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Total Number of lessons: 1080

Rabbi Yair Kahn Source:

Lesson Length:

15 minutes

According to Chazal, the section of this week's parasha beginning with "vayehi b'nesoa ha'aron" serves to split the entire book of Bamidbar into three...

Parshat Behaalotekha

Rabbi Alex Israel Source:

Numbers 8 - 12

Lesson Length:

28 minutes

There seems to be a contradiction as to where the Ark of the Covenant was located during Am Yisrael's travels through the desert. On one hand, we know...

The Journey Through the Desert Following God through the Desert Ark of the Covenant The Ark of the Covenant begins to travel

Completing the Machane (Audio)

Rabbi Ezra Bick Source:

Numbers 4, 21 - 7

Lesson Length:

12 minutes

How do the four "halakhic" sections that appear in Parashat Naso fit with the rest of the parasha, which deals with completing the construction of the...

Mishkan The Machane Nazir Sotah

Parshat Naso

Rabbi Jonathan Snowbell Source:

Numbers 4, 21 - 7

Lesson Length:

28 minutes

Many of the topics in Parshat Naso seem to belong in Sefer Vayikra rather than in Sefer Bamidbar- Korbanot, Nazir, Sotah, Birkat Kohanim, etc. However,...

Sefer Bemidbar The Machane Nazir Sotah Birkat Kohanim Mishkan Gifts of The Nesiim

The Shmita Year and its Connection to Shavuot and Har Sinai

Rabbi Menachem Leibtag Source:

Exodus 16

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Leviticus 23, 9 - 22

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Deuteronomy 8, 1 - 17

What is the first real Shabbat of the Jewish people? And how does it connect to the Omer, to the brit at Har Sinai, to Shavuot, and to the Shemitta cycle...

The Omer Manna Divine Tests Shemitta and Har Sinai Shavuot Shabbat Covenant at Sinai Yemei Iyun Study Days

Shavuot

Rabbi Ezra Bick Source:

Leviticus 23, 15 - 22

Lesson Length:

14 minutes

According to our tradition, the Torah was given on the 6th of Sivan, the day on which we observe the holiday of Shavuot, but only received by Am Yisrael...

Shavuot The Omer Matan Torah The Ten Commandments

Two -Person Drama of Eikhah Chapter 1

Rabbi Dr. Joshua Berman Source:

Lamentations 1

What is the book of Eikhah all about? What is its purpose? By closely examining Chapter 1 and viewing it in play form we notice that Eikhah is not a book...

Tisha B'Av Destruction of the First Mikdash Mourning Eikha Tisha B'Av Study Yemei Iyun Study Days

The Harmony of Shemitta (Audio)

Rabbi Dr. Avraham Walfish Source:

Leviticus 26, 3 - 27

Lesson Length:

13 minutes

How does the seemingly anti-climactic final chapter of Parshat Bechukotai fit into the larger context of Sefer Vayikra? By examining the end of the book...

Blessings and Curses Vows Rebuke - Tokhaha Shemitta - The Seventh Year Defilement of the Land Sanctity

Definitions of Churban - The Comfort of Eternity

Rabbi David Milston Source:

Deuteronomy 3, 23 - 7, 11

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Isaiah 40, 1 - 26

From the depths of mourning throughout the difficult times leading to Tisha B'av we can view Parshat Va'etchanan as the ultimate parsha of comfort. By...

Sin of the Spies The Stone Tablets Mourning Tisha B'Av Eretz Yisrael Prophecies of Consolation Yemei Iyun Study Days

The Torah's Response to Calamity (Audio)

Rabbi Yair Kahn Source:

Leviticus 26, 3

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Judges 6, 1 - 6

Lesson Length:

15 minutes

The end of the tokheha - the section of Parshat Behukotai describing the curses that will befall Israel if they do not follow God's laws - contains curses...

Rebuke - Tokhaha Tokhaha Blessings and Curses Punishment Covenant at Sinai

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