Tuesday, December 8, 2020

FW: Are you ready for Chanuka?





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From: YUTorah <office@yutorah.org>
Date: 12/8/20 11:03 AM (GMT-06:00)
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Subject: Are you ready for Chanuka?

Shiurim and resources

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Center for the Jewish Future

December 8-14 • Kislev 22-28

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by Dr. Alexander & Meryl Weingarten and Family to mark the 10th yahrtzeit of Dr. Alvin M Lashinsky, Avraham Moshe ben Meir HaKohen

New This Week

Rabbi Chaim Eisenstein

Chanukah - The Miracle of Desire

The whole story of Chanuka wouldn't have happened without the searching for the oil, and that should teach us about how we should approach our personal avodas Hashem.

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Rabbi Eliakim Koenigsberg

Lighting Neiros Chanuka in a Beis Haknesses: Its Source and Halachic Parameters

What is the source of this ancient custom?

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Rabbi Sariel Malitzky

Donut Eating and Dreidel Playing: Why We Do What We Do
The whole nature of Chanuka is about small things that don't change the character of the rest of the day, and the emphasis is on customs that aren't even in the Shulchan Aruch.

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Rabbi Mordechai Torczyner

Maoz Tzur: More than Rock of Ages

The role of our songs on Chanukah, helping us process the miracle - and three ways Maoz Tzur enables us to do that.

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Rabbi Moshe Tzvi Weinberg

Chanuka: A Fight Worth Fighting

Insights from Rav Shalom Schwadron on Al Hanissim. Why do we thank Hashem for the wars we fought? Why is it so miraculous that the pure defeated the impure? Why is there no requirement of seudah on Chanuka?

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Rabbi Netanel Wiederblank

How to Determine the Appropriate Amount of Hishtadlus

How do we balance our bitachon that Hashem will take care of us with our responsibility to run our lives? Is there a point that becomes too much hishtadlus?

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The Light of Chanuka and Torah

There's no better way to prepare for the holiday of Torah Sheb'al peh than with a deep understanding of the laws, history, customs and lessons of Chanuka.

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The Benjamin and Rose Berger Chanuka To-Go 5781

Download the latest edition of the To-Go series, with articles on Chanuka, Shalom Bayit and a special tribute to Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks zt"l.

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The Meaning of the Dreidel

What's the significance of playing dreidel on Chanuka? Is there a problem with paying for money?

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Kollel & Midreshet Yom Rishon @YUTORAH

Recordings from the program on Sunday, December 6

The Abraham Arbesfeld Kollel Yom Rishon for Men and Millie Arbesfeld Midreshet Yom Rishon for Women are programs of Yeshiva University's Center for the Jewish Future.

Daf Yomi @YUTORAH

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