Rabbi David Kaplan – Shares about the previous Weekly Parsha of Vayechi – an interesting tidbit towards the end explaining why Yaakov Avinu “lost” 33 years of his life because of his word exchange with Pharoah (around the 39 minute point of the lecture).
Rabbi David Kaplan – Shares about the upcoming Weekly Parsha of Vayigash – from the climatic meeting between Joseph and Yehuda to why Yaakov’s wife Rachel had to have children who became servants. Finally in the end we will see that every single thing was for the best (when we here “Ani Hashem) just like everything with Joseph being banished and imprisoned to the Jewish people going down to Egypt was for the best.
Rabbi David Kaplan – Shares some aspects of the Weekly Parsha – Joseph subjecting his brothers to several trials to bring them to teshuva (repentance) so the planting of the future exodus from Egypt can take place.
Rabbi David Kaplan – Shares some aspects of the Weekly Parsha – basically the days in the life of Yaakov Avinu. His traveling to the Yeshiva of Shem and Ever, his running away from his twin brother Esav, and his dream of the ladder. How do these events forshadow the lives of the Jewish people and what can we learn from them today?
The Tznius of Rochel – Vayeitzei (Rabbi Dovid Kaplan) (Weekly Parsha)
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Like we prayed on Rosh Hashana: Teshuva (repentance), Tefilah (prayer), and Tzedakah (charity) remove an evil decree.
Rabbi David Kaplan – Shares some aspects of the Weekly Parsha we just read (Toldos). One interesting topic was the name Esav (who was Yaakov’s twin brother) – his name means complete – meaning he felt he was complete and had nothing else to learn a complete human being. This is opposite Yaakov (and the Jewish way) that says we are not complete that there is always room to continue to grow throughout our life. Two different perspectives to teach us today.
Several folks have already proactively made donations to help those in Israel affected by the War – food, medical services, food/items for Israeli soldiers, and items to support religious activities/services. If you would like to take part please send an email to: torahshareblog@gmail.com and we will send you a personal Paypal link to make a donation. 100% of all donations go right to the recipients – there is no overhead. This is done on a volunteer basis only.
Like we prayed on Rosh Hashana: Teshuva (repentance), Tefilah (prayer), and Tzedakah (charity) remove an evil decree.
Rabbi David Kaplan – Shares all the ins and outs of the interesting stories and their meanings in this packed weekly Parasha (Vayeira) that we are going to read. S’dom, Lot, destruction, wine, relations, etc. Saturday matinee coming up this Shabbat.
Several folks have already proactively made donations to help those in Israel affected by the War – food, medical services, food/items for Israeli soldiers, and items to support religious activities/services. If you would like to take part please send an email to: torahshareblog@gmail.com and we will send you a personal Paypal link to make a donation. 100% of all donations go right to the recipients – there is no overhead. This is done on a volunteer basis only.
Like we prayed on Rosh Hashana: Teshuva (repentance), Tefilah (prayer), and Tzedakah (charity) remove an evil decree.
Rabbi David Kaplan – Shares the daily question of choosing life and planning on doing mitzvot resulting in a happy fufilled life. Do the job consistently and do YOUR job (not someone else’s job). Also, find the answer of what is better to give $1,000 tzedaka to one person or $1 tzedaka to 1,000 people. Hint – who is the mitzvah for – for the receiver or the giver (therein lies the answer).
Rabbi David Kaplan – Shares a simple message (towards the latter part of the lecture) that focusing on doing the right thing will eventually catch up with you. What’s the right thing? The answers are in the Torah. Such a simple and strong message.
Rabbi David Kaplan – Shares why is was so important for Jewish soldiers to carry a shovel with them – to clean up after themselves and how this separation of the clean from the unclean teaches us the essence of how to conduct ourselves and in turn improve our spirituality.
Rabbi David Kaplan – Shares how we can take some pretty unusual laws in this weekly Torah reading and not only explain them but how we can learn from it in our life today. Another interesting topic of how we need to tread lightly in our spiritual advancement to make sure we don’t go to quickly and trip ourselves up in the process. Slowly but surely for the long haul.
