Parshat Vayeitzei (Parshat Vayeitzei)
Meir Elkabas discusses this week’s Torah parsha, Parshat Vayeitzei. Yaacov instituted the evening prayer service because even in the darkness, whether material or spiritual, one…
November 15, 2018 · 1 min read
To Deceive Or Not To Deceive? That Is The Question (AlephBeta)
Jacob – the final of the three forefathers, has some of the most complicated and unbelievably beautiful narratives in Biblical literature. Strangely, when we delve…
November 15, 2018 · 1 min read
The Power of the Kotel (Rabbi Steven Burg)
Parshat Vayeitzei – The Power of the Kotel | Rabbi Steven Burg | Yeshiva Aish HaTorah
November 15, 2018 · 1 min read
Parshat Vayeira (Meir Elkabas)
What is the goal of Creation? Reb Meir explains how “chochmah”, knowledge of Hashem, is vital to being truly alive. Because tzaddikim are strongly connected…
October 25, 2018 · 1 min read
Do you know the worst human weakness? – Parashat Noach (The Temple Institute)
What became of man that in the passing of just ten generations God was disappointed in the man He created and regretted creating man in…
October 12, 2018 · 1 min read
Parashat Bereisheet (In the Beginning) – Weekly Parashah
Texts: Genesis 1:1 – 6:8 || Isaiah 42:5 – 43:10 (Haftarah) NOTE: Kol HaTor, in its commentaries on the weekly Parashot, endeavours to search for and…
October 4, 2018 · 16 min read
A Paradigm Of God Answering Prayer (Parshat Vezot Habracha; alephbeta)
In this week’s parsha video, Rabbi Fohrman uses Psalm 90 to ask an incredibly difficult question: are we, through our prayers, able to convince God…
September 28, 2018 · 1 min read
Parshat Ha’azinu: Moses’ Farewell To Israel (alephbeta)
In this video, the second of this three-part series about the end of the Torah, we continue to discuss the connections between Psalm 90 and…
September 21, 2018 · 1 min read
All or nothing!? – Weekly Torah Portion – Eikev
The promised land – the land of Israel – the land where Torah, the covenant between God and His people Israel, is fulfilled in the…
August 3, 2018 · 1 min read
Weekly Torah Portion: Matot (The Temple Institute)
When the leaders of the tribes of Reuven and Gad approach Moshe and ask his blessing to settle in the lands east of the Jordan…
July 13, 2018 · 1 min read
Parshat Chukat – Chaim Kramer (Breslov Research Institute)
Chaim Kramer discusses the weekly Torah portion, Parshat Chukat. We learn that the ashes of the parah adama (the red heifer) make the pure impure…
June 22, 2018 · 1 min read
Is the Torah Anti-Semitic? – Chukat (Numbers 19:1-22:1) by Rabbi Boruch Leff
Who would write such negative, detrimental, and destructive descriptions of the Jewish people? (from aish.com) The authorship of the Torah has one of two possibilities:…
June 22, 2018 · 6 min read