Rabbi Dovid Orlofsky – Shares about one of the most difficult characters in the Torah. He manages to trick Yaakov Avinu over 100 times. Lavan is the master at making him look like a great guy even though underneath the surface he is far from it. He always had a trick, an explanation, an excuse until finally Yaakov Avinu confronted him and the bad finally comes out in full force.
Rabbi Dovid Orlofsky – Shares about how the Torah views marriage and having children and addresses the questions of “what if I don’t want to be married” and “what if I don’t want to have kids”. How does Jewish Law view these viewpoints and why?
Rabbi Dovid Orlofsky – Shares the softer approach to bringing the Chagim from last month into the rest of the year. How we can change our perspective and guide us to a deeper understand on how to improve while still aligning ourselves to G-d’s will.
Rabbi Dovid Orlofsky – Shares how during these ten days how Hashem is very close to us (and figuratively speaking when the shofar blows at the end of Yom Kippur Hashem “goes away”). This opportunity we have is now to take advantage of Hashem’s closeness and show how we can become the person we are meant to be.
Rabbi Dovid Orlofsky and Rabbi Daniel Glatstein – Both share about today’s fast today (Tzom Gedaliah) including both a numerology explanation and a practical guide to how Hashem come knocking – the question is are we answering or ignoring?
Rabbi Dovid Orlofsky – In the first video answering listener’s questions, Rabbi Orlofsky expounds on the Rosh Hashana plan of Rabbi Salanter in how to make a change this coming year using the following formula:
Ask yourself what is your life’s mission?
Vow to make one small easy consistent daily change?
Vow to make a bigger change but only for the ten day time period between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur?
Write 1, 2, and 3 down on the piece of paper.
In the second video, Rabbi Orlofsky references the movie “The Matrix” to encourage us to not live a life of lies and self deception but to focus on what’s real because that is what matters most. The distractions of this World take us out of what’s real and sidetrack us towards regret and sadness. Pursue reality – pursue true joy.
Rabbi Dovid Orlofsky – In this video Rabbi Orlofsky shares about the Nine Days we find ourselves in currently from the First of the month of Av until the Ninth of Av. How the 9th relates to the 10th day is very interesting as it parallels moving from being alone to being together (alone to minyan) and how those numbers permeate themselves throughout our history within our historical Jewish holy figures.
Rabbi Dovid Orlofsky – In this video at the time stamp embedded in the link below, the following is said and why it is said: “…the Christian, the Moslems, and the Armenians all believe G-d created the World and gave the Jews the Torah on Mount Sinai. The only people who give me any trouble are the Jews…” Why is this? Because belief implies responsibility to keep the mitzvot (Kosher, Shabbat, etc).
Rabbi Dovid Orlofsky – Shares a practical viewpoint of the difference between the paths of Jew and Non-Jews and also what “The Chosen People” actually means and the responsibilities that come with that designation. This class is a set of answers from a letter of a concerned Jews that Rabbi Orlofsky had a class for the answer to those concerns.