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Congregation Beth Sholom - Rabbi Yechezkel Freundlich
All the classes, shiurum and goings-on at CBS with Rabbi Yechezkel Freundlich and Rabbi Avi Miller
Episodes
- Congregation Beth Sholom - Rabbi Yechezkel Freundlich
SCP - When to make the bracha (R Miller)
Before you wash, after, while the hands are still wet?
- Congregation Beth Sholom - Rabbi Yechezkel Freundlich
Shabbos Drasha (Shelach): Consumers vs Stakeholders - In our Shuls, Schools and the Land of Israel
We sometimes get vconfuused about the most important parts of our lives
- Congregation Beth Sholom - Rabbi Yechezkel Freundlich
Parsha shiur: Behaaloscha - Hashem helps those who help themselves
An astounding Maharal answering a difficulty on how the Menorah was formed
- Congregation Beth Sholom - Rabbi Yechezkel Freundlich
Alei Shur (Adom 4) - Why be nice?
Two meanings why man is called Adom
- Congregation Beth Sholom - Rabbi Yechezkel Freundlich
The Search for the Missing Conversion Document - A lesson on demonstrating the value of Torah (Shavuos Drasha)
Did you ever show up late to a really important meeting?
- Congregation Beth Sholom - Rabbi Yechezkel Freundlich
Shavuos - The Silence of the Torah about itself
Why is there no direct connection to the Giving of the Torah and Shavuos
- Congregation Beth Sholom - Rabbi Yechezkel Freundlich
SCP (4) - How much water must you use and how many times must you wash?
Is it once, twice, or three times?
- Congregation Beth Sholom - Rabbi Yechezkel Freundlich
Shavuos Preperation (Alei Shur) - The Value Factor
Everything in life has a value, even spirituality
- Congregation Beth Sholom - Rabbi Yechezkel Freundlich
Shabbos Drasha: Bechukosai - Feeling Connected (Israel Bonds Shabbos)
What are we to do as rockets rain down in Israel?
- Congregation Beth Sholom - Rabbi Yechezkel Freundlich
Alei Shur (Adom 3) - Perceiving Reality
What if you swear on something, believed you were telling the truth, but discover you were wrong?
- Congregation Beth Sholom - Rabbi Yechezkel Freundlich
SCP (3) How much of the hand must you wash?
Turns out, it's a machlokes Rishonim. Plus, what if you washed and then after making the bracha discovered there is no bread?
- Congregation Beth Sholom - Rabbi Yechezkel Freundlich
Shabbos Drasha: Emor - The Danger of Loneliness (Mental Health Awareness Shabbos)
What a Mets game has to teach us about bad instincts and a sense of belonging
- Congregation Beth Sholom - Rabbi Yechezkel Freundlich
Smichas Chaver Program (SCP 2): No water
Does it work to just not touch the bread?
- Congregation Beth Sholom - Rabbi Yechezkel Freundlich
Parsha Shiur: Emor - Only one form of Tzedakah is like rebuilding the Beis Hamikdash
How much are we personally effected by the need?
- Congregation Beth Sholom - Rabbi Yechezkel Freundlich
Alei Shur Chabura (Adom, 2): The Greatness and Smallness of Man
We are an intrinsic contradiction
- Congregation Beth Sholom - Rabbi Yechezkel Freundlich
Smichas Chaver Program (SCP 1 - Intro to Netilas Yadayim)
A complicated answer to a simple question: Why do we need to wash our hands before eating bread?
- Congregation Beth Sholom - Rabbi Yechezkel Freundlich
Parsha Shiur - Kedoshim
What is the nature of this Mitzvah and an empowering Maharal
- Congregation Beth Sholom - Rabbi Yechezkel Freundlich
Alei Shur Chaburah (Adom, 1)
What is the Ikar - Torah or Yisrael?
- Congregation Beth Sholom - Rabbi Yechezkel Freundlich
Pesach - The Power of Chatzot
Appreciating the moment
- Congregation Beth Sholom - Rabbi Yechezkel Freundlich
The Judiacial Reform in Israel - a Layman's guide to what is going on
This is super complicated, but super important to undrestand. Why is Israel on fire right now?
Congregation Beth Sholom - Rabbi Yechezkel FreundlichMishpatim - Peace and Inspiration through Mundane Laws
The shift from stories to Laws
- Congregation Beth Sholom - Rabbi Yechezkel Freundlich
Beshalach - Worthy or Unworthy? The Maharal's approach to Emunah at the Yam Suf
Addressing a troubling contradiction in rashi
- Congregation Beth Sholom - Rabbi Yechezkel Freundlich
Parsha - Va'eira: Live in the Present, but always await the Future
Lessons from Moshe and Shlomo and the name of Hashem
- Congregation Beth Sholom - Rabbi Yechezkel Freundlich
Parsha, Shmos: The 3 Stages of Paroah's plan
With insights from the Maharal and Rav Hirsch
- Congregation Beth Sholom - Rabbi Yechezkel Freundlich
Shaarim B'Tfilla chabura (1) - Why does the Torah use 10 different words for tefilla?
Each form of tefilla is a mesechta unto itself
- Congregation Beth Sholom - Rabbi Yechezkel Freundlich
Parsha, Vayishlach: Like the sand of the sea, but not the dust of the earth
Why Yakov rejects the bracha he was given in favor of the bracha of his grandfather Avraham.
- Congregation Beth Sholom - Rabbi Yechezkel Freundlich
Parsha - Vayeitzei: The dramatic meeting of Yaakov and Rachel at the well
A deeper understanding of the medrash
- Congregation Beth Sholom - Rabbi Yechezkel Freundlich
Eim Habanim Semeicha (3) - Redemption - We know it will happen, the only question is how?
Everything depends on if we are worthy or not
- Congregation Beth Sholom - Rabbi Yechezkel Freundlich
Alei Shur, Tefilla (3): Wait a minute, and the intersection of the Rational and Divine
The value of our few minutes of tefilla, and of taking a few minutes brfore tefilla
- Congregation Beth Sholom - Rabbi Yechezkel Freundlich
Paternity in Halacha
How is Paternity Established in Halakha? Can one become a father posthumously? How do ancient texts speak to modern medical technologies?
- Congregation Beth Sholom - Rabbi Yechezkel Freundlich
Parsha - Chayei Sarah: The defintion of Innocence and finding the perfect source for a Jewish wedding
"Sarah was as innocent at 100 as at 20" - sounds a little odd. A why does can't the gemarah find a better source for giving a ring under the chuppah than…
- Congregation Beth Sholom - Rabbi Yechezkel Freundlich
Whose Your Mother? Defining Maternity in Halacha
A shiur following the IVF clinic mixup when a woman was implanted with the wrong embryo.
- Congregation Beth Sholom - Rabbi Yechezkel Freundlich
Eim Habanim Semeicha (2): Persecuation and the Birth Pangs of Moshiach
Why must there be such suffering and how to live as an Eretz Yisrael Jew in the exile
- Congregation Beth Sholom - Rabbi Yechezkel Freundlich
Alei Shur, Tefilla (2): Praying for Shleimus - not our material success - the essence of Emunah
A fundamental shift in what we actually are doing when we daven: recognizing that everything comes from Hashem, whether we get what we want or not
- Congregation Beth Sholom - Rabbi Yechezkel Freundlich
Parsha Vayeira: Avraham asks about the Milah, and runs for bread and meat
Some toughts from the Maharal on what it means to ask about the Milah and the boomering nature of Kindness
- Congregation Beth Sholom - Rabbi Yechezkel Freundlich
Eim HaBanim Semeicha (1) - Introduction and Love of the Land
Rav Yissacher Shlomo Teichtal's groundbreaking work, written in the furnace of the Holocaust, about the Land of Israel, Redemption and Jewis Unity
- Congregation Beth Sholom - Rabbi Yechezkel Freundlich
Alei Shur - Tefilla (1): Undertanding the Challanges to a Meaningful Tefilla
We all know it already: Tefilla is incredibly powerful, but also incredibly difficult!
- Congregation Beth Sholom - Rabbi Yechezkel Freundlich
Parsha: Lech Lecha -Famine? But I just got here!
Lessons from a Famine in the Land
- Congregation Beth Sholom - Rabbi Yechezkel Freundlich
Parsha - Noach: Birthing Ourselves
There are two types of progeny we create in this world, but one is more fundamental to who we are.
Congregation Beth Sholom - Rabbi Yechezkel FreundlichMesilas Yesharim (11) - Perek Aleph: What is the purpose of Creation? Pleasure!
Every Jew must be clear to what purpose do we direct our lives
- Congregation Beth Sholom - Rabbi Yechezkel Freundlich
Alei Shur (4) - The Power of Achdus: Hashem treats us exactly as we treat others
There is no other way to greet the King other than as a unified Nation
- Congregation Beth Sholom - Rabbi Yechezkel Freundlich
Mesilas Yesharim (10) - Concluding the Introduction
The order of growth to achieve perfection
- Congregation Beth Sholom - Rabbi Yechezkel Freundlich
Parsha - Ki Tavo: Of Stones, Plaster, and writing the entire Torah
"Access to information" and "accessing information" are two completely seperate ideas
- Congregation Beth Sholom - Rabbi Yechezkel Freundlich
Contempoarary Approaches to Teshuva - The Slonimer Rebbe
The magnificient concept of Teshuva even on our Mitzvos
- Congregation Beth Sholom - Rabbi Yechezkel Freundlich
Mesilas Yesharim (9) - To do mitzvos with purpose and feeling
Not by rote or for ulterior motives
- Congregation Beth Sholom - Rabbi Yechezkel Freundlich
Mesilas Yesharim (8) - The most beautiful description of what it means to Love Hashem
Don't you want to be a source of Nachas to Hashem?
- Congregation Beth Sholom - Rabbi Yechezkel Freundlich
Alei Shur (3) - Kingship in the world we live in and what to learn from it
Why arent there examples of Kings anymore?
- Congregation Beth Sholom - Rabbi Yechezkel Freundlich
Gemarah: To make, or not to make, a Shechiyanu on the second night of Rosh Hashana
A fascinating study or new fruits, long days, and mistaken songs in the Beis Hamikdash
- Congregation Beth Sholom - Rabbi Yechezkel Freundlich
Mesilas Yesharim (7) - Walking in His ways: Perfecting our middos
Walking in His ways: Perfecting our middos
- Congregation Beth Sholom - Rabbi Yechezkel Freundlich
Mesilas Yesharim (6) - Yirah: In the presence of Greatness
Yirah: In the presence of Greatness
- Congregation Beth Sholom - Rabbi Yechezkel Freundlich
Mesilas Yesharim (5) - The Wisdom necessary for Yirah
Yiras Shaymayim doesn't happen on its own - it takes great Wisdom to master
- Congregation Beth Sholom - Rabbi Yechezkel Freundlich
Alei Shur (2) - An individual, yes, but always part of the Klal
As much as the world was created for each and every one of us, a Jew cannot never forget his/her place amongst the community.
- Congregation Beth Sholom - Rabbi Yechezkel Freundlich
Mesilas Yesharim (4) - It's not natural, plus there are detractors
It's not natural, plus there are detractors
- Congregation Beth Sholom - Rabbi Yechezkel Freundlich
Mesilas Yesharim (3)
You only notice what you are looking for!