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Succos 5787 - Not Extraordinary, Just Whole (opens the original)
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The Tur teaches that each of the three regalim corresponds to one of our forefathers: Pesach to Avraham's legendary chesed, Shavuos to Yitzchak's willingness to be bound at the Akeidah. Succos, though, is tied to Yaakov for something that sounds almost too ordinary to belong in that company: he built shelters for his livestock. Rabbi Yaakov Kier asks the obvious question, and the answer hides in a completely different moment from Yaakov's life, one involving a boulder, a well, and a strange line
Hazenu 5787 - A Sin of Not Enough (opens the original)
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Why does Hashem never actually say what Moshe and Aharon did wrong? At the very end of Ha'azinu, Moshe is told plainly that he and Aharon won't enter the land, but the reason given isn't a forbidden act or a moment of anger. It's something harder to pin down: they simply didn't sanctify Hashem's Name the way the moment demanded. This week, we trace that puzzling standard back to an earlier scene in the desert, where the Midrash accuses Moshe himself of being "lazy," and uncover why our sages som
Rosh HaShana 5787 - Not Overlooked — Understood (opens the original)
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Every Rosh Hashana we ask Hashem, in Avinu Malkeinu, to "remember us with a favorable remembrance." But if Hashem forgets nothing — if every deed, thought, and motive already stands before Him in full — what exactly are we asking Him to do? And if it's really just a request for forgiveness, why not simply say so? This week, we look at a question Rav Yehuda Amital zt"l pressed hard on, and an answer that changes what we think we're doing every time we daven for a good year. This is a public episo
Netzavim - Vayelich 5786 - The King You Never Elected (opens the original)
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When Moshe hands over leadership to Yehoshua at the end of Devarim, he tells him he will "come" into the land with the nation. A few pesukim later, Hashem tells Yehoshua he will "bring" the nation into the land instead. It's the same handoff, the same Yehoshua, almost the same sentence — yet Onkelos translates one small word in these two pesukim in two completely different ways. Why does the Torah's language shift, and why does Onkelos shift right along with it? The answer traces back to a fusio
Ki Savo 5786 - Still Remembered, Still Alive (opens the original)
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Chazal call it a confession. If you look closely, there's no sin in it anywhere — just a person declaring they did everything right. What exactly is the "confession"? The answer runs through a lost arrangement from before the Golden Calf, a line from the Rosh Hashana Mussaf about what Hashem remembers and what He lets go, and a surprising twist: holding onto our good deeds too loosely might be the real mistake. This week on Mussar HaTorah, Parshas Ki Savo. This is a public episode. If you would
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