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 A beautiful commentary on the words in the Megillah: How they substantiated and how they accepted - The calendar
A beautiful commentary on the words in the Megillah: How they substantiated and how they accepted - The calendar

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Rabbi Eli SilbersteinMay 12, 2019
Why didn't Haman choose Zayin Adar to carry-out his terrible plan against the Jews? Manos Haldvi and Reb Yonoson Eibeshetz offer different explanations - The Calendar
Why didn't Haman choose Zayin Adar to carry-out his terrible plan against the Jews? Manos Haldvi and Reb Yonoson Eibeshetz offer different explanations - The Calendar

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Rabbi Eli SilbersteinMay 12, 2019
Why women insisted spinning threads while wool was still attached to living goats - Maharsha and Yismach Moshe's fascinating explanation - Vayakhel
Why women insisted spinning threads while wool was still attached to living goats - Maharsha and Yismach Moshe's fascinating explanation - Vayakhel

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Rabbi Eli SilbersteinMay 12, 2019
The controversy between Chasam Sofer and Avnei Nezer whether rabbinical leadership is transmitted by inheritance from father to son - and why other positions of leadership are inheritable - Acharei
The controversy between Chasam Sofer and Avnei Nezer whether rabbinical leadership is transmitted by inheritance from father to son - and why other positions of leadership are inheritable - Acharei

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Rabbi Eli SilbersteinMay 12, 2019
The controversy between Chasam Sofer and Avnei Nezer whether rabbinical leadership is inheritable - Acharei
The controversy between Chasam Sofer and Avnei Nezer whether rabbinical leadership is inheritable - Acharei

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Rabbi Eli SilbersteinMay 12, 2019
Great pshat by the Haflo’oh in Ponim Yafos regarding the right of inheritance by a son of his father’s position as Kohen Godol - Acharei
Great pshat by the Haflo’oh in Ponim Yafos regarding the right of inheritance by a son of his father’s position as Kohen Godol - Acharei

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Rabbi Eli SilbersteinMay 9, 2019
The Rebbe’s beautiful interpretation of "you should live by the Mitzvah not die by them" - Acharei
The Rebbe’s beautiful interpretation of "you should live by the Mitzvah not die by them" - Acharei

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Rabbi Eli SilbersteinMay 9, 2019
The Alter Rebbe’s insight into the Midrash - "My holiness is above yours..." - Kedoshim
The Alter Rebbe’s insight into the Midrash - "My holiness is above yours..." - Kedoshim

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Rabbi Eli SilbersteinMay 9, 2019
Rashi & Ramban have different understandings of Kedusha and the Rebbe’s beautiful insight into them - Kedoshim
Rashi & Ramban have different understandings of Kedusha and the Rebbe’s beautiful insight into them - Kedoshim

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Rabbi Eli SilbersteinMay 9, 2019
Ramban’s fascinating interpretation of  how the Torah brings us life - Acharei.
Ramban’s fascinating interpretation of how the Torah brings us life - Acharei.

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Rabbi Eli SilbersteinMay 9, 2019
Incredible Sfas Emes on the Midrash in the Possuk "don’t emulate the actions of the Egyptians." - Acharei
Incredible Sfas Emes on the Midrash in the Possuk "don’t emulate the actions of the Egyptians." - Acharei

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Rabbi Eli SilbersteinMay 9, 2019
A fascinating insight from the rebbe Maharash - Chassidic Thought
A fascinating insight from the rebbe Maharash - Chassidic Thought

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Rabbi Eli SilbersteinMay 9, 2019
Take an illness from a good person and send it to an anti-Semite - Stories
Take an illness from a good person and send it to an anti-Semite - Stories

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Rabbi Eli SilbersteinMay 8, 2019
The famous Yerushalmi and the story of the Rebbe Maharash about the blessings which will come - Chassidic Thought
The famous Yerushalmi and the story of the Rebbe Maharash about the blessings which will come - Chassidic Thought

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Rabbi Eli SilbersteinMay 8, 2019
Abolishing Tisha Be'Av
Abolishing Tisha Be'Av

The Rebbe's insight into the story of Rabbi Yehuda Hanasi's attempt to abolish Tisha B'Av - The Calendar

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HolidaysRabbi Eli SilbersteinMay 8, 2019Tisha Beav
The Rebbe’s insight into the story of attempting to abolish Tisha B’Av
The Rebbe’s insight into the story of attempting to abolish Tisha B’Av

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Rabbi Eli SilbersteinMay 8, 2019Tisha Beav
Was it Moshe's Ark or the Jewish People's? - Ekev
Was it Moshe's Ark or the Jewish People's? - Ekev

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Rabbi Eli SilbersteinMay 8, 2019
Was Moshe's Tefillah answered? The Rebbe says that every Tefillah is answered! - Va'eschanan.
Was Moshe's Tefillah answered? The Rebbe says that every Tefillah is answered! - Va'eschanan.

Was Moshe's Tefillah answered? The Rebbe says that every Tefillah is answered! - Va'eschanan.

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Rabbi Eli SilbersteinMay 7, 2019
What is the meaning of Moshe limited blessing that the Jews will multiply thousand-fold? - Devarim
What is the meaning of Moshe limited blessing that the Jews will multiply thousand-fold? - Devarim

What is the meaning of Moshe limited blessing that the Jews will multiply thousand-fold? - Devarim

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ParshaRabbi Eli SilbersteinMay 7, 2019Devarim
What the Jews saw as a curse, Moshe saw as a blessing: Thought on the Possuk - Devarim.
What the Jews saw as a curse, Moshe saw as a blessing: Thought on the Possuk - Devarim.

What the Jews saw as a curse, Moshe saw as a blessing: Thought on the Possuk - Devarim.

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ParshaRabbi Eli SilbersteinMay 7, 2019Devarim
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