Yehoshua Mini-Shiur Part 4: Perek 1:12-15 - Addressing Reuven/Gad/Menasheh - Oct 10, 2023 - A daily mini-shiur on the book of Yehoshua, in the merit of the soldiers of the IDF, as well as the hostages, wounded and everyone in the line of fire. Today's installment introduces the book.

Derashah: Bereishit 5784 - Banishing Our Demons - Oct 12, 2023 - At this terrible time for Klal Yisrael, how do we balance our need to grieve with our need to live life? A story of three gemaras: 1) Conduct during a famine; 2) Asceticism after the churban; 3) Adam creating sheidim during his separation from Chavah

Tehillim 121: Chizuk for Ourselves and Others - Oct 12, 2023 - How did Dovid's Tehillim become the songs used in the Avodah in the Beit haMikdash? And why does Tehillim 121 switch from first-person to second-person in the middle?

Yehoshua Mini-Shiur Part 3: 1:1-6-11 - Instructions - Oct 12, 2023 - A daily mini-shiur on the book of Yehoshua, in the merit of the soldiers of the IDF, as well as the hostages, wounded and everyone in the line of fire. Today's installment looks at Hashem's demands of Yehoshua, and Yehoshua's charge to the nation.

Divrei Chizuk: Let There Be No Silence - Oct 11, 2023 - A call for tefillah, based on Bereishit Rabbah 56:7 and Yeshayah 62:6-7. Hashem has promised us peril and protection in every generation, but Yeshayah demands that we give Hashem no respite until that pledge of protection is fulfilled.

Medical Treatment on Shabbat 8b: Children as choleh she'ein bo sakkanah - Oct 11, 2023 - The conclusion of today's class, explaining the different views regarding the age of children to be viewed automatically as "ill, but not dangerously so".

Medical Treatment on Shabbat 8a: Choleh she'Ein bo Sakkanah - Oct 11, 2023 - Defining the category of "someone who is ill but not in danger", and what halachah permits for such situations. And the status of children.

Yehoshua Mini-Shiur Part 2: Introduction and 1:1-5 - Oct 11, 2023 - A daily mini-shiur on the book of Yehoshua, in the merit of the soldiers of the IDF, as well as the hostages, wounded and everyone in the line of fire. Today's installment concludes our introduction of Yehoshua himself, and sees Hashem's initial message to Yehoshua.

Yehoshua Mini-Shiur Part 1: Introduction - Oct 10, 2023 - A daily mini-shiur on the book of Yehoshua, in the merit of the soldiers of the IDF, as well as the hostages, wounded and everyone in the line of fire. Today's installment introduces the book.

Derashah: Shemini Atzeret 5784 - Just One Succah! - Oct 5, 2023 - Addressing the strife surrounding Israel's current government, as expressed in Rabbi Benny Lau's refusal to sit in a succah with Minister Yitzchak Wasserlauf. Rav Aharon Lichtenstein's two unities - Religion and Ethnicity - in the Brother Daniel case. Linked to the single-hearted lulav and the single bull of Shemini Atzeret. We need to be realistic in our expectations for each other.