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by Rabbi Gil Student of TorahMusings.com. In less than ten minutes: 1) Rav Ya’akov Kamenetsky on Sarah’s lifespan, 2) The Vilna Gaon on the two words for maybe, 3) Rav Yitzchak Sorotzkin on blessing Hashem for miracles, 4) Divrei Shaul on free will and marriage, 5) Brisker Rav on whether to marry someone due to miracles. Subscribe to Five Quick Divrei Torah on Parashah on your preferred podcast player.

by Rabbi Gil Student of TorahMusings.com. In less than ten minutes: 1) Rav Ya’akov Kamenetsky on Sarah’s lifespan, 2) The Vilna Gaon on the two words for maybe, 3) Rav Yitzchak Sorotzkin on blessing Hashem for miracles, 4) Divrei Shaul on free will and marriage, 5) Brisker Rav on whether to marry someone due to miracles. Subscribe to Five Quick Divrei Torah on Parashah on your preferred podcast player.

by Rabbi Gil Student of TorahMusings.com. In less than ten minutes: 1) Toras Avraham on why journeying to Israel was a test, 2) Maharam Schick on the significance of seemingly random stories in the parashah, 3) Divrei Shaul on why Avraham accepted money from Pharaoh but not from the king of Sedom, 4) Maharshdam on the halachic significance of when the Canaanites conquered the land of Israel, 5) Rav Avigdor Nebenzahl on why Avraham did not pray for Sarah. Subscribe to Five Quick Divrei Torah on Parashah on your preferred podcast player.

by Rabbi Gil Student of TorahMusings.com. In less than ten minutes: 1) Rav Shimon Shkop on Noach’s righteousness, 2) Rav Yitzchak Blaser on Noach’s limited faith, 3) Rav Avigdor Nebenzahl on Noach’s failure to take action, 4) Taz on why the generation of the dispersion thought they were unstoppable, 5) Ksav Sofer on why Haran is identified by his daughters. Subscribe to Five Quick Divrei Torah on Parashah on your preferred podcast player.

by Rabbi Gil Student of TorahMusings.com. In less than ten minutes: 1) Rav Yehudah Aszod on why Torah scholars have to attend sermons, 2) Chofetz Chaim on who is a fool, 3) Rav Yechezkel Abramsky on a hint for Palestinians in the Torah, 4) Rav Ya’akov Kamenetsky on when Mashiach will come, 5) Meshech Chochmah on Moshe’s double sin. Subscribe to Five Quick Divrei Torah on Parashah on your preferred podcast player.

by Rabbi Gil Student of TorahMusings.com. In less than ten minutes: 1) Taz on why Moshe had to die, 2) Rav Yechezkel Abramsky on why to bring children to Hakhel, 3) Chofetz Chaim on the significance today of writing a Sefer Torah, 4) Rav Azriel Hildesheimer on the cycle of time, 5) Rav Ya’akov Kamenetsky on the reason to become a leader. Subscribe to Five Quick Divrei Torah on Parashah on your preferred podcast player.

by Rabbi Gil Student of TorahMusings.com. In less than ten minutes: 1) Divrei Shaul on when curses are meant seriously, 2) Rav Yechezkel Abramsky on the reason to do teshuvah, 3) Vilna Gaon on how to avoid a curse, 4) Rav Yitzchak Blaser on how teshuvah is easy, 5) Rav Yitzchak Blaser on two theories of why we receive reward and punishment. Subscribe to Five Quick Divrei Torah on Parashah on your preferred podcast player.

by Rabbi Gil Student of TorahMusings.com. In less than ten minutes: 1) Rambam on who is a Jew, 2) Rav Eliyahu Mizrachi on the meaning of a blessing, 3) Pri Megadim on worshiping G-d without joy, 4) Ksav Sofer on when a minor sin is really the worst sin, 5) Rav Yitzchak Blaser on the lack of a steady income. Subscribe to Five Quick Divrei Torah on Parashah on your preferred podcast player.

by Rabbi Gil Student of TorahMusings.com. In less than ten minutes: 1) Meshech Chochmah on the laws of the captive woman apply, 2) Meshech Chochmah on how we know that the mitzvah to bury applies to everyone, 3) Toras Avraham on the source of Amon and Moav’s obligation to host guests, 4) Rav Ya’akov Ettlinger on how we know we can receive reward in the World-to-Come, 5) Beis HaLevi on how to regain faith. Subscribe to Five Quick Divrei Torah on Parashah on your preferred podcast player.

by Rabbi Gil Student of TorahMusings.com. In less than ten minutes: 1) Rav Raphael HaCohen on the relationship between judgment and tzedakah, 2) Rav Avigdor Nebenzahl on guarding the community, 3) Rav Yosef Dov Soloveitchik on women’s exclusion from testimony, 4) Vilna Gaon on the dual impact of a bribe, 5) Netziv on atonement for the deceased. Subscribe to Five Quick Divrei Torah on Parashah on your preferred podcast player.