Parsha with Rabbi David Bibi
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- THE INSIDE MAN AND THE OUTSIDE MAN — When Esav Wouldn’t Do His Job Parashat Toldot · 13 min · Season 6Breakfast and a ClassWe also explore how Yitzchak, the embodiment of , may have been reaching toward , while Rivka, whose life exemplified kindness, was forced to exercise…
- THE EIGHTH BLESSING — THE BLESSING YAAKOV HAD TO FIGHT FOR · 55 min · Season 6When Esav discovered that Yaakov had received his father's blessing, he cried out in anguish, 'Have you only one blessing, my father?' But was Yitzhak really limited to a single…
- KISLEV: LEARNING TO SEE THE LIGHT BEFORE IT APPEARS · 14 min · Season 6We also share a beautiful teaching passed down from Rabbi Winston about the , the primordial light of Creation, and its remarkable connection to the numbers 25 and 36, the hidden…
- The Yaakov Hidden Beneath Eisav’s Clothes Never Give Up on a Jewish Soul · 20 min · Season 6Never Give Up on a Jewish Soul — Parashat Toldot Breakfast and a ClassWhen we disagree with another Jew, do we see someone who has lost his way, or someone who is lost to us? On…
- THE KINDNESS NOBODY ASKED FOR Parashat Chayei Sarah — The Extraordinary Power of a Giving Heart · 15 min · Season 6This past Friday night, we shared a class on one of the most beautiful lessons in Parashat Chayei Sarah: the extraordinary power of kindness that comes without being asked. The…
- ELIEZER — FROM CURSED TO BLESSED · 20 min · Season 6In our Friday morning , we explore the remarkable teachings of Rashi, the Midrash, the Sefat Emet, and the Zohar to uncover the hidden meaning of Eliezer’s journey. We discover…
- SOULMATES: MADE IN HEAVEN, BUILT ON EARTH - Chaye Sara - The Mystery of Yitzḥak and Rivkah, the Reunion of Souls, and the Spiritual Purpose of Marriage · 58 min · Season 6SOULMATES: MADE IN HEAVEN, BUILT ON EARTH The Mystery of Yitzḥak and Rivkah, the Reunion of Souls, and the Spiritual Purpose of Marriage Who chose your husband? Was it you…
- AND YOU THOUGHT YOU HAD A BAD DAY? Avraham’s Final Test — When Life Gives Us Every Excuse to Lose Our Patience · 19 min · Season 6Breakfast & a ClassThis class became deeply personal when I shared an experience from just last week—a day when, after teaching Torah, attending meetings, receiving difficult…
- WHERE WAS ISAAC AT SARAH’S FUNERAL? The Akeydah: A Different Perspective · 1 h 2 min · Season 6WHERE WAS ISAAC AT SARAH’S FUNERAL? The Akeydah: A Different Perspective Parashat Chayei Sarah | By Popular Request Some classes stay with us long after they are given. This is…
- THE SATAN BEHIND US - When the Greatest Test Comes After the Mitzvah- Chayei Sarah · 18 min · Season 6When the Greatest Test Comes After the Mitzvah — Parashat Chayei Sarah Netivot Shalom“Vehaser Satan milefanenu ume’aharenu” In this Sunday’s , we discover that the greatest…
- THE THREE LAUGHS OF VAYERA: When Laughter Becomes a Mitzvah—and When It Becomes a Sin · 15 min · Season 6What can a simple laugh reveal about a person’s faith, character, and relationship with HaShem? In Parashat Vayera, the Torah uses the same three Hebrew letters—צ־ח־ק, the root…
- ANGELS AMONG US — Can Angels Make Mistakes? And Who Were the Mysterious Nephilim? Vayera · 24 min · Season 6We speak about angels every day. We welcome them into our homes on Friday night, mention them in our prayers, and encounter them throughout the Torah. But what exactly is an…
- Allah Ma’ak -THE BLESSING YOU ALMOST MISSED - Vayera · 27 min · Season 6ALLAH MA’AK — THE BLESSING YOU ALMOST MISSED Wednesday Morning’s Breakfast & a Class | 26 Minutes From this insight, we explore the incredible power of —the blessing of an…
- THE SALT OF SEDOM — Why We Wash Our Hands After Eating and What It Teaches Us About the Human Soul · 47 min · Season 6Mayim AḥaronimSod HaParashaAs part of our ongoing series “Simplifying the Sod,” Join us for this thought-provoking exploration of Torah’s hidden wisdom—and discover why you may…
- THE SOULS THAT REFUSED TO DIE Four Generations, One Redemption, and Avraham’s Prayer for David HaMelekh · 19 min · Season 6Shvilei PinchasIn this fascinating Sunday morning , we journey through four generations—Dor Enosh, the generation of the Flood, the Tower of Babel, and Sedom—whose souls…
- THE EIGHTH DAY — WHY AVRAHAM WAITED 99 YEARS · 23 min · Season 6But the most intriguing question may be why Avraham waited at all. The Gemara teaches that Avraham observed the entire Torah centuries before it was given at Sinai. If so, why…
- RACHEL IMEINU — THE MOTHER WHO WOULD NOT LET US FALL · 16 min · Season 6What does it truly mean to be a mother? And what can Rachel Imeinu teach us about compassion, sacrifice, and the extraordinary power of a single act of kindness? In Thursday…
- WHEN DUST BECOMES GOLD The Extraordinary Power of Ein Od Milvado Lech Lecha · 18 min · Season 6Gam zu letovahVe’anokhi afar va’eferFrom Avraham’s miraculous victory over powerful armies to Rabbi Ḥanina’s fearless encounter with a sorceress, and the remarkable faith of the…
- Avraham: The Man Who Stepped Beyond the Stars - Lech Lecha · 53 min · Season 6What if someone could tell you your future—would knowing it help you live better today? A surprising encounter at a Laniado Hospital dinner, a family story from India in 1948…
- IT’S NOT EASY NOT KNOWING WHERE YOU’RE GOING! - LECH LECHA · 21 min · Season 6“Lech Lecha — Go forth from your land, your birthplace, and your father’s house, to the land that I will show you.” nisayon betoch nisayonAlong the way, we encounter two…
- THE RAINBOW - WHEN HEAVEN PUT DOWN ITS BOW - Noah 5787 · 20 min · Season 6THE RAINBOW — WHEN HEAVEN PUT DOWN ITS BOW Parashat Noaḥ In this morning’s , we explore the Ramban’s beautiful explanation of the rainbow as a weapon turned away in peace, the…
- THE LIGHT BEYOND THE LIGHT — THE SECRET OF SHABBAT CANDLES · 18 min · Season 6Why do we light two small Shabbat candles when our dining rooms are already brilliantly illuminated by chandeliers and electric lights? What are those little flames actually…
- NOAḤ, YONAH, AND PHARAOH Three Lives, Two Storms, and One Extraordinary Second Chance · 25 min · Season 6Thursday Morning Breakfast & Class | October 15, 2026 “Mei Noaḥ”“Mah lecha nirdam?”But perhaps the most astonishing revelation concerns Pharaoh himself. According to a…
- THE ARK - A BLUEPRINT FOR SAVING THE WORLD - Noah · 44 min · Season 6When the world around Noaḥ was collapsing into corruption, violence, and moral chaos, Hashem did something extraordinary. He gave Noaḥ a construction project—complete with…
- The Ark We Build Before the Rain · 16 min · Season 6“I wanted to sit in the corner and let other people run the synagogue. Somehow, I was becoming my father.” In Monday morning’s Breakfast & Class, marking the second day of Rosh…
- From the Holiness We Receive to the Holiness We Create Heshvan and Noah · 15 min · Season 6FROM SEVEN TO EIGHT Rosh Hodesh Cheshvan — A New Beginning We have just completed an extraordinary month of spiritual elevation. From the shofar of Rosh Hashanah to the…
- Where is Your Brother - Bereshit · 11 min · Season 6
- UNITY WITHOUT UNIFORMITY - man and wife BERESHIT · 5 min · Season 6UNITY WITHOUT UNIFORMITY There is a question in this week’s parashah that belongs at every family’s Shabbat table. According to one teaching of our Sages, Adam and Ḥava were…
- BEFORE THE FIRST MITZVAH — Why the Torah Begins with People - BERESHIT · 15 min · Season 6BEFORE THE FIRST MITZVAH — Why the Torah Begins with People Through the lives of Avraham, Yitzḥak, and Yaakov, we discover why Bereshit is called —the Book of the Upright…
- WHO IS HOLDING THE STRING? Three Years After October 7 — Providence, Free Will, and the 50/50 World · 54 min · Season 6In our Tuesday morning Safra Class, three years after October 7, we step back from the individual headlines and ask a larger question: What happens when we stop looking at each…
- BERESHIT — THE LIGHT HIDDEN IN THE DARKNESS · 12 min · Season 6tohu vavohuBERESHIT — THE LIGHT HIDDEN IN THE DARKNESSmeraḥefet
- Taking the Fire Home - Esh Dat Lamo - simchat torah · 14 min · Season 6“Esh Dat Lamo” — a Torah of fireEsh Dat LamoFor me, this teaching became deeply personal. My mother was Adele, and she lived to 98. At 95, she was still working out and teaching…
- BRING IT BACK TO THE HEART The Secret of the Lulav, the Circle, and Hoshana Rabbah · 20 min · Season 6The Secret of the Lulav, the Circle, and Hoshana Rabbah הוֹשַׁע נָא — “Please save us!”In this class, we follow the Ben Ish Ḥai and the teachings of the Arizal into the hidden…
- FIFTEEN STEPS TO JOY - The Secret of the Water, the Broken Name, and Why We Are Never Alone · 35 min · Season 6Shir HaMa’alotSimḥat Beit HaSho’evah This holiday Breakfast & Class became much more personal than I expected. We journey from the waters that cried at Creation, to David…
- Step Into the Cloud - Sukkot · 19 min · Season 6Step Into the Cloud Ananei HaKavod And according to the Vilna Gaon, Sukkot does not merely celebrate the cloud that protected us in the desert. After the sin of the Golden Calf…
- A Kabbalah and the Silver Dollar · 13 min · Season 6Every Yom Kippur we are tempted to make enormous promises—to change everything, fix everything, become someone completely different. But HaShem asks us to open an opening —as…
- The Prayer That Reopened the Case · 15 min · Season 6This week, Chantelle and I found ourselves climbing the narrow mountain roads into Peki’in, walking through a place where the world of our Ḥakhamim suddenly felt very close…
- The Door Yom Kippur Cannot Open · 17 min · Season 6We can fast for twenty-five hours. We can beat our chests, cry through Kol Nidrei, confess every sin and remain in synagogue until the final . But the Mishnah teaches that there…
- When the Excuses Run Out - Ha’azinu, Rabbi Elazar ben Dordaya, and the Courage of Teshuvah · 18 min · Season 5We all have explanations for why we are the way we are. It was our parents. It was the home we grew up in. It was our environment, our circumstances, our personality, perhaps…
- Why Some Don’t Dip the Apple in Honey · 20 min · Season 5Why would anyone avoid honey on the very night when we are asking Hashem for a sweet year? The answer takes us from the ancient customs of Ashkenaz to the Kabbalists of the…
- Closer Than We Think — What Torah Is Trying to Make of Us - Nesavim · 16 min · Season 5less badIn this morning’s , we explore a remarkable teaching of Rabbi Frand built around the words Why did HaShem create us unfinished? Why does the Torah hide an allusion to…
- Open the Gates — The Secret of the Tehilim of Parnassah And Finacial Success · 21 min · Season 5Why did become one of our great prayers for ? We say it every Sunday as we begin a new week. In Moroccan communities it is recited as Shabbat departs and we return to the working…
- When the Rebel Says Amen - Can the Yetzer Hara Become the Yetzer Tov? · 18 min · Season 5When the Rebel Says Amen Can the Yetzer Hara Become the Yetzer Tov? Every morning, we wrap the tefillin shel-yad around our arm and then place the tefillin shel-rosh upon our…
- When You Can’t See the Runway · 7 min · Season 5When You Can’t See the Runway What happens when we find ourselves flying through the clouds — unable to see what lies ahead, frightened by the turbulence, and unsure whether we…
- Why Does Amalek Never Go Away? · 21 min · Season 5Breakfast & ClassWhy does Amalek never go away?לֹא תִּשְׁכָּח — never to forgetDrawing on the insights of , we explore three remarkable approaches to Amalek: the danger of…
- The Sound of Emunah - Ki Tavo · 23 min · Season 5This morning’s Breakfast & Class begins with a few simple words from Parashat Ki Tavo: וְהָיָה אִם־שָׁמוֹעַ תִּשְׁמַע בְּקוֹל ה׳ אֱלֹהֶיךָ — “If we will surely listen to the…
- Two Wars — And Who Is Left Behind? Ki Tesse · 14 min · Season 5Breakfast & Class “Ki tetze la-milchamah al oyevekha”Eglah ArufahWe discovered that the Torah may actually be describing : the war against the enemy outside us, the far more…
- Can Something Small Really Make a Difference? · 23 min · Season 5What can one small mitzvah possibly accomplish? We say Tehillim for a refuah, give tzedakah in someone’s zechut, dedicate Torah learning to someone who is ill—and yet the…
- The Sin Was the Strategy - Ki Tesse · 18 min · Season 5This morning’s Breakfast & Class begins with a troubling question in Parashat Ki Tetze. Why does the Torah judge Ammon and Moav so harshly? Their crime was not simply that they…
- Bringing the Captive Home - Ki Tetzeh · 18 min · Season 5begins with the opening words of Parashat Ki Tetzeh: — when we go out to war against our enemies. The Zohar and the Or HaḤaim reveal that the Torah may also be describing a much…
