Parshat Yitro - Religious Coercsion: Not as Bad as We Might Think
Especially in Israel, religious coercion is automatically considered something negative, destructive and harmful. Yet, almost no one grows on their ow...
Personal Parshah Podcast from Yad Binyamin, Israel
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Join us each week as we analyze a section of the weekly parshah. From a careful study of the text and the guidance of the Midrash and classic commentaries, we find that the parshah has a great deal to teach us about modern life. This class, which is given each week to the women of Yad Binyamin, Israel, takes a decidedly Zionist perspective to the parshah as well.
Parshat Bereishit - Frumkeit on the Back of My Brother
We often think of our own frumkeit in terms of the relationship we have with God, giving little thought to how our spirituality affects those around u...
Ein Ayah on Ki Tavo - Finding the Spiritual in the Physical
From the Mitzvah of Mikra Bikkurim we move to a powerful piece from Rav Kook about the purpose and meaning behind the recitation of Brachot
Parashat Re'eh - Judaism and Income Inequality
How we view "our" money says a great deal about our world view...
Parshat Ekev - Shema Part II - For the Love of God
After a short diversion into an amazingly Zionistic Rashi found in the second chapter of Shema, we return to the first chapter of Shema to ask: How ca...
Parshat Va'etchanan - Learning from Tragedy, Parenting Our Children
While Va'etchanan teaches us a great deal about the causes of and reasons for calamities that befall the Jewish people, it also conveys critical paren...
Parshat Devarim - From Faith to Reality
We examine the textual challenge of how the story of the Meraglim is described differently in Devarim and in Bamidbar. Using these distinctions, we tr...
Parshat Matot-Masei - Individual Wants vs Communal Needs
The requests of the tribes of Reuven and Gad to remain on the East Bank of the Jordan River elicits a powerful and negative reaction from Moshe. We di...
Parshat Pinchas - Were Tzlafchad's Daughters Feminists?
Through a careful reading of both the text, commentaries and midrashim on the story of the daughters of Tzelafchad, we'll discuss some of the challeng...
Parshat Balak - The Hidden Message of Sexual Ethics
Balak is a strange parshah with even stranger details. But underneath the strange and unusual details lies a theme that has marked the strength of the...