Batya Ungar-Sargon shares Netziv commentaries on the parsha. These sessions are held on Zoom every week in memory of our mother in-law whose dedication to the Netziv (her great great grandfather), was legendary. It is estimated she studied the Ha'amek Davar some 78 times throughout her life, devoting every Tuesday to its study. May her memory be a blessing to her family and klal Yisroel.

Rabbi Kolonamas Kalman Epstein, the Meor Vashemesh, writes on the first verse of parshas Chukas, with a dazzling rereading of the Midrash Rabbah and the Gemara in Berachot. Torah as a paradigm of the Khok being internalized by each individual person.

Batya Ungar-Sargon shares Netziv commentaries on the parsha. These sessions are held on Zoom every week in memory of our mother in-law whose dedication to the Netziv (her great great grandfather), was legendary. It is estimated she studied the Ha'amek Davar some 78 times throughout her life, devoting every Tuesday to its study. May her memory be a blessing to her family and klal Yisroel.

We explore the famous midrashic description of the machlokes between Korach and Moshe Rabeinu comparing (in Mishan Avot) with that of Hillel and Shammai.

Along the way the Gra’s comment on that mishnah references the Wars of the Lord poem in Num 21:14 which leads us down a different path. 

We then return to chassidic dimensions of machlokes as an inner spiritual journey that somehow mediates between mankind and the Divine and how that applies to our own inner battles.

The Pri Haaretz of Reb Menachem Mendl of Vitebsk provides a radical insight into our exploration of dveykus  and need to surrender as a prerequisite for Torah and Mitzvot.

Batya Ungar-Sargon shares Netziv commentaries on the parsha. These sessions are held on Zoom every week in memory of our mother in-law whose dedication to the Netziv (her great great grandfather), was legendary. It is estimated she studied the Ha'amek Davar some 78 times throughout her life, devoting every Tuesday to its study. May her memory be a blessing to her family and klal Yisroel.

Dr. Julian Ungar-Sargon shares a bold interpretation of the spiritual meaning of the meraglim, the Biblical spies who were sent to scout the Land of Israel.

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In this concluding chapter of the series on Dveykus, Dr. Julian Ungar-Sargon delivers the Degel's punchline.