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Iyar 27 5781 | Rabbi Ari Shvat
Remembering the 6 Day War- Yom Yerushalayim & Declaring New Holidays
It sounds complicated to declare new holidays, but it's actually not at all. Similarly to allow haircuts and music during the Omer also is simple. Just declaring Hallel with a bracha is more complicated, but an historic return to the forgotten background of the "6 Day War" helps clarify that, as well.
The Obligation of Thanking Hashem Jerusalem Day
45 min
Iyar 25 5781 | Rabbi Azriel Ariel
Translated by Hillel Fendel Jerusalem Day: Some Stones Are Hearts
The Western Wall looks simply like a big and menacing block of rocks. One must look with penetrating eyes to sense what it really expresses: the longing of dozens of generations, the prayers of our forefathers and foremothers, and the joy of all those who commemorated their happy occasions there over the course of centuries.
Jerusalem Day
Iyar 25 5781 | Rabbi Ari Shvat
Ein Aya Shabbat 2, 276 Give Space Before Harmonizing
Rav Kook teaches that opposing legitimate ideals inevitably first appear as contradictory, but eventually harmonize with each other. So by all partnerships and inter-personal and relationships, as well as ideological rabbinic machloket.
Ein Aya Ein Aya on Lag Ba'Omer
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Iyar 25 5781 | Rabbi Stewart Weiss
The Halacha Named for a Thief!
What Halachic principle is, strangely, named after a thief?
Preparations for Shabbat, Entrance and Exit
Iyar 25 5781 | Rabbi Stewart Weiss
A Tale of Two Mountains
This Shabbat, we find ourselves between two staggering events: the tragedy at Har Meron last Friday, and Yom Yerushalayim this Sunday night and Monday. Two mountains, steeped in Jewish history, associated with the most significant personalities and pathos: Avraham, Yitzchak and Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai.
Bechukotai Jerusalem Day

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Kislev 10 5781 | Rabbi Yirmiyohu Kaganoff
Do Clothes Make the Man?
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Kislev 3 5781 | Rabbi Stewart Weiss
All in the Family
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Cheshvan 29 5781 | Rabbi Jonathan Sacks
Communication Matters
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Cheshvan 28 5781 | Rabbi Yossef Carmel
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Cheshvan 29 5780 | Rabbi Stewart Weiss
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Beyond the 4 Amot The Shared Power of Circumcision & The Land
This week I was named Sandak in my grandson's circumcision. How does the celebration of a circumcision connect to the this week's Parasha of "Toldot"?
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Cheshvan 27 5780 | Rabbi Yossef Carmel
Chevron or Yerushalayim? – Part II
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Cheshvan 26 5780 | Rabbi Jonathan Sacks
Isaac and Esau
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KIslev 1 5779 | Rabbi Stewart Weiss
THE DIVINE DECEPTION OF DADDY
Toldot
Kislev 1 5779 | Rabbi Jonathan Sacks
Toldot 5779 The Courage of Persistence
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Cheshvan 27 5779 | Rabbi Yossef Carmel
On Weddings, Social Connections, and Related Dangers
The Chitite people who lived in Chevron helped Avraham buy Me’arat Hamachpela from Ephron the Chitite. The p’sukim (Bereishit 23:3-20) stress in several places the involvement of this group in all elements of the interaction between the two. We find the Nation of Chet in this week’s parasha as well. Yitzchak’s son Eisav married two Chitite women: Yehudit the daughter of Be’eiri the Chitite, and Bosmat the daughter of Eilon the Chitite (ibid. 26:34).
Parashat Hashavua Toldot
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How Can Jealousy and Hatred be Turned into A Desire for Connection?
Toldot
Cheshvan 26 5778 | Rabbi Stewart Weiss
THE MOTHER OF ALL LOVE
Toldot
Cheshvan 26 5778 | Rabbi Shaul Yisraeli zt"l
Belief Solely in the Merciful G-d
The Midrash (Bereishit Rabba 63:2) says on the Pasuk, “So said Hashem to the house of Yaakov, who redeemed Avraham” (Yeshaya 29:22) that Avraham was saved from the furnace into which he was thrown in the merit of Yaakov. What makes Yaakov so great?
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Cheshvan 18 5778 | Rabbi Jonathan Sacks
Why Isaac? Why Jacob?
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Cheshvan 29 5777 | Rabbi Stewart Weiss
BACK TO THE FUTURE, PART I
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Cheshvan 25 5777 | Rabbi Jonathan Sacks
Why did Isaac love Esau?
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Cheshvan 26 5777 | Rabbi Shaul Yisraeli zt"l
The Left Hand Should Push Away and the Right Draw Close
As the two brothers, Yaakov and Eisav, were born and developed, Israel’s constant tension vis a vis Eisav’s descendants was set for generations. The struggle began with the prophecy before their birth that “one nation will overcome the other nation” (Bereishit 25:23).Let’s look at Hashem’s part in all of this. Rivka was barren and needed a miracle to conceive. Why did the miracle include a twin brother, who anyway is not part of the Chosen Nation?
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