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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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Weekly Torah Portion

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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Weekly Torah Portion

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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Shemini – Growing Through Leviticus

Rabbi Trugman – Shares with us about the weekly Torah portion (Shemini).

Personal Thoughts – This Torah portion is close to my heart as it’s my Bar Mitzvah parasha. Hope you enjoy the drasha.

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Everyone’s Opinion Matters – !Short Clips!

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.

https://www.youtube.com/embed/y4Cuw4_Hfg0?start=530&autoplay=1

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Vayakel/Pekudei – Growing Through Exodus

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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Growing through Exodus – Ki Tisa

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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