Vayikra

  1. Am Yisroel & the Torah – The Pieces & the Glue

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

    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 not simply write:… and the covenant of Yitzchak and the Covenant of Avraham? Why the two extra ...
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  3. Parsha sheet: Behar – The Light

    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 all the Mitzvos were given in detail at Sinai. Why was Shmitta chosen to be the prime ...
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  4. Parsha sheet: Emor – Close & Over The Wall

    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 laws that are universal to all Kohanim, like the opening Halacha that the Kohanim must avoid contact ...
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  5. Emor – Going From Left to Right

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  6. Parsha sheet: Kedoshim – Rebbe Akiva’s Legacy

    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 does this mean? If he means to say that this encases the entirety of Torah, then what ...
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  7. Parsha sheet: Acharei Mos – Whittling down to the Essence

    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 for if you say it is Olam Hazeh, he will at the end die. Rashi ...
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  8. Parsha sheet: Metzora/Shabbos HaGadol – Resolving the Shabbos Pesach Paradox

    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 the camp….” There’s an obvious contradiction here that is discussed by the commentaries: Who goes to ...
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  9. Parsha sheet: Tazriah/HaChodesh – Progress

    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 33 days she’ll have blood of purity….etc.” There are a few questions that arise in these Pesukim. First ...
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  10. Parsha sheet: Shemini/Parah – Breakthrough or Break down

    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 Kohen Gadol in a “white garment with no hem” and the Mishkan was taken apart at the ...
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  11. Parsha sheet: Vayikra/Zachor – Get Real!

    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 should have been mentioned at the beginning of the sentence, as He’s doing the calling.  Why is ...
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  12. Parsha sheet: Bamidbar – From Quantity to Infinity

    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 Moshe is commanded to conduct a census. Rashi (1:1) explains: “because of Hashem’s love for the ...
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  13. Shmitta and Omer – What Holds the Count Together

    A tribute to the Ramchal and his legacy 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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  14. Parsha sheet: Behar/Bechukosai – Reversing the Flow of Time

    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 Shavuos and the curses in Devarim before Rosh Hashanah so that ‘the year should end with all ...
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  15. Parsha sheet: Emor – Life & Language

    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….” the Midrash Rabbah is fascinated by the term “Emor” (say) and uses it as a springboard to ...
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  16. Parsha sheet: Acharei Mos/Kedoshim – Opening Pockets of Holy Space

    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 from the end of the Parsha where it talks about all the laws of forbidden relationships. Why ...
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  17. Parsha sheet: Tazria/Metzora – Man’s Law

    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 those impurities. There’s a strange break in the continuity. After saying that a woman who gives ...
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  18. Parsha sheet: Shemini – Consumption and Integration

    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 the Jewish people would be commanded to relocate and the Kehunah passed to our Ahron and his ...
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  19. Parsha sheet: Shabbos HaGadol – What’s So “Big” about Shabbos HaGadol

    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 Egypt had a one time commandment of designating a lamb in preparation for the first korban Pesach. ...
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  20. Parsha sheet: Parshas Vayikra/HaChodesh – Permanence & Progress

    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 should have arranged the annual cycle so that we would read the parshas of Shmos during the ...
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  21. Behar-Bechukosai – Pulling the Pieces Together: The Legacy of the Ramchal

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  22. Behar-Bechukosai – Ribis: The Snake Bite

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  23. Behar-Bechukosai – What really happened at Har Sinai

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

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  25. Emor – Light of Life

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  26. Achrie Mos/Kedoshim – Law of the Land

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  27. Tazria/Metzorah – Oneg & Nega

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  28. Tazria/Metzorah – Chasam Sofer Defends Rav Shimon Bar Yochai

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  29. Tazria/Metzorah – When Last is First

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  30. Shmini – Brave New World

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  31. Vayikra-Nissan: Internalizing the Light

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  32. Bechukosai – Ramchal – Keeping the Connection

    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 try the below YouTube version.  
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  33. Bechukosai – Does Evil Exist?

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  34. Tzav – Shining the Light

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  35. Emor – Shabbos and Yomtov Like Chumash and Talmud

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  36. Emor – Life and Language

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  37. Kedoshim – Gift from the Beyond

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  38. Achrei Mos – Zos: Whittling Down to the Essence

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  39. Achrei Mos – Build a Wall, the Other Side Pays

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  40. Achrei Mos – Maze to the Infinite

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  41. Metzorah/Parshas HaGodol – Restoring the Power of Speech

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  42. Pashas Zachor – Getting in Touch with Moshe Rabbeinu

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  43. Tazria/HaChodesh – Uniquely Human

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  44. Shmini – Secret of Jewish Appetite

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  45. Shemini-Parah: The 8 Factor

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  46. Vayikra/Chodesh – The New Light

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  47. Behar – Marching to Mother Infinity

    Behar - Marching to Mother Infinity
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