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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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The Half Sheqel All Lives Matter Equally

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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Current Events and Weekly Torah Parsha (Mishpatim) – Shabbat Shalom!

Rabbi Yosef Mizrachi – Shares some current events from a mussar (ethics) perspective and events in the Weekly Torah Parsha (Mishpatim).

Personal Thoughts – Explains great Torah concepts while being funny and entertaining with lots of good things to say while cutting through the BS.

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Achieving Complete Faith in G-d

Rabbi Aaron Dovid Poston – Shares with us the most recent Parasha topic of HaMaan (the Manna) and what it symbolized then and what it symbolizes now in our current lives.

Personal Thoughts – I really enjoyed how Rabbi Poston related such an ancient story of the Manna to present day and how we can use the concepts to have faith that our daily bread still comes from heaven – now more than ever!

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Vayechi – Growing Through Genesis

Rabbi Avraham Arieh Trugman – Through this weeks parsha we learn many spiritual concepts through the blessing Yaakov gives Ephraim and Menashe, including the Sefirot (common term in Kabalah) and enclothment.

Personal Thoughts – The video started off slow for me but it was just the setup for some very deep spiritual concepts. In the last 1/3 of the lecture the Rabbi talks about the concept of enclothment which was very enlightening and certainly shed some light for me about why the World is the way it is. Hope you get a lot out of it.

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