Building Oneself – Sefirat HaOmer
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The time of Sefirat HaOmer is a time of working on oneself. Mrs. Shira Smiles describes the particular character traits we must attain in order to make our acceptance of the Torah on Shavuot a lasting one.
Author: Tzippy Klaver
Atzeret Atunement
Posted onIn this class (shiur) Mrs. Shira Smiles discusses why the holiday of Shavuot is called Atzeret.
Preparing for Shavuot
Posted onStruggle and Supplication
Posted onIn this class (shiur) Rebbetzin Shira Smiles discusses the Holiday of Shavout.
Accepting The Torah
Posted onIn this class (shiur) Rebbetzin Tziporah Heller discuses the Holiday of Shavout.
Essential Essence Shavuot
Posted onIn this class (shiur) Rebbetzin Shira Smiles discusses Shavuot.
Recognition and Rejoicing
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In this class (shiur) Rebbetzin Shira Smiles discusses the holiday of Pesach
Mesorah And Middot
Posted onIn this class (shiur) Rebbetzin Shira Smiles discusses the time between Pesach and Shavuot.
Everlasting Experience
Posted onIn this class (shiur) Rebbetzin Shira Smiles discusses the Holiday of Shavuot.
Shavuot
Posted onIn this class (shiur) Rebbetzin Leah Kohn discusses the holiday of Shavuot.
Lag BaOmer Vort: Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai’s Legacy
Posted onIn this Torah shiur (class), Mrs. Shira Smiles explains that Lag BaOmer awakens within us a passion to understand the significance of our personal importance to G-d, and recognize His Love and Devotion to us. She urges us to use this time of intimacy with G-d to pour out our hearts through supplication, prayer and Torah.
Lag BaOmer: Balancing the Individual and the Nation
Posted onIn this shiur (Torah class), Rabbi Hershel Reichman explains the spiritual characteristics of Lag BaOmer. Taken from the Shem MiShmuel, this class describes the lessons taught by Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai and how one can incorporate those teachings in our present day lives.
Lag Ba’omer
Posted onIn this Torah shiur (class) on Lag Ba’omer, Rebbetzin Tziporah Heller discusses the essence of Lag Ba’omer; why it occurs when it does, the death of Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai’s students, and Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai himself.
Clarity And Confusion
Posted onIn this class (shiur) Mrs. Shira Smiles discusses the Holiday Of Shavout.
Personal Kabbalat HaTorah
Posted onRebbetzin Tziporah Heller speaks about the value of individual choices as they relate to the holiday of Shavuot, when the Jewish people exercised their Free Will by wholeheartedly accepting the Torah.
Purim: Petition and Perspective
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The role of prayer in the Purim story, and its lessons for prioritizing prayer on Purim.
Derech Eretz Kadma l’Torah
Posted onIn this Torah shiur (class) on Sefirat HaOmer, Rabbi Beinish Ginsburg discusses some of the ideas of Sefirat HaOmer, and in particular Rabbi Akiva’s students.
Poors Portion
Posted onin this class (shiur) Mrs. Shira smiles discusses the Holiday of Purim
Shavuot: Expanding Reality
Posted onIn this shiur (Torah class) on Shavuot, Mrs. Shira Smiles points out that the Torah was supposed to be given on Friday, the fiftieth day of the omer, but was in fact given on Shabbat, the fifty-first. Mrs. Shira Smiles discusses some of the questions regarding this reality. Why did Moshe add an extra day of preparation at har sinai? If the world was waiting since creation for the acceptance of the Torah on Friday, how could Moshe push it off? If the Torah was given on the seventh day of Sivan, then why is the sixth day of Sivan referred to as the day we received the Torah?
Purim: Pride and Prayer
Posted onIn this Torah shiur (class) on Purim, Mrs. Shira Smiles speaks about the Gemara that asks where Haman, Mordechai, and Esther are hinted at in the Torah. Mrs. Shira Smiles also examines the mitzvah of Mishloach Manot.
Shavuot & Rut: Inner Dimension
Posted onIn this Torah shiur (class) on Shavuot, Mrs. Shira Smiles examines the different names of the holiday, to get a better understanding of what our service on Shavuot is about. Additionally, Mrs. Smiles speaks about why we have the custom of reading Megillat Rut on Shavuot.
Making Ourselves a Vessel for Receiving Torah
Posted onIn this shiur (Torah class), Rebbetzin Shoshie Nissenbaum provides guidance on how to prepare oneself to receive the Torah on Shavuot.
Adar: Achieving Alignment
Posted onIn this Torah shiur (class) on the month of Adar, Mrs. Shira Smiles speaks about what we can learn from having two months of Adar. Mrs. Smiles also speaks about the sign of Adar, the fish.
Simcha – The Essence Of Purim
Posted onIn this class (shiur) Rebbetzin Leah Kohn discusses Happiness as the essence of Purim.
Every Day is Matan Torah
Posted onIn this Torah shiur (class) on Shavuot, Rabbi Beinish Ginsburg speaks about the striking facts that the Torah does not give a date for Shavuot, and that there is a disagreement over the actual date of matan Torah.
Esther – Everlasting Experience
Posted onIn this class (shiur) Mrs. Shira Smiles discusses the Holiday of Purim.
Har Sinai: Foundation of Emunah
Posted onIn this shiur (Torah class) on preparing for Shavuot, Rebbetzin Tziporah Heller explains how Matan Torah (the giving of the Torah) at Har Sinai formed the core of our Emunah, demonstrating that Hashem is the Source of everything in this world, including what is usually described as Nature.
Shavuot: Acceptance, Action
Posted onIn this Torah shiur (class) on Shavuot, Mrs. Shira Smiles speaks about the idea that receiving the Torah is re-enacted every year on Shavuot.
Megillah Reading During the Night and Day
Posted onIn this shiur (Torah class), by Rabbi Michael Taubes, the halachic nature of the Megillah reading is discussed. Rabbi Taubes differentiates between the reading at night and the reading during the day, and why each one is significant.
Shavuot: Regeneration & Rejoicing
Posted onIn this Torah shiur (class) on Shavuot, Mrs. Shira Smiles speaks about the custom of decorating our homes and shuls with greenery on Shavuot.