Daily Parsha Aliya With Rav Reuven Taragin: Recent Episodes

Reuven Taragin

A three minute inspritational Torah thought on an aliya of the parsha with Rav Reuven Taragin of Yeshivat Hakotel. It is available on his facebook page, on whatsapp (https://chat.whatsapp.com/BVxP1RJFujVEtMDkTpWWjL) and as a podcast (see apps below).

Yitro: The Good and The Bad

Beshalach- Shirah For EVERYTHING

Chayei Sarah- Appreciating Life From Death

May It Be For The Good! A Pre Election (Non-Political) Message

Noach- The Sins of Two Generations

True Simcha- What We Should Aim For on Sukkot (178)

How Straight is Beautiful (2:27)

Why Malchiyot (Not Mentioned by the Torah) Are So Prominent on Rosh Hashana (1:134)

Nitzavim/Selichot- Taking A Stance (1:133)

1:132- Ki Tavo- Why To Be Happy

Ki Teitzeh- Thinking Long Term (1:131)

Shoftim- Being Like The Tree of the Field (1:130)

Re'eh- Child of God- A Christian or Jewish Notion? (1:129)

Eikev- What To Fear (1:128)

Va'etchanan/Nachamu- How We Find Nachamah (1:127)

Devarim- What We Need To Hear (1:126)

Masei- The Uniqueness of Our Journey (1:125)

Matot- Just Saying (1:124)

Pinchas- Feeling What He Feels (1:123)

Balak- What We See (1:122- Overview)

Chukat- The Importance of Maximizing Opportunities (1:122)

Korach- Either Up or Down (1:121- Overview)

Shelach- The Implications of Low Self Esteem (1:120- Overview)

Bahalotcha- Needing Newness (1:119- Overview)

Naso: Rising Up (2:118)

Bamidbar- How We Count (2:117- Overview)

Bechukotai: As Long As We Follow (2:116- Overview)

Bahar- Where It All Comes From (2:115- Overview)

Emor- What The Parsha is Saying (1:114)

Kedoshim- Living A Life Worth Living (2:113- Overview)

Acharei Mot- Learning From Death To Value Life (2:112)

Metzora- The Roots of Lashon Hara (2:111)

Tazria- Our Highs and Lows (2:110- Overview)

Shemini- Our Wings To Fly (2:109- Personal Growth) (In memory of Rav Chaim Kanievsky)

Shemini- Aftermath of the Fall (2:108- Overview) (In memory of Rav Chaim Kanievsky Ztvk"l)

Tzav- The Fire (2:107- Personal Growth)

Tzav- The Korbanot and Inaguration of Parshat Tzav (2:106- Overview)

Vayikra: Wanting To Do (2:105)

Vayikra- Real Relationships (2:104)

The Message of Korbanot (2:103- Overview)

Pekuday- Our Metal (2:102- Overview)

Vayakhel- When We Are All Together (2:101- Overview)

Ki Tisa- What We Should Learn From Chet Ha'egel (2:100- Personal Growth)

Ki Tisa- Why Didn't They Just Appoint Aharon To Replace Moshe? (2:99- Overview)

Tetzaveh- Constancy, Consistency, and Continuum- How We Build and Sustain a Kesher With Hashem (2:98)

Tetzaveh- From Presence to All Present (2:97- Overview)

Teruma- The Inside (Marriage and Family- 96)

Teruma- For Heaven's Sake (2:95- Personal Growth)

Teruma: The Relevance of the Parshiyot Hamishkan (2:94- Overview)

Mishpatim- Failure in Perspective (2:93- Marriage)

Mishpatim- How To Build a Real Relationship (2:92- Personal Growth)

Mishpatim- Spiritual Law (2:91- Overview)

Yitro- Torah True Leadership (2:90- Leadership) (In memory of Rabbi Jonathan Sacks)

Yitro- Through It All (2:89- Chinuch)

Yitro- More Than An Option (2:88- Personal Growth)

Yitro- Transitioning to Ma'amad Har Sinai (2:87- Overview/Introduction)

Beshalach- What Torah Depends Upon (2:86- Chinuch)

Beshalach- It Starts With Us (2:85- Family)

Beshalach- Always on My Mind (2:84- Eretz Yisrael)

Beshalach- Not a Time for Prayer (2:83- Personal Growth)

Beshalach- Hand in Hand (2:82- Overview)

Bo- What We Pass On (2:81- Family)

Bo- Going Without Knowing (2:80)

Bo- Our Time (2:80)

Va'era- Paying Attention (2:79- Chinuch)

Vaera- Even Cursed and Stoned (2:78- Leadership)

Va'era- Appreciating What We Inherit- In Memory of Rabbi Jonathan Sacks (2:77- Eretz Yisrael)

Va'era- Not Making Things Worse (2:76- Personal Growth)

Va'era- Seeing Our Future in Our Past (2:75- Overview)

Shemot- Being The Man- In Memory of Rabbi Jonathan Sacks (2:74- Leadership)

Shemot- How We Get G-d To Care (Chinuch- 2:73)

Shemot- The Beit Bayit (2:72- Family)

Shemot- Shooting For the Top! (2:71- Personal Growth)

Shemot- The Nature of Sefer and Parshat Shemot (2:70)

Vayechi- How To Get Children to Identify With Their Past/Parents (2:70)

Asara B'Tevet- What We Should Be Thinking About (2:69)

Vayechi- How To Build a Family (2:68- Family)

Vayechi- Working to Rest (2:67- Personal Growth)

Vayechi- How to Live Forever (2:66- Overview)

Vayigash- How To Achieve True Achdut (2:65- Pre Shabbat)

Vayigash- How (Not) To Lead (Leadership- 2:64)

Vayigash- How to Avoid Anger and Sadness (2:63- Chinuch)

Vayigash- Our Family (2:62- Marriage/Family)

Vayigash- The Lies We Tell Ourselves (2:61- Personal Growth)

Channuka- The Goal of Zot Channuka (2:60)

Vayigash- More Than Just Lemonade (2:59- Overview)

Miketz- Identifying With the Tzibbur- A Message for Corona Times (2:58- Leadership)

The Uniqueness of This Channuka (2:57)

Miketz- Israel's Song (2:56- Eretz Yisrael)

Miketz- Bnei Vinah- True Wisdom (2:55)

Channuka- How We Know if We are Chashmonaim or Hellenists (2:54)

Miketz- Mindfulness (2:53- Overview)

Vayeshev- Why Shabbat is Mei'ein Olam Haba'a (2:52- Pre Shabbat)

Vayeshev- Leadership as Service- Remembering Rav Soloveichik and Rav Kook (2:51- Leadership)

Vayeshev- It Begins With Care (2:50- Chinuch/Family)

Vayeshev- Identifying Israeli (2:49- Eretz Yisrael)

Vayeshev- Mission Moving- In Memory of Rav Hadari (2:48- Overview)

Vayishlach- Values Worth Surviving For- In Memory of Rabbi Jonathan Sacks (2:47- Chinuch)

Vayishlach- How To Keep Our Family Together (2:46- Family)

Vayishlacha- Going All The Way (2:45- Eretz Yisrael)

Vayishlach- The Power of Loneliness (2:44- Personal Growth)

Vayishlach- The Challenges of Life in Israel (2:43- Overview)

Vayetze- Dreaming to Dream (2:42- Leadership)

Vayetze- When Children Are Brothers (2:41- Chinuch)

Vayetze- Spousal Sensitivity (2:40- Marriage)

Vayetze- Our Relationship (2:39- Eretz Yisrael)

Vayetze- The Power of Our Focus (2:38- Personal Growth)

Vayetze- Life In and Out of Israel (2:37- Overview)

Toldot- Being a Seeker (2:36- Pre Shabbat)

Toldot- Leading Within (2:35- Leadership)

Toldot- What We Can Learn from the Chinuch of Yaakov and Eisav (2:34)

Toldot- The Self Fulfillment of Marriage (2:33- Marriage and Family)

Toldot- Why There are So Many Famines in Eretz Yisrael (2:32- Eretz Yisrael)

Toldot- Passing On Before We Pass On (2:31- Personal Growth)

Toldot- Where We Come From (-2:30- Overview)

Chayei Sarah- Turning Tefila Into Sicha (2:29- Pre Shabbat)

Chayei Sarah- Going Beyond (2:28- Leadership)

Chayei Sarah- How We Move Forward (2:27- Chinuch)

Chayei Sarah- How To Find a Spouse (2:26- Marriage)

Chayei Sarah- Where It All Began (2:25- Eretz Yisrael)

Chayei Sarah- Living Life to the Fullest (2:24- Personal Growth)

Chayei Sarah- Outliving Our Lives (2:23- Overview)

Vayera- Not Looking Back (2:22- Pre Shabbat)

Vayera- Leading By Example (2:21- Leadership)

Yayera- Where Big Problems Begin (2:20- Chinuch)

Vayera- Appreciating Our Partner (2:19- Marriage and Family)

Vayera- Appreciating The Land of Israel (2:18- Eretz Yisrael)

Vayera- Where It Comes From (2:17- Personal Growth)

Vayera- Looking to See (2:16- Overview)

Lech Lecha- Knowing Where We Are Going (2:15- Pre Shabbat)

Lecha Lecha- Avraham's- The Unique Av (2:14- Leadership)

Lech Lecha- Creating People (2:13- Education)

Lech Lecha- Spousal Sensitivity (2:12- Marriage and Family)

Lech Lecha- For Our Own Good (2:11- Eretz Yisrael)

Lech Lecha- Going Without Knowing (2:10- Personal Growth)

Lech Lecha- What We Learn From Avraham (2:9- Overview)

Noach- Using Shabbat Like a Teiva (2:8- Pre Shabbat)

Noach- Why Noach Is Not One of the Avot (2:7- Leadership)

Noach- Understanding Who We Are (2:6- Chinuch)

Noach- Animals Have Wives and Families!? (2:5- Marriage and Family)

Noach- Why People Make Aliya (2:4- Eretz Yisrael)

Noach- Let's Doreish Both Ways (2:3- Personal Development)

Noach- Understanding Our Yetzer HaRa (2:2- Overview)

Bereishit- Re- Getting Started (2:1- Intro)

Yom Kippur- The Unique Yom Kippur Opportunity (181)

Erev Yom Kippur- Celebrating Yom Kippur! (180)

Haazinu- The Address (179)

Haazinu- Our Defeats to Ourselves (179) (In Memory of Rabbi Jonathan Sacks)

What Tzom Gedalia Has To Do With the Aseret Y'mei Teshuva (178)

Vayelech- Taking Personal Hold (177)

Nitzavim- The Torah's Teshuva Basics (176)

Nitzavim- Doing What I Want (175)

A Generational Thing (174)

Nitzavim- Why We Bring Them (173)

Nitzavim- With Us (172)

Nitzavim- Getting Back Up (171)

Nitzavim- Parshat Nitzavim's Selichot Message (170)

Ki Tavo- How/Why We Move to Israel (169)

Ki Tavo- Our Calling- In Memory of Rabbi Jonathan Sacks (168)

Ki Tavo- The Brachah From the Kelalah (167)

Ki Tavo- More Important Than Learning Torah and Fulfilling Mitzvot (166)

Ki Tavo- The Conversation With The Shechina (166)

Ki Tavo- True Simcha (165)

Ki Tzeitzeh- Worse Than Murder (164)

Ki Tzeitzeh- The End (163)

Ki Tzeitzeh- Yes, We Can (162)

Shoftim- To Be an Odom (161)

Re'eh- Message From the Plane- The Implication of Being Hashem's Children (161)

Re'eh- The Nation (160)

Re'eh- The Relationship (159)

Re'eh- Is It a Jewish or Christian Belief?

Eikev- What We Accomplish Ourselves (157)

Eikev- The Focus of The Only Beracha (156)

Eikev- When You Really Love Someone (155)

Eikev- What We Bring Home (154)

Nachamu- A New Perspective (153)

Vaetchanan- Adding Is Subtracting (152)

Va'etchanan- Prayer as Consolation (151)

The Essence of Tisha B'Av (150)

Devarim- Valueing Ourselves (149)

Devarim- The Word Eicha (148)

The Simcha of Chodesh Av (147)

Masei- Thoughts From Kennedy Airport (146)

Matot- Mei'Hashem U'MiYisrael (145)

Matot: Focus... Mindset... Perception (144)

Matot- We Can Change (143)

Matot- Commitment? (142)

Matot: Holy Words (141)

Pinchas: Before It's A Minute Too Late (140)

Pinchas- Bnot Tzlafchad- First Feminists? (139)

Pinchas- Peace as Balance (138)

Pinchas- Feeling Hashem's 'Pain' (137)

Understanding Bein Hamitzarim (The Three Weeks) (136)

Shiva Asar B'Tammuz- The One of Five That Seems Not To Belong (135)

Balak: Moving Forward (134)

Balak: Stopping To Think (133)

Chukat- What We See (132)

Chukat: Anger Makes Us The Problem (131)

Chukat: Maximizing Opportunities (130)

Chukat: How To Get Torah To Stay With You (129)

Chukat- The Essence of the Torah (128)

Korach- Coming to Hear (127)

Korach- Like Day and Night (126)

Korach- Movin' On Up (125)

Shelach- How We Frame (124)

Shelach- May We Never Tour Israel Again! (123)

Shelach- Shelach LECHA- For Us To Appreciate (122)

Shelach- What Were They Thinking?! (121)

Bahalotcha- When We Forget Who We Have To Turn To (120)

Bahalotcha- How To Move From Place To Place (119)

Bahalotcha- The Same Thing The Same Way (118)

Bahalotcha- What We Are Anxious For (117)

Shavuot- How This Year's Challenges Help Us Appreciatw Why We Read Megilat Rut on Shavuot (116)1

Bamidbar- Preparing for Matan Torah While Under Attack (115)

Bamidbar- Torah Children- The Impact and Significance of Teaching Torah (114)

Israel Keeps Facing Challenges- Reflections on Israel Under Attack (113)

Erev Rosh Chodesh Sivan- Insuring Our Eternal Legacy (Appreciating Tefilat HaShala) (112)

Link to the Tefila- https://drive.google.com/file/d/1tGjTW6q4c0k2WvD4M0mdLxYuwk4plCPJ/view?usp=sharing

Link to Mekorot- https://drive.google.com/file/d/1dLHNbYRC6ekt1JzMjp8AHdwiRaLRKtiY/view?usp=sharing

Yom Yerushalayim- Is Yerushalayim A Unified City- The עיר שחוברה לה יחדיו?

Bamidbar- Making Sure We Count (110)

Bamidbar- How Bamidbar Prepares Us For Shavuot (109)

Bahar- National Freedom- A 'Shabbat Yerushalayim' Thought (108)

Bahar: The Connection of Our Parsha to Har Sinai

Bechukotai- A Chilling Parsha Reference to The Meiron Tragedy- Impacting Each Other (106)

The Meiron Tragedy- Reactions and Reflections (105)

Emor- What It Means to Be a Human Being (104)

Emor- How We Are Mekadesh Shem Shamayim (103)

Pesach Sheini- Message and Significance (102)

Emor- The Power of Our Words (101)

Kedoshim: The Philosophy Behind Not Taking Revenge (100)

Kedoshim- Being and Getting There (99)

Acharei Mot- We Can Handle What Is Most Difficult (98)

Acharei Mot- With US Everywhere No Matter What (97)

Acharei Mot- Things That Are By Chance (96)

Acharei Mot- Kedoshim: Why Live is Sacred

Tazria- Metzora: Knowing That We Don't Know (94)

Tazria- Metzora/Yom Ha'atzma'ut- The Blessing That Lies Beneath

Tzrai- Metzora / Yom Hazikaron- How and Why Yom Hazikaron is Different Than Memorial Day

Tazria- Metzora: Bringing People Together

Tazria- Metzora: Finishing The Process

Tazria- Metzora- Why The Parshiot Begin with Yoledet and Mila

Tazria- Metzora- How To View These Halachot (88)

Shemini: We Are What We Eat (87)

Shemini: The Way Hashem Wants (86)

Shemini- Stepping Up To What We Were Chosen For

Shemini- What We Need To Fly

Pesach: True Freedom- In Memory of Rabbi Jonathan Sacks

Pesach: Cheirut, Not Chofesh- In Memory of Rabbi Jonathan Sacks

Pesach: Show to Feel- In Memory of Rabbi Jonathan Sacks

Pesach: HIStory Vs. Memory- The Uniqueness of the Seder Night (In Memory of Rabbi Jonathan Sacks)

Tzav: Commandedness

Vayikra: Remembering Where We Are

Vayikra: Mistakes Matter

Vayikra: Avoiding Artificial Sweeteners

Vayikra: Giving Our Heart and Soul

Vayikra: The Significance of the Call

Pekudei- The Journey of Life

Vayakhel: Genuine Drive

Vayakhel: Devotion and Commitment

Vayakhel- Not Selling Ourselves Short

Vayakhel- Perspective

Vayakhel: Why The Parsha Is Named Vayakhel

Ki Tisa: Appreciating What We Have While We Have It. A message I read from Rav Frand

Ki Tisa: How We Approach Our Leaders

Ki Tisa: Why It is a Virtue

Ki Tisa: Appreciating Ourselves

Tetzaveh- Starting and Maintaining Consistency

Tetzaveh: More Than Just a Sum of Our Parts

Tetzaveh: The Nice Smell of Korbanot

Teruma: By The Book and From The Heart

Teruma- Li- Lishmi

Teruma- The Mishkan's Message

Mishpatim- Commitment

Mishpatim: What We Want

Mishpatim- Our Approach to Doctors and Healing

Mishpatim- Finding Our Direction

Mishpatim: Have We Lost the Sense of The Value of Human Life?

Mishpatim: Facing Torah

Mishpatim: How Jewish Civil Law is G-dly

Yitro: How To Make Shabbat Meaningful

Yitro: The Responsibility of Individuality

Yitro: Our Value

Yitro: 'Vayichan'- The Precondition for Kabalat HaTorah (In memory of Rabbi Jonathan Sacks)

Yitro: Why Moshe Sent Yitro Away

Yitro: All The Challenges

Yitro: How We Add To The Torah (In memory of Rabbi Jonathan Sacks)

Beshalach: How Personal Growth Hinges on Learning From the Mon

Beshalach: Where to Find Refuah

Beshalach: Shirah For EVERYTHING

Beshalach: Not A Time To Daven

Beshalach: Why We Daven

Beshalach: Geulah Going On Right Now

Beshalach: The Process

Bo: Naturally

Bo- Using the Moon To Inspire Us in Corona Times

Bo- Knowing What We Don't Know

Bo: How To Deal with Covid Uncertainty

Bo: Even The Children

Bo: When G-d Goes Half Way

Bo: The Secret We Need To Learn From Paroh

Vaera: How We Gain Confidence in Our Future

Vaera: Why We Don't Hear

Vaera: Real Redemption

Vaera: Our Cries

Vaera: Let's Be Careful

Shemot: Long Distance Vision

Shemot: The Geula Code

Shemot: (Not) Understanding Anti Semitism

Vayechi: How We Should All Emulate Donkeys

Vayechi- What Doing As You Say Really Means

Vayechi: How The Jewish People Come Together

Vayechi- The Worst Part of Suffering

Vayechi: Giving Our Chlidren Something to Connect To

Vayechi: Death as Reunification

Vayechi: When We Are Truly Alive

Vayigash: How To Turn Lemons Into More Than Just Lemonade

Vayigash: How To Avoid Getting Lost in Galut

Vayigash: Leadership in a Covid Era

Vayigash: Try Instead of Cry

Vayigash: How To Avoid Sadness and Anger

Vayigash: Bewildered by the Bitter Truth

Vayigash: Feelings

Miketz: Turning On The Truth

Zot Channuka: Is THIS Really Channuka?

Miketz: Making the Decision

Miketz: Signs and Source of True Wisdom

Channuka: What Lighting Candles Means In a Corona Year

Vayeshev: Dreaming of Playing a Role

Channuka: The Significance of the Miraculous Oil

Vayeshev: A True Friend

Vayeshev: The Ca-incidence of 'Jonny on the Spot'

Vayeshev/Channuka: Doing What We Can

Vayeshev- The Importance of Telling Her (or Him) About It

Vayeshev: Resting in Peace?

Vayishlach: Proud Not To Know

Vayishlach: The Difference of a Small Nuance

Vayishlach: How To Ensure Our Survival

Vayishlach: Why We Find Ourselves in Unsolvable Situations

Vayishlach: Learning How To Daven From Yaakov

Vayishlach: The Power of Loneliness

Vayishlach: Where We See G-d's Messengers

Vayetze: How To Make Time Fly By

Vayetze: Beauty That Is More Than Skin Deep

Vayetze: How To Ask G-d For More

Vayetze- Learning From Yaakov How to Respond To Challenging Times

Vayetze: How To Dream (In Memory of Rav Jonathan Sacks)

Toldot: Understanding and Learning From Yitzchak's Gevura

In memory of my grandfather- Rav Asher Dovid Ben HaRav Menachem Mendel Taragin on his yahrtzeit (3 Kislev)

Toldot: How to Avoid the Mistakes We Make When We Are Tired

Toldot: Why Yaakov Sat In Many Tents

Toldot: How to Educate Our Children

Being a Seeker

How To Have Our Tefilot Answered

Chayei Sarah: Having It All- The Avot, Alex Trebek, and Handling Corona

Chayei Sarah: 'Kicha/Kicha Misdeh Efron'- Why We Learn Laws of Marriage from Burial and Aveilut

The Me'arat Hamachpeila's importance lies in its connecting us to the land of Israel through our ancestors who connected them and us to it by their burial there.

Most focus on the the akeida and other events in Avraham's life that tested his wilingness to sacrifice his life or the life of those precious to him.

Parshat Chayei Sara teaches us the significance of how Avraham successfully faced the day to day challenges.

Learning from Sara and Avraham about how to maximize our Lives

While the world focuses on the vistory of Joe Biden, we focus on the loss of Rav Dovid Feinstein and Rav Jonathan Sacks within 24 Hours.

The sicha helps us understand how to channel our emotions in a constructive way. (4)

From the fate of Eishet Lot and Hagar we learn of the importance of forward thinking. (3)

Hashem chooses Avraham and his descendants as his people because of our educational philosophy of 'Acharai'- educating through personal example.

Why Avraham looked for guests instead of spending time with Hashem