We discuss the prophecy of Zephaniah about the language to be spoken in Messianic times. We explain the Ohr HaChaim HaKodesh regarding why Moshe didn’t use his staff for the plague of Darkness.

**Throwback Episode** We peruse through the various opinions of the Midrash, Rishonim, and Achronim as to what exactly was the reality of this supernatural phenomenon. We especially focus on the opinion of the Nesivos Shalom who posits that it was a monstrously acute light. This class was given at the Phoenix Community Kollel on 1/28/09.

**Throwback Episode** This class was given at the Phoenix Community Kollel on 12/29/10.

**Throwback Episode** We the discuss some aspects of the plague of Barad/Hail. From there the conversation leads into a discussion of how to fill a Mikvah properly with snow. This class took place in 2005 right after the completion the Ohr HaTorah Keilim Mikvah.

We discuss the reason why Dassan Veaviran couldn’t hurt Moshe. This is the reason why Hashem tells him to return to Egypt. We also present the perspective of the Maharal as why the state of poverty has an aspect to it that’s tantamount to death.

**Throwback Episode** We discuss the reasoning behind the Permission of the One Hundred Rabbis document and present a Responsa with a novel idea to centralize its impact in 1946 to alleviate the calamity that befell the survivors of the Holocaust. This class was given at Ahavas Torah of Scottsdale on 1/8/10.

We discuss the opinions of the Ramban in his commentary on the Torah and The Disputation and that of the Maharal in his Gur Aryeh about the nature of Yehuda’s monarchal requisition. What was the actual Bracha that Yaakov gave him promising that his monarchy would never be usurped.

**Throwback Episode** We discuss his anatomy as an Angel, his charge, appearance, and purview. This class was given at the Phoenix Community Kollel on 1/08/09.

We discuss the perspective of the Gur Aryeh as to what was the status of the Forefathers before the giving of the Torah at Sinai regarding keeping Mitzvos. This class was at the Phoenix Community Kollel on 12/8/21.

**Throwback Episode** We discuss the concept of dignified etiquette both in the Temple and on one’s person. We explain why there had to be guards in the Temple and reasoning of why certain materials were used in the construction of the vessels. We also explain why Yosef had to be groomed before his audience with Pharoh. This class was given at the Phoenix Community Kollel on 12/23/09.