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Our ongoing challenge of Tikkun
When Para Aduma and the Golden Calf meet.
A sober look at Amalek and Haman
Amalek is alive and well to this day and we must remember fight to destroy the remnants of Amalek from under the sun.
A quiet Shabbat of reflection
We have a chance to ponder and reflect on the main mitzva of the sedra. The mitzva that the whole sedra is devoted to.
Be deserving of both crowns
When someone you love asks, 'Can you do something for me?' Your first answer is Yes, followed by needing to hear what you're being asked.
Do not forget: We are unique
We are Klal Yisrael. But every one of us is also an individual Jew.
Wonder of wonders, miracle of miracles
The more one studies the sciences, the more one observes nature, the more one can appreciate G-d and His Creation.
Do you know our calendar?
The mitzva of Kiddush HaChodesh is one of our favorite topics to present in Torah Tidbits Audio. What about us? Are we part of this mitzva?
The prophecy of real unique nationhood
Where do you stand on your commitment and compliance to Torah and to Eretz Yisrael?
Read G-d's lips
The amazing consistency of the greatness of Jewish women and god's clear plan for the Jewish People.
We need to get our act together - Big Time
Thoughts on the brother thing in the Book of B'reishit
Lesson from a jumbled timeline
Look what happened throughout Jewish history with all of the warning signs presented in the Torah and the Tanach.
What do we get excited about and why?
Hanukkah as a whole is a special holiday. It is not one of the holidays that G-d commanded us to observe in the Torah.
Towards greater appreciation
Hanukkah's legacy is just what happened over 2,000 years ago, but every page of Torah we learn and every mitzva we do - today.
Deeds of the fathers
Vayishlach has the well-known encounter between Yaakov and Eisav after a separation of many years.
The vital link to the chain of tradition
Yitzhak, the vital link to the chain of tradition, was in many ways like his father - but different in one important way.
The two tasks of Avraham
Torah Tidbits audio for Chayei Sara.
Lessons to learn from Abraham, our father
The WHOLE is greater than the sum of its PARTS - not mathematically, but in Judaism.
Watergate had its infamous 18 minute gap
Some of what the Torah tells us is meant to teach us what to do and what not to do as people and as Jews.
In the BIG INNING
Torah Tidbits audio for Shabbat B'reisheet.
The Sukka - Symbol of Life's Shadows
This world is a most pleasant place made for our enjoyment. So why do we sit in a weather-beaten frail hut?
Tshuva as a way to Yom Kippur
What Yom Kippur should accomplish within each of us.
VIVA LA DIFFERENCE
If you look at the beginning of Nitzavim, you find a strong echo of the Tochacha that we might have thought we were leaving behind us
Three step Tochacha, not two
In this mild form, we seem to be able to handle it and recite it twice a day. But the Tochacha of Ki Tavo, are devastatingly harsh
You can't tell the players without a scorecard
What is definitely true, is that you can't understand the Written Torah without the Oral Torah.
Law and Order
The gentle path to walk according to the jewish laws and the tradition
Think about what you say
This is the main goal of Parshat Eikev: Hear what your mouth is talking about.
Glimpse of the light at the end of the tunnel
We get a glimpse - a foretaste - of the feast that will celebrate the building of the third Beit HaMikdash.
When G-D said: Live in israel
Parshat Mas'ei containing the mitzva to live in Israel. How did Jews react to this commandment?
Great things still to come
We have the absolute belief that our current condition of israel Mourning is temporary - and things will get better.
Fast of Tammuz 17 - How does it concern me?
Why do we fast on the 17th of Tammuz? And how to feel a connection to the events of the destruction that took place thousands of years ago?
Crystal Clear, so what's with us?
If we turn our backs to G-d, if we betray Him, if we don't keep His Torah and Mitzvot - we are lost.
What we can learn from the sin of the spies
Setting straight one of the biggest communal sins of all times.
Groundhog Day - revisited
We can chose to reject the words of the majority who would rather remain in the Midbar and rally to the side of Yehoshua and Kalev.
The road not taken
The Book of Bamidbar represents - in the Frost poem analogy - the path through the Midbar and the long time we spent wandering there.
A Mitzvah's messages - but first...
How many Torah loving and observing Jews seem to say 'thanks but no thanks' for the opportunity to dwell in the Land?
Let me make this perfectly clear!
The nature of the partnership between the Written Word and the Oral Law.
From sad to glad
Can we not see that the establishment of Medinat Yisrael fits right into the Omer and becomes another bright spot?
B'chol Dor VaDor
This week's show focuses on the Holocaust and its impact on us... and touches upon the sedra, as well.
Much more than commemorating the Exodus
Shabbat HaGadol is more than a pointer towards Pesach - it is the major postscript to it.
When HaShem says LACHEM - He means it
Our partnership with G-d in setting up the calendar.
Pondering Elsie's friend
A Jew is supposed to be a good partner to his/her soul, meaning, to live a Torah life.
Post-Purim agenda
We need to seriously change our attitudes towards how we argue with each other.
Remember to know and to learn
From offerings in the Beit HaMikdash to remembering what Amalek did and what Amalek-types have done to us throughout the generations.
Lessons from gold and silver
Radio: The Mishkan is completed and the people enthusiastically do what G-d has commanded (this time).
Mikdash and Shabbat - what's the connection?
Radio: The whole picture of sanctity of place and time.
Back up to forgiveness and the 13 Divine Attributes
From the highest - the Mikdash and everything in it and about it - to the lowest - the sin of the golden calf.
Kohein Gadol: Icon and person
Can a superior man also engage in simple, everyday actions?
Make for Me a Mikdash...
Radio: Will the third Temple descend in fire from the heavens or will it be built by people? We don't have to worry about at this point.
The Matan Torah sandwich
Learn about the great connection between Yitro and Mishpatim.
Who were the Ten Commandments given to?
Radio: What is Yitro doing between the Splitting of the Sea and the Sinai Experience?
The real basis of belief
Let's try to understand what the basics of faith we can learn from this Saturday.
G-d's engagement gift to us
Plan A and plan B for the Jewish Calendar. Which is what G-d wants us to have?
Pesach? what's the connection?
Passover is still far, but this week we find the first time the Jews prepared for it, and how does it relate to our times
Geula from within Galut
Sh'mot is starting from about as low as we've ever been. And once again, we see the amazing potential.
In the afterglow of the Hanukkah candles
Radio: The way Jewish history has gone so far and the way we must take it from now.
Three messages of Hanukkah
What is the message when Shabbat meets Chanuka and Rosh Chodesh?
Do Yosef and his brothers have anything to do with Hanukkah?
Radio: There is a connection between the story of Yosef and his brothers, and the Hashmonaim.
Eisav & Yaakov - then and now
This week's sidra tells us of an instance in which Yaakov found himself temporarily alone the night prior to his meeting with Eisav.
A fresh look at Maariv
An overview on the sedra that shows us the early formation of the future Jewish nation.
