Episodes

  • Tazria Metzora – Heaven on the Cheap (5783)

    Tazria Metzora – Heaven on the Cheap (5783)
    Apr 29 2025
    This week’s double Parsha contains some of the most intricate and complex laws in the Torah, the laws of purity and impurity. This subject remains an enigmatic mystery for us, in fact, even in Talmudic times it was arcane. That said, there is always something that we can glean from every part of Torah. In […]
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    58 mins
  • Parshas Tazria & Metzora (Rebroadcast)

    Parshas Tazria & Metzora (Rebroadcast)
    Apr 27 2025
    A very large percentage of Torah is dedicated to the laws of purity and impurity. This week’s double Parshas of Tazria and Metzora largely deal with these laws. One variant of impurity that is discussed in both parshas is that of a metzora, A metzora is someone who is stricken with the tangible illness of tzaraas […]
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    1 hr and 15 mins
  • Shemini – Eighth Time’s The Charm

    Shemini – Eighth Time’s The Charm
    Apr 24 2025
    Assembling and disassembling the Tabernacle was a difficult task that Moshe repeated for seven days. Each morning he placed the vertical beams into their silver sockets, and affixed the golden rings on the top of the beams. He placed the horizontal bars that went on each side of the vertical beams, including the snaking bar […]
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    52 mins
  • Shemini – Fires, Foreign and Domestic (5783)

    Shemini – Fires, Foreign and Domestic (5783)
    Apr 22 2025
    Nadav and Avihu were the crown princes of the Jewish nation. These two sons were slated to succeed Moshe and Aaron. Moshe declared, without hyperbole, that his two nephews, Nadav and Avihu, were greater than he and Aaron. These two sons of Aaron were without peer. Yet they acted in an inexplicable manner: On the […]
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    59 mins
  • Parshas Shemini (Rebroadcast)

    Parshas Shemini (Rebroadcast)
    Apr 21 2025
    After months of preparation and building, and a week of inauguration, the nation was anticipating the climax of the Tabernacle experience: When God finally rested His Presence upon the people’s handiwork. On the eighth day the Tabernacle was erected for good, and a Heavenly fire consumed the various sacrifices offered upon the Altar and the […]
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    54 mins
  • Tzav – Conceal the Deal

    Tzav – Conceal the Deal
    Apr 10 2025
    A top of the altar were fires that were never extinguished for hundreds of years. What was the nature of these fires? What were they made up of? How are they different than other fires? When we examine the sources, we discovered that there were multiple types of fires, including a special, Divine fire that […]
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    56 mins
  • Tzav – Pure-Bread (5783)

    Tzav – Pure-Bread (5783)
    Apr 8 2025
    On the first day of a Kohein’s tenure doing service in the Temple, they bring a once-in-a-lifetime offering: a meal-offering that is almost identical to the daily meal-offering offered by the High Priest. This offering is classified by the Torah as the offering of Aaron and his sons. When we analyze this unique meal offering, […]
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    1 hr and 3 mins
  • Parshas Tzav (Rebroadcast)

    Parshas Tzav (Rebroadcast)
    Apr 6 2025
    In continuation of the themes of last week, Parshas Tzav details the procedures of processing many of the sacrifices enumerated in Parshas Vayikra, teaches us about new sacrifices, and we read about the seven days of inauguration of the Tabernacle. – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – […]
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    59 mins
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