Setting The Table: Recent Episodes

Yoni Sonnenblick

Sometimes it's difficult to create the right Shabbos table experience with your kids, family and guests. Setting the Table with Rabbi Yoni gives you a quick story, halachic question and beautiful vort on the parsha in 15 minutes.

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When did the Galus begin?

Shimon the Miser

The Technician who stole an Iphone

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The nature of tears

The Chasid who masterminded the Yom Kippur war

Breaking into a car saving a life

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Yosef happy he forgot his learning?

The Doctor's secret charm

Heating up donuts with your menorah

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Yaakov sending Yosef to his brothers

Chasam Sofer's love for a mitzvah

Lighitng on time with wax candle vs oil later

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*The "disproportionate" response of Shimon and Levi"

A kiddush Hashem from a Chasidic Doctor

first candle goes out while you are still lighting the 4th

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Is the goal to sacrifice for Avodas Hashem?

The Pickpocket from the Gulag

Lighting Menorah before Mariv at a wedding

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Impact of early life experiences

Living in the Gulag

Pacing too much in a rental

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A Double Life

Eichmann's Bodyguard

Destroying 1 of 2 expensive collectors items

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Why hide intentions for sodom from Avraham?

The bereaved wife giving chizuk

Who gets the house as a yerusha?

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The extra "reish" in Avrahams name

Soldiers guns firing

*Arab sold Jewish farmers fruits"

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Living in 2 different generations

Rav Aryeh Levin's respect for a child

Taking Tzedaka from a Non Jew

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In memory of all those who lost their lives and in the zechus of all soldiers staying safe

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Why would Hashem need to see if his creation was good?

Simchas Torah a few days late

Can an interrogator make a deal and not honor his side?

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Why Lein about the sons of Aharon on Yom Kippur?

Rav Chaim rejecting an offer for funds

New bracha every time you eat on Yom Kippur?

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Keep your Mitzvos Hidden

The Shady Real Estate Deal

Finding Money in a coat from the Gemach

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Blessed are you in the city and in the Field

Rav Shneur Kotler fundraising from a miser

Bringing tefillin with you if you know it will be destroyed

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A fight between 2 sides

A double wedding hall

Wearing his wifes ring

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The King's Sefer Torah

Chesed with Wisdom

Eating milk after meat for shalom bayis

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Never Alone

Where is the Bar Mitzvah boy?

Can the secretary order Non Kosher for her boss?

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The Clothes didn't wear out

Rav Schwab stuck in a wheelchair

Boroowed a car that had no insurance and it got stolen

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Love Hashem with your Yetzer Tov and Yetzer Hara

The survivor who went to Yeshiva

Breaking Shabbos for someone who's life is not in danger

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Bnei Gad and Reuven focused on wealth?!

2 brothers love for each other

The lesser of 2 evils for the 9 days

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Pinchas the Kanoy

Why Rav Chatzkel wouldn't speak at his Rebbis funeral

Does a builder have to leave an unfinished space of an amah?

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Relationships are dynamic!

Reb Dovid Feinstein skipping maaras hamachpelah

Who pays the closing costs if the house was deficient?

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Korach's bad deal

The Nuclear Reactor Job

*Who needs 'friends' like these?

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Torah from the Rachamstrivka Rebbe

Rav Elyah Lopian's medical procedure

A boy locked in a shul

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How could Moshe be such an Anav?!

Why the Alter of Novardok had free access to a Gvir's funds

Shehecheyanu on finding out a person was never dead in the first place

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Erasing the name of Hashem!?

All of Klal Yisroel is one family

A Jew has to make a parnassah!

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Rav Schwab's controversial secret to raising good children

Being Friendly saves a life

What should a Doctor behind enemy lines do?

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The art of eating to satiation

Reb Yaakov not signing his name on a blank piece of paper

Tipping off a Meshulach that the Gvir wants to talk about a specific sugya

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How could Mimacharas HaShabbos mean after Yom Tov??

The relationship between a Rebbi and his Talmid

The entrepreneuiral Taxi Driver trying to make some extra money for Lag Baomer

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The ONLY proper way to give Mussar!

The magic of the typewriter

Lost in translation- When an Israeli and American try to do business!

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The Tzaraas that is completely white is not Tamei

Hashgacha Pratic which saved countless lives

Pushing off a Milah on Shabbos

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When did the Galus begin and when did the Geulah begin?

A Posek's care for the one who asked

If you forgot to lean and then your Rebbi comes, do you eat Matzah again??

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Yes to Salt, No to Honey

The Chafetz Chaim of Germany

Your not religious friend bought you whiskey at the duty free shop on Pesach!

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Why did the Nesiim lose the letter 'YUD' in their name??

Ahavas Yisroel of the Pupa Rav

You sent your friend stolen Matzah and it's too late to tell him!. What now?!

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The Secret of Emunah

The Integrity of a Gadol

I'll give you Shalach Manos if you give me back!

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Kedushas Levi on how to change yourself and others

Rav Chaim's lesson to a guest

Are you allowed to give chalav stam to someone who keeps Chalav Yisroel for Shalach Manos?!

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You're allowed to consider a Mitzvah hard

Saving another Yid from embarassment

Reuven paid Shimon to save his own Son's life. Who's Chayiv?

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How to lend $ like a Mentch

Rav Shlomo Freifeld encourages a boy to stay in Yeshiva

Did the Hatzalah members in Turkey put on tefillin on Shabbos??

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The Extra 'Vav" in Yisro's name

The Yerushalmi Jews of Yesteryear's Emunah

The Gabbai recorded how much a guest pledged on shabbos

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Nesivos Shalom on the opportunity for us to live b'soch hayam bayabasha"*

Rav Yitzchok Elchonon's protection of another Jew's dignity

A man was told his IPOD was broken but saw it being sold in the store the next week!

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Incredible discipline required by the Jewish People and the famous marshmallow test

How the trees in Houston were saved in a hurricane

Is one allowed to get in the pen with a wild ox?

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The Essence of a Jew

Mesiras Nefesh of a Russian Jew in the Winter

Can you 'double dip' when your Car is in an accident

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Should the Baal Teshuva build a Succah that is not Kosher MiDerabbanan?

The Mitzriyim's 'generous' decision to pay us before enslaving us

Rav Isser Zalmen's way of making every Talmid feel good

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Rav Ovadya Yosef deciding whether or not to enter a Church for the Funeral of a Chirstian Clergy Member in Cairo

How can we have the Chutzpah to Bless our Children to be like Menashe and Efrayim

Incredible Kibbud Av V'Em of a simple Yid

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Rav Moshe on a wife attending a dinner her husband wants her at while she is in mourning

Hashem’s comfort to Yaakov for all the Tzaros that Klal Yisroel will be going through

The Wise Men of Chelm giving us lessons in Chinuch

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Shailah- The head of the household had no kavanah to be motzei his daughter, but she was relying on him

Chidushei Harim on the machlokes Beis Shammai and Beis Hillel on how many candles you light each night

Rav Hirschprung at Rav Kreiswirth's sheva brachos being a Mentsch

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