KMTT - the Torah Podcast

What You Need to Know for Your Kitchen and Garden (part 2), by Rav Dovid Gottlieb. A discussion of [1] Otzar Beis Din, [2] eating at someone's home who has a different standard than you, and [3] some practical halachos of home gardening.

What You Need to Know for Your Kitchen and Garden (part 1), by Rav Dovid Gottlieb

Parashat Ki Tetze with Rav Dovid Gottlieb

#1 - Classical Commentators - Eishset Yefat Toar: What Is the Torah Thinking? #2 - Contemporary Commentators - Parenting Lessons from the Ben Sorrer U-Moreh: Rav Hirsch's Brilliant Insight #3 - Sparks of Chassidus - Going Out to Spiritual War - Strategic Advice from the Sefas Emes #4 - Machshava / Jewish Thought - Gratitude as a Religious Obligation #5 - Sparks of Mussar - The Moral Message of the Issur to Charge Interest

R. Reuven Margolios_7 Elul 5731, by Rav Binyamin Tabory, originally given for Parshat Shoftim 5768

Parashat Shoftim with Rav Dovid Gottlieb

#1 - Classical Commentators - Rabbinic Authority - Even if They're Wrong?? #2 - Contemporary Commentators - Political Leaders as Religious Role Models - The Inspiring Vision of the Oznayim Le'Torah #3 - Sparks of Musar - Striving for Growth and Honest Self-Evaluation: R. Moshe Feinstein's Recipe for Spiritual Success #4 - Sparks of Chassidus - Healthy and Balanced Religiosity - The Kotzker's Remarkable Insight #5 - Machshava Jewish Thought - The Torah's Ideal Form of Governance and Political Leadership: 3 Approaches

Parashat Re'eh with Rav Dovid Gottlieb

#1 - Classical Commentators - The False Prophet - If He's "False" Then How is He a "Prophet"? #2 - Contemporary Commentators - The Highest of the High & the Lowest of the Low: Appreciating the Uniqueness of the Jewish People #3 - Machshava / Jewish Thought -What's the Jewish Ideal: Unity or Uniformity? #4 - Sparks of Chassidus & Mussar - Kosher Fish, "Kosher Jews": The Shared Vision of the Lubavitcher Rebbe and Rav Elyashiv #5 - Halacha from the Parsha - The Mitzvah of Tzedakah

Parashat Ekev with Rav Dovid Gottlieb

#1 - Classical Commentators - Is Yiras Shamayim a "Small Thing"?! #2 - Contemporary Commentators - How Can We "Bless Hashem"? Rav Hirsch's Revolutionary Approach #3 - Sparks of Musar - Why Do We Bentch? The Amazing Insight of the Meshech Chochma #4 - Machshava / Jewish Thought - "Fear of Heaven" - What are we Scared Of? #5 - Sparks of Chassidus - The Interrelationship Between Doing and Understanding: An Incredible Teaching of the Sefas Emes

Parashat Vaetchanan with Rav Dovid Gottlieb

#1 - Classical Commentators - Loving Hashem - The Rambam's Perspective #2 - Sparks of Mussar - Learning from Moshe: Belief in the Power of Prayer #3 - Machshava / Jewish Thought - "Anochi Hashem" - Knowledge or Belief in God? #4 - Moshe's Desire to Enter Eretz Yisroel - And Ours #5 - Sparks of Chasidus - Praying to be Able to Pray: The Powerful Insight of R. Levi Yitzchok

Parashat Devarim / Shabbat Chazon with Rav Dovid Gottlieb

#1 - Classical Commentators - What's Devarim All About? The Ramban's Theory #2 - Classical Commentators - Who Was Responsible for the Cheit Ha-Egel - Hashem or the Jewish People? #3 - Halacha from the Parsha - Kavod Ha-Beriyos: Human Dignity as a Halachic Value #4 - Midrash - Learning How to Give - and Grow From - Criticism #5 - Sparks of Chasidus - "Chazon": The Eish Kodesh's Inspiring Vision of Hope Amidst the Destruction

R. Chaim Ozer Grodzinski_5 Av 5700, by Rav Binyamin Tabory, originally given for Parshat Matot-Masei 5768