Episodi

  • Parshas Lech Lecha: Avraham Avinu's Search for Kedusha in Eretz Yisroel
    Oct 22 2026
    Erev Shabbos Parshas Lech Lecha 5787, on the yahrtzeit of Rochel Imeinu and Reb Nosson Tzvi Finkel. Rabbi Liff brings the Zohar HaKadosh and the Pnei Yehoshua on Avraham Avinu searching for the kedusha of Eretz Yisroel, tells how Reb Chatzkel Abramsky approached the Kosel, and connects it to this week's elections. From Rashi on "v'heyei brocha" and the teachings of Rav Wolbe he learns what it takes to receive a brocha, and he ends with Reb Chaim Vital, Rav Sternbuch and the Maharal on the koach of Yishmael and how shmiras habris stands against it.
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    21 min
  • Parshas Noach: Living in the Teivah in a World of Chamas / The Secret of the Teivah
    Oct 16 2026
    Erev Shabbos Parshas Noach 5787, at the start of Cheshvan. Rabbi Liff brings Reb Michel Zilber on why only Hashem saw how far the dor hamabbul had fallen, and Reb Leib Saras on the measurements of the teivah and the Sheimos HaKodesh that temper the chamas of the world. From Reb Avrohom Shmuelevitz and Reb Yitzchok Ezrachi he learns that Shem's mitzvah, done with exuberance, became part of him, and he shows that exuberance in Reb Nosson Tzvi Finkel and Rav Shach, whose yahrtzeits fall in the coming days.
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    26 min
  • Parshas Lech Lecha: The Koach of Yishmael and the Zchus of Shmiras Habris
    Oct 22 2026
    Reb Chaim Vital writes that Yishmael draws his koach from being a ben Avraham and from bris milah. Rav Sternbuch says the defense is shmiras habris and the kedusha of Eretz Yisroel, and brings the Maharal that Malchus Yishmael is joined to Malchus Paras. From the Parshas Lech Lecha 5787 shiur.
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    3 min
  • Parshas Noach: Why the Torah Says Vayikach Shem
    Oct 16 2026
    Why does the pasuk say "vayikach Shem vaYefes" in the singular? Reb Avrohom Shmuelevitz brings from Reb Yitzchok Ezrachi that Shem exerted himself, so he was zocheh to tallis shel tzitzis, while Yefes went along out of kavod. A mitzvah done with exuberance becomes part of the person. From the Parshas Noach 5787 shiur.
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    3 min
  • Rav Wolbe and the Bochurim Who Came for a Brocha
    Oct 22 2026
    A brocha is not a magic formula. Rabbi Liff brings Rav Wolbe and Reb Chaim Kanievsky on becoming a kli to receive a brocha, and tells how Rav Wolbe sent a bochur to a young child who is b'lo cheit, and how close to his passing he would not give a brocha without simcha and lev. From the Parshas Lech Lecha 5787 shiur.
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    2 min
  • Rav Shach and Every Single Yid
    Oct 16 2026
    For Rav Shach's 25th yahrtzeit, Rabbi Liff tells how he cared for every Yid: the schedule he set for a baal teshuvah yeshiva, half an hour of chizuk for Rabbi Liff's young son who stuttered, an orphan girl he waited up for after a date, and the bochur he walked to Slabodka to see for himself. From the Parshas Noach 5787 shiur.
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    4 min
  • פתיחת זמן חורף תשפ"ז מאת נשיא הישיבה רב יהושע ליף
    Oct 13 2026
    שיחה בפתיחת זמן חורף תשפ"ז, ביום הראשון בבית המדרש אחרי סוכות, שנפתחת באמירת תהילים לרפואת הפצועים באסון של אתמול. הרב ליף שואל איך אפשר לשיר אחר כך "ושמחת בחגך", ומספר מה שראה אצל רב חיים שמואלביץ בחול המועד, בשנת הפיגוע במעלות. בשם הטאָלנער הוא מביא את דברי הבית ישראל על "וישאר אך נח" ו"והיית אך שמח", ובהמשך את המהלך מיום כיפור לשמחת סוכות, ומסיים בחיזוק לזמן חורף.
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    28 min
  • פרשת נח: "וישאר אך נח" ולשון "אך"
    Oct 13 2026
    בשם הבית ישראל: למה "והיית אך שמח", והרי "אך" לשון מיעוט? בפעם הראשונה שכתוב "אך" בתורה, "וישאר אך נח", נח שנפצע מן הארי נשאר "אך", ועדיין נח. יהיו מצבים שנהיה "אך", ובכל זאת נהיה שמחים. מתוך השיחה לפתיחת זמן חורף תשפ"ז.
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    3 min