TALKS & LECTURES
A range of talks and lectures on subjects like education, marriage, prayer, meditation, modernity; as well as insights into some of the luminaries of Jewish history like the Rambam.
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Torah Way - Bar Mitzvah Before Pesach Sheni
What happens when a boy is Bar Mitzva between Pesach and Pesach Sheni, as regards bringing a make-up Pesach offering in the Temple? This question has intrigued scholars over the generations.
03 May 2020
Torah Way - I Come Into My Garden
Presenting a discourse taught by the Lubavitcher Rebbe on Yud Shevat, 1980. Today in 2020 we celebrate 70 years since the Rebbe became leader in 1950.
09 February 2020
Torah Way - Sedra Veyetze
Sedra Vayetze - a discussion of Kavanah in Prayer
01 December 2019
Searching for the Melody
An account of a talk given by R. Yoel Kahn at the Shluchim Conference in NY, November 1980
Torah Way - The Concept of Teshuvah
Shortly before Yom Kippur, exploring the concept of Teshuvah from a discourse by the Lubavitcher Rebbe, a page of Hayom Yom, a chapter of Tanya, and Talmud Tractate Yoma
06 October 2019
Achos Hatemimim 5779
In 1938 Rabbi Joseph Isaac Schneersohn established groups for girls studying Chassidic teachings. One group was in Riga and another in Brooklyn. This was a new departure leading to the future.
Torah Way - Sedra Bechukotai
The Sedra speaks of the terrible curses of suffering and exile. But when Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liadi chanted this Sedra in the Synagogue, his young son did not hear any curses. Why not? Can suffering be seen on a higher level?
26 May 2019
Torah Way - The Divine Name
Sedra Vaera presents the idea of the importance of the Tetragrammaton, the ineffable Divine Name. This is reflected in the thought of the Rambam and R' Shneur Zalman of Liadi whose yartzeits fall on 20 and 24 Tevet respectively.
30 December 2018 - 22 Tevet
Torah Way - Bereishit, Noach - Evolution, Science & Torah
The account of Creation in the Torah raises the question of the theory of evolution. What is the Jewish attitude to this? We discuss a letter about evolution by the Lubavitcher Rebbe. This leads to a discussion of the relationship between science and Torah in general, based on a fascinating comment by the Zohar on a verse in Sedra Noach.
07 Oct 2018
Torah Way - Temple Laws
Discussion of the Temple in Maimonides Laws of the Temple ch.1, and in Chassidic Teachings (Bati LeGani chs.1-2).
08 July 2018
Torah Way - Sedra Toledot
Explaining the struggle between Jacob and Esau in terms of the struggle between the Divine Soul and the Animal Soul within the individual, based on Tanya ch.9
12 November 2017
18 Elul - Birthday of Two Great Lumiaries ~ Torah Way
18 Elul is the birthday of the Baal Shem Tov (1698) and Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liadi (1745). This talk discusses their teachings.
03 September 2017
Chassidism and Modernity - Is Chassidism Relevant to the Modern World?
At Kinloss Finchley Synagogue with Rabbi Jeremy Lawrence
26 June 2017
Torah Way - Sedra Chukat and the Yahrzeit of the Lubavitcher Rebbe
The Yahrzeit of the Rebbe, 3 Tammuz, falls on 27 June 2017. This talk discusses the Rebbe's final teaching in relation to Sedra Chukat.
Contemplative Prayer Part 3
3rd and final talk on contemplative Prayer at Beit Shvidler School