Piecing the Parsha Together

This week's episode looks at the power of the Yom Kippur experience and connects it to Nadav and Avihu and the rest of the parsha.

This week's episode looks at how the civil laws of this week's parsha connect to the revelation at Har Sinai.

This episode looks at the connections between Shir HaShirim and the different parts of the holiday of Pesach.

This week's episode looks at similarities between the Passover offering and the purification process of the metzora.

This week's episode uses a few midrashim to help identify a key message from this week's parsha.

This week's episode looks at several connections between Parshas Bereishis and Parshas Shemini.

This week's episode looks at connections between Parshas Tzav and Korach.

This episode tries to connect Parshas Vayikra to the end of Sefer Shemos and the holiday of Purim

This episode discusses why Moshe provides an accounting of the mishkan at this point n the Torah.

This week's episode offers a reason why the Torah spends so much time discussing the mishkan.

The week's episode looks at the different types of giving demonstrated at the beginning of the parsha.

This episode looks at several places in the parshas that highlight the importance of and power of our speech

This weeks episode shows the connection between the mishkan and Har Sinai.

This week's episode looks at the dual nature of the divine revelation at Har Sinai.

This episode discusses why the Torah mentions Moshe taking Yosef's coffin as the Jews leave Egypt and how this fits with the story of the Jews leaving Egypt.

This week's episode looks at the last three plagues as their own distinct unit.

The week's episode tries to find a lesson for one's livelihood in the plague of wild animals.

This week's episode looks as the long period of Moshe's development into the ultimate leader of the Jewish people.

This episode tries to understand the entire story of Yakov's blessing of Ephraim and Menashe and how it fits into the end of Yakov's life.

This week's episode looks at the pattern of the avos seeking to go down to Egypt during times of famine.

This episode looks at the dreams of this week's parsha and the haftorah.

This week's episode examine the brother's ability to hurt Yosef and what impact that has on the Jewish people as they live in exile.

This week's episode discusses the importance of Dinah to the story of the avos and the construction of the Jewish people.

This episode looks at Yaakov's encounters with angels and the significance of each.

This episode seeks to discover another iteration of a recurring theme in Sefer Bereishis.

This episode looks at the similarities between Avraham and Eliezer's bowing in this week's parsha.

This week's episode finds further parallels between the lives of Avraham and Noach

This episode compares the stories of Avraham and Noach

This episode looks at the idea of repentance in the parsha and how Noach tried to repair the world after the Flood.

This weeks episode demonstrates how the Torah both begins and ends with an emphasis and the importance of the Torah Sheba'al Peh, the Oral Torah.

This weeks episode looks at a verse from the beginning of the parsha and the end of the parsha to identify a final lesson the Torah wishes to impart to its readers.

This week's episode looks at Moshe's seemingly odd response to Korach's complaints to discover a deeper meaning to Korach's agenda

This episode discusses the connection between the opening verses of the Torah reading and the Torah reading itself.

This episode attempts to find a connection between Parshas Ha'azinu and Yom Kippur.

This week's episode shows how the parsha contains echos of earlier events of the story of the Jewish people in the Torah.

This week's episode looks at the final two commandments in the Torah and shows how their are an appropriate way to end the Torah as well as the Jewish year.

The episode traces the themes of Malchios, Zichronos, and Shofros in the Torah reading of the first day of Rosh Hashanah.

This week's episode looks at the importance of all Jews being responsible for each other.

This episode tries to glean broader perspectives about some of the mitzvos in the parsha by looks at Rashi's comments about their sequencing.

This week's episode look at what the Torah has to say about all of the different leadership roles that appear in this week's parsha.

This episode tries to understand the repeated command about consuming blood that occurs in the beginning and end of the parsha.

This episode tries to explain the verses in this week's parsha which discuss Ahron's role in the Sin of the Golden Calf.

This week's episode looks at different words used to describe the account of the spies and sees a way to rise above their failing from this week's parsha.

This week's episode looks at the connection between the appointment of the judges and the story of the spies.

This week's episode explores why the laws of vows are placed toward the end of Sefer Bamidbar and always during the Three Weeks.

This week's episode tries to understand why the second census of Bnei Yisrael occurs here instead of at the end of Sefer Bamidbar.

This week's episode looks at the link between the mitzva of parah adumah and the miracles Hashem made for the Jewish people in Desert

This episode looks at the Sin of the Spies along with events in the past parsha through the lens of trust in Hashem.

This week's episode looks at the unique nature of Moshe as both prophet and teacher Torah to the Jewish people.

This week's episode looks at the priestly blessing and how it fits in with the structure of the parsha.