Simply Deep

By Elie Feder

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Although the words of the Torah, Chazal, and Rishonim may at times seem simple, they are deeply layered with profound insights and lessons. This podcast explores the hidden depths beneath seemingly straightforward statements in Rashi, Aggadata, and other Torah sources.

Episode Date
Eliezer’s Bitachon
Nov 22, 2024
Did Avraham Know? Parshas Vayera
Nov 15, 2024
The Uniqueness of Sinai
Nov 10, 2024
Sarah in a Box
Nov 08, 2024
The Sin of the Dor Hamabul
Nov 06, 2024
Why the Raven was Suspicious that Noach Would Take its Wife
Nov 01, 2024
The Separation of Light and Darkness
Oct 30, 2024
Three Further Steps of Teshuva
Oct 10, 2024
Darchei Ha’Teshuva
Oct 10, 2024
Two Facets of Teshuva
Oct 09, 2024
The Three Steps of Teshuva
Oct 09, 2024
The Mechaper of Yom Kippur
Oct 07, 2024
Rabbi Yossi’s Novel Understanding of the Pesukim in Rosh Hashana Musaf
Oct 02, 2024
Why it’s Fine to Mention Hashem’s Punshment towards Idolators
Oct 02, 2024
Why we shouldn’t mention Hashem’s “anger” on Rosh Hashana
Sep 30, 2024
The Connection Between the Curses and Nitzavim
Sep 27, 2024
Reward and the Innocence of Youth - Ki Savo
Sep 25, 2024
Does Hashem Play Favorites? - Ki Savo
Sep 20, 2024
Making Peace - Ki Seitzei
Sep 18, 2024
The Mitzvah Chain - Ki Seitzei
Sep 13, 2024
Early Shabbos and Muktza
Sep 11, 2024
Schar ve’onesh and the Importance of Justice
Sep 11, 2024
The Slippery Slope of Sin - Parshas Shoftim
Sep 06, 2024
What was the Heter for Eliyahu at Har HaCarmel?
Sep 04, 2024
The Exceptional Treatment of a Meisis - Re’eh
Aug 30, 2024
Dinosaur Bones vs. Navi Sheker
Aug 27, 2024
You Shall Quickly Perish
Aug 23, 2024
I Need to Know
Aug 20, 2024
Hashem tricked the nations into worshiping the sun
Aug 16, 2024
Don't Judge Your Friend until you Reach his Place
Aug 16, 2024
Some Thoughts on Eichah and Tisha B’av 2024
Aug 12, 2024
Tisha B’av and Hashem’s Keys
Aug 09, 2024
Tisha B’av and Crying for Nothing
Aug 07, 2024
The Great Equalizer
Aug 02, 2024
Moshe’s Approach to his Death
Jul 31, 2024
Bnos Tzlofchod: Shiur in honor of the ninth Yahrtzeit for my mother Shani Feder a’h
Jul 26, 2024
Two Aspects of Nichum Aveilim: A shiur in honor of the 11th Yahrtzeit of my mother, Shani Feder a”h
Jul 24, 2024
Bilaam’s Slips and Prophecies
Jul 18, 2024
Encounter with Edom
Jul 17, 2024
Miriam’s Well
Jul 12, 2024
In Defense of Chukim
Jul 09, 2024
4 strikes and you’re out!
Jul 05, 2024
Final point I forgot to add
Jul 05, 2024
Rabbi Moshe haDarshan on Tzitzis
Jul 03, 2024
The Miraculous Tales of Rabbi Chanina ben Dosa Part 2
Jun 28, 2024
The Miraculous Tales of Rabbi Chanina ben Dosa Part 1
Jun 24, 2024
Gematria: Kushis = Beautiful
Jun 21, 2024
Shura
Jun 19, 2024
Slow Birchas Kohanim
Jun 14, 2024
Benefit of Giving Maaser
Jun 14, 2024
The Two Mitzvos of Writing a Sefer Torah
Jun 11, 2024
An Insensitive Shiva Call?
Jun 07, 2024
Mathematics Pursuits
Jun 05, 2024
The Undistgusting Beracha, Statistical Hashgacha, and Trusting in God instead of Doctors and Medicine
May 31, 2024
When not to follow your Rebbe
May 24, 2024
Waving the Omer
May 22, 2024
A Chassidisha Maaseh
May 17, 2024
The Strange Comparison of Judging to Weighing
May 15, 2024
Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai and the Cave
May 15, 2024
How Is It Possible To Love Your Friend As Yourself?
May 12, 2024
Pesach Sheni according to the Rambam
May 10, 2024
Kedoshim Tehiyu: Rashi vs Ramban
May 10, 2024
Guarding and Doing: Different Facets of Keeping Mitzvos
May 08, 2024
Building your life around both learning Torah and doing Mitzvos
May 02, 2024
Dever: Present or Future?
Apr 26, 2024
Seder 2024: 7 Heavens and 39 Melachos
Apr 21, 2024
The End of Maggid
Apr 19, 2024
The Bracha on the Second Kos
Apr 17, 2024
נס בתוך נס
Apr 14, 2024
The tzibbur mourning for the tzara of talmidei chachamim
Apr 12, 2024
Wednesday is Bad Day and Eclipses are Bad Signs
Apr 07, 2024
Solar Eclipses
Apr 05, 2024
Yalta
Mar 29, 2024
Choni Hameagel’s Seventy Year Slumber
Mar 27, 2024
Haman’s Downfall!!!
Mar 24, 2024
Esther Accusing Achashverosh?
Mar 22, 2024
Purim Miracles
Mar 20, 2024
The Mashkon of the Mishkan
Mar 17, 2024
Purim Gematrias
Mar 15, 2024
Choni Hameagel’s Circle
Mar 13, 2024
The Sin of Staring at a Rainbow
Mar 11, 2024
The Laziness of the Nisiim
Mar 10, 2024
The Beloved Mirrors of the Kiyor
Mar 08, 2024
Seeking Hashem in Moshe’s Tent
Mar 06, 2024
The Chelbana Lesson
Mar 03, 2024
Growing from Illness
Mar 01, 2024
Gematrias regarding Chet Haegel and Shemen Ha'mishchah
Mar 01, 2024
The Choshen and the Eifod
Feb 28, 2024
Kappara for the Egel
Feb 23, 2024
Responding to Fools
Feb 21, 2024
When the Torah was placed in the Aron and Where the Jews got atzei shittim for the Mishkan
Feb 18, 2024
Too Small a Miracle for Rav
Feb 16, 2024
Moshe Rabbeinu in Rabbi Akiva’s Shiur - Menachos 29b
Feb 14, 2024
The Juxtaposition of Yisro and Mishpatim
Feb 11, 2024
The Torah’s Unique Perspective on the Death Penalty
Feb 09, 2024
The Yesod of Moshe’s Shlichus
Feb 08, 2024
On the Wings of Eagles
Feb 07, 2024
Yisro, Degrees of Knowledge, and the Physics to God podcast
Feb 02, 2024
What was wrong with Moshe davening?
Jan 31, 2024
Me’ein olam haba
Jan 26, 2024
Kosher Kosher Tefillin
Jan 21, 2024
Va’eira’s Discussion of Reuvein, Shimon, and Levi
Jan 17, 2024
Moshe Leaving the City to Daven
Jan 15, 2024
Hashem is Here
Jan 12, 2024
Pharoh’s Attempt to Outsmart Midah k’neged Midah
Jan 10, 2024
Yosef HaTzadik
Jan 05, 2024
Moshe's Near Death Due to Mila
Jan 05, 2024
Who is rich? (It’s not what you think)
Jan 03, 2024
Add-on to my shiur about Reuven’s sin
Jan 02, 2024
Anyone who says Reuven sinned is making a mistake
Dec 31, 2023
Who is Rich?…(it’s not what you think): The Facts
Dec 29, 2023
A New Perspective on Birchos Yaakov
Dec 29, 2023
Rav Chaim on Rotzaiach u’shmiras hanefesh 1:9 Part 2
Dec 27, 2023
Rav Chaim on Rotzaiach u’shmiras hanefesh 1:9 Part 1
Dec 27, 2023
Rashi on Tikkun Sofrim
Dec 22, 2023
Yosef’s Wagons
Dec 22, 2023
The Fine Tuned Tzaros of Yaakov Avinu
Dec 20, 2023
Shlomo's Cutting the Baby
Dec 16, 2023
Yaakov’s Doubts
Dec 15, 2023
Haneiros Halalu and Maoz Tzur
Dec 13, 2023
Which Chanuka Miracle?
Dec 08, 2023
Yosef and the Wife of Potifar
Dec 07, 2023
Learning from Yaakov how to Give Rebuke
Dec 06, 2023
Mirmah
Dec 01, 2023
The Rock on the Well
Nov 30, 2023
Rachel's Disgrace and Yosef's Name
Nov 24, 2023
Eisav: Two Approaches to Reconcile the Pshat and the Midrash
Nov 22, 2023
How did Yaakov Lie?
Nov 17, 2023
Ketura
Nov 10, 2023
The Miracles of October 7
Nov 10, 2023
Her Cry
Nov 08, 2023
The Name Changes of Avraham, Sarah, Yaakov, and Yehoshua
Nov 05, 2023
A Pillar of Salt?
Nov 03, 2023
Hot Hands and Talking Birds
Nov 01, 2023
Taking Security in Hashem
Oct 27, 2023
Great is Peace
Oct 25, 2023
What can YOU do about a national Tzara?
Oct 24, 2023
Hashem’s “Anger” and Afflictions and its Relevance to our Eis Tzara
Oct 20, 2023
Some Thoughts about the Situation in Israel
Oct 18, 2023
The Moon's Argument with Hashem
Oct 15, 2023
The Righteous Vegetation
Oct 11, 2023
Clouds or Huts?
Sep 29, 2023
Serving Hashem out of Love and Fear
Sep 27, 2023
Two Sides to Teshuva
Sep 24, 2023
Asking for Mechila
Sep 20, 2023
What is Kappara?
Sep 18, 2023
Some Thoughts on Rosh Hashana Tefillos
Sep 15, 2023
Torah Cosmology and Rosh Hashana
Sep 12, 2023
Hashem “Returning” from Exile
Sep 08, 2023
The Curses, Shimon, and the Role of Drash
Sep 06, 2023
Bargaining with God
Sep 01, 2023
Amoni and Moavi vs Mitzri and Edomi
Aug 30, 2023
The Connection between False Weights and Amaleik
Aug 25, 2023
Hatov ve’hayashar: Rashi vs the Passuk
Aug 23, 2023
Tamim Tihiyeh
Aug 18, 2023
On the Morality of Avdus
Aug 11, 2023
With Your Own Eyes
Aug 09, 2023
Teach Your Children or Bury Them
Aug 04, 2023
Factors in Choosing a Profession #3
Aug 02, 2023
The Great Voice which would not Stop/Continue
Jul 28, 2023
Factors in Choosing a Profession #2
Jul 26, 2023
The Tremendous Burden on Jewish Judges
Jul 21, 2023
Factors in Choosing a Profession #1
Jul 19, 2023
The Fallen Angels of Canaan and Why Rashi Writes in Metaphors?
Jul 14, 2023
Is it good to eat or drink wine before learning?
Jul 12, 2023
The Apparent Contradiction in Moshe’s Motivation
Jul 07, 2023
Shiur in honor of the 10th Yahrtzeit of my mother AH, Shani Feder on Hakaras Hatov
Jul 07, 2023
The Second Set of Spies
Jun 30, 2023
The Prescient Words of Dasan and Aviram
Jun 28, 2023
Korach’s Lineage
Jun 23, 2023
Spying Eyes
Jun 21, 2023
Tzitzis and the Role of Drash
Jun 16, 2023
Gematria and the 613 Mitzvos
Jun 16, 2023
Adam’s Shor and Agadda Methodology
Jun 14, 2023
Moshe Pleading with Yisro to Join Us
Jun 09, 2023
Degrading the Sotah
Jun 07, 2023
The Strange Connection Between Matnas Kehuna and Sotah
Jun 02, 2023
Justice
May 30, 2023
The Nesiim's Donation, Gematria, and At-bash
May 29, 2023
Rus as a Model for Conversion
May 24, 2023
Comparison of Rebbe to Father
May 19, 2023
Hashem Strolling with us in Gan Eden
May 17, 2023
A Jew who is sold to slavery
May 12, 2023
The Mekalel
May 10, 2023
The Mekalel’s Critique of the Lechem Hapanim
May 05, 2023
Various Uses of אני ה׳
May 03, 2023
The Torah Talks to your Yetzer Hara
Apr 28, 2023
Avodas Yom Ha'kippurim and the Gematria of Be'zos
Apr 28, 2023
My Mother A”H, Dale Carnegie, and Sever Panim Yafos
Apr 26, 2023
Two Rashis in Tazria
Apr 19, 2023
Dan Lekaf Zechus and the Middle Path
Apr 16, 2023
Afilu kulanu chachamim…
Apr 05, 2023
Lashon Hara and the Big Three
Mar 31, 2023
Yachol Mai’Rosh Chodesh…
Mar 30, 2023
Why is ha lachma anya in Aramaic?
Mar 29, 2023
The Chatas for the Sin of the Tzibur
Mar 24, 2023
The Chatas of the Kohen Gadol and of the Nasi
Mar 21, 2023
Sukka 52a Seven Names for the Yetzer Hara #4
Mar 21, 2023
Sukka 52a Seven Names for the Yetzer Hara #3
Mar 17, 2023
Mishkan Ha’eidus
Mar 17, 2023
Sukka 52a Seven Names for the Yetzer Hara #2
Mar 14, 2023
Two Equal Luchos
Mar 10, 2023
Gesundheit: The Wonder of Illness
Mar 10, 2023
Eulogy for the Yetzer Hara
Mar 10, 2023
Seven Names of the Yetzer Hara #1
Mar 09, 2023
Purim Episode: Arrur Haman and Baruch Mordechai
Mar 07, 2023
Esther Wore Ruach Hakodesh
Mar 03, 2023
Hints of Salvation to Mordechai and Dovid
Mar 01, 2023
Trees in the Desert
Feb 24, 2023
My Mother A”H and Sameach Be’chelko
Feb 22, 2023
The Extreme Punishment for Oppressing Widows and Orphans
Feb 20, 2023
Reward to Dogs?
Feb 19, 2023
Tereifa, Kedusha, and Being “To God”
Feb 17, 2023
Rifidim, Amaleik, and Sinai
Feb 15, 2023
Moshe’s Stick
Feb 13, 2023
The Talking Boundary
Feb 10, 2023
Forcing the Jews to Leave Yam Suf
Feb 08, 2023
40 years of Mun
Feb 05, 2023
Baruch Dayan Ha’emes
Feb 03, 2023
Leil Shimurim
Feb 01, 2023
Choosing soldiers to fight Amaleik
Jan 29, 2023
Why Choshech?
Jan 27, 2023
My Mother A”H and Emuna
Jan 25, 2023
Strange Midrashim about Frogs
Jan 22, 2023
Conversations with the Malach Ha'maves
Jan 20, 2023
Moshe and Bas Pharoah
Jan 18, 2023
Rafi’s question: Why doesn’t the Torah tell us the name of Bas Pharoah?
Jan 15, 2023
Two Types of Avoda Zara
Jan 15, 2023
Moshe’s Early Days
Jan 13, 2023
The Prophecy of the Daughter of Pharaoh
Jan 10, 2023
If Shechem is a bad place, why give it to Yosef?
Jan 09, 2023
The Ikkar of Yemos Hamoshiach
Jan 09, 2023
Hashem’s Prevention of Yaakov from Revealing the End of Days
Jan 07, 2023
The Greatness of Yosef
Jan 05, 2023
What is ayin hara and how can we avoid it?
Jan 03, 2023
Hakaras Hatov
Dec 28, 2022
Chanukah and Midrashic Miracles for Yaakov Avinu
Dec 25, 2022
Jon’s question: Attack on Dinah as a Punishment for Yaakov's Delay of his Neder
Dec 25, 2022
Yaakov's Neder
Dec 25, 2022
Shechem: A Bad Place
Dec 22, 2022
Miracles Or Metaphors: A Methodology For Interpreting Miracle Stories In The Gemara
Dec 19, 2022
Chanukah: The End of All Miracles
Dec 19, 2022
Torah and Evolution
Dec 18, 2022
Was Rivka Really 3 Years Old?
Dec 18, 2022
Gematria 4: Reverse Gematria of 318 = Eliezer
Dec 11, 2022
Gematria 3: Im Lavan Garti
Dec 11, 2022
Gematria 2: Mitzvos, Nazir, and Fine Tuning
Dec 11, 2022
Gematria 1 - Introduction: Abraham and "Everything"
Dec 11, 2022
Mazal
Dec 11, 2022