Tuesday Night Class Weekly Dvar Torah
The Joke Wedding: An Annual Camp Ritual 9/19/23
The Old Shidduch Picture Bait & Switch 9/12/23
Undoing The Status of a Mamzer 9/5/23
The Wild Case of the Woman with 2 Husbands and a Child 8/29/23
The Widows/Agunot of Kfar Etzion 8/22/23
Agunot of the Holocaust 8/15/23
Conversion of an Interfaith Spouse. What if They Saved You During the Holocaust? 8/8/23
What is the Source of the Prohibition of a Convert to a Kohen? 8/1/23
The Jews of India: Are They Jewish And If So Can We Marry Them? 7/25/23
A Unique Case of Cherem D’Rabbeinu Gershom (Bigamy) and the Heter Meah Rabbanim 7/18/23
hould we Enact a Fast Day to Commemorate the Shoah? Dated 1945! 7/11/23
Setting Sail From the Detention Camps in Cypress on the Second Day of Sukkot 7/4/23
Weddings During the Omer on Pesach Sheni 6/27/23
Can You Use Chemical Analysis to Answer Halachic Questions? To Detect Chametz on Pesach? 6/20/23
Police in the New State of Israel: Can it Run According to Halacha? 5/13/23
Building Security Walls on Shabbat in 1948 5/23/23
Drawing or Sculptures of a Lion in Shul 5/16/23
Counting the Shabbat Violator for Minyan: What makes a Jew? 05/02/2023
The Mitzvah to Tell The Story of the Exodus at Our Seder 03/29/2023
Can We Count Purim As One Of The 613 Mitzvoth? 2/28/23
Korban Pesach #2 why are there so many? how do we define an apostate? How do we relate? 2/21/23
The Korban Pesach The Pascal Offering and Its Eternal Meaning 2/14/23
Kiddush Hachodesh: Sanctifying The New Month (1/31/23)
Gid Hanashe - The Sciatic Nerve. Why Cant i Find a Kosher T-Bone? (1/24/2023)
Brit Milah- Circumcision: What Makes This Mitzvah Special?? Is Metzitzah B'peh Necessary? (1/4/23)
The First Mitzvah: Having Children 2,4,9, More? Can You Delay Having Children? (12/28/22)
Introduction To Mitzvoth and The First Mitzvah: Pru Urvi - The Mitzvah To Have Children (12/21/22)
Rav Yosef Tzvi Rimon -Kashering a Glass Stove Top for Pesach (3/29/2022)
Rav Yosef Tzvi Rimon - Kitniyot for Vegetarians on Pesach (3/22/2022)
Purim and Jewish Identity (H/T) Rav Yonatan Grossman) (3/8/2022)
Rav Reem Hacohen - Conversion in Israel (3/1/2022)
Rabbi Herschel Schachter - Women Rabbis 2/8/22
Rabbi Ovadiah Yosef- The Status of Ethiopian Jews 1/18/22
Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Auerbach Electricity on Shabbat & Yom Tov 1/4/22
Rabbi Jacob Ettlinger- Counting the Non Observant for Minyanim 12/21/21
Rabbi Eliezer Waldenberg - Aborting a Tay Sachs Baby (12/14/21)
Rabbi Eliezer Waldenberg- Sexual Reassignment Surgery (12/07/21)
Rav Moshe Feinstein - Our Relationship to Conservative Judaism (11/30/21)
Rav Moshe Feinstein - Artificial Insemination (11/23/21)
The Importance of Treating Others With Respect Parashat Chayei Sarah 2023
Who Goes To War To Redeem Captives? Parashat Lech Lecha 2023
The Spiritual Draw of the Land of Israel Parashat Noach 2023
I Am My Brothers Keeper Parashat Bereshit 2023
The Bulls of Sukkoth: An Answer for Seth Engel (Shmini Atzeret 2023)
The Universal Aspect of Sukkot (Sukkot 2023)
The Question That Stumped Me? Parashat Ha'Azinu 2023
The Power Of Prayer (Rosh Hashanah 2023)
A Radical Concept of Repentance Parashat Nitzavim-Vayelech 2023
Our Obsession with one time Mitzvoth Sending away the Mother Bird Parashat Ki Teitzei 2023
Whose Responsibility is it to Ensure That Our Batei Din Are Just? Parashat Shoftim 2023
To’evah/Abomination What does the Torah mean when it uses that term? Parashat Re'Eh 2023
Can The Wrong Attitude Towards Wealth Lead To Heresy? Parashat Eikev 2023
Can You Wear Crocs On Tisha B'Av? Parashat Vaetchanan 2023
The Key to Success re Fighting in Israel Parashat Devarim 2023
Where Does the Torah Really End? Parasha Matot-Masei 2023
Did Moshe Get the Wrong Rock? Could it be? Parashat Chukat 2023
The Politics of Argument and the Ancient Roots of False Piety Parashat Korach 2023
What went wrong with the spies?Are we still guilty of the same sins? Parashat Sh'lach 2023
Why Aren’t all Orthodox Jews Zionists? The Rav’s Answer from 1945! Parashat Behaalotcha 2023
Is The Nazir Simply Going to Rehab? Parashat Nasso 2023
The Mitzvah to Eat Chametz on Shavuot? Shabbat Shavuot 2023
What Number Means More to You: 6,000,000 or 613? Parashat Bamidbar 2023
Do We Serve Hashem Because We Have To or Do We Serve Hashem Because We Want To? Parashat Behar 2023
Can a Jew be too Holy? Parashat Emor 2023
The Hardest Religious Lesson to Learn! Parashat Acharei Mot 2023
Can Tzaraas Bring Us To The Pot Of Gold At The End Of The Rainbow? Parashat Tazria-Metzora 2023
Our Children Complete Us, Parashat Tzav and Pesach Parashat Tzav 2023
Do We Really Want To Return To Korbanot? Parashat Vayikra 2023
Hesder or Kollel? Parashat Vayakhel Pekudei 2023
Why can't I play ball on Shabbas? An added dimension to Shabbas in Ki Tisa! 2023
The Urim and Tumim, an Ancient Ouija Board? Parashat Tetzaveh 2023
The Religious Importance of Being a Good Person Parashat Mishpatim 2023
The Eagles, Lord of The Ring, and Parashat Yitro Parashat Yitro 2023
False Moral Equivalence in the Middle East? What Are They Thinking? Parashat Beshalach 2023
Thoughts from AIPAC Conference 2023: A rejection of the "I am a nobody defense" Parashat Shmot 2023
Shver Zayn a Yid, It Is Tough To Be a Jew. Why That Is a Terrible Phrase! Parashat Vayigash 2022
What Do Nearly All Modern Political Leaders Have In Common? Listen and Learn! Parashat Vayeshev 2022
Yaakov Avinu and his Raiders of the Lost Ark Moment Parashat Vayishlach 2022
Did Led Zeppelin Base Stariway to Heaven on Yaakov's Dream With the Angel? Parashat Vayetze 2022
Is Yitzchak Really a Blind Demented Old Man? Parashat Toldot 2022
The Role of Wealth in Shidduchim, Lessons from Avraham Avinu Parashat Chayei Sarah 2022
Lot's Wife Did Not Die Parashat Vayera 2022
Kanye West, Kyrie Irving, & Avraham Ha'lvri Parashat Lech Lecha 2022
God Has Thrown Down The Gauntlet Parashat Bereshit 2022
How to Avoid Sin? Fear and Threats of Positive Encouragement? Parashat Haazinu 2022
What is in a Name? Why Yom Kippur? Parashat Vayelech 2022
What Will it Be like in the Messianic Era? Messages for the Yamin Noraim parashat Nitzavim 2022
The Jew in Galus Just Waiting To Get Back To Israel or is There More Parashat Ki Tavo 2022
The Mitzvah to Bury Our Dead Immediately and a Message for Elul Parashat Ki Tetzeh 2022
The Challenge of Arrogance in Leadership and How to Combat it! Parashat Shoftim 2022
Dvar Torah with Guest Rabbi Sher Parashat Re'eh 2022
Should We Daven for the Impossible? Moshe's Plea to Enter Israel Parashat Vaetchanan 2022
What Does It Mean to Explain the Torah? Personal, Communal and National Goals Parashat Devarim 2022
Has the Diaspora Skewed our Perception of the Ideal Jew Parashat Matot Masei 2022
Pinchas, Justified Killing and Tzahal's Sniper from New Jersey Parashat Pincash 2022
Can We Learn the Essence of Shabbat from Bilaam Harasha? Parashat Balak 2022
Appreciate What You Have, Don't Wait Until It Is No Longer Here! Parashat Chukat 2022
Moshe Commands & God Obeys Parashat Korach 2022
Who Says we Have the Religious Right to Establish Medinat Yisrael Parashat Shlach 2022
The Impact of Society Upon the Jew Parashat Naso 2022
Take the Frown and Turn it Upside Down: Why Hashem Counts Us Parashat Bamidbar 2022
What Brings a Jew To Despise The Mitzvoth Parashat Bechukotai 2022
What Does That Have To Do With The Price Of Tea In China Parashat Behar 2022
How To Speak So That People Will Listen: A Vort from Rav Amital zt"l Parashat Emor 2022
Food Halachos and Ancient Pagan Blood Rituals Parashat Kedoshim 2022
The Downside of Yom Kippur Parashat Acharei Mot 2022
What is With the Songs at the End of the Haggadah Pesach 1 2022
Hashem Loves You, Even When You Sin Parashat Metzora 2022
Spiritual Stagnation, Tzaraas and More Parashat Tazria 2022
21st Century Religious Issues and the Death of Nadav Avihu Parashat Shmini 2022
Purim and Jewish Identity (H/T) Rav Yonatan Grossman) Parashat Tzav 2022
Lessons From Parashat Zachor for the Russia/Ukraine War Parashat Vayikra 2022
A Bracha from Moshe Rabbeinu Parashat Pekudei 2022
Commanded Begins Parashat Vayekhel 2022
Did God Misplace the Incense Altar Parashat Tetzaveh 2022
Appreciating Our Shuls, Lessons From Chronology of Our Parsha Parashat Terumah 2022
Your Enemies Animals, Really? Parashat Mishpatim 2022
Did Moshe's Neck Really Turn to Stone Parashat Yitro 2022
The Eternal Message of Shabbat Parashat Beshalach 2022
The Inclusion of the Ger in the Korban Pesach Parashat Bo 2022
The Uniqueness and Importance of the Makkah of Boils Parashat Va'era 2022
The Fire at the Burning Bush Parashat Shmot 2021
You Should be as Ephraim and Menashe Parshat Vayechi 2021
The Timeless Message of Yosef's Wagon Parashat Vayigash 2021
Spiritual Optimization, the Message of Chanukah Parashat Miketz 2021
Happy Thanksgiving Parashat Vayeshev 2021
The Story of Shechem Parashat Vayishlach 2021
The Challenge of Modern Orthodoxy Parashat Vayetze 2021
Spiritual Wealth Management Parashat Toldot 2021