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Parashat Hashavua - Torah Portion - Shmot

Tevet 19 5780 | Baruch Gordon
Beyond the 4 Amot What Israel Does to Your Mind
In this week's Torah reading Hashem promises Moshe he will redeem the nation of Israel out of Egypt and he will take them to a good and broad land. How can such a small land be called broad? The Natziv explains this issue.
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Tevet 18 5780 | Rabbi Zalman Baruch Melamed
God - let me know who you are!
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Tevet 15 5780 | Rabbi Jonathan Sacks
Faith in the Future
Covenant & Conversation Shmot
Tevet 19 5779 | Rabbi Daniel Kirsch
Shemot 5779 At The Shabbat Table
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Tevet 19 5779 | Rabbi Jonathan Sacks
Shemot 5779 The Light at the Heart of Darkness
Covenant & Conversation Shmot
Tevet 19 5779 | Rabbi Stewart Weiss
NAME THAT PEOPLE
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Tevet 19 5779 | Rabbi Avraham Rosenthal
Egypt and York: Are We Forbidden to Live There?
Shmot Leaving the Land of Israel
Tevet 19 5779 | Rabbi Yossef Carmel
A Sad Secret – Lashon Hara Brings National Agony
Moshe’s first action as an emerging leader was that he saw an Egyptian beating an Israelite and killed the Egyptian (Shemot 2:11-12). This was followed by confronting two Israelites fighting and trying to stop them, only to be scorned, “Who has placed you as an officer and judge over us? Will you kill me the way that you killed the Egyptian?” (ibid. 14). Moshe was then sought by Paroh and slated for execution, but he managed to escape to Midian.
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5778 | Rabbi Yosef Tzvi Rimon
And They Cried Out- Crying to Hashem or Crying out of Agony
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Tevet 17 5778 | Rabbi Stewart Weiss
LIGHT, LIFE & THE G-D FACTOR
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Tevet 14 5778 | Rabbi Yossef Carmel
Unknown Spiritual Power
Before the appointment of Moshe at the burning bush, the pasuk announces: “Hashem saw Bnei Yisrael, and Hashem knew (vayeda)” (Shemot 2:25). Many of our great commentators have toiled to explain this pasuk, especially its conclusion. Doesn’t Hashem always know everything? What exactly is it here that Hashem “knew,” and what does it have to do with Bnei Yisrael’s burgeoning redemption?
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Tevet 1 5778 | Rabbi Jonathan Sacks
God Loves Those Who Argue
Covenant & Conversation Shmot
5777 | Rabbi Yosef Tzvi Rimon
Who is a Man?
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Tevet 21 5777 | Rabbi Stewart Weiss
THE NAME OF THE GAME
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Tevet 18 5777 | Rabbi Jonathan Sacks
Who Am I?
Covenant & Conversation Shmot
Tevet 18 5777 | Rabbi Yossef Carmel
“These Are the Names of Israel” – How Does One Enter the List?
We have dealt with helping Jews being accepted and encouraging the conversion of those with patriarchal Jewish lineage. Now we will deal with the question of how to approach the challenges of conversion. No broad elements of the religious community in Israel treat conversion as a highest priority endeavor, with groups viewing other things as higher on the national agenda. To change this, the political leadership of the State of Israel and Torah leadership need to embark on a program that turns the spiritual absorption of olim, especially those from the Former Soviet Union who require conversion, into a major national project. Passiveness with the illusion that matters will work out by themselves, runs the real risk of assimilation within the Jewish State.
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5776 | Rabbi Yosef Tzvi Rimon
She Saw That He Was Good
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Tevet 20 5776 | Rabbi Yirmiyohu Kaganoff
What do I do with my Sheimos?
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Tevet 20 5776 | Rabbi Stewart Weiss
Name That G-D
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Tevet 17 5776 | Rabbi Shaul Yisraeli zt"l
The Less Understandable Request
It is hard to understand the way Moshe and Aharon presented their demands of Paroh, demands which resulted in the freeing of Bnei Yisrael from bondage and their exodus from Egypt. Hashem told them to tell Paroh that they want to travel for three days into the desert and bring sacrifices to Hashem (Shemot 5:3). Was there a need for Hashem to hide the fact that they were to be leaving permanently and not just bringing sacrifices and returning? Certainly Hashem was capable of getting Paroh to agree to anything. In fact, he even had to harden Paroh’s heart so that he would not agree earlier.
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