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Rabbi Yaakov Asher Sinclair

Rabbi Yaakov Asher Sinclair has been part of Ohr Somayach since 1987. Rabbi Sinclair gives a daily Gemara shiur in the Intermediate Program and a weekly philosophy shiur in the Mechina Program. He is a senior staff writer of the Torah internet publications Ohrnet, Torah Weekly and Seasons of the Moon. His articles have been published in many journals and magazines including the Jewish Observer, American Jewish Spirit, AJOP Newsletter, Zurich’s Die Jüdische Zeitung, South African Jewish Report and many others. His first book Seasons of the Moon – the Auerbach Edition
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The Food of Faith – Pesach
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The Food of Faith – Pesach

When you bake bread, you mix the flour and the water, you knead it, and then you set it aside. Your involvement ends at that point. Yet the dough does not remain static. The dough, so to speak, takes over. It seems to change “on its own” Matzah is the exact opposite. From the moment the dough is mixed, it’s never left to rise, never left to “develop” on its own. Bread, Chametz, represents a world that seems to be self-raising - where nature appears to operate by itself. And Matzah represents a world where nothing can happen independently of Hashem.
Rabbi Yaakov Asher Sinclair
The Secret of Shabbat HaGadol
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The Secret of Shabbat HaGadol

All Jewish festivals are linked to the calendar date and not the day of the week - with one exception: Shabbat HaGadol, which we observe on the day and not the date. What do we commemorate on Shabbat HaGadol, and why don’t we celebrate it on its calendar date?
Rabbi Yaakov Asher Sinclair
The Ultimate Labor Saver – Parshat Pekudei
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The Ultimate Labor Saver – Parshat Pekudei

Forget humanoid robots! The ultimate labor saver has been available for the last three thousand-odd years.
Rabbi Yaakov Asher Sinclair
The Sweet Smell of Purim
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The Sweet Smell of Purim

I remember opening a book quite recently and the aroma of the pages instantly transported me back to my days in kindergarten. Of the five human senses, the sense of smell is the most evocative, and the most intangible.
Rabbi Yaakov Asher Sinclair
Finding Your Path – Mesilas Yesharim PT 71 (Jewish Understanding)
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Finding Your Path – Mesilas Yesharim PT 71 (Jewish Understanding)

Please click below on “show more” to see additional formats: Rabbi Sinclair’s book on the weekly Parsha – https://www.israelbookshoppublications.com/store/pc/The-Color-of-Heaven-54p652.htm Rabbi Sinclair’s on-line art gallery – http://www.seasonsofthemoon.com/
Rabbi Yaakov Asher Sinclair
The Best Headphones in the World !! – Parshat Teruma
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The Best Headphones in the World!! – Parshat Teruma

When you give, it’s really nothing to do with the thing itself. The thing itself is just the box. The container. What’s inside the box is you. You give yourself. The gift is the giving. Receiving is about what you get. Giving is always about giving yourself.
Rabbi Yaakov Asher Sinclair
Finding Your Path – Mesilas Yesharim PT 71 (Jewish Understanding)
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Finding Your Path – Mesilas Yesharim PT 70 (Jewish Understanding)

Please click below on “show more” to see additional formats: Rabbi Sinclair’s book on the weekly Parsha – https://www.israelbookshoppublications.com/store/pc/The-Color-of-Heaven-54p652.htm Rabbi Sinclair’s on-line art gallery – http://www.seasonsofthemoon.com/
Rabbi Yaakov Asher Sinclair
Don’t Feed the Cats Mishpatim (1)
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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.
Rabbi Yaakov Asher Sinclair
Finding Your Path – Mesilas Yesharim PT 71 (Jewish Understanding)
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Finding Your Path – Mesilas Yesharim PT 69 (Jewish Understanding)

Please click below on “show more” to see additional formats: Rabbi Sinclair’s book on the weekly Parsha – https://www.israelbookshoppublications.com/store/pc/The-Color-of-Heaven-54p652.htm Rabbi Sinclair’s on-line art gallery – http://www.seasonsofthemoon.com/
Rabbi Yaakov Asher Sinclair
One Family – One Heart , Parshat Yitro
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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.
Rabbi Yaakov Asher Sinclair
Finding Your Path – Mesilas Yesharim PT 71 (Jewish Understanding)
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Finding Your Path – Mesilas Yesharim PT 68 (Jewish Understanding)

Please click below on “show more” to see additional formats: Rabbi Sinclair’s book on the weekly Parsha – https://www.israelbookshoppublications.com/store/pc/The-Color-of-Heaven-54p652.htm Rabbi Sinclair’s on-line art gallery – http://www.seasonsofthemoon.com/
Rabbi Yaakov Asher Sinclair
Do You Remember? – Parshat Beshalach
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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?
Rabbi Yaakov Asher Sinclair
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