Lessons on Shmini

articles on Shmini

Between Hope and Humanity

Read the weekly Lesson for Parashat Shemini by Rabbi Jonathan Sacks.

Limits

A Shiur by Rabbi Jonathan Sacks for the weekly portion "Shmini".

Why Eat Kosher?

What's the connection between working in a recording studio and eating non-kosher food?

Fire: Holy and Unholy

The holy is that segment of time and space God has reserved for His Presence. Creation involves concealment. About Nadav and Avihus death.

Parashat Hashavua: Two Sides to a Coin

Rabbi Yossef Carmel | Nisan 5785

The Untold Story of Silence

Rabbi Hillel Mertzbach | 26 Adar II 5784

Parashat Shemini as a Bridge between Topics

from Siach Shaul p. 220-1

Rabbi Shaul Yisraeli zt"l | 22 Adar II 5784

Spontaneity: Good or Bad?

Rabbi Jonathan Sacks | 21 Adar ll 5784

SHMINI

Rabbi Berel Wein zt"l | 14 Shvat 5784

5 min

The President of the United States Salutes the Jew

Why did the President of the United States Salute the Jews? and what does this have to do with Shmini?

Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu | Adar II 24 5782

Fire: Holy and Unholy

The holy is that segment of time and space God has reserved for His Presence. Creation involves concealment. About Nadav and Avihus death.

Rabbi Jonathan Sacks | Adar II 21 5782

Eat to Survive

Most human beings know that they eat to survive, but there are many, especially in Western society today, that survive to be able to eat. It becomes almost logical that the Torah, would suggest and ordain for us a list of foods that somehow would prove harmful to our spiritual health.

Rabbi Berel Wein zt"l | Adar II 20 5782

54 Lessons on Shmini

fast navigation

Rabbi Zalman Baruch Melamed
Rabbi Yosef Tzvi Rimon
Rabbi Mordechai Eliyahu Zt"l
Rabbi Dov Lior
Rabbi Shlomo Fischer zt"l
Rabbi Zalman Nehemiah Goldberg
Rabbi Chaim Yerucham Smotrich
Rabbi Shimon Klein
Rabbi Shabbtai Sabbato
Rabbi Shlomo Goren zt"l

Chukat

A Tale of Four Islands

Rabbi Yirmiyohu Kaganoff | Tamuz 6 5778

D'varim

Poetic Controversies

Rabbi Yirmiyohu Kaganoff | Av 1 5777

Prayer

Days on Which Tachanun Is Not Recited

Chapter Twenty One-Part Three

Rabbi Eliezer Melamed | 5775

Prayer

May I Daven in English?

People, who cannot read Hebrew at all, have no choice but to pray in the language that they can read and understand. However, anyone who can should accept the challenge of studying the prayers a bit at a time, gradually thereby developing both fluency and comprehension

Rabbi Yirmiyohu Kaganoff

Prayer

The Blessing for Rain for those travelling to the Land of Israel

Praying for a Rainy Day When Traveling to or from Eretz Yisroel in November

Rabbi Yirmiyohu Kaganoff | 5771

Naso

The Mitzvah of “Duchening” - Birchas Kohanim

The basic Halachot of Duchening, taking off shoes and washing hands, Why Is This Mitzvah Called Duchening? The connection between Duchening and dreams...

Rabbi Yirmiyohu Kaganoff | 5769

Vayishlach

The Halacha and History of the Gid Hanosheh

The mitzvah of gid hanosheh forbids us from eating the sciatic nerve, a sinew that runs from the lower back over the top of the hip and down the leg. Another Mitzvah is not eating the Cheylev, some fats in an animal.

Rabbi Yirmiyohu Kaganoff | kislev 5769

Sections

Are We Permitted to Enjoy this World?

I recline in an armchair in the lobby of the hotel and look over the menu. After the crazy day I've had, I deserve to relax and enjoy a good meal. Suddenly, I am menaced by a disturbing thought: Am I really permitted to enjoy myself in this world?

Various Rabbis | 13 Shvat 5768

Laws of Hanukkah

Flying High - A Traveler’s Guide to Channukah

What does one do about Channukah candles in a hotel, while traveling and in other complicated circumstances?

Rabbi Yirmiyohu Kaganoff | Kislev 5768

Vayetze

Study House of Shem & Ever in a world of Lavan

Rabbi Berel Wein zt"l | Kislev 5768

Mishpatim

The Absolute and the Conditional

Although Mishpatim follows Yitro, the two parshiyot are very different in nature.

Rabbi Yossef Carmel | Shvat 5767

Various Subjects

The Laws Relating to Converts

The laws relating to Jewish converts are most astounding. Despite the criticism directed at the Jewish people on the grounds that Judaism is racist, the Torah teaches us that any non-Jew who earnestly seeks to join the Jewish people may do so.

Rabbi Eliezer Melamed

עוד Lessons