Rabbanit Dr. Tamara Spitz reviews key topics of the previous week’s seven pages. This week will continue discussing the laws of purity and impurity and the difference between the Temple and outside the Temple, and impurity of a Sheretz vs. impurity from a dead body. With that we will conclude the first chapter in Masechet Pesachim. The second chapter begins with a discussion about the prohibition to eat and benefit from Chametz. To join the weekly live lesson visit Daf Yomi One Week at a Time: Pesachim.

 

Rabbanit Dr. Tamara Spitz reviews key topics of the previous week’s seven pages. This week we are going to learn the laws of eating leavened bread on the 14th of Nisan, Erev Pesach. What time do we need to stop eating Chametz, and at what time to we burn the chametz? How did the nation know what time it was on the morning of the 14th? We will then enter the complicated world of Purity and Impurity (Tahara and Tumah). To join the weekly live lesson visit Daf Yomi One Week at a Time: Pesachim.

 

Rabbanit Dr. Tamara Spitz reviews key topics of the previous week’s seven pages. This week we will continue to learn the laws regarding searching one’s home for leavened bread.  How and when is this done? Who needs to check? What blessing is said? And what does a weasel have to do with any of this?. To join the weekly live lesson visit Daf Yomi One Week at a Time: Pesachim.

 

Each week join Rabbanit Dr. Tamara Spitz for her Daf Yomi: One Week at a Time course as she reviews the key topics of the previous week’s seven pages. This week we will be finishing Tractate Eruvin. After an introduction to Tractate Pesachim we will learn the first two daf and understand the primary obligation to search for Chametz.

To join the weekly live lesson visit Daf Yomi: One Week at a Time.

 

What can we learn from pop culture? What is the value of stories, especially the fantasy stories that have become so popular over the last century? Each week, join Rabbi Uri Cohen and discuss the heroes and icons of a popular series (books, films, or comics) and examine it through a lens of Mussar and Torah.

Topics include the significance of secret identities in superhero comics, Emunah in Mashiach as expressed in the Matrix films, and the unusual attitude towards death in the Harry Potter series. For the rest of this series please visit The Best of Both Worlds. 

The book of Mishlei is composed of hundreds of diverse Proverbs describing a plethora of scenarios and phenomena. In this course with Dr. Lisa Fredman uncover the central themes of the book and see how Rashi’s commentary brilliantly creates thematic unity and turns Mishlei into a book relevant to the medieval and modern reader. This is the first session. To join the rest of the series please visit HERE 

Each week join Rabbanit Dr. Tamara Spitz for her Daf Yomi: One Week at a Time course as she reviews the key topics of the previous week’s seven pages, gaining an overview of the entire Talmud while also doing a deeper analysis of one of the core issues in that week’s text. This week we will learn the differences between joining houses with an eruv and joining courtyards in an alleyway and the intricacies of an inner courtyard and its relationship to an outer courtyard. We will also learn about different mechanisms that join or separate adjoining courtyards.

To join the weekly live lesson visit Daf Yomi: One Week at a Time.

Listen below to this recorded shiur from last night by Rabbi Brovender on Parshat Bo on the topic of the plague of darkness.

To view the source sheet click here.

If you are in Jerusalem on Wednesday evenings at 8:00 PM you can attend the live shiur at Yakar, 10 HaLamed-Heh Street (click here for a map).

The weekly Parshat Hashavua Shiur is now being sponsored in memory of David Wichs z''l (pictured to the right).

To contribute to the fund please click here.

The following podcast series 'Supporting Characters' is taught  by Mrs Ilana Saks.

In this podcast Mrs. Saks covers the personality of Bat Paroh

Ilana Goldstein Saks is a teacher of Tanakh in Jerusalem at the Tehilla High School. She has taught at Machon Pardes, Midreshet Lindenbaum, and Midreshet Harova in Jerusalem, written curricula for the Melton Center and the Lookstein Center and holds an M.A. in Tanakh from Bar Ilan University.

Listen below to this recorded shiur from last night by Rabbi Brovender on Parshat Vaera on the topic of 'why did Moshe Rabbeinu want to pass up the opportunity.'

To view the source sheet click here.

If you are in Jerusalem on Wednesday evenings at 8:00 PM you can attend the live shiur at Yakar, 10 HaLamed-Heh Street (click here for a map).

The weekly Parshat Hashavua Shiur is now being sponsored in memory of David Wichs z''l (pictured to the right).

To contribute to the fund please click here.