Torah and Stories with Rabbi Liff

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.

Torah and Stories with Rabbi Liff is a religion podcast hosted by Rabbi Yehoshua Liff, with 386 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

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  Erev Rosh Hashana 5787: Simanim Tovim, Hakaras Hatov and the Shofar That Is Tefillah

  Sep 11, 202621 min

  Erev Rosh Hashana 5787, the last shiur of 5786. Rabbi Liff marks his grandfather's yahrzeit, recalls driving Rav Elyashiv to the Kosel for the last Minchah of the year, and the hakaras hatov Rav Elyashiv showed his chazanim and his Rosh Hashana visitors. The simanim, from the Gemara in Horayos to Reb Dovid Fox's kiwi and kohlrabi, point to the real siman: seeing the good in another Yid, and, as the Chazon Ish taught, never throwing away another Yid's kvitel. He closes on a year when the shofar is not blown on the first day (Aruch LaNer, Rav Meir Simcha of Dvinsk) and on Reb Eliyahu Baruch Finkel's vort: the shofar is tefillah, and Hashem is ma'azin to the teruah of a broken heart.

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  Zeidy Yisroel: He Lost Jobs and Kept Shabbos

  Sep 11, 20263 min

  Rabbi Liff marks the yahrzeit of his maternal grandfather, Reb Yisroel ben Reb Kalman (born 1900, Poltava; niftar at almost 97). Lost jobs rather than work on Shabbos, kept chalav Yisroel in the America of those years, learned ten perakim of Kitzur Shulchan Aruch every Shabbos. Closes with the levayah on Erev Rosh Hashana, when the plane landed two hours early on strong winds and there was time for hespedim before running to yeshiva. From the last shiur of 5786, Erev Rosh Hashana 5787.

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  Erev Rosh Hashana 5787: Why Not to Fear a Year Without Shofar on the First Day

  Sep 11, 20262 min

  With Rosh Hashana 5787 on Shabbos, shofar is blown only on day two. The Aruch LaNer says such a year is either very good or the opposite. Rabbi Liff gives two reasons not to fear: betuchim anu — Hashem moves to the Kisei HaRachamim; and Rav Meir Simcha of Dvinsk — our mesiras nefesh in keeping the gezeirah for the sake of Shabbos is itself counted for a good din. From the last shiur of 5786, Erev Rosh Hashana 5787.

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  Parshas Nitzavim-Vayelech: A Tikkun Katan in the Last Week of Elul

  Sep 4, 202627 min

  Rabbi Liff's dvar Torah for the last Shabbos of 5786, with Selichos beginning Motzei Shabbos. He asks who can reach the Rambam's teshuvah sheleimah, and answers with Rabbeinu Yonah as Reb Chatzkel Sarna gave it to the bachur Reb Shlomo Hoffman: the way of teshuvah is to turn towards the road, and the moment of the turn is already the turn — one small tikkun, made completely, in one area. He reads "Atem nitzavim hayom kulchem" three ways: that we still stand in this galus, that atem is the letters of emes, and that no one stands alone. On "Vayelech Moshe" he takes the Rashi that gives no peirush, with Rav Moshe Feinstein in Drash Moshe, and learns from it that Moshe Rabbeinu is still going with us. In the name of Rav Avraham Gurwicz, zt"l, he explains why the luchos stand five beside five rather than ten in a row, and tells of Reb Shmuel Rozovsky taking off his shoes outside a bachur's dorm room rather than be gozel sheinah. Also Reb Chatzkel Abramsky on "gadol hama'aseh yoseir min ha'oseh," and the Vilna Gaon's wife's friend as written into the pinkas of the Chevrah Kadisha of Vilna.

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  Parshas Vayelech: The Rashi That Gives No Peirush

  Sep 4, 20261 min

  A vort from Rabbi Liff's dvar Torah for Parshas Nitzavim-Vayelech, the last Shabbos of 5786. On "Vayelech Moshe" there is a Rashi that writes the words and gives no peirush. Rabbi Liff asks what Rashi is saying by saying nothing, and brings Rav Moshe Feinstein in Drash Moshe. The mahalach: Moshe Rabbeinu is still going with us. This year we stand together — atem nitzavim hayom kulchem — and we go together, with the emes of Moshe Rabbeinu. Full episode: https://player.captivate.fm/episode/67639ac2-2fa1-4f71-96a7-5f85baba0634

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