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    Matot

    The Complexity of Human Rights

    Rabbi Jonathan Sacks | Tammuz 5783
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    Matot

    Let’s Hear It For The Girls

    Rabbi Stewart Weiss | Tammuz 5783
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    Matot

    Mad About You

    This week’s Sedra begins with a discussion of nedarim – vows & oaths. While the world holds that an oral contract is "only as good as the paper it’s written on," Judaism & the Torah place great emphasis on the power of speech.

    Rabbi Stewart Weiss
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    Matot

    About Vows and Sensitivity

    Take it upon yourself, without a vow, to correct one thing in your life, and these days will work their true action - to add goodness in the world.

    Rabbi Haggai Lundin | Tamuz 23 5782
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    Matot

    How Vows Are Like Idol-Worship

    The beginning of this week's Torah portion of Matot focuses on certain important details pertaining to the laws of vows and oaths. A Torah-mandated oath is one by which one forbids himself to engage in one or more otherwise permitted activities. This leads us to ask a very fundamental question...

    Various Rabbis | Tammuz 23 5782
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    Matot

    Oaths and Vows

    Can freedom and order coexist in the human sphere? Can there be a society which is both free and just at the same time?

    Rabbi Jonathan Sacks | Tamuz 22 5782
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    Matot

    The Personal Interest in Advancing the Jewish Nation

    Israel National Torah

    Explaining why G-d commanded Moshe to take vengeance against the Midianites and not the Moabites - the act of one woman who chose to advance the Jewish People's mission over her own physical and financial comfort.

    Baruch Gordon | Tammuz 29 5781
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    Matot

    Conflict Resolution

    One of the hardest tasks of any leader – from Prime Ministers to parents – is conflict resolution. Yet it is also the most vital. Where there is leadership, there is long-term cohesiveness within the group, whatever the short-term problems.

    Rabbi Jonathan Sacks | Tammuz 28 5781
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    Matot

    My Vows I Shall Fulfill

    Can performing a mitzvah become a liability? What does it mean that I am doing something “bli neder”? “My friend Billy Nader says bli neder on almost everything. Is this being too frum?”

    Rabbi Yirmiyohu Kaganoff | Tammuz 28 5781
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    Matot

    Coincidence or Intentional

    The combination of these two sections of the Torah constitutes the question, as to whether there is a connection between these two Parshiot, or is it just a matter of calendar convenience that unites them is one Torah reading on this coming Sabbath.

    Rabbi Berel Wein | Tammuz 27 5781
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    Parashat Hashavua

    Yirmiyahu Comforts Too

    Most of the p’sukim in the early sections of Sefer Yirmiyahu, which make up the first two haftarot of the Three Weeks, consist of rebuke and prophecies of doom. Yet, they also contain sections of Nechama.

    Rabbi Yossef Carmel | Tammuz 24 5781
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    Matot

    From Pots and Pans to People and Places

    Rabbi Stewart Weiss | Tamuz 23 5780
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    Kashrut

    Pouring while It’s Hot

    Rabbi Yirmiyohu Kaganoff | Tamuz 22 5780
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    Matot

    Matot – Maasei

    Rabbi Berel Wein | Tamuz 20 5780
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    Matot

    Where's Poppa??

    Rabbi Stewart Weiss | Tamuz 21 5779
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    Covenant & Conversation

    Priorities

    Rabbi Jonathan Sacks | Tamuz 18 5779
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    Parashat Hashavua

    The Women of Menashe Go West

    Last week we discussed to what extent Ephrayim came before his older brother Menashe, and we pledged to return to discuss the matter in the context of the daughters of Tzelofchad receiving a part in the Land.

    Rabbi Yossef Carmel | Tamuz 28 5778
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    Matot

    Where do I Toivel my Keilim?

    Rabbi Yirmiyohu Kaganoff | 5777 25 Tammuz
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    Parashat Hashavua

    They Would Grab for Themselves

    The midrash (Bamidbar Rabba 22:7) notes that there are three valuable presents – wisdom, strength, and wealth – that can be a part of a person’s downfall. The examples, one Jewish and one non-Jewish, were: for wisdom, Achitofel and Bilam; for strength, Shimshon and Goliath; and for wealth, Korach and Haman. The midrash continues that the tribes of Gad and Reuven were blessed with great flocks but because they loved their money so much that they settled outside Eretz Yisrael, away from their brethren, they were the first to be exiled.

    Rabbi Shaul Yisraeli zt"l | Tammuz 22 5777
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    Covenant & Conversation

    The Prophetic Voice

    Rabbi Jonathan Sacks | Tammuz 16 5777
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