Rav Shlomo Katz and the chevra of Shirat David explore the avodah of Melave Malka not as a custom but as an act of love.

Drawing from Shulchan Aruch, Gemara, the Rizhiner Rebbe, and the Shlah HaKadosh, we learn that escorting the Shabbos Queen is not about leftovers or convenience, but about honoring the Presence that filled our homes for twenty-five hours. Melave Malka stands as its own seudah—mutzav artza, v’rosho magia ha’shamayma—rooted in the weekday yet reaching Heaven.

Through niggun, food, and consciousness, we discover how Motzei Shabbos becomes the bridge between holiness and ordinary life, and how angels ascend and descend with us each week. When we escort Shabbos with song, intention, and kavod, the light of Shabbos does not leave, it lingers.

This shiur invites us to slow the goodbye, to sing the Queen out gently, and to begin the week with dignity, simcha, and blessing.

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Chapters / Timestamps

00:03 – Opening Niggun: “Esa Einai El Heharim”

04:05 – A New Hanan Niggun: “Rachmana Libba Ba’ei”

09:23 – From Song to Torah

12:57 – What Is the Seuda of Motzei Shabbos?

14:19 – Shulchan Aruch: Escorting Shabbos with a Seuda

16:33 – Maharsha: Why Leftovers Don’t Count

22:16 – The Rizhiner Rebbe: The Ladder of Melave Malka

26:34 – Angels Ascending and Descending

29:16 – Escorting the Queen with Song

31:24 – Delaying the Goodbye: Tosefet Shabbos

33:00 – The Gra’s Rebbetzin and the Power of Melave Malka

36:10 – Closing Reflections and Practical Kabbalah

What if the Yetzer Hara isn’t “randomly” making tefillah hard, but specifically targeting the most powerful kind of tefillah?

Rav Shlomo Katz and the women of Shirat David learn a striking teaching from the Biala Rebbe: women’s tefillos — especially in shul — don’t just matter… they elevate the entire tzibbur. And that’s exactly why the Yetzer Hara works overtime with excuses, self-talk, and “it doesn’t matter if I’m there” thinking.

We explore the idea of Et Ratzon (especially the power of tefillah in a beit knesset), why tefillat hatzibbur is received differently than tefillat yachid, and the hidden spiritual reality of what happens when women show up and daven from the Ezrat Nashim — even if it’s late, even if it’s messy, even if it’s only a few moments.

A practical, empowering reframing: if the resistance is intense, it’s probably because the impact is real.

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Shemot: Have We Woken Up Yet? by Rav Shlomo Katz

In this new perek of Da Es Yeladecha, Rav Shlomo Katz and the women of Shirat David go straight at a question that sounds “too obvious” to even ask: why do parents need to love their children? And then they flip it. Because love isn’t just a feeling; it’s the soul’s nourishment.

From there, they go even deeper: love isn’t only what keeps a child emotionally alive. It’s the “pipeline” that makes chinuch possible. Without a vessel of love, guidance and discipline don’t land. They spill.

With a powerful mashal (Kinneret water needs a pipe) and a sharp Torah from the Mishkan (Moshe vs. Betzalel: build the structure before the tools), this shiur reframes parenting: don’t start with tactics. Start by building the home’s foundation of love, so everything else actually reaches your child.

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Motzei Shabbos is often the most fragile moment of the week — when the light of Shabbos fades and old patterns rush back in.

In this week’s Hachana L’Shabbos, Rav Shlomo Katz and the chevra of Shirat David learn a deceptively simple avodah that can transform the entire week ahead: folding.

Drawing from the Be’er Mayim Chaim, we learn that folding the tallis on Motzei Shabbos isn’t just a custom. It’s a spiritual practice. Just as a tallis is folded again and again until it rests properly, so too real shalom bayis is built through repeated acts of humility and restraint.

We explore:

- Why peace only enters a home after a person steps back from their “makom”

- How letting go — especially when you’re right — creates true blessing

- Why spilled wine, folded fabric, and Motzei Shabbos habits set the tone for the entire week

- How v’tur doesn’t erase truth, but allows truth to be heard

May we merit to carry the kedusha of Shabbos into Motzei Shabbos, and to begin each week with menuchas hanefesh, shalva, and bracha.

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In Parashat Vayechi, Yaakov Avinu gathers his children for what feels like the ultimate “final download” — He’asfu… and I’ll tell you what will happen at the end of days.

And then… it disappears. Nistalka mimenu haShechinah.

In this shiur, Rav Shlomo Katz and the chevra of Shirat David learn a short but life-shaping Torah from Even Shlomo: sometimes the deepest clarity isn’t prophecy at all. It’s the holy not knowing that opens a person into yearning, into tefillah, into real closeness.

We speak about what a parent wants most for their children, why “knowing how it’ll all turn out” can quietly shut down the heart, and why the night, when you can’t see clearly, can bring out the deepest kind of sight: “וכל עין לך תצפה” — a life of yearning.

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Rav Shlomo Katz and the women of Shirat David explore one of the most basic and most misunderstood foundations of parenting: love.

Not love as a feeling we assume is obvious, and not love as a concept we think we’ve already mastered. But love as mazón la’nefesh, nourishment for a child’s soul.

Drawing from Da Et Yeladecha, Rav Shlomo reframes love as an essential need, no different from food, clothing, or shelter. Just as a child cannot survive without physical nourishment, a child’s soul cannot grow without love that is given, expressed, and received.

This shiur gently challenges the assumption that “they know I love them,” and invites us into a deeper, more honest avodah: learning how each child uniquely receives love, how missed nourishment affects the soul, and why this is something that must be learned, prayed over, and renewed again and again.

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Waves are loud. Waves do big things. They rise higher and higher… and then they crash. And the chiddush is: that's exactly what Hashem praises. Not the person who “arrived,” but the person who keeps trying to rise מתוך געגועים והשתוקקות — even when it didn’t work yet.

Rav Shlomo Katz and the chevra of Shirat David learn the difference between “success” in the Western world (goal-oriented) and success in avodas Hashem: not that I made it.... but that I didn’t give up. And how real yearning (“כי זה כמה נכסוף נכספתי”) can’t just be in the head. It has to move you, even a little, into action… because davening is called avodah for a reason.

Along the way, we connect:

- The wave that falls… and comes back again.

- Aharon HaKohen’s pain, and why Hashem says: your ratzon is greater than their korbanos.

- The koach of ratzon in Chazal (even when the full “result” didn’t happen the way you dreamed).

- Looking at another Yid with רחמים: maybe they didn’t “fall” — maybe they just came down from a wave.

May we merit a Shabbos of deeper waves, deeper hishtokekus, and to look at each other with those eyes that give a person strength to rise again, and this time: deeper, wiser, stronger.

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Some of the deepest pain a Jewish mother feels is quiet: “I don’t daven like I used to.”

Not because she doesn’t care, but because life is full. Kids. Home. Work. Mental load. A headspace that never fully settles.

In this short, powerful shiur from the Biala Rebbe’s Mevaser Tov, Rav Shlomo Katz and the women of Shirat David reframe what “real davening” actually is: not only pages, not only a minyan, not only a siddur, but speaking to Hashem in the language of the heart.

Even one simple cry — “Abba… Abba…” — can shake the heavens.

We explore:

- Why the Yetzer Hara convinces women their “simple prayers” don’t count

- How Yehuda’s Vayigash elav teaches “Hashem-conscious” conversation

- The Modzitzer teaching: the ideal tefillah for our generation is like a child who can only say “Abba”

- The wild Midrash where one old woman’s simple request “outworks” an entire public fast

If you’ve ever felt guilt about not davening “properly,” this episode is a breath of truth, and a return to what tefillah always was.

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Parshat Vayigash is the moment the Ishbitzer says is the closest we can taste in this world to what it will feel like when Moshiach reveals himself.

Because “Ani Yosef” isn’t just a plot twist. It’s the revelation that everything that looked like hester panim… everything that felt like an enemy… everything that seemed like punishment… was actually part of the process that “squeezed” a deeper YOU out of you.

In this shiur, Rav Shlomo Katz and the chevra of Shirat David dive into the Even Shlomo which opens a daring question:

If not every Jew is always living on the level of kodesh… could it be that every Jew is still Kodesh Kodashim?

We explore:

- Why the Kodesh Kodashim is in Binyamin’s portion (not Yosef’s)

- The difference between being “holy” vs being Holy of Holies

- Why sinas chinam is uniquely incompatible with Kodesh Kodashim

- Reb Carlebach's radical lens: the Ba’al Teshuva doesn’t just need the Mikdash. He builds it

- What forgiveness looks like on the level of kodesh… versus kodesh kodashim, where the whole story dissolves

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