Torah and Stories with Rabbi Liff

A pre-Lag BaOmer shiur on having a tochnit — a real plan — in avodas Hashem, illustrated by the unforgettable story of the Yemenite bachur who learned four blatt a day with Rav Chaim Kanievsky for a seudas hodaah he did not know he would get, and the Rav of Ponovezh who said if they knew the power of mussar they would do the dishes to get in.

The regular Erev Shabbos podcast on Shelach: the Meraglim "learned Eretz Yisrael falsely," seeing only the negative, and our avodah is to see the good — in the land, in every Jew, and in Hashem's miracles. Rabbi Liff brings Rav Moshe Feinstein's and Rav Shach's warmth to ordinary and even broken Jews as the model amid wartime fear and loss.

An interactive English chaburah recorded during the Iran war: the cheit of the Meraglim was how they looked — seeing the bad instead of the good — and the Torah of latur vs. spying. Wide-ranging and candid, Rabbi Liff weaves in the bomb-shelter achdus of wartime, the unmistakable "God factor" behind Israel's victories, and the deep connection of every Jew to Eretz Yisrael.

On the heels of devastating arson fires near Beit Meir, Rabbi Liff connects tzaraas and lashon hara to guarding what comes out of our mouths just as we guard what goes in. He recounts Rav Moshe Feinstein's lifelong cheshbon hanefesh — tracing a flicker of gaava back to age nine — to illustrate the greatness (and obligation) of man as the crown of creation.

Built around "Vayidom Aharon," Aharon's silence at the death of his sons, this episode teaches how a Jew accepts what he cannot understand — from Rav Shlomo Zalman Auerbach smiling at a talmid's simcha hours after losing his wife, to the halacha of "three days of crying." Rabbi Liff applies it to the unanswerable questions of antisemitism and the matzav in Eretz Yisrael: Mishpetei Hashem emes, the...

On the seventh day of Pesach, Rabbi Liff explains why Krias Yam Suf had to be an actual splitting of the sea — to shatter the chutzpah of the sar shel yam who accused Klal Yisrael — and how Bnei Yisrael rose to the level of malachim in shira. He links the Shira to the building of the Beis HaMikdash and the sanctification of the body, with the takeaway to make ourselves and our homes holier.

An Erev Pesach message: cleaning chametz is really the removal of the yetzer hara, and we are charged to find simcha at the Seder even while our hostage brethren remain captive. Through Rabbi Akiva's famous laughter amid the churban and the story of a woman under communism who saved 365 cigarettes a year to buy matzah, Rabbi Liff shows how pure emunah lets us sing the Geulah in the darkest times.

Rabbi Liff recounts his Machon Shlomo trip to Hungary — davening at the kevarim of the Yismach Moshe in Mád and walking the old Jewish quarter of Budapest — and the lesson of clinging to the unbroken mesorah that kept Hungarian Jewry alive. Tying it to the small Aleph of Vayikra , he draws out the centrality of humility, citing that Rav Moshe Feinstein worked on the middah of anava for over forty...

A Gutten Erev Shabbos Parshas Vayakhel - Divrei Torah, stories and Chizuk. Embark on a soulful journey with Rabbi Yehoshua Liff's inspiring melodies. Join us in honoring the joy, wisdom, and beauty of Rabbi Liff's newly released album, 'Ilu Finu'. - Listen here Visit our website  Subscribe to our YouTube channel  Contact JFoundations: WhatsApp +972 55-711-6220

A Gutten Erev Shabbos Purim - Divrei Torah, stories and Chizuk. Embark on a soulful journey with Rabbi Yehoshua Liff's inspiring melodies. Join us in honoring the joy, wisdom, and beauty of Rabbi Liff's newly released album, 'Ilu Finu'. - Listen here Visit our website  Subscribe to our YouTube channel  Contact JFoundations: WhatsApp +972 55-711-6220

A Gutten Erev Shabbos Parshas Tetzaveh - Divrei Torah, stories and Chizuk. Embark on a soulful journey with Rabbi Yehoshua Liff's inspiring melodies. Join us in honoring the joy, wisdom, and beauty of Rabbi Liff's newly released album, 'Ilu Finu'. - Listen here Visit our website  Subscribe to our YouTube channel  Contact JFoundations: WhatsApp +972 55-711-6220

A Gutten Erev Shabbos Parshas Terumah - Divrei Torah, stories and Chizuk. Embark on a soulful journey with Rabbi Yehoshua Liff's inspiring melodies. Join us in honoring the joy, wisdom, and beauty of Rabbi Liff's newly released album, 'Ilu Finu'. - Listen here Visit our website  Subscribe to our YouTube channel  Contact JFoundations: WhatsApp +972 55-711-6220

A Gutten Erev Shabbos Parshas Mishpatim - Divrei Torah, stories and Chizuk. Embark on a soulful journey with Rabbi Yehoshua Liff's inspiring melodies. Join us in honoring the joy, wisdom, and beauty of Rabbi Liff's newly released album, 'Ilu Finu'. - Listen here Visit our website  Subscribe to our YouTube channel  Contact JFoundations: WhatsApp +972 55-711-6220

A Gutten Erev Shabbos Parshas Yisro - Divrei Torah, stories and Chizuk. Embark on a soulful journey with Rabbi Yehoshua Liff's inspiring melodies. Join us in honoring the joy, wisdom, and beauty of Rabbi Liff's newly released album, 'Ilu Finu'. - Listen here Visit our website  Subscribe to our YouTube channel  Contact JFoundations: WhatsApp +972 55-711-6220

A Gutten Erev Shabbos Parshas Beshalach - Divrei Torah, stories and Chizuk. Embark on a soulful journey with Rabbi Yehoshua Liff's inspiring melodies. Join us in honoring the joy, wisdom, and beauty of Rabbi Liff's newly released album, 'Ilu Finu'. - Listen here Visit our website  Subscribe to our YouTube channel  Contact JFoundations: WhatsApp +972 55-711-6220

A Gutten Erev Shabbos Parshas Bo - Divrei Torah, stories and Chizuk. Embark on a soulful journey with Rabbi Yehoshua Liff's inspiring melodies. Join us in honoring the joy, wisdom, and beauty of Rabbi Liff's newly released album, 'Ilu Finu'. - Listen here Visit our website  Subscribe to our YouTube channel  Contact JFoundations: WhatsApp +972 55-711-6220

A Gutten Erev Shabbos Parshas Vaera - Divrei Torah, stories and Chizuk. Embark on a soulful journey with Rabbi Yehoshua Liff's inspiring melodies. Join us in honoring the joy, wisdom, and beauty of Rabbi Liff's newly released album, 'Ilu Finu'. - Listen here Visit our website  Subscribe to our YouTube channel  Contact JFoundations: WhatsApp +972 55-711-6220

A Gutten Erev Shabbos Parshas Shmos - Divrei Torah, stories and Chizuk. Embark on a soulful journey with Rabbi Yehoshua Liff's inspiring melodies. Join us in honoring the joy, wisdom, and beauty of Rabbi Liff's newly released album, 'Ilu Finu'. - Listen here Visit our website  Subscribe to our YouTube channel  Contact JFoundations: WhatsApp +972 55-711-6220

A Gutten Erev Shabbos Parshas Vayechi - Divrei Torah, stories and Chizuk. Embark on a soulful journey with Rabbi Yehoshua Liff's inspiring melodies. Join us in honoring the joy, wisdom, and beauty of Rabbi Liff's newly released album, 'Ilu Finu'. - Listen here Visit our website  Subscribe to our YouTube channel  Contact JFoundations: WhatsApp +972 55-711-6220

A Gutten Erev Shabbos Parshas Vayigash - Divrei Torah, stories and Chizuk. Embark on a soulful journey with Rabbi Yehoshua Liff's inspiring melodies. Join us in honoring the joy, wisdom, and beauty of Rabbi Liff's newly released album, 'Ilu Finu'. - Listen here Visit our website  Subscribe to our YouTube channel  Contact JFoundations: WhatsApp +972 55-711-6220

Recorded on a Florida trip, the reconciliation of Yehuda and Yosef becomes a meditation on chinuch — why Yaakov sent Yehuda ahead "to establish a beis medrash," and the arvus and gevura a mechanech needs. Eulogizing his aunt Mrs. Millie Drebin, a Bais Yaakov founder, Rabbi Liff teaches (via Serach bas Asher) that one who gives chiyus to another is granted chiyus in return.

A Gutten Erev Shabbos Parshas Mikeitz - Divrei Torah, stories and Chizuk. Embark on a soulful journey with Rabbi Yehoshua Liff's inspiring melodies. Join us in honoring the joy, wisdom, and beauty of Rabbi Liff's newly released album, 'Ilu Finu'. - Listen here Visit our website  Subscribe to our YouTube channel  Contact JFoundations: WhatsApp +972 55-711-6220

A Chanukah / Rosh Chodesh Teves episode shadowed by the terror massacre in Sydney, yet insisting (per Rav Yisrael Salanter) on no eulogizing of sorrows during these days of light. Through Pesam Yavei — Yosef rushed from the pit — and Rav Simcha of Spinka's " it is enough with one Jew … to rebuild the Beis HaMikdash," Rabbi Liff teaches that the yeshua comes suddenly, and our task is to be ready an...

A Gutten Erev Shabbos Parshas Vayeshev - Divrei Torah, stories and Chizuk. Embark on a soulful journey with Rabbi Yehoshua Liff's inspiring melodies. Join us in honoring the joy, wisdom, and beauty of Rabbi Liff's newly released album, 'Ilu Finu'. - Listen here Visit our website  Subscribe to our YouTube channel  Contact JFoundations: WhatsApp +972 55-711-6220

On the eve of Chanukah, the heartbreaking-yet-luminous videos of the kedoshim lighting Chanukah candles in the tunnels frame the question: what are our core values when life turns upside down? Through Yosef's midas haEmes and the sweet-smelling spices Hashem sent him — Reb Chaim Shmulevitz's "kiss from Hashem" — Rabbi Liff teaches savlanus and seeing the good in every Jew.