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By Yisroel Isaacs
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The podcast currently has 24 episodes available.
Or Hachaim, Rav Soloveitchik: Anticipating Shabbos
Simcha (joy) around the year
Rav Soloveitchik: 2 models of leadership: Purim - bottom up; Chanukkah - top down
This week we discuss:
The uniforms of the kohanim - why? The external influences the internal
Why the Golden Mizbeach (Alter) instructions were delayed until all of the other instructions were given - seeing the forest from the trees.
This week we discuss:
Quantifying how much space in the Torah is devoted to the Mishkan (Tabernacle) and why - goldharschool.com
The Mishkan needs to be built for G-d's name - the literal approach and the idea that we can only flourish in the right environment
Rav Soloveitchik: Where did Moshe hear G-d's voice from, and why it matters
Rav Pam: The reasoning behind the ordering of the items donated by the people - easy come, easy go
Topics discussed:
Why is the slave punished for his desire to stay longer? R. Shaul Yisraeli
Why isn't the slave's ear pierced when he first gets into trouble? The Maharil Diskin
The need to temporarlily return a collateral reflects an expansive view of the Torah's mandate. R. Yechiel Yaakov Weinberg
Love the convert since you were strangers in Egypt is said immediately after they left Egypt;
Sensitivity when there's an open wound - you were strangers, not you were slaves. R. Kenneth Hain from R. Sholom Carmy
We are reciepients of Divine gifts - sometimes He takes them back. Rav Soloveitchik
Orphans and Widows. R. Moshe Feinstein
This week we discuss:
Why so many judges were needed - how to relate to other peoples money including stories about R. Yisrael Salanter
The lesson we learn from Yisro's alias "Yeser" - the value of proactive problem solving
Rav Solovetichik: The duality of the Torah transmission - the role of father and the role of the mother
Don't miss the last piece, starting at 7:28 :)
This week we discuss:
Gerrer Rebbe's daughter Fayge; Rav Soloveitchik: G-d is with Moshe when he approaches Pharaoh
Rabbi Yechezkel Abramsky: The life-long deepening of emunah (conviction)
The Dubno Maggid: Moshe's abrupt exit - why now?
How long did the plague of Locusts actually last?
Nachmanidies (Ramban) and Rabbeinu Chananel: The enduring power of prayer of a righteous person
Rav Soloveitchik: Moshe and the Bnei Yisroel didn't know when they would be leaving or how many plagues there would be
Rav Hirsch: they asked for gifts to keep
Rav Hirsch: the moment the Egyptians recognized the unusual morality of the Bnei Yisroel
Why there are suddenly so many mitzvos (Sefer Hachinuch counts 20) in this parsha
Details of the Pesach lamb
Summary of end of parasha
This week we discuss:
Message of the connection between the Four Cups and the four terms of redemptionMoshe Aharon, Aharon Moshe - defining success & individuality vs. confomrity in Jewish life
Rav Solovetichik: Binary star system - the pattern of dual Jewish leadership
Torah 101: Did Pharoh's magicians really know magic - is magic real?
Torah 101: How did Pharoh get punished for his stubborness if the Almighty hardened his heart? Two approaches
One frog or many? Indirect approaches are often more effective agents of change in ourselves and others
Rav Solovetichik: G-d never gives up on us, even when we appear to be unredeemable
The structure of and patterns in the 10 Plagues
In this episode we cover these topics:
Introduction to the Book of Shemos:
Titles of the book
Overview of Shemos
This week's parsha:
A large, growing, Jewish population
The paradoxically direct relationship between population affliction and population growth
The incremental development of the Egyptian enslavement and persecution of the Jews
Rav Soloveitchik: Women lead the Jewish people at a crucial point in their history
The qualities that made Moshe the ultimate Jewish leader
Curious parallels in the lives of the Patriarchs, Matriarchs, and Moshe and Tzipora
Rav Soloveitchik: The two messages of the Burning Bush and that no Jew ever be excluded (Hat tip to Aaron Rosen for pointing this out to me many years ago)
Asking permission from your father-in-law
Summary of the end of the parsha
The podcast currently has 24 episodes available.