All Episodes

Acharei Mos/Kedoshim: Don't Bring the Times into Shul

Tazria/Metzora: The Real You is the Best Version of You

Vayakhel/Pekudei: The Value of Community and Kehilla

Ki Sisa: The Torah of the Broken Parts

Terumah: We Must Keep Some Things Private

Mishpatim: Hashem's Fingerprints in Nature

Yisro: The Power of Free Will

Beshalach: Sweeten the Bitter

Bo: The Story is Still Being Written

Va'eira: Deligitimize the Deligitimizers

Shemos: The "New Kings" of our Time

Vayigash: Confronting Antisemites with Malchus

Mikeitz/Chanuka: Dreamers and Integrators

Vayishlach: The Dual Dangers of Assimilation and Antisemitism

Toldos: The Grifters and Groypers are Nothing New

Chayei Sarah: How Much Initiative in Shidduchim?

Vayeira: No Such Thing as a Wasted Prayer

Lech Lecha: A Proper L'Chaim

Noach: Transform Yourself to Walk With Hashem

Nitzavim: He Will Throw You a Rope

Ki Seitzei: Living Baderech

Shoftim: Seen and Significant

Devarim: Be a Member of the Total Jewish People

Balak: Bilam (Bli Am) Was the First Grifter

Chukas: One Woman Sustained Millions of People

Korach: Non-Partisan

Shelach: Don't Make an Enemy of Hashem

Bamidbar: With Hashem's Help Can Carry the Load

Emor: Overcompensate with Kiddush Hashem

Shemini: Alcohol in Shul?

Tzav: Button Your Top Button

Vayikra: Hashem Wants Your Heart

Pekudei: Be Normal

Ki Sisa: Only With Unity

Tetzaveh: A Campus that Unites

Terumah: Be a BRS Builder

Yisro: No Identity Apart from the People

Bo: A People of Courage

Va'eira: Not Distant Relatives

Shemos: We Can't Survive the Galus if We Can't Allow Differences to Divide

Vayigash: Whose Derech?

Vayeishev: Shake It Off

Vayishlach: How Will You be Remembered?

Vayeitzei: Be the Ladder that Bridges Heaven and Earth

Toldos: Parents Love of Children

Vayeira: You See More with Your Eyes Closed

Lech Lecha: Daven with Empathy Not Just Sympathy

Netzavim/Vayeilech: The People of Eternity Will Win

Ki Savo: Confronting Mortality

Ki Seitzei: One Mitzvah Leads to Another

Shoftim: Responsibility of Leadership

Re'eh: You Choose

Eikev: The Definition of a Good Neighbor

Chukas: The Rebbe's Legacy

Behaalosecha: With God's Help

Bamidbar: Don't Erase Letters from the Torah

Behar: What's in Your Heart?

Emor: Know Your Greatness

Tazria: Jewish Time is Punctual

Shemini: Fake It Until You Make It

Tzav: The Fire Must Burn

Vayakhel: The Importance of Being Part of a Kehilla

Ki Sisa: Be on Fire

Terumah: Give Your Heart

Bo: Dress for the Job You Want

Shemos: Cry Out

Vayigash: Be an Angel

Vayishlach: Collective Punishment and Civilian Casualties

Chayei Sarah: Your Days Testify About You

Vayeira: The Work is on Your Shoulders

Noach: If it Hurts You Scream, Even if you Can't Help

Bereishis: Man Doesn't Need to be Told Don't Murder

Ha'azinu: Don't Neglect Amen!

Netzavim/Vayeilech: Standing Together

Ki Savo: Count Your Blessings

Va'eschanan: Judaism Wasn't Meant Just for the Jews

Devarim: We are all Judges

Matos-Masei: Above Board

Pinchas: Leadership

Bamidbar: Making Everyone Feel Counted

Emor: Extreme Personalities

Acharei Mos/Kedoshim: Getting Up

Tzav: Keep the Fire Going

Vayakhel/Pekudei: Subjective Shabbos

Ki Sisa: The Radiance From Privacy

Tetzaveh: He Always Hears Us

Mishpatim: It Makes a Difference to Hashem

Beshalach: Did Pharaoh Convert to Judaism?

Bo: The Holiest Place in the Jewish Community

Vaeira: Protesting to Hashem

Shemos: Connecting the Dots

Vayishlach: Diversification

Chayei Sarah: You Don't Have to Finish the Work but You Have to Start

Vayeira: Leave an Ethical Will

Netzavim: In Your Heart and Mouth

Ki Seitzei: Unapologetic Truth

Shoftim: If You are Disconnected You are Dead Even While Alive

Devarim: Say Abracadabra

Mattos/Masei: Kashering Ourselves

Pinchas: Standing Up for Hashem

Balak: Seeing and Hearing

Chukas: Kill Yourself Over It

Korach: Forget the Segulahs, Do This for Enormous Blessings in Your Life

Behaalosecha: Spiritual Ambition

Bamidbar: The Day You are Born and The Day You Find Out Why

Bechukosai: Torah That Makes You Not Hear is Not Torah

Behar: They Belong to Me

Kedoshim: Be Chashuv

Terumah: Introvert or Extrovert?

Yisro: A Line Out the Tent

Beshalach: The Long and Short Waze

Bo: Speak to the Heart

Vayigash: Respect The Derech of Others

Mikeitz/Chanukah: Is Beauty Vain or Valuable?

Vayeitzei: When He Feels Far Away, He is Closer Than Ever

Toldos: Digging Up the Potential

Chayei Sarah: Tribute to Rabbi Lord Sacks z"l

Lech Lecha: Hashem is Enough

Noach: Be a Mensch Before a Tzaddik

Your Head and Heart are Only As Good as Your Hands - Short Shmooze on Nitzavim

Ki Savo: A World of Gratitude

Re'eh: A Jew Need Fins and Scales

Eikev: The Secret to Happiness

Va'Eschanan: Don't Let Ego Stand in the Way

2018 Archive - Pinchas: Do You Have This Trait? It is the Most Important Quality to be a Successful Person

Balak: Do You See the World Like Yisro or Like Balak? - Archive 2018

Chukas: Momentarily Lapse of Faith

Korach: Taking Selfies

Shelach: Never Hopeless

Bamidbar: What's Your Brand?

Behar/Bechukosai: Rededicating After Devastation

Acharei Mos/Kedoshim: Also Being Sensitive to Hashem

Tazria/Metzora: Go Out to the People

Shemini: Surrender to a Higher Power

Tzav & Haggadah: Nothing is Beneath You

Vayikra: What the Real You Wants

Vayakhel/Pekudei: Where There is a Will

Tetzaveh: The Real You

Teruma: Absolute Value and Relative Value

Mishpatim: It Could Be You

Yisro: Eating With God

Beshalach: Celebrating Getting to the Other Side

Bo: Surrender and Submit

Va'eira: Knowing in the Heart

Shemos: Freedom From and Freedom To

Vayechi: Finding Closure

Mikeitz (Chanuka): Wake Up By Turning the Light On

Vayeishev: You are a Link in the Chain

Vayishlach: Maintaining Boundaries

Vayeitzei: Carving a Unique Relationship With Hashem

Ha'azinu: The Song of our Lives

Chukas/Balak: Religion Requires Submission

Korach: Don’t be on the Take, be on the Give

Shelach: Dust in the Wind

Behaalosecha: Are You Willing to Swim Upstream?

Naso: Wisdom From the South

Bamidbar: You Matter and You Make a Difference

Behar/Bechukosai: Faith and Finances

Emor: Kavod, Not Covid

Acharei Mos: Throw the Voice of Unworthiness Off a Cliff

Tzav/Shabbos HaGadol – Keep the Fire Burning

Vayikra: He is Calling You, Are You Listening?

Vayakhel/Pekudei: A Yid is Never Lazy

Terumah: This is the Only Thing You Can Take With You

Mishpatim: Authentic, Heartfelt Prayer Opens Doors

Beshalach: Song of the Soul

Va’eira: Why Did Moshe Have a Speech Impediment

Shemos: Not One in a Million, Unique

Vayechi: Hashem Is Our Best Friend

Vayigash: Staying True to Ourselves and Our Values

Mikeitz/Chanuka: Listening Before Speaking

Vayeishev: See the Closeness Between Us, Not the Distance

Vayishlach: It is Time for the Pendulum to Swing Back

Vayeitzei: How Far Apart Are the Real You and the Best Version of You?

Toldos: The Critical Role of Role Players in Judaism

Vayeira: Sarah Was in the Tent, Does That Make Her a Feminine Failure or a Success?

Lech Lecha: Are You Drawn to Happiness or Holiness?

Noach: Faith In Hashem & Faith in Ourselves

Nitzavim: Are You Standing Still or on the Move?

Ki Savo: Saying “It’s All Good” and Meaning It

Ki Seitzei: Is Your Word Your Bond?

Beha’alosecha: Praying for the Sick is Not a Favor, It is a Duty

Nasso: Coming Back From Infidelity

Behar: Using Our Struggles to Help Others

Kedoshim: Part Of, Not Apart From

Acharei Mos: Familiarity Breeds Contempt, How to Keep Life Fresh

Tzav: Keep the Fire Burning Inside You Always

Pekudei: Ayin Ha’Rah is Real and It Doesn’t Care About Your Red String

Vayikra: Doing Things Even When They Don’t Do Anything For Us

Pekudei (Slonimer Rebbe): Life is Made Up of Many Chapters, Twists and Turns

Vayakhel: Creating Community on Shabbos

Vayakheil (Slonimer): Shabbos is a Hard Reset for Our System

Ki Sisa (Slonimer): Making a Mistake is Forgivable, Not Feeling Ashamed and Guilty About it, Is Not

Terumah: Standing Upright

Mishpatim: The Best of Doctors are Going Straight to…

Mishpatim (Slonimer Rebbe): How is Your Relationship with Yourself?

Yisro (Slonimer Rebbe): The Sounds of Har Sinai Continue to Reverberate, Are You Listening?

Yisro: Paint a Picture So Our Children See Our Sounds

Beshalach: When the World is Cruel, At Least We Can Be Kind to One Another

Bo: Don’t Have a Farbisina Face Like Pharaoh, Show it is Geshmak to be a Yid!

Va’eira: Be a Subject, Not an Object

Shemos: To Hashem, Every One of Us is a Superstar

Shemos (Slonimer Rebbe): Redeem Yourself by Breaking the Busyness Cycle and Experiencing Serenity Now

Vayechi (Slonimer Rebbe): Which Should Dominate, Ahava or Yirah, Love or Fear?

Vayigash: Davening to Have a Good Davening

Mikeitz, Chanuka & Grandparenting: The Only Habit We Should Ever Have is Never Doing Things Out of Habit

Vayeishev: Strength Comes From Feeling You Aren’t Alone

Vayeishev (Slonimer): Transcend Your Nature and Be the Best You

Toldos (Slonimer Rebbe): What is the Greatest Beracha We Could Receive?

Vayishlach: Get in the Ring, Don’t Stand On the Side Watching

Chayei Sarah: Making All Our Days Equal

Vayeitzei: When You are Looking for Hashem, You Have Found Him

Vayeishev (Slonimer): Transcend Your Nature and Be the Best You

Vayeira: The License to Protest and Object to Hashem

Vayeira (Slonimer): Mesirus Nefesh vs. Mesirus Ha’Guf

Lech Lecha (Slonimer): Magen Avraham & Our Shield Too

Netzavim: Some Are Dead While Alive and Others are Alive Long after They Die

Ki Savo: Become a Real Jew Today

Ki Seitzei (Slonimer): How to Stay Strong in the Daily Grind

Ki Seitzei: Nothing Worse than an Ingrate

Ki Savo (Slonimer): Where are the Love and Affection?

Shoftim (Slonimer): Make Your Will Conform to His

Re’eh: The Unconditional Love of Our Father in Heaven

Re’eh (Slonimer Rebbe): Solve the Clues and Identify Your Unique Mission in Life

Eikev: Our Talents and Skills are Borrowed But Never Owned

Va’eschanan-Nachamu: Don’t Only Look How Far You Have to Go, See How Far You Have Come

Eikev (Slonimer): Davening and Learning are Hard, That’s Why They are Called Avodah

Shelach: Three Times a Day, The Meraglim Were Right

Beha’Alosecha: Spiritual Envy & Competitiveness

Tazria/Metzora: EGO = Edging God Out

Yisro: Who is a Jew?

Yisro: Are We Properly Educating Tomorrow’s Mothers?

Vayishlach: You Can’t Run from Your Destiny

Vayishlach: Yaakov Kept the Military Option on the Table, But Took the High Road

Vayishlach: Why Pray if God Has Already Answered?

Vayishlach: The Ethics of Collective Punishment

Vayikra: The Role of Sacrifice and Service in Relationships

Vayikra: Putting Salt on Our Bread

Vayikra: Maintaining Integrity

Vayikra: Common Courtesy with Common Sense

VaYigash: Yosef’s Catharsis

Vayigash: What Does it Mean to be a Goy Gadol, a Great Nation?

Vayigash: Stepping Out and Stepping Up

Vayigash: Shocked and Speechless

Vayigash: Perfection or Fallibility, the Jewish Archetype of Leadership

Vayigash: Brotherly Love

Vayigash: Achieving Immortality Through a Legacy

Vayigash: A Pedestrian Conversation or a Profound One?

Vayeitzei: Women of the Well

Vayeitzei: The Merit of a Good Work Ethic and An Honest Day’s Work

Vayeitzei: Infertility Etiquette

Vayeitzei: Finding God When He Feels Farthest Away

Vayeitzei: Cutting a Deal with the Almighty

Vayeishev: The Solution to Sinas Chinam Lies with YOU

Vayeira: Why Does Moshiach Come from a Salacious and Scandalous Past? The Daughters of Lot

Vayeira: Taking a Knee to Hashem

Vayeira: Religious Man Must Be Willing to Sacrifice

Vayeira: Look Forward, Not Backward to Begin Life Anew

Vayeira: Isolation vs. Integration

Vayeira: A Smile of Laughter or a Smile of Cynicism?

Vayeira: A Prerequisite to Forgiveness is Seeing Things Through the Other Person’s Eyes

Netzavim/Vayeilech: Change Begins With the Mouth, The Art of Confession

Vayechi: Zevulun and Yissachar, a Partnership in Heaven and on Earth

Vayechi: The Role of Grandparents

Vayechi: Strange Way of Showing Love

Vayechi: So Hard to Say Sorry

Vayechi: I am the Progeny of Yosef and Not Vulnerable to Ayin Harah

Vayakhel: The Origin of Cholent and the Mitzvah to Eat It

Vayakhel: A Person who Gives Generously, or a Generous Person?

Vayakhel: The Jewish Value of Community

Va’Eschanan: No Entitlements

Va’eira: Patience is not A virtue, it is THE root of all virtue

Terumah: Hide Your Innermost Feelings Behind the Curtain

Tazria: Two arrivals Into This World-Conception and Birth

Tazria/Metzora: Girl or Boy? Now you Can Choose, But Should You?

Noach: Somewhere Over the Rainbow

Shoftim: Wanting to Be Like All the Others

Shoftim: Pursue Righteousness With Righteousness

Shoftim: Are All Rabbis Created Equal?

Shemos: The Secret of Our Survival

Shemos: The Most Important Quality in a Leader…

Shemos: The Mitzvah to Answer When God Knocks (Aliyah)

Shemos: Take Off Your Shoes and Feel

Shemos: Identity Crisis

Shemos: And She Saw that Moshe was Good

Shemini: The Sound of Silence and Yom Ha’Shoah

Shemini: Imitation Yields Closeness

Shemini: A Divine Diet

Shelach: Were They Spies Like Us?

Shelach: The Argument that God Cannot Refuse

Shelach: Seeing With Imagination

Shelach: Just One Shabbos…

Shelach: Can One Violate God’s Will in Order to Promote God’s Will?

Re’eh: The Temptress In Each of Us

Re’eh: The Stuff Relationships Are Made Of

Re’eh: The Implicit Religious Integrity of a Jew

Vayakhel/Pekudei: Work is a Value, Not a Concession

Vayakhel/Pekudei: Winning While Coming in Last

Vayakhel/Pekudei: Is Exile a Geographic Description or a Metaphysical One?

Pekudei: Building the Temple in Us

Noach: The Iniquity of Uniformity, the Virtue of Unity

Netzavim/Vayeilech: A Reciprocal Relationship

Nasso: The Wonder of the Nazir

Nasso: Tapping into the Quintessential Blessing

Nasso: Seclusion, Infidelity and Suspicion

Mishpatim: The Pursuit of Justice in Court and in Everyday Life

Mishpatim: Opting in to a Relationship with Hashem

Mishpatim: How to Pick the Best Doctor

Mishpatim: God Roots for the Underdog

Mishpatim: Disconnect to Connect

Mishpatim: A Community of Fate and Destiny

Mikeitz: Why Did Yosef Antagonize His Brothers?

Mikeitz: Painful Things, Not Bad Things, Happen to Good People

Mikeitz: Like Dreamers, Live With Vision, Not Just Sight

Mikeitz: Don’t Bring a Problem Unless You Offer a Solution

Metzora: Rehab 101

Metzora: Living for Our Homes Rather Than Our Houses

Tazria/Metzora: Are Girls Twice as Good as Boys?

Tazria/Metzora: Addiction Intervention

Matos/Massei: Don’t Confuse Earning a Living with Living

Ma’asei: The Journey to Israel and What it Takes to Stay There

Lech Lecha: Yerushalayim, the Eternal, Undivided Capital of The Jewish People Since the Beginning of Time

Lech Lecha: Why Is Lot Drawn To Egypt and How Can We Finally Leave Egypt Behind?

Lech Lecha: Sarah, Hagar and the Wild Man

Lech Lecha: How to Make a Proper L’Chaim

Lech Lecha: Going from Superstition to Faith

Lech Lecha: Find Yourself and Your Unique Mission

Korach: The Anatomy of Machlokes and How to Dissolve It

Korach: Personal Autonomy vs. Centralized Authority

Korach: Bad Neighbors Are Not Necessarily Bad People

Ki Savo: Tochecha Out Loud

Ki Sisa & Purim: I’ll Drink to That

Ki Sisa: More than Jews have Kept Shabbos, Shabbos has Kept the Jews

Ki Sisa and Purim: The Virtue of Being a Stubborn Jew

Ki Seitzei: Respecting the Mother Bird and Respecting Motherhood

Ki Seitzei: Creating a Holy Camp

Ki Seitzei: Building a Fence Around Your Ambitions

Ki Seitzei: Are You a Statistical Anomaly?

Ki Seitzei: Be Incapable of Closing Your Eyes

Ki Savo: How to Achieve Mindfulness

Ki Savo: Confessing We Did Nothing Wrong is Admission We are Capable of Getting Things Right

Ki Savo: An Exercise in Humility and Appreciation

Kedoshim: Can’t We All Just Get Along

Kedoshim: Can One Really Love Another as Themselves?

Emor: Have You Made a Kiddush Hashem Yet Today?

Emor: Getting the Most Out of the Appointed Times

Eikev: Yiras Shamayim, Fear or Awe?

Eikev: Wearing Your Heart On Your Sleeve

Chayei Sarah: Adom and Chava Had No In-Laws

Bo: Layl Shimurim – One Enchanted Evening

Bo: Hello Darkness My Old Friend

Bo: Have the Courage and Conviction to be God’s Partner

Bo: Chesed Committee of Mitzrayim

Bo: Blinded by the Light of Hashem

Beshalach: Hey Mann, Taste This Miraculous Food

Behar: The Time Value of Money and Value of Time

Behar: Ona’ah- Aggravated Financial and Verbal Assault

Shemini: How Much Room for Creativity and Innovation is There in Judaism?

Bamidbar: Community Kollel- The Modern Tribe of Levi

Balak: Do You See the World Like Yisro or Like Balak?

Beha’Aloscha: The Difference Between a Complaint and a Complainer

Bamidbar: Valuing Diversity, Celebrating Unity

Bamidbar: You are Who You Identify With

Bechukosai: You Will Never be Disgusting to Me

Behar-Bechukosai: Why Shemitta Should Matter to You

Acharei-Mos: G-d Took us Out of Egypt, Now we Must Take Egypt Out of Ourselves

Bo: Start-Up Nation and Nation of Starters

Integrity = Integer = Whole: The Mishkan and its Measurements