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5 Minutes of Torah
"5 minutes of Torah" is an initiative to give us a 5 - 10 minute break from work for Torah every work day. We send and post a 5 - 10 minute shiur on all different topics of Torah from a large range of speakers offering all different perspectives on topics ranging from the weekly Torah portion to Halacha to Tefilah and anything else in between
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5 Minutes of Torah3/10/2026 - Elly Slomowitz / Be humble like Moshe Rabbeinu
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5 Minutes of Torah3/5/2026 - Yehuda Zelmanovitz / The Problem or the Solution - עם קשה עורף
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5 Minutes of Torah3/4/2026 - R Simcha Herzog / Why did Moshe break the Luchot
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5 Minutes of Torah3/2/2026 - Shloimy Zelcer / Eating before megilah
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5 Minutes of Torah2/26/2026 - Rabbi Jonah Steinmetz / Standing Up: Strong and Silent
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5 Minutes of Torah2/25/2026 - Avrumi Mandelbaum / Origins of Arur Haman/Baruch Mordechai
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5 Minutes of Torah2/24/2026 - Yossi Fine / Learning from your enemies
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5 Minutes of Torah2/23/2026 - Shua Sheinkopf / The power and importance of tzitzis
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5 Minutes of Torah2/19/2026 - Shloimy Zelcer / Leaving a sefer open
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5 Minutes of Torah2/18/2026 - Rabbi Binyomin Schonblum / Inside and Out-Never a Burden
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5 Minutes of Torah2/17/2026 - Nissin Ackerman / The true meaning of Adar
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5 Minutes of Torah2/12/2026 - R Simcha Herzog / The wisdom of Geviha ben Pesisa
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5 Minutes of Torah2/11/2026 - Meir Klein / Maximizing the mitzvah of Tzedakah
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5 Minutes of Torah2/9/2026 - Elly Slomowitz / What are THESE rules?
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5 Minutes of Torah2/5/2026 - Yehuda Zelmanovitz / Hashem Doesn’t Wait for Perfection
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5 Minutes of Torah2/4/2026 - Shmuli Goldburd / Praying or Paying? The Timing of Tzedaka
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5 Minutes of Torah2/3/2026 - Jerry Weinberger / Standing during Aseres Hadibros
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5 Minutes of Torah2/2/2026 - R Simcha Herzog / Why did Hashem have Moshe lie to Pharaoh again and again
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5 Minutes of Torah1/29/2026 - R Simcha Herzog / Which Bechorim were killed during the Plague of the Firstborn
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5 Minutes of Torah1/28/2026 - Shloimy Zelcer / Covering challah during kiddush part 2
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5 Minutes of Torah1/27/2026 - Shloimy Zelcer / Covering challah during kiddush
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5 Minutes of Torah1/26/2026 - R Simcha Herzog / How did Egypt have animals after the Plague of Dever
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5 Minutes of Torah1/22/2026 - Rabbi Jonah Steinmetz / Hachodesh Hazeh Lachem: Sanctity that Sanctifies
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5 Minutes of Torah1/21/2026 - R Simcha Herzog / Why do Pharaoh and Egypt deserve punishment for fulfilling God's decree?
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5 Minutes of Torah1/20/2026 - Shloimy Zelcer / Double black tefilin
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5 Minutes of Torah1/15/2026 - Rabbi Albert Mizrahi / The strength of self confidence
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5 Minutes of Torah1/14/2026 - Rabbi Binyomin Schonblum / Shomor & Zochor or Zochor & Shomor
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5 Minutes of Torah1/13/2026 - Rabbi Herschel Scheinberg / Going Lefnim Meshuras Hadin
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5 Minutes of Torah1/12/2026 - Avrumi Mandelbaum / Shnayim Mikrah V’echad Targum
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5 Minutes of Torah1/8/2026 - Rabbi Yitzchok Simcha / The darker it is the lighter it will get
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5 Minutes of Torah1/7/2026 - Shmuli Goldburd / Vayokom Melech Chodosh
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5 Minutes of Torah1/6/2026 - Elly Slomowitz / Lessons from Moshe in the basket in the river
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5 Minutes of Torah1/5/2026 - Nissin Ackerman / Lehava Shel Yosef After Shabbos
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5 Minutes of Torah12/31/2025 - Dr Michael Sokolow / Yosef, I Am Your Father
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5 Minutes of Torah12/30/2025 - Shmuli Goldburd / Cross-Legged before the King
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5 Minutes of Torah12/29/2025 - R Zelig Grossman / Why didn't the brothers recognize Yosefs voice
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5 Minutes of Torah12/24/2025 - Rabbi Mordy Raizman / Yaakov Yaakov the significance of repetition
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5 Minutes of Torah12/23/2025 - Shmuel Tennenbaum / The Unlit Menorah!
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5 Minutes of Torah12/18/2025 - Rabbi Akiva Resnick / A Real Friend Burns for You - Yosef and Chanukah
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5 Minutes of Torah12/17/2025 - Sochi Majeski / Penimiyus of Pach Shemen
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5 Minutes of Torah12/16/2025 - Gadi Fuchs / The unity of Chanukah
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5 Minutes of Torah12/15/2025 - Rabbi Jonah Stienmetz / Simcha After Sadness: Celebrating Chanukah on the Heels of National Tragedy
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5 Minutes of Torah12/11/2025 - R Simcha Herzog / שקר is necessary for God as well
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5 Minutes of Torah12/10/2025 - Elly Slomowitz/ The greatness of Yosef Hatzdik
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5 Minutes of Torah12/7/2025 - Yehuda Zelmanovitz / Connection Before Correction
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5 Minutes of Torah12/8/2025 - Jerry Weinberger / אלו אלו ואלו דברי אלקים חיים - And the Chanukah Miracle
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5 Minutes of Torah12/4/2025 - Ezzi Hirsch / Thank before you Pray - Yaakov’s secret tefilah hack
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5 Minutes of Torah12/3/2025 - Shloimy Zelcer / Daven to Hashem, not angels
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5 Minutes of Torah12/2/2025 - Elya Lopian / Ta’amu U’Re’u — The Bitachon Way
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5 Minutes of Torah12/1/2025 - Shmuli Goldburd / V'sen Tal Umatar here and in E"Y
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5 Minutes of Torah11/26/2025 - Yossi Fine - Why wasn't Yaakov upset at Rochel?
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5 Minutes of Torah11/25/2025 - R Simcha Herzog / The Written Torah is simply not understandable without an Oral Torah
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5 Minutes of Torah11/24/2025 - Shloimy Zelcer / Jacob's ladder as a paradigm for prayer
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5 Minutes of Torah11/20/2025 - R Simcha Herzog / The author of a Talmudic saying is itself sometimes a hint
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5 Minutes of Torah11/18/2025 - Yossi Fine / Don’t be a Tzaddik Like Eisav
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