The Ten Wonders of Repentance
God showered humanity with endless gifts: the ability to see, to hear, to walk, to taste, to think, to make choices, to become closer to Him...
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This Jewish Life - By Rabbi Yaakov Wolbe
Rabbi Yaakov Wolbe’s Torah Lectures
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20 of 551 episodesThe Nuanced Judgment of Rosh Hashana
Rush Hashanah is a day of judgment. On this day, God sits, as it were, on His Throne of Judgment. The intensity and scrutiny of divine judgm...
The Incalculability of Mitzvos
Mitzvos have infinite value. There is no experience that we can have in this world that matches the reward in the world to come for a single...
The First Elul
We have a begun hallowed days of Elul. In one month, we will celebrate Rosh Hashanah. We will all be judged. We will blow the shofar. We wil...
Confronting Mortality (How to Preparing for the Afterlife Part 2)
Death and the afterlife are foreign, and often terrifying, subjects. Naturally, most of us tend to try to avoid thinking about it too much....
When and How to Prepare for the Afterlife
Sooner or later, we all are required to drink from the bitter portion of death. As a result of the sin of Adam, death is the fate of all man...
How to Build the Third Temple
The Temple is a central component of our religion. Ever since it was destroyed by the Romans, our nation has been operating in a suboptimal...
The King’s Way
The sorcerer/prophet of the nations, Balaam, sought to curse the Israelites, but his attempts were thwarted. The Talmud reveals some very in...
The System of Prayer
It takes years to develop a taste for prayer. Prayer is described in our sources as “service of the heart.” Service of any sort is difficult...
Two Anonymous Wives
There are two wives – two women whose names we don’t even know – who caused seismic, tectonic shifts in the fates and the fortunes of their...
The History and Mystery of the Ancient Blue Dye (Techeiles)
We recite the three paragraphs of the Shema twice a day. The third paragraph contains the mitzvah of placing tzitzis fringes on the corner o...
The Ills of Envy and its Remedy
Envy is a deadly sin, and it’s almost entirely unavoidable. Our Sages that “Envy extracts a person from the world.” It causes a person to be...
Ruth, Sinai, and the Heart of Shavuos (Rebroadcast)
The Sinai Revelation is the most significant event in all of human history: God revealed Himself to the entire Jewish people, He spoke to th...
We are Celebrating a Healthy Newborn Baby Boy
With deep appreciation to the Almighty for all that He has bestowed upon us, I am happy to share that Chaya and I we are blessed with a heal...
The Superiority of Torah
We are incredibly fortunate to be included amongst the Jewish people. We are incredibly fortunate to be raised with a strong sense of Torah...
Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochi and the Lesson of Lag Ba’Omer
Lag Ba’Omer is a unique day in the Jewish calendar. It’s a minor festival celebrated in surprising ways for surprising reasons: on this day,...
Momentum Matters
The hardest part of reaching space is the first moment of liftoff, getting the first inch off the ground. The second inch is still hard, but...
The Pariah Messiah
The Talmud describes Messiah as a Metzora (one stricken with tzaraas) bandaging his bandages outside of the gates of Rome. Why is the messia...
The Secret Passover Opportunity you Mustn’t Pass-Over
This special pre-Pesach podcast is dedicated in loving memory of Meir Ben Shmuel Chananya. May his soul be elevated in heaven. – – – – – – –...
Shema: Achieving Supremacy Over the Angels
Angels are way loftier than us, right? They’re totally spiritual, they cannot possibly sin, they are messengers of God. We, on the other han...