Rabbi Karlinsky: “Yaakov Avinu: Spiritual Growth-Every Day in Every Way”
Rav Shaya Karlinsky, in this Tuesday’s shmuze at Shapell’s, explores how Yaakov’s path contrasts with Avraham and Yitzchak: Why is his “an inheritance with no bounds”? It opens with a fundamental presentation based on the Ramchal’s teachings. [sc_embed_player_template1 fileurl=”http://www.torahmedia.com/streamlinkdirect.php/49037/high/1109_219_H_Rebound_.mp3″] Download external=”0″]
Rabbi Schoonmaker: “Lessons from the Meraglim”
In this week’s shmooze, Rosh Yeshiva Schoonmaker shares important lessons we can learn from the errors of the meraglim (spies) that we can apply to our own service of Hashem. [sc_embed_player_template1 fileurl=”http://www.torahmedia.com/streamlinkdirect.php/48718/high/1109_219_H_Rebound_.mp3″] Download external=”0″]
Rabbi Fyvel Shuster: “Positively Negative”
What happens when we avoid a sin? Shapell’s mashgiach Rabbi Fyvel Shuster’s answer draws on a passage in the Sfas Emes – as well as Rabbi Wein’s wine taster and an experience on a college campus that involves an amoeba. [sc_embed_player_template1 fileurl=”http://www.torahmedia.com/streamlinkdirect.php/48660/high/1109_219_H_Rebound_.mp3″] Download external=”0″]
Rabbi Dovid Schoonmaker: “Falling, but Not Too Far”
In this week’s shmuze, Shapell’s Rosh Yeshiva Rabbi Dovid Schoonmaker gives practical advice for dealing with the unfortunate but inevitable falls we experience in our lives. [sc_embed_player_template1 fileurl=”http://www.torahmedia.com/streamlinkdirect.php/48561/high/1109_218_H_Falling,_but_not_too_far.mp3″] Download external=”0″]
Rabbi Fyvel Shuster: “Love From Above”
In this week’s shmuze, given on the 7th of Adar, Moshe Rabbeinu’s yahrzeit, and that discussed Purim, Machatzit Hashekel, and the Mishkan, Shapell’s Mashgiach Rabbi Shuster shared some thoughts about our love for G-d and His love for us. [sc_embed_player_template1 fileurl=”http://www.torahmedia.com/streamlinkdirect.php/48550/high/1109_217_H_Love_From_Above.mp3″] Download external=”0″]
Rabbi Shaya Karlinsky: “Letting Hashem in to our Lives”
Rabbi F. Shuster: “Fire and Water”
In this week’s Tuesday morning Shmuze in the Shapell’s Beit Midrash, Mashgiach Rabbi Fyvel Shuster asks: ‘How can positive conflict – like that of Beit Hillel & Beit Shamai, Yehuda & Yosef – enrich the Jewish People, Torah learning, and our personal lives?’ [sc_embed_player_template1 fileurl=”http://www.torahmedia.com/streamlinkdirect.php/48374/high/1109_207_H_Fire_and_Water.mp3″] Download external=”0″]
Rabbi F. Shuster: “Unleashing the Power of the Endangered Child”
Three of the questions Shapell’s Mashgiach Rabbi Fyvel Shuster related to in this week’s shmuze are: 1. Why is the yetzer hatov (good inclination) referred to, of all things, as a “yeled miskein (endangered child)”?! 2. Why does the Rambam refer to lighting Chanuka candles as a “very dear commandment”? 3. What can we learn […]
Rabbi Dovid Schoonmaker: “Another Son”
In this week’s shmuze, Rosh Yeshiva Rabbi Dovid Schoonmaker related to two questions about the puzzling words of the midwife to Rachel during the tragic birth of Binyamin, “Do not be fearful for this is also a son”: 1. How was this supposed to console Rachel, on the verge of death? 2. What does the […]
