Rabbi Yaakov Asher Sinclair
The Face of Holiness – Parshat Vayeshev
Walk down the street! Take an airplane! Get on a bus! Everywhere we go, we are challenged by a worldview that glorifies immorality and the unbridled pursuit of physical pleasure. What can protect us from these icons of immorality?
Finding Your Path – Mesilas Yesharim PT 31 (Jewish Understanding)
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Why We Believe In God
Tradition is more than chicken soup, or bagels and lox, it's why the Jewish People believe in God.
Finding Your Path – Mesilas Yesharim PT 30 (Jewish Understanding)
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Hope and Optimism – Parshat Vayetze
Yaakov says in Parshat Vayetze, “If God…will give me bread to eat and clothes to wear…” Ostensibly, there is no other reason to have bread than to eat it; no other reason to have clothes than to wear them, so why did Yaakov spell out ‘bread to eat’ and ‘clothes to wear’?
How Long Will the Arabs Rule the World? – Parshat Toldot
If you told someone living a couple of hundred years ago that the Arabs would be a force to threaten Western civilization, they’d have laughed. The thought that a bunch of nomads floating around the desert, like some lost extras from Lawrence Of Arabia, could rule the world, would have seemed preposterous. But יוֹשֵׁ֣ב בַּשָּׁמַ֣יִם יִשְׂחָ֑ק, “He who dwells in the Heavens will laugh.” (Tehillim 2:4)
Finding Your Path – Mesilas Yesharim PT 29 (Jewish Understanding)
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Rav Dov Schwartzman zt’l – On His Thirteenth Yartzeit
As much as Reb Dov was a giant in Torah – a twenty-foot Moshe in his generation, so he was a Moshe in his generation in his humility and compassion.
Finding Your Path – Mesilas Yesharim PT 28 (Jewish Understanding)
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Hesped Reb Dov Schwartman zt’l
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Finding Your Path – Mesilas Yesharim PT 27 (Jewish Understanding)
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Finding Your Path – Mesilas Yesharim PT 26 (Jewish Understanding)
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Voting for the World’s Existence
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The Jews Rule the World!
Less than a week to the election, I'm putting out this Hebrew subtitle version.
Living on the Crest of the Wave – Noach
There are many times in our life when we know that things will not be as good as they are right now, and nevertheless we should always focus on that wonderful moment that is the present and not become downcast by the thought that it may not, and will not, last forever. Judaism says that we shouldn’t live FOR the moment, but we certainly should live IN the moment.
The Pinnacle of Joy – Hoshana Rabbah 5785 (Jewish Understanding)
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Where Is God?
The Torah describes two ways that God hides himself in this world. Sometimes even His concealment is hidden.
Yom Kippur – Invasion of the Body Snatchers!
Yom Kippur is the day that we see who we really are.
Finding Your Path – Mesilas Yesharim PT 25 (Jewish Understanding)
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King George and the Little Jewish Boy – Rosh Hashana – עברית (Hebrew subtitles)
This is the Hebrew subtitles version of the video released last week.
Finding Your Path – Mesilas Yesharim PT 24 (Jewish Understanding)
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The Lion Roared – Preparation for Selichot
The lion roared. It roared last Elul, it roared last Rosh Hashana, it roared on Yom Kippur and it roared on Hoshana Rabba, October 6th – but we didn’t hear it.
King George and the Little Jewish Boy – Rosh Hashana
I heard this story from Rabbi YY Jacobson. The Kindertransport was a desperate effort to rescue Jewish children from the Nazis. During the nine months prior to the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939, the United Kingdom took in nearly 10,000 children, from Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Poland, and the Free City of Danzig. The children were placed in British foster homes, hostels, schools, and farms. Often, they were the only members of their families to survive the Holocaust. One of those children was Beryl Gartner, who later in his life told his story to BBC radio.
כתיבה וחתימה טובה!
Finding Your Path – Mesilas Yesharim PT 23 (Jewish Understanding)
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From Hollywood To Holyland – A Story of Teshuva
This is the story, more or less, of how I became religious.
Finding Your Path – Mesilas Yesharim PT 22 (Jewish Understanding)
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Saving the Pecan Orchard
This is a true story whose facts have been verified independently.
Just two weeks ago during the last week of bein hazmanim…
Finding Your Path – Mesilas Yesharim PT 21 (Jewish Understanding)
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Freeing the Hostages – Parshat Shofetim
In Parshat Shofetim, the Torah mandates the creation of judges and enforcement officers, "You shall place judges and officers in all your gates…"
Why is it necessary to have both judges and enforcement officers? Why couldn’t the judges also be the enactors of its enforcement?
I Think It’s Gonna Work Out Fine – A song about Moshiach
What I did on my hols'... This is a song about Moshiach - the Messiah. "Maybe – today’s the day he’s going to come. Crazy? I’m used to people making fun. But everyday I’ll wait for him And no delay, my faith will dim. I just know - I think it’s gonna work out fine. "Take me a mile above the setting sun! I’ll wait there till all is seen and said and done. But one day soon the clouds will clear, And all the world, His voice will hear, I just know, I think it’s gonna work out fine. "I think it's gonna work out fine. I think it's gonna work out fine." The tune was originally written by McCoy and McKinney. Ry Cooder's version introduced the guitar riff.
The Jews Run the World! – Parshat Va’etchanan
Every person is priceless. A smile says, ‘You matter.’ A hello says, 'I noticed you – I didn’t cancel you.' A nod says, ‘You are in my world - I didn’t remove you from my radar. I respect you because you have a neshama – even when you make choices I wouldn’t make; even when you’re wrong.'