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Take 10 minutes of your busy day for Torah. Spend one 1/100th of your day as meaningfully as you can! Different topics each weekday. Produced by Rabbi Shmuel Ismach of the Young Israel of Great Neck
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Sep 6, 2018
Sep 6, 2018
10 min
On Rosh Hashana, we have the custom to place a variety of symbols on our festive holiday table. In doing so, we wish them to be a "sign" for some good result or another. How exactly does this work? Take Ten to find out.
Sep 5, 2018
Sep 5, 2018
10 min
One of the components of Repentance is the regret of our sinful behavior, but is it a motivator to repent or does it make it harder? Take Ten to learn how to use regret right.
Sep 4, 2018
Sep 4, 2018
10 min
On Yom Kippur, we spend a lot of time "confessing" to the mistakes we have made throughout the year. Might there ever be a time to "confess" to a Mitzvah? Take Ten to find out.
Jul 6, 2018
Jul 6, 2018
10 min
Moshe is told that when he dies, he will be "gathered" unto his people. Take Ten to learn what that means to us all.
Jun 29, 2018
Jun 29, 2018
10 min
From Bilaam's blessings, we learn important lessons about the importance and significance of Jewish homes and sanctuaries. Take Ten to learn these lessons.
Jun 27, 2018
Jun 27, 2018
10 min
Continuing our discussion about the origins of the Four Fasts, this Ten traces the events for which we fast and concludes with a novel question: where these fasts ever really meant to be set on specific days of the month?
Jun 26, 2018
Jun 26, 2018
9 min
As we near the period of the "Three Weeks," this Ten discusses the four fasts that we observe throughout the year in order to commemorate the destruction of the two Temples. Hear how the very observance of these fasts was dynamic and depended on the historical question of: "Was it Good for the Jews?"
Jun 25, 2018
Jun 25, 2018
10 min
The story of Bilaam and Balak is very unique as it happens entirely without the knowledge of the Jewish people. This Ten discusses the Gemaras theoretical wish that the story be included in our daily recitation of the Shema. Why would this section be worthy? Why was it left out? Take Ten to find out.
Jun 21, 2018
Jun 21, 2018
11 min
Take Ten to learn about what Parah Adumah teaches us about the unknowable nature of G-d.
Jun 21, 2018
Jun 21, 2018
10 min
We read this week of the Parah Adumah. In order to purify oneself from the most serious of impurity, the Red Cow ritual was performed. It's known as one of the most difficult to understand. But is it really? This Ten discusses what we don't and don't understand about it and how it allows us to understand so much, by understanding what we can and cannot understand.