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KMTT - the Torah Podcast
A 30-40 shiur on a Torah topic, every working day, from Yeshivat Har Etzion and the VBM.
Episodes
KMTT - the Torah PodcastRamban On The Torah | 11 | Ki Tavo
Ramban On The Torah | 11 | Ki Tavo, by Rav Eli Weber
KMTT - the Torah PodcastAkedat Yitzchak (2)
Akedat Yitzchak (2), by Rav Yitzchak Etshalom How ought the Akedah be viewed from the larger perspective of the Avraham story? In this four-part series, we…
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Akedat Yitzchak (1)
Akedat Yitzchak (1), by Rav Yitzchak Etshalom How did Akedat Yitzchak become selected as the preferred Keriat haTorah for 2nd day Rosh Hashana? Source sheet >>
KMTT - the Torah PodcastRamban On The Torah | 10 | Ki Tetze
Ramban On The Torah | 10 | Ki Tetze, by Rav Eli Weber
KMTT - the Torah PodcastRamban On The Torah | 09 | Shoftim
Ramban On The Torah | 09 | Shoftim, by Rav Eli Weber
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Shoftim | You Shall Cleanse the Innocent Blood
Shoftim | You Shall Cleanse the Innocent Blood, by Rav Yitzchak Etshalom Who is the audience of Devarim 21:9? Source sheet >>
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Re'eh | Banim Atem - Why Here, Why Now?
Re'eh | Banim Atem - Why Here, Why Now? by Rav Yitzchak Etshalom The turning point in Parashat Re'eh is at the beginning of Chapter 14. Having completed the…
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Ekev | 40 Days and 40 Nights, Revisiting Moshe's Speech About the Egel
Ekev | 40 Days and 40 Nights, Revisiting Moshe's Speech About the Egel, by Rav Yitzchak Etshalom Moshe's teaching the audience of Sefer Devarim - an orphaned…
KMTT - the Torah PodcastRamban On The Torah | 08 | Vaetchanan
Ramban On The Torah | 08 | Vaetchanan, by Rav Eli Weber
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Vaetchanan | Revisiting the Wise Son's Question
Vaetchanan | Revisiting the Wise Son's Question, by Rav Yitzchak Etshalom The mitzva - how to teach your child - is really about the transmission of Moshe's…
KMTT - the Torah PodcastThoughts for Tisha BeAv 5783
Thoughts for Tisha BeAv 5783, in Light of Current Events here in Israel, by Rav Moshe Taragin
KMTT - the Torah PodcastRamban On The Torah | 07 | Devarim
Ramban On The Torah | 07 | Devarim, by Rav Eli Weber
KMTT - the Torah PodcastRamban On The Torah | 06 | Matot-Masei
Ramban On The Torah | 06 | Matot-Masei, by Rav Eli Weber Sometimes the Ramban adds a comment that causes us to see a whole story in the Torah…
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Matot-Masei | The Tribal Portion of Menasheh and the Enigma of Bamidbar 32
Matot-Masei | The Tribal Portion of Menasheh and the Enigma of Bamidbar 32, by Rav Yitzchak Etshalom Bamidbar 32 includes a negotiation between Moshe and…
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Pinchas | The Unusual and Reprehensible Worship of Baal Peor
Pinchas | The Unusual and Reprehensible Worship of Baal Peor, by Rav Yitzchak Etshalom The inspiring story of Bil'am's blessings is offset by the description…
KMTT - the Torah PodcastRamban On The Torah | 05 | Pinchas
Ramban On The Torah | 05 | Pinchas, by Rav Eli Weber What does it mean to be a Kanai and what are the risks? If Bnot Moav sinned with Bnai Yisrael, why…
KMTT - the Torah PodcastRamban On The Torah | 04 | Balak
Ramban On The Torah | 04 | Balak, by Rav Eli Weber One of the major differences between Rashi and the Ramban is how they see biblical figures. Rashi…
KMTT - the Torah PodcastRamban On The Torah | 03 | Chukat
Ramban On The Torah | 03 | Chukat, by Rav Eli Weber Most of us think we know what the word "chok" means.
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Chukat | The Decree Against Moshe Revisited
Chukat | The Decree Against Moshe Revisited, by Rav Yitzchak Etshalom The story of Moshe's striking the rock and the subsequent Divine decree, relieving him of…
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Korach | The Midrashic History of Datan and Aviram
Korach | The Midrashic History of Datan and Aviram, by Rav Yitzchak Etshalom The leaders of (part of) the rebellion against Moshe, Datan and Aviram, first…
KMTT - the Torah PodcastRamban On The Torah | 02 | Korach
Ramban On The Torah | 02 | Korach, by Rav Eli Weber Stepping back and understanding how this episode really played out.
KMTT - the Torah PodcastRamban On The Torah | 01 | Shelach
Ramban On The Torah | 01 | Shelach, by Rav Eli Weber
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Shelach | Why Did Yehoshua and Kalev Rend Their Clothes?
Shelach | Why Did Yehoshua and Kalev Rend Their Clothes? by Rav Yitzchak Etshalom In addressing Yehoshua and Kalev's clothes-rending response to the people's…
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Behaalotekha | "The Loyalty of Your Youth" Pesach, Clouds, Trumpets and Travels
Behaalotekha | "The Loyalty of Your Youth" Pesach, Clouds, Trumpets and Travels, by Rav Yitzchak Etshalom Whereas many ask why there was only one instance of…
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Beirakhnukhem MiBeit Hashem: The Final Chapter of Hallel
Beirakhnukhem MiBeit Hashem: The Final Chapter of Hallel, by Rav Yitzchak Etshalom In this, the final shiur in the series, we explore the longest chapter in…
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Shabchuhu Kol HaUmim: The Fifth Chapter of Tehillim
Shabchuhu Kol HaUmim: The Fifth Chapter of Tehillim, by Rav Yitzchak Etshalom In this, the 5th shiur in the series, we explore the abrupt turn from the…
KMTT - the Torah PodcastYom Yerushalayim | The Four Ripple Effects of the Six Day War
The Four Ripple Effects of the Six Day War, by Rav Moshe Taragin Shiur given to talmidot at Migdal Oz.
KMTT - the Torah PodcastAfter the Fire: The Lasting Message of Lag BaOmer
After the Fire: The Lasting Message of Lag BaOmer, by Rav Dovid Gottlieb. What's the true meaning of Lag BaOmer and how can we take that message with us…
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Mah Ahavti: The Fourth Chapter of Tehillim
Mah Ahavti: The Fourth Chapter of Tehillim, by Rav Yitzchak Etshalom In this, the fourth shiur in this series, we explore the notion of contextuality and…
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Shavuot | Mi-macharat Ha-Shabbat Revisited
Shavuot | Mi-macharat Ha-Shabbat Revisited, by Rav Yitzchak Etshalom The fiercest intra-Jewish dispute in the first half of the first century CE was over…
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Lo Lanu: The Third Chapter of Tehillim
Lo Lanu: The Third Chapter of Tehillim, by Rav Yitzchak Etshalom One of the highlights and most debated points regarding the celebration of Yom haAtzmaut is…
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Rav Lichtenstein zt"l and the Values of Humanism
Shiur given in commemoration of the eighth yahrzeit, at Cong. Rinat Yisrael (Teaneck, NJ)
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Recollections of Rav Aharon Lichtenstein zt"l
Recollections of Rav Aharon Lichtenstein zt"l - on His 8th yahrzeit, by Rav Moshe Taragin
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Tazria | Limitations and Flexibility in Reading and Interpreting the Text of the Torah
Tazria | אם לנקבה ואם למקרא: Limitations and Flexibility in Reading and Interpreting the Text of the Torah, by Rav Yitzchak Etshalom The opening passage in…
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BeTzeit Yisrael MiMitzrayim: The Second Chapter of Tehillim
BeTzeit Yisrael MiMitzrayim: The Second Chapter of Tehillim, by Rav Yitzchak Etshalom One of the highlights - and perhaps the ultimate purpose - of the Seder…
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Pesach | Hallelu Avdei Hashem
Pesach | Hallelu Avdei Hashem, by Rav Yitzchak Etshalom What is the message behind the first chapter of Hallel? One of the highlights - and perhaps the…
KMTT - the Torah PodcastPesach | The Meaning of Matzah: Between Becoming and Being
Pesach | The Meaning of Matzah: Between Becoming and Being, by Rav Chanoch Waxman Shiur given at the Etzion Foundation Annual Dinner, March 20, 2023
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The Obligation to Reexperience the Exodus
The Obligation to Reexperience the Exodus, by Rav Yitzchak Etshalom What is the source for the obligation to reimagine ourselves as having personally…
KMTT - the Torah PodcastR. Yonah's Four Kitot 20: Rambam and Ramban on Nivul Peh
Rabbenu Yonah's Four Kitot 20: Rambam and Ramban on Nivul Peh, by Rav Gidon Rothstein Conclusion to the series, Rambam and Ramban on nivul peh, and a wrap up…
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Ki Tisa | Inspiration: Day by Day
Ki Tisa | Inspiration: Day by Day, by Rav Yitzchak Etshalom The Parashiot of the Mishkan direct us how to construct a dwelling place for Hashem. This ideal is…
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From Bereishit to Esther: A Midrashic Journey
From Bereishit to Esther: A Midrashic Journey, by Rav Yitzchak Etshalom Chazal take the position that "Esther was the end of the (era of) miracles" (BT Yoma…
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R. Yonah's Four Kitot 19: Unrefined Speech and Complaining Too Much
Rabbenu Yonah's Four Kitot 19: Unrefined Speech and Complaining Too Much, by Rav Gidon Rothstein The last two categories of negative speech, nivul peh and…
KMTT - the Torah PodcastMultiple Faces of the Rav | Dr. Atarah Twersky z"l
Yeshivat Har Etzion joins in mourning the passing of Dr. Atarah Twersky z"l, widow of Professor Isadore Twersky z"l, daughter of "The Rav", Harav Joseph B…
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R. Yonah's Four Kitot 18: Proper Discretion with Information
Rabbenu Yonah's Four Kitot 18: Proper Discretion with Information, When To Spread It and When Not, by Rav Gidon Rothstein When lashon hara involves information…
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Purim | Midrash Esther and the Sinaitic Covenant
Purim | Midrash Esther and the Sinaitic Covenant, by Rav Yitzchak Etshalom One of the types of Midr'shei Aggadah utilized by the composers of Midrashim is the…
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The Arba Parashiot | More than Meets the Eye
The Arba Parashiot: More than Meets the Eye, by Rav Yitzchak Etshalom The annual cycle of Keriat haTorah is punctuated in the weeks before Pesach with the…
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Rabbenu Yonah's Four Kitot 17: True Negative Emotion
Rabbenu Yonah's Four Kitot 17: True Negative Emotion, When To Spread It and When Not, by Rav Gidon Rothstein We may not share irrelevant negative information…
KMTT - the Torah PodcastInspiration for better Tefilla
Special sicha with Rav Yonasan Sacks, Rosh Yeshiva, Beis Medrash L'Talmud, Lander College Feb 8, 2023 We thank Rav Sacks for coming to speak with our talmidim.
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Yitro | On The Third Day: Echoes of Moriah at Sinai
Yitro | On The Third Day: Echoes of Moriah at Sinai, by Rav Yitzchak Etshalom Why the three-day waiting period before the theophany at Sinai? The exciting…
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R. Yonah's Four Kitot 16: The Overall Evil in Slandering Others
Rabbenu Yonah's Four Kitot 16: The Overall Evil in Slandering Others, by Rav Gidon Rothstein Rabbenu Yonah's general introduction to lashon hara, why it is…
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Tu Bishvat | The Well-Rooted Righteous Man
Tu Bishvat | The Well-Rooted Righteous Man, by Rav Yitzchak Etshalom In honor of טו בשבט, we examine the opening chapter of Tehillim which uses the tree as a…
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Rabbenu Yonah's Four Kitot 15: Final Thoughts on Chanifa
Rabbenu Yonah's Four Kitot 15: Final Thoughts on Chanifa, by Rav Gidon Rothstein Various commentators showing how far we should go to avoid giving the…
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Beshalach | Moshe: Catalyst for Redemption
Beshalach | Moshe: Catalyst for Redemption, by Rav Yitzchak Etshalom The text interrupts the narrative of the Exodus to highlight Moshe's taking Yosef's bones…
KMTT - the Torah PodcastAshkenazim and Sefardim: The Goals of Talmud Study
Ashkenazim and Sefardim: The Goals of Talmud Study, special lecture by Rabbi Dr. Jeffrey Woolf On methodological and cultural differences and their practical…
KMTT - the Torah PodcastBeshalach | A Thought on the Parasha
Beshalach | A Thought on the Parasha, by Rabbi Aharon Lopiansky, followed by Q+A with the overseas talmidim Rabbi Aharon Lopiansky is the Rosh HaYeshiva of the…
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Rabbenu Yonah's Four Kitot 14: Finishing R. Yonah's Flatterers
Rabbenu Yonah's Four Kitot 14: Finishing R. Yonah's Flatterers, by Rav Gidon Rothstein The rest of RY"s Flatterers. Four more types of refusing to step up and…
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Bo | Korban Pesach: Personal, Communal, Epochal
Bo | Korban Pesach: Personal, Communal, Epochal, by Rav Yitzchak Etshalom The Korban Pesach is the centerpiece of Chapter 12 in Shemot - but how did Bnei…
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Rabbenu Yonah's Four Kitot 13: The First Five Flatterers
Rabbenu Yonah's Four Kitot 13: The First Five Flatterers, by Rav Gidon Rothstein Chanifa, when we tell evil it is good, in some way or other.
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Vaera | The Surprising Genealogy
Vaera | The Surprising Genealogy, by Rav Yitzchak Etshalom Just as Hashem's magnificent promises and ominous threats are about to be broadcast by Moshe, both…
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Rabbenu Yonah's Four Kitot 12: Fabricating a Quote and Its Challenges
Rabbenu Yonah's Four Kitot 12: Fabricating a Quote and Its Challenges, by Rav Gidon Rothstein When might we be allowed to fake a quote to bring people to a…