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Parshat Shavua 5783 with weekly guest speaker (Vaera)

Rabbi Shlomo Gemara

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Pharaoh's Heavy Heart: The Exodus and Archaeology

Shulie Mishkin

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Vaera: Let My Leader Lead

Rabbi Jay Kelman

One often hears people bemoaning the dearth of leadership that seems to surround us. Whether it is in politics, religious life or in the sphere of general morality we often yearn for the "good old days" when men of vision, tenacity and determination…
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Parshat Shavua 5782 with weekly guest speaker (Vaera)

Rabbi Ya'akov Trump

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The Haftarot: How to Profit from the Prophets (Parshat Vaeira)

Dr. Moshe Sokolow

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Parshat Vaera -Rabbi Yitzchak Etshalom

Rabbi Yitzchak Etshalom

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Vaera: 137 and Counting

Rabbi Jay Kelman

One hundred and thirty seven is not a number that would appear to have much significance, at least not from a Jewish perspective. Yet the Torah found it necessary to record that Levi lived to that age (Shemot 6:16). A mere four verses later we are…
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Vaera: It Took A While

Rabbi Jay Kelman

Moshe was frustrated. Having been coerced by G-d to redeem the Jewish people, things were not going as planned. As Moshe confronted Pharaoh, demanding—as G-d had instructed—that he let them go free, Pharaoh worsened the conditions for the Jewish…
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Vaera: The Sons of Korach

Rabbi Jay Kelman

The initial meeting between Moshe and Pharaoh did not go well. The workload placed on the poor Jewish slaves was increased, and more importantly, the people's morale was shattered. Whereas initially, "the people believed, and they heard…
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Scholar in Residence: Rav Yosef Carmel

Rav Yosef Carmel

Join us as the Or Chaim Minyan welcomes another distinguished Scholar in Residence for Shabbat! Rabbi Yosef Carmel is the Rabbinical Dean of the Eretz Hemdah Institute for Advanced Jewish studies in Jerusalem, as well as the Av Beit…
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