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Weekly Torah Portion

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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Mussar (Ethics) Weekly Torah Portion

Weekly Lecture in Brooklyn

Rabbi Yosef Mizrachi – Shares with us strong Mussar (ethics) on how we need to take responsibility for our own actions and look deep inside at our part in the current situation and stop looking at outside things for excuses about why current events are happening. Everything is in the hands of Hashem – the outside influences are just His tools to send us a message to do tshuva. Just like we say on Rosh Hashanah doing tshuva means – learning Torah, doing kind deeds/tzedakah, and prayer.

Part One (Mussar/Current Events):

Part Two (Weekly Torah portion):

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Behar/Bechukotai – Growing Through Leviticus

Rabbi Trugman – Shares with us about the weekly (double) Torah portion (Behar/Bechukotai) and the freedom to not listen to those negative voices in our head.

Personal Thoughts – The Rabbi explains a lot about my own personal thinking and that it is okay to ignore it and pursue something new spiritually no matter how small as it could grow like a planted seed.

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Emor – Growing Through Leviticus

Rabbi Trugman – Shares with us about this week’s parashah (Emor) and what we can learn from it.

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Growing through Leviticus – Acharei Mot/Kedoshim

Rabbi Trugman – Shares with us about the weekly (double) Torah portion (Acharei Mot/Kedoshim).

Personal Thoughts – Interesting that the Hebrew word for Jewish Law is called “Halachah” which means “the way forward” and the book of Jewish Law is called the “Shulchan Aruch” which means “the set table”. Just two examples of the deeper (dual) meanings of common words in Judaism.

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Tazriah/Metzorah – Growing Through Leviticus

Rabbi Trugman – Shares with that we can overcome and change through growth because Hashem gave us the ability to do so through (for example by counting the Omer – “Make Our Time Count”).

Personal Thoughts – Current event messages are a wake up call – parallel to the weekly parasha.

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How Spiritual Impurity is Similar to Expulsion from the Garden of Eden

Rabbi Yitzchak Breitowitz – Shares about this week’s upcoming double parasha (Tazria-Metzora) and how many of the principles of tumah (spiritual impurity) are based all the back to the Garden of Eden.

Personal Thoughts – The beginning of the journey of (Wo)Man’s journey began in the Garden of Eden and the foundations set forth then still affect us today. This is a great lesson to learn that it’s not random.

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