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Shemot

1. The Ramban's Introduction To Shemot: Shades of Redemption

​2. The Slippery Slope into Slavery

​3. "And God Sought to Kill Him" - Moses in Danger

 

​Vaeyra

1. The Ten Plagues. A Lesson In Faith

2. PODCAST - Two Strategies in Redemption - Contrasting Shemot and Vaeyra

3. PODCAST - "Uncircumcised Lips" - Speech and Redemption

 

Bo

1. Hachodesh Hazeh Lachem – New Moons And The Renewal Of The Soul

​2. The Blood On The Doorposts

​3. When Text contradicts Tradition – Torah Shebichtav vs. Torah Sheb'al Peh

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​Bo/Beshalach

The Dubious Effect Of Miracles

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Beshalach

1. Fire and Cloud

​2. Shirat Hayam– Structure and Message

​3. Three Stages to Sinai

4. Slave Mentality

 

Yitro

1. Yitro's Visit – Chronology and its Meaning

​2. The Ten Commandments – Structure and Significance

​3. Three Closing Commandments – a Different Sacrificial Code?

 

Mishpatim

1. Is Slavery Ethical?

2. Elokim or Elohim? - The Human Judge and God.

 

Teruma

1. The Ordering of Parashat Teruma - the Mishkan Construction

​2. The Ark and the Altar: Man in Search of God, or God in Search of Man?

​3. Mishkan and Ohel - The Hidden Mishkan

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Tetzave

1. The Priest's Clothes

2. "Tamid" - Continual Relationship

 

Ki Tissa

1. The Half Shekel Donation

​2. Moses' Prayer – "Lama Yomru HaGoyim": Should Jews care what the World Thinks?

​3. The Face of Moses – a Biography of Moshe Rabbeinu

4. PODCAST The Golden Calf. Two Approaches (link)

5. PODCAST Who earned forgiveness for the Golden Calf? - Moses or Israel? Rashi vs. Ramban

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Vayakhel- Pikudei  

1. Shabbat and Mishkan – What is the Connection?

​2. Vanity Mirrors

3. Three accounts of the Mishkan's Dedication

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