Megilat Esther
Megilat Esther with Rabbi Jablon
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 Y. Herczeg: “The First Seudat Purim”
Former faculty member Rabbi Yisrael Herczeg weaves together many sources and uncovers where the very first Purim Seuda took place. [sc_embed_player_template1 fileurl=”http://www.torahmedia.com/streamlinkdirect.php/47431/high/1717_56_H_The_First_Seudas_Purim.mp3″] Download external=”0″]
R’ Elie Silverberg: “Purim”
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Shapell’s/Darche Noam Daf Kesher for Purim
Shapell’s/Darche Noam brings you the weekly Daf Kesher, featuring a faculty article, guided text study, and Dvar Torah on the weekly parsha. If you would like to dedicate a Daf Kesher in honor/memory of a loved one please contact the Director of Development, Avrom Suslovich avrom@darchenoam.org To open the Daf Kesher in a new window […]
R’ Hirshfeld: “The Unities of Purim”
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Purim Mordechai: Another Kind of Tzaddik
Humility Alongside the Jewish romantic image of the humble tzaddik — self-effacing, slightly bent-over, hidden, and devoted to all — is an alternate type of Jewish figure — powerful, unbending, strong, and even stubborn. Moshe, when pleading the case of the Jewish people after the sin of the Golden Calf, uses the term stiff-necked people […]
Purim The Megilla for Pshat Lovers
Six Straightforward Insights into the Megilla (From Harav Chaim Aryeh Leib of Yedwabna’s Shaar Bat Rabim collection) 1. Esther’s Family and Nation 2. Sending the Messages 3. The Fifty Cubit Gallows 4. You and Your Father’s House 5. Slaves vs. Destruction 6. The Converts After the Purim Miracle Esther’s Family and Nation (Emunat Chakhamim 23) […]
Purim Esther’s Secret
Rabbi Yitzchak Lerner In Perek 2, Pasuk 18 of Megillat Esther, we learn that after choosing Esther to be his queen, Achashverosh prepared a great feast in her honor and “he granted a relief in taxes and sent gifts according to the state of the king.” Pasuk 20 follows to tell us that Esther, heeding […]
Purim The Month of Adar: End and Beginning
Mrs. Deena Nataf, Midreshet Rachel v’Chaya Adar is the last station on the yearly cycle that begins with Nissan. It symbolizes the end…yet also the potential for rebirth, as we emerge from Adar into Nissan. Its zodiac sign is Dagim, fish. Just as fish live under the sea, concealed from the eyes of man, so, […]
