Parsha Pick-Me-Up

by Yitzchak Sprung

Take a few minutes to study the parsha with Rabbi Sprung on Thursdays from Bereshit to V'Zot Habracha. Find the Parsha Pick-Me-Up on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher or wherever you get your podcasts.

Podcast episodes

  • Season 2

  • Tzav: No Strings Attached?

    Tzav: No Strings Attached?

    Do we need to earn our place in this world? We find ourselves here, and no one asked us whether we were interested. Yet, once we are here, God makes demands of us. Our parasha contains the beginning of a meditation on this problem. Sources: Lev. 6:10, Malachi 1:10, Tosefta Demai 2:8.

  • Vayikra: Whom Do We Serve?

    Vayikra: Whom Do We Serve?

    Soldiers on the front lines will have an easy time answering key questions. They serve the people of Israel. And the rest of us?

  • Pikudei: The Surprise of the Mishkan (and Why it Took So Long to Put Up)

    Pikudei: The Surprise of the Mishkan (and Why it Took So Long to Put Up)

    Surely, complex as the process was, it could not have taken six months to make such a small building as the Tabernacle! What was it that took so long that the Mishkan could not be assembled until nearly six months had passed?  The answers the Sages give is mysterious. It is also precisely the answer we need right now.

  • Vayakhel: Going Beyond the Title

    Vayakhel: Going Beyond the Title

    Bezalel is key to the construction of the Mishkan (Tabernacle), such that it is named after him. What is the Torah teaching us by singling him out?

  • Ki Tisa: The Opposite of Holy

    Ki Tisa: The Opposite of Holy

    There is a great secret here: That which is kadosh, holy or sacred- or its opposite- can change our lives.