Education

All Classes

Broaden Your Mind, Empower Your Soul with the podcasts from The Yeshiva @ TheYeshiva.net

Latest Episodes:

The Psychology of Shatnez - Likkutei Sichos Ki Seitzei/Kedoshim/Mishpatim Aug 22, 2015

Show notes

Obliterating the Self, Or Uniting for a Common Purpose?

In a text-based class, Likkutei Sichos Ki Seitzei, explores the deeper dimension of the laws of Kilayim, breeding two animals and plants, and joining wool and linen.

View Source Sheets: https://portal.theyeshiva.net/api/source-sheets/2527

My Money Vs. My Body - Likkutei Sichos Shoftim Aug 16, 2015

Show notes

The Distinction in Halacha Between Our Ownership over Our Bodies Vs. Our Finances

This class, in Likkutei Sichos vol. 34 Shoftim, was given in Evergreen Estates, in the summer of 2014-5774. It explores the Halachik distinction between one's body and one's money. Why is it that I can obligate myself to pay money based on my admission, but not to receive a bodily punishment based on my confession? Why is it that we have to make a blessing before we eat, but not before we receive money? When does G-d maintain His ownership over the universe, and when does He “transfer” it to man?

View Source Sheets: https://portal.theyeshiva.net/api/source-sheets/2520

Marriages Infected by Insecurity - Agudas Israel Lecture for Women Aug 07, 2015

Show notes

How to Make Your Marriage Thrive

This lecutre was presented to women in Woodridge, NY, on August 4, 2015 (19 Av, 5775), arranged by Torah Projects of Agudath Israel of America.

Tisha B'av Video: Napoleon & the Jews - The French Revolution Vs. the Tanya - Available for Purchase - $30 Jul 21, 2015

Show notes

Tisha B’Av Video 5775

Tisha B'Av 5775 video: Napoleon & the Jews -- The French Revolution Vs. the Tanya

Moshiach’s Donkey: A Drama in Four Acts - Balak/Vayeira/Shemos Class Jun 28, 2015

Show notes

A Tale of 4 Donkeys: The One of Bilam, Avraham, Moshe & Moshiach

Why does the donkey hold such prominence in the story of Bilam and in Jewish history? Bilam’s donkey was apparently created on the first Friday of history. Then, we are taught that Moshe used the same donkey once used by Avraham. And that Moshiach will come riding on that same donkey! Moshiach's donkey has a long, prestigious history. But why is it the donkey that features so prominently? What is the symbolism?

Time and again, the donkey makes its appearance through the generations, surfacing at key junctures of the messianic process. Each time we see it fulfilling the same function, but in a slightly different manner -- reflecting the changes our world undergoes as it develops toward its ultimate state of perfection.

View Source Sheets: https://portal.theyeshiva.net/api/source-sheets/2494

How Lovely Are Your Tents - Balak Class, Flatbush, NY Jun 25, 2015

Show notes

Balaam’s Awe of the Jewish Tents: 1) Boundaries. 2) Individuality. 3) A Small Gesture. 4) The Struggling Jew.

This class on Parshas Balak, presented in Mayan Yisroel Flatbush, presents different interpretations to the poetic words of Bilam "How lovely are your tents, O Jacob! Your Dwellings, Israelz!"

Why was Bilam in awe of the Jewish Tents? Because of four things he observed: 1) Boundaries. 2) Individuality. 3) Power of a small gesture. 4) The struggling Jew.

View Source Sheets: https://portal.theyeshiva.net/api/source-sheets/2497

Moshe Pleads the Fifth - Likkutei Sichos Pinchas Jun 23, 2015

Show notes

Why Did the Daughters of Tzelafchad Mention How Their Father Was Loyal to Moshe?

When the Daughters of Tzelafchad come to Moshe and ask for their inheritance, it says that Moshe forgot the halacha. Rashi explains that there were two reasons for this 1) He forgot. 2) Hashem wanted that the halacha should come through the Daughters of Tzelofchod. The Rebbe has 5 questions on this Rashi.

A) his isn’t the first time that moshe forgot a halach, all the other times we assume Moshe wasn’t taught yet. Why here do we have to say he knew it and then forgot it?

B) Here is the only place that Rashi brings down the reason why Moshe wasn’t taught the halacha yet (he wanted that the halacha should come through the Daughters of Tzelafchad)?

C) Why does Rashi feel the need to quote the words “Es Mishpotom”

D) By the story of Pesach Sheini we only bring the second answer in Rashi, why here does Rashi feel the need to bring both?

E) Why does Rashi feel that one of the answers isn’t good enough to answer this question why the need for both answers?

This text based class explores the nature of circumstances surrounding this event. This clarifies the reasoning behind this story.

View Source Sheets: https://portal.theyeshiva.net/api/source-sheets/2492

Zimri Challenged Moshe on His Marriage. But What was the Truth? - Likkutei Sichos Balak Jun 22, 2015

Show notes

When A Question is Only an Excuse

This text-based class on Likkutei Sichos vol. 18 Balak, explains an enigmatic story in the Talmud. Zimri comes to Moshe demanding permission to marry a Midianite princess, Kozbi. “If you say it is prohibited, who allowed you to marry the daughter of Yisro?!” Zimri challenges Moshe, who also married a woman from Midian.

But this does not seem to make sense. Moshe married his wife before the Torah was given! What was Zimri thinking? And why did no one answer his challenge?

As it turns out, his question may have been deeper than we would imagine on the surface.
The class finally teaches us how to distinguish between questions that require answers vs. questions that we ought not to answer, not because we don’t have answers, but because they are not real questions, only excuses.

View Source Sheets: https://portal.theyeshiva.net/api/source-sheets/2491

Can You Classify the Rebbe? - Lecture at Chabad of Monsey Jun 21, 2015

Show notes

When Neither Heaven Nor Earth Can Define a Person

Live Lecture at Tzemach Tzedek in Monsey for Gimmel Tammuz 5775, on Sunday June 21, 2015.

The Stick & the Rock: The Rogatchover Reframes the Story - Class Parshas Chukas Jun 21, 2015

Show notes

The Day Normal Family Life Was Disrupted

At last, the great moment had arrived. For forty years, the Jewish People had wandered together through the desert. The older generation had already passed on. Even beloved Miriam was no more. By now, under the leadership of Moses, the young nation of Israel was finally ready to enter the Promised Land. But an incident occurred that would transform the nation's destiny.

The people run out of water. They cry to Moses, who turns to G-d. G-d commands Moses to produce water from a rock miraculously, by speaking to it. Instead, Moses hits the rock twice, which indeed produces water. It is the most subtle and enigmatic ‘sin’ in the entire Torah, yet because of it Moses’ greatest dream is shattered and he is denied entry into the Land of Israel.

What exactly was Moses’ sin? There are dozens of divergent interpretations. The common denominator behind all of them is that somehow this was a rebellion against G-d or a demonstration of an apparent flaw in Moses. But maybe we have to read the story differently?

It was the Rogatchover Gaon, Rabbi Yosef Rosen (1858-1936), who reframes the story completely. Moses’s error consisted of using Aaron’s wooden staff, rather than his own made of rock. As a result, Jewish women did not have a mikvah for a while and peace in the home was effected. The class explores this original insight and shows its parallels in the teachings of Kabablah and Chassidus.

View Source Sheets: https://portal.theyeshiva.net/api/source-sheets/2484

Our TOPPODCAST Picks

Follow Us

Stay Connected

All Classes

Related Podcasts

Links

Stay Connected