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  • Nitzavim – Repent Up Demand

    Nitzavim – Repent Up Demand
    Sep 18 2025
    How difficult is it to repent? How hard is it to examine your behavior, your choices, your values, your decisions to determine which are in need of improvement? How hard is it to reconsider your choices, to regret your mistakes, and to chart a new path forward, a path of righteousness, a path of purity, […]
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    1 h
  • Nitzavim Vayeilech – Pro Choice (5783)

    Nitzavim Vayeilech – Pro Choice (5783)
    Sep 16 2025
    On the final day of Moshe’s life, he gathers the entire nation for a parting message. After forging another covenant between the nation and God and explicating the consequences thereof, Moshe presents the nation with a choice: “Behold I have placed before you today: life and good vs. death and bad… Choose life.” There are […]
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  • Parshas Nitzavim (Rebroadcast)

    Parshas Nitzavim (Rebroadcast)
    Sep 14 2025
    On the final day of Moshe’s life, he gathered the entire nation – men, women, children, and according to the Talmud, all souls of future Jews – to pass them through a final covenant with God. The parsha also contains the prophetic predictions of the Messianic times, and it ends with a simple, binary choice: […]
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    52 min
  • Ki Savo – A Cursory Reading

    Ki Savo – A Cursory Reading
    Sep 11 2025
    Chapter 28 of Deuteronomy is arguably the most difficult portion in the Torah to read. Known as the Admonition, the chapter details the blessings that will be bestowed upon our nation when we adhere to the Laws of God. But it also has the curses that will befall our people in the event that we […]
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    1 h et 6 min
  • Ki Savo – Dial of Joy (5783)

    Ki Savo – Dial of Joy (5783)
    Sep 9 2025
    The Torah has a surprising view on joy and how to attain it. The prevailing attitude in our society is that a person’s state of joy is contingent upon circumstance: In good days, people tend to feel a bit more joyous. On bad days, it’s more difficult to feel joy. Joy, according to society, is […]
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    48 min
  • Parshas Ki Savo (Rebroadcast)

    Parshas Ki Savo (Rebroadcast)
    Sep 7 2025
    As the Book of Deuteronomy draws to its conclusion, the narrative makes a transition: Moshe finishes conveying the mitzvos to the nation, and sets up his final parting message to the people. First, he commands the nation to perform several elaborate ceremonies on the very first day that they cross the Jordan River; then he […]
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    56 min
  • Ki Seitzei – Yibbum Or Bust

    Ki Seitzei – Yibbum Or Bust
    Sep 4 2025
    The death of one’s spouse is always a tragedy, but there’s something particularly sad about someone who dies without children. Leaving no living progeny behind leaves a person without continuity, without a legacy in this world. When a man dies childless, the Torah instructs his wife to seek to marry her deceased husband’s brother in […]
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    55 min
  • Ki Seitzei – The Upside of Laziness (5783)

    Ki Seitzei – The Upside of Laziness (5783)
    Sep 2 2025
    Our parsha begins with the unusual law of the marriage of a Jewish warrior and an enemy captive woman. When a Jewish warrior spots a prisoner of war that he desires to marry, there is a process and a protocol for how he may marry her. The Talmud (also featured by Rashi) offers a very […]
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    51 min