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Eim Habanim Semeichah Shiur 29 - Prayer is Not Enough

2011-08-03T09:10:00.000+03:00

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Eim Habanim Semeichah Shiur 29 - Prayer is Not Enough
(This shiur studies the classic work of Rav Yissachar Teichtal on the importance of settling the Land of Israel, following the Hebrew text with English translation.)

The shiur shifts gears moving forward, going from an in-depth study of the entire text, to a more broad understanding of Rav Teichtal's ideas. (This way, we'll cover more ground and get the ideas, without reading every single word, which is quite repetitive). Rav Teichtal asks the age-old question: If we've been praying for redemption for so long, why haven't our prayers been answered? If you've been listening for this long, his answer probably won't surprise you.

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Eim Habanim Semeichah Shiur 28 - The Munkatcher's Mistake

2011-07-22T13:57:00.001+03:00

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Eim Habanim Semeichah Shiur 28 - The Munkatcher's Mistake
(This shiur studies the classic work of Rav Yissachar Teichtal on the importance of settling the Land of Israel, following the Hebrew text with English translation.)

Rav Teichtal finds himself in a huge bind. As a devout Munkatcher Chasid, he himself considers every word of his rebbe as holy and binding. But the rebbe was against supporting building the Land of Israel. How does he deal with this difficult cognitive dissonance?

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Eim Habanim Semeichah Shiur 27 - The Benefits of Nationhood

2011-07-22T13:54:00.000+03:00

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Eim Habanim Semeichah Shiur 27 - The Gradual Process of Redemption
(This shiur studies the classic work of Rav Yissachar Teichtal on the importance of settling the Land of Israel, following the Hebrew text with English translation.)

Nu? What's taking so long? A better question is, does the redemption we think that we're experiencing match the redemption that we expected? If not, what did we really expect? And was that a realistic expectation?

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Eim Habanim Semeichah Shiur 26 - The Gradual Process of Redemption

2011-07-05T11:51:00.000+03:00

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Eim Habanim Semeichah Shiur 26 - The Gradual Process of Redemption
(This shiur studies the classic work of Rav Yissachar Teichtal on the importance of settling the Land of Israel, following the Hebrew text with English translation.)

Nu? What's taking so long? A better question is, does the redemption we think that we're experiencing match the redemption that we expected? If not, what did we really expect? And was that a realistic expectation?

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Eim Habanim Semeichah Shiur 25 - Us Undeserving Jews

2011-07-05T11:48:00.000+03:00

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Eim Habanim Semeichah Shiur 25 - Us Undeserving Jews
(This shiur studies the classic work of Rav Yissachar Teichtal on the importance of settling the Land of Israel, following the Hebrew text with English translation.)

If the Holocaust is supposed to herald the time of the Moshiach, how come he hasn't come yet? What's taking so long? According to Rav Teichtal, it's not Hashem. It's us.

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Eim Habanim Semeichah Shiur 24 - Those American Jews

2011-07-05T11:28:00.000+03:00

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Eim Habanim Semeichah Shiur 24 - Those American Jews
(This shiur studies the classic work of Rav Yissachar Teichtal on the importance of settling the Land of Israel, following the Hebrew text with English translation.)

In the concluding section of chapter 1, Rav Teichtal addresses the Jews of the United States, and answers how they too suffered during the Holocaust.

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Eim Habanim Semeichah Shiur 23 - The Pull or the Push?

2011-06-14T19:21:00.000+03:00

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Eim Habanim Semeichah Shiur 23 - The Pull or the Push?
(This shiur studies the classic work of Rav Yissachar Teichtal on the importance of settling the Land of Israel, following the Hebrew text with English translation.)

In one of my favorite sections in the book, Rav Teichtal uses a gemara in Baba Kama about kinyan meshichah as an allegory for the way Jews move to the Land of Israel. Will we feel heed the call, or run away from the staff of affliction?

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Eim Habanim Semeichah Shiur 22 - First Settle the Land, and then Moshiach will Come

2011-06-03T15:48:00.001+03:00

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Eim Habanim Semeichah Shiur 22 - First Settle the Land, and then Moshiach will Come
(This shiur studies the classic work of Rav Yissachar Teichtal on the importance of settling the Land of Israel, following the Hebrew text with English translation.)

Rav Teichtal reinforces the notion that only after we settle the Land will Moshiach be able to come, as we can only truly repent if we feel the presence of God. And we can only truly feel God's presence in His holy Land.

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Eim Habanim Semeichah Shiur 21: The Sequence of Moshiach

2011-05-26T22:08:00.000+03:00

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Eim Habanim Semeichah Shiur 21: The Sequence of Moshiach
(This shiur studies the classic work of Rav Yissachar Teichtal on the importance of settling the Land of Israel, following the Hebrew text with English translation.)

Truthfully, we don't really give much thought to the process of Moshiach. When it happens, it'll happen. But if we asked ourselves what we really think will happen, most people would say that it will be a miraculous, instantaneuos process. We'll hear that Shofar blow, and whooosh! - we're in the Holy Land. And we'd be wrong. Rav Teichtal analyzes the steps of redemption and in the process, upends our understanding of what will really happen at the end of days.

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Eim Habanim Semeichah Shiur 20: Loving All Jews

2011-05-18T13:54:00.000+03:00

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Eim Habanim Semeichah Shiur 20: Loving All Jews
(This shiur studies the classic work of Rav Yissachar Teichtal on the importance of settling the Land of Israel, following the Hebrew text with English translation.)

We conclude the section about relating to non-Jews by reading an overwhelming number of sources that encourage us to stop fighting with each other, stop denigrating Jews who don't follow the mitzvot, and focus more on creating bonds of love between Jews.

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Eim Habanim Semeichah Shiur 19: The Righteous and the Wicked

2011-05-05T10:16:00.000+03:00

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Eim Habanim Semeichah Shiur 19: The Righteous and the Wicked
(This shiur studies the classic work of Rav Yissachar Teichtal on the importance of settling the Land of Israel, following the Hebrew text with English translation.)

We take it as a given that the average secular Jew (Chiloni in Israel), has the status of a tinok she'nishbah - and doesn't bear spiritual responsibility for his or her religious indifference. Is that really true? We begin the shiur by analyzing two very different texts from Rambam, and then turn to Rav Teichtal's answer to this critical question.

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Eim Habanim Semeichah Shiur 18: Banging on the Door

2011-04-12T21:46:00.000+03:00

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Eim Habanim Semeichah Shiur 18: Banging on the Door
(This shiur studies the classic work of Rav Yissachar Teichtal on the importance of settling the Land of Israel, following the Hebrew text with English translation.)

The image of Kol Dodi Dofek employed by the Rav conjures up a picture of gentle knocking on the door; the gentleman softly trying to awake his beloved from her sleep. Rav Teichtal sees the image in a far more jarring manner, reflecting his view that Jewish suffering is always intended to return us to our roots.

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Eim Habanim Semeichah Shiur 17: Suffering for Eretz Yisrael

2011-04-05T19:58:00.000+03:00

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Eim Habanim Semeichah Shiur 17 - Suffering for Eretz Yisrael
(This shiur studies the classic work of Rav Yissachar Teichtal on the importance of settling the Land of Israel, following the Hebrew text with English translation.)

Continuing to analyze the question of why the Jewish people suffer in exile, Rav Teichtal turns to the question of the suffering of the Jews at the hands of the Nazis. Rather unsurprisingly, it has something to do with the Land of Israel. 23.0 MB (24,164,634 bytes)

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Eim Habanim Semeichah Shiur 16: He'll Be Riding a White Donkey When He Comes

2011-03-30T14:34:00.000+02:00

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Eim Habanim Semeichah Shiur 16 - He'll Be Riding a White Donkey When He Comes
(This shiur studies the classic work of Rav Yissachar Teichtal on the importance of settling the Land of Israel, following the Hebrew text with English translation.)

We all know the Midrash that Moshiach will be riding a white donkey when he arrives. But have we ever stopped to wonder: Is that a good thing? Rav Teichtal certainly does. The shiur took place the day after the tragic death of a young father in Yad Binyamin, and we were all reeling from the loss, which was the appropriate context for Rav Teichtal's first analysis of Jewish suffering.

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Eim Habanim Semeichah Shiur 15 - Not by Nationalism Alone

2011-03-16T12:23:00.003+02:00

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Eim Habanim Semeichah Shiur 15 - Not by Nationalism Alone
(This shiur studies the classic work of Rav Yissachar Teichtal on the importance of settling the Land of Israel, following the Hebrew text with English translation.)

After lauding the achievements of the secular settlers, Rav Teichtal does a "180" and explains that despite their good intentions, with Torah values all their efforts would be for naught. I'm really sorry, because I began the shiur with a dvar Torah on the parshah, but I simply forgot to hit record. To hear the dvar Torah, you can listen to the beginning of this week's parshah shiur.

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Eim Habanim Semeichah Shiur 14 - The Amazing Sinners

2011-03-07T11:39:00.002+02:00

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Eim Habanim Semeichah Shiur 14 - The Amazing Sinners
(This shiur studies the classic work of Rav Yissachar Teichtal on the importance of settling the Land of Israel, following the Hebrew text with English translation.)

Most of Eastern European Orthodoxy had nothing good to say about the secular Zionists who were then building the Land of Israel. What about Rav Teichtal? What he says might surprise you.

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Eim Habanim Semeichah Shiur 13: How Did We Inherit the Land of Israel? Part 3

2011-03-01T15:22:00.004+02:00

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Eim Habanim Semeichah Shiur 13: How Did We Inherit the Land of Israel? Part 3
(This shiur studies the classic work of Rav Yissachar Teichtal on the importance of settling the Land of Israel, following the Hebrew text with English translation.)

Rav Teichtal concludes his explanation of why the Torah refers to the Land of Israel specifically as an inheritance, and connects this idea to the notion of the Torah being an inheritance as well. If we keep the Torah, we keep the Land, and if not, well, you get the idea. Somehow this also led to a discussion of the End of Days, and whether we really yearn for miraculous messianic times.

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Eim Habanim Semeichah Shiur 12: How Did We Inherit the Land of Israel? Part 2

2011-02-18T11:37:00.003+02:00

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Eim Habanim Semeichah Shiur 12: How Did We Inherit the Land of Israel? Part 2
(This shiur studies the classic work of Rav Yissachar Teichtal on the importance of settling the Land of Israel, following the Hebrew text with English translation.)

Continuing the theme of the inheritance of the Land, Rav Teichtal explains that our inheritance is contingent upon our willingness to act like children (and keep the Torah) and that our strength emanates from our dedication to the Torah

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Eim Habanim Semeichah Shiur 11: How Did We Inherit the Land of Israel? Part 1

2011-02-11T12:58:00.000+02:00

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Eim Habanim Semeichah Shiur 11: How Did We Inherit the Land of Israel? Part 1
(This shiur studies the classic work of Rav Yissachar Teichtal on the importance of settling the Land of Israel, following the Hebrew text with English translation.)

After describing how the Torah is an "inheritance", Rav Tiechtal now turns to explaining why the Torah is also a "morashah", and the implications of that fact.

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Eim Habanim Semeichah Shiur 10 - The Truth of the Torah Part 2; The Gift of Faith

2011-02-04T09:38:00.001+02:00

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Eim Habanim Semeichah Shiur 10 - The Truth of the Torah Part 2; The Gift of Faith
(This shiur studies the classic work of Rav Yissachar Teichtal on the importance of settling the Land of Israel, following the Hebrew text with English translation.)

Rav Teichtal explains why God gave us the Torah as an inheritance, and the dangers of thinking that we can acquire the Torah on our own.

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Eim Habanim Semeichah Shiur 9 - The Truth of the Torah Part 1

2011-01-26T20:14:00.001+02:00

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Eim Habanim Semeichah Shiur 9 - The Truth of the Torah Part 1
(This shiur studies the classic work of Rav Yissachar Teichtal on the importance of settling the Land of Israel, following the Hebrew text with English translation.)

Rav Teichtal introduces the notion that the Torah is a "morashah" - an inheritance. In order to do so, he introduces the words of Rambam in the famous "Iggeret Teiman" (Letter to Yemen) in which Rambam encourages the people of Yemen to resist persecution, and begins by describing the truth of Revelation at Har Sinai. We begin with antisemitism, and work our way towards proof in God, and the fundamental foundations of Jewish faith.

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Eim Habanim Semeichah Shiur 8 - The Story of the Name

2011-01-20T10:59:00.001+02:00

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Eim Habanim Semeichah Shiur 8 - The Story of the Name
(This shiur studies the classic work of Rav Yissachar Teichtal on the importance of settling the Land of Israel, following the Hebrew text with English translation.)

Rav Teichtal concludes his second introduction by sharing a powerful and moving story explaining why he named the book Eim Habanim Semeichah.

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Eim Habanim Semeichah Shiur 7 - Staying in Galut

2011-01-13T14:39:00.000+02:00

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Eim Habanim Semeichah Shiur 7 - Staying in Galut
(This shiur studies the classic work of Rav Yissachar Teichtal on the importance of settling the Land of Israel, following the Hebrew text with English translation.)

The straight talk continues as Rav Teichtal tackles the question of why Jews throughout history have refused to take the opportunity to settle the Land of Israel.

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Eim Habanim Semeichah Shiur 6 - The Failure of Leadership

2011-01-05T12:38:00.002+02:00

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Eim Habanim Semeichah Shiur 6 - The Failure of Leadership
(This shiur studies the classic work of Rav Yissachar Teichtal on the importance of settling the Land of Israel, following the Hebrew text with English translation.)

After outlining the need to settle the Land of Israel, Rav Teichtal turns to the obvious question: if Israel is so central to Jewish life, practice and thinking, how could so many Jewish leaders have been so strongly against it? Suffice it to say that Rav Teichtal doesn't mince words.

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Eim Habanim Semeichah Shiur 5 - Rav Teichtal's New World (to come) Order

2010-12-29T10:56:00.001+02:00

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Eim Habanim Semeichah Shiur 5 - Rav Teichtal's New World (to come) Order
(This shiur studies the classic work of Rav Yissachar Teichtal on the importance of settling the Land of Israel, following the Hebrew text with English translation.)

All our lives, we've been waiting for Moshiach. Waiting seems to be part of our religious and national persona. Yet, it's so impassive. If we're waiting, then there's really nothing that we can do. Rav Teichtal is clearly tired of waiting. In explaining the importance of building the Land of Israel, he subtly but fundamentally shifts the way we view the messianic process. From Dr. Seuss to Rambam to EHS, we examine Rav Teichtal's New World (to come) order.

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