The Ten Commandments were inscribed on two tablets, on the first tablet, were five statements about the relationship between a person and his or her creator (God and parents). The second five focus on the relationship between a person and his or her peers. The design of the tablets teaches us, that in order to be complete, people must cultivate proper relationships with their peers just as much as they ...
Read MoreHow would you follow-up the Revelation at Sinai? Probably not the way that G-d did in the Torah. View this video directly on Vimeo.
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As different as the Super Bowl and the Siyum Hashas were, they nevertheless shared one thing in common: The desire of the human for connection and unity. It is our belief that since the human soul was created with a similarity to Hashem and with the obligation to increase and cultivate that similarity, it therefore seeks out Oneness. Hashem, as the Shema states, is One – He is uniquely one, ...
Read MoreMoshe was brought up in the court of Pharaoh - the King of Egypt. Yet when his father-in-law Yitro came to him in the desert with advice, Moshe did something extraordinary. View this video directly on Vimeo.
Read MoreWe are not sure what the average person thinks when he sees the Turritopsis nutricula - the immortal jellyfish - in an aquarium. However, when Rabbi Mordechai Becher sees this amazing creature, he immediately thinks about the Jewish People and their long history. View this video directly on Vimeo.
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We are now in the month of Shevat and approaching the onset of spring, heralded by TuBishvat. I would like to discuss some of the unique mitzvot that apply in the land of Israel. Many of the various tithes and agricultural taxes follow the seven cycle of the the Sabbbatical year, Shemitta. In the seventh year of the agricultural cycle, Shmittah, no new crops are planted and only maintenance work is ...
Read MoreRabbi Mordechai Becher reads from an ethical guidebook given to all soldiers in the Israel Defense Force, and learns a major difference a Jewish army and a Gentile army. View this video directly on Vimeo.
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Usually, we classify the mitzvot, commandments, of the Torah into commandments that pertain to our relationship with Hashem and commandments that pertain to our relationship with other people. There are some who had a third category, the commandments that govern the relationship between body and soul, in other relationship with the self. When we think about the commandment to remember the Exodus, we would be inclined to define it as being ...
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One of the famous questions that is asked regarding the Exodus from Egypt and the whole issue of the slavery of the Jews in Egypt is that, indeed G-d had actually told Abraham that his children would be slaves in a foreign land, he predicted the exile, He said the Jews would be enslaved. If so, the commentaries ask, then the Egyptians should not get punished, because they were fulfilling ...
Read MoreRabbi Mordechai Becher was live in the village of Neve Michael, a village that has been home to Jews for nearly 3000 years, and has recently experienced a resurgence of Jewish residents during the past few years. View this video directly on Vimeo.
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