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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
32 min
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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Iyar 23 5781 | Baruch Gordon
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Iyar 23 5781 | Baruch Gordon
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Iyar 22 5781 | Rabbi Berel Wein
Creators Belonging
The idea behind the sabbatical year remains fixed in the minds and hearts of the Jewish people wherever they may live. And that basic idea is simple: that the world and all its land belongs to and is subject to the will of the Creator.
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Iyar 21 5781 | Rabbi Yossef Carmel
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Sefer Vayikra was given during Bnei Yisrael’s period in the desert. It is therefore telling that the Torah already relates as a given fact the situation in which they are working the fields of Eretz Yisrael, suspending work during Shemitta and Yovel, and following the rules of transactions regarding real estate in the Land among other financial matters.
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Iyar 21 5780 | Baruch Gordon
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Who must initiate the redemption of Israel? Will it be G-D through blatant miracles, or will the Jewish people gradually awaken to return home? The Or Hachaim answers that question based on this week's Torah reading.
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Iyar 17 5778 | Rabbi Daniel Mann
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After the seventh in a series of Shemitta cycles, Bnei Yisrael, in the time that “all its inhabitants” are in Eretz Yisrael, are commanded in the laws of Yovel (Vayikra 25:8-13). There are three main halachot: Jewish slaves are set free (ibid. 10); the land is not worked, as in the previous Shemitta year (ibid. 11); fields that were sold are returned to their original owner (ibid. 13).
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A Glossary for a Future Shemittah Year
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Iyar 20 5777 | Rabbi Yirmiyohu Kaganoff
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Belief And Disbelief
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A brief Dvar Torah on the Parsha, based on R. Samson Raphael Hirsch’s Torah Commentary
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