Audio Divrei Torah by Rabbi Boaz Tomsky

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Halacha

Tefilla Intro-Hashem Open My Lips
 Tefilla 1st Bracha-Kindness Comes First
 Tefilla 1st Bracha-The Shield Of Avraham
 Tefilla 2nd Bracha- Cleopatra's Question About The Resurrection
 Tefilla 2nd Bracha-The Definition of Real Strength
 Tefilla 4th Bracha-Havdalah Requires Knowledge
 Tefilla 4th Bracha-Knowledge Comes First
 Tefilla 5th Bracha-Meet Me Half Way
 Tefilla 5th Bracha-The Power Of 15
 Tefilla 5th Bracha-Torah Is An Inheritance
 Tefilla 6th Bracha-Forgive And Forget
 Tefilla 7th Bracha-The Real Redemption
 Tefilla 8th Bracha-Hashem Is Our Doctor
 Tefilla 8th Bracha-The Healing Of Day Eight
 Tefilla 9th Bracha-Hashem Sustains Us
 Tefilla 10th Bracha-The Three Step Process Of Redemption
 Tefilla 11th Bracha-Order In The Court
 Tefilla 11th Bracha-Three Issues Of Man
 Tefilla 12th Bracha-Who Wrote This Blessing And Why Him
 Tefilla 12th Bracha-Why 18 Blessings
 Tefilla 13th Bracha-The Fab 5
 Tefilla 14th Bracha-The True Meaning Of Jerusalem
 Tefilla 15th Bracha-Answering The Fourth Question
 Tefilla 16th Bracha-Hashem Knows What We Really Need
 Tefilla 17th Bracha-Come A Little Bit Closer
 Tefilla 17th Bracha-It's Time To Say Thanks
 Tefilla 18th Bracha-I Can't Thank You Enough
 Tefilla 18th Bracha-Only You Can Say Thanks
 Tefilla 19th Bracha-Saving Peace for Last
Tefilla 19th Bracha-Sim Shalom And Birchat Cohanim
Tefilla and Asara BeTevet
 Tefilla At Penn Station
 Tefiilla-Don't Pass It By
 Tefilla With A Minyan At What Cost
 Tefilla-Bowing Down At These Four Places
 Tefilla-Bowing How Low Can You Go
 Tefilla-December 4th
 Tefilla-Do You Know Where Your Kids Are
 Tefilla-Don't Hold Me Now

The Power of 10-A Message On Tefillot This Elul

Tefilla-Featuring The Doors
 Tefilla-Holding Your Hands
Tefilla-I Don't Wish To Repeat Myself
Tefilla-Kavanah
 Tefilla-Learning Before Davening
 Tefilla-Our Prayers Are Compared To The Karbanot
 Tefilla-Picking Up After Yourself
 Tefilla-Praying By Your Teacher
 Tefilla-Procedure for Properly Preparing For Prayer
 Tefilla-Qualifications To Be The Chazzan
 Tefilla-Run Don't Walk
 Tefilla-Taking Your Steps Back
 Tefilla-Talking To A Wall
 Tefilla-The Fab Four Who Will Be Resurrected
 Tefilla-The Meaning Behind Bowing
 Tefilla-The Origin Of Elokai Netzor
 Tefilla-When It Could And Should Be Done
 Tefilla-Which Way Is Mizrach
 Tefilla-Windows 0012
 Tefilla-With Name Calling Less Is More
 Tefilla-You Must Be An Angel
Tefilla-It Ain't Over Until It's Over

Tefilla-December 5, 2007

 

Hagbah Advice For Righties On Parshat Breishit

Hagbah-Why Are They Pointing With Their Pinky Finger

Hagbah-VeZot HaTorah Is All Chopped Up

 

Kriat HaTorah-Is It As Important As Hearing The Shofer

Kriat HaTorah-Making Up Many Torah Readings

Kriat HaTorah-Making Up The Torah Reading Next Week

Kriat HaTorah-Reading Only One Parsha When It Was A Double Parsha

Kriat HaTorah-Three Days Without Water

Kriat HaTorah-Using A Microphone To Hear It

Kriat HaTorah-9 Or 10 Verse Minimum...Why

Kriat HaTorah-An Aliyah For The Blind

Kriat HaTorah-Asking The Cohen To Leave

Kriat HaTorah-Bringing The Torah To Jail

Kriat HaTorah-Calling Me Names

Kriat HaTorah-Don't Ignore The Cohain

Kriat HaTorah-Don't Speak

Kriat HaTorah-Getting Called To Torah While Behind

Kriat HaTorah-Giving A Mourner An Aliyah During Shiva

Kriat HaTorah-Interrupting Davening Since Called To Torah

Kriat HaTorah-Is There A Cohain In The House

Kriat HaTorah-Must The Torah Be Read There 3 Times

Kriat HaTorah-Reading The Wrong Parsha

Kriat HaTorah-Refusing An Aliyah...No Thanks

Kriat HaTorah-Should A Mechalel Shabbat Get An Aliyah

Kriat HaTorah-Starting Off (and ending) On A Good Note

Kriat HaTorah-The Aliyah of The Tochacha

Kriat HaTorah-The Invisible Cohain

Kriat HaTorah-The Non Observant Cohain

Kriat HaTorah-The Traveling Cohain

Kriat HaTorah-Which Is The Best Aliyah And Why

Kriat HaTorah-Don't Lean On Me

Kriat HaTorah-How To Get An Aliyah Properly

Kriat HaTorah-Pointing Me In The Wrong Direction

Kriat HaTorah-Relatives Getting Back To Back Aliyot

Kriat HaTorah-Shouldn't The Torah Have Vowels

Kriat HaTorah-What Not To Correct (Es Ays)

Kriat HaTorah-With Two Conditions Brothers Can Get Back To Back Aliyot

Kriat HaTorah-Asking A Child If It's 1 Or 2 Words

Kriat HaTorah-Catching A Missing Letter

Kriat HaTorah-Delaying The Haftorah And For Good Reason

Kriat HaTorah-Dividing The Honor Of Taking The Torah

Kriat HaTorah-Gelilah Is The Biggest Honor

Kriat HaTorah-Manual Or Computer Examinations

Kriat HaTorah-Must We Wake Up Sleeping Beauty

Kriat HaTorah-One Person Getting Two Honors

Kriat HaTorah-Putting The Torah Down Before Kaddish

Kriat HaTorah-Taking A Stand

Kriat HaTorah-Torn Parchment

Kriat HaTorah-You Got To Roll With It

Kriat HaTorah-The Right Way To Kiss

 

Shema Being Heard From Yourself and Others
 Shema Is Also About Our Avot
 Shema Is Never Out Of Order
 Shema- Reciting The Shema With The Minyan
 Shema Teaches Us About Keeping Shabbos
 Shema-Answering Amen after Gowal Yisroel
 Shema-Can I Say It In Chinese
 Shema-Can I Say It In Chinese-Part 2
 Shema-How To Divide Your Day

Shema-How To Say It The Proper Way

Shema-Kavana-Can I Walk And Chew Gum
 Shema-Loving Hashem With The Yatsar Hara

Shema-Please Don't Rise

Shema-Repeating The Shema In Case Of Doubt
 Shema-Shouldn't We Be Standing
 Shema-So What's The Reward
 Shema-What Comes First Learning Or Teaching
 Shema-What On Earth Were You Thinking
 Shema-Where Am I Up To
 Shema-Your Money And Your Life

Uva Letzion-Please Rise Or You May Be Seated
Aleinu-The Potential Dangers of Gamatria
Shir Shel Yom-Good Shabbos

Kaddish-Can I Say It In The Middle Of Davening
Kaddish-Rabbi Akiva
Kaddish-Grandchild, Convert And The Delayed News
Kaddish-In A Shul With No One Saying It
Kaddish-One For All Or All As One
Kaddish-Should A Small Child Say It
Kaddish-Days In Which The Mourner Does Not Lead
Kaddish-Should One Split Minyan Into Smaller Groups
Kaddish-The Mourner Within 11 Months Or At Its End
Kaddish-The Mourner Within His 30th Day
Kaddish-The One Sitting Shiva Comes First
Kaddish-The Yartzit And His Rights To The Amud
Kaddish-When to Start Counting The Shloshim
Kaddish-Hiring Someone To Say It On My Behalf
Kaddish-Reciting It For Multiple People At The Same Time

 

Birchat Cohanim-A Shul With Only Cohanim
 Birchat Cohanim-Can The Cohen Add Onto His Bracha
 Birchat Cohanim-Hand Washing
 Birchat Cohanim-Introduction To Its Laws
 Birchat Cohanim-Just Wine Or Other Alcohol Too
 Birchat Cohanim-No Shoes Yes Service
 Birchat Cohanim-Showing Respect
 Birchat Cohanim-Speak Clearly
 Birchat Cohanim-Stand Up And Shout (At Least Don't Whisper)
 Birchat Cohanim-Stop Staring At Me
 Birchat Cohanim-Sweet Dreams
 Birchat Cohanim-The Hated Cohen
 Birchat Cohanim-The Source For Star Trek
 Birchat Cohanim-When The Cohen Decends
 Birchat Cohanim-Which Cohanim Should Exit The Building
 Birchat Cohanim-Why The Cohanim Come Up At Retzay
Birchat Cohanim-Why The Rabbi Moves From His Seat Prior

 

Tachnun-Bowing On A Stone Floor
 Tachnun-Lots Of Days When It's Not Said (By Some)
 Tachanun-In Front of A Pasul Sefer Torah
 Tachnun-Does The Room Need To Have A Torah
 Tachnun-Doing Different From The Shul You're In
 Tachnun-Doing Different From The Shul You're In Part Two
 Tachnun-In A Room Near The Shul
 Tachnun-In The Presence Of A Chatan On Day Eight
 Tachnun-Is It Said At A Bar Mitzvah
 Tachnun-Kicking The Chatan Out Of Shul
 Tachnun-Leaning On The Wrong Arm
 Tachnun-No Tachnun The Mincha Before
 Tachnun-Not Like The Good Old Days
 Tachnun-Reciting Hallel In a House Of Mourning
Tachnun-Thinking That Today Is A Day To Say It
Tachnun-What Makes Monday And Thursday So Special

Beit Hachneset-Borrowing Money To Build A Shul For Something Else

Beit Hachneset-Cell Phones And Seeing Eye Dogs

Beit Hachneset-Destroying To Rebuild

Beit Hachneset-Forcing A Book Drive

Beit Hachneset-Forcing People To Build A Shul

Beit Hachneset-Haughtiness And Anger

Beit Hachneset-In Need Of Some Support

Beit Hachneset-Learning After Davening

Beit Hachneset-Only Four Hours A Day To Learn

Beit Hachneset-Selling A Shul For Something Else Of Kedusha

Beit Hachneset-Speaking

Beit Hachneset-Taking Shortcuts

Beit Hachneset-The Shul Must Be The Tallest Building In Town

Beit Hachneset-Two Jews And Three Shuls

Beit Hachneset-Don't Tell A Lie

Beit Hachneset-Eating Way Too Much

Beit Hachneset-Love Thy Neighbor

Beit Hachneset-Seeking Revenge And Bearing A Grudge

Beit Hachneset-Working Vs. Torah Study

 

Netilat Yadayim-An Introduction To What Constitutes A Chatzitza

Netilat Yadayim-Different Reasons For Eating And Waking In The Morning

Netilat Yadayim-Do I Wash If I Take A Small Bite

Netilat Yadayim-Making Hamotzei Immediately After Washing

Netilat Yadayim-Removing The Rings

Netilat Yadayim-Washing Before The Brachah

Netilat Yadayim-Why Netilat And Not Rechetsat Yadayim

 

  Seudah-Eating The Bread Right Away
  Seudah-Feed The Animals First Only But Not Water...Why?
  Seudah-Feeding The Animals First
  Seudah-Hearing Hamotzi While You're Washing
  Seudah-The Meaning Behind The Hamotzi Brachah
  Seudah-Why We Cut The Bread First...Or Should We
  Seudah-Don't Waste Food
  Seudah-When Food May Be Wasted
  Seudah-Is It Rude When You Eat First
  Seudah-Making The Wrong Bracha On The Bread
  Seudah-Rivka By The Well And Not Feeding Leftovers To Your Animals
  Seudah-To Make A Bracha For Me, You Have To Eat Too
  Seudah-Who Makes The Bracha Over The Bread
  Seudah-Good Table Manners Is A Halacha
  Seudah-A Bracha On Wine Is All You Need But How Much Must One Drink
  Seudah-Between Fish And Meat
  Seudah-Do We Make A Bracha On Water After Drinking Kiddush Wine
  Seudah-Forgetting To Make A Bracha On A Drink
  Seudah-Forgetting To Make A Bracha On Food
  Seudah-Making A Bracha On Wine After Making Hamotzei
  Seudah-The Source Of Saying L'Chayim
  Seudah-Washing Between Dairy And Meat
  Seudah-6 Of 10 things Needed For Kos Shel Bracha
  Seudah-Leaving Bread On The Table
  Seudah-When To Make A Bracha On Dessert
  Seudah-Mayim Achronim
  Seudah-Must We Bench With A Kos
  Seudah-Removing The Knife Before Benching
  Seudah-Ten Things Said About The Kos Shel Bracha
  Seudah-Three Opinions When To Bench With A Cup Of Wine

  Birchat Hamazon-A Child's Obligation To Bench
  Birchat Hamazon-A Woman Can't Remember If She Benched
  Birchat Hamazon-A Women's Obligation To Bench
  Birchat Hamazon-Benching At A Different Place Sometimes Is Fine
  Birchat Hamazon-Benching Quietly
  Birchat Hamazon-Benching Where You Ate
  Birchat Hamazon-Eating A Long Meal-Can One Still Bench
  Birchat Hamazon-Forgetting To Say Brit Or Torah
  Birchat Hamazon-How Much Do I Have To Eat To Bench
  Birchat Hamazon-If In Doubt, Bench Again
  Birchat Hamazon-In Any Language
  Birchat Hamazon-Stay On Task
  Birchat Hamazon-We Must Bench While Full
  Birchat Hamazon-Can A Waiter Help With Making A Zimun
  Birchat HaMazon-Should Workers Bench The Abridged Version
  Birchat HaMazon-Zimon-Why Three Is Company
  Birchat Hamazon-Making A Bracha Or A Zimun With Non Kosher Or Stolen Food
  Birchat Hamazon-Making A Zimun On The Plane
  Birchat Hamazon-A Women's Zimun
  Birchat Hamazon-A Zimun During Yom Kippur
  Birchat Hamazon-A Zimun With Only Some Who Know How To Answer Properly
  Birchat Hamazon-A Zimun With Some Who Ate Dairy And Others Meat
  Birchat Hamazon-Answering To A Zimun Although I Didn't Eat
  Birchat Hamazon-Can A Torah Violater Be Counted For Zimun
  Birchat Hamazon-Counting A Child For A Zimun
  Birchat Hamazon-Do We All Need To Have Had Bread For A Zimun
  Birchat Hamazon-May One Refuse The Honor Of Leading Benching
  Birchat Hamazon-Shouldn't The Cohain Always Lead The Benching
  Birchat Hamazon-Stop Eating Already And Make A Zimun
  Birchat Hamazon-Why A Guest Should Lead The Benching

  Brachot-Is Thinking Like Speaking
  Brachot- Fruit, Vegetables Or Beef-Which Comes First
  Brachot Siman 204-Medicine With A Pleasant Taste-Is A Bracha Required
  Brachot Siman 205-Eat Your Vegetables But What Bracha
  Brachot Siman 206-Are Some Kippot Just Too Small
  Brachot Siman 206-Must The Food Be In Front Of Me When A Bracha Is Said
  Brachot Siman 206-No Separation Between The Bracha And The Eating
  Brachot Siman 206-Holding Onto The Food Or Drink Before The Bracha Is Recited
  Brachot Siman 206-One HaAdamah Bracha On A Tomato And An Apple
  Brachot Siman 206-Papaya And Raspberry Plants-When In Doubt...
  Brachot Siman 207-The Laws Of Borayah Nefashot
  Brachot Siman 208,14-Wine, Grapes And Confusion Between The Two
  Brachot Siman 208-Al HaEtz For An Apple
  Brachot Siman 208-Bracha Achronah On The 5 Fruits
  Brachot Siman 208-No Mention Of Some Holidays In Al HaMichyah
  Brachot Siman 209-Uncertainty About Having Said A Bracha What Should Be Done If Anything
  Brachot Siman 209-Wine, Beer And Concluding With The Right Words
  Brachot Siman 210-Eating Less Than A Kazayit And Practical Examples Of Minimal Amounts
  For A Bracha Achronah
  Brachot Siman 211-Principles Of The Order Of Making A Bracha
  Brachot Siman 213-Listening To Every Word Of The Bracha
  Brachot Siman 215-The Severity Of Reciting An Unnecessary Bracha
  Brachot Siman 216-Smelling Perfume In A Store-Should I Make A Bracha
  Brachot Siman 218-Blessings On Historical Miracles
  Brachot Siman 218-Waiting 30 Days To Recite A Bracha On A Miraculous Event
  Brachot Siman 218-Seudah Hodaah In Miami
  Brachot Siman 219-Birchat HaGomel For Women And Children
  Brachot Siman 219-Birchat HaGomel On Being Released From Prison Or An Illness
  Brachot Siman 219-Reciting Birchat HaGomel After Flying
  Brachot Siman 219-The Meaning Of Birchat HaGomel
  Siman 220-Bad Dreams And The Obligation to Fast
  Brachot Siman 222-HaTov V'Hamaytiv And Dayan HaEmet
  Brachot Siman 222-Dayan HaEmet-A Challenging Bracha To Say Properly
  Brachot-A Shehakol On Pork
  Brachot-Chulent And Twizzlers
  Brachot-Eating A Lemon Then Adding Sugar To It
  Brachot-Fruit Soup
  Brachot-Grape Juice And Wine
  Brachot-Seeds And Chocolate
  Brachot-Shehakol Sometimes On Bread
  Brachot-The Caper bush And Other Foods With More Than One Bracha
  Brachot-The Warning Of Learning The Proper Bracha For Each Food
  Brachot-Unripened Grapes
  Brachot-Why A Banana Is A Vegetable
  Brachot-Biting Into An Orange For The Juice
  Brachot-Ginger, Cloves, Peppers And Other Spices
  Brachot-Olive Oil
  Brachot-Sugar And Honey
  Brachot-Drinking Water To Swallow Medicine
  
  Bar Mitzvah Siman 225-A Happy Day For Dad
  Bar Mitzvah Siman 225-Baruch Shepatraney
  Bar Mitzvah Siman 225-Does The Father Need To Say It In Front Of Torah, In Front Of Son
  Bar Mitzvah Siman 225-Is It Really A Mitzvah To Celebrate
  Bat Mitzvah Siman 225-Equal Right To Celebrate
  Brachot Siman 225-You're Strange So I'll Make A Bracha And You Say Amen
  Shechiyanu Siman 225-Saying The Blessing Many Times Or Once For All These Fruits
  Shechiyanu Siman 225-Seeing The Fruits Without Eating
  Shechiyanu- Siman 225-Three Times It Is Said

  Brachot Siman 227-Lightning , Thunder, Earthquakes Oh My!!
  Evening Shema Siman 235-Davening Maariv Too Early Is Not Too Early
  Evening Shema Siman 236-Coming Late To Shul
  Evening Shema Siman 236-The Meaning Behind Birchat Kriat Shema
  Evening Shema Siman 236-The Meaning Of Vahu Rachum
  Evening Shema Siman 236-The Paragraph Of Baruch Hashem
  Kriat Shema Al HaMitah Siman 239-Forgiving And Thinking About Ones Day
  Kriat Shema AL HaMitah Siman 239-I Can't Fall Asleep
  Kriat Shema Al HaMitah Siman 239-Shema Before Or After Hamapil
  Kriat Shema Al HaMitah Siman 239-Working The Night Shift And Sleeping During The Day
  Maariv Siman 237-Why We Don't Repeat The Shmoneh Eshrei
  Mincha Time Siman 232-It Pays To Come To Shul
  Mincha Time Siman 232-The Reason For Naming This Prayer Mincha
  Mincha Time Siman 233-How Could We Daven Maariv While It Is Still Day
  Mincha Time Siman 233-Washing Before
  Mussar Shmooze Siman 231-All Of Our Actions Must Be For The Sake Of Heaven
 
  Shabbos Siman 242-Challah Baking Is Not An Elective
  Shabbos Siman 242-Shabbos Affects The Whole Week
  Shabbos Siman 242-The Source For The Melachot
  Shabbos Siman 244-Amirah Lakum-Bringing Your Car To Be Fixed On Friday Afternoon
  Shabbos Siman 242-Calling Someone When It Is Shabbos For Them
  Shabbos Siman 244-Amirah L'Akum And Putting Your Trash Out
  Shabbos Siman 245-Business Partnerships With A Non-Jew
  Shabbos Siman 248-Traveling Close To The Onset Of Shabbos
  Shabbos Siman 249-Fasting On A Friday
  Shabbos Siman 249-Laws Pertaining To Erev Shabbos
  Shabbos Siman 250-Preparing The Meal Shouldn't Be Left For Your Personal Chef;
  Shabbos Siman 252-Having Your Car Fixed On Shabbos
  Shabbos Siman 260-Did You Light Candles Yet
  Shabbos Siman 260-Showering Close To Shabbos-A Public Warning
  Shabbos Siman 260-Washing And Cutting Nails On Friday
  Shabbos Siman 261 Adding Onto The Shabbos-The Source
  Shabbos Siman 261-Bring The Suit To Hawaii
  Shabbos Siman 261-Early Shabbos And Forgetting To Light
  Shabbos Siman 261-Lighting Candles In The Twilight Zone
  Shabbos Siman 261-Time For Lighting And Its Laws
  Shabbos Siman 262 Wearing Nice Clothes
  Shabbos Siman 262-Candle Lighting And Being Left In The Dark
  Shabbos Siman 262-Honoring The Shabbos
  Shabbos Siman 262-My Guests Want The Table Prepared Or Else
  Shabbos Siman 263 Bracha Before The Lighting
  Shabbos Siman 263 Ladies First
  Shabbos Siman 263 Order Of Lighting On Yom Tov And Other Customs
  Shabbos Siman 263, 3-Where To Light If Eating Somewhere Else For Dinner
  Shabbos Siman 263, 4-Accepting Shabbos Too Early
  Shabbos Siman 263, 6-Yeshiva Students And Their Obligation To Light In A Dorm
  Shabbos Siman 263-Laws Of Forgetting To Light
  Shabbos Siman 263-Lighting By A Man Vs. A Woman
  Shabbos Siman 263-Lighting Creates Shalom Bayit
  Shabbos Siman 264-Friday Night Issues Also On Chanukah
  Shabbos Siman 267-Eating Meal Before Sunset

Chagim

Selichot-Is It Different When Said Without A Minyan

 

Rosh Chodesh Elul-The Big 3
 Kaparos-A Chickens Worst Nightmare
 Kaparos-The Real Meaning Behind The Rooster

 

Aseret Yamay Teshuva-Telling The Person What You Did To Them

  Aseret Yamay Teshuva-When To Ask Forgiveness With an Agent

Aseret Yamay Teshuva-The Other Seven Days
 Aseret Yemay Teshuva-Churma Of The Week Club

Aseret Yamay Teshuva-Hamelech HaKadosh

 
 Rosh Hashana-Hallel and Avinu Malkanu
 Rosh Hashanah-Can I Just Get A little Sleep
 Rosh Hashanah-Have A Raise In Salary
 Rosh Hashanah-Blowing Shofer For Ones Children And Spouse

Rosh Hashanah-Bowing A Little More Than Usual Could Be A Good Thing

Rosh Hashanah-Calling In A Closer For The Shofer

Rosh Hashanah-Davening Louder Than Usual

Rosh Hashanah-Hearing The Shofer In A Nearby Hospital Bed

Rosh Hashanah-Why We Wait Until Musaf For The Shofer

Rosh Hashanah-Eruv Tavshilin Basic Laws

Rosh Hashanah-Ten Pesukim in Musaf

Rosh Hashanah-L'Dovid Hashem;
Rosh Hashanah-Why The Kiwi

Rosh Hashanah-Can A Mourner Lead The Services

Rosh Hashanah-Hatarat Nedarim 101

Shofer-Bent Or From A Ram
 Shofer-Can You Lean On Me
 Shofer-How Do You Trick Satan


 The Fast Of Gedaliah

Yom Kippur-Mikvah And Lashes

Yom Kippur-Saying My Aveirot During Yidoy Out Loud

Yom Kippur-Saying Vidoy By The Mincha Prior

Yom Kippur-Eating The Day Prior

 

Succot-Etrog Eating

Succot-Sleeping In The Right Bed

   Succot-The Round Succah

Succot-Materials For The Walls And Roof
 Succot In The Spring
 Succot On A Wet And Rainy Night
 Succot-Do I Really Need To Buy My Own Luluv
 Succot-Don't Rain On My Parade
 Succot-Where Can I Sit In This Succah
 Succot-Why We Bang Those Willows

Succot-Three Mitzvot That You Must Know The Reason Behind It

Succot-We Live In Them When Our Silos Are Full


 Chol Hamoed And The Mitzvah of Simcha
 Chol Hamoed-To Shave Or Not To Shave

 audio/December 2008 Torah/Halacha-Hoshanah Rabbah 2008; Rabbi Tomsky.WMA

 Happy Thanksgiving

 Chanukah Is A Beautiful Holiday
 Chanukah Menorah-How Low Can You Go
 Chanukah-Friday Night Lights
 Chanukah-I Have A Little Draydel
 Chanukah-It's A Woman's World
 Chanukah-Rekindling Ones Flame
 Chanukah-Seven Or Eight Crazy Nights
 Chanukah-Starting Off On The Right Foot
Chanukah-When In Doubt Do Without
Chanukah Class-Light vs. Darkness

Chanukah-A Few Of The 500 Answers

Chanukah-Bar Mitzvah In The Middle

Chanukah-Lighting The Wrong Amount Of Candles

Chanukah-Nine Crazy Nights

Chanukah-Reasons For Lighting In Shul

Chanukah-This Holiday Is Actually Torah Based

Chanukah-Women Not Working Even Beyond The First 30 Minutes

Chanukah-Work Women Can Do While The Candles Are Lit

Chanukah-Is Parsumay Neesaw Only For Jews To See

Chanukah-The 8th Night-Zot Chanukah

Chanukah-The Proper Place For The Menorah In An Apartment Building

Chanukah-The Purpose Of Lighting The Menorah In Shul

Chanukah-Women Lighting And The Categories Of Appointing A Shliach

Chanukah Rambam Chap. 3 Law 1

Chanukah Rambam Chap. 4 Laws 12-14

Chanukah Rambam Chap. 4 Laws 4-6

Chanukah-Rambam Chap. 4 Law 1

Chanukah-Rambam Chap.4 Law 7

Chanukah-Why Not 7 Nights

 

The Fast Of The 9th Of Tevet

December 24th

December 25th

 

 

Purim-Reading The Megilla-Twice Is Nice
 Purim-Should I Bring My Kids To Shul To Hear The Megilla
 Purim-The Fast Of Esther
 Purim-Women And Children's Obligation To Hear The Megilla

Purim-Reading After Midnight Is Different Than The Decree Of Shema

Purim-The Month Of Adar And Taanit Esther Are Joyous Days

Purim-The Requirement To Hear The Reading At A Large Gathering

Purim-Walled Cities And The Purim Meshulash

Purim-Megillah With A Microphone
 Shushan Purim and Shabbat Parah

 Pesach-Chodesh Nissan Comes First

Pesach-Learning 30 Days Prior
 Pesach-Isn't Every Day From The 10th And On Gadol-A Miracle

Pesach-Must The Maot Chitim Be Used Specifically For Matzah

Pesach-Taanit Bechorim-Fasting And Getting Out Of It

Pesach-Cleaning Too Well Before The Bedikah
 Pesach-Do We Need To Give Over Our Keys
 Pesach-Is Selling Chometz A Legal Fiction
 Pesach-Kitniot And The Green Leaf Party
 Pesach-Making Your Chametz Ownerless
 Pesach-Must One Specify What Chometz We Are Selling
 Pesach-Not Speaking During The Bedikah
 Pesach-One Who Didn't Perform A Bedikat Chometz
 Pesach-Pushing Off The Bedikah
 Pesach-Should I Put Out 10 Pieces Of Bread
 Pesach-Who Should Bake My Matzot
 Pesach-Why We Don't Eat Chametz On Erev Pesach

Pesach Siman 472-Starting Fast Or Getting To The Festive Meal Fast

Pesach Siman 472,4-Women And Leaning-They Are All Chashuv

Pesach Siman 472-One Who Forgot To Recline...Now What

Pesach Siman 472-Reclining For Lefties


 Pesach-Erev Is On Shabbat Do I Have All Friday To Burn It

Pesach-Erev Is On Shabbat Leftovers From The Meal

Pesach-Erev Is On Shabbat Not To Prepare Saturday Night

Pesach-Erev Is On Shabbat What Can I Eat

Pesach-Erev Is On Shabbat Why The Drasha Is Made The Week Prior

Pesach-Erev Is On Shabbat Not Doing Work On Friday

Pesach-Erev Is On Shabbat The Laws Of Kashering Vessels

Pesach-Erev Is On Shabbat-How Can We Eat After The Mechirat Chametz

Pesach-Erev Is On Shabbat-Basic Laws Of The Bedikah

Pesach-Erev Is On Shabbat-Napping To Be Awake At The Seder

Pesach-Erev Is On Shabbat-Preparing The Shankbone And The Egg On Friday

Pesach-Erev Is On Shabbos-Preparing The Buggy Maror

 

Birchat HaChamah-Connecting To Nature

 
 Sefirat HaOmer-Am I Counting Too Early
 Sefirat HaOmer-Do Women Count
 Sefirat HaOmer-I Doubt It
 Sefirat HaOmer-Stand Up
 Sefirat HaOmer-The Dual Purpose Of Counting The Omer

Sefirat HaOmer-Counting After The Seder Or At Shul

Sefirat HaOmer-Counting On Time Alone Or Much Later With A Minyan

Sefirat HaOmer-How Could We Count Day On Yom Tov? It's A Contradiction!

Sefirat HaOmer And The International Date Line

Sefirat HaOmer Siman 489-Can An Onain Count?

Sefirat HaOmer Siman 489-Forgetting A Day-A Rabbi's Worst Nightmare

Sefirat HaOmer Siman 489-Reeshon Vs. Echad: Always On A Sunday?

Sefirat HaOmer Siman 489-Should Women Count With A Bracha

Sefirat HaOmer Siman 489-Why We Don't Make A Shehechiyanu

Sefirat HaOmer-A Child Who Becomes Bar Mitzvah In The Middle

 

Shavuot Siman 494-Waiting For Kiddush Or Maarv

 

When Exactly Do The Three Weeks Start?

17th of Tamuz

Fast The 17th Of Tamuz And The Start Of The 3 Weeks
 Shehechiyanu During The Three Weeks
 Nine Days-Take A Bath...Please

Nine Days-Drinking The Havdalah Wine

Nine Days-Engagement Parties And A Siyum On Nach

Nine Days-Erev Tisha B'Av Is Shabbat-Not Learning Could Be Wrong

Nine Days-Learning Torah On Erev Tisha B'Av

Nine Days-Making A Siyum Every Day Promotes Ahavat Chinam

Nine Days-No Meat Even On Rosh Chodesh Av

Nine Days-Seudat Mafseket On Shabbat

Nine Days-When To Take Off Shoes On Erev Tisha B'Av

Tisha B'Av Is Coming-What We eat At The Seudat Hamafseket
 Tisha B'Av Without Tefillin
 Tisha B'Av-I Love Learning
 Tisha B'Av-Tefillin and the Tenth of Av
Tisha B'Av-The significance of the Seudat Hamafseket

Hebrew Crash Course 2006- Level 1 Week 1
Hebrew Crash Course 2006-Level 1 Week 2
 Hebrew Crash Course 2006-Level 1 Week 3
 Hebrew Crash Course 2006-Level 1 Week 4
Hebrew Crash Course 2006-The Prayer Ein Kelohaynu

Hebrew Crash Course 2007 Level 1 Week 1
Hebrew Crash Course 2007 Level 1 Week 2

Hebrew Crash Course 2007-Level 1 Week 3

Hebrew Crash Course 2007-Level 1 Week 4

Hebrew Crash Course 2007-Level 1 Week 5

 

Pirkei Avot

Pirkei Avot Chapter 1 Mishna 8  Source Sheet 1:8
 Pirkei Avot Chapter 1 Mishna 9  Source Sheet 1:9
 Pirkei Avot Chapter 1 Mishna 10 Source Sheet 1:10
 Pirkei Avot Chapter 1 Mishna 11 Source Sheet 1:11

Pirkei Avot Chapter 1 Mishna 12 Source Sheet 1:12
 Pirkei Avot Chapter 1 Mishna 15 Source Sheet 1:15

Pirkei Avot Chapter 1 Mishna 16
Pirkei Avot Chapter 2 Mishna 7

Pirkei Avot Chapter 2 Mishna 8
Pirkei Avot Chapter 2 Mishna 9-12
Pirkei Avot Chapter 2 Mishna 13-14
Pirkei Avot Chapter 2 Mishna 15

Pirkei Avot Chapter 3 Mishna 1

Pirkei Avot Chapter 3 Mishna 2-3

Pirkei Avot Chapter 3 Mishnah 4

Gemara Brachot

Brachot 7A-Hashem Gets Angry

Brachot 7A-Why Bad Things Happen to Good People

Brachot 7A-Why Bad Things Happen To Good People-Part 2
 Brachot 7B-Names and Family Troubles

Brachot 7B-Can You Start Up With The Wicked
 Brachot 8A-The Key To Olam Habah Is Work
 Brachot 8A-What Is A Bad Neighbor

Brachot 8A-Get What You Want But At The Right Time

Brachot 8B-Advise To Your Children
 Brachot 9A-Do We Need To Eat The Afikomen By Midnight

Brachot 9A-Saying The Shema Back To Back

Brachot 9A-9B-Leaving Egypt With Wealth
 Brachot 10B-Mishna How To Say The Shema

Brachot 9B-Don't Tell Me...More Bad News

Brachot 9B-Praying For Others To Repent

Brachot 10A-The Wise Words Of A Woman

Brachot 10B-Davening In High Places

Brachot 10B-Mishna How To Say The Shema

Brachot 10B-Never Lose Hope

Brachot 11A-Going Strict May Be Hazardous To Your Health

Brachot 11A-Why We Mention Characteristics Of Day At Night

Brachot 11B-Birchat HaTorah

Brachot 11B-Do We Need To Learn Right After Birchat HaTorah

Brachot 12A-Saying The Wrong Bracha

Brachot 12A-The Impact Of Birchat Kriat Shema

Brachot 12A-Why The Aseret Hadibrot Are Not Part Of Our Tefillot

Brachot 12B-Remembering Exodus From Mitsrayim At Night

Brachot 12B-A Little Humiliation Goes A Long Way

Brachot 13A-Do Mitzvot Need Kavana

Brachot 13A-Shema In Any Language
 Brachot 13A-Mishna-Does The Shema Require Kavana

Brachot 13A-More Kavana
 Brachot 13A-13B-Kavana For How Much Of Shema
 Brachot 13B-Reciting The Shema While Sleeping

Brachot 13B-Walking While Reciting The Shema
 Brachot 14A-Can You Interrupt The Shema

Brachot 14A-Interupting The Shema For Panim Chadashot

Brachot 14A-Can I Greet You Before Davening

Brachot 14A-Skipping The Third Paragraph Of Shema At Night

Brachot 14B-Why The Shema Was Chosen As The First Paragraph

Brachot 14B-Reciting The Shema Without Tefillin

Brachot 15A-Not Hearing The Words Of The Shema

Brachot 15A-The Deaf Reading The Megillah

Brachot 15B-A Final Word About Hearing The Shema

Brachot 15B-Annunciating The Shema Clearly

Brachot 15B-The Purity Of Torah Is Like A Mikva

Brachot 16A-Workers Saying The Shema On A Tree

Brachot 16A-Is The Shema Recited By A Chatan

Brachot 16B-A Mourner Taking A Bath

Brachot 16B-Birchat HaChodesh For One

 

Brachot 17A-The Greatness Of Women

Brachot 17A-The Paragraph Inserted At the End Of The Shmonei Esreh

Brachot 17B-Is Saying Shema On The Wedding Night Right

Brachot 17B-Preparing For The Burial

Brachot 17B-Laws Of An Onayn Before Burial

Brachot 18A-A Tzadik Is Always Considered Living

Brachot 18B-Secrets From The Next World

Brachot 19A-Speaking About The Dead...Do They Really Care

Brachot 19A-24 Places A Lack Of Kavod HaRav Was Displayed

Brachot 19A-Removing A Shatnez Garment Of My Friend Even In Public

Brachot 19B-Removing Shatnez In The Street

Brachot 19B-Not Always Needing To Return A Lost Object

Brachot 20A-The Difference Between Us And The Previous Generations

Brachot 20A-Rabbis At The Mikvah

Brachot 20A-Mishna-Defining The Age Of A Katon

Brachot 20B-Must Women Bentch

Brachot 20B-Must Women Hear Kiddush On Shabbat

Brachot 20B-Women's Obligation For Kiddush

Brachot 20B-Does Hashem Show Favoritism

Brachot 20B-Mishna-Is Thinking Like Speaking

Brachot 20B-Tefillah Is Not A Torah Obligation

Brachot 21A-A Kal V'Chomer To Require A Bracha On Food

Brachot 21A-Davening A Second Mincha-No Chidushim Here

Brachot 21A-Is Birchat Kriat Shema A Torah Obligation

Brachot 21A-Finishing Shmoneh Esrei On Time

Brachot 21B-May One Say Hashem's Name While Learning Gemara

Brachot 21B-Must A Baal Keri Go To Mikvah First

Berachot 22A-Baal Keri And Tisha Kabin

Brachot 22B-Baal Keri

Brachot 26A-Intro. To 4th Perek And Mishna

Brachot 26A-Missing Musaf And The Laws Of Tashlumin

Brachot 26B-Does Until Include The 4th Hour

Brachot 26B-Our Tefillot Were Said By Our Avot

Brachot 26B-Tashlumin Forgetting Yaleh V'yavo By Mincha Time-Tosfot

Brachot 27A-Accepting Shabbos Early

Brachot 27B-Going To The Bathhouse On Shabbos

Brachot 28A-Mincha And Musaf-Which Comes First

Brachot 28B-Tefillah Before Learning Torah And At A Siyum

Brachot 28B-The 19th Bracha

Brachot 28B-The Proper Way To Bow

Brachot 29A-Tefillat Haviynanu Not On Saturday Night

Brachot 29A-Tefillat Heviynanu

Brachot 29A-Forgetting VaTein Tal U'Matar Now What

Brachot 29B-I Forgot To Say Yaleh V'Yavo Now What

Brachot 29B-A Set Tefillah May Not Be A Good Thing

Brachot 29B-Tefillat HaDerech Part 1

Brachot 30A-Tefillat HaDerech part 2

Brachot 30A-Tefillat HaDerech Part 3

Navi - Shmuel

Shmuel 1 Chapter 1 (1 of 5)

Shmuel 1 Chapter 1 (2 of 5)

Shmuel 1 Chapter 1 (3 of 5)

Shmuel 1 Chapter 1 (4 of 5)

Shmuel 1 Chapter 1 (5 of 5)

Shmuel 1 Chapter 2 (1 of 5)

Shmuel 1 Chapter 2 (2 of 5)

Shmuel 1 Chapter 2 (3 of 5)

Shmuel 1 Chapter 2 (4 of 5)

Shmuel 1 Chapter 2 (5 of 5)

Shmuel 1 Chapter 3 (1 of 2)

Shmuel 1 Chapter 3 (2 of 2)

Shmuel 1 Chapter 4 (1 of 2)

Shmuel 1 Chapter 4 (2 of 2)

Shmuel 1 Chapter 5 (1 of 1)

Shmuel 1 Chapter 6 (1 of 2)

Shmuel 1 Chapter 6 (2 of 2)

Shmuel 1 Chapter 7

Shmuel 1 Chapter 7 (1 of 1) 2008
 Shmuel 1 Chapter 8

Shmuel 1 Chapter 8 (1 of 1); 2008
 Shmuel 1 Chapter 9

Shmuel 1 Chapter 9 (1 of 3); 2008

Shmuel 1 Chapter 9 (2 of 3); 2008

Shmuel 1 Chapter 9 (3 of 3); 2008
 Shmuel 1 Chapter 9 and 10
 Shmuel 1 Chapter 10 

Shmuel 1 Chapter 10 (1 of 5) 2008

Shmuel 1 Chapter 10 (2 of 5) 2008 

Shmuel 1 Chapter 10 (3 of 5) 2008

Shmuel 1 Chapter 10 (4 of 5) 2008 

Shmuel 1 Chapter 11
 Shmuel 1 Chapter 12 (1 of 3)
 Shmuel 1 Chapter 12 (2 of 3)
 Shmuel 1 Chapter 12 (3 of 3)
 Shmuel 1 Chapter 13 (1 of 2)
 Shmuel 1 Chapter 13 (2 of 2)
 Shmuel 1 Chapter 14 (1 of 4)
Shmuel 1 Chapter 14 (2 of 4)
Shmuel 1 Chapter 14 (3 of 4)

Shmuel 1 Chapter 14 (4 of 4)

Shmuel 1 Chapter 15 (1 of 3)

Shmuel 1 Chapter 15 (2 of 3)
 Shmuel 1 Chapter 15 (3 of 3)

Shmuel 1 Chapter 16 (1 of 2)

Shmuel 1 Chapter 16 (2 of 2)

Shmuel 1 Chapter 17 (1 of 4)

Shmuel 1 Chapter 17 (2 of 4)
 Shmuel 1 Chapter 17 (3 of 4)
Shmuel 1 Chapter 17 (4 of 4)

Shmuel 1 Chapter 18 (1 of 2)
Shmuel 1 Chapter 18 (2 of 2)
 Shmuel 1 Chapter 19 (1 of 2)
 Shmuel 1 Chapter 19 (2 of 2)

Shmuel 1 Chapter 20 (1 of 3)
 Shmuel 1 Chapter 20 (2 of 3)
Shmuel 1 Chapter 20 (3 of 3)
Shmuel 1 Chapter 21 (1 of 2)
 Shmuel 1 Chapter 21 (2 of 2)
 Shmuel 1 Chapter 22 (1 of 3)
 Shmuel 1 Chapter 22 (2 of 3)
 Shmuel 1 Chapter 22 (3 of 3)
Shmuel 1 Chapter 23 (1 of 3)
Shmuel 1 Chapter 23 (2 of 3)
Shmuel 1 Chapter 23 (3 of 3)
Shmuel 1 Chapter 24 (1 of 2)
 Shmuel 1 Chapter 24 (2 of 2)

Shmuel 1 Chapter 25 (1 of 5)
Shmuel 1 Chapter 25 (2 of 5)
Shmuel 1 Chapter 25 (3 of 5)
Shmuel 1 Chapter 25 (4 of 5)

Shmuel 1 Chapter 25 (5 of 5)

Shmuel 1 Chapter 26 (1 of 2)
Shmuel 1 Chapter 26 (2 of 2)

Shmuel 1 Chapter 27

Shmuel 1 Chapter 28 (1 of 3)
Shmuel 1 Chapter 28 (2 of 3)
Shmuel 1 Chapter 28 (3 of 3)

Shmuel 1 Chapter 29
Shmuel 1 Chapter 30 (1 of 2)

Shmuel 1 Chapter 30 (2 of 2)
Shmuel 1 Chapter 31 (1 of 2)
Shmuel 1 Chapter 31 (2 of 2)
 Shmuel 2 Chapter 1 (1 of 4)
 Shmuel 2 Chapter 1 (2 of 4)
 Shmuel 2 Chapter 1 (3 of 4)

Shmuel 2 Chapter 1 (4 of 4)

Shmuel 2 Chapter 2 (1 of 3)

Shmuel 2 Chapter 2 (2 of 3)

Shmuel 2 Chapter 2 (3 of 3)

Shmuel 2 Chapter 3 (1 of 5)

Shmuel 2 Chapter 3 (2 of 5)

Shmuel 2 Chapter 3 (3 of 5)

Shmuel 2 Chapter 3 (4 of 5)

Shmuel 2 Chapter 3 (5 of 5)

Shmuel 2 Chapter 4

Shmuel 2 Chapter 5 (1 of 3)

Shmuel 2 Chapter 5 (2 of 3)

Shmuel 2 Chapter 5 (3 of 3)

Shmuel 2 Chapter 6 (1 of 3)

Shmuel 2 Chapter 6 (2 of 4)

Shmuel 2 Chapter 6 (3 of 4)

Shmuel 2 Chapter 6 (4 of 4)

Shmuel 2 Chapter 7 (2 of 4)

Shmuel 2 Chapter 7 (3 of 4)

Shmuel 2 Chapter 7 (4 of 4)

Shmuel 2 Chapter 8 (1 of 3);

Shmuel 2 Chapter 8 (2 of 3)

Shmuel 2 Chapter 8 (3 of 3)

 

 Shmuel 2 Chapter 9 (1 of 2)

Shmuel 2 Chapter 9 (2 of 2)

Shmuel 2 Chapter 10 (1 of 2)

Shmuel 2 Chapter 10 (2 of 2)

Shmuel 2 Chapter 11 (1 of 3)

Shmuel 2 Chapter 11 (2 of 3)

Shmuel 2 Chapter 11 (3 of 3)

Shmuel 2 Chapter 12 (1 of 3)

Shmuel 2 Chapter 12 (2 of 3)

Shmuel 2 Chapter 12 (3 of 3)

Shmuel 2 Chapter 13 (1 of 4)

Shmuel 2 Chapter 13 (2 of 4)

Shmuel 2 Chapter 14 (1 of 4)

Shmuel 2 Chapter 14 (2 of 4)

Shmuel 2 Chapter 14 (3 of 4)

Shmuel 2 Chapter 14 (3 of 4)

Shmuel 2 Chapter 14 (4 of 4)

Shmuel 2 Chapter 15 (1 of 4)

Shmuel 2 Chapter 15 (1 of 5)

Shmuel 2 Chapter 15 (2 of 5)

Shmuel 2 Chapter 15 (2 of 4)

Shmuel 2 Chapter 15 (3 of 4)

Shmuel 2 Chapter 15 (3 of 5)

Shmuel 2 Chapter 15 (4 of 4)

Shmuel 2 Chapter 15 (4 of 5)

Shmuel 2 Chapter 15 (5 of 5)

Shmuel 2 Chapter 16 (1 of 2)

Shmuel 2 Chapter 16 (2 of 2)

Shmuel 2 Chapter 17 (2 of 3)

Shmuel 2 Chapter 17 (3 of 3)

Shmuel 2 Chapter 18 (1 of 3)

Shmuel 2 Chapter 18 (2 of 3)

Shmuel 2 Chapter 18 (3 of 3)

Shmuel 2 Chapter 19 (1 of 4)

Shmuel 2 Chapter 19 (2 of 4)

Shmuel 2 Chapter 19 (3 of 4)

Shmuel 2 Chapter 19 (4 of 4)

Shmuel 2 Chapter 20 (2 of 2)

Shmuel 2 Chapter 21 (1 of 4)

Shmuel 2 Chapter 21 (2 of 4)

Shmuel 2 Chapter 21 (3 of 4)

Shmuel 2 Chapter 21 (4 of 4)

Shmuel 2 Chapter 22 (1 of 6)

Shmuel 2 Chapter 22 (2 of 6)

Shmuel 2 Chapter 22 (3 of 6)

Shmuel 2 Chapter 22 (4 of 6)

Shmuel 2 Chapter 22 (5 of 6)

Shmuel 2 Chapter 22 (6 of 6)

Shmuel 2 Chapter 23 (1 of 3)

Shmuel 2 Chapter 23 (2 of 3)

Shmuel 2 Chapter 23 (3 of 3)

Shmuel 2 Chapter 24 (1 of 3)

Shmuel 2 Chapter 24 (2 of 3)

Shmuel 2 Chapter 24 (3 of 3)

 

Navi - Melachim

Melachim 1 Chapter 1 (1 of 5)

Melachim 1 Chapter 1 (2 of 5)

Melachim 1 Chapter 1 (3 of 5)

Melachim 1 Chapter 1 (4 of 5)

Melachim 1 Chapter 1 (5 of 5)

Melachim 1 Chapter 2 (1 of 4)

Melachim 1 Chapter 2 (2 of 4)

 

Kohelet

Kohelet Chapter 1 (1 of 5)                                 

Kohelet Chapter 1 (2 of 5)

Kohelet Chapter 1 (3 of 5)

Kohelet Chapter 1 (4 of 5)

Parasha/Yom Tov

Bereshit

   Parshat Bereshit 2006-No Monkey Business
    Parshat Bereshit 2007-The Pitfalls Of Neurotic Perfectionist
   Parshat Breeshit 2009--The Etz HaChaim-The Mistake
   Of Overlooking The Simple Things In Life
   Parshat Noach 2005-Hello Dolly-The True Origin Of Cloning
   Parshat Noach 2006-The Buck Stops Here
    Parshat Noach 2007-Three Reactions Of One Facing Devastation
   Parshat Noach 2009-The Balloon Boy, Noach And Narcissism-
   The Metamorphosis Of The Ark
   Parshat Lech Lecha 2005-Are You A True Sports Fan
    Parshat Lech Lecha 2006-What Does It Take To Be A Good Father
   Parshat Lech Lecha 2007-Avram Doubting God...I Doubt It
   Parshat Vayeira 2005-Breaking The Laws To Change The Future
    Parshat Vayeira 2006-Veterans' Day-Turning Back The Clocks
   Parshat Vayeira 2007-Say PLEASE-The True Test Of The Akadah
   Parshat Chayai Sarah 2005-Sharon-Kadima-Knowing Your Place
    Parshat Chayai Sarah 2006-The Real Final Cumulative Exam
    Parshat Chayai Sarah 2007-The Pursuit Of Happiness
   Parshat Toldot 2005-Believing In Your Children
    Parshat Toldot 2006-The Dual Role Of The Jew
   Parshat Toledot 2007-Kristelnacht 1938 And Now

 

   Parshat Vayeitzei 2005-Fresh Bread
  Parshat Vayeitzei 2006-Being Religious in A Corrupt World
  Parshat Vayeitzei 2007-Pharaoh And Lavan-Who is The Lesser of Two Evils
   Parshat Vayishlach 2005-The Origin Of Terrorism
  Parshat Vayishlach 2006-The Kiss Of Death
  Parshat Vayishlach 2007-Yaakov, His Sons And The Annapolis Peace Conference
   Parshat Vayeishev 2005-Olympics We Are The Champions
   Parshat Vayeishev 2007-Peace In Annapolis-A Three Stage Process
  Parshat Mikeitz 2005-Yosef, Shlomo And Chanukah-Be Part Of The Solution
  Parshat Mikeitz 2006-Yosef And Clark Kent-Masters Of Disguise
  Parshat Mikeitz 2007-The Oil Reveals The Other Miracles
  Parshat Vayigash 2006-The Olympic Massacre In Munich-Feeling Their Pain
   Parshat Vayigash 2006-You're NOT Excused
  Parshat Vayigash 2007-Yosef And Israel Bonds-A Focus On The Future
  Parshat Vayechi 2005-Chesed Shel Emet, Yaakov And The Golden Spoon
  Parshat Vayechi 2007-Yehuda, Gerald Ford, Hussein: A Discussion Of Leadership   
  Parshat Vayechi 2007-No More Sibling Rivalry
 


Shmot

Parshat Shemot 2007-Stretching Ones Self
 Parshat Shemot 2007-The Most Important Quality In Leadership

Parshat Vaera 2008-Moshe, Aharon And The Iowa Caucus:

Searching For The Ideal Candidate

Parshat Bo 2006-Jewish Time

Parshat Bo 2007-Get Out Of Bed
 Parshat Beshalach 2006-Throwing Good Money After Bad
 Parshat Beshalach 2007-Babe Ruth And Superbowl 41
 Parshat Yitro 2006-Dick Cheney And Parenthood

Parshat Yitro 2007-In-Laws Are Wanted

Parshat Yitro 2008-Yitro, Barak Obama And The Baal Teshuva:

Should We Forget Our Past

 Parshat Mishpatim 2006-The Goring Ox-The Relevence Of The Talmud
 Parshat Mishpatim 2007-Bring Back That Lovin' Feeling
 Parshat Terumah 2007-A Little Give And Take
Parshat Terumah 2008-Support From Corporate Lobbyists-Giving To Give Or Giving to Take
Parshat Ki Tisa 2008-Think For Your Community Not Just Yourself
Shabbat Zachor 2007-The Megilla Is More Than A History Book
Parshat Vayakhel-Pekudei 2006-The Flaws In Deficit Funding
 Parshat Vayakhel-Pekudei 2007-You Are Your Brothers Keeper
Parshat Vayakhel 2008-Politicians, Daf Yomi and New Years Resolutions-
Following Through
Parshat Pekudei 2008-Betzalel, Lipa Schmeltzer And The Concert Ban: Must We
 Always Listen to Our Sages

Vayikra

Parshat Vayikra 2006-PETA, Bird Flu And The Meaning Of Karbanot
Parshat Vayikra 2007-Moshe, Adam HaRishon and Matza-A Lesson On Humility
Parshat Vayikra-Shabbat Zachor 2008-Mercaz HaRav Massacre,Amalek And How We Must React
Parshat Tzav And Shushan Purim 2008-Don't Extinguish The Flame Within
 Parshat Shmini 2007-The Three Holocaust Survivors
Parshat Shmini 2008-Avihu, Iyuv And The Mercaz HaRav Massacre-The Dangers Of Silence
Parshat Tazriah 2008-Demanding Perfection From Our Children
 Parshat Emor 2006-Carpe Diem-Seize The Day
Parshat Emor 2008-Israel At 60: Is It Batul B'Shishim?
Parshat Behar-Bechukotai 2006-LIFE Is About Making The Right Choices-A Message At A Bar Mitzvah
 Parshat Behar-Bechukotai 2007-Completing The Dissertation, Dieting And Mountain Climbing-One Step At A Time
Parshat Behar 2008-The Message Of Shmeitah Must Be Practiced Here Too
 Parshat Bechukotai 2008-The Benefits Of Torah Study-A Sense Of Fulfillment

Bamidbar

Parshat Naso 2008-Removing Ones Jealousy With Sharing Your Wagon: A Shavuot Message

Parshat Naso 2009-Antisocial Behavior Is Not A Chumrah

Parshat Behalotcha 2006-A Backwards World

Parshat Bahalotcha 2008-Variety Is Not Always The Spice Of Life

Parshat Shlach 2006-Not Becoming Institutionalized: A Message To The Graduates

Parshat Shlach 2007-Prejudging-Are We Any Better Than The Meraglim

Parshat Shlach 2008-Let Go And Let God

Parshat Shlach 2009-A Message To The Graduates-You Can Do It

Parshat Korach 2008-A Little Give And Take-A Study Of Leadership

Parshat Balak 2008-Looking With Both Eyes-The Bilam And Pinchas Model

Parshat Pinchas 2006-We Must All Take A Stand

Parshat Pinchas 2007-The Captured Soldiers One Year Later-Is There A Little Pinchas In You
 Parshat Mattos Masei 2006-Isreal-It Is Our Home

Parshat Mattos Masei 2007-Making Family A Priority

Parshat Matot 2008-Even Our Actions Are Not Always Enough

Parshat Masei 2008-Eicah And The Alef Bet-Elevating Ourselves Above Nature

 

Devarim

Parshat Devorim 2007-Eicha-Where Are You

Parshat Devorim 2008-Chazon: A Shabbat Of Seeing Before Speaking

Parshat Vaetchanan 2006-Terrorism Comes To Some Easily

Parshat Vaetchanan 2007-Shabbat Nachamu And The 15th Of Av

Parshat Vaetchanan 2008-Nachamu: What Are We So Happy About?

Parshat Eikev 2007-Noah Feldman, Paranoia And The Raven

Parshat Re'eh 2006-Who Are The Terrorists

Parshat Re'eh 2007-Don't Lose Your Sense Of Compassion

Parshat Shoftim 2006-Cities of Refuge
 Parshat Shoftim 2006-Agmas Nefesh
 Parshat Shoftim 2006-Eglah Arufah-Be Proactive

Parshat Shoftim 2008-Judging Before One Sees
 Parshat Ki Tavo 2006-Jules Verne And The Endless Potential Of Our Future

Parshat Ki Tavo 2008-Bikurim And First Impressions

Parshat Haazinu 2008-The Sound Of Music

 

 

Rosh Hashanah

Rosh Hashanah 2006-A Lesson I Learned While Sky Diving

Rosh Hashanah 2006-What Do You Allow Your Eyes To See

Rosh Hashanah 2007-Don't Stand On Ceremony

Rosh Hashanah 2007-Are We Really Listening

Shabbat Shuva Drasha 2008-The Tipping Point   Tipping Point-Source Sheets

 

Yom Kippur

Kol Nidray 2006-The Four Questions We'll Be Asked On Our Day Of Judgment

Yom Kippur 2006-Where Are Your Wounds

Neilah 2006-Mikvah Or Red Heifer-A Small Change

Kol Nidray 2007-Letting Go Of Our Baggage

Yom Kippur 2007-Three Ways To Make Yourself Shine

Neilah 2007-It's All In Your Hands

Yom Kippur 2008-Joshua Bell, Kol Nidri And Text Messaging-No Distractions

Yom Kippur 2008-The Yonah Within Us All-Time To Wake Up

 Neilah 2008-Yonah:There Is No One Else To Blame

Kol Nidrei 2009-Yom Kippur, Gambling And Haman-Losing Control

Yom Kippur 2009-Yizkor, Teshuva And The Power Of Prayer

 

 

Succot

Succot 2006-Keep Reaching For The Stars

Succot 2006-The Best Things In Life Are Free

Shmini Atzeret 2006-The True Burial Spot For Moses Is...

Succot 2007-Just Because

Succot 2007-Animal House

Succot 2007-Build Your Barriers First

Succot 2008-Three Eyes, Two Mouths And The Chason Pass

Succot 2008-The Succah Teaches Us To Bend

 

Purim

Shabbat Zachor-Purim 2006-The Source For Surprise Parties

Shabbat Zachor 2007-The Megilla Is More Than A History Book

 

Pesach

Pesach 2006-Are We Annuals Or Perennials

Pesach 2006-Remembering Passover 365 Days A Year

Pesach 2006-Techiyat HaMaytim, Apples And Lasik Surgery: A Recognition Of Miracles

Pesach 2006-The Message Of Freedom From The Dollar Bill

Pesach 2006-There Is Really Only One Son

Shabbat Hagadol Drasha 2007-The Hidden Message Of Yosef At Our Seder: An Approach On Redemption

Pesach 2007- Dry Bones, Hamakom And Hester Panim

Pesach 2007-A Holiday Of Faith Or Fate

Pesach 2007-Harry Houdini, Yizkor And The Remains Of Yosef-A Time To Reflect

Pesach 2007-Nachshon And The Captured Israeli Soldiers-Being Proactive

Pesach 2007-Rabbi Akiva And The Top 50 Rabbis In America

Shabbat Hagadol 2008-What Time Is It? How Should I Know?  Shabbat Hagadol Drasha 2008-Source Sheets

Pesach 2008-A Good Start

Pesach 2008-Not To Forget To Teach The Rasha

Pesach 2008-Shir HaShirim-The Ultimate Song

Pesach 2008-The 50 Most Influential Rabbis-Would Moshe Have Made The List

Pesach 2009-Birchat HaChamah, Karpas And Spring-Starting Anew

Pesach 2009-Chad Gadya And The True Message Of The Charoset

 

Shavuot

Shavuot 2006-Happy Mothers Day Is 365

Shavuot 2006-The Purpose Of Wrapped Presents

Shavuot 2007-If I Had Only Known Then-A Message Of Change

Shavuot 2007-Yitro vs. Ruth-For Better Or For Worse

Shavuot 2008-The Secret To Our Immortality

Shavuot 2008-John Doe, Ruth And Ploni Almoni-The True Torah Model

 

Tisha B'Av

Tisha B'Av 2007-A Day Of Comfort (short version)  A Day of Comfort-Source Sheets