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Shoftim – Growing Through Deuteronomy

Rabbi Trugman – Shares with us the weekly parashah of Shoftim and the connection to Tshuva in preparation for the new year.

Personal Thoughts – I like the Rabbi’s use of Rabbi Susha’s acronym to help navigate the Tshuva process.

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Devarim – Growing Through Deuteronomy

Rabbi Trugman – Shares with us seven different meanings of just the first pasuk (sentence) of this week’s Torah portion. This starts the final book the the Five Books of Moses.

Personal Thoughts – I enjoy learning more about all the different aspects of the simple Torah text – the uncovered secrets so to speak. Our sages say that the Torah is as wide as the ocean – vast in scope and meaning.

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Parashat Pinchas – The secret to success

Rabbi Alon Anava – The Rabbi shares with us concepts from the weekly Parasha (Pinchas) with an emphasis on persistence and consistency.

Personal Thoughts – Really enjoyed the Rabbi’s focus on being disciplined through consistency and how this is the formula to change my life.

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G-ds Reversal of Bilaams Curse into a Blessing

Rabbi Yitzchak Breitowitz – Shares about the weekly parasha (Balak) and how Bilaam the protagonist who wants to curse the Jews ends up blessing them instead.

Personal Thoughts – I liked how Rabbi Breitowitz gives a lot of background spiritually and practically for the events in this weekly parasha to help better understand how it affects us both then and today.

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Balak – Growing Through Numbers

Rabbi Trugman – Shares with us some deep esoteric wisdom derived from this week’s parasha (Balak) and the protagonist figure in it (Bilaam).

Personal Thoughts – The Rabbi brings some interesting parallels between science and Torah in this short lesson – I particularly liked the analogy of the movie film / time paradox.

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LIFE: Not A Choice But The Sum of All Your Choices

Rabbi Dovid Kaplan – Weekly parasha shiur (lecture) with some deep learning about life’s choices woven in to the narrative. Our speech makes us human for good and for bad.

Personal Thoughts – Just found this Rabbi on YouTube and enjoyed his clear, specific, and plain explanations of some deep concepts.

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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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Current Events and Weekly Torah Parsha (Mishpatim) – Shabbat Shalom!

Rabbi Yosef Mizrachi – Shares some current events from a mussar (ethics) perspective and events in the Weekly Torah Parsha (Mishpatim).

Personal Thoughts – Explains great Torah concepts while being funny and entertaining with lots of good things to say while cutting through the BS.

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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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