Rabbi Moshe Aharon Pinto Shlita – Shares with us how both the most recent weekly parash (Re’eh) and it’s relation to the upcoming month of Elul which is one month before Rosh Hashana. This month is meant to be used to prepare for the upcoming year through change and teshuva (repentance). The Rabbi talks about how the Zohar tells us how we can focus on rectifying the “original sin” of Adam and Eve – fixing our eyes. This is the shortcut to rectifying all our subsequent sins both globally and personally. This simplifies what can be viewed as a very complicated process of teshuva during the month of Elul and the High Holidays that follow.
Rabbi Dovid Orlofsky – Shares about the parasha we just read on Shabbat and Moshe asking Hashem to go in the Land of Israel and Hashem basically telling him to stop praying. The Rabbi then asks a simple with a simple scenario – if one keeps praying until Hashem says one more prayer and I’ll have to grant your prayer – would one stop to pray? Doesn’t seem to make sense. Hashem tells Moshe that exact thing but then basically says He doesn’t want Moshe to enter the Land because it’s not Hashem’s will. So on the one hand if Moshe keeps praying he’ll get what he wants (to enter the Land) but on the other Moshe realizes that ultimately Hashem doesn’t want that.
Rabbi Goldscheider – Shares some preparations we can make for the upcoming “holiday” of Tisha Be’Av in the perspective of Rav Cook. And, how these preparations can help bring the geula (redemption).
Rabbi Breitowitz – Shares answer to interesting questions including the following: Learning during the prayer repetition, Tachunan – what it is for and why some don’t say it on certain days, When we say Amen and when don’t we and what it means in different contexts.
Rabbi Eli Stefansky – Shares about today’s daf yomi daf (48) – very interesting and entertaining animation demonstrating how a cow can breath in a needle – at the 51:00 minute mark of the video.
Rebbetzin Rochel Silber – Also shares interesting addition in perek Heh in Psalm 119 – to say this asking Hashem to guide and make the right decisions.
Rabbi Mizrachi – Shares about the following topic: Forty years in the desert we didn’t need a bathroom. What is the status of the modern bathroom and our expected behavior and perspective therein.