Rabbi Yaakov Asher Sinclair
Don’t Feed The Cats! Parshat Mishpatim
The Torah commands us not to cause unnecessary suffering to animals, Not just for the sake of the animal, but because cruelty damages the human soul. Parshas Mishpatim is about caring when no one is looking. The Torah demands kindness precisely where there is no gratitude, no recognition. Animals won’t thank you.
Finding Your Path – Mesilas Yesharim PT 69 (Jewish Understanding)
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One Family – One Heart – Parshat Yitro
As children marry, family dynamics change; they build their own homes, and they create new and separate lives. It’s a different dynamic. Family get-togethers, Shabbos and Festivals become more like the ingathering of the clan rather than those intimate Shabboses of the nuclear family. But sometimes Hashem gives us a “gift” that brings us back to that original closeness.
Finding Your Path – Mesilas Yesharim PT 68 (Jewish Understanding)
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Do You Remember? – Parshat Beshalach
Parshas Beshalach is about memory and forgetting. How can a People who has just witnessed miracles that shook the world—the plagues, the Exodus, the splitting of the sea—only days later, forget? They panic. They complain. They say, “Was it for the lack of graves in Egypt that you took us out to die in the wilderness…?” How can you forget something so overwhelming?
The Home of Holiness – Parshat Bo
True ‘geulah’, redemption, begins when a person chooses to let holiness enter their home, enter their time, and enter their life. Please click below on “show more” to see additional formats:
Finding Your Path – Mesilas Yesharim PT 67 (Jewish Understanding)
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Bringing Back the Light – Parshat Va’Era
When my father (olav haShalom) was saying Kaddish for his own father, he once told me something very sincere. He said he felt a little disappointed with the Kaddish – the memorial prayer for the dead. He said, “It doesn’t say anything about the person who passed away. It doesn’t describe their life, their goodness, […]
Finding Your Path – Mesilas Yesharim PT 66 (Jewish Understanding)
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Knowing Who You Are – Parshat Shemot
This is the second of the video tributes to my mother a"h based on the weekly parsha.
Finding Your Path – Mesilas Yesharim PT 65 (Jewish Understanding)
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My Mother – Parshat Vayechi
I just got up from sitting shiva for my mother aleha hashalom, who passed away at the age of nearly 102. Many people said to me, kindly and sincerely, “At least she had a good innings.” I think the Torah teaches us the opposite. This is the first of a series of videos I hope to make honoring my mother a"h, connected to the weekly parsha.
Rise Up Israel! – Parshat Vayeshev
History advances through concealment. When the world darkens, we must know the inner light is gathering strength.
Finding Your Path – Mesilas Yesharim PT 64 (Jewish Understanding)
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Tom Stoppard Is Dead – Parshat Vayishlach
Stoppard was never remotely religious, but his unwitting world view was so Jewish. He summed up in his immortal line which could have been a quote from our sages: "Every exit is an entrance somewhere else."
Finding Your Path – Mesilas Yesharim PT 63 (Jewish Understanding)
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Finding Your Path – Mesilas Yesharim PT 62 (Jewish Understanding)
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Meeting in the Dark – Parshat Vayetze
In the darkness of exile, when the familiar secure structures of holiness fall away, and we don’t “see” Hashem through the clear light of prophecy or miracles. Instead, we stumble upon Him — in the loneliness, in the confusion, in the pain. It is precisely there, in the hiddenness, that the deepest revelation awaits us.
The Brothers – Parshat Toldot
Parshat Toldos is not just the story of two brothers. It’s a blueprint of history, and a mirror of the times we’re living through right now. The Torah tells us that even before Yaakov and Eisav were born, they were already struggling inside their mother. This was the very first expression of two completely different ways of looking at existence.
True Life Stories – Parshat Chayei Sara
A life bound to Hashem does not end; it merely changes form. What appears as an ending is, in truth, a revelation of what life always was — attachment to eternity.
Finding Your Path – Mesilas Yesharim PT 61 (Jewish Understanding)
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Abraham – The Perfect Host – Vayera
How to be the perfect host.
Finding Your Path – Mesilas Yesharim PT 60 (Jewish Understanding)
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A Hitchiker’s Guide to Eternity – Parshat Lech Lecha
How to achieve calm and tranquility in a world that constantly stresses you out.
Finding Your Path – Mesilas Yesharim PT 59 (Jewish Understanding)
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The Hush of Cheshvan
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Did You Feel Sad This Sukkot?
Even though you have felt sad and lonely this Sukkot, Hashem never rejects a contrite and humble heart!
Holy Hadassim
A wonderful story about how sometimes Hashem gives us a little 'smile'.
Finding Your Path – Mesilas Yesharim PT 58 (Jewish Understanding)
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A Divine Symphony – Parshat Ha’azinu
Parashat Ha’Azinu is not merely a poem; it is a shirah — a Divine song. The combination of words and music gives song the power to express simultaneously joy and sorrow, exile and redemption, judgment and compassion. That is why Moshe, on the last day of his life, chooses a song to seal the Torah’s message for eternity.
Finding Your Path – Mesilas Yesharim PT 57 (Jewish Understanding)
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