We discuss the difference between Avraham who kept the Mitzvos based upon his own devices and the Jewish People who accepted the Torah at Mt. Sinai. We present the perspective of Rabbi Avraham Grozinsky in his Toras Avraham.

**Throwback Episode** We deal with the question of the Drashos HaRan. How was Yaakov Avinu justified in ignoring the honor of his father even if he was following the directives of his mother? This class was given at the Phoenix Community Kollel on 11/19/19

In this episode we grapple to understand the Torah Avraham’s perspective of the change that took place after eating from the Tree of Knowledge. Is it wrong to shirk every yoke and do whatever one wants? What is the definition of Freedom.

**Throwback Episode** This class was given at the Phoenix Community Kollel on 11/16/11.

**Throwback Episode** This class was given at the Phoenix Community Kollel on 10/30/11

**Throwback Episode** This class was given at the Phoenix Community Kollel on 10/6/10

**Throwback Episode** This class was given at the Phoenix Community Kollel on 10/14/09.

This was the Annual Yahrtziet Shiur for my mother Svetlana Bas Yaakov Z”L in our Succah in 5782, 2021 on Hoshana Rabbah. We discuss the reason for the huge candelabras situated in the courtyard of the Temple during the Simchas Beis HaShoava and why the Ramban left out their detail in his work, the Yad Hachazakah.

This class was given by my brother-in-law, Ran I Shlomo Berkowitz for Yeshivas Ben HaZmanim in the Phoenix Community Kollel. It’s an in depth discussion about my practices enacted by the Men of the Great Assembly.

**Throwback Episode** This class was given at our Succah on my mother’s Yahrzeit in 5778: Svetlana bas Yaakov