All Episodes

LECH LECHA: Loot of Sedom--Strings Attached(YILC 11/4/22)

NOACH, the Birds, and the Elusive "EXIT" Command

BERESHIS: The Sun and Moon--A Strained Relationship

KI SAVO: The "Simchah" Factor--Service without Joy and "Tochachah"

ELUL, SHOFAR, and "CONFUSING" the SATAN

RE'EH: Tzedakah--Parameters for Optimal Fulfillment

RE'EH: The Truth about False Prophets

LAG BA'OMER: The Reincarnation of Rabbi Akiva & his 24,000 Students

EIKEV: Reward for Mitzvos in "Olam Hazeh"

VAESCHANAN: Justice & the Sins of our Parents

TISHA B'AV: The 10 Martyrs & the Sale of Yosef (Kinah 21)

TISHA B'AV: Reflections on "Eish Tukad B'Kirbi" (Kinah 31)

MATOS: Avenging Midyan & Tefilin--Elusive Association

MATOS: Residence in "Ever HaYarden"--Virtue OR Sin?

PINCHAS: Leadership Succession Planning--From Moshe to Yehoshua

CHUKAS: The Copper Snake--Rebellion, Healing & Regression

KORACH: Wisdom of Women

KORACH: Divisions & Divisiveness--Korach, Tzitzis & Mezuzah

SHELACH: Spies, Grapes & Purim

BEHAALOSCHA: Vayhi B'Nesoah Ha'Aron--Symbolic Meanings(6/21/24)

BEHAALOSCHA: Reversed Letter "NUNS"-- Separating Calamities

NASO: "Nazir"--Addressing the Dialectic

INSPIRATION: "High" Maintenance--How to Maintain Spiritual Highs (6/2/23)

BAMIDBAR/SHAVUOS: Torah & Material World -- Contradictory OR Complementary?

BEHAR: Shmitah Violations & "Galus"--Multifaced Connections

LAG BA'OMER: A Controversial Holiday?

PESACH SHENI: Back to the Future

KEDOSHIM: Commonalities with Aseres Hadibros

Month of IYAR: Embedded Mystical Meaning

LAB BA'OMER: Controversial Holiday? (5/5/23)

SHAVUOS: Sefirah as Preparation for Shavuos -- Perspective of Rav Dessler (LB, 4/18/23)

EMOR/SEFIRAS HA'OMER: Spiritual Significance of 49 (LB, 4/27/23)

EMOR/SEFIRAS HA'OMER: Every Day Counts and Counting Every Day (4/18/23)

PESACH: Synergy at Midnight -- "Dam Pesach" & "Dam Milah"

BESHALACH: Kryas Yam Suf--Unity, Individuality, and Yosef's Bones (4/11/23)

BO/PESACH: Reciting Le'Shem Yichud & Korban Pesach (4/3/23)

VAERA/HAGGADAH: 4 Cups of Wine--Why NOT a 5th Question? (3/31/23)

SHABBOS HAGADOL: What's in a Name? (3/28/23)

BO: Blood of the Korban Pesach & Blood of Bris Milah--Some Connections (3/24/23)

SHABBOS HAGADOL: Tapping into its Transformative Power (4/19/24)

BESHALACH: MIRIAM'S SONG -- Appreciating an "Unsung" Heroine

HA'CHODESH/BO: Lunar & Solar Calendars--Yaakov vs. Esav

PURIM/ZACHOR: Remembering "Amalek" -- How NOT to Be

TERUMAH: "Mishkan" & "Na'aseh V'Nishmah--Elusive Associations

TERUMAH:CLOUDS, JEWELS & the "MISHKAN"--Eternal Lessons (2/16/24)

PURIM: Eternity of Megilas Esther (3/11/22)

PURIM: Rejoicing in Adar (3/4/22)

PURIM: "Machtzis HaShekel"-- Bridging Purim & Pesach (2/25/22)

MISHPATIM: NA'ASEH V'NISHMA--Revelations about an "Angelic" Secret

YISRO: The Sinai Experience--"Seeing" the Sounds

BESHALACH: The "Oz" in "Oz Yoshir"--Gratitude and Tragedy

BO: Shedding Light on the Plague of Darkness

VAERA: Gratitude Toward "Inanimate" Objects?

SHEMOS: Moshe, Aharon, & Miriam -- Our Transformative Leaders

TU B'SHEVAT: A Pragmatic Metaphor

SHEMOS: Galus Mitzrayim--Punishment OR Opportunity?

VAYECHI: "CHESED VE'EMES"-- LITERAL AND MYSTICAL

VAYECHI: Yaakov Avinu & Rabbi Yehudah Ha'Nasi-- Linked Bridges to Eternity

VAYECHI: "Ayin Ho'Rah"--Mechanism & Antidotes

VAYIGASH: Success in Exile--Being "Unsettled"

CHANUKAH. SHABBOS, & ROSH CHODESH: Exponential Spiritual Opportunities

VAYESHEV/CHANUKAH: Yosef's Vision--A "Window" into Chanukah

VAYESHEV/CHANUKAH: Yosef as a "Shliach Mitzvah" & Chanukah Candles

VAYESHEV/CHANUKAH: Yosef's Pit, Reuven's "Dudoim" & Chanukah Candles

VAYISHLACH: Yaakov's Deferential Communication w/Esav--Justified?

VAYISHLACH: Wrestling w/Angels--Actualizing our Potential

VAYISHLACH: REVENGE in SHECHEM

VAYEITZEI: Reuven's "Dudoim"-- Unanticipated Eternal Consequences

TOLDOS: Deceit & Yaakov's Blessings--Sin, Virtue, or Virtuous Sin?

TOLDOS: Lying for Truth--Yaakov's Receipt of Berachos via Deception

CHAYEI SORAH: A Commonality Between Sorah & Esther--Numbers Count

CHAYEI SORAH: Was Sorah's Eulogy Cut Short?

CHAYEI SORAH: ELIEZER'S CONFLICT of INTEREST--UNRAVELING ULTERIOR MOTIVES ES

VAYERA: The "Akeidah"--What's in a Test?

VAYERA: Avrohom's "10 Tests" and their Eternal Impact

VAYERA: SECRETS of the MYSTERIOUS RAM of the "AKEIDAH"

VAYERA: Sorah's Laughter--"Serious" Lessons

LECH LECHA: Avrohom Avinu & Lot: Enigmatic Relationship

LECH LECHA: First "Bris"--Eternal Wisdom

NOACH: Surviving the Teivah & Encountering the Lion

BERESHIS: The Original Sin--Was it a "Sin"?

VAYEILECH/ROSH HASHANAH/YOM KIPPUR: Antidote to Self-Deception

ROSH HASHANAH:--Why Two Days? Mystical Perspectives

PARSHAS NITZAVIM as a BRIDGE to ROSH HASHANAH: The Individual & Collective

ROSH HA'SHANAH: Eating for a Good Year--Decoding the "Simanim"

SHOFTIM & CHODESH ELUL: What goes around comes around

SHOFTIM: Mystery of the "Eglah Arufah"--Culpability & Atonement

RE'EH: Aser Te'Aser--Tithing for Wealth

RE'EH: Giving with an "OPEN" Hand

EIKEV: FEARING HASHEM--AND WHOM ELSE?

VAETCHANAN-- "Shamor V'Zachor": Multi-Dimensions of Shabbos

VAETCHANAN/NACHAMU: Yearning for Redemption--The Rise & Fall of Yishmael

TISHAH B'AV: The Reincarnation of the Asarah Harugey Malchus

MASEI/BEIN HAMETZARIM: Rosh Chodesh AV--Aharon's Yortzeit

BEIN HAMETZARIM (3 Weeks): "Tamuz and Av"--Seeing Vs. Hearing

BEIN HAMETZARIM ("3 Weeks"): Gallus & Birchas HaTorah--An Elusive Connection

PINCHAS/BALAK: Reincarnations of Zimri, Pinchas, and Rabbi Akivah

BALAK--"Ba'al Peor": Contemporary Manifestation of Ancient Idolatry

CHUKAS: CALAMTIES and our DEPARTED ANCESTORS

CHUKAS "Speaking" to the Rock