Torah Weekly
Follow along each week as Tzvi Eckhardt delves into the parsha, exposing deep secrets, dabbling in mussar and profound topics!
Episodes
Topics:
- The Segulah of mentioning that the daughter of Asher was named Serach
- Was she Asher’s daughter? The story of Serach’s adoption
- The name of our Neshama and the name of our Yetzer Hara
- Why always named after her father Asher? And where did her music come from?
- Her connection to Eliyahu Hanavi and Pinchas
- What do women do in Gan Eden?
- Women of music, art, and dance and Serach Bas Asher
- Serach in the time of Moshe and Dovi...
Timestamps:
(00:00) - Why do Pirates have Peg Legs and Eye Patches
(04:22) - Eisav and Yishmael - The Ox and the Donkey
(10:04) - Eisav and Yishmael - Fire and Water
(14:49) - Eisav and Yishmael together destroying the world
(17:55) - The Nachash as the donkey and ox
(20:22) - Amalek as the donkey and ox
(22:00) - Bilam and Amalek
(27:00) Balak and Bilam as Amalek
(30:24) Lavan and Yaakov and the Donkey and Ox
(32:45) - Bilam's Sons and ...
Topics:
- The three mouths of the three parshiyos
- The Be’er Miriam – in what merit of Miriam?
- Miriam, Song, and the Be’er
- Yishmael and the Be’er Miriam – Klippa Kodem Hapri
- Mashiach as a time of Pri Kodem Laklippa
- What was Be’er Miriam and how did it operate in the desert?
- Why is water connected to the woman and food to man?
- Where is Be’er Miriam today?
- Be’er Miriam and the Arizal
- stories: Be’er Miriam and the holocaust...
Topics:
- The word of machlokes hinting to its nature
- Only three letters of Yaakovs name being mentioned by Korach - not the Ayin
- Hillel and Shammai; an encore of Korach and Aharon
- Why Moshe couldn’t live longer than 120 - a Math problem
- The talmidim of Hillel and Shammai’s Failing
- R Yonasan Eibuschitz and R Yaakov Emden
- Kofrim and Cats - the Long Arm of Machlokes
Topics:
- The Meraglim as the source of 10 for holiness in the Talmud Bavli
- The Yerushalmi’s source in the shevatim
- Were there really 12 meraglim? R Shteinman answers for R Akiva
- How can we learn holiness out from those who are not?
- The chiddush of Igros Moshe about Reshaim in a minyan
- The Lev Avrahams attack on R Moshe and R Moshe’s possible defense
- Why the Bavli and Yerushalmi learn differently;lessons in galus and geula
- The B...
Topics:
- The Zohar on the hair of Levi'im and the hair of women
- Hair, storms, and barley
- The nazir and his hair - sin or holiness?
- The connection between the hair of the sotah and that of the nazir
- The two types of Nezirim
- The kedusha of Shabbos vs that of weekday - avoda vs matana
- Eisav, Avshalom, and hair of א"א
- Chava as a Sota, Yaakov fighting eisav who had the holiest of "hair"
- Yosef and Shmuel fighting eisav and the nachas...
Topics:
- Atzeres, Shavuos, Matan Torah - All hinting to David Hamelech
- David Hamelech as the reason we stay up all night
- Milk and Blood - Lessons in change
- David Hamelech as the reason we read Rus
- The connection between David and Moshe
- The Satan, Matan Torah, and David Hamelech
- The baaal Shem Tov and David Hamelech
- The baal Shem Tov and the Ohr Hachaim Hakadosh
Topics:
- We DESTROY the idea of embarrasing others in an EPIC TAKEDOWN
- Causing pain to others - The lesson from Rabbi Eliezer's Wife
- -eravam's dizzying rise and precipitous fall
- Galus, Geulah, and the two Mashiachs
- The Rashbi, Arizal and Baal Shem Tov as Tikkunim for Yeravam and Achiya
- Tremendous Story about Rav Yoshiyahu Pinto and the Copper Idol
Topics:
- Be a Kohen who is a "Ben Aharon"
- Chillul Hashem as a Kadosh
- Why were the students of Rabi Akiva killed for such a small sin?
- The menorah at the end of the parsha
- The yesod of R Chaim Vital
- Why is the 2nd galus so much longer than the 1st if the sins are so much smaller?
- R Shach on Jealousy Desire and Honor Taking Man out of the World
- Lessons from the lives of R Yisrael Salanter and the Vilna Gaon
- A tremendous Story of t...
Topics:
- The seven circles of Molech’s Gehennom
- The Ishbitzer on co-opting love and fear for avoda zara
- “Killing” A Child by sending them to priesthood
- Drowning out the childs cries and the Yetzer Hara’s cry to Hashem
- The miraculous salvation of Chizkiyahu from Molech
- The Spider’s Web, Insanity, and the Tachash
- Molech, Abortion, Homosexuality, and Bestiality
- Molech as sorcery vs Avoda Zara, was it really deadly?
- R Hirsch on the ...
Yahrtzeit of Nachshon Meir Eckhardt
Topics:
- Aharon’s silence despite the 8th day being מעין עולם הבא
- The Kinnor of 7 8 and 10 and its connection to the world now and the times of mashiach
- The 7 note scale representing this world of seven days with the 8th note including all seven but also being of the first
- Olam Chessed Yibaneh vs Binah
- The dissonance of notes too close together and parallels in Torah and the world
- The creation of the 7 note scale through the 2/...
Topics:
- Yitzchak taking out the Afikomen and showing it to Eisav when he was tricked
- A Yitzchakian Bargain with Hashem to Save Bnei Yisrael
- Yitzchak, the cause of and solution to our Galus
- Yitzchak's sacrificing his name to shorten our slavery
- Counting the 400 years from Yitzchak
- Remazim in Yachatz and Yitzchak
- The 4 sons and Yitzchak giving up everything for Eisav
- Chiddush in the blunting of the teeth
- The Be'er Mayim Chaim's O...
Topics:
- Three stories from the Kozhnitzer Maggid - a Segulah for parnassa before Pesach
- the creation of the world and Hashems conversation with Alef
- Rabbi Akiva and Moshe Rabbeinu
- The source for 100 brachos and similarities between Moshe and David
- Tefillins root and connection to Moshe and Rabbi Akiva
- How could R Akiva be greater than Moshe Rabeinu? Tiferes Shlomo
- Was Moshe happy with his lot or jealous of R Akiva?
Topics:
- The purpose of the neshama’s journey to this world
- Betzalel and his connection to Shlomo Hamelech
- Betzalel and the Arizal
- Betzalel Atoning for the Eigel
- Chur as the Source of Betzalel’s Wisdom
- Aharon and Chur: who was right?
- Miryam as the Source of Betzalel’s Wisdom
Topics:
- On the malbim on his birthday
- Biography
- Seforim and Style
- internal “contradictions”
- relationship to chassidim
- Eretz Yisrael and the Geulah
- Science and Kabbala
- stories know what to answer an apikores
Topics:
- Simcha as a protector of Haman and the greatest zechus in shamayim
- How could Haman come to Simcha which comes from Kedusha?
- Hashems oath not to accept gerim from Amalek, yet haman's descendents were gerim
- Hamans last night and the survival of zeresh
- Arizal on What happens to a persons neshama on the last day of their life
- Shaul's Insistence that he had fulfilled Hashem's word despite leaving king of amalek alive
- The se...
Topics:
- The Purim story as a cautionary tale in listening to Da'as Torah
- Moshe Rabbeinu not being mentioned specifically in Tetzaveh and around Purim
- Making an Eigel as a replacement for Moshe instead of appointing Aharon leader
- The yesod in Emunas Chachamim of Rav Dessler
- Stories and lessons in emunas chachamim from the Alter Rebbe, R Yisrael Salanter, R Chaim, the Chazon Ish, and the Ozrover
Topics:
- Keruvim - l’iluy nishmas kfir ben shiri, ariel ben shiri, shiri bas margit
- The keruvim as children. The power of children’s joy, and what children who who die early do in shamayim
- How were the keruvim intertwined during the churban if at that time bnei yisrael were angering Hashem?
- The difference between the keruvim of Moshe, those of Shlomo, and the ones on the walls of the Beis Hamikdash and what they represented
- Who...
Topics:
- Gerim as a connection point between Jews and non Jews
- To be a Jew also means rejoicing in the downfall of our enemies
- To be a Jew means not rejecting Hashem in tragedy
- The power of stories
- Why is Yisro called Moshes father in law, isn’t he not related once he converts?
- The highest level ger
- Yisro/Rus/Yeser
- Was Yisro a dissenter of evil or a pal of amalek? When did he turn his avoda Zara around?
- How could Yisro go from...
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