Rabbi Yitzchak Breitowitz – Very interesting full Q&A with Rav Breitowitz including topics like turning off a light that was on when electrical power has been cut off. And, how the definition of being a human being is the origin (meaning born from another human) and how that definition affect the potential future when technology allows for humans to be born from an artificial womb (fascinating discussion).
Rabbi Yitzchak Breitowitz – Shares about the background story of the Omer period and Rabbi Akiva who went from an unlearned person who didn’t even know Aleph/Bet (ABCs) to the most important Rabbi of his time.
Two very interesting classes around the lead up and preparation for Pesach putting the upcoming Pesach holiday in proper perspective with lots of background information to help us better understand the context.
Rabbi Yitzchak Breitowitz: Preparation for Pesach through the 4 Special Parshiot
Pesach and the Slaughtering of the Egyptian Deity with Rabbi Aaron Dovid Poston
Who Will Build the Final Beit HaMikdash? By Rabbi Yitzchak Breitowitz
Rabbi Yitzchak Breitowitz – Shares about the nature of the final Beit HaMikdash and the process of its building which is also discussed in this week’s Torah portion – may it come speedily in our days. Amen!
Fruits of the Orchard – Terumah By Rabbi Avraham Arieh Trugman
Rabbi Avraham Arieh Trugman – Shares about this week’s Torah portion and the focus on the duality and paradoxical nature of life and how that creates the ebb and flow of our everyday being.
A great Q&A with Rabbi Yitzchak Breitowitz with topics that are very relevant to our current times and to those of us that are new to becoming religious. Here are some examples of the questions addressed in the video:
-What is the source for rounded tablets of the ten commandments and why is this concept rejected for the square ones?
-Does a newly religious person (baal teshuva) have to give up certain hobbies? If he doesn’t, should he hide them from his children?
-When is someone who is brain dead considered halachically deceased? And, how does that affect (heart) transplantation.
-How can one appreciate the concept of slavery in the Torah?
KLM: ARE YOU MISSING YOUR MORNING ROUTINE !Short Clip! with Rabbi Asher Baruch Wegbreit
Rabbi Asher Baruch Wegbreit – Shares a nice analogy of waking up and saying “Modei Ani” with ferver to how you would be to someone knocking on your door in the morning and saying we found a gold treasure buried in your backyard.
Fruits of the Orchard – Mishpatim By Rabbi Avraham Arieh Trugman
Rabbi Trugman – Shares some of the detailed business and financial aspects of the weekly Parasha and the reasoning behind the Torah view of these topics.
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Starting out the week with a current events viewpoint from Rabbi Mendel Kessin regarding the Earthquake on Tu’Beshvat (a Rosh Hashanah) and how it affects the era of the coming of Moshiach and our tikun. Additionally, Rabbi Yitzchak Breitowitz conducts a regularly scheduled Q&A on a variety of different topics.
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Starting out the week with a Q&A with Rabbi Yitzchak Breitowitz through the Rabbi’s vast knowledge and depth of Torah offers such balanced, well thought out, compassionate yet conservative approach to halachic questions by the Rabbi’s students. Here are some examples of the questions addressed in the video:
-Should a ger (convert to Judaism) say “shelo asani goy” (that I was not made a non-Jew)?
-What is the Jewish view of acupuncture, qi, etc?
-What is the importance of physical beauty?
-Should one eat while learning?
-How could the Day of Judgment, filled with fear, fall on Shabbos, filled with rest?
-Should a religious person commit tax evasion in Israel?
-What are the halachic considerations of moving a parent into a nursing home?
Rabbi Asher Baruch Wegbreit share in this !Short Clip! a very easy path to improving your connection to Hashem through intention while doing mitzvot. Simple approach.
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This Rabbi in this !Short Clip” shares that the Alter Rebbe (the founder of Chabad chasidus) tells us in the Tanya that everything we do really does matter and we can change all of existing with one difference in our actions – this can be viewed as scary or empowering (or both):
Rabbi Mendel Kessin shares how the “irrationality” of Hashem during Akeida Yitzchak (the Binding of Isaac) towards Avraham Avinu is the shield the Jews have had since then from all the sins. Our loyalty to Hashem as Jews exemplified by Avraham Avinu is with us even today.
In this shiur by Rabbi Yitzchak Breitowitz on the weekly parasha show all aspects of the splitting of the sea and how we can relate in directly to modern times. There are a lot of parallels that we can learning from.
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Going to try a new summary based approach for this week by posting some basic thoughts and then adding in videos from the Rabbis further detailing the general parasha topic.
This past Shabbat’s weekly parasha was Bo which encompasses the last three weeks (of the ten total) – locusts, darkness and the killing of firstborn children.
In this video by Rabbi Alon Anava, the Rabbi shares how we can clean ourselves out (out of personal Egypt) before we do the mitzvot that Hashem gave us.
Rabbi Yitzchak Breitowitz in this first !Short Clip! is taken from the story of Rav Nachman of Breslov of the prince who thought he was a chicken and how the concept of acting your way into better thinking applies here….fake it until you make it (ie. changing your behavior regardless of your thoughts and feelings) as a solution. While the second video is the entire lecture encompassing this !Short Clip! and the rest of the shiur about the weekly Parasha Bo.
Lastly, in this lecture by Rabbi Avraham Arieh Trugman, the Rabbi explains how the last three plagues in Egypt represent the concept of free will versus destiny and how Jewish thought embraces the obvious paradox between the two as they both co-exsist.
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Rabbi Yitzchak Breitowitz – Shares about the weekly parasha (Vaeira) where most of the ten plagues are described and the meaning and relevance to the Seder we conduct on the eve of Pesach (Passover).
