Tuesday, December 31, 2019
Thursday, December 26, 2019
Audio and Essays Parashat Miketz/ Chanuka
Audio and Essays Parashat Miketz/ Chanuka
New
The Executioner’s Protege
YouTube - The Executioner’s Protege
5 min audio
Is Chanukah More than a Festival of Lights?
5 min. Video
Chanukah - More than a festival of lights
Parshat Miketz Making Things Right
Parshat Mikeitz Looking For His Brothers
Audio:
Polytheism and Monotheism: The Benei Rachel
The Unbearable Burden of Greatness
Yosef's Plan A, Plan B, and Plan C
Why Yosef Never Contacted his Family(new old shiur)
Love and Hatred – Yosef his brothers and Tisha Bav (Hebrew)
Essays:
Chanukah
Why are there 8 (and not 7 or 9) days of Chanuka (Hebrew)
Chanukat Hamizbayach; History and Theology
Chanukah - Candles and Unicorns
Chanukah Candles on Erev Shabbat
Monday, December 23, 2019
Friday, December 20, 2019
Audio and Essays Parashat Vayeshev
Audio and Essays Parashat Vayeshev
New Shiur
Yosef and Yehuda: Tzadik and Baal Teshuva? Chasid and Litvak?
New Essay
The Imagined Trials and Real Tribulations of Yosef
Audio
Hebrew Chanukah Shiur
Five minute Audio - Unequal
New shiur
Yosef's brilliant plan to unite his family - which succeeded in an unanticipated manner.
Worse than you Thought – 5 min. audio
Worse than you Thought - YouTube
Unequal YouTube
Audio:
The Imaginary Trials and Real Tribulations of Yosef
Theory of Conservation of Characters
The Dynamics of a Dysfunctional Patriarchal Family
שנאה ואהבה במכירת יוסף -שיעור לט' באב
נוח לו לאדם שיפיל את עצמו לתוך כבשן האש
Laws of Embarrassing others (Hebrew)
Essays:
Parashat Vayeshev 5776 Family Dynamics
Chanukah
Why are there 8 (and not 7 or 9) days of Chanuka (Hebrew)
Chanukat Hamizbayach; History and Theology
Chanukah - Candles and Unicorns
Chanukah Candles on Erev Shabbat
Monday, December 16, 2019
Thursday, December 12, 2019
Audio and Essays Parashat Vayishlach
Audio and Essays Parashat Vayishlach
New - Lecture
The Blame Game
Video
New essay (hopefully the link will work later today)
A Multifaceted Injury
YouTube
Audio
Three Confrontations
YouTube
Sarah's Protege
Audio
Sarah's Protege (5 minute version of The Unsung Hero)
YouTube:
YouTube
Fighting Angels, Facing Demons
Audio:
Yaacov's Multidimensional Injury
What are the various ways one can understand the injury to Yaacov in his epic battle with his mysterious assailant? And what does this have to do with Esav's tattoo?
The Unsung Hero – Full Shiur
Fighting Angels facing Demons (Full lecture)
Fighting angels facing demons - 5 minute - Audio
Esav and his Henchman- Five minute -Audio
Struggle of Yakov and Esav from Birth to Almost Death
The Struggle of Yaakov and Esav; Yom Kippur and Sukkot
Yakov's Struggle; Identifying the Angel of Esav
The Ultimate Defeat of Esav by Yosef (Haftorah)
Theological Echoes of The Confrontation between Yakov and Esav
Kol and Rav -Michal and Meirav; The Secret Identity of King David
Who are You - Yakov or Yisrael?
Parashat Vayishlach - Yakov and Yisrael
Essays:
Parashat Vayishlach Homeward Bound
Preparing for Battle, Praying for Peace
חנוכה - שבת כא-כב
Wednesday, December 11, 2019
Tuesday, December 3, 2019
Monday, December 2, 2019
Thursday, November 28, 2019
Audio and Essays Parashat Toldot
Audio and Essays Parashat Toldot
New –
The Superficiality of Esav
New Essay:
A Little Bit of Lavan
Validation
Audio - Validation
YouTube- Validation
Yitzchak - A Life
Following the Footsteps of a Giant Audio
Following the Footsteps of a Giant - YouTube
Explorations Expanded – Book Review-
Family Dynamics Audio
Family Dynamics YouTube
Carry on My Wayward Son YouTube
Audio:
A Little Bit of Lavan
The Complicated Dysfunctional Patriarchal Family
The Best of Intentions
Family Dynamics (5min)
The Religious Development of Rivka and Yakov
Struggle of Yakov and Esav from Birth to Almost Death
Yitzchak in The Footsteps of Avraham
Relationship of Esav and Rivka
Rivka - the Background of a Matriarch - A Rose among the Thorns
The Voice and Hands of Yaakov and Esav
Essays:
The Voice (and Hands) of Yaakov
Stealing Brachot (Hebrew) - ברכות גנובות יימתקו
כיבוד באכילה ושתיה למי שיודע שלא יברך