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[#1122] Eikev: The mother of all excuses

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Rabbi Shimon Semp, Rosh Yeshiva Talpios inspires through bringing Jewish spiritual concepts, with Chassidic Torah teachings down to earth. Collecting anecdotes, sayings, and Divrei Torah from Chabad, Breslav, and other Hasidic masters and Rebbes. Listen and get inspired.

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[#1125] Eikev: Take the blame - and watch how ears grow

Rabbi Shimon Semp, Rosh Yeshiva Talpios inspires through bringing Jewish spiritual concepts, with Chassidic Torah teachings down to earth. Collecting anecdotes, sayings, and Divrei Torah from Chabad, Breslav, and other Hasidic masters and Rebbes. Lis...

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[#1124] Eikev: How can you forget the unforgettable ??

Rabbi Shimon Semp, Rosh Yeshiva Talpios inspires through bringing Jewish spiritual concepts, with Chassidic Torah teachings down to earth. Collecting anecdotes, sayings, and Divrei Torah from Chabad, Breslav, and other Hasidic masters and Rebbes. Lis...

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08/02/2018

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[#1120] Eikev: You know the song ...

Rabbi Shimon Semp, Rosh Yeshiva Talpios inspires through bringing Jewish spiritual concepts, with Chassidic Torah teachings down to earth. Collecting anecdotes, sayings, and Divrei Torah from Chabad, Breslav, and other Hasidic masters and Rebbes. Lis...

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07/30/2018

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[#875] Eikev: You don't deserve Eretz Yisrael

I לֹא בְצִדְקָתְךָ, וּבְיֹשֶׁר לְבָבְךָ, אַתָּה בָא, לָרֶשֶׁת אֶת-אַרְצָם – Said the holy S'fas Emes: You know why it's so important that Hashem tells us that we don't deserve Eretz Yisrael and we didn't do anything to get it? Because there will b...

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08/11/2017

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[#874] Eikev: If you would've come earlier, you could've still came with your pants on

The Ruzhier brings this amazing story: There were two brothers that got an inheritance, unfortunately they got into a fight, they were fighting over the money and they stopped talking to each other. A few years go by and one of the brothers ma...

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08/10/2017

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[873] Eikev: The art of keeping low

In Ruzhin they had this gorgeous shtreimel where the yarmulke goes up high. And Reb Aaron Chernobler had a grandchild who was a Ruzhiner einikel, and one time this einikel came a little late to the Tish, and in order for him to get to his place h...

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08/09/2017

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[#872] Eikev: Sing me your latest song

And Reb Meilach Biderman brings down that Reb Osher Stoliner had a chusid Reb Yankel who was a Baal Menagen, and one day he calls him in and says "Sing me one of your latest compositions." And he begins a Nigun, and the Rebbe says "No, not that so...

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08/06/2017

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Eikev: The "and now" method

Rabbi Shimon Semp, Rosh Yeshiva Talpios inspires through bringing Jewish spiritual concepts, with Chassidic Torah teachings down to earth. Collecting anecdotes, sayings, and Divrei Torah from Chabad, Breslav, and other Hasidic masters and Rebbes. Lis...

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08/24/2016

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Eikev: "Just Because" #Today

Rabbi Shimon Semp, Rosh Yeshiva Talpios inspires through bringing Jewish spiritual concepts, with Chassidic Torah teachings down to earth. Collecting anecdotes, sayings, and Divrei Torah from Chabad, Breslav, and other Hasidic masters and Rebbes. Lis...

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08/24/2016

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Eikev: No Jew Will Be Left Behind!

Rabbi Shimon Semp, Rosh Yeshiva Talpios inspires through bringing Jewish spiritual concepts, with Chassidic Torah teachings down to earth. Collecting anecdotes, sayings, and Divrei Torah from Chabad, Breslav, and other Hasidic masters and Rebbes. Lis...

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08/23/2016

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EIKEV: THE PARADOX; DO WE EARN OUR GOOD, OR JUST GET A GIFT?

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08/30/2015

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EIKEV: I NEVER DIVORCED YOUR MOTHER

And Hashem asks איזה ספר כריתות אמכם אשר שלחתיה - show me, where is the divorce I gave your mother? I never divorced her. And then he asks מדוע באתי ואין איש - how come I came to shul and it’s desolate? Why isn’t anybody home? And everybody asks ...

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08/07/2015

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EIKEV: Forgetting Joy Leads to Forgetting God

Why does it say והיה אם שכח תשכח את ה' אלוקיך? What’s the double expression? And the holy Rishener says something we all know in the deepest recesses of our hearts how true it is, 'והיה' is a לשון שמחה, והיה אם שכח - if you’re going to forget to ...

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08/04/2015

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EIKEV: What Would Happen If You Did Know The Reason Why He’s Suffering!?

When we read וְהָיָה עֵקֶב תִּשְׁמְעוּן, where Hashem tells us that if we’re going to be good we’re going to have the good life, it sometimes bothers us and doesn't sit well - don’t we see so many good people who suffer? I saw from Aaron Moss on C...

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08/03/2015