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Consequences whether candle lighting serves as acceptance of Shabbat; waving hands over candles, the match
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Where best to light, where you eat or sleep? Making a b’racha before or after candle lighting
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The week of Tif’eret - The world of balance, beauty and harmony
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Penalty for forgetting to light, what one uses to light, using electric lights as Shabbat candles
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Predictions of exile and redemption in the Haftara of Acharei and Kedoshim
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Lighting Shabbat candles with a B’racha while electric lights are on
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The nature of women's obligation to hear Megilla
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Why does the letter Bet have its back to the Alef?
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Rav Hutner’s insights into the ‘fatal’ Purim Se’udah of Rabba and R Zeira and the uniqueness of Purim
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“veNahafoch Hu“ - revealing Hashem’s Providence
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Tasting Shabbat food on Friday and Avoda beGashmiyut
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How was the Torah written - K’tav Ivri or K’tav Ashuri?
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Evaporating letters, Luchot smashed; replacement letters, new Luchot
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Rabbinic enactments like doing laundry on Thursday whose reason no longer applies
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The letters are to the Torah as the foundation is to a building
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The 'seeing stones' and their 'missing' letters
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Part 3. a) Summary of issues involving travel on Shabbat
b) Enhancing Shabbat with good food etc. Hillel and Shamai
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Parshat Teruma - The Arizal's approach to Mishkan
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Rivka- "Find the money, target the money, kill the money"
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“… And the Canaanite was then in the land.” (Bereishit 12/6)
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Atem Nitzavim … preparatory steps for Rosh Hashana
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The evolution of Mikdash - Mishkan, Shilo and Yerushalayim
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The Arizal’s opposition to the concept of Sabbatical Cycles used to calculate the age of the universe
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Parshat Shelach - Yehoshua’s name change in Shelach or beShalach?
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The AriZal’s doctrine of Shevirat haKeilim - breaking of the vessels
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Parshat Beha’alotecha - Tzara’at and the Miracle at Midway
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Mixtures of foods and the principle of Bitul - Nullification
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The precaution of not baking Milchik or Fleishik bread
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Part a) The Zohar’s opinion on eating meat after milk
Part b) Eating meat after hard cheese
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Part a) Chlidren waiting between meat and milk
Part b) Uncertainty as to time passed after eating meat
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Bassar B’chalav 2 - How long must one wait after eating meat, to eat milk?
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Bassar B’chalav 1 - How long must one wait after eating meat, to eat milk?
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Rabbi Moshe Cordovero - Imitating Hashem’s character traits
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The printing press and the printing of the Zohar
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The origins and development of Kabbalah Part 2 - the rediscovery of the Zohar
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Parshat Ki Tissa - The Aura of Moshe Rabbeinu from the ink left over
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The origins and development of Kabbalah - part 1
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Parshat Tetzaveh - The Philosophic Message Woven into the Bigdei Kehuna
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Parshat Teruma - Can Holiness take Physical Form?
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“Human knowledge is but a little island in a great ocean of non-knowledge“ - Ad deLo Yada!
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Milestones in Jewish Philosophy - Introduction - The Rambam
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Parshat Yitro - Was Am Yisrael Halakhically Jewish when they heard the Asseret haDibrot? Rashi vs Ramban
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Parshat VaYeishev - The roots of enmity between Yoseif and his brothers
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Parshat VaYishlach - Ya’akov’s contribution to the future survival of Am Yisrael
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Parshat VaYishlach - The Chanuka Story forecast through the abduction of Dina
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Reb Chaim Volozhiner's ingenius interpretation of Yaakov's ladder
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Parshat VaYeitzei - Ya’akov’s Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
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Parshat Toldot - Rivka’s obsession with the Beracha of wealth - Follow the money, target the money, kill the money!!
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Parshat Toldot - "Avraham Holid et Yitzchak” - Spiritual Genetic Engineering
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Parshat Chayei Sarah - Sarah and Rivka's tent - a quasi Mishkan
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Parshat Bereishit - The Creation of Chava - from Adam’s rib, side or tail
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Shabbat Shuva - the novelty of Hoshea’s call to Teshuva
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Parshat Ki Teitzei - Why does the Torah assume that the Ben Sorer uMoreh won’t repent?
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Parshat Shoftim - Institutions of Authority: the Monarch, the Judge and the teacher
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The origin and nature of the different Shofar sounds
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Parshat Eikev - Rav Soloveitchik on the religious experience of Benching
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Parshat VaEtchanan - Is there any substance to Idol Worship?
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Parshat Devarim - Mishne Torah - Moshe’s Biur and Ezra’s Peirush
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Parshat Mas’ei - A pair of pearls - commemorating The Yahrtzeit of Aharon Kohein Gadol
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Parshat Pinchas - Pinchas and Begin - Externals of War, Internals of Peace
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Parshat Pinchas - The nature of the Brachot received by Pinchas
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Parshat Balak - The antidote to the vile idolatrous practice of Pe’or through the eyes of Rav Kook
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Parshat Chukat - Rav Kook’s ingenious homiletic on the Battle of Arnon
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Parshat Shelach - To send or not to send spies, that is the question
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Parshat beMidbar - Jacob’s funeral meets angel’s flags at the Camp of Israel
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Parshat Naso - Shimshon: Between the two pillars of Sotah and Nazir
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Dimensions of Deliverance - 28 Iyyar, Yom Yerushalayim
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Parshat Emor - May a Kohein’s pregnant wife enter a cemetery?
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The novel choice of Haftara for Acharei Mot and Kedoshim
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A “Rabbi” tries to convince his community to keep Shabbat day first, followed by Friday night!
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Parshat Shemini - Kavod and Kedusha in Avodat Hashem
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VeNahafoch Hu - The Role of Reversals in the Purim Story.
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Parshat VaYikra - Insights into the various Korbanot from the Shem MiShmuel and Rav Kook
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Parshat VaYakheil: Fire - Man’s Red Flower (King Louis - the Jungle Book)
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Parshat Ki Tissa - Parallel personalities in the Parsha and Haftara of Ki Tissa
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Parshat Tetzaveh - The Kohen Gadol’s Clothes and the Convert
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Parshat Tetzaveh - The Menorah - Don't underestimate its preparation
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Parshat Teruma - It is not what Hashem does for us that transforms us, It is what we do for Hashem - RJ Sacks
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Michal Bat Shaul's putting on Tefillin - Precedent or exception through the eyes of the Arizal and Torat Kabbalah
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Women volunteering for the Mitzvot of Tzitzit and Tefilin
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Exploring rationales behind women's exemption from positive time-bound Mitzvot Part 1
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Exploring rationales behind women's exemption from positive time-bound Mitzvot Part 2 - Reb Moshe
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Parshat VaYeitzei - Rachel’s jealousy and the most unexpected building blocks of Klal Yisrael
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Parshat Toldot - Rivka's purpose and perspective
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Parshat Chayei Sarah - The Significance of the Double Cave
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Parshat Vayeira - Lessons from Avraham Avinu's encounter with the angels
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Parshat Lech Lecha - The Foundational Message of Brit Mila
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Parshat Bereishit - The concept of free choice alluded to in the creation story
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The crucial nature of Teshuva during the Aseret Yemei Teshuva
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Shabbat Shuva - The unique dimension of Hoshei’a’s call to Teshuva
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Hilchot Teshuva - The Ba’alei Teshuva of Chapters 1 and 7
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Parshat Nitzavim - Lo Bashamayim hi - the impact of prophecy on Halakha
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Machzorology Part 4 - The emergence of Noach and Yitzchak as focal personalities within the section of Zichronot
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Parshat Ki Tavo - The Second covenant between Hashem and Am Yisrael
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Hilchot Teshuva - Sin against Hashem consists of 2 components, spiritual damage and rebellion against God
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Machzorology Part 3 - The motif and structure of Selichot
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Rav Kook's address at the opening of Hebrew University and the link to Haftara of Parshat Ki Tavo
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Hilchot Teshuva - The role played by confession/ Vidui in the Teshuva process
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Machzorology Part 2 - The structure of the Rosh Hashanah Mussaf Amidah
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Individual and communal responsibilities; lessons from the Egla Arufa, the decapitated calf
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Hilchot Teshuva - Is Teshuva an independent Mitzvah?
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Machzorology Part 1 - HaMelech HaKadosh, Zochreinu LeChaim
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Parshat Re'eh- The halakhic evolution of meat consumption
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Parshat Eikev - The evolution of Birkat HaMazon
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Parshat Va'etchanan - The Mitzvah of Ahavat Hashem
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The nature of Tisha B'Av - A din DeRabbanan or Midivrei Kabbalah
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Parshat Matot - The spiritual matrix connecting Re’uvein, Gad and half Menashe
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Parshat Pinchas - The zealotry of Pinchas and David haMelech
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Parshat Chukkat - The Nature of Anti-Semitic Attitudes
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Parshat Korach – Kayin and Hevel = Korach and Moshe
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Woman's Involvement in the World of Halacha - Part 5: Shelo Assani Isha - why phrased in the negative
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Woman’s Involvement In The World Of Halacha - Part 4: Shelo Asani Isha
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Woman’s involvement in the world of Halacha – Part 3
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Woman’s involvement in the world of Halacha – Part 2
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Parshat beChukotai - no wild animals or no wild in animals
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Parshat Kedoshim - The difference between 'al' and 'lo' in negative commandments
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Parshat Vayikra - Will korbanot still feature in the third Beit Hamikdash?
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Parshat VaYakhel - Clash of the Titans or Meeting of the Minds; Moshe Rabeinu and Betzalel
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Parshat Ki Tisa - A. The Coin of Fire. B. Why the righteous may suffer and the wicked may prosper
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Parasha: "Leich reid... Demote yourself..." The pivotal point in Moshe Rabeinu's leadership
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Purim: Halachot derived from the Pasuk 'laYehudim...'
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Purim: Esther's philosophical challenge of incorporating the Megilla into Tanach
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Purim: The Gra's Al haNissim; A Mehadrin Mishloach Manot
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Parsha: Insights into Parshat Zachor, Women and Parshat Zachor
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Parshat VaYishlach - Yaakov afraid? Where is his Bitachon?
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Parashat VaYishlach - Yaakov's Reaction to Dina's Abduction
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Parshat VaYeitzei - Understanding Ya’akov’s vow
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Parashat VaYeira - Avraham's Negotiation over Sedom
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Parashat Lech Lecha - The Repercussions of Lot Joining Avraham’s Journey
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Parshat Bereishit - The Elevated State of Original Man - Learning Middot from Nature
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Blowing Shofar on Shabbat RH: Why is the Beit haMikdash different? (part 3)
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Torat HaGra - Torah reveals current History; you just have to be the Gaon to see it!
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Machzorology? Insights into the structure and theme of Zichronot
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Why no Shofar when Rosh HaShana falls on Shabbos - Part 2
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Parasha: Ki Tavo - "Arami Oveid Avi..." Who is Arami, What is Oveid and who is Avi?
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Why no Shofar when Rosh HaShana falls on Shabbos
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Parasha: Ki Teitzei - Souls that belong together - Eishet Yefat To'ar
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Parshat Shoftim - Rabbis arguing across generational lines
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Torat HaGra: The Supreme Value of Toiling in Torah
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Parasha: Re'eh - Holy burials (Sheimos) and Cremations
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Parasha: Eikev “Sorrow be gone!" - "Devai Haser...” Bentching at a wedding, a deeper look
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Torat HaGra: The Gra's approach to the world of Kabbalah
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Tefillat Kabbalat Shabbat - Mizmor leDavid, Ana beKoach
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Torat haGra: The Torah as a single entity. Based on Shiur by R Elyakim Krumbein
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The nature of Tisha B'Av relative to all other fast days
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Haftarat Chazon - The challenge of genuine unity; in tribute to our founding Rosh Yeshiva - HaRav Yehuda Amital זצ״ל
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A Personal Perspective On The Condition of Dementia
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Suggested Methodological Approach to the Biur HaGra and Word on Parashat Chukat
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Parasha - Maintaining the balance between human ambition and faith in Hashem
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Further comments on Lechem Mishne, covering Challah and Hadlakat Neirot
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Parasha: Shelach - The Sanhedrin Supported the Spies
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Halacha: Sitting or Standing for Kiddush and Havdalah
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Torat HaGra: The Gra's Contribution to the Method of Psak
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Halacha: Womens Obligation in Kiddush and Havdalah Part 2
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Parasha: Identifying the uniqueness of the father son relationship through the concept of Nezirut
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Parasha: Bechukotai - Gilgulim and Earthly Blessing
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Festivals: Hagadah Insights - Moshe, Structure and Brocha
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Festivals: The underlying parallel between Covid and Pesach
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Parasha: Vayikra ”The Alef - Small Size, Great Message"
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Parasha: Vayakel Pekudei - Hanging On Tender Hooks
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Parasha: Tazria - Is Mila on Day 8 crucial nowdays
