Audio and Essays Parashat Vaera

Audio and Essays Parashat Vaera

http://arikahn.blogspot.com/2020/01/audio-and-essays-parashat-vaera.html

 

 

New Lecture:

The Dual Objectives of the Plagues

https://www.yutorah.org/lectures/1085861/The-Dual-Objectives-of-the-Plagues

 

Tu Bshvat – A Holiday for Trees?

The strange history of the varied celebrations of Tu Bshvat

https://www.yutorah.org/lectures/1085859/Tu-Bshvata-Holiday-for-Trees? 

 

They are all Holy - Rabbi Yisrael Zev Gustman (Updated Essay- 2023)

This is an update of my most cited (and copied article)

 

 

This just appeared in the anthology edited by Aviad Hacohen and Menachem Butler, Praying for the Defenders of Our Destiny: The Mi Sheberach for IDF Soldiers (Cambridge, MA, 2023).

 

 

Five Minutes of Torah:

Birthright

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Setbacks on the Way to Redemption

YouTube

 

Crocodile Rock

YouTube

 

Bad Decisions

YouTube – Bad Decisions

 

Audio

Breaking the Chains

 

The Jagged Trajectory of Redemption

 

Pharaoh the Joker

 

Signs Wonders and Punishments

Audio

Video

 

The Trajectory of Redemption

 

Pointing A Finger

 

Pharaoh's Conundrum

 

You Say You Want a Devolution

 

The Path to Transcendence

 

Deserving Freedom

 

Manifestation of Hashem's Names

 

Losing Our Religion

 

Moshe's Inspiration

 

The Plague of "Frogs" and Kiddush Hashem

 

Knowledge In Exile (The Haftorah)

The Haftorah for Vaera - the exile of Knowledge

 

Moshe And Aharon

 

The Four Expressions of Redemption and the Brit Bein Habitarim

 

The Exodus and Elusive Perfection

 

Essays:

Pointing a Finger

 

You Say You Want a Devolution

 

Lessons in Leadership (As published in Jerusalem Report)

 

Pharaoh’s Conundrum

 

The Fifth Cup

 

Frogs

 

Pharaoh's Heart

 

And His Name Will Be One

 

Parashat Vaera - Setbacks On The Way To Redemption

Parashat Shmot Remembering Yosef

Audio and Essays Parashat Shmot

Audio and Essays Parashat Shmot

 

New:

Finding Dignity

 

Conversations | Rav Moshe Taragin with Rav Ari Kahn | Shemot 5782

 

5-minute shiur-

 

Audio -The Birth of Redemption

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Audio-  The Beginning of Redemption

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5-minute Shiur

Remembering Yosef

YouTube

 

Audio shiurim

Lingering Yosef

 

Knowledge

 

The Redemption Whisperer

 

A Loving Sister

 

Microcosm of Redemption

 

The Beginning of Redemption

 

Blueprint of Redemption

 

Raising Moshe

 

Bereishit a Retrospective

 

The Book of Shmot an Introduction:

 

The Redeemers

 

A Sign Of Redemption

 

A New King - who Forgot Yosef (5772)

 

Straw 

 

Shmot - a Brief Overview What Is FREEDOM

 

Who Forgot - and Who Remembered Yosef? (5773)

 

The Metamorphosis of Moshe

 

The Choice of Moshe as Leader

 

 

Essays:

Forgetting -and Remembering -Yosef

 

We Are Family

 

Redemption Song

 

A New Book, An Old Story 

 

Moshe: The Emergence of a Leader

 

Collecting Straw

 

Born to Lead

 

Fathers and Sons

 

Moses' Stop

 

 

Audio and Essays Parashat Vayechi

Audio and Essays Parashat Vayechi

 

New

The Color Purple

 

And the Winner is...

YouTube

 

Yehuda and Yosef - the Blessed Tribes (Audio)

YouTube

 

Anointing a King Audio

Anointing a King YouTube

 

Who is First

video YouTube

https://youtu.be/Twnrlte1TzE

 

five-minute audio

One People

 

Audio shiurim

 

Family Secrets

 

Transporting the Shechina

The Surprise Ending of the Book of Bereishit

A Happy Ending

 

The Blessings of Yaakov?

 

Take Me Home

 

Bereishit; a Book Review

 

Losing Prophecy

 

Revelation and Confusion

 

The Deaths of Yakov and Esav

 

Yosef and Shechem; did Yakov ever know about the Sale of Yosef?

 

Did Yosef Hate his Brothers?

 

חזק חזק-ישר כח - מקור של המנהג

              

 

Essays:

The Glorious Victory of Yehudah

 

Love and Loss

 

Parshat Vayechi/ Take Me Home

 

An Inconclusive Conclusion

 

Father and Son

 

Salvation

 

Conclusions

 

Who Are These?

 

The Death of Jacob

 

 

Parashat Vayechi Yehuda and Yosef The Blessed Tribes

The Genius of Vilna: A Legacy (article in Jerusalem Post)

The Genius of Vilna: A Legacy
(article in Jerusalem Post)

Audio and Essays Parashat Vayigash

Audio and Essays Parashat Vayigash

New shiur

The Whisper of Reconciliation

 

Excerpt from Healing and Repairing

A Dream Surrendered PDF

 

5 Minute 

In the Name of the Father

YouTube

 

YouTube

Parashat Vayigash

Seeds of Anti-Semitism

 

Special – 

Musings on Anti-Semitism

 

Five-minute Torah –

Becoming Whole

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Five-minute Torah –

Is My Father Still Alive?

YouTube - Is My Father Still Alive?

 

 

Audio:

Is My Father Still Alive?

Giving up on a Dream

 

Plots, Schemes and Repercussions

 

Vindicated

 

Becoming Whole

 

Isolation or Integration

Video

 

Polytheism and Monotheism: The Benei Rachel

 

Is My Father Still Alive?

 

Manifest Destiny

 

Honesty and Empathy – The Inner World of Yehudah

 

Brothers and Others

 

Parshat Vayigash / The Inner Meaning of the Wagons

 

Parshat Vayigash / The merger of Yehudah and Yosef (The Haftorah for Parshat Vayigash)

 
Escaping from Yosef's Trap

 

 Yosef; Tour Guide of a Guilt Trip

 

Making Dreams Come True

 

The Stature Of Yosef

 

Essays:

Emotional Truth: Becoming Brothers Once Again

 

Seeing a Ghost 

 

Becoming Yehuda

 

Plan Interrupted

 

Wagons

 

Becoming Yehuda (5775)

 

The Power of an Idea (5761)

 

Joseph From the Kabbalistic Perspective (5760)

Download PDF

 

Essay in Hebrew מי בראש?

Parashat Vayigash Seeds of Antisemitism

Musings on Antisemitism

Audio and Essays Parashat Miketz/ Chanuka

 

Audio and Essays Parashat Miketz/ Chanuka

Shabbat Shalom

Chanuka Sameach

Chodesh Tov

 

New Lecture

Chanukah and Yosef - Seeing Up Close

Audio

YouTube

http://arikahn.blogspot.com/2023/12/chanukah-and-yosef-seeing-up-close.html

 

The Executioner’s Protege

YouTube - The Executioner’s Protege

Pulling the Trigger

 

5 min audio

Is Chanukah More than a Festival of Lights?

Making Things Right

 

Looking For His Brothers

 

5 min. Video

Chanukah - More than a festival of lights

Parshat Miketz Making Things Right

 

Parshat Mikeitz Looking For His Brothers

 

Audio:

In Search of Bread

 

Reconstructing a Broken Family

Audio

Video

 

Becoming Yosef

 

Polytheism and Monotheism: The Benei Rachel

A Cherished Chalice

 

The Unbearable Burden of Greatness

 

The Beauty of Yosef

 

Making Dreams Come True

Finding God

Escaping from Yosef's Trap

 

 

Yosef's Plan A, Plan B, and Plan C

האסטרטגיה וטקטיקה של יוסף

יהודה ואחיו ומלכות

 

Why Yosef Never Contacted his Family(new old shiur)

 

God Consciousness

 

Love and Hatred – Yosef his brothers and Tisha Bav  (Hebrew) 

LINK

 

 

  

Essays:

The Executioner’s Protege

 

A Cherished Chalice 

 

Crime and Punishment

 

Staring at the Truth

 

Victim No More

 

Dreams

 

Of Spies and Thieves

 

The Beauty of Joseph

 

Chanukah

Vulnerability, Stability, and Holiness; A Perspective of Chanukah from the Land of Israel

 

Why are there 8 (and not 7 or 9) days of Chanuka (Hebrew)

link

 

Chanukat Hamizbayach; History and Theology

 

Chanukah - Candles and Unicorns

 

Women and Chanukah candles

 

Parshat Vayeshev and Chanuka

 

Chanuka Candles and Danger

 

Chachmat Yavan - Greek Wisdom

 

Pirsumie Nisa

Link

 

Guests on Chanuka Part 1

 

Guests on Chanuka Part 2

 

Sufgniot Pat Haba Bkisnin

 

Chanukah Candles on Erev Shabbat

 

Parshat Miketz Making Things Right

Chanukah - More than a festival of lights