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Listen to Rabbi Steven Weil’s riveting Yom Yerushalayim shiur for a taste of 1967, including the background and events leading up to the war. Let’s Open Our Sefarim This Yom Yerushalayim...

Is it possible that all 24,000 of Rabbi Akiva’s students committed the exact same sin? Why do we mourn over these students if they didn’t even learn from their rebbe’s most...

In Parshat Nitzavim God says that after he brings us back he will increase us and bless the land. The State of Israel is clearly a manifestation of this.

The 3 sets of the makkot can be categorized according to the 3 principles of Sefer HaIkkarim. Each set was intended to teach Pharaoh a different lesson.

Rabbi Sholom Gold discusses the haftarah of Shabbat Chol Hamoed Pesach (Ezekiel 37), Yechezkel’s vision of the valley of the Dry Bones, and how it is being fulfilled in our days....

Shiur provided courtesy of Naaleh.com. Summary by Channie Koplowitz Stein It was the ultimate moment of redemption. Hashem Himself came down and smote the Egyptian firstborn. The Torah says, “I shall...

Shiur provided courtesy of Naaleh.com. Summary by Channie Koplowitz Stein It is customary to set a beautiful table for the Pesach Seder, to adorn the table with silver vessels and any...

Why do we drink wine on Purim? Wine helps us refocus ourselves and stop blaming external forces for the distance between us and G-d and with others.

Shiur provided courtesy of Naaleh.com. Purim is unique among the holidays, for, as Chazal tell us, while all the other holidays will be nullified after the arrival of Moshiach, Purim (and...