1. Hakadosh Baruch Hu participates in the burial of even a simple Jew.
2. Moshe Rabbeinu as a mediator to bring down the Torah.
3. The Chasam Sofer’s segulah for remembering Torah.
4. The importance of having ten men by a Jewish burial.

Adar 5786

1. The ability to connect to the Hidden Essence of G-d, beyond the sefiros.
2. What’s behind the conversations between Hashem and Moshe when Moshe has difficulty with how to build the mishkan and the menorah.
3. The difference between the effect of the action of the mitzvah and the preparation that went into it.
4. The special quality of Eretz Yisroel and why cedars trees from Eretz Yisroel needed to be used in the building of the mishkan.

Shvat 5786

1. The giluy (revelation) and tzimtzum (constriction) of letters and written word.
2. Rav Nachman of Breslov’s teaching regarding looking intently at the letters of the Torah, and being mechadesh.
3. An underlying message of the Tanna D’vei Eliyahu that the Jewish people come before the Torah.
4. Which is higher, Torah shebiksav or Torah shebaal peh? And the role Moshe Rabbeinu plays in Torah shebaal peh.

Shevat 5786

1. Where does antisemitism really stem from? You’ll be pretty shocked.
2. Was Moshe’s acceptance of the eirav rav a good or bad thing?
3. A totally new take on the dialogue between Yisro and Moshe regarding the need for judicial reform.

Shevat 5786

1. Christianity and Islam as proof to the Torah.
2. The huge power of illustration and imagination, and its necessity in avodas Hashem.
3. Living with the constant awareness that Hashem is inside us.
4. The relationship between wealth and ruach hakodesh!

Shevat 5786

1. Two steps in makkas arbeh (-plague of locust).
2. Why did Hashem tell the Jews to request their expensive vessels, and why did He tell Moshe to “beg” the Jewish people to do so?
3. A beautiful resolution to the contradiction in the Torah as per who was doing the killing in the plague of the firstborns – Hashem or an angel.

Teves 5786

1. Two aspects of relationship between husband and wife.
2. Rav Chaim Vital’s warning and the Ziditchover’s clarification regarding physical pleasure in zivvug.
3. The marriage of Yitzchok and Rivkah.

Teves 5786

1. A chiddush regarding performing the mitzvah of Yishuv Eretz Yisroel.
2. Eretz Yisroel is the best land physically, not only spiritually!
3. The trees of Eretz Yisroel aren’t like any other trees in the rest of the world. And how this played a role in the story of the meraglim (-spies).

Teves 5786

1. The three major tragedies of Teves, and why they are considered so tragic.
2. The underlying common denominator between these three tragic events.
3. A novel idea, based on the Arizal, to the deeper meaning of the prophetic words “b’etzem hayom hazeh” regarding Asarah b’Teves.

Teves 5786

Kislev 5786