ten commandments

Devarim-Tisha B’av – Unifying Duality

Why is the lesson of Devarim before Tisha B’av? How did Moshe become able to speak so eloquently when he originally categorized himself as ‘heavy of tongue?’ What does it mean that the Torah ‘cures the tongue?’ What is the significance of the teaching that a sefer Torah can be written in any language, or…

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Yisro – Godly Essence

Why does Hashem openly reveal Himself to an entire nation which is only freshly removed from its spiritual filth? What is the power of the statement ‘naaseh v’nishma’ – we will do and we will listen? Why does Hashem remove Moshe from his ‘post’ as messenger for the first of the ten commandments? Why is…

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Yisro – All is One

Why does the Torah preface the Ten commandments with the statement that God spoke ‘all’ of these matters? What is the concept of kol – all? What does it mean that the entire Torah is included in the ten commandments and that all ten are included in the first commandment? How are we to understand…

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Yisro – Hashem is there for us

In this week’s parsha podcast, we don’t ask any questions. We just explore the simple statement that God makes at the beginning of the ten commandments, that He is there for us. Running time: 19:24

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