Prepare for Yom Hazikaron/ Yom Ha'atzmaut: We Were Sheep, We Are Now Doves, The Pride and Pain or Yom Hazikaron; The "Mikvah" Of Jewish History; The Miracle of Jewish Soldiers; Redemptions in 2448 and 5708
Reclaiming Redemption For Yom Ha'atzmaut Part II: It is the Unpredicatblility of Redemption Which Makes it Divine; Yirmiyahu Learns the Lesson in Fallen Yerushalayim; We Learn it Through the Prophecy of Zecharya
Reclaiming Redemption for Yom Ha'atzmaut: How Do We Know That The State of Israel is Yad Hashem?; 5 Signs: Kibutz Galuyot, Brown to Green, The Sound of Torah, National Success, Proximity to the Holocaust
10 Minute Rashi for Tazria: How To Celebrate Someone Else's Simcha; Acknowledging Collective Fate and Avoiding Judgementalism; Sometimes the "Less You Know The Better"
Halachik Questions from The Holocaust: Beracha on Matyrdom; Saving a Baby's Life; Suicide to Avoid Suffering; A Parochet as a Chupah?; Dealing With Revolting Tatoos
Thoughts for Yom Hashoah: Dont Conflate the Holocuast with Our War With Iran and Modern Antisemitism; Three Differences Between the Hoolocaust and 2026
10 Minute Rashi for Shemini: Humility Shouldn't Paralyze Achievement; Empowering People to Overcome Their Inhibitions; Aharon's Moment of Self-Discipline and of Submission to the Divine Mystery
Prepare for Pesach #13: Why Mention Our Grandfather Terach Who Worshipped Idols; Broadening the Story of Yetziat Mitzrayim Back to Bereishit; Very Few Jews Are "Off the Derech"
Prepare for Pesach #12: The Three Theological Makkot- Dam, Arov and Barad: Debunking Paganism; Disocveirng Hashem Throuugh Nature and Her 'Boundaries'; Exclusivity of Hashem
Prepare for Pesach #11: 50, 200, Or 250? How Many Makkot Occured in Egypt and How Many At Keriyat Yam Suf? Was the Yam Suf a Sepaarte Event or A Climax to The 10 Makkot?; Building Faith Through Rapid Miracles
Prepare for Pesach #10- The 5 Rabbis of Bnei Berak; Discussing Yetziat Mitzrayim During the Day?; Transitioning from Spiritual Highs; Religious Experiences and Mitzvot; Geulah as a Trigger for Kabalat Malchut Shamayim
Prepare for Pesach #9 : A Message for All Those Whose Pesach Seder Will Be "Limited" By the War; Rav Amital's Story About Shabbat in The Concentration Camps; Pesach in 1987 During the First Intafada
Prepare for Pesach #5: Tzei U'Lemad- Dashed Expectations; A Tyrant Who Must Prove His Power; Tefilla Isn't Always "Intentioned"; Hashem Invokes Brit Avot; Living in the Land and Shelters of Brit Avot
Prepare for Pesach #4: Learning that Hashem is Unknowable; The Makkot Resembled War; The Egyptian Civil War; Pesach means to "Hover"; A Preloaded "Mateh"; The 10 Makkot Will Return
10 Minute Rashi for Vayikra: Teaching Torah With Love and With a Smile; Chazara is Recall and Internalization; Read Less, Think More; Social Media and Tzniyut; Tzniyut in Talmud Torah
A Neziv for Vayikra (w/source sheet): Is Torah Sheba'al Peh "Recovery of Truth" or "Creating Truth"; Why Are They Referred to as Amoraim; The She'iltot and the Neziv: Finding Sources for Chazal; Why is a Person of Authority more Vunerable to Sin?
A Midrash for Vayikra: Where Does Sin Originate From?; Don't Criminalize the Body; Tzelem Elokim...in Our Bodies; Overusing the Terms Gashmiyut and Ruchniyut