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...

From where do shochtim come from? The bloody red mazal of Madim. And there was an ancient tradition among Jewish communities that if you were a guest or you were passing by a village and you needed a place to stay, you'd stay at the local shochet. Th...

When you're talking about animals you say "what is that?" But when you're talking about people you say "who is that?" Says Reb Meilach Biderman: אם אין אני לי – when a person realizes "I can't do anything on my own" then people ask מי לי – "who is t...

Moshe Rabeinu was the greatest Jew of all time and he isn't included in the Shira of this week's Parsha; and the Sfas Emes asks why. There's a secret: the holy Rebbe of Peshischa taught - משפיל גאים ומגביה שפלים – it's only through משפיל גאים – when...

Hashem says: וחי בהם – My Torah is something you're going to live from, ולא שימות בהם. But on the other hand - זאת התורה אדם כי ימות באהל, and Chazal say אין התורה מתקיימת – the Torah is only going to remain - אלא במי שממית עצמו עליה – for somebody w...

And so it was that the sheep wandered by the lion king, and the lion king stopped the sheep and said "Smell my breath – how does it smell?" And the sheep said "Why, horrid". And the lion said "Horrid? That's how you speak to a king?" And he devoured ...

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...

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...

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...

It's the most amazing paradox, somebody becomes impure in order to make somebody else holy and pure. Now how exactly does that work? So there’s one of the deepest secrets in the world, whenever you see things that suddenly bring you up but then y...

You know it’s the weirdest thing, we have this פרה אדומה and everybody wonders “what exactly is the point of doing something that makes no sense?” And it’s an amazing idea, Korach last week was one of those people who were so smart that his brain...