Why do funny things make us happy? Rabbi Becher uses the Gemora and Groucho Marx to try to find the answer. View this video directly on Vimeo.
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I was recently in Amsterdam where I was scholar in residence for a community Shabbaton. It was a wonderful experience, but hectic and exhausting as well. I arrived at Schiphol Airport at 6.15am in order to allow time to daven shacharis (pray the morning service) at the airport. Thank G-d I was able to find a quiet space in an airport lounge, and although I am usually a little tense ...
Read MoreRabbi Becher speaks about the amazing sign he saw in the office of the renowned philanthropist Mr. Zev Wolfson Z"L. View this video directly on Vimeo.
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We will be celebrating the festival of Purim very soon, so I would like to give you an overview of the history, background and significance of this festival. The Purim story begins about 900 years after the Exodus from Egypt. The Jews had been living in Israel continually, since they first entered with Joshua. For 410 years, King Solomon’s Temple in Jerusalem had been the focal point of Jewish spiritual ...
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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 ...
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Rabbi Mordechai Becher’s VLog – A Not Very Spiritual Parsha – Parshat Mishpatim 5780
How 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 ...
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