Best Book Ever

This is a recording of Rabbi David Kasher's Parsha Studies class from July 21, 2022

It's one of the most difficult problems in theology: does God know everything we're going to do, or do we have free will? This week, we consider an answer by Judaism's most deterministic thinker: Rabbi Mordechai Yosef Leiner, the Mei HaShiloach, and a response by his most illustrious student.

If Bilaam is really so bad, that brings us back to our original question - what is he doing in the Torah? What are we reading this bizarre story at all???

This is a recording of Rabbi David Kasher's Parsha Study Class from July 7, 2022. For the full class visit IKAR's YouTube channel.

n Chapter 21 of the Book of Numbers, after forty years of desert wandering, we suddenly detect the stirrings of a cultural awakening.

Who's on Team Korach?

This week, the Angel of Death showed up twice.

Forty years in the desert?? Really?!?

God gave us the law. Now we're giving it back. From Rabbi David Kasher's Parsha Studies class June 16, 2022

Someone must have slipped something into my drink. I’m reading my Torah late one night and, suddenly, the letters start to run backwards...