Torah Weekly

‘Lzecher Nishmas Ben Tzion Ben Tzvi Hakohen Topics: ​ The Teshuvah of Yishmael; when and how complete? ​ The Meshech Chochmah on the Teshuva of Yishmael’s Descendents ​ Avraham Vs Nimrord, Yaakov Vs Eisav ​ Yitzchak’s Nemesis - the Plishtim ​ Two Types of Laughter and the History of the Phillistenes ​ Struggles with The Plishtim in our parsha and Tanach ​ R Mordechai Eliyahu and How to deal with Y...

Topics: ​ Avraham’s plan to prevent the Muslims from treating us like the Christians ​ When to compromise with an OTD child ​ If Buddhism is Abrahamic why does it share nothing with Judaism? ​ Doing Aveiros with Joy is a sign of deep inner bitterness ​ What it means to be a good friend and how Avraham exemplified ​ Not letting our emotions overrun our seichel ​ R Moshe’s underrated problem with Ma...

Topics: ​ Lots wife - the woman without a gilgul ​ The tremendous lesson from salt ​ The Blindness Caused by Sdom's Salt ​ Mayim Acharonim and Spousal Abuse ​ Avraham Avinu's Unreal Dan L'kaf Zechus ​ Stories of Gedolim and Dan L'kaf Zechus ​ What is the Shalsheles in our Parsha hinting? ​ What common theme links all 4 shalsheles instances in the Torah?

Topics: ​ The Segulah to say Amaslai Bas Karnevo ​ Why is Avraham’s Mother never mentioned in the Torah? ​ Avram’s Birth and his Mother’s Protection ​ Avraham - the ultimate proof that a child of rape should not be aborted ​ The Arizal on why Avraham had to come from such impurity ​ Avraham and Haman both having mothers named Amaslai ​ Gematriyos about the fight between Avraham and Haman ​ The Seg...

Topics: ​ The Alter of Kelm on why the world was destroyed ​ What is the sin in being trans for a non Jew ​ The incredible effect of surroundings ​ Cham, the Raven adn the Dog. Why these animals? ​ Why was Cham punished with black skin? ​ The need to publicize others sins while hiding our own ​ Cham covering for his wife's giant infidelity ​ Was Cham into his wife or homosexual? Yesod of Ramban

Topics: -The Potential Chilul Hashem of Simchas Torah -David Hamelech as the Esrog - parallel tikkunim -Adam Harishon committing the three unforgivable -The Avos as the Tikkun to these three sins -Adam Harishon as David Hamelech and its myriad explanations of David Hamelech's life

Topics: ​ Counting from creation ​Ldavid Mizmor - the besht and r Chaim brisker ​Lamnatzeiach livnei korach davka before tekias shofar ​ Crying and being bsimcha at the akeida- lessons in human emotion and this upcoming simchas Torah ​ Three chassidic Rebbes using halacha to “force” Hashems hand - chozeh Noam elimelech r Levi Yitzchak ​ The zechus of Ben Adam lachaveiro ​ The memories of the shofa...

Stories and lessons about the Chofetz Chaim - To many topics to list!

Topics: ​ Why such harsh punishment for not serving Hashem with Joy? ​ Why do we go back to Lavan and Mitzrayim to give our Bikkurim? ​ Why do so many rewards for mitzvos seem to not come true in our daily lives? ​ The Hashgacha Pratis required for my fig to exist ​ The Power of Mitzvos for simcha and the power of that simcha ​ Creating Simcha in our Mitzvos and Learning ​ Simcha of Mitzva vs temp...

Topics: ​ Why do species go extinct? ​ The little bird is the Shechinah ​ The mercy awakened by the Mitzva of Shiluach Hakan ​ The Zohar on the 974 lost generations rectified by the mitzva of shiluach hakan ​ The Erev Rav and Erev Shabbos ​ Endless Chutzpa and Free Love Pre Mashiach ​A bortion, Homosexuality, Trans as the antithesis of the Jew yet pushed by Jews ​ Yibum of a tzaddik ​ Shiluach Hak...

Topics: ​ The Giving Tree and Hippies Hypocrisy ​ Lessons from Trees ​ Treating others better than ourselves ​ The tree and man as connection of two realms ​ The Maharal on man as the inverted tree ​ The Shelah's chiddush about the Palm Tree ​ All trees bearing fruit in the time of Mashiach ​ Why grow roots more outwards than downwards? A limmud zechus on unafilliated Jews ​ Painting struggling pe...

Topics: ​ Lessons from Yosef Mishisa and Miriam Bas Bilga ​ The power of kedusha ​ The menorah in the Vatican ​ How a Baal Habos can raise better children than an avrech ​ Limud zechus on the worst of the worst ​ Rav Moshes shita on homosexuality

Topics: ​The curse of krias shma- did it ever happen? ​Are the Christians right about us? ​Iyunim on 10 lost tribes

Timestamps: (0:00) – The Arizal and speaking about someone on their yahrtzeit (2:15) – R Moshe Feinstein and the issur of seeing an aveira (9:25) – Palm Reading – the wisdom the Arizal kept secret (11:00) – We get Palm Reading from Aristotle?! (15:45) – Reading the Letters of the Soul (21:20) – Pre-Arizal Palm Reading (23:45) – R Mordechai Sharabi and Palm Reading (28:40) – Is Palm Reading Assur?...

Topics: (00:00) - Should one say Shed or the names of Shedim? (3:55) - R Ruderman on Moshe Vs Bilam (8:45) - Zeh Leumas Zeh of Avoda Zara and Nevuah (11:00) - Zeh Leumas Zeh of Bas Kol and Shedim, Nissim and Dibbukim (13:45) - How can the Rambam say Shedim don’t exist if the Gemara says they do? (17:30) - When you wish upon a dibbuk (19:30) - Shedim today, lessons from Abaye - R Kaduri, Chazon Ish...

Topics: ​ The Segulah of mentioning that the daughter of Asher was named Serach ​ Was she Asher’s daughter? The story of Serach’s adoption ​ The name of our Neshama and the name of our Yetzer Hara ​ Why always named after her father Asher? And where did her music come from? ​ Her connection to Eliyahu Hanavi and Pinchas ​ What do women do in Gan Eden? ​ Women of music, art, and dance and Serach Ba...

Timestamps: (00:00) - Why do Pirates have Peg Legs and Eye Patches (04:22) - Eisav and Yishmael - The Ox and the Donkey (10:04) - Eisav and Yishmael - Fire and Water (14:49) - Eisav and Yishmael together destroying the world (17:55) - The Nachash as the donkey and ox (20:22) - Amalek as the donkey and ox (22:00) - Bilam and Amalek (27:00) Balak and Bilam as Amalek (30:24) Lavan and Yaakov and the...

Topics: ​ The three mouths of the three parshiyos ​ The Be’er Miriam – in what merit of Miriam? ​ Miriam, Song, and the Be’er ​ Yishmael and the Be’er Miriam – Klippa Kodem Hapri ​ Mashiach as a time of Pri Kodem Laklippa ​ What was Be’er Miriam and how did it operate in the desert? ​ Why is water connected to the woman and food to man? ​ Where is Be’er Miriam today? ​ Be’er Miriam and the Arizal...

Topics: ​The word of machlokes hinting to its nature ​ Only three letters of Yaakovs name being mentioned by Korach - not the Ayin ​ Hillel and Shammai; an encore of Korach and Aharon ​ Why Moshe couldn’t live longer than 120 - a Math problem ​ The talmidim of Hillel and Shammai’s Failing ​ R Yonasan Eibuschitz and R Yaakov Emden ​ Kofrim and Cats - the Long Arm of Machlokes

Topics: ​ The Meraglim as the source of 10 for holiness in the Talmud Bavli ​ The Yerushalmi’s source in the shevatim ​ Were there really 12 meraglim? R Shteinman answers for R Akiva ​ How can we learn holiness out from those who are not? ​ The chiddush of Igros Moshe about Reshaim in a minyan ​ The Lev Avrahams attack on R Moshe and R Moshe’s possible defense ​Why the Bavli and Yerushalmi learn d...

Topics: ​The Zohar on the hair of Levi'im and the hair of women ​Hair, storms, and barley ​The nazir and his hair - sin or holiness? ​The connection between the hair of the sotah and that of the nazir ​The two types of Nezirim ​The kedusha of Shabbos vs that of weekday - avoda vs matana ​Eisav, Avshalom, and hair of א"א ​Chava as a Sota, Yaakov fighting eisav who had the holiest of "hair" ​Yosef a...

Topics: ​ Atzeres, Shavuos, Matan Torah - All hinting to David Hamelech ​ David Hamelech as the reason we stay up all night ​ Milk and Blood - Lessons in change ​ David Hamelech as the reason we read Rus ​ The connection between David and Moshe ​ The Satan, Matan Torah, and David Hamelech ​ The baaal Shem Tov and David Hamelech ​ The baal Shem Tov and the Ohr Hachaim Hakadosh

Topics: ​We DESTROY the idea of embarrasing others in an EPIC TAKEDOWN ​Causing pain to others - The lesson from Rabbi Eliezer's Wife ​-eravam's dizzying rise and precipitous fall ​Galus, Geulah, and the two Mashiachs ​The Rashbi, Arizal and Baal Shem Tov as Tikkunim for Yeravam and Achiya ​Tremendous Story about Rav Yoshiyahu Pinto and the Copper Idol

Topics: ​Be a Kohen who is a "Ben Aharon" ​ Chillul Hashem as a Kadosh ​ Why were the students of Rabi Akiva killed for such a small sin? ​ The menorah at the end of the parsha ​ The yesod of R Chaim Vital ​ Why is the 2nd galus so much longer than the 1st if the sins are so much smaller? ​ R Shach on Jealousy Desire and Honor Taking Man out of the World ​ Lessons from the lives of R Yisrael Salan...

Topics: ​The seven circles of Molech’s Gehennom ​ The Ishbitzer on co-opting love and fear for avoda zara ​ “Killing” A Child by sending them to priesthood ​ Drowning out the childs cries and the Yetzer Hara’s cry to Hashem ​ The miraculous salvation of Chizkiyahu from Molech ​ The Spider’s Web, Insanity, and the Tachash ​ Molech, Abortion, Homosexuality, and Bestiality ​ Molech as sorcery vs Avod...