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Studying Torah is the greatest Mitzvah. That is well-known. In this Mishnah, we learn about the perils of neglecting Torah study. Along the way we discover the polarity Jews since Sinai, we discover the secret of Jewish continuity, and we learn all about what Torah is supposed to do to us.

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This Ethics Podcast is dedicated in loving memory and leilui nishmas Aharon Avraham Ben Yosef Yaacov. May his Soul be elevated in Heaven.

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After the Torah delineates the instructions to assemble the materials for the construction of the Tabernacle in Parshas Terumah and the creation of the vestments of the high priest in Parshas Tetzaveh, Parshas Vayakhel outlines the implementation those plans: The massive fundraising efforts, and the actual building of the Tabernacle and its vessels under the auspices of Bezalel.

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The golden calf is one of the most inexplicable events in the Torah. What went wrong? Who is to blame? In this special TORCH-fundraiser-edition of the Parsha Podcast we propose a novel idea that threads throughout the entire Parsha. We emerge from this episode with a renewed appreciation of the great work of TORCH, an eagerness to make a donation at giveTORCH.org, and with a greater appreciation of the indivisibility of our nation.

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Adam and Eve did not exactly have an idyllic marriage. Eve gave Adam to eat from the forbidden fruit; Adam through Eve under the bus when confronted by God. It seems that this marital union had some fundamental flaws. Yet our Sages, and truthfully the Torah itself, portray their marriage as the one we should emulate. Why are Adam and Eve considered to be an ideal match? In the second dose of our divorce vaccine series, we explore what lies at the core of an amazing marriage. The marriage of Adam and Eve had its shortcomings, but it can teach us about what marriage ought to look like. Needless to say, the hollow version of marriage featured in Hollywood and popular culture is, unsurprisingly, monstrously off-target.

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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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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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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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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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