Torah Weekly

Topics:

-The parshiyos of 30,40, and 52 pesukim

-The woman’s two roles and why Rochel felt dead

-The reward for shem and yefes and punishment of cham

-Why are africans generally unclothed compared to westerners

-Escaping the curse; How Osnas avoided woke mentality on a spiritual level

-Why does the wife get double the husbands challah on shabbos?

-The mitzvah that gives women schar of tefillin, tzitzis and more

-The incredible light ...

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-Why is the Yefas Toar only forbidden from 7 nations?

-Why having a Ben Sorer Umoreh as a Child isn’t such a bad thing

-If one partner goes off the derech should a frum couple divorce?

-David Hamelech, Avshalom, and his joyous song

-The worst type of mother

-The harlots of Moav and their innate tznius

-The “abomination” of cross-dressing

-Three “twisted hashkafos” that are fundamentals of abomination

-T...

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-Re’eh as prophecy on the years 5300-5400

-Shabtai Tzvi and Yeshu as prototypical Navi Sheker

-Why is Hashem giving “powers” to false prophets?

-The girl who “tested” the bachur on the shidduch date

-The connection between Navi Sheker and loving Hashem

-Nekudas Habechirah and being raised up by Nisayon

-Yosef, David Hamelech, and the power of a Nisayon

-The story of the Levush and R Michel Yehudah Lefk...

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-The overlooked mitzvah to focus on before Elul

-Two reasons we say Birkas Hamazon even outside Israel

-Benching led Yosef to lead the entire world

-R Chatzkel and davening not to need blood transfusions

-Why are people in kollel when they daven not to need tzedaka?

-Why the Chofetz Chaim sighed in Benching

-Breaking up with an Arab over benching

-The Satan, Destructive Malachim, and Benching

-The Segulos of one who is careful with ...

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-The meraglim and nazir as opposites in learning from others

-The spirit of fighting against your own best interest

-The pious naive gadol vs the wily trickster gadol

-Yehoshua marrying rachav because he was too pure

-The pitfall of the tzaddik who can’t see bad in others

-Reverse projection and why Rabbis miss pedophiles

-Suddenly not believing its Hashem when you have to work

-The three neshamos who came to help Kalev

-A wif...

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-The Meraglim as Shlichim of both Man and Hashem

-The Chidushei Harim on how we are all shluchim in this world

-The idea behind name pesukim of Shelah at end of Shemoneh Esrei

-When does our name precede us? The difference in a rasha and tzaddik

-The connection between Tzitzis and the time leading up to Mashiach

-Our times as similar to Yehoshua before Yud added to his name

-Rav Dessler on our Reaction to our true selves in Shamay...

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-Why are there backwards Nuns separating Vayehi Binsoa Ha’aron?

-The idea of 7 Chumshei Torah instead of 5

-Why separate between sin if we did those sins in a row?

-Why are these psukim specifically the ones that separate?

-Rabbeinu Bechaye on the whole of time included in these pesukim

-Destruction after 6,000 years and rebirth a thousand years later

-There is no light other than that which comes out of darkness

-The idea of...

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- Why is nazir after Sotah in Torah but first in Masechtos?

- Why Litvaks shouldn’t drink wine but Chassidim should

- Why should seeing the sotah create need to become a nazir

- Every sight we ever see is for a purpose

- Why frum Jews secretly like Xmas music

- The Chofetz Chaim’s special seder when he turned 90

- The Shem Mishmuel on why inspiration means nothing

- Why its our fault when the Sotah sins

- Naso and Connec...

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-Our encampment mirroring yaakov’s deathbed

-The 4 sections of the camp and the powers of the 4 directions

-The letters of Hashem’s name on the flags

-The power of Hagbaa as the letters of our times

-Reuven and Korach, Yehuda and Moshe, Koach Haseviva

-A sharp Novardokher Vort on Oppositional Defiance

-The missing Hei of Avraham on the flags

-Our jealousy of the malachim, and the nations jealousy of us

-The ishbitzer, th...

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-Thoughts on the story with the Avnei Nezer and the Shem Mishmuel

-The Megadef who cursed the name of Hashem’s origins

-The medrash on how his mamzer history came to light

-The Chasam Sofer on Moshe’s Ruach Hakodesh about the Megadef

-The Panim Yafos on how moshe was allowed to kill a mitzri for hitting

-The Mekoshesh, the Gra and Avraham Ben Avraham

-The Megadef and Yeshu according to R Yehuda Fataya’s Dream

-The...

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-Why does 5 chase 100 but 100 chase 10,000?

-Why do the Goyim chase us at a much higher ratio than we chase them?

-Superlineal Scaling and Metcalfes Law

-The “weak” and the power of one step into Kedusha

-The Alshich Hakadosh on the power of a Jewish Face

-The Gra, the Beis Halevi and the Baal Hatanya’s Faces

-How tall will our bodies be in the time of mashiach?

-A perfect 50. A chiddush of the Birkas Shmuel

-A chi...

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-The segulah of the “Lashem” goat being picked with the right hand

-Israel belongs to Yishmael. Until Hashem joins us on our right

-Halachic Exceptions to the order for putting on shoes

-A harrowing story about putting on shoes in the proper order

-If Hashem loves us, why does he control every little thing we do?

-Going up stairs right foot first and down left foot first

-Buttoning mens shirts, womens shirts, kittels,...

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-Korban Nachshon as precious to Hashem as the Song at the Yam Suf

-The mesirus Nefesh in the Korban Nesiim

-Dying Al Kiddush Hashem and living Joyfully when he gives you life

-Zeh Korban Nachshon - becoming singular like Hashem

-The duality of these korbanos leading to future sin

-Was Nachshon part of Korach's Rebellion

-Vayidom Aharon - how do we know Aharon's silence was not one of sadness and pain?

-How do we know if an early de...

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-The Haggada counteracting the idiocy of Yishmael

-The Galus of Speech and building up our Emunah

-How to have regain emunah when you are a trauma victim

-Echad Mi Yodea vs Echad Ani Yodea - recognizing Hashem

-The unique level of Krias Shma of Shacharis we reach seder night

-Hashem telling Moshe to tell over Exodus to his Rasha grandchild

-Yehonasan Ben Gershom and Yehonasan Eibushitz

-Three Matzos that become another 4 seder nigh...

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-The Ohr Haganuz in Shabbos Neros

-Chanukah Neros as Preparation for Shabbos Neros

-The Chozeh’s wife and the light of Shabbos Neros

-The gift of being burned by Shabbos Neros

-Why do women specifically light Shabbos Neros?

-The Melacha of Lighting Fire: Anger on Shabbos

-The Avoda Zara in Anger on Shabbos

-No anger on Shabbos even towards Reshaim and Averos

-Shabbos under the constellation of Anger and War

-What is the Neshama...

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-Why have our names on both the shoulders and the heart?

-Why did Aharon merit to have the Urim V’tumim?

-Flipping the Nachash into Choshen, and stone to flesh

-The Urim Vtumim coming from a tikkun of Adam and Nachash

-The Urim Vtumim as the 13th path, the kollel

-Flipping the frown upside down in Sefer Yetzira

-Do we say Lo Bashamayim Hi about the Urim Vtumim?

-Parallels between the Urim Vtumim and AI as a posek

-Learning how...