Tag: torah learning

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Personal Growth

Narrow Your Eyes

Rabbi David Yisrael Kalmus – Rabbi Kalmus shows us that everything is good and everything “bad” in life is for that ultimate good.

Personal Thoughts – It’s so easy to go into Yeiush (Despair) especially now during the current lock-down pandemic times. This video gave me hope that everything we experience collectively and experience personally is for our/my ultimate good. Keep my eye on the prize so to speak. Everything happens for a reason and ONLY because of Hashem’s love.

Rosh Chodesh (Shevat) Tov!

Shabbat Shalom!

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Talmud

Remarks from Siyyum on Masechet Makkot

Rabbi David Yisrael Kalmus – This video is Rabbi Kalmus Siyyum which is a celebration for a completion of learning a tractate of Talmud (which could take months of intense learning). It usually includes reciting the last couple verses in the Talmud section and expounding upon it.

Personal Thoughts – The video has some very powerful global ideas about the concept that we have to fall (sometimes quite hard) before we rise – that the fall itself predicts the rise (so its actually a positive). My experience in my own life reflects this concept so I really identified strongly with his Siyyum talk.

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Weekly Torah Portion

Vayechi – Growing Through Genesis

Rabbi Avraham Arieh Trugman – Through this weeks parsha we learn many spiritual concepts through the blessing Yaakov gives Ephraim and Menashe, including the Sefirot (common term in Kabalah) and enclothment.

Personal Thoughts – The video started off slow for me but it was just the setup for some very deep spiritual concepts. In the last 1/3 of the lecture the Rabbi talks about the concept of enclothment which was very enlightening and certainly shed some light for me about why the World is the way it is. Hope you get a lot out of it.

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Rebbetzins

Simcha in Tehillim (aka Happiness in Psalms)

Rebbetzin Rochel Silber – shares how to attain happiness by learning the Tehillim (Psalms) written by King David (and in the honor of our young teenage children).

Personal Thoughts – Although this was given over on Chanukah, the concept of inner joy being permanent in a temporary World are very much still relevant. That happiness is inplanted in my very nature from birth – it just needs to be re-discovered. The Rebbetzin shows me how learning the Tehillim (Psalms) gives me opportunity to uncover this opportunity to be happy. This helps overcome the current worldly distractions that are meant to make me nervous and give me anxiety (the battle for my mind).

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Personal Growth

Bitul: Set Aside Your Ego

Rabbi David Yisrael Kalmus – shares with us how to nulify our ego in the face of life’s difficulties.

Personal Thoughts – I certainly have my share of anger problems and and the Rabbi’s lecture really gives actionable advice on how to deal with it and how the coping mechanisms not to. conveniently this is the month (Teves) to focus on it. Adam & Eve, Rosh Hashanah, ego, simplicity, and asking for help. Enjoy!

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Rebbetzins

“Why I Donated My Kidney to A Stranger”

Rebbetzin Lori Palatnik – shares an amazing story on her experience donating her very own kidney to someone she had never met.

Personal Thoughts – Like many others I’m sure, I thought this is crazy! But hearing the entire story couldn’t help but be in awe of the Rebbetzin’s selflessness on the one hand and the inspiration to become a better giver on the other. Must see!

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Personal Growth

The Secret of Happiness

Rabbi David Yisrael Kalmus – shares how the key to connection with Hashem is through the mitzvot and how the physical is a reflection of the spiritual.

Personal Thoughts – This is a very deep lecture (although there are some distractions so keep that in mind when watching it). Sometimes when I can’t get any clarity while doing various mitvot it plain just confuses me – this video helped put some things together more concretely that everything is just part of a master plan. It was pretty deep so I needed to review it multiple times. Hope you enjoy it. In case you don’t want to watch the whole video, I’ve clipped out a few “!Short Clips!” from this lecture and posted them here – http://torah-share.com/short-clips/short-clips/ – and they are all dated “(13 Tevet 5781)”.

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Personal Growth

Finding the ‘New Normal’ Frustrating? How To Get Out of the Maze of Confusion

Rabbi Alon Anava – This long lecture (friendly warning) focuses on what it really takes to be happy and a step-by-step list of how to work on this daily.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnIA9j091CU

Personal Thoughts – This video taught me a comprehensive approach with actionable items to achieve happiness. Judaism gives me some incredible tools and resources to do this – grateful for this! Starts out a bit slow but by the end it really is a great video. Enjoy!

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Other Religions

Between Jews and Christians

Rabbi Isser Z Weisberg – shares with us the Jewish response to Christianity – why Jews do not accept it?

https://www.youtube.com/embed/2A3LLWeacO8?start=120&autoplay=1

Personal Thoughts – His response to the email question he received was clear and concise without any language that might be offensive. Helpful for this time of the year when these questions often come up. The link above skips the first two minutes where the Rabbi makes a prediction about the U.S. election (Note: In general, this blog is meant to be politically neutral).

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Torah Stories

Vayigash – Growing Through Genesis

Rabbi Avraham Arieh Trugman – shares with us how this week’s Torah portion gives us a great example of the emotions (ie. crying) of Joseph and also relating how some of our great Jewish historical figures, like King David and Rachel Imenu, outwardly expressed their emotions.

Personal Thoughts – It’s amazing how we sometimes hold back our emotions when some of the greatest Jews in history outwardly expressed their emotions and it’s written in the Torah, Prophets, and Writings for all to see for thousands of years. Motivates me to really get in touch with my emotions and be like my forefathers/mothers.

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