Harry Rothenberg shows us that toil has its rewards. View this video directly on Vimeo
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We are now in the period of time known as Sefiras Ha’omer – counting of the Omer, the time between Pesach and the following festival which is Shavuot. Shavuot celebrates the giving of the Torah at Sinai, when the Jewish people received the Torah at Mount Sinai, which occurred the 50th day after the exodus of Egypt. And so, in between Passover, when we became a nation, we were born ...
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Rabbi Mordechai Becher’s VLog – The Ohr HaChaim’s 42 Comments – Parshat Bechukotai 5779
Rabbi Mordechai Becher looks at the commentary of the Ohr HaChaim, who has 42 different explanations for the first verse of this week's Parsha. View this video directly on Vimeo.
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The Biblical sources related to the commandment of tzedakah (charity) are found in this week’s Parsha, BeHar, in the section discussing the laws of the Sabbatical Year. The Torah states that any personal loans still outstanding at the end of this year are automatically cancelled. Nevertheless, God orders the people not to withhold loans close to the Sabbatical Year, but to lend the poor what they need. The fundamental principles ...
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Rabbi Mordechai Becher’s VLog – A Single Stone or a Conglomerate? – Parshat Behar 5778
Rabbi Becher explains why the forefathers Abraham, Isaac and Jacob made altars of a single stone, yet all other Jews after them were required to make an altar of multiple stones. View this video directly on Vimeo.
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The Omer is counted for the final time on the 49th night. The following evening, the festival of Shavuot begins at sundown. Shavuot is the anniversary of the Revelation on Mount Sinai, when God communicated the Torah to the entire Jewish people and in so doing, revealed to them their national mission and purpose. In our prayers Shavuot is referred to as Zman Matan Torateinu, the Time of Giving of ...
Read MoreThis coming Sunday is the 28th of Iyar, the day when Jerusalem’s Old City and the Western came back into Jewish hands during the 1967, Six Day War, and it is also the date of the anniversary of the death (yahrzeit) of the prophet Samuel. The Jewish people have a special relationship with the entire Land of Israel, but our bond specifically with the city of Jerusalem is as deep ...
Read MoreThe punishments with which we are threatened for disobeying G-d take up twice as many passages as the blessings promised us for observance. Why? View this video directly on Vimeo.
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