All Episodes

Parshat Vayakhel-Pekudei: Am Yisrael Chai in Practice: The Ancient & Modern-Day Doorposts of Redemption & Protection

Parshat Beshalach - Make Like a Tree: The Most Important Lesson Am Yisrael Ever Learned from Then Until Today

Parshat Va’era - We Need Your Tefillah!: How an Old-School Song Still Resonates Redemptively to This Day

Parshat Shemot - Choosing the Path NOT Paved in Gold

Parshat Vayigash - A Revealing Revelation: God Loves Us…No Matter What!

Learning to Listen Like Avraham Avinu - The Short Vort for Parshat Vayera w/ RNK

“Am I My Brother’s Keeper?”: The Sacred Pledge That Animates Am Yisrael To This Very Day

Parshat Nitzavim - You’ve Got This!: Maximizing Man’s Capacity for Change

Parshat Re’eh w/ RNK - It’s All about Effort: Moshe’s Directive to Attaining Difficult Goals

Parshat Shemini - Ain Milim: Being Present…When There Are No Words

Parshat Pekudei/HaChodesh - Testifying That We Follow Hashem Through The Mishkan

Parshat Tetzaveh/Zachor - Giving Credit Where Credit is Due: The Key to Defeating Amalek

Parshas Terumah - The Bibas Aron: Holy & Precious Cherubs that Protect What is Most Precious to All of Us

Parshat Mishpatim - Giving Voice For Those Who Cannot

Parshat Yitro - Imagining God: What Does He Look like To You?

Parshat Beshalach - From Bitter to Better: Pushing Through the Challenging Times to Reach Better Ones w/ Reb Ariel

Parshat Bo w/ RNK: "The Power of Ritual: From the Night Before Yetziat Mitzrayim to Agam Berger

Parshat Vaera - Fire & Ice: Reconciling the Conflicting Feelings Within Am Yisrael During These Challenging Times

Parshat Shemot - Opening Moshe’s Basket: The Moment Pharaoh’s Daughter Realized Her Father Was Wrong?

Parshat Vayechi - Let Me Tell You What Redemption Looks Like: Tasting the Light of Mashiach Together!

Parshat Miketz & Shabbat Chanukah - Writing Ourselves into the Annals of Jewish History & Jewish Destiny: Lessons from Yosef & Chanukah

Parshat Vayigash - Being Sensitive to the Dignity of Others Like Yosef HaTzadik

Parshat Vayishlach - Your Name Will Be Yisrael: The Pride & Privilege of Being Called a Jew

Parshat Vayetze - Climbing Our Ladder with Confidence - The Short Vort for Parshat Vayetze w/ RNK

Parshat Toldot - All In the Family: Extending Our Blessings to Everyone!

Parshat Chayei Sarah - Living a Mission Driven Life like Sarah Imenu

Parshat Vayera - Star Power & Sand Power: The Glorious Destiny of Am Yisrael

Parshat Lech Lecha - And You Shall Be a Blessing”: Our Responsibility Towards the Future

Parshat Nitzavim/Vayelech - Moshe’s Daily Charge to Us Thousands of Years Later

Parshat Ki Tavo - Happy Days in an Unhappy World: The Sacred Struggle to Live B’Simcha… Especially Now!

Parshat Ki Teitzei - Honesty and Integrity: The Most Powerful Force for The Jewish People

Parshat Reeh - The Inspiring Message of the Missing Laws of Shechita

Parshat Shoftim - Did We Do Enough? - In Memory of the 6 Murdered Holy “Children of Light”

Parshat Eikev - Gratitude While Hungry: The Great Trait of the Jewish People

Parshat Va’Etchanan - Going Back to the Basics: The Secret Sauce of Shabbat Nachamu

Shabbat Chazon - Tisha B’Av: The Most Important Day of The Jewish Calendar

Parshat Matot-Masei - LIVING the Jewish Journey in our God-Given Homeland: Am Yisrael Chai in Action!

Parshat Pinchas - the Hidden Message In-Between Parshat Balak and Parshat Pinchas

Parshat Balak - When Calamity is Averted and Curses Turn Into Blessings: From Yitzchak To Bilaam To Today

Parshat Chukat - Throwing Our Cedar Trees and Hyssop Into The Fire

Parshat Korach - Am Yisrael‘s Holy Mandate: To Be One Nation, Under G-d, Indivisible with Torah & Mitzvot For All

Parshat Shlach - Thinking For Ourselves In a Time of Echo Chambers

Parshat Behaalotcha - Do You Remember? Magnifying Moments of Redemption In Troubling Times

Parshat Nasso - Teshuva: Returning The Opportunities We Have Stolen

Parshat Bamidbar - Flying Our Flags Around The Mishkan

Parshat Bechukotai - Make Like a Tree and Leave: Feeling Cursed, But Being Blessed

Parshat Behar - Finding Freedom In Our Lives

Parshat Emor - Confronting Death By Confirming Life - Reflections from the Nova Exhibit

Parshat Kedoshim - Understanding the Greatest Principle of the Torah In Our Time

Parshat Acharei Mot - Scapegoats! The Jewish Response To the Evil Antisemitism On Campus

Parshat Metzora - Seeing The Gold Behind Our Tzaraat

Parshat Tazria - Living In A Shemini World: The Alternate Reality of Jewish Destiny

Parshat Shemini - Questions As The Key To A Successful Life

Parshat Tzav - The Holy Details of A Life Well Lived: A Tribute To A Gadol, Senator Joseph Lieberman, z”l

Parshat Vayikra - Not Bowing To Outside Pressure

Parshat Pekudei - It’s Going To Be Okay: Building a Mishkan of Faith Together

Parshat Vayakhel - The Holiest Commodity In Our Lives: Time

Parshat Ki Tisa - If It Ain’t Broke, Fix It! The Lesson of The Luchot

Parshat Tetzaveh - Seeing The Good In Others Through The Bigdei Kehuna

Parshat Terumah - Find Our Branch In The Menora of Am Yisrael: Shabbat Shalom From Yerushalayim

Parshat Mishpatim - Focusing On Ourselves Instead of Others

Parshat Yitro - Am Yisrael’s Eternal March Towards “Mizrach”

Parshat Beshalach - Pointing To Hashem At The Sea & In Our Lives

Parshat Bo - Seeing Hidden Kindness All Around

Parshat Vaera - When it Comes to the Jews, People Choose to See What they Want to See: Pharaoh and the ICC

Parshat Shemot - What’s In A Name

Parshat Vayechi - Staying Close To The Source: The Eternal Yisrael Connection

Parshat Vayigash - Yosef: The Role Model For the Chutz Laaretz Jew

Parshat Miketz - Have No Fear At All! The Mantra of The Jewish People; A Nation of Dreams & of Dreamers

Parshat Vayeshev - Getting Through Our Darkest Times

Parshat Vayishlach - Holding On To The Thrown of Glory: The Eternal “Dust-Up” Between Am Yisrael and Our Enemies

Parshat Vayetze - Yaakov as Our Model For Responding In This Moment

Parshat Toldot - Unity in DC, Disunity in the Parsha: The Hidden Message of Achdut in Toldot

Parshat Chayei Sarah - Seeing Eliezer as a Role Model For Our Lives

Parshat Vayera - Am Yisrael’s Ultimate Challenge: Changing Course In This Pivotal Moment For Our People

Parshat Lech Lecha - How Avraham Can Guide Am Yisrael Through This Moment

Parshat Noach - Rabbi Morgenstern’s Message from Jerusalem: Seeing the Window of Am Yisrael’s Light in the Teyvah