Devarim

  1. Ki Savo – Reishis & Simcha

    Delivered 8/30/23 at “Words & Whiskey” Scottsdale Arizona Audio version:
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  2. Parsha sheet: Ki Savo – The Alignment

    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 were commanded in these Mitzvos”. This peculiar command to seemingly pretend that we were freshly commanded in ...
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  3. Ki Savo/Selichos – New Beginnings

     
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  4. Parsha sheet: Ki Setzei – Mind Measures

    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 not be used for commerce (25:13-16). Immediately following these Mitzvos regarding weights and measures, we have the ...
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  5. Parsha sheet: Shoftim – Law & Life Surge

    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 in every major city is strictly in the land of Israel.  Whereas, in the Diaspora the obligation ...
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  6. Parsha sheet: Re’eh/Rosh Chodesh Elul – Matching Wills

    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 of Israel. In the desert, the kosher animals that can be brought as a “korban Shelamim” had to ...
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  7. Parshas Re’eh: Visual Perspective

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  8. Parsha sheet: Eikev – Thought for Food

    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 not on bread alone lives the man but rather on what comes out of the mouth of ...
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  9. Parsha sheet: Devarim/Chazaon – Tisha B’Av: Severance Pay

    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 B’Av. Is there an inherent connection?  The Midrash Rabba on Eicha says as follows: “Three prophesized using ...
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  10. Devarim/Tisha B’Av – Shabbos: The Portal to Geula

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  11. Parsha sheet: Shabbos/Succos – BUILD THE WALL!

    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 the criteria for a valid “wall” to make it a “Reshus HaYachid”-private domain where one can carry ...
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  12. Parsha sheet: Haazinu-Succos-Hoshana Rabba-Simchas Torah – The Story of Life

    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 since the Torah is not to be written in a separate parshas therefore we must write the ...
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  13. Parsha sheet: Vayelech/Shabbos Shuva – Rebirth

    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 significance to the fact that he is both a hundred twenty years old and dying on his ...
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  14. Nitzavim/Rosh Hashanah – Attaining Stability in the Face of Change

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

    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. impartial say Cove. The Midrash Tanchuma says that Moshe Foresaw with Ruach HaKodesh that the Beis HaMikdash ...
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  16. Ki Savo – Roots & Reishis

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  17. Parsha sheet: Ki-Setzei – Conquering the Twilight Zone

    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 are hardest to understand philosophically. Rashi (21:11) says: “The Torah did not issue these laws [for any ...
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  18. Ki Teitzei: Amalek – Blurring the Terms

    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 try the below YouTube version.  
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  19. Parsha sheet: Shoftim – “Deep State”

    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 must be a connection and message for Elul. The topics of this week’s Parsha include our entire ...
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  20. Parsha sheet: Re’eh – Seeing & Internalizing

    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 curse.” After mentioning that the blessing is for obeying Hashem and the curse if for violating His Will and ...
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  21. Parsha sheet: Eikev – The Endgame

    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 reward for listening to Hashem. Why is olam habah referred to as the ‘heel’- end? Rashi takes ...
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  22. Parsha sheet: Vaeschanan/Nachamu – Secret of “Kefel”

    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 comes out after Tisha b’Av,  therefore there must be a connection between the two. what is it? What’s ...
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  23. Parsha sheet: Devarim/Chazon – Where Mishnah started

    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 Tisha b’Av which we will discuss next week). If this has been the custom for so long ...
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  24. Vayelech: Where are Moshe’s Hands?

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  25. Ki Savo – What Are Time & Life?

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  26. Ki Savo – Processing Spiritual Information

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  27. Ki Tetzei: Milchemes Reshus vs Milchemes Mitzva

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

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  29. Shoftim/Elul – Chisiling a Heart of Stone into Tablets

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

    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.
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  31. Eikev – Closing the Circuit

    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 YouTube version.  
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  32. What’s Left of Kedusha?- a Tribute to the Arizal

    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.  
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  33. Devarim – The Gift of Torah Shebaal Peh

    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  
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  34. Ki Savo: Appreciating Above Time (Full Length Maamar)

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  35. Ki Savo: Eating Out of Hashem’s Hand

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  36. Ki Savo: Forever Young

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  37. Ki Tetzei: Yisroel and Amalek – Competing for First Place

    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.  
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  38. Ki Tetzei: Filling in Space (Full Length Maamar)

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

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  40. Shoftim: Elul – Building the GPS (short audio)

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

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  42. Re’eh: Rambam on Binyan HaMikdash

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

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  44. Eikev: The Finish Line (Full Length Maamar)

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  45. Eikev: Heels over head (short audio)

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  46. Vaeschanan-Nachamu: Double Good

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