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Parshas Bamidbar Inspiration: Every Jew is Priceless

Posted on May 28, 2025May 28, 2025 By parsha
Parshas Bamidbar Inspiration: Every Jew is Priceless

In this week’s Parsha, a census is taken of Klal Yisroel and all the shevatim were counted. Each time a shevet was counted, the resulting number was rounded off to hundreds. For example, shevet Reuven’s count was 46,500 people and shevet Shimon’s count was 59,300 people. However, there is one exception to this: Shevet Gad….

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We Will Rebuild Again! (Inspiration from Aryeh Fingerer)

Posted on May 21, 2025May 21, 2025 By parsha
We Will Rebuild Again! (Inspiration from Aryeh Fingerer)

Inspiration from Aryeh Fingerer, host of the Jewish and Joyful podcast. In life we fall and mess up but we can’t look back. Rabbi Akiva lost 24,000 students but he rebuilt – and we must try to do the same.

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Parshas Behar-Bechukosai Inspiration

Posted on May 21, 2025May 21, 2025 By parsha
Parshas Behar-Bechukosai Inspiration

In this week’s Parsha, the Yidden are traveling through the Midbar. The pasuk says V’chi yamuch achicha, Umata yodo imach – if your brother becomes impoverished and stretches out his hand – vehechzakta bo – you should give him strength. If a person needs help or assistance you should care for him and support him. There…

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Parshas Emor Inspiration: Lead By Example

Posted on May 14, 2025May 14, 2025 By parsha
Parshas Emor Inspiration: Lead By Example

In the beginning of this week’s Parsha, the pasuk starts off, “Emor El Hakohanim” – say to the Kohanim… right after, the pasuk says “Vamarta Aleyihem” – and say to them. Rashi says that the Kohanim received a double charge. They were charged to protect their kedusha and “Lehazir Gedolim Al HaKetanim” – they were…

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Interview with Gad Elbaz: From Near-Death to Nightclubs to God

Posted on May 13, 2025May 13, 2025 By parsha
Interview with Gad Elbaz: From Near-Death to Nightclubs to God

Gad Elbaz is a popular Israeli-American singer in the Jewish world. Gad has the wildest stories. At just nine years old, he had a near-death experience and throughout his life, he has faced many challenges that tested his strength and resilience. His journey through mental health and healing is powerful and inspiring. For the first…

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Parshas Acharei Mos-Kedoshim Inspiration: Is Love Possible??

Posted on May 7, 2025May 7, 2025 By parsha
Parshas Acharei Mos-Kedoshim Inspiration: Is Love Possible??

In this week’s Parsha, we are commanded “V’ahavta l’rei’echa kamocha, you shall love your neighbor like yourself. There is an obvious question here. What exactly does this mean? How is it possible to love someone else as we love ourselves? Isn’t that counterintuitive? After all, we are wired to fend and protect ourselves. We are wired…

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Parshas Tazria-Metzorah Inspiration

Posted on May 2, 2025May 2, 2025 By parsha
Parshas Tazria-Metzorah Inspiration

In this week’s Parsha, the Torah speaks about someone contracting tzaraas, a lesion on the skin that appears due to different types of sins. The pasuk says “Adam ki yieyeh…” – A person who contracts tzaraas should be brought to Aharon Hakohen, or one of his sons, the kohanim. Someone who is presumed to have…

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Parshas Tzav: Elevating the Mundane

Posted on April 9, 2025April 9, 2025 By parsha
Parshas Tzav: Elevating the Mundane

In this week’s Parsha, the pasuk says, u’fashat es begadav, the Kohen, divests himself of his holy priestly clothing, velavash begadim acherim, he puts on ordinary simple clothing, vehotzi es hadeshin, in order to remove and dispose of the ashes. The question is why? Why do we require the holy Kohen to do the menial…

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The Teenage Drug Lord who Found God | The Wild Story of Yankel Meislin

Posted on April 7, 2025May 4, 2025 By parsha
The Teenage Drug Lord who Found God | The Wild Story of Yankel Meislin

Yankel Meislin was a teenager from Long Island who’s past involved drugs, drug dealing, and gangs, and hundreds of thousands of dollars of hidden cash. Yankel has a crazy and griping story of how he escaped his crazy past life and becoming a life coach and helping others. He went from being a dealer to…

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Parshas Vaikra Inspiration

Posted on April 3, 2025April 3, 2025 By parsha
Parshas Vaikra Inspiration

In this week’s Parsha, the pasuk says, “Adam ki yakriv mikem karbon lashem – when a person from you offers a sacrifice to Hashem.” There is a question here: The Torah could have simply said Adam ki yakriv karbon lashem – when a person brings a sacrifice to Hashem. Why does the Torah use the…

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