I've mentioned R' David Fohrman's lectures before in connection with Tisha B'Av here. Now I'd like to tell you about his intriguing parsha animated videos and his website.
I first saw his parsha videos on Aish here. I had watched many of them last year but occasionally ran into difficulties if the video, rather than being shown on Aish, was shown on his website https://www.alephbeta.org/. On the website, you can only watch for a limited amount of time per month unless you subscribe.
So before Pesach this year, I subscribed and I've been keeping up with the parsha, whatever I missed from last year, and this year's, as well as holiday videos. I paid $9 a month, a total of $90 and got a year's subscription.
R' Fohrman looks for patterns in the Torah, parallels, and comes up with interesting theories based on a close reading of the text. This is presented in cute, animation form. I like the way he also shows the pesuskim that he is talking about so you can see the words in the text. Give the free ones a try and see for yourself.
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Jul 12, 2015
Aug 16, 2014
Lecture Roundup
Since, as of this writing, we still don't have the third Beis Ha'Mikdash, it's still timely to post a summary of some of the points various lecturers made recently about sinas chinam and unity.
R' Akiva Rutenberg - He said sinas chinam is apathy; I don't think so.
R' David Fohrman did an excellent 5 part video presentation here in which he maintains, based on the Kamtza-Bar Kamtza story, that sinas chinam is disproportionate anger. Not convinced that's what sinas chinam is.
R' Benzion Klatzko - He spoke bluntly about our lack of unity. Unlike many other speakers who extolled the unity of the Jewish people over the past two months, he says he doesn't see that the Sefardic-Ashkenazic, religious-secular, Chassidic-non-Chassidic divide has been bridged. He highlighted and praised the dozens of chesed organizations that we have but said he didn't see unity at the Siyum Ha'Shas, i.e. he did not see it bringing together all kinds of Jews.
I agree with him. So much chesed is done and it crosses lines, i.e. we don't only do chesed for our "own kind," but there still is very much that feeling of "us" and them." Who is us? Whatever group you affiliate with. And who is them? The other people out there. I wrote about it here
to be continued
R' Akiva Rutenberg - He said sinas chinam is apathy; I don't think so.
R' David Fohrman did an excellent 5 part video presentation here in which he maintains, based on the Kamtza-Bar Kamtza story, that sinas chinam is disproportionate anger. Not convinced that's what sinas chinam is.
R' Benzion Klatzko - He spoke bluntly about our lack of unity. Unlike many other speakers who extolled the unity of the Jewish people over the past two months, he says he doesn't see that the Sefardic-Ashkenazic, religious-secular, Chassidic-non-Chassidic divide has been bridged. He highlighted and praised the dozens of chesed organizations that we have but said he didn't see unity at the Siyum Ha'Shas, i.e. he did not see it bringing together all kinds of Jews.
I agree with him. So much chesed is done and it crosses lines, i.e. we don't only do chesed for our "own kind," but there still is very much that feeling of "us" and them." Who is us? Whatever group you affiliate with. And who is them? The other people out there. I wrote about it here
to be continued
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