This morning we begin to analyze the way in which the prayers of Shabbat lead to the goal of a fuller Shabbat experience. We examine the Friday night service of Kabbalat Shabbat as the bridge from the mundane week to the ecstatic world of Shabbat.

Michael Whitman is the senior rabbi of ADATH Congregation in Hampstead, Quebec, and an adjunct professor at McGill University Faculty of Law. ADATH is a modern orthodox synagogue community in suburban Montreal, providing Judaism for the next generation. We take great pleasure in welcoming everyone with a warm smile, while sharing inspiration through prayer, study, and friendship.

Rabbi Whitman shares his thoughts and inspirations through online lectures and shiurim, which are available on:

YouTube: https://tinyurl.com/adathyoutube

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/adathmichael/

Podcast - Mining the Riches of the Parsha:

Apple Podcasts - https://tinyurl.com/miningtheriches1

Spotify: https://tinyurl.com/miningtheriches3

Stitcher: https://tinyurl.com/miningtheriches4

Please contact Rabbi Whitman ([email protected]) with any questions for feedback, or to receive a daily email, "Study with Rabbi Whitman Today," with current and past insights for that day, video, and audio, all in one short email sent directly to your inbox.

This evening we pay tribute to Rabbi Aharon Lichtenstein, whose eighth Yartzeit is this Shabbat, 1 Iyar. We trace the main themes of his teaching, influence, and character with stories and his insights on Yom HaAtzma'ut, Hesder Yeshiva, the integration of ethics and Torah, and much more. Plus we reveal the secret of whether R. Lichtenstein was ever a milkman.

Michael Whitman is the senior rabbi of ADATH Congregation in Hampstead, Quebec, and an adjunct professor at McGill University Faculty of Law. ADATH is a modern orthodox synagogue community in suburban Montreal, providing Judaism for the next generation. We take great pleasure in welcoming everyone with a warm smile, while sharing inspiration through prayer, study, and friendship.

Rabbi Whitman shares his thoughts and inspirations through online lectures and shiurim, which are available on:

YouTube: https://tinyurl.com/adathyoutube

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/adathmichael/

Podcast - Mining the Riches of the Parsha:

Apple Podcasts - https://tinyurl.com/miningtheriches1

Spotify: https://tinyurl.com/miningtheriches3

Stitcher: https://tinyurl.com/miningtheriches4

Please contact Rabbi Whitman ([email protected]) with any questions for feedback, or to receive a daily email, "Study with Rabbi Whitman Today," with current and past insights for that day, video, and audio, all in one short email sent directly to your inbox.

This morning we discuss why the prayer for mourners is Kaddish, which does not mention death, mourning, grief, memory, or any other evident connection to mourning. We present the correct technical answer (to be followed in the coming days with deeper layers), and we begin our discussion of what the experience of saying Kaddish as a mourner should mean to us / do for us.

Michael Whitman is the senior rabbi of ADATH Congregation in Hampstead, Quebec, and an adjunct professor at McGill University Faculty of Law. ADATH is a modern orthodox synagogue community in suburban Montreal, providing Judaism for the next generation. We take great pleasure in welcoming everyone with a warm smile, while sharing inspiration through prayer, study, and friendship.

Rabbi Whitman shares his thoughts and inspirations through online lectures and shiurim, which are available on:

YouTube: https://tinyurl.com/adathyoutube

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/adathmichael/

Podcast - Mining the Riches of the Parsha:

Apple Podcasts - https://tinyurl.com/miningtheriches1

Spotify: https://tinyurl.com/miningtheriches3

Stitcher: https://tinyurl.com/miningtheriches4

Please contact Rabbi Whitman ([email protected]) with any questions for feedback, or to receive a daily email, "Study with Rabbi Whitman Today," with current and past insights for that day, video, and audio, all in one short email sent directly to your inbox.

This morning we trace the compound Torah definition of holiness (Kedusha), to which the entire third book of the Torah, Leviticus (VaYikra), is an extended description. We trace this complex and unique definition from the beginning of the book, and see it expand in last week's Torah portion, Shmini, and this week's portion, Tazria-Metzora, and fully unfold next week, in Acharei-Kedoshim. This is partially based on insights from my student, friend, and now teacher Abe Mezrich.

Michael Whitman is the senior rabbi of ADATH Congregation in Hampstead, Quebec, and an adjunct professor at McGill University Faculty of Law. ADATH is a modern orthodox synagogue community in suburban Montreal, providing Judaism for the next generation. We take great pleasure in welcoming everyone with a warm smile, while sharing inspiration through prayer, study, and friendship.

Rabbi Whitman shares his thoughts and inspirations through online lectures and shiurim, which are available on:

YouTube: https://tinyurl.com/adathyoutube

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/adathmichael/

Podcast - Mining the Riches of the Parsha:

Apple Podcasts - https://tinyurl.com/miningtheriches1

Spotify: https://tinyurl.com/miningtheriches3

Stitcher: https://tinyurl.com/miningtheriches4

Please contact Rabbi Whitman ([email protected]) with any questions for feedback, or to receive a daily email, "Study with Rabbi Whitman Today," with current and past insights for that day, video, and audio, all in one short email sent directly to your inbox.

This morning we discuss the improbable reality of maintaining faith in God after the Holocaust. We quote an answer from Rabbi Matisyahu Salomon, and an incredible story from Rabbi Chaim Shmulevitz.

Michael Whitman is the senior rabbi of ADATH Congregation in Hampstead, Quebec, and an adjunct professor at McGill University Faculty of Law. ADATH is a modern orthodox synagogue community in suburban Montreal, providing Judaism for the next generation. We take great pleasure in welcoming everyone with a warm smile, while sharing inspiration through prayer, study, and friendship.

Rabbi Whitman shares his thoughts and inspirations through online lectures and shiurim, which are available on:

YouTube: https://tinyurl.com/adathyoutube

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/adathmichael/

Podcast - Mining the Riches of the Parsha:

Apple Podcasts - https://tinyurl.com/miningtheriches1

Spotify: https://tinyurl.com/miningtheriches3

Stitcher: https://tinyurl.com/miningtheriches4

Please contact Rabbi Whitman ([email protected]) with any questions for feedback, or to receive a daily email, "Study with Rabbi Whitman Today," with current and past insights for that day, video, and audio, all in one short email sent directly to your inbox.

This morning we discuss the Kaddish prayer, one of our oldest prayers, with an oversized impact on Jewish life. Today we discuss the history of Kaddish, its role in the prayer service, and its evolution into different forms and versions. In the next installment of this series, we will discuss the Mourner's Kaddish.

Michael Whitman is the senior rabbi of ADATH Congregation in Hampstead, Quebec, and an adjunct professor at McGill University Faculty of Law. ADATH is a modern orthodox synagogue community in suburban Montreal, providing Judaism for the next generation. We take great pleasure in welcoming everyone with a warm smile, while sharing inspiration through prayer, study, and friendship.

Rabbi Whitman shares his thoughts and inspirations through online lectures and shiurim, which are available on:

YouTube: https://tinyurl.com/adathyoutube

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/adathmichael/

Podcast - Mining the Riches of the Parsha:

Apple Podcasts - https://tinyurl.com/miningtheriches1

Spotify: https://tinyurl.com/miningtheriches3

Stitcher: https://tinyurl.com/miningtheriches4

Please contact Rabbi Whitman ([email protected]) with any questions for feedback, or to receive a daily email, "Study with Rabbi Whitman Today," with current and past insights for that day, video, and audio, all in one short email sent directly to your inbox.

This morning we examine some of the mistakes that have led to great achievements, and the structural challenges that prevent us from learning from our mistakes, our best teachers. We examine the bizarre subject of Tzoraas (wrongly translated as leprosy) in our Torah Portion, and explore Maimonides' insight that this was one of God's greatest kindnesses, to give us positive, loving feedback so we could improve ourselves. For without learning from our mistakes, we would not have potato chips!

Michael Whitman is the senior rabbi of ADATH Congregation in Hampstead, Quebec, and an adjunct professor at McGill University Faculty of Law. ADATH is a modern orthodox synagogue community in suburban Montreal, providing Judaism for the next generation. We take great pleasure in welcoming everyone with a warm smile, while sharing inspiration through prayer, study, and friendship.

Rabbi Whitman shares his thoughts and inspirations through online lectures and shiurim, which are available on:

YouTube: https://tinyurl.com/adathyoutube

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/adathmichael/

Podcast - Mining the Riches of the Parsha:

Apple Podcasts - https://tinyurl.com/miningtheriches1

Spotify: https://tinyurl.com/miningtheriches3

Stitcher: https://tinyurl.com/miningtheriches4

Please contact Rabbi Whitman ([email protected]) with any questions for feedback, or to receive a daily email, "Study with Rabbi Whitman Today," with current and past insights for that day, video, and audio, all in one short email sent directly to your inbox.

In commemoration of the 30th Yartzeit of Rabbi Yosef Soloveitchik (on 18 Nissan), widely known as The Rav, this morning we present the third of three prongs of his momentous impact on Jewish learning and life. Today we focus on The Rav's character and personality; his superb moral sensitivity, his intellectual integrity and humility, and his illuminating passion.

To learn more about The Rav's life, work, and impact, please see the essays in this edition of "Jewish Action":

https://issuu.com/jewishaction/docs/jewish_action_1993_053_003_summer?fr=sYjcxOTc1MTg2Mw

The most accessible of The Rav's published works are "On Repentance" edited by Pinchas Peli, "Reflections of the Rav" edited by Abraham Besdin, and "The Rav: The World of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik" edited by Aaron Rakeffet-Rothkoff.

Michael Whitman is the senior rabbi of ADATH Congregation in Hampstead, Quebec, and an adjunct professor at McGill University Faculty of Law. ADATH is a modern orthodox synagogue community in suburban Montreal, providing Judaism for the next generation. We take great pleasure in welcoming everyone with a warm smile, while sharing inspiration through prayer, study, and friendship.

Rabbi Whitman shares his thoughts and inspirations through online lectures and shiurim, which are available on:

YouTube: https://tinyurl.com/adathyoutube

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/adathmichael/

Podcast - Mining the Riches of the Parsha:

Apple Podcasts - https://tinyurl.com/miningtheriches1

Spotify: https://tinyurl.com/miningtheriches3

Stitcher: https://tinyurl.com/miningtheriches4

Please contact Rabbi Whitman ([email protected]) with any questions for feedback, or to receive a daily email, "Study with Rabbi Whitman Today," with current and past insights for that day, video, and audio, all in one short email sent directly to your inbox.

In commemoration of the 30th Yartzeit of Rabbi Yosef Soloveitchik (on 18 Nissan), widely known as The Rav, this morning we present the second of three prongs of his momentous impact on Jewish learning and life. Today we focus on The Rav's insistence, repeated and emphasized throughout his teaching life, that Halacha (Jewish Law, Talmudic analysis, the transmission of Jewish values), is the most accurate and comprehensive prism to view life, the world, and all Jewish experience. We share the first interview The Rav ever gave, in Boston, December 1932, where all the major themes of his life's work are contained.We trace The Rav's conception of the goal of law, to be socially healing, and to bind the generations together, leading to redemption.

To learn more about The Rav's life, work, and impact, please see the essays in this edition of "Jewish Action":

https://issuu.com/jewishaction/docs/jewish_action_1993_053_003_summer?fr=sYjcxOTc1MTg2Mw

The most accessible of The Rav's published works are "On Repentance" edited by Pinchas Peli, "Reflections of the Rav" edited by Abraham Besdin, and "The Rav: The World of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik" edited by Aaron Rakeffet-Rothkoff.

Michael Whitman is the senior rabbi of ADATH Congregation in Hampstead, Quebec, and an adjunct professor at McGill University Faculty of Law. ADATH is a modern orthodox synagogue community in suburban Montreal, providing Judaism for the next generation. We take great pleasure in welcoming everyone with a warm smile, while sharing inspiration through prayer, study, and friendship.

Rabbi Whitman shares his thoughts and inspirations through online lectures and shiurim, which are available on:

YouTube: https://tinyurl.com/adathyoutube

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/adathmichael/

Podcast - Mining the Riches of the Parsha:

Apple Podcasts - https://tinyurl.com/miningtheriches1

Spotify: https://tinyurl.com/miningtheriches3

Stitcher: https://tinyurl.com/miningtheriches4

Please contact Rabbi Whitman ([email protected]) with any questions for feedback, or to receive a daily email, "Study with Rabbi Whitman Today," with current and past insights for that day, video, and audio, all in one short email sent directly to your inbox.

In commemoration of the 30th Yartzeit of Rabbi Yosef Soloveitchik (on 18 Nissan), widely known as The Rav, this morning we present three prongs of his momentous impact on Jewish learning and life. Today we focus on The Rav's insistence, repeated and emphasized throughout his teaching life, on the dual nature of every Mitzvah and spiritual experience which must contain both, "strict objective discipline and exalted subjective romance." We trace this through The Rav's teaching about prayer and Shabbat, and we explore what he had to overcome, in his family background and his personality, to evolve into the master expositor of this crucial duality.

To learn more about The Rav's life, work, and impact, please see the essays in this edition of "Jewish Action":

https://issuu.com/jewishaction/docs/jewish_action_1993_053_003_summer?fr=sYjcxOTc1MTg2Mw

The most accessible of The Rav's published works are "On Repentance" edited by Pinchas Peli, "Reflections of the Rav" edited by Abraham Besdin, and "The Rav: The World of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik" edited by Aaron Rakeffet-Rothkoff.

Michael Whitman is the senior rabbi of ADATH Congregation in Hampstead, Quebec, and an adjunct professor at McGill University Faculty of Law. ADATH is a modern orthodox synagogue community in suburban Montreal, providing Judaism for the next generation. We take great pleasure in welcoming everyone with a warm smile, while sharing inspiration through prayer, study, and friendship.

Rabbi Whitman shares his thoughts and inspirations through online lectures and shiurim, which are available on:

YouTube: https://tinyurl.com/adathyoutube

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/adathmichael/

Podcast - Mining the Riches of the Parsha:

Apple Podcasts - https://tinyurl.com/miningtheriches1

Spotify: https://tinyurl.com/miningtheriches3

Stitcher: https://tinyurl.com/miningtheriches4

Please contact Rabbi Whitman ([email protected]) with any questions for feedback, or to receive a daily email, "Study with Rabbi Whitman Today," with current and past insights for that day, video, and audio, all in one short email sent directly to your inbox.