Monthly Archives: February 2022

Mitzvah: Milk and Meat (#92, 113) & TORCH Fundraiser (giveTORCH.org)

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The Torah tells us in three separate instances not to cook a kid in its mother’s milk. Our Sages explain that the three versus are revealing the three distinct prohibitions in mixing milk and meat: not to cook it, not to consume it, and not to derive benefit from it.

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Ethics: Super-Fusion (6:1) & TORCH Fundraiser (giveTORCH.org)

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What does Torah study do for a person? As an outsider, it looks like a waste of time. What benefit do you gain from studying ancient Jewish wisdom and law? We know, however, the Torah is Godly wisdom. Absorbing Torah upgrades your intellect from human intellect to divine intellect. In this very special Mishnah we learn about a high octane, super powered form of Torah study that begets a cascading series of benefits upon those who engage in it.

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This Ethics Podcast is dedicated anonymously by a kind and generous friend of the podcast and of TORCH. He wanted to share the message from Psalms 40:17 – יָשִׂישׂוּ וְיִשְׂמְחוּ בְּךָ כׇּל־מְבַקְשֶׁיךָ יֹאמְרוּ תָמִיד יִגְדַּל יְהֹוָה אֹהֲבֵי תְּשׁוּעָתֶךָ׃ – May they rejoice and be glad in You, all those who seek You; may they always say, HASHEM, be magnified” those who love your salvation.

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What Happens After You Die: An Eschatological Timeline & TORCH Fundraiser (giveTORCH.org)

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The question of what happens after we die is simultaneously fascinating and terrifying. Death is a future that we all share, and we are all curious about what it will be like, but thinking about it is scary and unsettling. In our exploration of the 13 principles of faith, we are up to the concept of reward and punishment and in this context we will ponder the question of reward and punishment of the post-mortem life. What we discover is endlessly fascinating.

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Parsha: Parshas Ki Sisa (Rebroadcast) & TORCH Fundraiser (giveTORCH.org)

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This week’s parsha contains several instructions related to the Tabernacle, but the majority of the parsha is dedicated to arguably the most shocking and troubling episode in the whole Torah, the Golden Calf. Forty days after the nation reached the pinnacle of human accomplishment – a national revelation at Sinai – the same nation committed what seems on the surface to be idolatry.

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Parsha: Tetzaveh – What’s In A Name

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Our Sages tell us that each one of us is unique and has a unique mission to fulfill. Humans are not fungible, moist, robots that can be swapped for each other. Each one of us is our own world. We must each say: “the world was created for me.” But how do we discover our life mission? How do we know what the Almighty expects of us specifically? In this special edition of the Parsha Podcast, recorded in the TORCH Centre with a live audience as part of the Mussar Masterclass, we suggest a new approach to determining what it is that you were placed on this Earth to accomplish.

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This Parsha Podcast is dedicated in loving memory and leilui nishmas Yosef Aharon ben Chaim. May his soul be elevated in Heaven.

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TORAH 101: How God Dispenses Divine Reward and Punishment

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In our previous episode we established the basic principle that God dispenses reward to those who hearken to Him, and metes out punishment to those who disobey Him. In this episode we get down to specifics: What is the nature of the Divine system of reward and punishment? How is God’s methods of reward and punishment differ from ours? What do our sages tell us about how God rewards and punishes? It turns out to be very different from the human system.

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This TORAH 101 Podcast is dedicated in loving memory of Michael ben Shmuel, whose third yartzeit falls out on the Sixth of Adar, the same day that this podcast is being released. May the Torah study that we do together provide merit for his soul and elevate it in Heaven.

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The Art of War with Rabbi Nagel

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G-d created the Yetzer Hara, and He created the Torah as the antidote! The summation of everything we do as Jews comes down to how well we harness the tools of Torah and mitzvos, to succeed in this epic battle. I have the great Rabbi Nagel joining us and sharing his wisdom on The Art of War, tactics, and strategies for defeating the Yetzer Hara.

Parsha: Parshas Tetzaveh (Rebroadcast)

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In a natural continuation to Parshas Terumah, in Parshas Tetzaveh we learn about the instructions to build the Tabernacle. Whereas last week the focus was on the edifice itself and its vessels, this week we will orient primarily on the special garments that the priests wore in the Tabernacle, and of course subsequently in the Temple.

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Parsha: Terumah – The Mystery of the Menorah

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This week’s Parsha marks the beginning of the Torah’s detailing of the Tabernacle and its vessels and operations. This subject makes up the bulk of the remaining narrative of Exodus, and Leviticus contains much of the laws related to the Tabernacle. We have never witnessed the Tabernacle, nor it’s successor, the Temple in Jerusalem. The whole notion of a dwelling house for God is somewhat strange to us. What can we take out of these sections? In this special edition of the Parsha Podcast we discover that the answer is quite a lot. This episode orients around the Menorah, the candelabra that was lit in the Tabernacle each night. We discover what it represents, we ponder it’s various symbolisms, and we sketch out a new approach for implementing the lessons of the Menorah in our lives today.

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