Rabbi Blackman (RDB)

Pesach Sheni- the Chesed of Hod

The week of Tif’eret - The world of balance, beauty and harmony

Penalty for forgetting to light, what one uses to light, using electric lights as Shabbat candles

Predictions of exile and redemption in the Haftara of Acharei and Kedoshim

Lighting Shabbat candles with a B’racha while electric lights are on

Reasons for lighting Shabbat candles

Preserving one's appetite for Shabbos

The nature of women's obligation to hear Megilla

Why does the letter Bet have its back to the Alef?

Rav Hutner’s insights into the ‘fatal’ Purim Se’udah of Rabba and R Zeira and the uniqueness of Purim

Personal involvement in Shabbat preparations

Revealing Inner Dimensions of the Alef Bet

“veNahafoch Hu“ - revealing Hashem’s Providence

Tasting Shabbat food on Friday and Avoda beGashmiyut

How was the Torah written - K’tav Ivri or K’tav Ashuri?

Evaporating letters, Luchot smashed; replacement letters, new Luchot

Rabbinic enactments like doing laundry on Thursday whose reason no longer applies

The letters are to the Torah as the foundation is to a building

The 'seeing stones' and their 'missing' letters

Part 3. a) Summary of issues involving travel on Shabbat

b) Enhancing Shabbat with good food etc. Hillel and Shamai

Restrictions re travel before Shabbat

Parshat Teruma - The Arizal's approach to Mishkan

Parshat Yitro and Mishpatim

Soul - code word Sulam

Rivka- "Find the money, target the money, kill the money"

The Evolution of Yishmael

Innocents in Sodom?

“… And the Canaanite was then in the land.” (Bereishit 12/6)

Terach and Logotherapy; healing from trauma

Shofar, Shabbat and Rosh Hashana

Atem Nitzavim … preparatory steps for Rosh Hashana 

Chasidism - The Source

The evolution of Mikdash - Mishkan, Shilo and Yerushalayim

The deeper dimension of Benching

Parshat Eikev - the message behind B’rachot

Tu B’av - the experience of Jewish revival

Parshat Devarim - Mishne Torah and the Gett

The genetic code of Torah

The Arizal’s opposition to the concept of Sabbatical Cycles used to calculate the age of the universe

Drenched wool on the tip of the Spear

Parshat Shelach - Yehoshua’s name change in Shelach or beShalach?

The AriZal’s doctrine of Shevirat haKeilim - breaking of the vessels

Parshat Beha’alotecha - Tzara’at and the Miracle at Midway

What did Moshe receive at Sinai?

Bitul beRov and Bitul beShishim

Mixtures of foods and the principle of Bitul - Nullification

Engagement with the Sefirot

Separate utensils in the kitchen

Leftover bread and separate tablecloths

The precaution of not baking Milchik or Fleishik bread