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“And you shall take for yourselves on the first day, the fruit of the hadar tree, date palm fronds, a branch of a braided tree, and willows of the brook, and you shall rejoice before the Lord your G-d for seven days" (Vayikra 23:40). As the above…
Thursdays, September 14 - October 5, 2023
12:30 pm Eastern, 7:30 pm Israel
In this four-part series Chazzan Joseph Malovany will highlight how nusach, the proper melodies both enhance and interpret our tefillot.
Series 2
Thursday, September 14,…
This series of classes is sponsored by Marla and Jack Samuel in honour of two beloved and missed members of the Toronto community: Yitz (Isaac) Kurtz z”l and Isaac Hollander z”l.
Both were gentle, kind, extremely accomplished Talmidei Chachahim and…
Kohelet: The Sphinx of Scriptures
Rabbi Moshe Shulman
Tuesdays starting August 22nd at 1:00 pm eastern, 8:00 pm Israel time
No text in Tanakh has captured our imagination more than Kohelet. King Solomon’s philosophical treatise is at once enigmatic…
When studying literature we must study not only its content, but also its form. This is especially true in the study of poetry, where the words themselves offer only a limited understanding of the text. Our Torah, in addition to being a description…
Holidays are a most opportune time to instill in our children the values and character traits that personify a Jewish lifestyle. At first glance Pesach, more than any other holiday, seems to embody the critical importance of teaching our children.…
It is hard to imagine a more impactful ritual than that of our weekly Torah reading. While its origins date to Moshe Rabbeinu—acting in his capacity as a rabbinic sage, not as prophet delivering G-d's message—and Ezra the scribe, it was not until…
"On the first day, you must take for yourself a fruit of the citron tree, an opened palm frond, myrtle branches, and willows of the brook, and you shall rejoice before G-d for seven days" (Vayikra 23:40). While there is also a mitzvah to rejoice on…
For many years, students were introduced to the study of Talmud with Eilu Metziot, the second chapter of masechet Bava Metzia, focusing on the mitzvah of hashavat aveidah, returning lost objects. Beyond the technical details of this mitzvah, Talmud…