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Torah With Rav Bendavid — 188 episodes
Va'era - The Kotzker Rebbe on Pharaoh's Challenge to The Jewish People and Us All
Rambam Yomi - Laws of Shemitah ch 5+6 - The Mitzvah to Eat 7th Year Fruit
Modern Halakhic Responsa - Can You Buy Cigarettes for Your Father?
Rambam Yomi - Hilchot Shemitah ch 4 - Does Shemitah Apply Outside Israel
Rambam Yomi - Laws of Shemitah ch 3 - Spreading the Holiness
Daily Rambam - Hilchot Shemitah #2 - Building a House During the 7th Year
Daily Rambam - Shemitah ch 1 - The Individual vs the Land
Daily Rambam - Hilchot Bikkurim ch 12 - The Unique Status of the Donkey
Daily Rambam - Bikkurim ch 11 - Redeeming the Firstborn
Daily Rambam - Bikkurim ch 10 - The First Shearings
The Daily Rambam - Bikkurim 9 - Meat for the Cohanim and Bbqs for Our Chayalim
Celebrating Purim When You're Not So Happy
Sefer Yehoshua ch 13:1-13 - Torah Study vs Going to Battle
Sefer Yehoshua ch 11:7-12 - Was Our Conquest of the Land Unethical?
Terumah - Justice Precedes Chesed
Sefer Yehoshua ch 10-11 - The Conquest of Central Israel
Sefer Yehoshua ch 10 - The Sun Stands Still
Sefer Yehoshua ch 9 - All We Are Saying is Give Peace a Chance
Sefer Yehoshua ch 8 - Military Strategy vs Miracles
Sefer Yehoshua ch 6 - The Warrior Angel
The Light of Chanukah and the Moral Perversity of the World
Sefer Yehoshua ch 5 - Removing the Shame of Servitude
Sefer Yehoshua ch 4 - A Tanakh Selfie
Sefer Yehoshua ch 3 - A Rite of Passage
Sefer Yehoshua ch 2 - Repeating the Same Mistake of the Spies?
Sefer Yehoshua ch 1 - How Do You Take Over From a Legend?
Sefer Yehoshua Intro: Conquering and Settling the Land - Who Was Yehoshua?
What Does the Mythic Leviathan Have to do with the Sukkah?
Rambam Yomi - Hilchot Chametz ch 2 - Cancelling Our Chametz and Cancel Culture
Rambam Yomi - Hilchot Chametz u'matzah ch 1 - Swallow the Bitter Pill First
Rambam Yomi - Hilchot Yom Tov ch 8 - When in Rome Do As the Romans
Rambam Yomi - Hilchot Yom Tov ch 7 - Sometimes There Are No Second Chances
Rambam Yomi - Hilchot Yom Tov #1 - Sorry, You're Not Special
Rambam Yomi - Hilchot Shevitat Assur ch 1-3 - Inspiration vs Habituation
Rambam Yomi - Hilchot Shabbat ch 30 - The Things You Can't Outsource
Rambam Yomi - Hilchot Shabbat ch 29 - Knowing How to Finish the Game
Rambam Yomi - Hilchot Shabbat ch 25-26 - Are Pets Muktzeh on Shabbat?
Inspiring Our Children to Want to Want - The Essence of Jewish Education
Rambam Yomi - Hilchot Shabbat ch 24 - Shabbat As a Day of Silence
Rambam Yomi - Hilchot Shabbat ch 23 - Are Happy-Clappy Carlebach Minyanim Permitted on Shabbat?
Rambam Yomi - Shabbat ch 22 - Airing One's Dirty Laundry on Shabbat and in Life
Rambam Yomi - Shabbat ch 21 - Medication on Shabbat
Rambam Yomi - Hilchot Shabbat ch 20 - The Long Arm of Human Responsibility
Rambam Yomi - Hilchot Shabbat ch 19 - Swords into Ploughshares
Rambam Yomi - Hilchot Shabbat ch 18 - Carrying a Baby on Shabbat
Rambam Yomi - Hilchot Shabbat ch 16 - Constructing an Eiruv
Rambam Yomi - Hilchot Shabbat ch 15 - Run Forrest Run!
Rambam Yomi - Hilchot Shabbat ch 14 - Are We Sharing Too Much About Ourselves Online?
Rambam Yomi - Hilchot Shabbat ch 13 - Seeing Beyond One's Daled Amot
Rambam Yomi - Hilchot Shabbat ch 12 - We Didn't Start the Fire
Rambam Yomi - Hilchot Shabbat ch 11 - With Words, Less is More
Rambam Yomi - Hilchot Shabbat ch 10 - The Extraordinary Importance of a Shoelace
Rambam Yomi - Hilchot Shabbat ch 9 - Washing Away Our Sins
Rambam Yomi - Hilchot Shabbat ch 8 - Separating the Wheat from the Chaff in Life
Rambam Yomi - Hilchot Shabbat ch 7 - May You Plow (and Reap) What You Sow
Rambam Yomi - Hilchot Shabbat ch 6 - Elvis Presley: King of Rock, Shabbos Goy
Rambam Yomi - Hilchot Shabbat ch 5 - Why Don't Men Light Shabbat Candles?
Rambam Yomi - Hilchot Shabbat ch 4 - The Case of the Crock Pot
Rambam Yomi - Hilchot Shabbat ch 3 - Dealing with Our Anxiety
Rambam Yomi - Hilchot Shabbat ch 2 - When Neturei Karta Desecrated Shabbat to Fight for Jerusalem
Rambam Yomi - Hilchot Shabbat #1 - Mountains Hanging from a Single Thread
Rambam Yomi - Hilchot Milah Ch 3 - Man Finishes What God Starts
Rambam Yomi - Hilchot Milah ch 2 - Preparation is the Key to Success
Rambam Yomi - Hilchot Milah ch 1 - Embodying Jewish Identity
Rambam Yomi - Hilchot Berachot ch 11 - Moving Beyond Commandedness
Rambam Yomi - Hilchot Berachot ch 10 - The Blessing of Friendship
Rambam Yomi - Berachot ch 9 - The Scent of the Soul
Shabbat Nachamu Derasha - Speak to the Heart
Rambam Yomi - Hilchot Berachot ch 7 - For Those Who Are Too Proud to Say Thank You
Rambam Yomi - Hilchot Berachot ch 8 - The Blessing That Reminds Us to Go Vegan
Rambam Yomi - Hilchot Berachot ch 6 - Removing the Mindset of Sodom
Rambam Yomi - Hilchot Brachot ch 5 - Active Listening
Rambam Yomi - Hilchot Brachot ch 4 - Thinking About the Other
Rambam Yomi - Hilchot Brachot ch 3 - Bread and Jewish Theology
Rambam Yomi - Hilchot Berachot ch 2 - Have You Ever Experienced Real Hunger
Rambam Yomi - Hilchot Berachot ch 1 - And Let Us Say Amen!
גדול השלום - Jewish Unity is More Important than Everything Else
Rambam Yomi - Hilchot Tzitzit ch 3 - Are all Clothing Cut From the Same Cloth?
Rambam Yomi - Hilchot Tzitzit ch 2 - Techeilet, scientific Inquiry, and Medinat Yisrael
Rambam Yomi - Hilchot Tzitzit ch 1 - Seeing Hashem's Hand in Our Lives
Rambam Yomi - Hilchot Sefer Torah ch 9 - There is Strength in Flexibility
Rambam Yomi - Hilchot Sefer Torah ch 8 - It's Important to Take a Break in Life
Rambam Yomi- Hilchot Mezuzah ch 6 - Compromising for Shalom Bayit
Rambam Yomi - Hilchot Sefer Torah ch 7 - No Man is Above the Law
A Tribute to Rav Yehuda Amital zt"l - A Great Leader Who Changed His Mind
Rambam Yomi - Hilchot Mezuzah ch 5 - Ask Not What the Torah Does for You
Rambam Yomi - Hilchot Tefillin ch 4 - Bridging the Heart and the Mind
Rambam Yomi - Hilchot Tefillin ch 3 - The Order Makes All the Difference
Rambam Yomi - Hilchot Tefillin ch 2 - Checking Tefillin and Examining Our Souls
Rambam Yomi - Hilchot Tefillin ch 1 - To Have or to Be?
Rambam Yomi - Hilchot נשיאת כפים ch 15 - Always End on a Positive Note
Rambam Yomi - Hilchot נשיאת כפים ch 14 - It Takes Two to Tango
Rambam Yomi - Hilchot Tefillah ch 13 - You Get What You Put In
Rambam Yomi - Hilchot Tefilah ch 12 - Novelty and Renewal in Judaism
Rambam Yomi- Hilchot Tefillah ch 11 - The Tallest Building in Town
Rambam Yomi - Hilchot Tefillah ch 10 - Tefillah is Not About What You Say
Rambam Yomi - Hilchot Tefillah ch 9 - The Expansion of the Siddur
Rambam Yomi - Hilchot Tefillah ch 8 - The Value of Community in a World of Radical Individualism
Rambam Yomi - Hilchot Tefilah ch 7 - Living with Radical Amazement
Kol Dodi Dofek #5 - Rav Soloveitchik's Seminal Essay on Religious Zionism
Rambam Yomi - Hilchot Tefillah ch 6 - Can I have My Cake and Eat it Too?
Rambam Yomi - Hilchot Tefillah ch 5 - Religious Authenticity and Hypocrisy
Rambam Yomi - Hilchot Tefillah ch 4 - Meditation as part of the Tefillah Experience
Rambam Yomi - Hilchot Tefillah ch 3 - When Smaller is Better
Rambam Yomi - Hilchot Tefillah ch 1 - Two Types of Human Crisis
Rambam Yomi - Hilchot Tefillah ch 2 - When Even the Rabbis Agree to Shorten Tefillah
Rambam Yomi - Hilchot Kriat Shma ch 4 - Teach Your Children Well
Rambam Yomi - Hilchot Kriat Shma ch 3 - Cleanliness and Kedusha
Kol Dodi Dofek #4 - Rav Soloveichik's Seminal Essay on Religious Zionism
Rambam Yomi - Hilchot Kriat Shma ch 2 - Standing or Sitting?
Rambam Yomi - Kriat Shema ch 1 - The Jewish Pledge of Allegiance
Rambam Yomi - Hilchot Teshuva Ch 10 - Money Can't Buy Me Love
Rambam Yomi - Teshuva ch 9 - The Messianic Idea
Rambam Yomi - Hilchot Teshuva ch 8 - 70 Virgins in Heaven
Rambam Yomi - Hilchot Teshuva ch 7 - The Resume Virtues and the Eulogy Virtues
Rambam Yomi - Hilchot Teshuva ch 6 - When Our Free Will is Taken Away
Rav Soloveitchik's Kol Dodi Dofek #3 - My Beloved Knocks
Rambam Yomi - Hilchot Teshuva ch 5 - The Choice is Yours
Rambam Yomi - Laws of Repentance ch 4 - The Obstacles In Our Way
Rambam Yomi - Hilchot Teshuva ch 3 - Be the Tzaddik Who Sustains The Whole World
Rambam Yomi - Hilchot Teshuva ch 2 - Teshuva and Alcoholics Anonymous
Choosing to See the Good
Rambam Yomi - Laws of Repentance ch 1 - Teshuva is not What you Think it is
Rambam Yomi - Laws of Idolatry ch 12 - Shaving, Haircuts, and Tattoos
Rambam Yomi - Laws of Idolatry ch 11 - Divining the Future
Rav Soloveitchik's Kol Dodi Dofek #2 - My Beloved Knocks
Rambam Yomi - Laws of Idolatry ch 10 - Non-Jews in the Land of Israel
Rambam Yomi - Laws of Idolatry ch 9 - Business Dealings with Non-Jews
Rambam Yomi - Laws of Idolatry ch 8 - Turning a Church into a Shul
Rambam Yomi - Avodah Zara ch 5-7 - Sorcery and Witchcraft
Rambam Yomi - Laws of Idolatry ch 4 - Cruelty and Compassion
Rambam Yomi - Laws of Idolatry ch 3 - Worshipping Our Natural Instincts
Jewish Leadership - Jeremiah the Prophet, Rabbi Ben Isaacson, and The Dangers of Leadership
Jewish Leadership - Shimshon's Weakness, Boaz's Restraint, and Managing Our Hungers
Rambam Yomi - Hilchot Avodat Kochavim ch 2 - Freedom of Thought? Not So Fast
Rambam Yomi - Hilchot Avodah Kochavim Ch 1 - A Brief History of Faith in God
Rambam Yomi - Hilchot Talmud Torah ch 5-7 - What is Cherem?
Rambam Yomi - Talmud Torah ch 4 - A Student Who Strays From the Path
Rambam Yomi - Talmud Torah ch 3 - Getting Paid to Sit in Kollel
Images of the Biblical Samson in Modern Jewish Thought
Rambam Yomi - Talmud Torah ch 2 - No Jewish Child Left Brhind
Rambam Yomi - Talmud Torah ch 1 - Can Women Study Torah?
Rambam Yomi - Hilchot Deot 7 - The Ethics of Lashon Hara
Being in the Midbar of Life
Rambam Yomi - Hilchot Deot ch 6 - Loving Hashem and the Convert
Rambam Yomi - A Day in the Life of a Chacham, Glatt Kosher Hedonism
Rambam Yomi - Deot ch 4 - The Maimonidean Diet
Rambam Yomi - Hilchot Deot 3 - Pleasure in Judaism
Rambam Yomi - Hilchot Deot Ch 2 - Soul Doctors
Rambam Yomi - Hilchot Deot Ch 1 - The Golden Mean
Mussar - Two Models of Torah Study For Our Busy Lives
Rambam Yomi - Yesodei Hatorah 10 - Testing God
Rambam Yomi - Yesodei Hatorah 9 - The Mitzvot of the Torah are Eternal
Rambam Yomi - Yesodei Hatorah Ch 7-10 - Jewish Prophecy
Brief Intro to the Rambam's Mishneh Torah
Leading With Hope and Realism
Emor - When An Eye For An Eye Should Be Taken Literally
Rav Soloveitchik's Kol Dodi Dofek #1 - My Beloved Knocks
King David, King Bibi, and Leaders Who Abuse Their Power and Never Admit Their Mistakes
The Real Biblical Name for Yom Haatzmaut - Celebrating Israel's 75th
Good Cop, Bad Cop - Aharon and Moshe
Reflections on Our Trip to Poland - Two Models of Jewish Heroism
The Talmud Found in Hitler's Bunker
The Cost of Being Too Efficient
Beshalach - Is the Pace Too Fast For You?
Va'era - The King's Speech and The Prophet's Stutter
Amud Yomi Sukkah 23a
Vayishlach - Do You Confront or Run Away from Your Problems?
Vayetze - Are You Stuck in the Past?
Toldot - Leaders Break Paradigms
Vayera - The Disease of Our Time: Short-Term Thinking
Chayei Sarah - Leadership and the Art of Accepting Our Limitations
הגר במשנתו של הרמב"ם - The Status of Converts in the Thought of the Rambam
Lech licha - Leaders See the Big Picture
Noach - Leaders Take Big Risks
Bereishit - To Control or Empower
Why Guilt is a Wonderful Thing and Prayer is indeed Possible
Amud Yomi - Sukkah 2b
Amud Yomi - Sukkah Daf 2a
Parshat Devarim - The Message and the Man
Modern Halakhic Responsa - Birkat Hagomel for Soldiers
Derasha on Parshat Matot - The View from Space
Parshat Maasei - Making Ourselves Worthy
Modern Halakhic Responsa - Is it a Mitzvah to Accept Converts?
Parshat Matot - Elevating Our Speech
Weekly דבר תורה - Nothing Else Matters
Modern Halakhic Reponsa - Can Prayer Change God's Will?
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