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From Torahs to Stories – Part 4
Rav Yair Dreifuss • 2012With writing, words lose the vitality they may have had in speech – the spontaneity, the presence of the speaker. But only then can it survive the ...
Parashat pekudei - Life as a Journey with the Mishkan
Rav Avishai Schreiber • 2019The story of Am Yisrael’s travels in the desert might show us an alternative kind of journey, one that is fulfilling in and of itself - the sojou...
Hooray! I Am an Orphan - Discourse for Purim
Rav Achia Sandowsky • 2019As an orphan, Esther is not bound by any rules. She gets lost, and does not only lose her father’s home, but also Mordechai. This kind of going is ...
From Torahs to Stories – Part 5
Rav Yair Dreifuss • 2012The joy described by Ramba”m is not an external performance of tomfoolery; it possesses a dimension of bodily freedom and forgetting of the self, w...
Parashat Tazria – Ways of awakening
R. Dr. Avishar Har Shefi • 2019The first verse of the parashah and the Sages' commentary on it are used in Hasidism as a platform for emphasizing the importance of the Itarauta D...
From Torahs to Stories – Part 6
Rav Yair Dreifuss • 2012In our times, people are able to achieve that level earlier than in previous generations, when a longer process of maturation and gradual elevation...
Pesach: The Month of Dreams
Rav Elchanan Nir • 2019What is the significance of this monthly celebration apart from Pesach, which is only spread out over one week out of the four weeks of the month o...
Parashat BaHar – The two sides of Shemita
Rav Yossi Gamliel • 2019Rav Yossi Gamliel about the two appearances of Shemitah in the Tora, and two aspects of holiness - the sides of affluence and abandoning.
From Torahs to Stories - Part 7
Rav Yair Dreifuss • 2012“I will tell you how they were happy.” Happiness becomes the critical point of this whole process. Usually we understand joy as an expression of ab...
Parashat BaMidbar - The quantity and the quality
Rav Dr. Ori Lifshitz • 2019From the start of “the book of assemblies” We may be able to learn the qualitative meaning of large - God's praise is revealed in the multitude of...
Likutei Moharan, Torah 8: Spirit, Inspiration and Halacha – Part 3
Rav Shagar • 2005In this Torah Rav Nachman teaches about the physical dimension of notion of patience (erekh apayim): the sigh is not an exhalation alone: it is als...
Happiness in the Fall from Kingship - Part 1
Rav Yair Dreifuss • 2012As long as a person lives under the illusion that he will live forever - endless doors open before him. His mindset dictates that the current situa...
