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Almost Daily Jewish Wisdom at Beit Hamidrash of Woodland Hills — 2240 episodes
Shavuot
Shavuot
Omer Explained - R' Yaakov Joelson
Unity
Shemittah and G-d's Promise
R' Shimon bar Yochai zt"l
Rav Asher Weiss
Sadducees vs. Pharisees
Lucky 7
Freddy's Anniversary
One Day at a Time
Would You Choose to be Jewish?
Laws of Counting Omer
Priests and Cemeteries
Pesach Sheni Jews
Holy Holy Holy
M-T-M Fasts
The Count
Thou Shalt Not Steals (sic)
Limits
The Eyes Have It
Not Kosher!
Magic Pill
Put a Lid On It
Walk the Walk
She-he-chi-yanu
Mourning Has Broken
Something Fishy
Egyptian Lashon Harah
Last Day Candles
Making the Omer Count
Laws to Dew or Not to Dew
Laws of Tefillin on Chol Hamoed
Siyum for First Born
Passover Prep cont'd
Shemini
Pesach Laws
Mental Mindset
Shabbat Hagadol
Selling Chometz Legit?
Passover Prep
The Blessing for Trees
Once-a-Year Blessing
Trees
Shabbat Parah
Up for the Count
Shushan Purim
Kohain Garments cont'd
Kohain's Wardrobe IMO Akiva ben Hazan Yehuda
The Whole Megillah
Shabbos Cooking
Unicorns
Menorah Insight
I Drink Therefore I Am
Shabbos, Lashon Harah, and Terumah
An Altar with Alternate Names
Basket Case
Terumah
Shabbos Cooking and Kosher Speaking
Watchmen
Even More Rapping about Tefillin
Mishpatim
More rapping about tefillin.
Tefillin cont'd
Mishpatim
Holy Nation
Jethro's Humility
Kashrus Klass: What is Glatt?
7-Day Connection: Mourning and Holidays
Tefillin cont'd
Tefillin Good
Happy 21
Va'Yehi
More Tallis Talk
Tallis Talk cont'd
Fringe Benefits cont'd
He Said and He Did
First Step
Chazak
Hidden Blessings
Small Tallis cont'd
Bo Knows Holiness
Va'Era: The Storm Before the Calm
Potential
Shmuel Chaim ben Moshe z"l
Tallis cont'd
Big Tallis
The Order of the Plagues
Leadership
R' Avigdor Miller
Shemos: Right Here, Right Now
Code Names
Tzitzit
The Wolves of Fallbrook St.
Morning Blessings (after napping)
Morning Blessings cont'd
Rav Avigdor Miller on Shemos and Yetzer Harah
Joseph's Tears
Rabbi Eli Schochet z"l
Lashon Harah Day 59, Shabbos Day 53
Sima bas Yitzchok haLevy z"l
Lashon Harah Day 58, and Vayechi
Morning Blessings cont'd
Lashon Harah Day 57, Shabbos Day 51
New Leadership
Morning Blessings
Lashon Harah Day 54 and Shabbos Laws Day 50
Humble Piety
A Sharp Tongue
Tears of Joy
Fast 10th Tevet: A Snowball
Fighting Words
Wagons
Innocent Statement Taken Wrong Way
Bathroom Talk
Lashon Harah
Eternal Holidays
Powerful Endings
Everything for a Reason
Message from Biale Rebbe shlita
Dreams
Women Count
Fortune Favors the Bold (and Chanukah Candle #1)
Gaza Rains and Chanukah cont'd
Lights, Action...
No Rest for the Holy
Good or Bad Angel answered
Good or Bad Angel teaser
Lashon Harah and Shabbos - 3 minutes/day
Houses and Huts
Chanukah cont'd
Three Words
Lashon Harah Day 48 and Motzei Shabbos
Yakov Left
O Chanukah
Rebukes and Shabbos Learning
Jacob and Laban
Chanukah Lights
Three Types of Friends
Lashon Harah, Shabbos, Vayeitzei
Potty Talk cont'd
Yahrzeit of Tony Gordon z"l
Compare & Contrast
Miracles
Foreshadowing and Predictions
Well, Well, Well
Potty Talk cont'd
Potty Talk
Evil Esau
Sarah's Years
Bathroom Break
Honest Abe
Lashon Harah briefly
Cleanliness is Next to G-dliness
The Clothes Make the Man
Life of Sarah
In the Mirror
Abraham's Guests
Washing Machloket
Selicha
Visiting the Sick
Shabbos Day 32, Lashon Harah and Vayeira
Hand Washing
Rabbi Q&A
The Eyes Have It
Laws of Brachas
Bereishit
United We Soar
Proud to Be a Jew
How to Tell If You Bought a Lemon
Biblical Miracles Today
Speaking Ill of the Deceased, Cup Runneth Over, and This Day
Owners Wanted
Can't Make This Up
Yom Kippur Eve
Best Self
No Takebacks
Prep Time
The King is in the Field
Inner Joy
The Power of One Word
L'Chaim!
Too Tired to Sin
Roots of the Shul
Shofar and Does Prayer Work?
Rav Pam and Lashon HaTov
Shofar Elul 28, and Closer Than You Think
J for J
Resposibility cont'd
Shofar Elul 24
Shofar, Yet Sho Near
Control Center
Responsibility
Group Gossip and Kiddush Cup Half Full
Pay Now or Later
Secret Hits
Opportunity Rocks
Shofar Elul 21
Curses
Lashon Harah Allowed and Eating Before Shabbos Kiddush
Shofar 17 Elul
What is Evil?
Disrespecting a Rav
Infant Captive
Dust to Dust
He's Not Heavy, He's My Brother
Shofar Minchah Elul 14
Power in Numbers
Mother Bird
Amalek
Holy Water
Lashon Harah and Shabbos cont'd
Rebellious Son
Gratitude and Sparks of Holiness
Shofar Elul 9
Lashon Harah Day 15 and Jewish Escort Service
Shofar Elul 7 mincha
E.L.U.L.
Mezuzah, Joke, and Lashon Harah
Shoftim - Breastplate
Shofar Elul Day 4
Loshon Harah, Shabbos, and Exemptions
Lashon Harah, Shabbos Laws and Bruce Yahrzeit
Judges
Tithes
Lashon Harah Day 11
To the Moon and Back
Remembering the Destruction
Blessing or Curse
Character and Judgment
No Pity
Joy of Judgment
Oral Law and Bread of Shame
Elul cont'd
Elul
100 Blessings
For Getting
Heel Thyself
The Wisdom of Not Knowing
Tu b'Av and Longer Nights
Free Choice
Good Not Good Enough and Shabbos Candles
Grace
A Reason to Celebrate
Long Tehillim and Moshe's Longing for Eretz Yisrael
Death
Love
Adding & Subtracting cont'd
Adding and Subtracting
Lashon Harah Day 9 and Shabbos Day 16
Speech Therapy
The Voice of an Angel
Goy Vey
Gidon z"l
Reflections on 3 Weeks and Shema
Kamtza and bar Kamtza: A New View
What Would Socrates Say?
Lamentations - 9th of Av
It׳s a Wash
Honoring Parents
Shabbos Candles, Psychology, and Speaking in Front of Someone's Back
Actions and Reactions
Walking Dead
Customs and 9 Days Laws
Candles, Speech, Judging Fairly
Shabbat Chazon
Moshe's Final Speech
Why Chofetz Chaim Wrote His Magnum Opus
Free Will
Represent
Limiting Joy
Words of Appreciation
Shabbos-Rosh Chodesh
Campgrounds
9 Days cont'd
9 Days cont'd
9 Days
Think Before You Speak
Shabbos Day 11 and Lashon Harah
Let Them Eat Cake
Joshua's Best Trait
False Mezuzzahs / 9 Days / Early Cholent
One Word
Welcome Reb Abie and Two Lambs
Joshua's Semichah
Tisha b'Av and Pesach
Three Weeks, Three Haftarahs
Pinchas Lineage
Ancient Lottery
3 Weeks
Pinchas' Reward
Order of Honor
And the Band Played On...
Bilam's Blessings and Shabbos Laws Days 9 and 10
Pinchas the Hero
Bar Kamtza
Triple 7
Awakenings
Fast & Furious 2
Tough Love
Timing is Everything
Solid Ground
2 Books - Balak and Shabbos Laws
17th of Tammuz
Bilam
Fast & Furious
Germ of an Idea
Word Power
Baruch Hashem
Head and Heart
Amitai Returns and Other Miracles
Water from a Rock
Learning Leads to Doing
So Long, Rabbi Lorch / Hashem's Secret
The Ears Have It
Conversions (Fortuna Mazel bat Avraham)
First Cancelling
Datan and Aviram cont'd
Standup Kaddish and Korach's Questions
Datan and Aviram
For the Sake of Heaven
Korach's Party
Korach's POV
Daniella Chaya z"l and Wifely Advice
Hello
Korach's Blessing and Daniella Chaya z"l
G-d is Great
Fringe Benefits
Grasshoppers
Spiritual Army
Kitzur 4/3-6
Kitzur 4/1-2
Spies Like Us
Shabbos, Aaron Didn't Deviate, and All Can Be Kodesh
Sheltering in Place and Spy School Questions
Visiting the Sick and Honoring Shabbos
Spy School
Messages Received and Happy Father's Day
Tehillim for Tilim
Tehillim for Tilim
No Complaints
Power of Prayer i.e. Iran
Power of Speech
Aaron's Honor
Shabbos book introduction and Meat Misery
Mini Beit Knesset
Recalibration
Doubles on Shabbos, Pesach Sheni, and Yetzer Harah Defenses
12 Tribes
The Greatest Role
A Class Act
Levites
Tachanun Resumes Wednesday
All-Night Learning Preview
No Tachanun Explained
Chofetz Chaim Intro
Shavuot Schedule
Finishing Lashon Harah and Bamidbar Equity
Shavuot
Day 109 Speech and Shabbos Rest
To Hallel or Not Hallel
No Returns, No Exchanges
Words that Build
Like Water on a Rock
Like A Good Neighbor
Day 105 and Behar/Faith
Behar / Shemitta
Day 104 and Shmitta
Lag Ba'omer In-Depth
Lag Ba'omer
Appearances Matter
Day 103 - Grin and Bless It
Dream Interpretation
Kitzur 3/ 5-8
Kitzur 3/ 3-4
Kitzur 3/ 1-2
Bound for Greatness
All for the Sake of Heaven
Sensitive Speech and An Imperfect 10
Emor and Priestly Rules
Admin-trusive?
Pesach Sheni
Sensitive Speech
Consequences
Mr. Clean
Hello and Goodbye
Stories that Inspire
Stealing Sleep
Kitzur 2/ 9
Kitzur 2/ 7-8
Kitzur 2/ 5-6
Kitzur 2/ 3-4
Kitzur 2/ 1-2
Kiddush Hashem
Paint Misbehavin'
Entering the Holy of Holies
Talk is Not Cheap
The Eyes Have It
Levels of Holiness
Kitzur 1/ 6-7
Sleep cont'd and Tazria-Metzora
Kitzur Siman 1/ 5
Pillow Talk
Night Moves
The Middos Touch
Kitzur 1/3-4
Shema at Night
Lashon Harah and Tazria
Temple Tears
Why Bris Milah at 8 Days
Kitzur 1:1-2
Laws of Learning cont'd
Loshon Harah
Laws of Learning
Pesach Pizza
Chassidishe Bird
Jump to Conclusions at Your Own Risk
Hating the Baseless Hatred
Counting Omer
Torah Timing
This Dvar Torah Is a Mouthful
Every Jew Counts
The Search Begins
Pesach Hilchot Crumbs
Happy and Kosher Pesach
Maid to Order
Seder Tips
Rechilus and Children
Korbanot
Rechilut at Work
Pesach Schedule and Salt to Taste
Passover Prep
Day 90 - Laws of Lashon HaRah
Little Midrash Vayikra
Rechilus and "Accidental" Sin
Lotsa Matzah
Rechilus, Fast of First Born
Kashering Utensils
Pesach Mitzvahs
Golden Tabernacle
Three Names for Nissan
Constructive Tocheles
Mishkan
Photo Finished
Give or Take
Kashering for Pesach
Rechilus
Selling Chametz
3 People Rule and Beginnings
The Priestly Garments
Torah Dedication
Miraculous Unity
Shabbos Requires Trust
Shloshim for Hana-Sasha bat Dov HaLevi (Andrea Beard) a"h
Happy Purim
Golden Calf, Silver Shekels
Fast of Esther
Rechilus Lips Sink Ships
Half-Shekel, Full Heart
Oil or Nothing
What is Rechilut?
Purim vs. Yom Kippur
Rechilus vs. Lashon Harah
Tetzaveh
Priestly Garments
Zecher-Zecher
Amalek
Pomegranates
Direct vs. Indirect
Do Then Listen
Special Blessings 2 incl. Rainbow
Special Blessings cont'd
Two Heals
Blessings on Beauty
Lend an Ear
Blessings cont'd
No Match
2 Kinds of Laws
1st Mitzah at Sinai
Deceipt pt. 1
Deceipt pt. 2
Mountain Motivation
Justice
Blessed is the True Judge
Idol Blessings
Midrash: Matan Torah
Midrash: Preparing for Matan Torah
Chofetz Chaim: Marriage Warnings
Mount Sinai
Gratitude
Pharaoh Gives Chase
Blessings
Darkness
When Lashon Hara Isn't Lashon Hara
Unity is Golden
Spicy Talk
7 Steps to Constructive Speech
Halachah Matters: Oral Agreement
Food Blessings
After Blessings
Nazirs and Humility
Halachah Matters: Orphaned Amen
Chofetz Chaim: Photo Albums
3 Days
Lowly Bush
Longest Bentching
Halachah Matters: Changing Terms
Grace After Meals cont'd
Blessings Upon Waking
Halachah Matters: Changing Terms
Chofetz Chaim: The Full Picture
Heroes
Beasts of Burden
Quiet Miracles
Torah reading on fast days
Friday Fast
For Higher Purpose
Laws of Tzitzit
The Honest Truth
Swearing in the Torah
Baruch Hashem
Middle of the Night Issues
Halacha Matters: Damage to a Chair
What's Sweeter Than Revenge?
Patience is More than Just a Virtue
Warning: A Quick Kaddish Might Elevate Pigs
Positive Speech Can Light Fires
To Light or Be Lit?
Quiet and Self-Effacement
The "Miracle" of Chanukah
Chanukah Candle Lighting and Teshuvah
Orphaned Amen
Increase
Remembering Miracles and Forgetting Miseries
Chanukah Blessings
It All Adds Up
Just Enough Sleep
When Leaning Left is Better
Oil vs. Candles
Mirror, Mirror
Land Disputes
Sleep Suggestions
Bedtime cont'd
Bedtime Rituals
What's in a Name?
There's No Learning Without Earning
Leaving Choron
Announcing Change
Thanksyidishkeit
Fringe Rules cont'd: Cutting Corners
Chofetz Chaim Power of Groups
Fringe Rules cont'd (Thumbs Up)
Giving Is Receiving
Mincha-Arvit
Fringe Rules
Time Management
Yitzchok's Generations
It's All Relative
Cell Power
Mincha (running late)
Mincha cont'd
The Might of Mincha
Honoring Parents
Bows and Words
Crying Over Onions
The One with Old "Friends"
Power of Mincha
Blessings at the Zoo
Avram's Lashon Harah and the Blessing Over the Torah
Yitzchok: No Laughing Matter
A Window in the Ark
Halachah: When to spill water for the dead
The Power of Lulav/Etrog
Description of Sukkah
Visiting Sick
Lech Lecha
The Key to Kiruv
Holiday Energy
Fresh Start
Kissing Matzah
Symbolic Foods
Why No Tachanun
Holy of Holies
Two Tablets, Infinite Wonders
Tzom Gedalia
Fast of Gedalia: History Repeating
Selichos Introduction
100 Blasts
For Heaven's Sake
Selichos Day 1
Bring It
Why Would We Add or Subtract?
Do Not Add or Subtract
Battle On
Shofar Blow and Shofar Laws
Safe Speech and Handwashing
Waste Not, Want Not
E-L-U-L
The Smell Test
Kosher Signs and Lashon Hara
Fear
Tu b'Av concluded
Lashon Harah and Tu b'Av
Stealing Apples
Tisha b'Av Tefillin
Constructive Talk and Tisha b'Av
Moses' Rebuke
When to Correct
Life's Priority
7 Requirements to Speak Loshon Horah
Chofetz Chaim and Mishnah
Seeing is (Sometimes) Disbelieving
Divine Potches
Lashon Harah cont'd
Importance of Learning
Day 46 Lashon Harah Who to Rebuke, and Rabbi Shach
Priorities
Bathroom Break
Don't Intertwine Fingers
Clean Hands
When "Ditto" Doesn't Work
Who's in Charge?
Loshon Harah Rebuke and Halachic Misunderstandings
A-B-C-D
No Jealousy
The Struggle is a Blessing
Turn That Frown Upside-Down
40 Seems Excessive and Mishna (Mixing)
A Mother's Strength
Challah
Faith and Trust
No Room for Gloom
They Might Be Giants
Sparks Will Fly
No Opinions
True Alarm
Live in the Pleasant
Grain of Truth
Animal Nature
Lions and Tigers and Eagles and Deers, Oh My!
Listening to Gossip
Under Cover
Women and Wine
Learning Opportunities
Shavuot Meals cont'd
Say Cheese
One Mouth, Multiple Grains
Sweet Value of Torah
Hostage Rescue and Distractions
Shavuot cont'd
The Late Show
Shavuot
Holiday Guests
Value
Yom Tov
Torah & Tehillim and Curses
More on Psalms
Speaking Ill of the Dead
Psalms
With or With?
The "Root" of All Good
David & Goliath
Group Chats and Non-Kosher Wine
Miracles at Sinai
Sins
Receiving Torah
Fighting Words
We Will Do and We Will Hear
A Full & Complete Healing
Speaking Softly
Leading to Shavuot
Fair Warning
There Is A Mountain High Enough
The Movie
49 Days
Lashon Harah "Unobservant" and Halachah Lost Bag Contents Unknown
Shavuot
Yom Hashoah Perspective
On Top of It All
A Good Name
Everything is in the Seder
Which Honors Trump Honors (Not That Trump)
Pilgrimages Today
Siyyum for the Firstborn
Fast of the First Born
Chofetz Chayim: Allowable Negative Speech
Why Does Matzah Make Everyone Crackers? and Chofetz Chayim: Metzorah
Kosher for Pesach cont'd
Wi-Fi Woes and True Gossip
Kosher for Passover
Why Pray for Healing?
More Than Skin Deep
Born Imperfect
Buy Low, Sell High
The Price of Mitzvahs
Why Eight?
Shabbat Hagadol One Week from Tomorrow
Speech Control
First Nissan
A Hidden Message of Inspiration
Blessing Trees
Nissan cont'd
Lashon Harah Begins Again
Nissan Ultimate
Hidden Miracles
Selling Chametz
Guests
Pronunciations and Pronouncements
Spring: Father of 12
The Power of Speech and Public Speakers
Shushan Purim
Acts of Listening
Megillah cont'd (allowed interruptions)
Psalm 22
Megilla cont'd
Megillah Reading cont'd
Chofetz Chaim: Ambiguous Statements
Hearing the Megillah
A Day Like Purim
Chofetz Chaim: Something's Always Cooking
Two-Day Purim
Walled Cities
Fasts cont'd (6 out of 10)
Fast cont'd
Fast of Esther
The Upside-Down Side
Fire
Half-Shekel cont'd
Super Stars
9 Grams of Pure Silver
Half-Shekels Add Up
4 Parashas Before Pesach
Noach ~ Moshe
Half-Shekel, Fully Counted
Pronouncements and Pronunciations
Parsha Zachor and Amalek cont'd
Parsha Zachor and Amalek
Chofetz Chaim Day 3 and Halachah Matters: When an Apple is a Lemon
7th Adar
Loshon Harah and Halachah at a High Level
Pure Torah
Purim Kattan
Even Tempered
100 Blessings
Yarmulke
Chofetz Chayim Concludes and Halachah Matters (Cancelled Meeting)
The Clothes Make the Man
Chofetz Chayim - Pray
Just Say No
Kosher Gold
Put a Lid On It cont'd
The Cover Story
Moving Mountains in memory of Shmuel ben Chayim A"H
Humble, But Not Too Humble
Images and Idols
The Potential of Dust
Super Bowl vs. Shiurim (Plus Correcting the Performance of a Mitzvah)
When Adar Enters, Joy Increases
The Power of a Blessing
Shul Cleaners
Chofetz Chaim (the Painting) and Halachah Matters (Shabbos Dishes)
Shul Respect
Yitro Adds a Portion
Three Stones
Honoring the Shul Space cont'd
Respecting the Holy Place
Shul Expenses
Shul Donations cont'd (No Toasters)
Shul Donations
Chofetz Chayim: Five Stipulations
Midrash: Jethro
Whatever Happened to the Pharaoh?
Tu b'Shvat Today
Tu b'Shvat
There's No Business Like Shul Business
Shul Improvements
Cloud 6
House Rules cont'd
If You Build It, They Will Daven
Book Learning
Sefer Torah Laws cont'd (and other holy books)
Chofetz Chayim: Pointing Fingers at Fellow Jews
Patience, Grasshoppers
Torah Reading Laws cont'd (Kohain Mourner)
Sefer Torah Laws cont'd (Transporting)
Torah Reading Laws (cont'd) (Under Age and Blind)
Torah Reading Laws cont'd (Small Town?)
Why They Might Hate Us A Lot A Lot?
All About Candles (for Robert's Bday Shiur!)
What's in a Name?
Torah Reading Laws cont'd (Mistake Found?)
Torah Reading Laws cont'd (Aliyah blessings)
Torah Reading Laws cont'd
Torah Reading Laws
Little Midrash: A New King Arose
Chofetz Chaim: When Obligations Are Not Required
Any Last Requests?
Stand for Something, er, Everything
The Road to Rochel
Chofetz Chaim: Reporting
Food Blessings
Chofetz Chaim: When 3 os Fewer Than 3
Joseph's Perspective
Tenth of Tevet Fast Today
Chofetz Chaim - Days 93 and 94
Tenth Tevet/Yom Hashoah
Tenth of Tevet/In Retrospect cont'd
Chofetz Chaim: When Falsehood is Truth
Tenth of Tevet: Friday Fast
Cantillation Indication
Halachah Matters: Who Pays for the Vase?
Why Mishne is Silent on Hanukkah
8
42 Became 2
A Pearl of Wisdom
Joseph's Dream Interpreter
Chofetz Chayim: Revealing Secrets
What's Higher than a Tzaddik?
Why Joseph Kept Yakov in the Dark
The Tenth Woman
Chanukah cont'd. (Friday Night Lights)
Chanukah Laws cont'd (Using the Light)
Chanukah Laws cont'd (Converts, Order)
Chanukah Blessings
Candles on a Plane! / Chofetz Chayim
Chanukah Where to Light
Chanuka cont'd
Chanukah cont'd (Time of Lighting)
Chanuka cont'd (Placing the Chanukiyah)
Chanukah cont'd (Friday night)
Chanukah Laws cont'd (Oil)
Monumental Items and Chofetz Chayim "Exact Language"
Talmud Class: Chanukah
Your Presence is a Gift
Prayers for IDF, Captives, and Chanukah Laws cont'd
Glenn's Portion: Chayei Sarah
Chanukah cont'd (Children Lighting)
Chanukah Laws
Chofetz Chayim : Multi-Tasking
Dual Rewards
Chanukah Prep
Aliyahs to Torah
8 Days of Bris / Consulting a Gadol
The Priestly Order
Releasing the Bound
Torah Touch
The InVESTment Paid Off Big Time and Chofetz Chaim
Tefillin Shortage
Chofetz Chayim: Remembering Miriam
Chofetz Chayim: Flattery Will Get You Nowhere Good
Bitachon
Modesty
Chofetz Chaim and Stolen Objects for Sale
The Eyes Have It
Tehillim and Did G-d Speak Loshon Harah?
Jewish Pride
The Great Cover-Up
Glenn's Portion: Vayeira
Kitzur Shulchan Aruch - Ch. 2
Parasha Vayeira
Chofetz Chayim and Sheva Brachot
Make-up Prayers cont'd
Missed Tefillah
Kitzur Shulchan Aruch - Ch. 1
Midrash Rabbah - Vayeira
Parasha - Lech Lecha
318
Shield of Abraham/Kindness
Extra Prayers
Amen cont'd Child's Blessing
Amen
Kaddish cont'd Even the Young
Kaddish cont'd In Sync
Chofetz Chaim - Positivity
Crying Out
Double Thank-You
Kaddish cont'd No Talking
Lots of Strings Attached
Kaddish cont'd Stand or Sit
Chofetz Chaim: Ignorance No Excuse
Chofetz Chaim, Halachah and Midrash Noach
Glenn's Portion: Noach
Glenn's Portion: Breishis
Kaddish cont'd
Kaddish cont'd
Misplaced Mercy
Too Closed for Comfort
Kaddish cont'd
Why is the Kaddish in Aramaic?
Power of Avoiding Lashon Harah
Clean Hands, Pure Heart
Why? Or For What?
Close to Home
Leishev Basukkah
To Know
Hoshana Rabba
Taste and Scent
Unity
Ushpizin
Make the Whole Holy
The Wrong Door
Why Sit in the Sukkah?
One of the Toughest Mitzvahs
From Mitzvah to Mitzvah
For G-d's Sake!
With Joy
Surrounded by Light
Anytime Anywhere
The Measure of a Man
Joy
Preparing for the Holy of Holies
Why Fast?
Fly Like an Eagle
Shana Tova
Building Something Special
Chumrahs and Ha'azinu
The King is Close
10 Days of Return
The Eye of the Beholder
Judging Favorably
Glenn's Portion: Ha'azinu
Geulah
3 Parter: Shofar, Chofetz Chayim and Emor
10 Days of Teshuvah
Experiences
Technicalities
Getting to the Essence
Souls
Rosh Hashanah cont'd
Gifts
Rosh Hashanah cont'd
Glenn's Portion: Nitzavim-Vayelech
Shofar Sho Good
Personal Hurdles
Chofetz Chaim: The Match Game
Giving Thanks
Satisfaction
Gratitude from First Fruits
Rosh Hashanah cont'd
Rosh Hashanah cont'd (Sheep's Head)
Chofetz Chayim: Elections and Transactions
Rosh Hashanah cont'd
Houses and Other Nests
Rosh Hashanah cont'd
Rosh Hashanah cont'd
Rosh Hashanah
Mothers and Mother Birds
Neryah's Nuggets #1: Gems All Around
Shapiro's Birthday and Hashem's "Presence"
Elul
Individual vs. Collective
When It Rains It Pours
Shofar and Selichos cont'd
Selichot cont'd
Making the Effort & The Case of the Curious Curio Cabinet
Selichot
Laws of Elul
Chofetz Chaim: Contracting a Questionable Carpenter
Time to Pray
Aleinu
The Gift that Keeps on Giving
Tilting the Scale Before Rosh Hashanah
Cleanliness is Next To (and Required) for G-dliness
The Coming Distractions
The Joy of Prayer
All Your Hearts
Privilege to Pray
What's Higher than Truth?
Tu b'Av
Lend an Ear
Know Before Whom You Are Standing
Planes, Trains & Automobiles
How Can G-d Command Faith?
The Ultimate Helper
The Burning Continues
Why Did Moshe Want to Enter Eretz Yisrael?
No Pain, No Gain
The Jews׳ Mission Statement
Beasts and Burdens
Why Cry on Tisha b'Av?
Israeli Politics and Other Crocs
Tisha b'Av Schedule and Moving to Jerusalem
Tisha b'Av
No Mourning on Shabbat
Nine Days cont'd (Cold Showers)
Chofetz Chaim and Adar/Av
Nine Days cont'd (Haircuts and Clean Sheets)
Chofetz Chaim and Halachah Matters
Nine Days cont'd (Washing)
Listen Up
Chofetz Chayim: Patience
Succot in July
Nine Days cont'd (eating meat)
Nine Days cont'd
Nine Days: New Purchases
Chofetz Chaim: Jumping to Conclusions and (beginning new sefer) Halachah Matters
Laws of Month of Av
Prophecies Coming True
Pinchas and Entebbe
Chofetz Chaim: Back to the Basics
Pinchas the Zealot
Water from a Rock redux
Og
Dust and Ashes
Chofetz Chayim: Gossip Monger
Chukat: Why Was Hashem Angry at Moshe & Aharon?
Chofetz Chayim: The Wet Towel
Anger Management
Chofetz Chaim: Income
Red Cow Reasoning
Chofetz Chayim - Constructive Lashon Harah
Korach's Crew
Korach Politicking
Chofetz Chaim - Money Matters
Be Careful Who You Listen To
Hashem Picks Up the Tab
Taking the Gloves Off
Laws of Prayer cont'd
Bonus Vort: Speaking Good
All Quiet on the Jewish Front
Sun Up
Spies Like Us
Sing to Kids
Shema cont'd
Chofetz Chaim cont'd (7 Rules)
Graduation Beracha and Shema cont'd
Feeling Stuck?
The Longest Parasha
248
Shema cont'd
A Levy Without a Kohain
Shema.Yisroel: Hear Ye, Hear Ye
Turning Bitter to Better (or Give Peace a Chance)
Morning Service cont'd
The Troublemaker (Chofetz Chaim cont'd)
Never Give Up
Why No Tachanun Today?
10 Don't-Stand-Ments
Say Cheese!
When the Going Gets Tough
Shavuot cont'd
Moving the Mishkan (from Little Midrash Says)
Yom Yerushalayim
Eruv Tavshilin
Shavuot
Morning Blessings cont'd
144
Morning Prayers cont'd
Morning Tefillah Explained
Tefillin Check
Lag BaOmer
Guest Darshan
Focus
Pesach Sheni
Morning Blessings cont'd
The 4 Worlds in Prayer
Double: Chofetz Chaim and Aharon's Restraint
Manna in the Morning
Order
Steal vs. Kidnap
Words Like Crowns
Binding
Yom HaAtzmaut Unity
From Little to Giver
What's in a Name?
Hot Walls and Cold Walls
Pronunciation
Daily Weddings
Congregant Conduct
First to Arrive Last to Leave
Yom Ha'shoah
Possible Post-Passover Problems
New Year for Jews
Just Dew It
Celebrating an Enemy's Downfall
No Fault Sinning
Tefillin or Not Tefillin
Siyyum Pesach
Seek and You Might Find
Bill Frankel Z"L and Final Pesach Prep
Making a Grape Point
Preparation
The Betty Crocker and Other Mikvah Stories
The Imortance of the P
The Difference of One Letter
All About "Eve"
Pesach Prep cont'd
Burn Chametz Burn
Personal Miracles
Pesach Cleaning cont'd
Two-Parter: Chofetz Chaim and Pesach
Pesach Cleaning
Privilege or Burden?
Pesach Laws cont'd
Chofetz Chaim: Loshon Harah Cont'd
Passover Laws
Chofetz Chaim Daily: Loshon Harah
Lego My Legumes
From Chametz to Chametz and Dust to Dust
Wal-Mart
The Great Shabbat
Dolan Rising
Intentional Giving
Ups and Downs
Birkat Ha'elyonot: Blessing Trees
Gratitude and No Tachanun cont'd
Nissan (Pesach) Coming
Laws of Purim
Purim Mitzvahs
Drink Until You Don't Know the Difference
Being There with Bells On
Purim Shekalim
Megillah Reading
Purim cont'd
Purim Tzedakah
Rivkah Rochel bas Reb Chaim z"l
Purim Laws & Customs
Increase Joy
Guard Your Tongue and Your Rings
Terumah; Little Midrash
Bitul Torah
If and When
Driving with Tefillin
Laws Before Davening cont'd
Morning Rituals cont'd
Tefillin Wraps and Morning Rituals
Orphans & Widows
More Tefillin (2nd Pair)
Tefillin Placement
Tefillin Talk Not Quite Wrapped
Tefillin Wrap-Up
Tu b'Shvat New Year for Trees
Sea of Love
When the Tefillin Service Light Comes On
Beautifying the Mitzvah
Tefillin It Up
Big Tallis vs. Little Tallis
Tallis Talk
Different Ways to Serve
9th Plague Anger
String Theory cont'd
More on String Theory
Earthquakes and Tzitzit cont'd
Blessings with Strings Attached
Tallis Talk
A Powerful Lesson
Sharing is Caring
Wrapping Up the Laws of the Small Tallis
Chofetz Chaim cont'd
Small Tallis, Big Mitzvah
Fringe Benefits
Chofetz Chaim Day 173
Moshe and Lashon Harah
Morning Blessings cont'd
Sweetness of Torah
The Orphan
Morning Blessings Pt.2
Morning Blessings Pt.1
Jewish Retirement
Vayigash-Vayechi: Two Parashas or One
Morning Laws cont'd
Female Power
Morning Blessings
Opportunity Knocks
Intermittent Fasting
Work Worries
To Bless or Not to Bless
The Elephant in the Room
The Oath
Blessings and Bathrooms
Chofetz Chaim Day 161
Potty Talk cont'd
Early Arvit
Words Matter
Something to Not Think About
Potty Talk
Chofetz Chaim and Parashah
The Symbol of Chanukah (and Lighting the 8th Night)
Miracles Then or Now?
Publicizing the Miracle
Lighting in the Shul
Candles
Hanukkah Laws cont'd
Hanukkah Day 1
The Eyes Have It
Hannukah Laws cont'd
Hanukkah Laws cont'd
Hanukkah Laws cont'd
Beautifying the Mitzvah
Biale Rebbe
Candles
Growing Pleasures
Well, Well, Well...
Chofetz Chaim: Only Speak from Knowledge
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Womb with a View
From Honor to Horror
Take Two Tablets, Not One
More Than Kindness
Toilet Talk cont'd
Bathroom Talk
Inside Out
The Clothes Makes the Mensch
Why Party at a Bris?
One Hand Washes the Other
Tarzan in the Morning
Silence is a Virtue
The Powerball Test
When Is Stealing Okay?
Prayer of Thanks
Minyan Memories, the Power of Speech, and the Smallness of the World
Concentration pt. 2
Concentration
Order
Too Close for Comfort
Information/Transformation
The Box
Prayer Minimums
Connections
Chofetz Chaim (Habitual Sinners)
Praying It Forward
Chofetz Chaim (Don't Judge Unless You Can Walk in Their Shoes)
From Moshe to Our Moshe None Arose Like Moshe
The Daily Show
What Do You Do with an Etrog Now?
Shabbat Etrog
Sukkah Comfort
Sukkot Chol Hamoed
Owning It
Thank G-d for the Minyan
Yom Kippur cont'd
Yom Kippur
Chicken or Fish?
Last Call
The Pshat Heard 'Round the World
To the Power of 10
A King's Gift
Ten Days
Vows
One More Mitzvah
Rosh Hashana cont'd
Shofar and Chofetz Chaim
Shofar Practice
Opportunity Knocks Twice on Rosh Hashanah
The Source
No Sleeping with the Fishes
Serious Joy
Simanim
A Principal of Education
Who Shall Lead?
Mazel Tov, Bar Mitzvah!
Pronunciation Matters
Luck
Preparing for Rosh Hashanah
How Much is Too Much?
Yakov's sister z"l
Shofar and L'David Mizmor
Shofar and Selichot cont'd
Chofetz Chaim and R' Kaminetsky
Selichot cont'd (Derech Eretz)
Calling All Officers
Selichot cont'd
Selichot
Blessing or Curse (It's All in the Eye of the Beholder)
Teshuvah
Early Warning System
Elul: Like A Virgin
Chofetz Chaim: Stumbling Block in Marriage
Hear and Now
Satisfaction Not Guaranteed
Chofetz Chaim "Balance and Exaggeration"
Animal Courtesy
Quality and Quantity Control
Gidon z"l
Dignity
9 Days cont'd
What To Do Sabbath Mourning?
Meat You at the Siyyum!
Nice or Not Nice?
Jumping the Pupik
Decreased Joy
Chofetz Chaim cont'd "Bais Din"
Just Say Nein
Lest We Forget
Fast & Curious 2
Reality and Regularity
Fast & Curious
9th of Av
Old News
Temple Times
Kamtza and Bar Kamtza
Tefillin Check
Every Little Thing
Faith
Chofetz Chaim cont'd Teachers/Students
Hope
Chofetz Chaim cont'd "Day 59"
2 Shuls Unite by Marriage and Daily Prayer
No Middle Man
For Heaven's Sake
Tachanun Tip
Keep Moving Forward
Chofetz Chaim cont'd
Who Is Wise?
Powerful Speech
Leggo Your Ego
Moshe Weber
Daniella Chaya A"H
Spies Like Us (or When to Quit Wining)
G-d of Thunder (and Lightning)
Blowing Your Own Horn
Heavy Stuff with the Spies
What's in a Name?
Kvetch of the Day
Remember Miriam & The Benefits of Cheses
What Does G-d Want?
The Ultimate Partner
No Atheists in Delivery Rooms
No Atheists in Bunkers
When Your Best Is Good Enough
Chofetz Chaim Lashon Harah cont'd (Permitted Speech and Remembering What G-d Did to Miriam)
Resuming Tachanun
The Daily Worker
The Purpose of Life
Chofetz Chaim's Lashon Harah cont'd
It's Greek To Me
Two Day Jealousy
Shavuot Laws cont'd
Honey, Gold, and Water
Say Cheese (Then Say Meat)
What Children Want To Hear Above All Else
Tacha-none and Gossip Adjacent
Yom Yerushalayim on Sunday and Shavuot Laws cont'd
All Nighter
Shavuot Laws cont'd
Shavuot Laws cont'd
The Right to Agree and Disagree But Not Disrespect
Shavuot Laws
Earth Days
Lag B'Omer Fire
Shavuot Joy
Permitted Lashon Harah
Strengthening the Weeks
Pesach Sheni: Have To vs. Get To
Anticipation
The Four Names for Shavuot
Making the Count Count
Chofetz Chaim cont'd
Love Your Fellow
The Chofetz Chaim's Leniency
Mother's Day
Yom Ha'Atzmaut
The Honey and the Sting
Counting Continues
Jacob Weiner z"l
Take Your Pick
The 49 Steps
Evil Speech and Too Much Cologne (Chofetz Chaim and Parashat Hashavuah)
Counting the Omer
Days or Weeks?
Kemech Yashan
And the Sea Splits
What's in a Name?
Laws of Omer
Looking Forward
It's the Omer But Who's Counting
Inside/Outside
Siyyum
Slow Burn
Bill Frankel A"H (and Pesach Prep cont'd)
Meat Mafia
Final Pesach Prep
Salad Days
Spelt Check
Passover Prep cont'd
DIY Not?
No Tachanun
Pesach Laws cont'd
Searching for Chametz
The Dog and the Poison
Burn the Feather
Think Twice, Speak Once
Maid to Order
A Picture's Worth a Thousand Evil Words
The Secret to Avoiding Evil Speech
Keepin' It Clean
Chametz Brokers Recommend Sell
Haftarahs We Won't Be Reading Anytime Soon
Passover Prep cont'd and Happy Birthday Amitai
Journeys
A, B, and C-reation
Starting Fresh on Passover
Not Knowing Why
Next Year in Jerusalem
How the Haggadah Begins
Magic Portions
Seder Tips
The 12 Days of Nissan
Passover Dangers in the Food Aisle
R' Chaim Kanievsky ZT"L
Pesach Prep (and Bonus Vort: Where Does Hashem's Name Appear in the Megilla?)
Father of 12
More Megillah
Megillah cont'd
Blessed be Mordechai AND Cursed Be Haman
The Whole Megillah
When Outside is Inside
Fast of Esther
A Shtikel Shekel
Shabbat Zachor
Gimme Five
When Should a Bar Mitzvah Boy NOT Read Haftarah?
Retroactive Repair
Purim Portions
Dying to Read the Megilla?
Best Time for Rhinoplasty
When Adar Enters, Joy Increases
Wisdom, Insight, and Understanding Pt. 2 (Plus Purim in the Mishna Berurah)
Wisdom, Insight, Understanding Pt. 1
Shekels
Find the Good
Above and Beyond the Call of Duty
4 Parshios
Why Did Moshe Break the Tablets?
Judging Fairly
Find the Good
Mishna Berurah: 4 Parshios
Fresh Start
Where the Righteous Can't Stand
Slow to Judge
Give and Take and Give
Thicker Than Water
Let Bygones Be Bygones
Restraint
Make for Me a Sanctuary and I Will Dwell Within Them
Hear My Words
The Most Sinful Body Part
The Answer is Blowin' in the Wind
Dress for Success
1/60th
Mitzvah Meals
Meir Kahane z"l Michaela bas Shmuel A"H Annis Family
See Good
The Power of Learning
Reb Mix-A-Lot
Animal Kindness
Noble Over Nobel
Jethro Your Lot in with the Jewish People
Intent
All in Good Time
Anger Management
Tu b'Shvat New Year
The Roots of Tu b'Shvat
Hoping and Waiting
Go with the Flow
Mirror, Mirror on the Wall
Shmuel Chaim ben Moshe z"l
Tefillin It
The Rarest of Mitzvahs
The Great Tu b'Shvat Debate
Full Mitzvahs
Tzedakah
Fear of G-d
On Account of a Mitzvah
For the Hail of It
Is That Your Final Answer?
The Humanity of Moses
Happy New Year (For the Trees?)
Study Prep
Plagues pt 1
Exacting
What's In A Name?
Attitude of Gratitude
Silence is Wisdom
Clean Hands
3 Strikes
A New King
Psalm Power
Pay Day
Intro to the Talmud
Joy In Deed
The Middos of Midwives
What to Pray For
6, 60, 600,000
Affluenza
Beginnings
Power of Torah
Tipping the Scales
Yoseph the Tzaddik
10th of Tevet: The Fastest of Fasts
Just Do It
Feeding the Beast
The Crime of Punishment
Prep School
Hallel for the Nations
Group Lighting 8th Night and Why Praise War?
Coffee Talk and Something Smells Funny
Candle Reader
Three Sefer Torahs
Thansgivukkah Every Year
What's the Frequency?
Some Burning Questions
Hanukkah 1st Night
They Tried To Kill Us, They Failed, Let's Eat
Burning the Chanukiyah at Both Ends
Reed 'Em and Don't Weep
Not Oil of the Laws of Menorah Lighting (But Many of Them)
Hear This (Latest Time for Kriah Shema)
Hanukkah Gemarra
Blinded by the Light
Lighting It Up
Kiss of Death
Chanukah Prep
Moving On
Mussar cont'd
Mussar
And Jacob Left
With A Broken Heart
Know Your Audience
Mini Yom Kippur
An Early Chanukah Gift
Incorrect Corrections
"I" Lashes
Keeping Your Wits About You
For the Sake of Torah
What's in a Name?
The Life of Sarah (Tzipporah bat Yosef a"h)
Kindness Counts
Two Plus Two = 4ever
Showered with Blessings
100, 20, and 7
80 is the New 60
The Phone Call
Hidden Miracles pt. 1
Fringe Benefits
Humble Piety
Community Counts
Show Me the Mitzvahs!
Crime & Punishment
The Reward of a Mitzvah
Binding for All Generations
A Real Bargain
Avraham's 3rd Day
How Role Models Should Roll
A Lot of Tragedy
Abraham's Reward
Six Remembrances
Sistet Sarah
Movin' On
Payment Plan
A Full Heart Condition
Choose Your Battles
For Your Thoughts
Two Ways to Deal with Cold
Elevate the Herring
Out of this World
Speech Implants
Don't Be a Procrastinator (or Amateur-crastinator Either!)
Closets Full of Shoes
Promises, Promises
New Year
Where's the Good?
Fresh Start
The Best Thing
Sukkot is Over, Now What?
Spiritual Salvation
The Value of an Esrog
Mazel Tov, 1st Tefillin
Sukkot of Many Colors
3 Lessons from the 4 Kinds
A Whale of a Prayer
Yom Kippur Begins Tonight
On Yom Kippur, Don't Forget G-d
Yom Kippur
Want the Secret to Long Life? Don't Ask.
The Mitvah to Eat
Is Your Private Jet Taking You Up or Down?
But Who's Counting?
Shabbat Shuvah
The Difference Between a Judge and a King
Deep Impact
Rosh Hashanah Begins Tonight
Choose Life
Shofar, Unity
Shofar, and Steal Every Moment
Shofar, and Rosh Hashanah
Shofar, and Creation
Shofar and Humility Before the King
Shofar, and Rosh Hashanah Joy
A Tree Grows in Woodland Hills
Shofar, and Early Converts
Anticipation
Shofar, and Nitzavim
Shofar, Selichos Thanks, and Value of Torah Study
Shofar, and Tithe
Shofar, and Joy of Bikkurim
Farming Advice
Shofar, and Levi'im
The Stories Being Written
Shofar, and When You Conquer the Land
Shofar, Hagbah Humor
Why Amalek?
Shofar, and Decrees
Shofar, and Sweet Foods
Shofar, Rosh Hashanah Laws
All for One and One for All
Shofar, One Month Away
Shofar, and Selichot
Shofar, and Selichot
Judges & Police
Shofar, and Search
Judgment and Gratitude
Shofar Blast, and an Hour in the King's Treasury
The King is in the Field
Shofar Blasts Begin, Add Mitzvot, and Tzedakah Especially
For Love or Fear
E.L.U.L. (Judgment and Tzedakah)
Outreach
A Half Cup of Coffee and a Cookie (Dairy?)
Sharpening the Rabbi
10,000 Kids
Rules to Loaf By
Teaching Girls Torah
Why Only Abraham Gets Shielded
Honoring (and Dishonoring) Your Father
Motive: Love, Fear, and Stinky Fish
Teach the Children
Sing a New Song
Fear of Heaven?
Breaking the Glass
Keep the Faith
98% Simcha
The Praying Bear
6 Weeks Away
248
Tu b'Av cont'd and Menachem Av
Are Tu b'Av and Yom Kippur Related?
Tu b'Av
Do Not Add or Subtract
Tu b'Av
Consolation Wanted (and a plumber wouldn't hurt)
Eliyahu Gidon ben Masoud z"l
Shabbat of Consolation
The Shofars and the Feathers
9 Days cont'd
Split Seconds
9 Days cont'd
Anger Mismanagement
9 Days cont'd
Laws of Tisha b'Av After Shabbos
How to Get Rich
Aharon HaKohen's Yahrzeit
3 Weeks cont'd
3 Weeks cont'd
3 Weeks
Vows
More Fast Info
Bold Like a Leopard
Fasts for the Curious Pt. II
The Price of Honor
Fasts cont'd
About the Fasts cont'd
Why Hashem Chose Joshua
The Fasts for the Curious
Pinning Down Pinchas
Tisha b'Av: Fast or Feast?
17th of Tamuz
What Are We Fasting For?
Rabbi Akiva
Mussar: Slices of Piety
Little By Little Makes A Lot
The Jew Makes Kiddush, Or the Gentile Makes Havdallah
How the Blind Can See
Tzedakah Begins at Home
Studying Halachot cont'd
The Distance Between the Head and the Heart
Famine for Torah
The Bite of Covid
Make Hishtadlut (Personal Effort)
The Clothes Make the Man
How to Be an Influencer
When the Cup Runneth Under
Hashem's Math
When Enough Isn't Enough
Relevant Questions
An Imperfect Ten
The Greatest Impurity
Forty
Torah After Dark
Fringe Benefits
The.Three Crowns
Laws of Learning cont'd
Paved with Good Intentions
Laws of Learning
A Giant Misunderstanding
Be'Halotecha
Kosher Whine
Preparing for the Future
Talmud Torah K'Neged Kulam
The Quiet Place
Gratitude and Satisfaction
Time to Study
Outreach Within Reach
Extra Credit
The Miracle of Torah
Pirkei Avot: Without Torah
The Fix is In
Quarters or Thirds
Identity
The Three Questions
The Collective
Learning Continues
Excitement
Shavuot and Lights
Shavuot for Every Body
Dedication
Unity
Shavuot: Spread the Joy (and the Cheese)
Counting Up
Hallel on Yom Yerushalayim
Reflecting on Yom Yerushalayim
Heartfelt Devotion
Adding Beauty and Joy for Shavuot
Sefirah Spheres
"To Heal 'Em"
Ruth
When We Stumble
Shavuot and Bringing the Seven Fruits
It's About Time
Shavuot
Meron
When A Tzaddik Leaves Town
Lag Ba'Omer
A Date with Destiny
Spirit of the Omer
Kemech Yashan
Lag Ba'Omer
Priestly Puzzles (or Kohain Conundrums)
Second Chances
Pesach Sheni
Mosdot Kinyan Yosef
Giving Without Borders
Lean On Your Brother to Hold Everyone Up
Pledging and Paying
A Good Friend
Birds and Blood
A Word About Dr. Mark and the Power of a Minyan
After the Death
The Right Path
Lashon Harah
The Tsouris Without Tza'arat
Shema Yisrael Project and Gaining Merit
Delaying a Mitzvah
Yom Ha'Atzmaut and Gratitude
The Opposite of Gossip
Hashem Is Always Watching
Where's Mt. Sinai?
Gates of Heaven
It's the Omer, But Who's Counting?
Visiting the Sick
Kashrut and Kindness
Give Credit Where Credit Is Due (in memory of the 6 million on Shoah Remembrance Day)
Power of Prayer
From Strength to Strength
When You Know, You Know
An Earth-Shaking Vort
Anticipation
Final Days of Pesach
Answers to the Seventh of Pesach Questions
Chol HaMoed
7th of Pesach Questions
How to Save a Bracha
Haman on Pesach?
Final Pesach Prep
As If
Burning Chametz
Seder
The Grate Horseradish
Fast of First Born
Chametz Search
Consistency
Kosher Cars
Search for Chametz
When Friday "Rolls" Into Pesach
Getting Rid of Chametz
Egg Matzah
Pesach Kashering
Pesach Q&A
Pesach Prep
Bread Dilemna
Kashering cont'd
Kosher l'Pesach
Kashering for Pesach
Do Your Part
Shabbat Hagadol
Freedom from the Yetzer Harah
Blessings Uplift Souls
Never Too Late
Blessing the Trees
Intention
Pure Gold
Some Purim Laws
Megillah
Walled Cities
Purim
Fast of Esther
The Price to be a Jew
30 Million Shekels
E for Effort
Purim Mitzvah
Shabbat Zachor
Steak and Eggs
1 in a 1000
The Healing Before the Ailing
The Raish
The Diamond in the Rough
Long-Winded
Women and Amalek
Going to the Dogs
Long Memories
The Truth Isn't Out There (It's Right Here)
Shabbat Shekalim
Hashem is in the Details
8-Bucks
Three Torahs
Superbowl Drash
The "Tenth" Commandment
Strictly Speaking
Flying to a Bris and The Case of the Inedible Bread
Israel Connection
Torah Minds
When You Know You Know
Off the Path
All or Nothing
Powerful Forces
Four Steps
Gift of Faith
A Question of Tzedakah
Unanswered Prayers
Fruits and Roots
Yael
Men of Valor
Tu b'Shvat
Word Power
The Strongest Link
What's in a Name?
The Tree of Knowledge and Learning
Thinking Outside the Box(es)
Be a Man
Torah Depths
The Reluctant Leader
The Rabbi's Maserati and Lamborghini
Here Comes the Judge
See the Good
Cooking Coffee (conclusion)
What the Hail?!
With Great Responsibility Comes Great Power
What's So Funny?
All Rise
Perfect Vision
The Cost of an Education
Now We're Cooking cont'd
Where Are You Holding (Back)
Now We're Cookin' (Or Not)
Soleful Gratitude
Powerball
Food for Thought
Tests
Rebuke
Wine or Wine Not?
Review, Prep, Review, then Teach
The Rabbi's Caravan
Proud But Not Too Loud
Refuah Shlema (Rabbi Briskey)
Modesty
Henry's Back and It's 12/31 (or Is It December 31st?)
The Power of Prayer
Thought Before Action and Illness Before Death
Balance and Order
Blessing Ephraim and Menasheh
Why is "Modim d'Rabbanan" So Important?
Roughing It
Thunder and Lightning
Hope
When We Argue
Fasting 10th of Tevet
Suddenly
What's Your Purpose?
Not to Embarrass
Spreading the Wealth
Freaky Friday
Gam Zu l'Tov (The Good in All Things)
Connections and the Benefits of Staying Connected (Two Parts)
Friday Fast
Hide and Seek
How G-d Keeps Us Interested
Chazak u'Baruch to All
Hanukkah Lighting and 30 Minutes of Freedom (from the phone)
After Burners
Forget Me Not
Hanukkah Rosh Chodesh
Lighting the Hannukiyah in the Shul
The "Rest" of the Story
Why Do We Light?
Start Times and Stop Times
War - What is it Good For?
Shabbos Chanukah Laws
Chanukah Lights and Laws
Tonight is the Night for the First Light
After Lighting
Blessings that Baffle
Blessings of Chanukah cont'd
Shechiyanu on Menorah
The Disconnect Connection (Vayishlach and Chanukah)
Chanuka Laws cont'd
Chanukah Laws cont'd
Let It Rain (Beginning Sat. Night)
Where to Place the Chanukah Menora
And Dust to Dust
Another Conflict Between the Left and Right
Yakov or Yisrael
Is an Electric Hanukiyah the Right Light?
Three Sacrifices
Chanukah Lights cont'd
Perfect Angels
Why is the Temple in Jerusalem and Not on Mount Sinai?
Repeat Blessings (Tallis and Tefillin)
Light It Up
Tefillin at Mincha?
Lights, Chanukah, Action
Ulterior Motives
Oh Chanukah O Hanukkah
Origin of "Shiddach"
Potential
The Message of Coffee
Consistency is Key
Judge Beware
Payments On Time
Everything's in the Torah
The King and the President
Torah Anytime
X-Ray Vision
See for Yourself
Window vs. Gem
What's in a Name
Nothing Compares to the Original
Know to Whom You Speak
Leafy Me Alone, You Bug Me
Teach and Do
Know From Whence You Speak
Perfect Angels
Adam's Towering Mistake
To Mar, Oh!
A Loan is Never Alone
Judging Judges
No Tachanun
All-Nighter
Tipping the Scales
Standing Rules
How Are You Holding?
The King's Speech
Quick Tip : Eating Without a Sukkah
Are You Tefillin It?
Challah in the Sukkah
Holding Your Own
The Real Deal
Who Has the Time (To Sin)?
Raisins D'etre
Eat, Eat, Eat
Shabbat Shuvah
The Where
Bigger and Better
Royal Highness
Gratitude
33
Fast of Gedalia
Take It Up a Notch
Storm the Heavens
At Your Service
Shofar and Difficult Mitzvahs
Hilchot Shofar
Hashem's Accounting Firm
Write Yourself a Song
Shofar and Symbolic Foods
Pink Duct Tape
Shofar and Final Words
9/11 and the Four Days of Korban
Why So Many Symbolic Foods?
Shofar and Unity
Shofar and Last Call
Selichos Halacha < 10
Shofar and the 6th Constant Mitzvah
Acts of G-d
Shofar and Gratitude
Shofar and The Problems with Re"tiring"
Shofar and Bug Alerts
2 More Out of 6 Constant Mitzvos
3 of 6 Constant Mitzvahs
Dignity
Gratitude
98 Curses
Shofar and Wayward Son
Mazel Tov, Racheli Vann
High Holy Prayer Leader
Showing Up in PJs
Shofar and Mitzvahs Bein Adam l'Chavero
One Shofar and One Voice
One More Mitzvah
What We Can Learn from War
Substance over Speed
Prepare for Judgment
A Good Eye
Shofar and Psalm L'David Hashem
Wake Up Call cont'd
Getting Woke (Elul's Coming)
Holy Speech
Pay Now, or Pay Later
In Memory of Rabbi Safrinovich (z"l)
How Does Prayer Work?
What Comes Around Goes Around
Learn to Do
Blessing or Curse
Keeping Hands Clean
Nourishment
Fixing
Raising the Righteous
Elul is Close
Why Only Three Aliyahs on Mon/Thu?
Shalom Bayis Fund
Haftarah cont'd
Educated Choices
Half a Torah?
Mitzvahs Light
True Love
Happy Tu b'Av
In Memory of Gidon Ganot ZL
By Hook or by Crook
Bar Mitzvah!
The Opposite of Love (It's Not What You Think)
Free
New Shoes for Moshiach
Power of Peace
Tisha b'Av Laws & Customs
Who Misses the Diamond Most of All?
Tisha b'Av cont'd
Why is an Egg at the Meal Before Tisha b'Av?
9 Av Approaches
Torah Study = Joy
Three Gates
To Err is Human
Tisha B'Av Longing
Power of Speech
Oh, Nuts!
Good News
B'Ezrat Hashem
3 Weeks v. 9 Days
The Most Important Verse
Man Plans...
Three Weeks, Three Hundred Laws
Emunah Armaggedon
E for Effort
No Excuses
Pinchas
The Best Psalm
5 for 5
When Something Seems Fishy
Fast Cars and Faster Justice
Tzitzit cont'd (cornered)
A for Effort
Tzitzit Cont'd
Chukat
Wedding Day and Yom Kippur
Is Stiff-Necked a Positive Trait?
On the Fringes
For the Sake of Heaven
3-Second Rule
The Issue with Herbs
Korach and Cornell and BLM
An Imperfect 10
You Say You Want a Revolution?
Lucky 7
Moon vs. Sun
Forgot Rosh Chodesh
Late for Hallel
Balance the Rod and Raise the Child
Intent
Sit on the Fence and Get Splinters
Authority
Remembering Freddie's Mom z"l on Purim
Megillah and Microphones
Megillah Readers
Purim Mitzvot
Generous Hearts
Sacrifices
Shekel and (Don't) Hide
Purim's 4 Mitzvot
The Arrow
Doing the Right Thing
Hard Times
The Children of Israel (and Galut)
Corrections
We Will Do and We Will Understand
Prayer for the Government
Above and Beyond
Taking a Stand
Pay Now or Pay Later
Why Amalek
Tu Bshvat
Miriam's Song of Gratitude
BS"D With Help from Heaven
The Antidote
The Trouble with Secrets
10 Plagues with 10-10 at Halftime
Gaon of Vilna
Can I Get an Amen
How to Love Hashem
Early to Bed, Early Torahs
Wash, Rinse, Repeat
Preemptive Moves
Be Prepared, Be Very Prepared
Behavior Before Prayer
Why the Plagues
A Good Shabbos
The Last Straw
Pay Attention Now, Avoid Real Costs Later
Timing is Everything
Clear and Present Requesting
The Greatest Blessing or Heads Will Roll
Mourning Has Broken
Intermarriage and Conversion
Why Fast?
Fast 10th of Tevet
B'Simcha
Credit Check
Foiled Again, Baruch Hashem
A Good Eye
Lowering and Lifting
8th Day
Three Torah Scrolls
Why Menorah?
Chanukah Laws cont'd
Chanukah Laws cont'd
Chanukkah Laws cont'd
Hanukkah Candle 2nd Night
Smell of Success
Hanukkah Candle Blessings Night One
Love One Another and Trust in One
Timing Is Everything
Hanukkah Like Real Estate: Location, Location, Location
The Miracle of Oil (Menorah Kits)
Yud Tes Kuslev: Ahavat Yisrael
Hannukah cont'd Roommates etc.
The Lighter's Side of Hanukkah
One Menorah or Many?
Chanukah cont'd
Chanu-kah and Modest Beginnings
Burial
How to Buke and Rebuke
Perfection Not Required
Who Is Wise? He Who Learns From Everyone
How Did Yakov Not Know?
Extended Due Date
Thanks
Israel: It's Your Move
The Best and the Rest
Support Your Local Tzaddik
Quid Pro Torah
All for the Sake of Heaven
The Sense of Nonsense
See Something, Say Something (Maybe Later)
Sweetness
The Merit of Learning
Danger of Anger
Learning Always Includes Earning
Enter Strategy
Say Little and Do Much
See No Evil
The Good, the Bad, and the Gematria
The True Order
Hair of Tefillin
Jewel in the Crown
Food for Thought
Havdallah Will Travel
Be Present, It's A Gift
Give with a Smile
Name That Name
Punishments that Fit the Crime
With Beginnings
Succos Laws UPDATED
Succos Laws
Why No Tachanun?
From Higher to Higher
Meaningful Fast
Who Is Rich?
The Parker Pen Incident
Forgiveness
It All Adds Up
10 Days of Repentance
Rosh Hashanah cont'd
Rosh Hashanah cont'd
Rosh Hashanah cont'd
Rosh Hashanah Laws cont'd
Tashlich
Grandma Rochel zt"l
Rosh Hashanah Services
Have an Awe Full Rosh Hashanah
Rosh Hashanah Preparations
Rosh Hashana laws cont'd
Rosh Hashanah laws and customs
Sharing is Much More than Caring
Selichot
When the Shofar Can Cause a Sin
9-11 The Bitter and the Sweet
The Shofar Can Only Take You Shofar...
Wake Up Call
Here Come Da Judge
Connections
Subpoenaed by the Highest Court
Lawyer Up
The Price of Marriage
Judges and Police
Not in Heaven
Look Who's Listening
Elul and Preparing for Yamim Noraim
Accounting 101
2 Letters and 1 King
Inactive Shooters
The Spies of Elul
The Spoon
Happy Bday, Alan, from LeBron
Kaddish Question and Tzedakah Tip
Altar-ed States
Proper Behavior
Who is Listening?
The Feast Before Us
Influence for the Good
Mixing and Mothers
Coveting Friend's Wife is Different
All Creatures Great and Small
Emunah cont'd