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Toldos: The Importance of Being able to Say, “I Don’t Know”

Toldos: The Fine Line Between Adapting the Mesorah and Violating It

Toldos: Developing an Independent Relationship with Hashem

Toldos: A Deceitful Truth

Tetzaveh: Who is Entitled to Intuit What Hashem Wants When it Doesn’t Explicitly Say Anywhere?

Tetzaveh: Make Room for Others to Lead

Tetzaveh: Knock Before you Enter

Tetzaveh: Hashem Loves a Pleasant Aroma

Tetzaveh: Do Clothes Make the Man?

Terumah: You Can Take Some of it With You

Terumah: Touch the Divine and Then Eat and Drink

Terumah: Answering Hashem’s Bid for Connection

Terumah: Always be Flexible Except When You Should be Rigid

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

Re’eh: Children of God and the Cancellation of Loans

Re’eh: Charity Begins At Home

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

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

Netzavim: The Rav’s Approach Transforming Ourselves With Teshuva

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: Dreams Do Come True

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: You Can’t Put God in a Box

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 Sisa: 13 Ways to Imitate God and Find Favor in His Eyes

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: The Only Real Segulla in the Torah

Ki Savo: The Greatest Blessing is Knowing you are Blessed

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

Eikev: The Singularity of Israel

Eikev: The Blessing of Forgetting