Posts by Rabbi Yochanan Bechhofer

Rabbi Yochanan Bechhofer

734 posts

Purim: The Shushan Conspiracy

6 years ago

Haman and Achashveirosh’s plot to supplant Yerushalayim http://evenshesiya.com/shushan_conspiracy.mp3 If you’re viewing this on a portable device, such as a phone, and are having difficulty playing the shiur, then try the…

Parsha sheet: Parshas Titzaveh/Zachor – Hands over Head & Nameless

02 Shemos, All, Parsha, Parsha Sheet

6 years ago

Click here to download PDF Sponsored in Honor of the engagement of Menachem Yisroel Bechhofer & Bracha Golda Lichtman Why always Titzaveh – Zachor? In every regular (non-leap) year we…

Parsha sheet: Terumah – The Power of the Benevolent Heart

02 Shemos, All, Parsha, Parsha Sheet

6 years ago

Click here to download PDF Why leave it up to us? In this week’s Parsha the Jewish people as a collective are commanded to construct the Mishkan. Hashem left it…

Parsha sheet: Mishpatim – Sweet sounds and tastes

02 Shemos, All, Parsha, Parsha Sheet

6 years ago

Click here to download PDF The Two accounts of Matan Torah In this week’s Parsha we find a whole other account of Matan Torah from a different perspective. It looks…

Parsha Sheet: Yisro – Forever New

02 Shemos, All, Parsha, Parsha Sheet

6 years ago

Click here to download PDF Never Gets Old The Posuk says: ”on the third month of B’nai Yisroel leaving Egypt on this day they came to the Sinai desert” Rashi…

Reflections on the state of the union address and the Jewish New year for Trees

All, Chagim, Machshava, Tu B'Shvat

6 years ago

Tu B’Shvat – Understanding the Seder

All, Chagim, Tu B'Shvat

6 years ago

http://evenshesiya.com/understanding_the_seder_tu_bshvat.mp3 Delivered on Leil Tu B’Shvat 5778 If you’re viewing this on a portable device, such as a phone, and are having difficulty playing the shiur, then try the below…

Tu B’Shvat – Tree as Metaphor for Reality

All, Audio, Chagim, Tu B'Shvat

6 years ago

http://evenshesiya.com/tu_bshvat_tree_as_metaphor_for_reality.mp3 Delivered 1/25/18 in the Young Israel of Long Beach Liluy Nishmas Dovid ben Reuven Michoel z”l If you’re viewing this on a portable device, such as a phone, and…

Parsha Sheet: Beshalach – Harmonious Systems

02 Shemos, All, Parsha, Parsha Sheet

6 years ago

Click here to download PDF Think Before you sing? Az Yashir Moshe – Then will sing (yashir) Moshe. It that should say “then sang (shar) Moshe”! Why is there the…

Parsha Sheet: Bo – Covering the “Eye of Earth”

02 Shemos, All, Parsha, Parsha Sheet

6 years ago

Click here to download PDF 7 & 3 The first thing to observe, is that the Torah saw fit to separate the 10 plagues into two different Parshiyos. Seven out…