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Double Feature Monday – Rabbi Trugman and Rabbi Mizrachi

Although these two videos are from the readings at the end of the Torah they still have some relevant ideas we can take into the post Chagim (Jewish Holidays) timeframe. Both present some valuable information to improve ourselves in this New (Jewish) Year. Our Sages emphasize for us to take what we learned during the Chagim (Jewish Holidays) and sprinkle those ideas throughout this upcoming Year so that what we learned is not only internalized but dispersed in practice through higher mitzvah observance and improved Midot (character traits).

Vezot HaBracha – Growing Through Deuteronomy (Rabbi Trugman):

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Make Torah Life A Top Priority – In Pico, Beverly Hills, LA (Rabbi Mizrachi):

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Ki Tavo – Growing Through Deuteronomy

Rabbi Trugman – Shares with us the upcoming weekly parasha and the power of Eretz Yisroel (the Land of Israel) and our connection to it.

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Shoftim – Growing Through Deuteronomy

Rabbi Trugman – Shares with us the weekly parashah of Shoftim and the connection to Tshuva in preparation for the new year.

Personal Thoughts – I like the Rabbi’s use of Rabbi Susha’s acronym to help navigate the Tshuva process.

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Eikev – Growing Through Deuteronomy

Rabbi Trugman – Shares with us a short class on this weeks parasha – the beauty of the promises the Jews can expect living in Eretz Yisrael.

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Devarim – Growing Through Deuteronomy

Rabbi Trugman – Shares with us seven different meanings of just the first pasuk (sentence) of this week’s Torah portion. This starts the final book the the Five Books of Moses.

Personal Thoughts – I enjoy learning more about all the different aspects of the simple Torah text – the uncovered secrets so to speak. Our sages say that the Torah is as wide as the ocean – vast in scope and meaning.

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Parashat Pinchas – The secret to success

Rabbi Alon Anava – The Rabbi shares with us concepts from the weekly Parasha (Pinchas) with an emphasis on persistence and consistency.

Personal Thoughts – Really enjoyed the Rabbi’s focus on being disciplined through consistency and how this is the formula to change my life.

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G-ds Reversal of Bilaams Curse into a Blessing

Rabbi Yitzchak Breitowitz – Shares about the weekly parasha (Balak) and how Bilaam the protagonist who wants to curse the Jews ends up blessing them instead.

Personal Thoughts – I liked how Rabbi Breitowitz gives a lot of background spiritually and practically for the events in this weekly parasha to help better understand how it affects us both then and today.

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Balak – Growing Through Numbers

Rabbi Trugman – Shares with us some deep esoteric wisdom derived from this week’s parasha (Balak) and the protagonist figure in it (Bilaam).

Personal Thoughts – The Rabbi brings some interesting parallels between science and Torah in this short lesson – I particularly liked the analogy of the movie film / time paradox.

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LIFE: Not A Choice But The Sum of All Your Choices

Rabbi Dovid Kaplan – Weekly parasha shiur (lecture) with some deep learning about life’s choices woven in to the narrative. Our speech makes us human for good and for bad.

Personal Thoughts – Just found this Rabbi on YouTube and enjoyed his clear, specific, and plain explanations of some deep concepts.

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True Obedience to G-d

Rabbi Yitzchak Breitowitz – Shares about the weekly parasha (Chukat) and the deep meaning of the unexplainable commandment of the Red Cow.

Personal Thoughts – Enjoyed the background stories of this sometimes very complicated and dry subject matter to make it interesting which increased my desire to learn about it.

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