10 Parsha Points Podcast Yisroel Isaacs

Or Hachaim, Rav Soloveitchik: Anticipating Shabbos

Simcha (joy) around the year

Rav Soloveitchik: 2 models of leadership: Purim - bottom up; Chanukkah - top down

This week we discuss:

The uniforms of the kohanim - why?  The external influences the internal

Why the Golden Mizbeach (Alter) instructions were delayed until all of the other instructions were given - seeing the forest from the trees.  

This week we discuss:

Quantifying how much space in the Torah is devoted to the Mishkan (Tabernacle) and why - goldharschool.com

The Mishkan needs to be built for G-d's name - the literal approach and the idea that we can only flourish in the right environment

Rav Soloveitchik: Where did Moshe hear G-d's voice from, and why it matters

Rav Pam: The reasoning behind the ordering of the items donated by the people - easy come, easy go

Topics discussed:

Why is the slave punished for his desire to stay longer? R. Shaul Yisraeli

Why isn't the slave's ear pierced when he first gets into trouble? The Maharil Diskin

The need to temporarlily return a collateral reflects an expansive view of the Torah's mandate.  R. Yechiel Yaakov Weinberg

Love the convert since you were strangers in Egypt is said immediately after they left Egypt;

Sensitivity when there's an open wound - you were strangers, not you were slaves.  R. Kenneth Hain from R. Sholom Carmy

We are reciepients of Divine gifts - sometimes He takes them back.  Rav Soloveitchik

Orphans and Widows.  R. Moshe Feinstein

This week we discuss:

Why so many judges were needed - how to relate to other peoples money including stories about R. Yisrael Salanter

The lesson we learn from Yisro's alias "Yeser" - the value of proactive problem solving

Rav Solovetichik: The duality of the Torah transmission - the role of father and the role of the mother