Torah ShareRabbi Yitzchak Breitowitz – Shares how to we are preparing for Passover through the additional weekly Torah readings (called Parshiot).
Personal Thoughts – The Rabbi really had a nice way of presenting how we can work on our base character traits towards the service of Hashem (deconstructing and then reconstructing).
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Rabbi Avraham Zajac – Starting at the 3:25 minute mark Rabbi Zajac shares one of the source reasons according to chassidus for the Torah law of why we don’t wear shatnez (a garment with wool and lines combined within it) going all the way to the story of Cain and Abel.
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Rabbi Isser Z Weisberg – Shares with us how Judaism says that everyone’s opinion matters and needs to be respected as valuable, not just the leaders and powerful among us.
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Rabbi David Kalmus – Shares some very powerful and poignant questions about “Who Am I?” and what is the purpose of life.
Personal Thoughts – What a great lecture by Rabbi Kalmus – really impactful ideas about the age old question of what is the purpose of my life. Perfect timing as we leave Purim and move towards Pesach.
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Rabbi Trugman – Shares with us the best way on how we can open our heart to G-d.
Personal Thoughts – These Torah Portions starting now and continuing for the next several weeks tend to be a bit of a letdown from the stories of Genesis and Exodus. Rabbi Trugman’s gave me some good new perspective on how to approach them in a more holistic and constructive manner.
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Rabbi Trugman – Shares with us what the goals of prayer and learning are – connecting to Hashem.
Personal Thoughts – Rabbi Trugman makes a very valid point that we sometimes lose the forest from the trees when engaging in mitzvot and prayer and miss the whole point entirely which is to get close to the One who gave them to us.
Bonus Video – Seasons of the Soul – Gal Einai – Purim to Pesach:
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Rabbi David Kalmus – Tells us to ask, “Where are you? to Hashem. No matter how dark the place is.
Personal Thoughts – As a Baal Teshuvah myself, I can identify with a lot dark places (locationally and spiritually) Rabbi Kalmus talks about in this video.
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Rabbi Trugman (Pre-Purim Class Gal Einai Students) – Shares with us some interesting details about Purim.
Personal Thoughts – I liked the analogy/comparison of the Purim “characters” with the “characters” of the Garden of Eden at the very beginning of the Torah in Berashit.
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Rabbi Yitzchak Botton – Shows us the relationship between prayer and repentance (teshuva) and how it can turn us into a new person, a new reality.
Personal Thoughts – The Rabbi shows me some very concrete benefits to prayer and how it can change me for the better so I can become the vessel for more blessing and what part I play in the process.
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Rabbi Yitzchak Breitowitz – Shares how the extra portions read on the Shabbatot before Purim has deep meaning to ourselves individually and the Jewish People as a whole.
Personal Thoughts – I really liked his story towards the end of this shiur about the genius music conductor, Arturo Toscanini, and how important each musician was to his master works and how this is analogous to how important each one of us is to Hashem’s master symphony.
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