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  • Behar: In business, we’re all princes

    Transcript Every single person we do business with is the child of an exceptionally important person.  This is a comment of the great medieval commentator Sforno on Parshat Behar which
  • Behar-Bechukotai: The power of ‘if…’

    Transcript: There is hidden power in the word ‘if’. Parshat Bechukotai commences, “Im bechukotai teileichu,” – “If you walk in my statutes and keep the laws of the Torah,” then
  • D’var Torah: Behar Bechukotai

    Transcript: Do you know a four lettered Hebrew word comprised of the same four letters? The answer is וווו spelling the word ‘U’vavo’ meaning, ‘and his hook’. I doubt there
  • D’var Torah: Parashat Behar

    We are defined by our capacity to give… Those who acquire slaves, acquire masters for themselves. That is how the Talmud explains the concept of the ‘eved ivri’, the Hebrew
  • Dvar Torah: Parashat Behar Bechukotai

    In this week’s Dvar Torah for Behar Bechukotai, the Chief Rabbi recalls great moments of personal inspiration in 1981 and 2009, not to be repeated again until 2037.  1981 and
  • D’var Torah: Parashat Behar-Bechukotai

    In his D’var Torah this week, the Chief Rabbi explains how we remember the unknown victims of the Shoah. More than one million names of Shoah victims are not known
  • D’var Torah: Parashat Behar

    Why do we feed our animals before we sit down to eat? Can there be any exceptions? The Chief Rabbi provides an answer in his D’var Torah for Behar. It
  • Devarim: Can one ever graduate from Jewish education?

    Transcript: Can one ever graduate from Jewish education? In Parshat Devarim, Moshe brings the words of Hashem to the Israelite nation, then at Chorev, which is Mount Sinai. Hashem said