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Devarim

Parsha sheet: Ki Savo – The Alignment
20 Sep 2019

Parsha sheet: Ki Savo – The Alignment

by Rabbi Yochanan Bechhofer | posted in: 05 Devarim, Parsha, Parsha Sheet | 0

Click here to download PDF Eyes for Today? “On this day Hashem your Lord commands you to do all these statutes….” (26:16) Rashi brings from Chazal “this day means that it should be in your eyes as if today you … Continued

Ki Savo/Selichos – New Beginnings
19 Sep 2019

Ki Savo/Selichos – New Beginnings

by Rabbi Yochanan Bechhofer | posted in: 05 Devarim, Chagim, High Holidays, Parsha, Rosh Hashannah | 0

 

Parsha sheet: Ki Setzei – Mind Measures
13 Sep 2019

Parsha sheet: Ki Setzei – Mind Measures

by Rabbi Yochanan Bechhofer | posted in: 05 Devarim, Parsha, Parsha Sheet | 0

Click here to download PDF Faulty Weights & Amalek In this week’s Parsha, we have the obligation to maintain only accurate weights and measures and the prohibition to produce or to have inaccurate weights and measures even if they will … Continued

Parsha sheet: Shoftim – Law & Life Surge
6 Sep 2019

Parsha sheet: Shoftim – Law & Life Surge

by Rabbi Yochanan Bechhofer | posted in: 05 Devarim, Parsha, Parsha Sheet | 0

Click here to download PDF City Court The Parsha opens with the Mitzvah to set up Batei Dinim in all the tribes and all the major cities.  It is interesting to note that this strict halacha of a Beis Din … Continued

Parsha sheet: Re’eh/Rosh Chodesh Elul – Matching Wills
30 Aug 2019

Parsha sheet: Re’eh/Rosh Chodesh Elul – Matching Wills

by Rabbi Yochanan Bechhofer | posted in: 05 Devarim, Parsha, Parsha Sheet | 0

Click here to download PDF Special edition marking the conclusion of Kaddish for my Mother Z” L Meat In this week’s Parsha we learn about a drastic change in our personal lives that will go into effect in the land … Continued

Parshas Re’eh: Visual Perspective
29 Aug 2019

Parshas Re’eh: Visual Perspective

by Rabbi Yochanan Bechhofer | posted in: 05 Devarim, Parsha | 0

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Parsha sheet: Eikev – Thought for Food
23 Aug 2019

Parsha sheet: Eikev – Thought for Food

by Rabbi Yochanan Bechhofer | posted in: 05 Devarim, Parsha, Parsha Sheet | 0

Click here to download PDF Affliction & Hunger?!? “And He afflicted you and He starved you and He fed you the “Mann” that you did not know and was unknown to your forefathers in order to make you know that … Continued

Parsha sheet: Devarim/Chazaon – Tisha B’Av: Severance Pay
9 Aug 2019

Parsha sheet: Devarim/Chazaon – Tisha B’Av: Severance Pay

by Rabbi Yochanan Bechhofer | posted in: 05 Devarim, Parsha, Parsha Sheet | 0

Click here to download PDF Moshe Yishayahu Yirmiyahu “Eicha” – How can I carry by myself your contentiousness, your burdens and your quarrels” (1:12).  This Pasuk is traditionally read with an ‘Eicha tune’ as it is always read before Tisha … Continued

Devarim/Tisha B’Av – Shabbos: The Portal to Geula
9 Aug 2019

Devarim/Tisha B’Av – Shabbos: The Portal to Geula

by Rabbi Yochanan Bechhofer | posted in: 05 Devarim, 3 Weeks/Tish B’Av, Audio, Chagim, Parsha | 0

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Parsha sheet: Shabbos/Succos – BUILD THE WALL!
28 Sep 2018

Parsha sheet: Shabbos/Succos – BUILD THE WALL!

by Rabbi Yochanan Bechhofer | posted in: 05 Devarim, Parsha, Parsha Sheet | 0

Click here to download PDF Getting support for the Wall On Shabbos of Succos we have an interesting Halacha of “Migu d’havei dofen linyan Shabbos havei dofen linyan Succah –  Migu d’havei dofen linyan Succah havei dofen linyan Shabbos” -although … Continued

Parsha sheet: Haazinu-Succos-Hoshana Rabba-Simchas Torah – The Story of Life
21 Sep 2018

Parsha sheet: Haazinu-Succos-Hoshana Rabba-Simchas Torah – The Story of Life

by Rabbi Yochanan Bechhofer | posted in: 05 Devarim, High Holidays, Hoshana Rabba, Parsha, Parsha Sheet, Simchas Torah | 0

Click here to download PDF Haazinu – the essence of a sefer Torah The Rambam states (Hilchos sefer Torah 7:1) that the essence of the obligation to write a sefer Torah is actually to write the Parsha of Haazinu but … Continued

Parsha sheet: Vayelech/Shabbos Shuva – Rebirth
14 Sep 2018

Parsha sheet: Vayelech/Shabbos Shuva – Rebirth

by Rabbi Yochanan Bechhofer | posted in: 05 Devarim, Parsha, Parsha Sheet | 0

Click here to download PDF Moshe’s Birthday & Lifespan This week’s Parsha opens up with the day of death of Moshe. He stresses that he completed a hundred twenty years and hence is dying on his birthday. There is great … Continued

Nitzavim/Rosh Hashanah – Attaining Stability in the Face of Change
7 Sep 2018

Nitzavim/Rosh Hashanah – Attaining Stability in the Face of Change

by Rabbi Yochanan Bechhofer | posted in: 05 Devarim, Audio, Chagim, High Holidays, Parsha, Rosh Hashannah | 0

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Parsha sheet: Ki-Savo – Who’s on First?
31 Aug 2018

Parsha sheet: Ki-Savo – Who’s on First?

by Rabbi Yochanan Bechhofer | posted in: 05 Devarim, Parsha, Parsha Sheet | 0

Click here to download PDF That’s why we Daven 3 times a day?!? This week’s Parsha opens up with the Mitzva of “Bikurim” – bringing the first of all the seven species that the land of Israel is praised for. … Continued

Ki Savo – Roots & Reishis
31 Aug 2018

Ki Savo – Roots & Reishis

by Rabbi Yochanan Bechhofer | posted in: 05 Devarim, Audio, Parsha | 0

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Parsha sheet: Ki-Setzei – Conquering the Twilight Zone
24 Aug 2018

Parsha sheet: Ki-Setzei – Conquering the Twilight Zone

by Rabbi Yochanan Bechhofer | posted in: 05 Devarim, Parsha, Parsha Sheet | 0

Click here to download PDF Giving in to the “Yetzer”? This week’s Parsha opens up with the laws of “Yefas To’ar” – the beautiful captive woman that the Jewish Soldier wants to take. This is one of the laws that … Continued

Ki Teitzei: Amalek – Blurring the Terms
22 Aug 2018

Ki Teitzei: Amalek – Blurring the Terms

by Rabbi Yochanan Bechhofer | posted in: 05 Devarim, Audio, Parsha | 0

This class is dedicated for the refuah of Sara Sheni Bas Tama Devora. Click here to dedicate a shiur. http://evenshesiya.com/Amalek-Blurring_the_Terms.mp3 If you’re viewing this on a portable device, such as a phone, and are having difficulty playing the shiur, then … Continued

Parsha sheet: Shoftim – “Deep State”
17 Aug 2018

Parsha sheet: Shoftim – “Deep State”

by Rabbi Yochanan Bechhofer | posted in: 05 Devarim, Parsha, Parsha Sheet | 0

Click here to download PDF Our system of Justice and Government Parshas Shoftim is generally the first Parsha in Elul (with the exception of years like this one when Shabbos Parshas Re’eh  is itself Rosh chodesh Elul) and therefore there … Continued

Parsha sheet: Re’eh – Seeing & Internalizing
10 Aug 2018

Parsha sheet: Re’eh – Seeing & Internalizing

by Rabbi Yochanan Bechhofer | posted in: 05 Devarim, Parsha, Parsha Sheet | 0

Click here to download PDF לע״נ האשה החשובה מרת יענטא בת ר׳ שלמה ז״ל לרפואת ר׳ שלום יהודה בן גנעשא שליט״א בתשח״י Where are the Blessings? The parsha opens (11:26) “See (singular) I place before you (plural) today blessing and … Continued

Parsha sheet: Eikev – The Endgame
3 Aug 2018

Parsha sheet: Eikev – The Endgame

by Rabbi Yochanan Bechhofer | posted in: 05 Devarim, Parsha, Parsha Sheet | 0

Click here to download PDF What’s “Eikev”? “And ‘Eikev’-because you will listen….” the Midrash Rabbah says repeatedly that ‘Eikev’ is to be understood as at the ‘end’ – meaning to say at the end of time we will get the … Continued

Parsha sheet: Vaeschanan/Nachamu – Secret of “Kefel”
27 Jul 2018

Parsha sheet: Vaeschanan/Nachamu – Secret of “Kefel”

by Rabbi Yochanan Bechhofer | posted in: 05 Devarim, Parsha, Parsha Sheet | 0

Click here to download PDF Vaeschanan & Nachamu As we mentioned last week, Parshas Vaeschanan is always “Shabbos Nachamu”. The Rambam in the laws of tefillah specifically states that our custom is to align the “parshas hashavua” so that Vaeschanan … Continued

Parsha sheet: Devarim/Chazon – Where Mishnah started
20 Jul 2018

Parsha sheet: Devarim/Chazon – Where Mishnah started

by Rabbi Yochanan Bechhofer | posted in: 05 Devarim, Parsha, Parsha Sheet | 0

Click here to download PDF Why before Tisha b’Av? Parshas Devarim is always the parsha  we read before Tisha b’Av. This is already mentioned in the Rambam’s laws of Tefillah (13:2 – the emphasis there is to read V’eschanan after … Continued

Vayelech: Where are Moshe’s Hands?
15 Sep 2017

Vayelech: Where are Moshe’s Hands?

by Rabbi Yochanan Bechhofer | posted in: 05 Devarim, Audio, Chagim, Parsha, Rosh Hashannah | 0

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Ki Savo – What Are Time & Life?
11 Sep 2017

Ki Savo – What Are Time & Life?

by Rabbi Yochanan Bechhofer | posted in: 05 Devarim, Audio, Parsha | 0

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Ki Savo – Processing Spiritual Information
11 Sep 2017

Ki Savo – Processing Spiritual Information

by Rabbi Yochanan Bechhofer | posted in: 05 Devarim, Audio, Parsha | 0

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Ki Tetzei: Milchemes Reshus vs Milchemes Mitzva
1 Sep 2017

Ki Tetzei: Milchemes Reshus vs Milchemes Mitzva

by Rabbi Yochanan Bechhofer | posted in: 05 Devarim, Audio, Parsha | 0

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Shoftim/Elul – The Battei Dinim (Rabbinical courts) will save the USA (and the world)
25 Aug 2017

Shoftim/Elul – The Battei Dinim (Rabbinical courts) will save the USA (and the world)

by Rabbi Yochanan Bechhofer | posted in: 05 Devarim, Audio, Chagim, High Holidays, Parsha | 0

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Shoftim/Elul – Chisiling a Heart of Stone into Tablets
25 Aug 2017

Shoftim/Elul – Chisiling a Heart of Stone into Tablets

by Rabbi Yochanan Bechhofer | posted in: 05 Devarim, Audio, Chagim, High Holidays, Parsha | 0

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Re’eh 5777 –  Caught in the Center: The Unique and Perilous Position of Am Yisroel
18 Aug 2017

Re’eh 5777 – Caught in the Center: The Unique and Perilous Position of Am Yisroel

by Rabbi Yochanan Bechhofer | posted in: 05 Devarim, Audio, Parsha | 0

A response to the events in Charlottesville If you’re viewing this on a portable device, such as a phone, and are having difficulty playing the shiur, then try the below YouTube version.

Eikev – Closing the Circuit
11 Aug 2017

Eikev – Closing the Circuit

by Rabbi Yochanan Bechhofer | posted in: 05 Devarim, Audio, Parsha | 0

Delivered last night at the Young Israel of Long Beach under the title “Picking up the pieces” If you’re viewing this on a portable device, such as a phone, and are having difficulty playing the shiur, then try the below … Continued

What’s Left of Kedusha?- a Tribute to the Arizal
30 Jul 2017

What’s Left of Kedusha?- a Tribute to the Arizal

by Rabbi Yochanan Bechhofer | posted in: 05 Devarim, 3 Weeks/Tish B’Av, Audio, Chagim, Parsha | 0

Delivered on the Arizal’s yahrtzeit, Adar 5, 2017 at Heshy Wein’s house. If you’re viewing this on a portable device, such as a phone, and are having difficulty playing the shiur, then try the below YouTube version.  

Devarim – The Gift of Torah Shebaal Peh
30 Jul 2017

Devarim – The Gift of Torah Shebaal Peh

by Rabbi Yochanan Bechhofer | posted in: 05 Devarim, Audio, Parsha | 0

If you’re viewing this on a portable device, such as a phone, and are having difficulty playing the shiur, then try the below YouTube version. Delivered July 25th, 2017 at the white shul  

Ki Savo: Appreciating Above Time (Full Length Maamar)
23 Sep 2016

Ki Savo: Appreciating Above Time (Full Length Maamar)

by Rabbi Yochanan Bechhofer | posted in: 05 Devarim, Audio, Parsha | 0

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Ki Savo: Eating Out of Hashem’s Hand
23 Sep 2016

Ki Savo: Eating Out of Hashem’s Hand

by Rabbi Yochanan Bechhofer | posted in: 05 Devarim, Audio, Parsha | 0

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Ki Savo: Forever Young
23 Sep 2016

Ki Savo: Forever Young

by Rabbi Yochanan Bechhofer | posted in: 05 Devarim, Audio, Parsha | 0

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Ki Tetzei: Yisroel and Amalek – Competing for First Place
16 Sep 2016

Ki Tetzei: Yisroel and Amalek – Competing for First Place

by Rabbi Yochanan Bechhofer | posted in: 05 Devarim, Audio, Chagim, Parsha, Purim | 0

Recorded Leil Purim – hence the ‘atmosphere in the room If you’re viewing this on a portable device, such as a phone, and are having difficulty playing the shiur, then try the below YouTube version.  

Ki Tetzei: Filling in Space (Full Length Maamar)
16 Sep 2016

Ki Tetzei: Filling in Space (Full Length Maamar)

by Rabbi Yochanan Bechhofer | posted in: 05 Devarim, Audio, Parsha | 0

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Shoftim: The Metaphysics of the Torah System of Government (Full Length Maamar)
9 Sep 2016

Shoftim: The Metaphysics of the Torah System of Government (Full Length Maamar)

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Shoftim: Elul – Building the GPS (short audio)
9 Sep 2016

Shoftim: Elul – Building the GPS (short audio)

by Rabbi Yochanan Bechhofer | posted in: 05 Devarim, Audio, Chagim, High Holidays | 0

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Re’eh: A Matter of Perspective (short audio)
2 Sep 2016

Re’eh: A Matter of Perspective (short audio)

by Rabbi Yochanan Bechhofer | posted in: 05 Devarim, Audio, Parsha | 0

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Re’eh: Rambam on Binyan HaMikdash
2 Sep 2016

Re’eh: Rambam on Binyan HaMikdash

by Rabbi Yochanan Bechhofer | posted in: 05 Devarim, Audio, Machshava, Parsha, Rambam | 0

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Re’eh: Getting Our Own Space (Full Length Maamar)
2 Sep 2016

Re’eh: Getting Our Own Space (Full Length Maamar)

by Rabbi Yochanan Bechhofer | posted in: 05 Devarim, Parsha | 0

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Eikev: The Finish Line (Full Length Maamar)
26 Aug 2016

Eikev: The Finish Line (Full Length Maamar)

by Rabbi Yochanan Bechhofer | posted in: 05 Devarim, Audio, Parsha | 0

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Eikev: Heels over head (short audio)
26 Aug 2016

Eikev: Heels over head (short audio)

by Rabbi Yochanan Bechhofer | posted in: 05 Devarim, Audio, Parsha | 0

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Vaeschanan-Nachamu: Double Good
21 Aug 2016

Vaeschanan-Nachamu: Double Good

by Rabbi Yochanan Bechhofer | posted in: 05 Devarim, Audio, Parsha | 0

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