Rav Shlomo Katz on the Parsha
By Rav Shlomo Katz
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Each week, Rav Shlomo Katz opens the parsha through the inner world of Torah, drawing from the deep wells of the Chassidic masters.
With warmth, clarity, and honesty, these teachings weave together Chassidus, Tanach, and lived experience, inviting us to encounter the parsha not only as a text to be studied but as a mirror for the soul.
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Nitzavim: Which Mitzvah Is Closest To Me?
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Jan 27, 2026 |
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Nitzavim: Did I Take Advantage Of The Past Year?
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Jan 27, 2026 |
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Ki Tavo: Is Sadness An Aveira?
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Jan 27, 2026 |
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Ki Teitze: From the Moment You Leave the Womb, IT'S A WAR
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Jan 27, 2026 |
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Ki Teitze: Who Can Go Out To Fight?
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Jan 27, 2026 |
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Va'etchanan: Pleading Your Case With Confidence
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Jan 27, 2026 |
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Kedoshim: Certain Things Can Only Be Internalized Together
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Jan 27, 2026 |
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Kedoshim: Am I a Loving Person?
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Jan 27, 2026 |
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Kedoshim: Living The Important Moments
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Jan 27, 2026 |
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Devarim: The Torah We Do Learn On Tisha B'Av
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Jan 27, 2026 |
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Devarim: Until the Torah Gets into My Toenails
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Jan 27, 2026 |
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Devarim: What is Your Chazon on this Shabbos Tisha B'Av?
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Jan 27, 2026 |
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Devarim & Tisha B'Av: Looking for a Leader Who Knows How to Rebuke Me
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Jan 27, 2026 |
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Devarim: Why Doesn't Anyone Get Me?
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Jan 27, 2026 |
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Devarim: When Tisha B'av Sinks In
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Jan 27, 2026 |
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Matot/Masei: Doing A Favor For Moshe Rabbeinu
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Jan 27, 2026 |
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Matot/Masei: Asking G-d To Not Let Me Let Go Of My Sins
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Jan 27, 2026 |
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Matot/Masei: Does Anyone Do Anything Holy Anymore Without Documenting It?
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Jan 27, 2026 |
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Matot/Masei: Two Ways To 'Kasher' Our Souls
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Jan 27, 2026 |
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Matot/Masei: Desperate Soul Masters
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Jan 27, 2026 |
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Pinchas: When It's Time To Jump, Don't Ask Anyone
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Jan 27, 2026 |
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Pinchas: Living Forever
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Jan 27, 2026 |
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Pinchas: We Can't Afford To Be Religiously Shallow Anymore
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Jan 27, 2026 |
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Balak: Why Don't the Nations of the World Want Am Yisrael To Come Home?
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Jan 27, 2026 |
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Balak: Do I Feel Special in G-d's Presence?
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Jan 27, 2026 |
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Balak: I Don't Identify Myself with My Sins
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Jan 27, 2026 |
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Balak: Rav Kook's Chassidish Peirush on the Parsha
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Jan 27, 2026 |
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Balak: What Do Children Really Need?
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Jan 27, 2026 |
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Chukat: When Someone Needs Something
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Jan 27, 2026 |
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Chukat: The Day Miriam Died
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Jan 27, 2026 |
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Chukat: Whenever the Time is Right for What I Need, Give it to Me
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Jan 27, 2026 |
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Chukat: Believing vs. Anticipating
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Jan 27, 2026 |
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Chukat: Anger Is Never The Tikkun
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Jan 27, 2026 |
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Chukat: Do You Taste The Ta'am Or Understand The Ta'am Of Torah?
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Jan 27, 2026 |
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Chukat: The Holiness of Being Politically Incorrect
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Jan 27, 2026 |
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Chukat: What Did Moshe Rabbeinu Leave For Us?
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Jan 27, 2026 |
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Chukat: Gather Everyone, I Want To Give Them Water
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Jan 27, 2026 |
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Korach: When Hating Is the Only Unifier
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Jan 26, 2026 |
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Korach: Are We Ready For Eretz Yisrael?
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Jan 26, 2026 |
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Korach: Can You Imagine Being the Cause of the Darkness You See?
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Jan 26, 2026 |
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Korach: Parents Who Say 'It's My Fault'
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Jan 26, 2026 |
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Korach: A Chance To Be Real
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Jan 26, 2026 |
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Shlach: The Anava Experience of Eretz Yisrael
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Jan 26, 2026 |
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Shlach: It Has Always Been About the Eyes
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Jan 26, 2026 |
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Shlach: Living Calev's Determination Today
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Jan 26, 2026 |
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Shlach: It Boils Down To Action
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Jan 26, 2026 |
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Shlach: Learning How Not To Freak Out From Doubts
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Jan 26, 2026 |
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Shlach: The Privilege of Being Swallowed Up by the Land
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Jan 26, 2026 |
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Shlach: When It Comes To Eretz Yisrael, We Got To Try Harder
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Jan 26, 2026 |
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Shlach: The Secret of Passion
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Jan 26, 2026 |
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Shlach: Calev Ben Yephune's Aliyah Pitch
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Jan 26, 2026 |
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Shlach: How Fast Do You Give Up?
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Jan 26, 2026 |
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Beha'alotcha: Davening For Those You Love
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Jan 26, 2026 |
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Beha'alotcha: Is This How We Want to Remember Miriam?
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Jan 26, 2026 |
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Beha'alotcha: Where Would You Choose to Build the Beit Hamikdash?
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Jan 26, 2026 |
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Beha'alotcha: Stop Confusing Assumptions With Facts
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Jan 26, 2026 |
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Beha'alotcha: We are the Children of the Fourth Book
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Jan 26, 2026 |
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Beha'alotcha: Crack Open My Heart of Stone
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Jan 26, 2026 |
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Nasso: Making Holy Resolutions
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Jan 26, 2026 |
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Nasso: After Shavuot, It Is Me Who Must Ascend Toward the Mountain
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Jan 26, 2026 |
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Nasso: Rav Kook's Birkat Kohanim
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Jan 26, 2026 |
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Nasso: Learning How to Lift Up Our Heads with The Rebbe
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Jan 26, 2026 |
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Nasso: The Relevance of Nasso Coming Before Shavuot
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Jan 26, 2026 |
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Nasso: The Depths of Birkat Kohanim
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Jan 26, 2026 |
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Bamidbar: Preparing for Shavuot with a Broken Heart
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Jan 25, 2026 |
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Bamidbar: The Book of Transition
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Jan 25, 2026 |
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Bamidbar: Do You Need To Always Feel Special?
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Jan 25, 2026 |
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Bechukotai: Having Kavana Towards Hashem's Inner Will
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Jan 25, 2026 |
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Bechukotai: Looking at the World through Rebbe Shimon Bar Yochai
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Jan 25, 2026 |
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Bechukotai: Life Can Be Good
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Jan 25, 2026 |
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Behar: Emunah Within the World, Emunah Beyond the World
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Jan 25, 2026 |
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Behar: Are You Aware Of All The Times Hashem Concealed Your Sins From You?
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Jan 25, 2026 |
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Behar: Embracing Loneliness
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Jan 25, 2026 |
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Behar: Authenticity To The Core
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Jan 25, 2026 |
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Emor: What Do I Learn From The One Who Cursed G-d?
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Jan 23, 2026 |
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Emor: During Sefira, Life Becomes A Gift
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Jan 23, 2026 |
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Emor: The Illusion Called Death
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Jan 23, 2026 |
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Emor: An Ishbitzer Scavenger Hunt
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Jan 23, 2026 |
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Emor: Can You Forgive Hashem?
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Jan 22, 2026 |
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Emor: Don't Let Amalek Get A Hold Of Your Pesach Sheni
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Jan 22, 2026 |
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Kedoshim: I Have To Know Why I Want To Go Back To Shul
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Jan 22, 2026 |
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Tazria: Are We Going To Allow This Time For Healing Or Not?
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Jan 22, 2026 |
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Tazria: Looking for a Kohen Who Feels My Pain
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Jan 22, 2026 |
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Tazria: Why Didn't G-d Create Us Circumcised?
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Jan 22, 2026 |
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Shmini: When Truth & Love Merge
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Jan 22, 2026 |
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Shmini: How Do Nadav & Avihu Become Eliyahu Hanavi via Pinchas?
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Jan 22, 2026 |
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Shmini: Loving You Is More Precious Than Understanding You
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Jan 22, 2026 |
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Shmini: Do You Know How Much Your Kids Love You?
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Jan 22, 2026 |
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Tzav: Big People Notice the Small Things
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Jan 22, 2026 |
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Tzav: Perhaps the Most Beautiful Pasuk About Moshe Rabbeinu
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Jan 22, 2026 |
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Tzav: Do You Wake Up With Fire?
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Jan 22, 2026 |
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Tzav: Bringing Sacrifices Over Lost Opportunities
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Jan 22, 2026 |
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Tzav: What Type of Fire Does the World Need Today?
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Jan 22, 2026 |
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Vayikra: It's a Salty Salty World
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Jan 22, 2026 |
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Vayikra: Rav Kook's Vegetarian Approach to Korbanot
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Jan 22, 2026 |
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Vayikra: The Bliss of Guilt
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Jan 22, 2026 |
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Vayikra: Instilling Confidence in My Children
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Jan 22, 2026 |
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Vayakhel: Running Out Of Shul
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Jan 22, 2026 |
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Vayakhel: When I Know It's Not Me
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Jan 22, 2026 |
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Vayakhel: How Do I Learn To Want More?
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Jan 22, 2026 |
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Ki Tisa: What Does One Look For In Their Moshe Rabbeinu?
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Jan 22, 2026 |
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Ki Tisa: How Much Do You Need Hashem?
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Jan 22, 2026 |
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Ki Tisa: Religion is Not Something that Should Work
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Jan 22, 2026 |
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Ki Tisa: Does Being Jewish Break Your Heart?
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Jan 22, 2026 |
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Ki Tisa: G-ds Desperate Will
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Jan 22, 2026 |
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Tetzave: A Short Teaching from the Shinover
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Jan 22, 2026 |
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Tetzave: Wisdom Of The Heart
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Jan 22, 2026 |
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Tetzave: The Opportunity to Extract Oil from Life's Struggles
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Jan 22, 2026 |
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Terumah: Never Hurting Anyone, Consciously or Subconsciously
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Jan 22, 2026 |
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Terumah: I Really Want To Become A Clean Person
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Jan 22, 2026 |
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Terumah: Making Things Special
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Jan 22, 2026 |
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Mishpatim: Emet is the Gesher Tzar Me'od
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Jan 19, 2026 |
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Mishpatim: Nishmah Vena'aseh Jews
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Jan 19, 2026 |
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Mishpatim: Doing the Work In Your Natural Habitat
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Jan 19, 2026 |
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Mishpatim: Redefining Theft
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Jan 19, 2026 |
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Mishpatim: The Inevitable Mystery of Real Love
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Jan 19, 2026 |
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Mishpatim: The Exact Measurement of the Covenant of Blood
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Jan 19, 2026 |
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Mishpatim: Do You Enslave Your Children?
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Jan 12, 2026 |
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Yitro: Only Humans Aren't Angels
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Jan 12, 2026 |
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Yitro: Believing that Torah is the Medicine
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Jan 12, 2026 |
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Yitro: Persistence Which Leads To Salvation
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Jan 12, 2026 |
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Yitro: The Whole World Was Invited
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Jan 12, 2026 |
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Yitro: The Superiority Complex
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Jan 11, 2026 |
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Yitro: The Eventual Enlightenemnt Of The Fool
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Jan 11, 2026 |
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Yitro: Yitro & Moshe, Cain & Abel
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Jan 11, 2026 |
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Yitro: Unless You Want More, You Have Nothing
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Jan 08, 2026 |
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Beshalach: From Unlit Charcoal to Burning Fire
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Jan 08, 2026 |
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Beshalach: Will the Third Temple Fall Down from Heaven?
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Jan 08, 2026 |
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Beshalach: Two Types of War in the Parsha
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Jan 08, 2026 |
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Beshalach: Why Don't Highs Last?
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Jan 08, 2026 |
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Beshalach: Longing For New Sustenance
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Jan 08, 2026 |
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Bo: The Role Of Storytelling In Redemption
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Jan 07, 2026 |
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Bo: Once You Hear the Calling, Start Running
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Jan 07, 2026 |
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Bo: When The Aish Kodesh Couldn't Remember The End Of His Drasha
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Jan 07, 2026 |
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Bo: How Many Korban Pesachs Were There?
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Jan 07, 2026 |
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Bo: Rav Kook's Love of the First Mitzvah
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Jan 07, 2026 |
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Bo: The Strength to be a Renewal Type of Jew
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Jan 07, 2026 |
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Bo: The Dreams We Dare Not Dream
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Jan 07, 2026 |
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Bo: Redeeming My Thoughts of God
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Jan 07, 2026 |
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Bo: Trusting Your Own Little Ray Of Light
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Jan 07, 2026 |
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Vaera: Being Close Enough To Cry Is Redeeming
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Jan 07, 2026 |
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Vaera: Redemption is Much More than Miracles
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Jan 07, 2026 |
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Vaera: A Satmar Approach to Seemingly Unanswered Prayers
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Jan 07, 2026 |
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Vaera: How Much Longer Can I Tolerate My Own Egypt?
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Jan 07, 2026 |
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Vaera: God, Why Do You Make It So Hard?
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Jan 07, 2026 |
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Vaera: Exodus from Paganism
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Jan 07, 2026 |
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Shemot: Stretch Out Your Arm, You Never Know
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Jan 06, 2026 |
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Shemot: A Midwife's Yishuv Hada'at Is All We Need
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Jan 06, 2026 |
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Shemot: Names Border On Prophecy
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Jan 06, 2026 |
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Shemot: Thunder that Straightens the Heart
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Jan 06, 2026 |
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Shemot: That First Conversation by the Bush
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Jan 06, 2026 |
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Shemot: Freedom Begins In Slavery
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Jan 06, 2026 |
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Shemot: The Gift Within Exile
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Jan 06, 2026 |
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Shemot: How Do You Actually Reach G-d?
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Jan 06, 2026 |
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Vayechi: Am I Supposed To Enjoy Learning?
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Jan 06, 2026 |
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Vayechi: Yaakov's Greatest Years Were In....Egypt？
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Jan 06, 2026 |
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Vayechi: What Did Yaakov Avinu Think of Himself?
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Jan 06, 2026 |
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Vayechi: Belonging to Eretz Yisrael (A Class in Chevron)
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Jan 06, 2026 |
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Vayechi: You Are Only Redeemed When You Are Truly Desperate
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Jan 06, 2026 |
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Vayechi: Empowering the Role of Jewish Mothers
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Jan 06, 2026 |
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Vayigash: The Moment Yehuda Became A King
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Jan 06, 2026 |
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Vayigash: Tzaddikim and Ba'alei Teshuvahs - A Pillar of Ishbitz
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Jan 06, 2026 |
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Vayigash: What Do Brachas Add onto Mitzvahs?
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Jan 06, 2026 |
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Vayigash with the Ishbitzer on his Yahrzeit
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Jan 06, 2026 |
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Vayigash: Reaching Beyond Yourself In A Moment's Time
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Jan 06, 2026 |
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Vayeshev: Ani Mamash Yosef
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Jan 06, 2026 |
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Vayeshev: A Perfect Time To Decide Who Mashiach Is
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Jan 06, 2026 |
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Vayeshev: Yosef HaTzadik Never Blames Anyone
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Jan 06, 2026 |
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Vayeshev & Chanukah: What Did Yosef See?
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Jan 06, 2026 |
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Vayishlach: Receiving Hugs From Above After Every Small Trouble
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Jan 06, 2026 |
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Vayishlach: When Esav Wears A Shtreimel
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Jan 06, 2026 |
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Vayishlach: Your Avoda Matters Much More Than You Realize
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Jan 06, 2026 |
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Vayishlach: Am I Dreaming Or Does Someone Want To Hurt Me?
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Jan 06, 2026 |
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Vayishlach: The Difference Between Yaakov and Yisrael
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Jan 06, 2026 |
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Vayetze: The Beauty Behind Making Maariv An Obligation
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Jan 06, 2026 |
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Vayetze: The Prophecy of Maariv
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Jan 06, 2026 |
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Vayetze: A Time for Silence, A Time for Screaming
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Jan 06, 2026 |
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Vayetze: Being Vulnerable and Honest, Ya'akov Avinu Style
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Jan 06, 2026 |
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Vayetze: Hashem, I'm Not Moving One Inch Until You Show Me Light
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Jan 06, 2026 |
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Vayetze: What Should I Be Looking For In A Soulmate?
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Jan 06, 2026 |
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Toldot: Reconquering Eretz Hakodesh Today
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Jan 06, 2026 |
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Toldot: Becoming A Holy Gold Digger
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Jan 06, 2026 |
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Toldot: The Moment Our Children Really Make Us Parents
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Jan 06, 2026 |
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Toldot: Yitzchak's Revelation in Davening
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Jan 06, 2026 |
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Toldot: Did My Parents Give Me What They Were Supposed To?
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Jan 06, 2026 |
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Chayei Sara: Swearing With A Mitzvah In Your Hand
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Jan 06, 2026 |
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Chayei Sara: The Depth & Opportunity Behind Friday Afternoon Chaos
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Jan 06, 2026 |
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Chayei Sarah: Performing A Combined Miracle
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Jan 06, 2026 |
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Chayei Sara : The Yitzchak⧸Hagar Connection
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Jan 06, 2026 |
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Vayera: What is a Revelation?
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Jan 06, 2026 |
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Vayera: Did Avraham Avinu Need A Name?
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Jan 06, 2026 |
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Lech Lecha: What About A Brit Mila Makes You Jewish?
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Jan 06, 2026 |
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Lech Lecha: Did You Ever Hear The Sound of Your Own Cry
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Jan 06, 2026 |
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Lech Lecha: I'm In This Forever
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Jan 06, 2026 |
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Noach: Compassion for Every Version of You (Reb Nosson of Breslov)
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Jan 04, 2026 |
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Noach: The Curse Of Apathy
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Jan 04, 2026 |