Episodios

  • Toldos – Infertile Crescent

    Toldos – Infertile Crescent
    Nov 20 2025
    Why were the patriarchs and matriarchs infertile? Why did Isaac favor Esau? Why did Isaac require delicacies to bless Esau? Why does the Torah offer an extended narrative of Isaac and wells – digging wells, wrestling with wells that got plugged up, quarreling over wells, naming cities after wells? Why does anti-Semitism exist? These are […]
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    59 m
  • Toldos – Smoking Camels (5784)

    Toldos – Smoking Camels (5784)
    Nov 18 2025
    Two very different boys are born in this week’s Parsha. Esau, the older one, is ruddy and hairy and looking for trouble. Jacob, the younger one, is wholesome and righteous. The beginning of our Parsha describe the unusual events surrounding the conception and birth of these two boys. When we read it on a superficial […]
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    59 m
  • Parshas Toldos (Rebroadcast)

    Parshas Toldos (Rebroadcast)
    Nov 16 2025
    In Parshas Toldos we meet twin boys that are polar opposites: Esau, beloved by his father Isaac, is a man of the fields; while Jacob is loved by his mother Rebecca and prefers to dwell in the tents of scholarship. These two children will spawn nations and ideals that diverged from each other even before […]
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    1 h y 7 m
  • Chayei Sarah – Age of the Matriarchs

    Chayei Sarah – Age of the Matriarchs
    Nov 13 2025
    Sarah lived a relatively long life. She passed away at the age of 127 after learning about the Binding of Isaac. Our Parsha begins with her passing, eulogy, and burial in the Cave of the Patriarchs. Just as when the sun sets in one area, it automatically rises in some other place, with the passing […]
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  • Chayei Sarah – Buried Alive (5784)

    Chayei Sarah – Buried Alive (5784)
    Nov 11 2025
    Sarah died at the age of 127. Abraham negotiated with the Hittites for the purchase of a burial plot, the Cave of Machpelah. The objective of the purchase of the Cave of Machpelah was to bury the dead. These three facts are featured at the beginning of our Parsha. On the surface these facts seem […]
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    42 m
  • Parshas Chayei Sarah (Rebroadcast)

    Parshas Chayei Sarah (Rebroadcast)
    Nov 9 2025
    Some of the highlights of this week’s parsha: Immediately after the Binding of Isaac, Sarah passed away at the age of 127, and soon afterward Abraham had to procure a burial spot for her. In addition, Abraham sent his trusted confidante, Eliezer, to his hometown to find a spouse for Isaac. – – – – […]
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    56 m
  • Vayeira – Sodium and Gomorrah

    Vayeira – Sodium and Gomorrah
    Nov 6 2025
    Abraham was the paragon of faith. He was also the paragon of kindness and hospitality. When he was 99 years old and only three days removed from a very painful and debilitating circumcision surgery, Abraham launched into a frenzied act of superlative hospitality to three travelers (who later turned out to be angels). These twin […]
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    1 h y 10 m
  • Vayeira – Abraham Abraham (5784)

    Vayeira – Abraham Abraham (5784)
    Nov 4 2025
    On the second day of Rosh Hashanah each year we read chapter 22 of Genesis, the Binding of Isaac episode. Abraham is instructed to take his beloved son Isaac and offer him as a sacrifice atop Mount Moriah. Abraham does as told, only to be stopped at the very last moment. In this very special […]
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    1 h y 5 m