TakeTen4Torah Daily Torah Podcast

TT4T#443 - Approaches to Piety - 1/30/19

How does one achieve piety? Take Ten to analyze three methods.

TT4T#442 - Crowd Control - 1/29/19

Parashat Mishpatim is the first large collection of laws that were given to the Jews. This Ten looks closely at two of those laws: 1) the prohibition against cursing a leader and 2) the command to follow the majority and argues that each target behavior related to organizing a society and crowd control. Listen to why, for a fledgling nation, these laws may have been the most important.

TT4T#441 - Are These the Only Laws? - 1/28/19

After receiving the Torah, we read this week of the "mishpatim," the first laws that we received thereafter. But can these laws really be the first and only laws that we received? Take Ten to find out. 

TT4T#440 - The Coercion at Sinai - 1/25/19

Take Ten to learn two very different and relevant interpretations of the well-known Midrash describing the coercion at Sinai.

TT4T#439 - Shabbat Boundaries - 1/24/19

One of the restrictions of Shabbat is that we must remain in our "Techum Shabbat" or "Shabbat Boundary." Take Ten to learn more about the details and meaning of this unique law.

Sponsored by the Wolf family l'ilui nishmas Rus bas Yosef z"l

TT4T#438 - Tu b'Shvat and Our Natural Balance - 1/21/19

Tu b'Shvat reminds us of the delicately balanced relationship that humanity has with the natural world. Take Ten to hear a perspective on this balance and how we can learn to better appreciate the world around us. 

Sponsored by the Chadow and Rabizadeh families l'ilui nishmat Yisrael David ben Rabi Abba, z"l.

TT4T#437 - The Belief in Ourselves - 1/18/19

Take Ten to learn how the greatest lesson of belief taught at the sea and our years in the desert was the lesson of belief in ourselves. 

TT4T#436 - Miriam, Our Redeemer - 1/17/19

Miriam is often seen as a "third wheel" among her more active brothers, Moshe and Aharon. Take Ten to learn the critical and overlooked role that she had in the salvation of the Jewish people, and why she is equally listed as one of our saviors. 

Sponsored by the Kufeld family l'zecher nishmas Z'aiv Menachem ben HaRav Mordechai and in commemoration of the birth of Kayla bat Bentzion Yehoshua.

TT4T#435 - He Inhabits Eternity - 1/16/19

Our prayer on Shabbat begins with the "Shochen Ad." Take Ten to learn more about this paragraph and discover which famous Jews are hidden within. 

TT4T#434 - Manna Tuesday - 1/14/18

There is a special custom to read the section of the Torah that deals with the Manna today, the Tuesday before the Torah reading of Beshalach. This Ten explores the meaning of this custom and how important it might be to say it - and think it - every other day as well.