Dvar Torah, Rabbi Eli Friedman: Recent Episodes

Project Likkutei Sichos

Enjoy a 5 minute presentation by Rabbi Eli Friedman extracting a unique and practical lesson from the Sicha. Suitable for sharing at the Shabbos table, on Mivtzoim, etc. This series follows the learning cycle of Project Likkutei Sichos.

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Chelek 21, Vayakhel 1 - Light Now, Enjoy Later

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Chelek 21. Tezaveh 1 - Moshe and his Yidden

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Chelek 21, Terumah 2 - Your twists and turns are moving in the right direction

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Chelek 21, Mishpatim 3 - Don’t Wait - Maximize Your Potential and Hashem will do the Rest

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Chelek 21, Yisro 3 - Common Decency is Perfectly Divine

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Chelek 21. Beshalach 3 - “But I’m busy!” Moshe, Yehoshua, and all Jews always, everywhere, must join the fight

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Chelek 17, Pirekei Avos 6 - Receiving before Learning

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Chelek 17 Pirkei Avos 5 - Does Hashem Pay Overtime?

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Chelek 21, Sicha 1 - Real is Better than Perfect

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Chelek 16, Mishpatim 5 - BiTachtonim, No Exceptions

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Chelek 16, Vaeira 3 - Bring Pharaoh Down by Connecting with the Rebbe

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Chelek 16, Shemos 4 - Helping Others is the Best Thing You Can Do For Yourself

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Chelek 15, Vayechi 3 - Feel Like Reuven but Be Like Yehuda

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Chelek 15, Teves - Making Fire out of Ice

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Chelek 15, Miketz 2 - Compassion for the G-dly Soul

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Chelek 36 , Shemos 1 - Bitachon Changes Everything for the Better

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Chelek 15, Vayetze 4 - Be as Bold as a Sheep

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Chelek 15, Toldos 3 - Hashem’s Respect for Eisav

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Chelek 15, Vayera 3 - Just Do It!

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Chelek 15, Lech Lecha 3 - Four Steps To True Love and Concern

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Chelek 15, Noach 4 - Why Sheva Mitzvot need to be from Mount Sinai

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Chelek 18, Pinchas 3 - You CAN do it!

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Chelek 18, Chukas 3 - Not a Merit

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Chelek 17, Kedoshim 3 - Keeping Life Neat

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Chelek 17, Kedoshim 2 - Torah Makes Yidden Look Good

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Chelek 17, Metzora 2 - Finding pleasure in daily life doesn’t make you evil

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Chelek 16, Tisa 4 - Learning from Eliyahu Hanavi's approach

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Chelek 16, Teruma 4 - Learn to Think Like Beis Hillel

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Chelek 16, Mishpatim 4 - We Are Not Here to Debate

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Chelek 16, Mishpatim 3 - The Delights of a Changed Person

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Chelek 16, Yisro 3 - Rabbi Eli Friedman - What Changed? Celebrating the True Impact of the Giving of the Torah

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Chelek 16, Yisro 4 - Rabbi Eli Friedman - 19 & 20: The Secret Numbers of The Giving of the Torah

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Chelek 16, Vaera 1

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Chelek 16, Shemos 2 - Antidote to Forgetfulness - Your Inner Moshe

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Chelek 15, Vayechi 2 - The Greatest Bond is the Invisible One

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Chelek 15, Vayigash 1

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Chelek 15, Vayishlach 1 - Rabbi Eli Friedman - Whatever it takes

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Chelek 15, Vayera 1 - Rabbi Eli Friedman - The Power of One Challah

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Chelek 15, Vayera 2 - Rabbi Eli Friedman - An Amazing Reminder to Be Joyful

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Chelek 15, Lech Lecha 2 - Torah: limited and unlimited editions

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Chelek 15, Lech Lecha 1 - Learning from Noach and Avraham

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Chelek 15, Noach 2 - HaShem is One and His World is One

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Chelek 19, Nitzavim 2

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When you start a Mitzvah, make sure to finish it.

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The Antidote to Fear

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Understanding the Kind of Love Moshe Had for His People

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The Mutual Respect and Affection between HaShem and the Yidden

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Every Experience in Life, Even the Ones We’re Least Proud of, Come from HaShem for a Higher Purpose

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Our Plea for Moshiach and Hashem’s Plea for Korbanos

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Moshe’s G-dly Devotion to His People - All His People

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With Bilaam’s Help We Need Never Back Down

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Hashem’s Personal Supervision is Given to Every Jew Big or Small

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Wanting Something Lofty is Already an Achievement

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The sin of the spies

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Don’t let your greatness blind you

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The Definition of Jewish Work and Rest

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How to Stir the Feelings of a Jew

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A Sense of Urgency for Teshuva

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The Role of the Jew in the Wonder of Yom Kippur

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The Ultimate Unlimited Plan

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Why Korbanot Work

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A Big Alef and a Small Alef

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The Key Ingredient in Successful Leadership

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The Heart and Action of Yiddishkeit

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How to Recover from a Loss of Interest

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Esther’s Special Inspiration for Every Jew

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A Torah Scholar is Always Ready to Move

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The Great Spirit of the Plain Material

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Fundraising with Pure Motives

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Yiddishkeit Eved-Ivri Style

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The Logical Progression of Yisro - Mishpatim

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How to Allow for Real Change

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Reaching Beyond the Comfort Level

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Tracking Hidden Enemies

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How to keep Shabbos all week long

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To Live with Joy Always

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Moshiach’s Transformation in a Flash

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Rearranging Life to Reach a Child

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Borders in a time of Anarchy

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The Intrinsic Connection between Moshe and Moshiach

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A Matter of Choice

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The Generation is Not as Unworthy as we Think

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How Light and Darkness Interact

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The Rules of Crying

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Live like the miracle’s about to happen

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How did the brothers tell Yaakov what happened to Yosef?

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Change the environment

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To keep from backsliding, you gotta keep climbing

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Steps to successful and lasting inspirations

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Why Jews can’t settle for Golus

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The secret to a successful mission

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Neutralizing an Enemy is Good; Conquering it is Better

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The Distinction between the Avot and the Shevatim

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Blessed with the Power of Infinity

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When Hashem is good to you, what’s your responsibility?

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Does Yiddishkeit Need to be a Challenge?

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Between a Rock and a Brick

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Learning from Avraham how to argue a case

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The Unique Power of Birchas Kohanim

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Why Every Bris is Avraham Avinu’s Bris

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How Light Got into the Ark

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The Great Flood, the Giant Mikveh

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The Fine Line Between Being Helpful and Being Judgmental

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We Didn’t Steal the Land

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Why the Celebration of Simchas Torah is Not on Shavuot

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Two Ways of Understanding the Name Simchat Torah

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A Grammatical Lesson in Teshuva

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Finding yourself more at home with Heaven than Earth

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The unique pleasure of having and studying the Torah

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Grab A Trumpet and Bring Your Fellow Jew Back Home

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A Very Personal Rosh Hashanah Message

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Whose Torah is it Anyway?

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Special Teshuva When the Year Begins on Shabbat

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The Businessman’s Complete Guide on How to be a Water Carrier and Wood Chopper

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Finding the Perception to See Through the Veil of the Natural World

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Permeating This Earthy Life with Heavenly Energy

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There’s Always the Peaceful Option

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What Amalek Cannot Touch

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The Mitzvah to be a Simple Jew

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The Awesome Power of a Shul

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Two Lessons from the Prohibition Against Consuming Blood

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Hashem is Your Shadow and You are His

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The Power of Assisting in a Mitzvah

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Never Backwards, Always Forward

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Carrying, sealing, measuring, and tying: the reward for Shabbat

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Learn Torah and Make Shema Unstoppable

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Moshe’s Undying Respect for His People

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Why Did Israel Fall into Our Lap?

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Hashem’s Efforts to Help Us Do the Mitvah in the Best Way

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Hashem Gave Us a Present

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Why Moshe Forgot

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The Cautious Embrace

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Our Needs and Hashem’s Needs

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Always, everywhere - the gift of modesty.

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The Power of the Greatest Teshuva

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The Truly Unforgettable Beis Hamikdash

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Equality in Mitzvahs

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Never stop searching for redeeming qualities in your fellow Jew.

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The Power of a Rebbe’s Prayer

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Lessons from the Story of the Meraglim

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The definition of true humility

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Calling for Hashem’s when the danger has passed

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Why isn’t Hashem’s voice everywhere, always?

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Why wander the desert for 40 years?

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The Power of the Positive

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Your Money is Yours to...Elevate

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How Shabbos effects the weekdays.

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Every Jew can live like a Levi.

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Torah study in quantity and quality.

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The laws of Shabbat and Shmita and their impact on the mundane.

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The meaning of the verses of “remembrance” on Rosh Hashana: who needs to remember what?

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The secret to a successful Omer counting

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Why the laws of Kosher and forbidden relationships are preceded by “I am the L-rd your G-d.”

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The dizzying heights of holiness attainable and expected of each of us.

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How can a person repair the damage done by gossip or slander?

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Only a mother can create a son, and only the Jewish people on earth can bring Moshiach.

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An amazing tale of a heavenly dispute resolved by a rabbi

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The lessons to be learned from Nadav and Avihu.

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The incredible degree to which each of us is expected to experience a personal exodus on the night of Pesach.

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Like Egypt, exile is a kind of confinement and imprisonment, and the redemption is the ultimate day of freedom.

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The ultimate miracle is when darkness decides to become light.

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The Korbanot served to fulfill both the Jews’ and G-d’s deepest and dearest wish.

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G-d’s high estimation of us empowers us to rise higher.

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Between the Jews and Moshe, and holy home for Hashem is created.

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Don’t Break Shabbat to Build the Mishkan - the importance of not cutting corners when serving G-d

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The Power of Sacrifice - how one mans selflessness got the Mishkan built.

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The need for speed in the service of G-d.

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Why humility in indispensable when studying Torah.

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The Role of the Breastplate

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Pure olive oil teaches us to choose good over bad and better over good.

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The Three Donations

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The Essence of the Mishkan -- Dwelling Place or Sacrifices?

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The Jewish Slave: "His Master Shall Pierce His Ear"

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The obligation to extend loans

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Thought, Speech and Action on Shabbos

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Yisro -- Priest of Midian

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Prayer -- The Craft of the Patriarchs

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Miriam The Prophetess, Aaron's Sister