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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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Wednesday Feb 08, 2023
Monday Feb 06, 2023
Monday Feb 06, 2023
What are we supposed to be thinking about on Tu b'Shvat? Take Ten to focus on the origins of this day and what it has come to mean.
Thursday Feb 02, 2023
Thursday Feb 02, 2023
After the Jews are saved at the sea, they have a realization that will influence their mitzvah observance forever. What is this new knowledge? Take Ten to find out.
This Ten is sponsored in honor of the wedding of Regina and Shai Rosalimsky.
Tuesday Jan 31, 2023
Tuesday Jan 31, 2023
Torah learning is an important way to become a better educated and more inspired Jew, but is there an advantage to doing it daily? Take Ten to find out.
Sponsored anonymously in honor of TT4T's 900-episode milestone.
Tuesday Jan 31, 2023
Tuesday Jan 31, 2023
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.
Monday Jan 30, 2023
Monday Jan 30, 2023
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.
Thursday Dec 22, 2022
Thursday Dec 22, 2022
We find some very unique laws relating to the lighting of the Menorah. This Ten discusses the - mostly unknown - beracha made while walking down a street and simply witnessing the lights of someone else's Menorah. Why would we make a beracha on this mitzvah "sighting" and not on witnessing other mitzvot? The answer to this and more in Ten or less.
Wednesday Dec 21, 2022
Wednesday Dec 21, 2022
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Beit Shamai is famous for holding that the proper way to light the menorah is to light eight candles on the first night and then descend each night so that we light only one on the final night. This Ten explores the reason for their position, particularly in how it references a surprising Chanukah-Sukkot connection. |
Tuesday Dec 20, 2022
Tuesday Dec 20, 2022
The mitzvah of lighting candles of Chanukah is constructed in a scaled way that is unlike any other mitzvah. Why is that so? Take Ten to find out.
Monday Dec 19, 2022
Monday Dec 19, 2022
One of the two rabbinically mandated holidays, Chanukah is distinct from Purim in how it is observed in practice. Why is this? Take Ten to find out.