Date Given: 05/25/2020 YouTube Video Link: Mp3 - Zip Download Link: (Please download and unzip the file to play the mp3 audio file) -Weekly Hashkafa Shiur #4 - Shavuos - Tapping Into the Spiritual Identity of This Holiday:

Torah Perspective Tonight is a shiur on a very timely and fascinating topic. It's an understanding of why the World Trade Center disaster occurred. How can we understand where such events will lead and what they mean? This is what I want to speak about tonight. What we must understand when we approach an historical event as recent, as dramatic, as that which occurred on September 11th 2001 is that we, the Jewish people, must analyze it from a Torah perspective. We don't gain

Introduction: Tonight, I’m presenting a shiur—lecture/lesson on loshon ha’ra—evil speech, on shmiras ha’loshen—guarding one’s tongue. Before I begin, I’d like to start with a very interesting story about the Chofetz Chaim. The source of the story is Rav Shalom Shwadron. One of the best bocharim, Torah students at the academy where he was rosh yeshiva—principal got very drunk on the holiday of Purim. He came to the house of the Chofetz Chaim. His house had a lot of people tha

Given: 8/29/2021 Introduction: The Timing Rava says that mashiach will come motzei shmita—after the sabbatical year, this coming year. What is interesting is that we know that shmita begins this September but, after seven of these (49 years), is the yovel—Jubilee. For Rava, the “proclaiming of liberty throughout the land” when many things return to original ownership is, conceptually, that all returns to G-d. Since G-d has given away everything so that everyone can take--whe