Episodes

  • Pinchas – Sunday and Moonday

    Pinchas – Sunday and Moonday
    Jul 17 2025
    Great leaders are often irreplaceable. The greatest leader of them all is certainly irreplaceable. But even Moshe must have a successor. In our Parsha, Moshe asks God designate a successor for him after he passes. Who can possibly fill such large shoes? Who can possibly take upon themselves the mantle of leadership of God’s Nation? […]
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    57 mins
  • Pinchas – Sons of Anarchist (5783)

    Pinchas – Sons of Anarchist (5783)
    Jul 15 2025
    Korach’s rebellion claimed many victims: Some of the perpetrators were swallowed up in a miraculous sinkhole; some were consumed by a divine fire; and some were killed in a plague. In our Parsha, we discover that the sons of Korach did not die. Although they were participants in the rebellion initially, at the very last […]
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    52 mins
  • Parshas Pinchas (Rebroadcast)

    Parshas Pinchas (Rebroadcast)
    Jul 13 2025
    Pinchas was a man of action, a zealot who avenged God’s vengeance and was handsomely rewarded for it. In this parsha we read about his reward, Moses’ succession plan, the methods through which the Land will be divided, and another census is done. – – – – – – – – – – – – […]
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    52 mins
  • Balak – Ruthless and Ruthful Determination

    Balak – Ruthless and Ruthful Determination
    Jul 10 2025
    Balak, King of Moab, and Bilaam, sorcerer extraordinaire, hatched a plot to annihilate the Jewish people. Had their plan been successful, there would not have been even a single survivor. And they almost pulled it off. In fact, absent a Divine intervention, the glorious Jewish Nation would have been toast. What gave them such power? […]
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    1 hr and 6 mins
  • Parshas Balak (Rebroadcast)

    Parshas Balak (Rebroadcast)
    Jul 6 2025
    After the Jewish nation trounced the mighty kingdoms of Sichon and Og in last week’s parsha, the comparatively smaller and weaker kingdom of Moab resorted to unconventional warfare to attack the nation by hiring the prophet of the nations, a wily and devious character named Bilaam, to curse the Jews. It did not work out […]
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    1 hr and 1 min
  • Chukas – Bold and Boulder

    Chukas – Bold and Boulder
    Jul 3 2025
    When the nation needed water, they found it in a most unexpected place: Moshe struck a rock and it began to spew forth enough water for the entire nation. Why was there water inside the rock? Why when Jacob needed water, he removed the rock blockading it? Why didn’t he find water inside the rock […]
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    1 hr and 1 min
  • Chukas – Methods of Transformation (5783)

    Chukas – Methods of Transformation (5783)
    Jul 1 2025
    In the first of this week’s double parsha, we read about the death of two giants: Miriam and Aaron, Moshe’s older sister and brother, pass away. Our sages tell us that the death of the righteous serves as an atonement in a way similar to sacrifices. Just as sacrifices atone, so too does the death […]
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    53 mins
  • Parshas Chukas (Rebroadcast)

    Parshas Chukas (Rebroadcast)
    Jun 29 2025
    In this week’s parsha, we read about a highly unusual mitzvah: The Red Heifer, when an entirely red cow is burned together with a motley concoction of ingredients, and the resultant ashes are used to sprinkle on people that came into contact with dead people in order to purify them from their spiritual contamination. We […]
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    1 hr and 1 min