Speaker: Rabbi Zvi Aryeh Rosenfeld z”l. 00:00 – What is loshon hara (slander)? Revealing the truth when it causes harm to a Jew. 01:22 – Taanis Dibur (refraining from mundane speech) on Rosh HaShanah. 02:28 – “Nachman the Silent”, a close student of Rav Avraham (Kokhav-Lev) Sternhartz z”l, lived in Jerusalem during Rabbi Rosenfeld’s lifetime Continue Reading »
Speaker: Rabbi Zvi Aryeh Rosenfeld z”l. 00:00 – What is loshon hara (harmful speech)? 01:13 – The need for achdus (unity) in Eretz Yisrael (the Land of Israel) and within any Jewish community. 03:12 – The students of the ARIzaL (Rabbi Yitzchak Luria Ashkenazi, 1534-1572) failed when he tested them in achdus.
Speaker: Rabbi Zvi Aryeh Rosenfeld z”l. Shiur given during the Eseres Yemei Teshuvah (Ten Days of Repentence). 00:00 – Why, after centuries of tears and prayers, has the final geulah (redemption) not yet arrived? As long as Am Yisrael lacks unity, the Beis HaMikdash (Holy Temple) cannot be rebuilt. 03:50 – It’s forbidden to speak Continue Reading »
Speaker: Rabbi Zvi Aryeh Rosenfeld z”l. To hear the entire shiur from which this clip was excerpted: NACH 22 – Melachim 1 – Lesson 02 (Entire Shiur)
Speaker: Rabbi Zvi Aryeh Rosenfeld ז”ל. Topics: Shlomo HaMelech Gathers Am Yisrael for Tefilah; Dispute Between Two Mothers; Supernatural Throne 05:16 – Hashem offered to grant Shlomo HaMelech (King Solomon) one special request. 08:23 – The days of the week correspond to the sefiros (spiritual conduits for Hashem’s light). 10:23 – Shlomo HaMelech requested “a Continue Reading »
Speaker: Rabbi Zvi Aryeh Rosenfeld z”l. Shlomo HaMelech (King Solomon) was crowned while his father, Dovid HaMelech (King David), was still alive. A question of Torah law arises when Dovid HaMelech is nistalek (passes away) on Shabbos, when it is forbidden to move a dead body. How the expression “Better to be a live dog Continue Reading »
1 Melachim (1 Kings). Speaker: Rabbi Zvi Aryeh Rosenfeld ז”ל. Topics: Dovid HaMelech Transfers the Kingship to His Son, Shlomo HaMelech (King Solomon). 00:00 – In his later years, Dovid HaMelech took Avishag as a concubine. He already had the permitted number of wives but he did not divorce any of his previous wives in Continue Reading »
Speaker: Rabbi Zvi Aryeh Rosenfeld z”l. Dovid HaMelech (King David) endured many difficult trials but by transforming them all into tefilah, he composed the universally powerful words of Sefer Tehillim/Psalms (II Shmuel/Samuel 24).
Shmuel 2 – Dovid HaMelech – Census and Plague – The Power of Sefer Tehillim – Hashem’s Arrows – Purchase of Land for the Beis HaMikdash – Speaker: Rabbi Tzvi Aryeh Rosenfeld ז”ל. 05:07 – Benayahu ben Yehoyada – “He went down and killed a lion in a pit on a snowy day” (II Shmuel/Samuel Continue Reading »
Speaker: Rabbi Zvi Aryeh Rosenfeld z”l. Based on II Shmuel/Samuel, 20.
