5783

Episodes

• Vezos Haberacha – A Mission For Everyone (5783) 2025-10-06
  At the very end of Moshe’s life, he, like Jacob before him, blesses the tribes. When Jacob was about to pass, he blessed his sons, now Moshe…
• Haazinu – Antidote to Vacuousness (5783) 2025-09-30
  On the final day of Moshe’s life, he conveys the Song of Haazinu to the nation. In this masterful prophetic Song, the Torah overviews Jewish…
• Nitzavim Vayeilech – Pro Choice (5783) 2025-09-16
  On the final day of Moshe’s life, he gathers the entire nation for a parting message. After forging another covenant between the nation and…
• Ki Savo – Dial of Joy (5783) 2025-09-09
  The Torah has a surprising view on joy and how to attain it. The prevailing attitude in our society is that a person’s state of joy is…
• Ki Seitzei – The Upside of Laziness (5783) 2025-09-02
  Our parsha begins with the unusual law of the marriage of a Jewish warrior and an enemy captive woman. When a Jewish warrior spots a prisoner of war…
• Shoftim – Crisper Genes (5783) 2025-08-26
  The nation is on the doorstep of Canaan. In our Parsha, the people are instructed in how they must treat the Canaanite inhabitants of the land.…
• Reeh – Making Dough (5783) 2025-08-19
  The Parsha ends with a delineation of the festivals. When discussing Passover, the verse notes that for 7 days we eat matzah because we left Egypt…
• Eikev – Longevity Pill (5783) 2025-08-12
  A ubiquitous feature in Jewish homes, the Mezuzah contains a scroll with two paragraphs from the Torah, one from this week’s Parsha and one…
• Vaeschanan – Jordan Rules (5783) 2025-08-05
  As a result of Moshe’s sin of striking the rock, he was barred from crossing over the Jordan River and entering the Land of Canaan. In…
• Devarim – Middling East (5783) 2025-07-29
  In his speech to the Nation, Moshe revisits the episode of the Spies that occurred 39 years prior. When the nation was on the verge of entering the…
• Mattos & Masei – 49-Step Program (5783) 2025-07-22
  What did the nation do over the course of the 40 years in the wilderness? What was their objective? In our parsha we read that the nation stopped in…
• Pinchas – Sons of Anarchist (5783) 2025-07-15
  Korach’s rebellion claimed many victims: Some of the perpetrators were swallowed up in a miraculous sinkhole; some were consumed by a divine…
• Chukas – Methods of Transformation (5783) 2025-07-01
  In the first of this week’s double parsha, we read about the death of two giants: Miriam and Aaron, Moshe’s older sister and brother,…
• Korach – Korach’s Insatiability (5783) 2025-06-24
  Korach was immensely talented. He was enormously rich, he was clever, and he was devilishly persuasive. His rebellion, however, was doomed from the…
• Shelach – Despising Limitations (5783) 2025-06-17
  The nation was on the cusp of entering the Land. After about a year at Sinai, the nation was ready to conquer Canaan. The invasion and war of…
• Behaaloscha – Bad Old Days (5783) 2025-06-10
  After a year at Sinai, the nation is finally on the move. Following the precise protocol of disassembly and decampment, the nation marches off from…
• Nasso – Nazirs Anonymous (5783) 2025-06-04
  The Nazir is someone who accepts a vow, typically for 30 days, to abstain from wine, to not cut their hair, and to not come into contact with the…
• Bamidbar – Common Census (5783) 2025-05-27
  The United States Constitution mandates that a nationwide census is conducted every decade. Other nations also conduct censuses. Censuses are…
• Behar Bechukosai – Hostage Letter (5783) 2025-05-20
  Our Parsha contains some of the most difficult portions in the Torah, the Admonition. Our nation is told of the consequences of failing to adhere to…
• Emor – Snowball’s Chance in Heaven (5783) 2025-05-13
  The story of the first person to ever be executed in a Jewish court of law is featured at the end of this week’s Parsha. An unnamed man, the…
• Acharei Mos/Kedoshim – It’s a Small World (5783) 2025-05-06
  Our double Parsha contains many different mitzvos. In this podcast we study a set of mitzvos and a very interesting dispute about their nature. We…
• Tazria Metzora – Heaven on the Cheap (5783) 2025-04-29
  This week’s double Parsha contains some of the most intricate and complex laws in the Torah, the laws of purity and impurity. This subject…
• Shemini – Fires, Foreign and Domestic (5783) 2025-04-22
  Nadav and Avihu were the crown princes of the Jewish nation. These two sons were slated to succeed Moshe and Aaron. Moshe declared, without…
• Tzav – Pure-Bread (5783) 2025-04-08
  On the first day of a Kohein’s tenure doing service in the Temple, they bring a once-in-a-lifetime offering: a meal-offering that is almost…
• Vayikra: Five-Course Meal Offering with Rabbi Dovid Biron (5783) 2025-04-01
  We begin the Book of Leviticus with a Parsha Podcast treat: I invited my friend and study partner Rabbi Dovid Biron to guest host this week’s…
• Vayakhel Pekudei – Laver of Love (5783) 2025-03-18
  Our double Parsha delineates the implementation phases of the building of the Tabernacle. All the materials are assembled, all the artisans are…