Rabbi Yitzchak Twersky
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Eliyahu is one of the most misunderstood characters in all of Tanach. Misunderstood by his contemporaries, he has been misunderstood by students of Tanach...
Rabbi Menachem Leibtag
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While the Hebrew word ‘omer’ is usually associated with something that is ‘counted’, we will trace the few instances when the word ‘omer’ appears in the...
Rabbi Michael Hattin
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The Israelites are standing at the cusp of the entrance to the Land of Israel, and we are faced with a tragic story in which Moshe and Aharon receive the...
Atara Snowbell
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Lesson Length: 56 minutes
After 38 years of wandering in the desert, in what way do the complaints of the new generation differ from the old? Why do they deserve to enter the...
Rabbi Mosheh Lichtenstein
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What are Chazal trying to tell us when they say it is wrong to call Avraham Avinu by his former name, “Avram”? We view the name-change moment as the...
Rabbi Ezra Bick
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Eliyahu's triumph at Mount Carmel is followed immediately by the mystery and shadows of Mount Chorev. What is the connection between them, and what is the...
Dr. Tova Ganzel
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Why does the Beit Hamikdash in Jerusalem, take a backseat in the book of Yehezkel? This shiur explores possible reasons for Yehezkel’s idiosyncratic...
Rabbi Menachem Leibtag
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Despite the popular assumption that Sefer Devarim is a ‘review’ of Chumash, our lecture will prove quite the contrary; showing how most of its legal...
Rabbi Chaim Brovender
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Rabbi Menachem Leibtag provides a ten minute introduction concerning the book of Yirmiahu, and Yirmiahu's purpose as related to the Destruction of the...
Rabbi Dr. Joshua Berman
The Tanakh uses many paradigms to describe the relationship between Hashem and Am Yisrael, among them Av, Ro'eh, and Melekh. But just what does it mean...