Online Torah Classes with Rabbi Mendy Goldberg

Torah Classes on a variety of subjects, including the weekly Torah portion, meditation, the afterlife, and contemporary Jewish ideas. These classes will give you the tools to have a more meaningful and spiritual whole life. These are live recordings of classes given at Lubavitch of the East End. For more information visit www.Jewishli.com or info@Jewishli.com

Online Torah Classes with Rabbi Mendy Goldberg is a education podcast hosted by Rabbi Mendy Goldberg, with 317 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80.

Rabbi Mendy Goldberg hosts Online Torah Classes with Rabbi Mendy Goldberg, a education show with 317 episodes published.

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  Episode #7

  The Silent Shofar

  Sep 7, 20261 hourS5

  ROSH HASHANA The Silent Shofar Is it a good sign that Rosh Hashanah falls on Shabbos? This year and next (5787-5788) bring a once-in-fifty-year occurrence: two consecutive Rosh Hashanahs both falling on Shabbos. Historically, both the worst national tragedies (the destruction of both Batei Mikdash) and the greatest triumphs (forgiveness for the Golden Calf, the building of the Mishkan, entry into Eretz Yisrael) took place in years when Rosh Hashanah fell on Shabbos. The omen cuts both ways, so the question becomes: what actually determines which direction it goes? The Sages suspended the blowing of the shofar whenever Rosh Hashanah falls on Shabbos, out of concern that someone might carry the shofar to an expert to learn from him, violating the Shabbos prohibition against carrying in a public domain. How can the sages suspend a biblically given commandment?

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  Episode #6

  The Half Hour Challenge

  Aug 31, 202653 minS5

  NITZAVIM _ VAYEILECH The Half Hour Challenge We must climb another rung in spiritual work by absorbing a revolutionary idea from the "Alter Rebbe" (the first Chabad rebbe) about how to relate to the evil inclination (yetzer hara). Quoting King Solomon, The evil inclination as an "old and foolish king", experienced, confident, and able to stir up overwhelming emotions. But ultimately it's "foolish": it preaches nonsense and pointless "solutions" leading nowhere good. As long as we treat it as a legitimate opponent, we'll collapse before its emotional force, since positive intentions alone can't match its intensity. Only by stripping away its disguise, exposing the underlying panic, like an unthinking bully causing a reckless accident , can we shift from fear to compassion, which causes it to collapse. A practical exercise: the "Half-Hour Challenge." When the urge demands instant reaction, deliberately delay response for thirty minutes. In that pause, the emotional "short circuit" fades, reason returns, and the urge is revealed as irrational and unworthy of fear, better met with pity than dread.

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  Episode #6

  Are They Really Curses?

  Aug 24, 202657 minS5

  TAVO Are They Really Curses? It's hard to believe that the one who loved Israel most parted from them with curses double those God gave. Moses stood at his life's end, knowing this was his last chance to speak. A parent saying final goodbyes doesn't soften hard truths, he says everything, in full detail, to arm his children with every tool possible. This multiplication of warnings is love's price when time runs out. Earlier, Moshe pleads with to save Israel physically; now, unable to save them with his body, he saves them with words. Crucially, both rebukes are immediately followed by unbreakable promises of restoration, the rebuke never stands alone. Read this way, it isn't a stern face opposing a loving one; it's the same love, refusing to look away even from painful truths.

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  Episode #5

  Beyond The Conflict

  Aug 17, 202654 minS5

  KI TEITZEI Beyond the Conflict Don't fight the yetzer hara (evil inclination) head-on, it's exhausting. Instead, rise above it by setting fixed times for Torah study for its own sake. The pleasure of Torah naturally eclipses cheap desires, so the battle never even starts. This is the answer to why the fight against the yetzer hara is hinted at through an optional war, because once you transcend the battlefield, the fight becomes unnecessary, "optional" rather than mandatory.

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  Episode #5

  Judge Thyself

  Aug 10, 20261 hourS5

  SHOFTIM Judge Thyself Parshas Shoftim coincides with the beginning of the month of Elul and opens with the command to appoint judges and officers "in all your gates" and the emphasis on the singular (lecha) points inward: the real courtroom is a person's own mind, and the real gates are sight, hearing, smell, and speech, the points where the outside world first makes contact with the self. Another lesson that is gleaned from this mitzvah is as a call to judge oneself before judging others, since most conflict comes from holding one standard for our own behavior and a stricter one for everyone else's. The central idea, though, is that self-control works best as prevention rather than as a fight fought after the fact: once a trigger has already reached awareness and stirred up desire, willpower rarely wins, so the wiser move is to keep the trigger from entering in the first place, whether that means what a person looks at, listens to, or even allows himself to dwell on in thought.

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