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Parsha sheet: Bechukosai – The Connecting Column:  A Tribute to the Ramchal
31 May 2019

Parsha sheet: Bechukosai – The Connecting Column: A Tribute to the Ramchal

by Rabbi Yochanan Bechhofer | posted in: 03 Vayikra, Parsha | 0

Click here to download PDF Wrong Place & Reverse Order “And I will remember my covenant with Yaakov and also my covenant with Yitzchak and also my covenant with Avraham and the land (of Israel) I will remember” (26:42). Why … Continued

Parsha sheet: Behar – The Light
24 May 2019

Parsha sheet: Behar – The Light

by Rabbi Yochanan Bechhofer | posted in: 03 Vayikra, Parsha | 0

Click here to download PDF Shmitta & Sinai This week’s Parsha opens with the laws of Shmitta which were said at Har Sinai. Rashi brings the Chazal that says, just like Shmitta was taught in detail at Sinai so also … Continued

Parsha sheet: Emor – Close & Over The Wall
17 May 2019

Parsha sheet: Emor – Close & Over The Wall

by Rabbi Yochanan Bechhofer | posted in: 03 Vayikra, Parsha, Parsha Sheet | 0

Click here to download PDF Purity for all Kohanim Parshas Emor opens up with the special Halachos pertaining to Ahron and his children.  There are the laws of criteria to be fit to do “Avoda” and then there are the … Continued

Emor – Going From Left to Right
16 May 2019

Emor – Going From Left to Right

by Rabbi Yochanan Bechhofer | posted in: 03 Vayikra, Audio, Parsha | 0

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Parsha sheet: Kedoshim – Rebbe Akiva’s Legacy
10 May 2019

Parsha sheet: Kedoshim – Rebbe Akiva’s Legacy

by Rabbi Yochanan Bechhofer | posted in: 03 Vayikra, Parsha, Parsha Sheet | 0

Click here to download PDF Rebbe Akiva vs Hillel “And you should love your friend like yourself” Rashi brings from the Toras Kohanim the famous statement of Rebbe Akiva: “This is a ‘KLAL GADOL’– great inclusive principle in Torah”.  What … Continued

Parsha sheet: Acharei Mos – Whittling down to the Essence
3 May 2019

Parsha sheet: Acharei Mos – Whittling down to the Essence

by Rabbi Yochanan Bechhofer | posted in: 03 Vayikra, Parsha, Parsha Sheet | 0

Click here to download PDF Rashi argues on the Gemara?!? “And You will keep My statutes and my laws that the man will do and live by them….” Rashi says, on the words “And live by them” in Olam Haba … Continued

Parsha sheet:  Metzora/Shabbos HaGadol – Resolving the Shabbos Pesach Paradox
12 Apr 2019

Parsha sheet: Metzora/Shabbos HaGadol – Resolving the Shabbos Pesach Paradox

by Rabbi Yochanan Bechhofer | posted in: 03 Vayikra, Parsha | 0

Click here to download PDF Who goes to who? “These are the laws of the Metzora on the day of his purification and he should be brought before the Kohen. And the Kohen will come out to him outside of … Continued

Parsha sheet: Tazriah/HaChodesh – Progress
5 Apr 2019

Parsha sheet: Tazriah/HaChodesh – Progress

by Rabbi Yochanan Bechhofer | posted in: 03 Vayikra, Parsha, Parsha Sheet | 0

Click here to download PDF The Obvious The Tangent & The Mystery “When a woman will conceive and give birth to a male she will be ‘impure’ for seven days and on the eighth day he shall be circumcised….. and … Continued

Parsha sheet: Shemini/Parah – Breakthrough or Break down
29 Mar 2019

Parsha sheet: Shemini/Parah – Breakthrough or Break down

by Rabbi Yochanan Bechhofer | posted in: 03 Vayikra, Parsha | 0

Click here to download PDF Why 8? “And it was the eighth day…” why is this the eighth day? What is its connection to the seven days prior? During  the seven days of the “Miluim” Moshe Rabbeinu served as the … Continued

Parsha sheet: Vayikra/Zachor – Get Real!
15 Mar 2019

Parsha sheet: Vayikra/Zachor – Get Real!

by Rabbi Yochanan Bechhofer | posted in: 03 Vayikra, Chagim, Parsha, Parsha Sheet, Purim | 0

Click here to download PDF Who called? “And He called to Moshe and Hashem spoke to him from the Ohel Moed…” seemingly it should have read: And Hashem called to Moshe and He spoke to him from Ohel Moed!  Hashem … Continued

Parsha sheet: Bamidbar – From Quantity to Infinity
18 May 2018

Parsha sheet: Bamidbar – From Quantity to Infinity

by Rabbi Yochanan Bechhofer | posted in: 03 Vayikra, Chagim, Parsha, Parsha Sheet, Shavuos | 0

Click here to download PDF To Count is to Love? Sefer Bamidbar is known as “Chumash HaPikudim” – The Book of Numbers because it has in it the census of the Jewish people. In the opening of this week’s parsha … Continued

Shmitta and Omer – What Holds the Count Together
11 May 2018

Shmitta and Omer – What Holds the Count Together

by Rabbi Yochanan Bechhofer | posted in: 03 Vayikra, Audio, Chagim, Omer, Parsha, Shavuos | 0

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Parsha sheet: Behar/Bechukosai – Reversing the Flow of Time
11 May 2018

Parsha sheet: Behar/Bechukosai – Reversing the Flow of Time

by Rabbi Yochanan Bechhofer | posted in: 03 Vayikra, Parsha, Parsha Sheet | 0

Click here to download PDF Off by a week? This week is a double Parsha so as to fulfill the Halacha recorded in the Gemara (Megilla 31b): “Ezra instituted for the Jewish people to read the curses in Vayikra before … Continued

Parsha sheet: Emor – Life & Language
4 May 2018

Parsha sheet: Emor – Life & Language

by Rabbi Yochanan Bechhofer | posted in: 03 Vayikra, Parsha, Parsha Sheet | 0

Click here to download PDF Speech and Purity The Parsha opens (21:1):”Hashem told Moshe: “Emor”-Say to the kohanim the children of Ahron and you shall say to them that they should not become impure from contact with a dead body….” … Continued

Parsha sheet: Acharei Mos/Kedoshim – Opening Pockets of Holy Space
27 Apr 2018

Parsha sheet: Acharei Mos/Kedoshim – Opening Pockets of Holy Space

by Rabbi Yochanan Bechhofer | posted in: 03 Vayikra, Parsha, Parsha Sheet | 0

Click here to download PDF Yom Kippur Mincha?!? This week’s double parsha opens up with the sacrificial order of Yom Kippur and apropos that it is the leining for Yom Kippur morning. However for Mincha on Yom Kippur we read … Continued

Parsha sheet: Tazria/Metzora – Man’s Law
20 Apr 2018

Parsha sheet: Tazria/Metzora – Man’s Law

by Rabbi Yochanan Bechhofer | posted in: 03 Vayikra, Parsha, Parsha Sheet | 0

Click here to download PDF Why Bris Milah? In this week’s double Parsha we have all the laws of human impurity which include the impurity of birth, Ziva, Tzaraas of the person, clothes, and houses, and how to purify all … Continued

Parsha sheet: Shemini – Consumption and Integration
13 Apr 2018

Parsha sheet: Shemini – Consumption and Integration

by Rabbi Yochanan Bechhofer | posted in: 03 Vayikra, Parsha, Parsha Sheet | 0

Click here to download PDF The Mishkan & Kashrus? In this week’s Parsha there is a strange combination of topics. The Parsha opens with the final establishment of the Mishkan. It was to be assembled and never taken down until … Continued

Parsha sheet: Shabbos HaGadol – What’s So “Big” about Shabbos HaGadol
23 Mar 2018

Parsha sheet: Shabbos HaGadol – What’s So “Big” about Shabbos HaGadol

by Rabbi Yochanan Bechhofer | posted in: 03 Vayikra, Chagim, Parsha, Parsha Sheet, Pesach | 0

Click here to download PDF What Happened? Shabbos HaGadol could be translated literally as “The Big Shabbos.” What’s so BIG about Shabbos HaGadol? The Tur tells us that Shabbos HaGadol commemorates how on the tenth of Nissan the Jews in … Continued

Parsha sheet: Parshas Vayikra/HaChodesh – Permanence & Progress
16 Mar 2018

Parsha sheet: Parshas Vayikra/HaChodesh – Permanence & Progress

by Rabbi Yochanan Bechhofer | posted in: 03 Vayikra, Parsha, Parsha Sheet | 0

Click here to download PDF Our timing is off? It’s ironic that just as we finish reading Sefer Shmos, the book of Yetzias Mitzrayim, in comes the month of Nissan and the holiday of Pesach. One would think that we … Continued

Behar-Bechukosai – Pulling the Pieces Together: The Legacy of the Ramchal
19 May 2017

Behar-Bechukosai – Pulling the Pieces Together: The Legacy of the Ramchal

by Rabbi Yochanan Bechhofer | posted in: 03 Vayikra, Audio, Chagim, Omer, Parsha, Ramchal, Shavuos | 0

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Behar-Bechukosai – Ribis: The Snake Bite
19 May 2017

Behar-Bechukosai – Ribis: The Snake Bite

by Rabbi Yochanan Bechhofer | posted in: 03 Vayikra, Audio, Omer, Parsha, Ramchal, Shavuos | 0

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Behar-Bechukosai – What really happened at Har Sinai
19 May 2017

Behar-Bechukosai – What really happened at Har Sinai

by Rabbi Yochanan Bechhofer | posted in: 03 Vayikra, Audio, Chagim, Omer, Parsha, Ramchal, Shavuos | 0

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Behar-Bechukosai – Gems from the Vilna Gaon & Rav Meir Simcha of Dvinsk
19 May 2017

Behar-Bechukosai – Gems from the Vilna Gaon & Rav Meir Simcha of Dvinsk

by Rabbi Yochanan Bechhofer | posted in: 03 Vayikra, Audio, Chagim, Omer, Parsha | 0

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Emor – Light of Life
12 May 2017

Emor – Light of Life

by Rabbi Yochanan Bechhofer | posted in: 03 Vayikra, Audio, Chagim, Omer, Parsha | 0

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Achrie Mos/Kedoshim – Law of the Land
5 May 2017

Achrie Mos/Kedoshim – Law of the Land

by Rabbi Yochanan Bechhofer | posted in: 03 Vayikra, Audio, Parsha | 0

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Tazria/Metzorah – Oneg & Nega
30 Apr 2017

Tazria/Metzorah – Oneg & Nega

by Rabbi Yochanan Bechhofer | posted in: 03 Vayikra, Audio, Parsha | 0

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Tazria/Metzorah – Chasam Sofer Defends Rav Shimon Bar Yochai
27 Apr 2017

Tazria/Metzorah – Chasam Sofer Defends Rav Shimon Bar Yochai

by Rabbi Yochanan Bechhofer | posted in: 03 Vayikra, Audio, Parsha | 0

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Tazria/Metzorah – When Last is First
27 Apr 2017

Tazria/Metzorah – When Last is First

by Rabbi Yochanan Bechhofer | posted in: 03 Vayikra, Audio, Parsha | 0

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Shmini – Brave New World
21 Apr 2017

Shmini – Brave New World

by Rabbi Yochanan Bechhofer | posted in: 03 Vayikra, Audio, Parsha | 0

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Vayikra-Nissan: Internalizing the Light
31 Mar 2017

Vayikra-Nissan: Internalizing the Light

by Rabbi Yochanan Bechhofer | posted in: 03 Vayikra, Audio, Chagim, Parsha, Pesach | 0

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Bechukosai – Ramchal – Keeping the Connection
7 Jun 2016

Bechukosai – Ramchal – Keeping the Connection

by Rabbi Yochanan Bechhofer | posted in: 03 Vayikra, Audio, Machshava, Parsha, Ramchal | 0

Commemorating the 269th yahrtzeit of Rabbi Moshe Chaim Luzzato (Ramchal) zt”l, starting Thursday night, June 2, 2016 (26 Iyar 5776). If you’re viewing this on a portable device, such as a phone, and are having difficulty playing the shiur, then … Continued

Bechukosai – Does Evil Exist?
7 Jun 2016

Bechukosai – Does Evil Exist?

by Rabbi Yochanan Bechhofer | posted in: 03 Vayikra, Audio, Parsha | 0

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Tzav – Shining the Light
7 Jun 2016

Tzav – Shining the Light

by Rabbi Yochanan Bechhofer | posted in: 03 Vayikra, Audio, Parsha | 0

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Emor – Shabbos and Yomtov Like Chumash and Talmud
7 Jun 2016

Emor – Shabbos and Yomtov Like Chumash and Talmud

by Rabbi Yochanan Bechhofer | posted in: 03 Vayikra, Audio, Chagim, Parsha | 0

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Emor – Life and Language
7 Jun 2016

Emor – Life and Language

by Rabbi Yochanan Bechhofer | posted in: 03 Vayikra, Audio, Parsha | 0

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Kedoshim – Gift from the Beyond
7 Jun 2016

Kedoshim – Gift from the Beyond

by Rabbi Yochanan Bechhofer | posted in: 03 Vayikra, Audio, Parsha | 0

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Achrei Mos – Zos: Whittling Down to the Essence
7 Jun 2016

Achrei Mos – Zos: Whittling Down to the Essence

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Achrei Mos – Build a Wall, the Other Side Pays
7 Jun 2016

Achrei Mos – Build a Wall, the Other Side Pays

by Rabbi Yochanan Bechhofer | posted in: 03 Vayikra, Audio, Parsha | 0

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Achrei Mos – Maze to the Infinite
7 Jun 2016

Achrei Mos – Maze to the Infinite

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Metzorah/Parshas HaGodol – Restoring the Power of Speech
7 Jun 2016

Metzorah/Parshas HaGodol – Restoring the Power of Speech

by Rabbi Yochanan Bechhofer | posted in: 03 Vayikra, Audio, Chagim, Parsha, Pesach | 0

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Pashas Zachor – Getting in Touch with Moshe Rabbeinu
7 Jun 2016

Pashas Zachor – Getting in Touch with Moshe Rabbeinu

by Rabbi Yochanan Bechhofer | posted in: 02 Shemos, 03 Vayikra, Audio, Chagim, Parsha, Purim | 0

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Tazria/HaChodesh – Uniquely Human
7 Jun 2016

Tazria/HaChodesh – Uniquely Human

by Rabbi Yochanan Bechhofer | posted in: 03 Vayikra, Audio, Parsha | 0

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Shmini – Secret of Jewish Appetite
7 Jun 2016

Shmini – Secret of Jewish Appetite

by Rabbi Yochanan Bechhofer | posted in: 03 Vayikra, Audio, Parsha | 0

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Shemini-Parah: The 8 Factor
7 Jun 2016

Shemini-Parah: The 8 Factor

by Rabbi Yochanan Bechhofer | posted in: 03 Vayikra, Audio, Parsha | 0

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Vayikra/Chodesh – The New Light
7 Jun 2016

Vayikra/Chodesh – The New Light

by Rabbi Yochanan Bechhofer | posted in: 03 Vayikra, Audio, Chagim, Parsha | 0

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Behar – Marching to Mother Infinity
27 May 2016

Behar – Marching to Mother Infinity

by Rabbi Yochanan Bechhofer | posted in: 03 Vayikra, Audio, Parsha | 0

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