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Parshas Vayakhel
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Drasha by Rabbi Mordechai Kamenetzky
- Focal Points (5784)
- Dire Precautions (5784)
- More or Less (5783)
- Letting Go (5782)
- Going the Extra Smile (5782)
- Mirror Image (5782)
- Up Close and Personal (5782)
- More Than Giving (5782)
Dvar Torah by Rabbi Label Lam
- HASHEM Commanded to Do! (5784)
- The Deepest Desire in the Universe (5782)
- Actoverts (5781)
- Backed Up by Action (5779)
- At the Speed of Thought (5778)
- The Secret of Shabbos Delight (5774)
- Shabbos Will Cure This Ill! (5773)
- When Would We Be? (5772)
- Excited by a Sacred Fire (5771)
- The Gift of Desperation (5770)
- Yours Truly (5769)
- If He Could Do It… (5768)
- Taste and See HASHEM is Good! (5767)
- Hearts of Gold (5766)
- Endless Value to All We Do (5765)
- The Job of the Jews! (5764)
- Spiritual Regeneration (5763)
- Vanquishing The Enemy (5762)
- What Can Be Seen in a Mirror (5760)
- A Real Story in the Making (5759)
- Removing Our Social Mask (5757)
- It’s Not What You Do, It’s How you Do It (5756)
Haftorah Commentary by Rabbi Dovid Siegel
Haftorah Summary by Rabbi Aron Tendler
Kol HaKollel by Rabbi Pinchas Avruch
- Diamonds are Forever (5783)
- Something From Nothing (5782)
- Investing In G-d (5766)
- Day of Rest, Day of Reflection (5764)
- Go for It! (5762)
Legacy by Rabbi Naftali Reich
- Investing For The Long Term (5784)
- Covering the Deficit (5783)
- Men First – Ladies First – Everyone First! (5782)
- Home Is Where the Soul Is (5779)
- Don’t Roll Up Your Sleeves (5778)
Lifeline by Rabbi Yaakov Menken
- A Separated Shabbos, Together (5780)
- There’s Nothing Left to Give (5764)
- When the King Ignores the Queen (5762)
- Return: Always an Option (5761)
- A Wise Heart (5760)
- Impressed by the Horses (5759)
- Mission Impossible (5756)
- We Can Do Anything Together (5755)
Parsha Halacha for the Shabbos Table by Joshua Kruger
Parsha Summary by Rabbi Aron Tendler
Rabbi Wein by Rabbi Berel Wein
- The Shabbat Keeps the Jew (5782)
- Accountability Always (5781)
- Shabbat Always Wins (5779)
- A Public Shabbat (5778)
- Accountability (5775)
- Shabbath and the Jewish People (5774)
- Detailing the Mishkan (5773)
- Accountability (5772)
- A Public Observance of Shabat (5771)
- Repetition is the Soul of Honesty (5770)
- Maintaining Greatness (5768)
- The Book of Challenge and Triumph (5766)
- Shabbos Kodesh (5763)
- Pillar of Smoke (5761)
Rabbi Zweig on the Parsha by Rabbi Yochanan Zweig
Short Vorts by Rabbi Chaim Flom
Table Talk by Rabbi Raymond Beyda
The Living Law by Rabbi Osher Chaim Levene
Intermediate Level
Beyond Pshat by Rabbi Yosef Kalatzky
Hamaayan by Shlomo Katz
- What Kind of Rest? (5784)
- Topsy-turvy (5783)
- “Shabbat Shalom” (5782)
- Take an Accounting (5781)
- A New Type of Year (5780)
- The Culmination of the Exodus (5778)
- Take A Break (5777)
- Shabbat, Torah (5774)
- Shabbat: Just in Time (5773)
- Mishkan Lights, Shabbos Lights, Pesach Lights (5772)
- Try! But not too hard. (5771)
- Parshios Vayakhel-Pekudei (5770)
- The City of the Strong (5769)
- A Face Lit Up (5768)
- Enough! (5765)
- The Light of Shabbat (5763)
- Lessons from the Keruvim (5762)
- Achieving Greatness (5761)
- A Home for Hashem (5760)
- Of Clouds and Rainbows (5759)
- From Engagement to Marriage (5758)
Olas Shabbos by Rabbi Eliyahu Hoffmann
- All it Takes is Confidence (5766)
- Wise-heartedness – In Your Dreams (5765)
- Palaces and Pitchefkes (5764)
- The Jewish Mother – A Hair-Raising Responsibility (5763)
- Room for Improvement (5762)
- Stoking the Coals (5761)
Parsha Insights by Rabbi Yisroel Ciner
- It’s All in the Head (5784)
- Six Comes Before Seven (5783)
- What’s in a Name? (5782)
- Counting and Accounting (5782)
- Something From Nothing (5779)
Perceptions by Rabbi Pinchas Winston
- In The Balance (5784)
- A Good Impression (5783)
- Shabbos and Mishkan (5782)
- The Need of Change (5781)
- A Separate Matter (5780)
- Anticipate Redemption (5779)
- United We Must Stand (5777)
- Shabbos, the Mishkon and The Red Heifer (5775)
- A Light Onto the Nations (5773)
- It’s A Vision Thing (5772)
- A Single Nation (5771)
- The Gift of Time (5769)
- Mazel Tov, And Better (5766)
- Assembly Required (5765)
- The Science Of The Mishkan (5764)
- A Shabbos Gathering (5763)
- Soul Occurence (5761)
- Gathering Shekels (5760)
- Gathering the ‘Rest’ (5759)
- In the (Mirror) Image of G-d (5757)
Rabbi Zweig on the Parsha by Rabbi Yochanan Zweig
Rabbi's Notebook by Rabbi Aron Tendler
- Simple and Obvious (5766)
- Intent Speaks Louder Than Action (5763)
- It’s the Thought that Counts (5762)
- The First Month (5761)
- Creating Sanctity (5760)
- Microcosm and Reflection (5759)
- A Second Chance (5758)
Rav Frand by Rabbi Yissocher Frand
- The Rich Get Richer and the Wise Get Wiser (5784)
- Why No Praise for the Acacia Wood Schleppers? (5782)
- A Tzadik on Someone Else’s Back (5781)
- The Will To Do More Than Is Necessary Pleases the Almighty (5780)
- The Name a Person Gives Himself Is His Most Important Name (5779)
- Sanctifying the Mundane is Precious (5778)
- A Good Name Is Better Than Good Oil (5774)
- Why Did Moshe Save His Blessing For Parshas Pekudei? (5773)
- Story With Rav Chaim of Volozhin and the Meshullach (5772)
- Laziness May Be Lurking In Noble Decisions Not To Do Something (5771)
- “Please Contribute” Preceded By The Command To Observe Shabbos (5770)
- Money Laundering: Making Sure Donations To The Mishkan Are (5769)
- Bezalel’s Ability To Share The Stage Made Him a Leader (5767)
- The Key To Success Is Initiative (5766)
- No One Is Completely Immune From Envy (5765)
- Women and the Power of Renewal (5762)
- What Seems Futile Now May Have Results Later (5761)
- Commemoration of Creation (5760)
- The Philosophical Implication of Carrying (5757)
- Religion of Deeds (5756)
The Shmuz on the Parsha by Rabbi B. Shafier
Advanced Level
Abarbanel by Rabbi Dr. Meir Tamari
Be’eros by Rabbi Yitzchok Adlerstein
Gal Einai by Gedalia Litke
Gur Aryeh by Rabbi Yitzchok Adlerstein
Haaros by Rabbi Yaakov Bernstein
HaMedrash V’HaMaaseh by Rabbi Yitzchok Adlerstein
Ksav Sofer by
Machshava by Rabbi Yitzchok Adlerstein
Mei Marom by Rabbi Yitzchok Adlerstein
Meor Einayim by
Meshivas Nafesh
Nesivos Shalom by Rabbi Yitzchok Adlerstein
Netziv by Rabbi Yitzchok Adlerstein
Reb Yeruchem
Sfas Emes by Nosson Chayim Leff
The Timeless Rav Hirsch by Rabbi Yitzchok Adlerstein
- Parshas Vayakhel – Getting Directed (5771)
- Parshas Vayakhel & Pekudei – The Exceptional Melachah (5770)