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Weekly Torah Portion

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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Revolution, Reincarnation, Cain and Abel

Rabbi Yitzchak Breitowitz – Shares about the weekly parasha (Korach) and the seeds of the story of Korach is in the beginning of Bereshit (Genesis) at the very beginning of the Torah.

Personal Thoughts – Very much liked the tapestry the Rav wove to explain this weeks parasha and its deeper meanings.

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Appreciating The Land of Israel and Understanding the Sin of the Spies

Rabbi Yitzchak Breitowitz – Shares about the weekly parasha (Shelach) and our struggle to get out of the desert and into the hard work of our lives.

Personal Thoughts – It’s pretty comfy to have everything taken care of without much effort but that is not the ideal state for us to do Hashem’s will

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Shelach – Growing Through Numbers

Rabbi Trugman – Shares with us about the weekly Torah portion and the sin of the spies who spoke harshly about the Land of Israel and we can avoid the same sin today.

Personal Thoughts – As the Rabbi said, there are so many people in the World speaking badly about Israel today – my simple goal is not to join them by learning from the sin of spies.

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Jewish Holidays Weekly Torah Portion

Shavuot 5781

Here are some interesting videos about Shavuot from two different Rabbis. Now more than ever we need to learn with intent to connect with Hashem, the source of all blessings. The first video focuses on many of our favorite topics – the custom of eating dairy foods on Shavuot. Hope you enjoy!

Rabbi Asher Baruch Wegbreit:

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Rabbi Avraham Arieh Trugman:

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