Want to be effective in your relationships? Rabbi Mordechai Becher says you need to get good intel! View this video directly on Vimeo.
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Many people seem to be bored with their lives. They look for diversion in activities such as swimming with sharks, bungee jumping and extreme sports. Others obsessively pursue whatever is new — fashion, music, or high-tech gadgets. This boredom really stems not from a lack of novelty, but from a lack of appreciation of life itself and all the blessings of life. A person who takes pleasure in his very ...
Read MoreThe Passover offering is the only commandment in the Torah that offers a "second chance". What can we learn from this second opportunity? View this video directly on Vimeo
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Rabbi Mordechai Becher’s VLog – Independence is a Torah Value – Beha’alotcha 5780
Rabbi Mordechai Becher connects the lighting of the Menorah in the Tabernacle with the teaching of a child - we want both to be independent. View this video directly on Vimeo.
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A great rabbi once said that it is easier to memorize the entire Babylonian Talmud than to change one character trait. Self-improvement is one of the greatest and most difficult challenges that a person faces. How does one go about overcoming a negative trait? The answer was supplied by my karate teacher many years ago (when I was fit and flexible). He said, “Always attack where the opponent is weakest.” The ...
Read MoreWhat can we learn from the singing of the Levites? View this video directly on Vimeo
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This Shabbos we will be continuing reading about the various tribes, their duties, their encampment, flags and donations to the Mishkan. This division into tribes was also seen earlier at the crossing of the Red Sea, where G-d took the unified waters of the sea and split them into multiple parts to create paths, one for each tribe. I think that one idea behind these divisions it that Hashem demonstrated ...
Read MoreSocial distancing and being a Nazarite are similar: Both actions are painful as they deprive a person of enjoyable and important parts of life. View this video directly on Vimeo.
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Measuring and marking the passage of time is a universal human preoccupation. At least forty different calendars are in use around the world today. The most widely used systems are the solar calendar, based on the cycle of the sun, and the lunar calendar, based on the cycle of the moon. Because of its orbit around the earth, the moon alternates between being fully exposed to sunlight (full moon) and ...
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Rabbi Mordechai Becher’s VLog – When In Doubt – Keep Another Day! – 2nd Shavuot 5780
Rabbi Mordchai Becher speaks about the second day of Shavuot, and what effect that has on reading the Torah in the Diaspora. View this video directly on Vimeo.
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