Listen The Peleh Yo’etz writes: “Whoever doesn’t guard himself from everything harmful is answerable for his life and is destined to give accounting for all the lost time he has caused himself!” These words are not merely good advice, nor just ...
Listen [1:1] It is noteworthy that never in the Sacred Writings do we encounter anyone named after Abraham, Isaac or Jacob. No one afterward bore the name of Moshe. [1:7] “For the sake of the righteous women, Israel was redeemed from ...
Listen Other Torah and works that gentiles may study with benefit and without danger would include the Bible and works on the fundamentals of Torah faith, belief and ethical self-improvement by acknowledged rabbinical authorities, including…Rambam…Rabbi Moshe Chayim Luzzatto…Rabbi Shneur Zalman ...
Listen You should know therefore that G’d has granted permission to interpret the meaning of the verses by our using our intelligence in order to do research, even if, on occasion, the conclusions we arrive at seem to contradict the ...
Listen “In the beginning Cod created the heaven and the earth.” (Gen. 1:1) “In the beginning” — the first thing a Jew must know is that God created heaven and earth. —Rabbi Moses Leib of Sassov “And Enoch walked with ...
Listen That was a very, very sophisticated question and I don’t think many of our viewers will get it. So Leo asked, so Jeremiah chapter five is a raw chapter where God’s people are being told that they’re utterly corrupt ...
Listen LanguageI want to stand up for the God of Israel and the Bible. When people said slavery was advocated in the Jewish Bible, this is a lie of the lie of lies. Now, it is true that we [are] ...
Listen More than 250,000 Jews in Central Europe alone converted to Christianity in the 19th century. The Torah is unique in being the only Holy Book of a religion that was revealed publicly for all to see. Those of all ...
Listen Torah, on the other hand, must influence the behavior and character of the one who studies it to qualify as Torah. A person possesses wisdom; Torah possesses the person. Torah is compared to fire, for like fire it must ...