Shiurim
Torah 57: Medicine, the Sage’s Wisdom and the Tikkun of Eating – part 7
Rav Shagar • 2008True faith in the Sages is a faith which is active while the Sage’s behavior and advice are realistic, tangible. There is, however, a dangerous kin...
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...
Torah 57: Medicine, the Sage’s Wisdom and the Tikkun of Eating – part 8
Rav Shagar • 2008Rav Nachman presents the chiddush that meriting Shabbat is achieved specifically through eating on Shabbat – “And you will eat/enjoy the inheritanc...
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...
Likutei Moharan 57: Medicine, the Sage’s Wisdom and the Tikkun of Eating – Part 9
Rav Shagar • 2008There is a deep connection between chessed and a rectified eating. An act of eating that lacks generosity and chessed leads - like any other primal...
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...
Likutei Moharan, Torah 8: Spirit, Inspiration and Halacha - Part 1
Rav Shagar • 2005One of Rabbi Nachman’s special traits – as this Torah and others show – is his belief that spiritual problems can be rectified through physical mea...
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...
