Topics:

-Why is adar a time of Mazal? I thought we are above Mazal

-Hashem’s handicapped Kisei Hakavod as a tool against Amalek

-The 7 Stars in Shamayim Paralleling the Purim Actors

-Charvona and the Undecided Voter, then and by Mashiach

-Betzalel flipping Moshe’s order for the Mishkan and Keilim

-Haman’s attack on Bnei Yisrael’s Looking Different

-Should I worry about my externals and what type of hat with Mashiach wear?

-Marbim B’simcha; Purim and Pesach? Why does Purim lead to love more?

-Khomeini as a follower of Thank You Hashem and the true creator of Simcha

-The Lubavitcher Rebbe on Flipping vs Nullifying Your enemy

-Why did Rashi speak and quote French, the language of adultery?

Topics:

-The Segulah of The Baal Shem Tove against Witches

-Why only witches and not wizards? A great vort to offend your wife

-The fallen angels, the mountain of darkness, and Bilam

-The best sin to prepare for a career in sorcery

-The Kishuf at the Yam Suf

-The inability of Kishuf and Shedim to operate in live water

-R Tzadok Hakohen on mitzrayim and sorcery

-The wonders of technology as a proxy for today’s sorcery

-Mummies as the best kishuf creators to speak to the dead

-The two types of kishuf in mitzrayim and how they were both defeated

-The Arvei Nachal on Zeh Leumas Zeh of Terafim and Urim V’Tumim

-Was Mordechai a bigger tzaddik than Haman was a Rasha?

Topics:

-Moshe being involved in the bones of Yosef

-Isn’t Bnei Yisrael Also doing Mitzva taking spoils?

-Whats in the heart when doing mitzvos

-The backwardness of “Extravagant” Frumkeit

-Achus enabling us to do all mitzvos

-Admit You are an Israeli - or else!

-Moshe, Yosef, and the sense of smell

-Moshe the Kohen’s involvement with a dead body

-Not letting sevaros get in the way of mitzvos

Topics:

-Why of all Mitzvos was this practiced in mitzrayim?

-The unique hope in Kiddush Levana

- R Chaim Shmuelevitz and the holocaust survivor

-The value of the life of one with altzeimers or special needs

-Why don’t women say Kiddush Levana?

-The shelah’s shitta that women caused the moons problems

-Why do we say Shalom Aleichem three times?

-Why say it specifically Motzaei Shabbos?

-Why repeat Aleinu afterwards?

-Stories and Segulos in Kiddush Levana

-A meaningful diyuk in comparison to krias yam suf

Topics:

-Names as mission statements for life

-Why do we remember our names at the end of Shemoneh Esrei

-Rav Dessler on why we won’t recognize ourselves in Gan Eden

-The Goal of Eisav’s Malach, to make us forget our Names

-The merit of not changing our names in Mitzrayim

-The danger of changing one’s name when sick

-Stories about Rav Yosef Chaim Sonnenfeld’s Crazy Gematriyos

-The deeper meaning in Moshe’s name

-Why do we wish reshaim’s name be wiped out?

-Why are nicknames such a big deal in halacha?

-The embarrassment of using a name to fit in with non jews

-The maharam shick on last names

-R Chaim and R Mordechai Eliyahu davening for the same name

-Why don’t we bless to be “like Avraham” anymore?

-The Pitfall in placing too many expectations upon our children

-The first brothers in the Torah who didn’t fight

-Focusing on the Positivity of Efraim and not the Negativity of Menashe

-Blessing our Children to be Leshem Shamayim whatever their path

-Why is this bracha davka given on Shabbos?

-The only way to give a no strings attached bracha to a child

-No aveiros can get in the way of bracha and shefa on Shabbos

-How can we give a bracha of birkas kohanim when we are not?

-The Lubavitcher Rebbe and the Gra

-Should I bless with one hand or two? In Halacha and Kabbala

-The same story about the Gra told in completely opposite ways

-The extended nusach of Birchas Habanim

-The mother as the main bracha giver Friday night

Topics

• ​Why did Yosef Expose his Bris Milah to his brothers?
• ​How was it proof that it was him and not a circumcised Mitzri?
• ​The story of Nasan of Tzutzisa and Chana the Eshes Ish
• ​The trick for success your Yetzer Hara doesn’t want you to know
• ​Yehoshua and Rachav paralleling Yosef and Eshes Potifar
• ​The Zona of the 7 beds and Eshes Potifar
• ​Being saved from wild animals in merit of the bris
• ​Ramak on why Yosef did Milah to the Mitzrim in the first place
• ​Yosef and Gerim, Yosef and 7 mitzvos of Noach
• ​The three hidden treasures of Yosef

Topics:

1. ​Why do all pesukim in Vayeshev start with the letter Vav other than 8?
2. ​The fight against the greeks and their nature only view
3. ​The danger in connecting to the wrong people - Misyavnim and Inquisition Spain
4. ​The power of Peretz and connection of Rus to Vayeshev
5. ​The theme of the missing 11, and this parsha’s twins fixing Yaakov and Eisav
6. ​The fight between Eisav and Yaakov over the letter Vav
7. ​The plot against Yosef to take his Vav
8. ​Yaakov and Yosef’s Reunion planting the seeds of the Chashmonaim’s Victory
9. ​Tetzaveh and its Vavs, Amalek and their Vavs

Topics:

• ​Why did Leah not marry Eisav and bring him back in Teshuva?
• ​R Aharon Kotler on Personal Growth vs Affecting Others
• ​The danger of frumkeit to crush empathy and emotion
• ​Woman is like Shabbos for a Man
• ​Why a woman is like a tail
• ​The difference in Dina and Leah marrying Eisav in Neshamos
• ​Yaakov Avinu suspecting Leah and her children of connection to Eisav
• ​Would Eisav have done Teshuva just for Dina’s hand in marriage?
• ​Doing the right thing with the wrong feeling

Topics:

• ​The “Malachim” Guarding Yaakov as his own Father’s Soul
• ​The “ladder” of parents coming from Gan Eden to help their Children
• ​The depths of a relationship that shares the same root of Neshama
• ​Which Neshama comes to us as our extra neshama on Shabbos?
• ​The Holiness we feel when our parent finishes purification in shamayim
• ​”Will you say Kaddish when I die?” Stories from the other side
• ​Why the Holy Kohen Gadol was sentenced to Gehennom
• ​The crowning of Shmuel’s Father in Shamayim
• ​A father’s last plea to their child - “Do not bury me in Mitzrayim”