In this sermon that will soon be used in a RabbiPod episode, I examine the question of animal rights from a Jewish perspective.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Metzora 5768: Warning Signs of LoveIn this episode of RabbiPod, we learn why the Torah lists the different forms of leprosy in a specific order, and what that order teaches us for life today.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Pesah 5768: Four Sons for Four Cups of WineIn this episode of RabbiPod, I explain how each of the four sons in the Pesah haggadah represents one of the four cups of wine.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Pesah 5768: The Path to Hell and Good IntentionsIn this episode of RabbiPod, we learn about the wise child from the Haggadah. Why is he considered wise? What does he know that others don't?Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Yizkor Pesah 5768: The Bread of DeathIn this episode of RabbiPod, we learn about the role our Passover rituals play as a reaction to death.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Kedoshim 5768: General Tso's TorahIn this episode of RabbiPod, we learn about the worship of the ancient idol Molech and its connection to modern-day China.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Emor 5768: The Conversion CrisisIn this episode of RabbiPod, I argue that Israel needs to have a law permiting civil marriage, and that the Israeli government should not have the power to decide who and who is not a Jew. That power should be left to individual rabbis and their respective communities.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Balak 5768: Animal Rights? (Text only, click in black space above)In this sermon that will soon be used in a RabbiPod episode, I examine the question of animal rights from a Jewish perspective.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Pinhas 5768: Reward or Therapy?This episode is a recording I did for another podcast in which I participate,KOACH.org, a wonderful resource for Jews on university campuses.In this Devar Torah, I investigate the nature of the berit shalom (pact of peace) that God bestowed upon Pinhas and his descendants. Why would God reward Pinhas for assassinating two human beings?Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Mattot 5768: God is Not Your BuddyVows are serious business. One who does not fulfill a vow is considered to be a wicked person. In the Talmud (BT Nedarim 22b), the Sage Shmuel teaches that even one who fulfills a vow is called wicked. But why? What is the problem with making vows to God if one is successful in fulfilling them? In this episode of RabbiPod, I’ll answer that very question.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Kedoshim 5768: General Tso's TorahIn this episode of RabbiPod, we learn about the worship of the ancient idol Molech and its connection to modern-day China.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Emor 5768: The Conversion CrisisIn this episode of RabbiPod, I argue that Israel needs to have a law permiting civil marriage, and that the Israeli government should not have the power to decide who and who is not a Jew. That power should be left to individual rabbis and their respective communities.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Tazria 5768: A Plague On Your House, Clothes, and SkinIn this episode of RabbiPod, we learn why the Torah says that leprosy (tzara'at) can afflict houses and clothing as well as human skin.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Pesah 5768: The Path to Hell and Good IntentionsIn this episode of RabbiPod, we learn about the wise child from the Haggadah. Why is he considered wise? What does he know that others don't?Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Yizkor Pesah 5768: The Bread of DeathIn this episode of RabbiPod, we learn about the role our Passover rituals play as a reaction to death.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Balak 5767: LionsIn this episode of RabbiPod, we study Rashi's interpretation of Bemidbar (Numbers) 23:24.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Pinhas 5767: The Custer ConnectionWhat counts more in life? What you do in your younger years, or what you do in your later years?Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Rosh Hashanah 5768, Day 1This is a Rosh Hashanah sermon on the theme of self-pity.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Toledot 5768: Struggling Twins (video)We study a midrash about Yaakov and Eisav (Jacob and Esau) in utero. It suggests that faith may be an innate, genetic trait.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Toledot 5768: Struggling Twins (audio)We study a midrash about Yaakov and Eisav in utero. It suggests that faith may be an innate, genetic trait.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
