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Parshios Vayakhel & Pekudei
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Drasha by Rabbi Mordechai Kamenetzky
- More or Less (5783)
- Unlimited Partnership (5782)
- Letting Go (5782)
- Going the Extra Smile (5782)
- Mirror Image (5782)
- Up Close and Personal (5782)
- More Than Giving (5782)
- Exactly Redundant (5781)
- Dire Precautions (5780)
- Focal Points (5778)
Dvar Torah by Rabbi Label Lam
- The Job of the Jews (5782)
- The Deepest Desire in the Universe (5782)
- Actoverts (5781)
- Backed Up by Action (5779)
- At the Speed of Thought (5778)
- Not more! Not less. Not easy! (5774)
- 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)
- The Game is Over (5768)
- If He Could Do It… (5768)
- Taste and See HASHEM is Good! (5767)
- Hearts of Gold (5766)
- Utterly Artistic (5765)
- Endless Value to All We Do (5765)
- The Job of the Jews! (5764)
- An Original Thought (5763)
- Spiritual Regeneration (5763)
- Vanquishing The Enemy (5762)
- Non-Profit Prophet (5760)
- What Can Be Seen in a Mirror (5760)
- A Real Story in the Making (5759)
- Intellectual Reasoning and Spiritual Development (5758)
- Human Sanctuary (5757)
- 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 Commentary Parshas Pekudei (5782)
- Parshas Vayakhel – Shekalim (5782)
- Parshas Vayakhel – Pekudei (5777)
Haftorah Summary by Rabbi Aron Tendler
Kol HaKollel by Rabbi Pinchas Avruch
- Diamonds are Forever (5783)
- Firm Footing (5782)
- 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
- Covering the Deficit (5783)
- A House of Hearts (5782)
- Men First – Ladies First – Everyone First! (5782)
- Home Is Where the Soul Is (5779)
- Don’t Roll Up Your Sleeves (5778)
- Investing For The Long Term (5774)
Lifeline by Rabbi Yaakov Menken
- The Shadow Knows (5783)
- A Separated Shabbos, Together (5780)
- There’s Nothing Left to Give (5764)
- When the King Ignores the Queen (5762)
- Return: Always an Option (5761)
- When Everything Fits (5760)
- A Wise Heart (5760)
- Impressed by the Horses (5759)
- We Can Do Anything Together (5757)
- Mission Impossible (5756)
- Moving Mountains (5755)
- We Can Do Anything Together (5755)
Parsha Halacha for the Shabbos Table by Joshua Kruger
Parsha Summary by Rabbi Aron Tendler
- Parsha Summary for Parshas Vayakhel & Pekudei (5778)
- Parsha Summary for Parshas Pekudei (5765)
- Parsha Summary for Parshas Vayakhel (5765)
Rabbi Wein by Rabbi Berel Wein
- Why Every Jew Should Become an Accountant (5782)
- The Shabbat Keeps the Jew (5782)
- Accountability Always (5781)
- Transparency and Money (5779)
- Shabbat Always Wins (5779)
- A Public Shabbat (5778)
- Accountability (5775)
- Transparency Building the Mishkan (5774)
- Shabbath and the Jewish People (5774)
- Detailing the Mishkan (5773)
- Accountability (5772)
- The Ramban’s Message (5771)
- A Public Observance of Shabat (5771)
- Repetition is the Soul of Honesty (5770)
- Project of Holiness (5768)
- Maintaining Greatness (5768)
- The Book of Challenge and Triumph (5766)
- An Accountant’s Report (5763)
- Shabbos Kodesh (5763)
- Pillar of Smoke (5761)
- Building Effort Necessary (5760)
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
- Topsy-turvy (5783)
- Everyone Has a Part (5782)
- “Shabbat Shalom” (5782)
- Take an Accounting (5781)
- A New Type of Year (5780)
- Degrees of Revelation (5779)
- The Culmination of the Exodus (5778)
- Take A Break (5777)
- An Accounting (5774)
- Shabbat, Torah (5774)
- Shabbat: Just in Time (5773)
- Mishkan Lights, Shabbos Lights, Pesach Lights (5772)
- Of Clouds and Fires (5771)
- Try! But not too hard. (5771)
- Parshios Vayakhel-Pekudei (5770)
- The City of the Strong (5769)
- A Face Lit Up (5768)
- The Mishkan And The Mikdash (5765)
- Enough! (5765)
- Taking an Accounting (5763)
- The Light of Shabbat (5763)
- Lessons from the Keruvim (5762)
- Achieving Greatness (5761)
- Path Through the Dark Clouds (5760)
- A Home for Hashem (5760)
- Of Clouds and Rainbows (5759)
- From Engagement to Marriage (5758)
Olas Shabbos by Rabbi Eliyahu Hoffmann
- Not So Just Reward (5768)
- All it Takes is Confidence (5766)
- Wise-heartedness – In Your Dreams (5765)
- Palaces and Pitchefkes (5764)
- Taken to Task – How to Erect a Mishkan (5763)
- The Jewish Mother – A Hair-Raising Responsibility (5763)
- Room for Improvement (5762)
- Stoking the Coals (5761)
- To Err is Human – To Admit is Fine (5760)
Parsha Insights by Rabbi Yisroel Ciner
- Six Comes Before Seven (5783)
- Counting and Accounting (5782)
- What’s in a Name? (5782)
- Struggle as an End in Itself (5781)
- At The Gravesite of Mother Goose (5779)
- Something From Nothing (5779)
- It’s All in the Head (5778)
Perceptions by Rabbi Pinchas Winston
- A Good Impression (5783)
- The Conductor (5782)
- Shabbos and Mishkan (5782)
- The Need of Change (5781)
- A Separate Matter (5780)
- Mishkan: Map of Life (5779)
- Anticipate Redemption (5779)
- Hopefulness (5778)
- United We Must Stand (5777)
- Shabbos, the Mishkon and The Red Heifer (5775)
- Money: What Do YOU Do With It (5774)
- A Light Onto the Nations (5773)
- It’s A Vision Thing (5772)
- Count on God to Save the Day! (5771)
- A Single Nation (5771)
- The Gift of Time (5769)
- Mazel Tov, And Better (5766)
- Wiping of the Da’as (5765)
- Assembly Required (5765)
- The Science Of The Mishkan (5764)
- Accountable For The Light (5763)
- A Shabbos Gathering (5763)
- Soul Occurence (5761)
- On Account of the Mishkan (5760)
- Gathering Shekels (5760)
- Gathering the ‘Rest’ (5759)
- Accounting for Accuracy (5758)
- It’s ALL in the Detail (5757)
- 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)
- Love Remembered (5765)
- The Tent Of Not Giving (5763)
- Intent Speaks Louder Than Action (5763)
- It’s the Thought that Counts (5762)
- The First Month (5761)
- The Mirror of G-d (5760)
- Creating Sanctity (5760)
- Microcosm and Reflection (5759)
- A Second Chance (5758)
Rav Frand by Rabbi Yissocher Frand
- You Don’t Necessarily Get What You Pay For (5783)
- We Toil and Receive Reward — For the Toil! (5782)
- 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)
- Receive Reward — For The Toil! (5779)
- The Name a Person Gives Himself Is His Most Important Name (5779)
- Sanctifying the Mundane is Precious (5778)
- The Almighty Likes Humble Buildings and Humble People (5774)
- 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)
- We Toil And Receive Reward — For The Toil! (5771)
- 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)
- Shabbos — Commemoration Of Creation And G-d (5768)
- Sunken Gates Will Be Appended to Prefabricated Third Temple (5768)
- 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)
- Thanks from the Recipient’s Perspective (5763)
- Women and the Power of Renewal (5762)
- What Seems Futile Now May Have Results Later (5761)
- Receive Reward — For The Toil! (5760)
- Commemoration of Creation (5760)
- Labor of Carrying (5757)
- 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
Growing with the Parsha by Rabbi Yaakov Horowitz
Gur Aryeh by Rabbi Yitzchok Adlerstein
Haaros by Rabbi Yaakov Bernstein
HaMedrash V’HaMaaseh by Rabbi Yitzchok Adlerstein
Insights from Krakow
Jerusalem Views by Rabbi Heshy Grossman
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
- Parshas Pekudei & Ki Seitzei – What’s In a Reversal (5772)
- Parshas Vayakhel & Pekudei – Covering All Options (5772)
Reb Yeruchem
Sfas Emes by Nosson Chayim Leff
The Timeless Rav Hirsch by Rabbi Yitzchok Adlerstein
- Parshas Pekudei – Why Seven? (5771)
- Parshas Vayakhel – Getting Directed (5771)
- Parshas Vayakhel & Pekudei – The Exceptional Melachah (5770)
Weekly Halacha by Rabbi Doniel Neustadt
- Respect And Honor: How To Treat A Kohen (5779)
- Bal Tashchis: Preservation Of Fruit Trees (5774)
- Shabbos Dancing (5773)
- Lighting Shabbos Candles Part 2 (5771)
- Lighting The Shabbos Candles (5771)
- Bein Adam Lchaveiro In The Classroom (5770)
- The Blessing Of Hatov V’Hameitiv Over Wine (5766)
- Tallis Katan : Questions And Answers (5765)
- Proper Conduct With Food Items (5765)
- Making Coffee On Shabbos (5761)
- Carrying Garments On Shabbos (5759)