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 Shuster: “Glowing, Burning, Running – A Tale of 3 Castles”
This Tuesday morning, Shapell’s Mashgiach Ruchani Rabbi Fyvel Shuster shared three fresh insights into the well-known aggadta about Avraham Avinu compared to a man watching a castle. [sc_embed_player_template1 fileurl=”http://www.torahmedia.com/streamlinkdirect.php/48974/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 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: “Donkey King”
In this week’s Tuesday morning shmuze in the Shapell’s Beit Midrash, Rabbi Shuster discusses “natzchanut,” the competitive need to win, as well as the negative and positive spiritual significance of the donkey. [sc_embed_player_template1 fileurl=”http://www.torahmedia.com/streamlinkdirect.php/48130/high/1109_194_H_Donkey_King.mp3″] Download external=”0″]
Rabbi D. Schoonmaker: “In the Crosshairs”
In this week’s Tuesday morning shmuze in the Shapell’s Beit Midrash, Rosh Yeshiva Rabbi Dovid Schoonmaker shows how to apply the classic mussar topic, “Milchemet Hayetzer (The War Against the Evil Inclination)” to everyday life. [sc_embed_player_template1 fileurl=”http://www.torahmedia.com/streamlinkdirect.php/48130/high/1109_193_H_In_the_Crosshairs.mp3″] Download external=”0″]
Rabbi F. Shuster: “If You’re Happy ‘Cause You’re Jewish…”
How important is joy for Torah life? What if I am just not happy though I’m doing the mitzvot? What can we learn from the extreme sport called ice climbing? Rabbi Shuster relates to questions like these in this half hour shmuze. [sc_embed_player_template1 fileurl=”http://www.torahmedia.com/streamlinkdirect.php/47739/high/1109_169_H_If_You_re_Happy__Cause_You_re_Jewish.mp3″] Download external=”0″]
Rabbi Y. Hirshfeld: “Worlds of Kedusha”
In this shmuze, Rosh Yeshiva Rabbi Yitzchak Hirshfeld discusses how to go from “external” to “internal” in living a life of kedusha. [sc_embed_player_template1 fileurl=”http://www.torahmedia.com/streamlinkdirect.php/47531/high/1109_161_H_Worlds_of_Kedusha.mp3″] Download
Rabbi H. Reichman: “Consistency vs. Variation”
In this guest lecture, Rabbi Herschel Reichman of Yeshiva University’s RIETS, a disciple of Rabbi Yosef Dov Soloveitchik, zt”l, weaves together thoughts by the Shem Mishmuel and Baal Hatanya about negating one’s self and being independent, about constancy and variation, about prayer, learning, chesed, and marriage. [sc_embed_player_template1 fileurl=”http://www.torahmedia.com/streamlinkdirect.php/47361/high/1717_52_H_Consistency_vs_Variation.mp3″] Download external=”0″]
