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Weekly Torah Portion

True Obedience to G-d

Rabbi Yitzchak Breitowitz – Shares about the weekly parasha (Chukat) and the deep meaning of the unexplainable commandment of the Red Cow.

Personal Thoughts – Enjoyed the background stories of this sometimes very complicated and dry subject matter to make it interesting which increased my desire to learn about it.

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Revolution, Reincarnation, Cain and Abel

Rabbi Yitzchak Breitowitz – Shares about the weekly parasha (Korach) and the seeds of the story of Korach is in the beginning of Bereshit (Genesis) at the very beginning of the Torah.

Personal Thoughts – Very much liked the tapestry the Rav wove to explain this weeks parasha and its deeper meanings.

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Appreciating The Land of Israel and Understanding the Sin of the Spies

Rabbi Yitzchak Breitowitz – Shares about the weekly parasha (Shelach) and our struggle to get out of the desert and into the hard work of our lives.

Personal Thoughts – It’s pretty comfy to have everything taken care of without much effort but that is not the ideal state for us to do Hashem’s will

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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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Jewish Holidays

Chad Gadya – Pesach and the Preservation of Hope in Redemption (!Short Clip!)

Rabbi Yitzchak Breitowitz – Shares with us the deeper meaning of Chad Gadya and how it’s still playing out in real life today.

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Freedom versus Obligation – Pesach and Shavuot (!Short Clip!)

Freedom versus Obligation – Pesach and Shavuot (!Short Clip!)
https://www.youtube.com/embed/VxH0sG_mnkE?start=2940&autoplay=1

Rabbi Yitzchak Breitowitz: God Desires to Call You by Your Name
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Jewish Holidays

Pre-Pesach Constructing our Edifice for Freedom

Rabbi Yitzchak Breitowitz – Shares how to we are preparing for Passover through the additional weekly Torah readings (called Parshiot).

Personal Thoughts – The Rabbi really had a nice way of presenting how we can work on our base character traits towards the service of Hashem (deconstructing and then reconstructing).

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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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Chanukah Insights and Bringing Light into the Darkness

Rabbi Yitzchak Breitowitz shares many deep aspects of Chanukah and the way in which we celebrate it today.

Personal Thoughts: Towards the end of the video (starting at the 1:01:00 time mark), the Rabbi discusses the way we used to commemorate Chanukah (the military victory) closer to the actual miracle versus later on (and today of course) that we more commemorate the miracle of the oil. I find this transition very interesting – I hope you will too.

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