Introduction to the new Talmud B’Iyun series of shiurim on Maseches (Tractate) Avodah Zarah, The Prohibition of Ordinary Wine, given over yesterday by HaRav Yitzchak Goldstein, Shlit”a, Rosh Yeshiva of Diaspora Yeshiva Toras Yisrael and Chief Rabbi of Mount Zion, Jerusalem.
Mussar Shmooze on Parashas Korach 5784, given over yesterday by HaRav Yitzchak Goldstein, Shlit”a, Rosh Yeshiva of Diaspora Yeshiva Toras Yisrael and Chief Rabbi of Mount Zion, Jerusalem.
B”H, a beautiful Siyum on Maseches Gittin yesterday at Diaspora Yeshiva Toras Yisrael on Mount Zion, Jerusalem. Come learn Torah!
Part 2 continues from Part 1 of the documentary chronicling the intensive construction and renovations that have taken place on Mount Zion, Jerusalem over the past nineteen or so years, in order to restore Mount Zion to its ancient glory and to inspire…
The Rosh Yeshiva discusses a verifiable promise of HaShem in Parashas Bechukosai, rare in the Torah and not found in any other religion.
The Zohar says, ‘Who is a Tzadik Yesod Olam?’ Who is a righteous man who is a foundation of the world, upon whom the whole world stands?
The baalei mussar ask: what is the big deal about saying naaseh venishma? At Sinai, they were about to receive the Torah. What would have been wrong with declaring that they were ready to hear and learn all of the mitzvos of the Torah, and once they knew them, they would do them right away? What would have been wrong with declaring: nishma venaaseh?
It is my prayer that these gems go out from our beis hamidrash to the Torah world at large, and that Klal Yisrael reaps the benefits my students have gained from these works.
Rabbi Dovid Sackton, RAM of Diaspora Yeshiva and translator of Ramchal’s Derech HaKodesh (Way of Torah), introduces Ramchal’s method.
