jewish Perspective podcast.  Watch Rabbi Belinsky's Video Blog on Youtube Chapters (00:00:01) - A soul and its functions

- Where does this word come from? - Is Mitzvah - a "good deed"? - Why would someone do Mitzvas?  Let’s find out in today’s episode of the Jewish Perspective podcast. Watch Rabbi Belinsky's Video Blog on Youtube Chapters (00:00:00) - Celebrities and their mitzvahs