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).
Rabbi Yitzchak Breitowitz – Since today is a fast day (the Tenth of Teves), this video talks about some historical details of many different fast days including the Tenth of Teves and what they mean to Jewish history. Also, the basis for why we fast.
Rabbi Yitzchak Breitowitz – Shares some historical details about Chanukah and their significance historically and in the present day. Lots of helpful context for the upcoming Holiday.
Rabbi Yitzchak Breitowitz – Shares a jam packed one hour about all aspects of the weekly parasha. Very interesting topics are discussed including the importance of living in this World while working on the next.
Rabbi Yitzchak Breitowitz – Shares some details about the upcoming weekly Torah portion and all the years that it covers. An important aspect is how to survive spiritually when no one around you shares your morals and spiritual direction. In darkness there is hope!
Is technology something that ideally we wouldn’t have, but now that we do, we have to use it responsibly with rules and gedarim, or alternatively is it something we should embrace and prefer, while being aware and alert of potential consequences:
Rabbi Yitzchak Breitowitz – Shares about the story in this week’s upcoming parasha (Vayeira) about both Avraham Avinu and Sarah Imenu’s laughter when hearing they are about to have a child (Yitzchak Avinu) at the ages of 99 and 90 respectively. Very interesting interpretations from Chazal (our past Sages) in what it might mean and how it is relevant to us today.
