Pesach

Chometz: Moving Beyond Self

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This video is class 34 of 72 in the series Pesach: Birth of a Nation.

In this Torah shiur (class) on the holiday of Pesach, Rebbetzin Tziporah Heller speaks about the meaning of chometz, the deeper role of the Halachot (laws) pertaining to it, and how one can internalize the lessons of removing chometz and move beyond ‘self’.

Dedicated in memory of Jacob and Laura Elbirt, by their daughter Paula Elbirt.

Sefirah

Shavuot: Expanding Reality

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This video is class of 58 in the series Greatest of Gifts: Sefirat HaOmer and Shavuot.

In 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?