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This Week’s Torah Portion Is Tetzaveh (Exodus 27:20-30:10)
Watch the complete video. I discuss the weekly Torah portion with Rabbi Rabbs every Monday at 7pm PST on my live cam and YouTube. This week’s Torah portion is Parashat Tetzaveh (Exodus 27:20-30:10). * Do you find some Torah portions … Continue reading
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This Week’s Torah Portion
I discuss the parsha with Rabbi Rabbs Monday at 7pm PST on my live cam. Watch the whole show via Youtube. Please remember to bathe, to put on clean clothes, and to abstain from marital relations for at least 48 … Continue reading
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This Week’s Torah Portion – Vayishlach
This week’s Torah portion is Vayishlach (Genesis 32:4-36:43). I discuss it with Rabbi Rabbs. Complete video. * Artscroll (AS): Jacob did not rely on his own righteousness, but strove to ensure his safety through practical measures. * Doing the right … Continue reading
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Suicidal Gay Teens
Joey Kurtzman and I talk on my live cam to the thousands of suicidal gay teens who tune in to my Torah Talks each week to find out if life is worth living. When he was just a little tyke … Continue reading
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I Want To Study Torah With Hot Chicks
On Torah Talk, we answer the goy Casey’s ten questions about God, we get a review of my memoir “XXX-Communicated: A Rebel Without A Shul” from the holy Rabbi Rabbs and we discuss this week’s Torah portion. I do a … Continue reading
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God Hates Sodomy
This week’s Torah portion is Haazinu (the end of Deuteronomy). On Torah Talk, Rabbi Rabbs discusses Rosh Hashanah, the parsha, and the Ten Commandments of Luke Ford: * You shall laugh at Christianity, and compare believing in Jesus to believing … Continue reading
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Torah Talk With Rabbi Rabbs
This week we have two Torah portions — Nitzavim (Deuteronomy 29:9–30:20) and Vayelech (Deuteronomy 31:1–30). Rabbi Rabbs goes off on the Ten Commandments of Chabad Jews (I love Chabad and Aish HaTorah, but I enjoy hearing Rabbs’ rant): * You … Continue reading
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Three Nuns and a Donkey
In a 1997 lecture on Exodus 22: 18-24, Dennis Prager said: “The pursuit of pleasure for its own sake, unless it has parameters and is deep, it doesn’t give the same thrill as the last time. The first time you … Continue reading
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Torah Talk Returns
Rabbs and I want to do a Rosh Hashanah fashions show in the next week or two on Torah Talk and we need prospective models to show off the latest in frum fashions. I will need to meet privately before … Continue reading
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Eat, Pray, Love With Monica: One Woman’s Search for Everything Across The Hovel
This week’s Torah portion is Shoftim. Eat, Pray, Love With Monica is a 2010 Torah Talk by American author Monica. The memoir chronicles the author’s trip around the hovel after her divorce, and what she discovered during her travels. At … Continue reading
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