HeyJaredWhy Did Rashi Say That?
Why does Rashi explain the "obvious"?There's always something deeper.Every episode, Rabbi Ari Klapper takes one Rashi from the parsha and asks: Why did he need to say that? What gap was he filling? How does this commentary crack open our lives today?Not a parsha summary.
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Truly Recognize Where We Are - Tisha Bav (opens the original)
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Can you mourn something you don't understand? Just before the kinos, Rabbi Klapper admits something honest: he could not understand Kina Vav — the sixth kina, a poetic acrostic that begins only at the letter Samech. And it's not the only one. Many kinos are simply beyond our grasp, especially in their difficult Hebrew. But the key was never the words. Even when we cannot connect to the language, we can still connect to the pnimius — the soul, the pain, the sorrow the kinos represent. And that pa
Shalom Bayis Series 2 Trailer: The Essence of a Jewish Home (opens the original)
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What if everything you thought you knew about marriage is only the surface? Season 2 of Shalom Bayis for Men goes deeper than practical tips. Building on the timeless teachings of Rav Chaim Friedlander zt"l, we return to the very beginning — the way Hashem created man and woman — to uncover what a marriage is actually meant to be. Why were we created as one being and then split apart? Why is a husband and wife's connection built entirely on chesed? And why did Hashem make men and women so fundam
Tisha B'av and Shabbos 2024 (opens the original)
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