Torah and Stories with Rabbi Liff

Rabbi Yehoshua Liff
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Every Erev Shabbos, Rabbi Yehoshua Liff sits down and speaks directly — about the parsha, about what is happening in our world, and about the stories he carries from the gedolim he learned from. He has been teaching in Eretz Yisroel for close to four decades, first as Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshiva Ner Yaakov and now as Nasi of Yeshiva Ateres Yaakov in Ramat Beit Shemesh. His Artscroll book At His Rebbe's Side captures his years alongside Rav Moshe Feinstein, Rav Shach, Rav Chaim Shmuelevitz, and others. This podcast is where he shares that same voice each week.

  1. vor 1 Tag

    Bein Hazmanim Musings Part 2 — Elul, Objectivity, and Parshas Shoftim

    Recorded on Rosh Chodesh Elul, just after the first shofar blowing of the month, Rabbi Liff opens with family simchos from a trip to Romania and an engagement in his home, then turns to Parshas Shoftim for chizuk in the new season of teshuva. He brings a vort from the Maggid of Kelm on sinas chinam as the root of Klal Yisrael's suffering, a story from Rav Yisrael Salanter tracing the roots of eglah arufah, and his father's mesorah on judging oneself objectively through the parsha's opening call for shoftim v'shotrim. This episode is for anyone looking to enter Elul with practical chizuk on ahavas chinam and honest self-judgment.

  2. vor 1 Tag

    Judging Yourself — Shoftim v'Shotrim Titein Lecha

    Rabbi Liff shares his father's mesorah, going back to Rav Yisrael Salanter, that the Torah's call for judges and officers is first a call to judge oneself. He explains negios (personal biases) as the true shochad that cloud self-judgment, and the lifelong work of becoming objective rather than subjective. A short dvar Torah clip from the Parshas Shoftim episode, for chizuk in the month of Elul.

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    Reb Shmuel Rozovsky's Secret Zechus

    Rabbi Liff tells the story of Reb Shmuel Rozovsky, Rosh Yeshiva of Ponevezh, who secretly cleaned the beis medrash himself when the yeshiva's workers went unpaid. On his deathbed he revealed to family that this hidden chesed, not his years of shiurim, was the zechus he hoped to bring before the Heavenly court. A short story clip from the Parshas Shoftim episode, for anyone looking for chizuk in quiet, uncredited chesed.

  4. 6. Aug.

    Bein Hazmanim Musings for Parshas Reeh

    Rabbi Liff shares personal bein hazmanim musings recorded while traveling with his family in Romania, tying the closing days of the summer break to the pasuk “Re’eh anochi nosein lifneichem hayom” and the theme of perspective — re’iyah — as Klal Yisrael moves toward Elul and teshuvah. Key stories and sources: A bein hazmanim story about Rav Chaim Kanievsky ztz”l at the beach in Netanya as a young man, and the shmirah lesson Rabbi Liff drew from it as a yeshiva bachur. Examples of gedolim — Reb Yaakov Kamenetsky, Reb Gifter, Rav Moshe Feinstein — getting exercise and reinvigoration in the summer months. A vort from Reb Shternbuch on why the pasuk uses the word “hayom,” with the story of Rebbetzin Chasiya Soro Ginzberg and Reb Chatzkel Abramsky in Siberia. A chassidishe vort from the Toras Chaim of Kosov on “mashcheihu l’beis medrash.” Parsha connection: Parshas Reeh opens with “Re’eh anochi nosein lifneichem hayom” — Rabbi Liff connects the lashon of re’iyah, seeing with depth and perspective, to using the final days of bein hazmanim well as Elul approaches.

  5. 6. Aug. ·  Bonus

    Go Into the Beis Medrash

    A short dvar Torah from Rabbi Liff’s Erev Shabbos shmuess for Parshas Reeh. A vort from the Toras Chaim of Kosov on the Gemara’s instruction to bring the yetzer hara into the beis medrash.

  6. 6. Aug. ·  Bonus

    A Beach Story with Rav Chaim Kanievsky

    A short story from Rabbi Liff’s Erev Shabbos shmuess for Parshas Reeh. Rabbi Liff’s bein hazmanim encounter with Rav Chaim Kanievsky ztz"l at the beach in Netanya, and the shmiras einayim lesson he drew from it.

  7. 31. Juli

    Parshas Ekev — The Torah Is Life Itself

    An Erev Shabbos chizuk shmuess for Parshas Ekev, on the 17th of Menachem Av, in the week of Tu B’Av — and on the Shabbos of the bar mitzvah of Rabbi Liff’s grandson, Naftali Tzvi. The central theme is chius: “Lo al halechem levado yichyeh ha’adam” — bread only sustains, but the dvar Hashem, the Torah, is life itself. Rabbi Liff carries that into bein hazmanim (“there’s no such thing as in-between life”), the yirah the parsha asks of every Yid, and the chesed and shidduchim of Tu B’Av. Key stories and sources: Davening at the home of Rav Moshe Sternbuch, over 100 years old, with brachas for the bar mitzvah bochur. Divrei zikaron for Reb Mordechai Zev Adler, z”l, his mussar-seder chavrusa, who was niftar suddenly on Tu B’Av — their last limud together: the Ramchal’s Derech Hashem on techiyas hameisim. Targum Onkelos’s two translations of “yichyeh” — kiyum versus chaim. Reb Baruch Ber Leibowitz: “The Torah is not the oxygen of life — the Torah is life itself.” The American bochur and the elderly rosh yeshiva; Rebbe Yirmiyah; Reb Nochum Partzovitz on learning without a jacket; Rav Dov Landau. Hakol bidei Shamayim chutz miyiras Shamayim — the two aspects of yirah, and “modeh” before “ani.” Rav Elya Chaim Meisel’s “sefer” — his file of obligations to the poor of Lodz — and Rav Chaim Ozer. The shidduch of Rav Moshe Shapiro’s parents — the younger sister who opened the door. Parsha connection: Parshas Ekev’s themes — Eretz Yisrael, the Torah, anavah, and “Mah Hashem Elokecha sho’el mei’imach ki im l’yirah” — are all aspects of the etzem hachaim, the essence of life itself.

  8. 31. Juli ·  Bonus

    Lo Al HaLechem Levado: The Two Translations of Targum Onkelos

    A short dvar Torah from Rabbi Liff’s Erev Shabbos shmuess for Parshas Ekev. On the pasuk “Lo al halechem levado yichyeh ha’adam,” Targum Onkelos translates “yichyeh” two different ways within the same pasuk — miskayeim at the beginning, chaim at the end. Bread is only a hechsher, the means by which a person is sustained, while the dvar Hashem — the Torah — is the etzem hachaim itself. Everything the parsha speaks of — Eretz Yisrael, the Torah, anavah, yiras Shamayim — are aspects of that essence of life.

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Every Erev Shabbos, Rabbi Yehoshua Liff sits down and speaks directly — about the parsha, about what is happening in our world, and about the stories he carries from the gedolim he learned from. He has been teaching in Eretz Yisroel for close to four decades, first as Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshiva Ner Yaakov and now as Nasi of Yeshiva Ateres Yaakov in Ramat Beit Shemesh. His Artscroll book At His Rebbe's Side captures his years alongside Rav Moshe Feinstein, Rav Shach, Rav Chaim Shmuelevitz, and others. This podcast is where he shares that same voice each week.

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