Torah Weekly

By Tzvi Eckhardt

Follow along each week as Tzvi Eckhardt delves into the parsha, exposing deep secrets, dabbling in mussar and profound topics!... more

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January 17, 2025 Parshat Shemos 5785 -Tzvi Eckhardt
Topics:
Amram divorcing his wife and Miryams adviceThe infallibility of gedolim - can we question and disagree with them and be right?The capabilities of children compared to us and even tzaddikimHow could amram be considered never winning when it seems there were a number of serious issues in his conduct?Chsam Sofer/Orach Yesharim answer and why they differ - how we judge klal yisrael and their capabilities4 who died because of the snake vs 11 who entered gan Eden alive - who was greater?Why did yishai die such a gruesome death if he never sinned and should have merited to die with a “kiss”?
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51min
January 17, 2025 Parshat Vayechi 5785 -Tzvi Eckhardt
Topics:
Yaakov wanting to reveal the time of mashiach R yaakov kameneztky on the difference between baruch Shem and amen yehei shmei rabba When is the ketz?The dangers, curse and oath of figuring out the time of mashiachThe bas kol about why Hashem is delaying mashiach Why the main problem is we never know where to start countingAnswers from shamayim of when it will comeThe dates gedolim gave anyways Daniel and mefarshim on the dateZohar and Gemara datesSaadya again, Rambam ramban abarbanel datesHow could so many gedolim get it so wrong”wrong “The truth revealed - the Gra and R Menachem Nahum of Chernobyl
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39min
January 17, 2025 Parshat Vayigash 5785 -Tzvi Eckhardt
Topics:
Why did the brothers try to kill Yosef after he revealed himself to them?1) the deathly power of being exposed for our own hypocrisy. Eliyahu hanavi and the fisherman2) Alter of Kelm - the lasting “gut reaction” power of first impressions even after later “logical” consideration 3) Shitas hashela and the rambams loophole to killing a mored blamchus4) Yosef as one of 13 born with a bris. The brothers jealousy over his kedusha in this midda5) the misunderstanding in Yosef’s goal “leading” the brothers and the preparatory stage of moshiach Ben Yosef
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32min
December 25, 2024 Parshat Mikeitz 5785 -Tzvi Eckhardt
Topics:
Remazim between Parshas Mikeitz/Yosef and ChanukahYosef and Kisvu Al Keren HashorWhy our children start with bavasThe battle against doing Mitzvos bsimchaSufganiyot and antiyochus’s kryptoniteSimilarities between megillas Antiochus, medrash yehudis and megillas EstherUsing megillas Antiochus to explain why we celebrate oil and not the warWhat impressed R Meshulam Igra and why was Rav Shach not impressed by a miracle?Why no mishnayos or masechta of Chanukah unlike Purim?Does Rebbi ever mention Neros Chanukah? Matisyahus father Why Chanukah 8 days if only 7 are miracles? Chanukah and Mashiach
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50min
December 19, 2024Parshat Vayeshev 5785 -Tzvi Eckhardt
Topics:
Brothers selling Yosef since they weren’t compassionate to their sheep
Comparison of Moshe David Yosef and brothers with how treated sheep
You know how someone is by how they treat animals
Tzaddikims animals act differently than regular animals
Having mercy on all Hashems creations Halacha and stories
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Schem - source of all that is terrible or essence of eretz yisrael and Torah?
Shchem as the connector between sechel and action
Perverted action, murder and eisav
Eisavs only dwelling place in eretz yisrael
Yosef having shchem and his essence as Torah in action
Sold in shchem buried in shchem
The Geulah starting in shchem
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41min
December 18, 2024 Parshat Vayishlach 5785 -Tzvi Eckhardt
Topics:
Baba Sali on yaakov sending malachim to check on his face in shamanism
Eisav’s gilgulim - the mekalel, Titus, Yeshu
The similarities between yeshu and the mekalel
The story of Yeshu- origins
Yeshus ball game and Achilles heel
Elifaz son of eisav and his gilgul as onkelos the ger
Yeshus good advice to Onkelos and tikkun for eisav
Onkelos’ power to convert others
How Onkelos perhaps helped partial tikkun for Yeshu
Why only a ger could write the Targum
Why we say Yeshu and leave out the ayin
What’s the story with the cross?
Yeshu’s burial place in the Baal Shem Tov forest
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39min
December 18, 2024 Parshat Vayeitzei 5785 -Tzvi Eckhardt
Topics:
The holiness of sleep - Arizal, Gra, Chaim Kanievsky
The level of the Malachim compared to the child of the king
Yaakov Avinu as the fourth leg of the kisei hakavod
Adding the Avos to 26/91
Is the lion kosher?
The depth of meaning in the fight between yaakov and eisavs malach
Yosef on the kisei Hakavod in addition to yaakov
A chiddush in Rivka Imeinu’s worries while pregnant
How yaakov knew he would live a long life
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32min

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