Ep. 545: How Should We Respond to the Latest Tragic Washington Murders?
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And in merit of Boruch Benyomin ben Menucha Lana Althaus
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Topics:
How should we respond to the latest tragic Washington murders?
- Where is Hashem in all of this? 04:55
- Is there something we can do? 07:00
- Should we stop displaying our Jewish identity, not go to shul, remove Jewish symbols? 11:39
Bamidbar
- Why do we read this Torah chapter before Shavuos? 14:00
- Who owns the Torah? Can anyone claim royalties? 16:20
- What personal and global lessons does it offer us for our times? 20:24
Shavuos
- What is the personal significance of this holiday? 24:06
- What is the Torah, and why is the giving of the Torah such a monumental event? 27:52
- What is the deeper meaning of so many seemingly trivial details in the Torah? 35:05
- Why is it important for everyone to go to shul on Shavuos to hear the Ten Commandments if we already heard them in previous years? 42:16
- If the “entire Torah” is about loving another, why do we see many Torah-observant people who are not loving? 47:10
- Does the “entire Torah” include the inner dimension of Torah? 52:16
- Why do the Ten Commandments begin with describing G-d as taking us out of Egypt and not as Creator? And why not G-d that will bring the final redemption? 53:07
- What does Anochi signify? 56:49
- Why were spouses commanded not to be intimate before Mattan Torah? Isn’t intimacy a sacred act? 58:55
- Why do we dance with the Torah on Simchas Torah and not on Shavuos? 01:03:05
- Why do we celebrate receiving the Torah when we didn’t even have a chance to read it yet? 01:03:05
- Is there a Maamar Chassidus on the book of Ruth that you would suggest we study? 01:07:07
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