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Parashah Explorations

by Rabbi Yitzhak Grossman

A weekly parashah lecture, focusing on a topic, generally halachic, relating to the parashah.This podcast is powered for free by Torahcasts. Start your own forever free Torah podcast today at https://torahcasts.com/sign-up/ and share your Torah with the world.

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Episodes

  1. Bereishis: Swords Don't Kill People; People Kill People (Revisited) (2026-10-06)

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  2. Haazinu: Pleonasm and Parallelism (Revisited) (2026-09-15)

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  3. Haazinu: A Language of Milk and Honey (2026-09-08)

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  4. Vayeilech: The Centovigenarian (2026-09-01)

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  5. Ki-Savo: The Soul's Sole Sojourn (2026-08-25)

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  6. Eikev: Bitahon, Fear, and Prudence (Revisited) (2026-07-28)

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  7. Va'eshanan: Keeping Body and Soul Together (2026-07-21)

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  8. Devarim: Exegesis and Exaggeration (2026-07-14)

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  9. Matos: Mud Not the Fountain that Gave Drink to Thee (2026-07-07)

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  10. Pinhas: Procreation and Parnassah (2026-06-30)

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  11. Hukas: Similia Similibus Curentur (2026-06-23)

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  12. Korah: The Sacred Service of Song (2026-06-16)

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  13. Shelah: People the World Could Not Do Without (2026-06-09)

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  14. Behaaloscha: Blowing Our Own Trumpets (2026-06-02)

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  15. Naso: Moral Dialetheism (2026-05-26)

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  16. Naso: The Benefit of the Doubt (2026-05-19)

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  17. Bamidbar: Numbers, Nefalim, and Neonatal Mortality (2026-05-12)

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  18. Behar: Legal Fictions (2026-05-05)

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  19. Emor: Nulla Poena Sine Lege Praevia (2026-04-28)

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  20. Aharei Mos: Kohanim and Kategorim (2026-04-21)

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  21. Metzora: Woe Unto the Wicked, Woe Unto His Neighbor (2026-04-14)

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  22. Shemini: The Hare, the Hyrax, and the Ham, and Their Homage of Hypocrisy (2026-03-29)

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  23. Tzav: As Night Follows Day (2026-03-22)

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  24. Vayikra: The Duty of Testimony (Revisited) - Costs, Consequences, and Commitments (2026-03-15)

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  25. Ki Sisa: Seeing Is Believing (2026-03-01)

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  26. Tetzaveh: Night Lights (2026-02-24)

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  27. Terumah: The Mystery Of the Missing Metal (2026-02-17)

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  28. Mishpatim: Double Jeopardy and Actual Innocence (2026-02-10)

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  29. Yisro: Taking the L-rd's Name In Vain (2026-02-03)

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  30. Beshalah: Testing, Testing (2026-01-27)

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  31. Bo: Friends, Egyptians, and Countrymen (2026-01-20)

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  32. Shemos-Vaeira: The Three Day Getaway (Revisited) (2026-01-13)

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  33. Shemos: You Are What You Eat (Or Drink) (2026-01-06)

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  34. Vayehi: Going Halfsies (2025-12-30)

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  35. Mikeitz-Vayigash: Danger! Danger! (2025-12-21)

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  36. Mikeitz: There Are No Perfectly Safe Courses (2025-12-16)

    In parashas Mikeitz, Judah responds to his father's concern for Benjamin's safety by saying: "Send the lad with me, and we will arise and go, that we may live, and not die, both we, and thou, and also our little ones." Many commentators explain this to mean that Judah was conceding the danger…

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  37. Vayeishev: The Great Compromisers (2025-12-09)

    In this class we discuss Judah's proposal to his brothers to sell Joseph rather than kill him. Our discussion involves two of our favorite themes: the question of the legitimacy of moral compromise when moral absolutism seems infeasible, and the moral ambiguity frequently present in Biblical...

  38. Vayishlah: A Woman's Place Is In The Home (2025-12-02)

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  39. Ki-Savo: The Sinfulness Of Smiting Secretly (2025-09-07)

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  40. Ki-Seitzei: Forestalling the Foretold Fall (2025-08-31)

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  41. Shoftim: Speaking For the Trees, For the Trees Have No Tongue (2025-08-24)

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  42. Korah: The Duty of De-escalation (2025-06-26)

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  43. Yisro: Well Qualified (2024-01-28)

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  44. Beshalah: A Date Which Will Live In Infamy (2024-01-25)

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  45. Bo: Spiritual Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy (2024-01-14)

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  46. Vaeira: Magic and Medicine (2024-01-11)

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  47. Shemos: The Nuremberg Defense (2023-12-31)

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  48. Vayehi: His Earth Atones For His People (2023-12-28)

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  49. Vayigash: A Sheep In Swine's Clothing (Revisited) (2023-12-21)

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  50. Mikeitz: Feeling Others' Pain (2023-12-14)

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ABOUT THIS SHOW

A weekly parashah lecture, focusing on a topic, generally halachic, relating to the parashah.This podcast is powered for free by Torahcasts. Start your own forever free Torah podcast today at https://torahcasts.com/sign-up/ and share your Torah with the world.

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Rabbi Yitzhak Grossman

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A weekly parashah lecture, focusing on a topic, generally halachic, relating to the parashah.This podcast is powered for free by Torahcasts. Start your own forever free Torah podcast today at https://torahcasts.com/sign-up/ and share your Torah with the world.

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