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...

Sometimes your confronted by Eisav and life gets tough, and you can feel lost. Says R’ Nosson of Breslev: Yaakov Avinu made a space between all those flocks that he sent, וְרֶוַח תָּשִׂימוּ בֵּין עֵדֶר וּבֵין עֵדֶר - ‘Keep a space between one he...

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...

R’ Meilech Biderman shares a living strategy from the Sfas Emes: In the Torah, there are many spaces - a hefsek. That is usually a time to contemplate. But in the entire story of Yaakov Avinu’s trials and tribulations, there is no hefsek. You kno...

That inner voice that tells us "Nuu Ad Kan?! What did you do with your life until now??" That's bad thinking. The inner voice that says "let's go from now on forward!" That's good thinking "עד כאן" - דברי יצר הרע "מכאן ואילך" - דברי יצר טו...

There are many times where we lift our eyes to heaven and we say ‘Hashem, why is there so much evil in the world, what am I supposed to do when I see people doing something wrong?’ Yaakov Avinu said עִם לָבָן גַּרְתִּי - I lived in the house of th...

"I will walk slowly... together with my tender children" No Jew will be left behind! 🔥...

Abraham gets sent away... לך לך מארצך וממולדתך Jacob gets sent back... שוב לארצך ולמולדתך...

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It makes no sense, Yaakov has no choice but to divide his family into two camps... But then thanks Hashem saying: "for with my staff I crossed the Jordan ... And now I have become two camps" What's going on?...

It's very interesting, wouldn't you say that if somebody wins a fight he's called a winner? When Yakov Avinu wins a fight he's not called a winner which the Pasuk calls him a winner. The Pasuk says כי שרית עם אלקים ועם אנשים ותוכל, so he should h...

קָטֹנְתִּי מִכֹּל הַחֲסָדִים וּמִכָּל הָאֱמֶת אֲשֶׁר עָשִׂיתָ אֶת עַבְדֶּךָ כִּי בְמַקְלִי עָבַרְתִּי אֶת הַיַּרְדֵּן הַזֶּה וְעַתָּה הָיִיתִי לִשְׁנֵי מַחֲנוֹת - ‘I am unworthy of all the kindness and faith that You have shown me. When I left home, ...

So Yakov Avinu sends Malochim, he sends messengers. He sends angels. Who does he send these angles to? To Eisav. You know, sometimes you have an Eisav in your life, and he's making your life miserable. He's just making you struggle, he wants to k...

וַיִּקְחוּ שְׁנֵי בְנֵי יַעֲקֹב שִׁמְעוֹן וְלֵוִי אֲחֵי דִינָה אִישׁ חַרְבּוֹ וַיָּבֹאוּ עַל הָעִיר בֶּטַח וַיַּהַרְגוּ כָּל זָכָר - Two of Yaakov's sons, Shimon and Levi, Dinah's brothers, took up their swords. They came to the city without arousing...

וַיֹּאמֶר לֹא יַעֲקֹב יֵאָמֵר עוֹד שִׁמְךָ כִּי אִם יִשְׂרָאֵל - The angel said 'You won't be called Yaakov anymore, from now on you're called Yisrael.’ (Bereishis 32:29) Asks the holy Rizhiner: If the name Yisrael is such a holy name, why don't w...

Anybody who's ever recovered from any serious problem will tell you that the first step was becoming humble, dethroning themselves from being G-d, and realize that they're helpless. קָטֹנְתִּי מִכֹּל הַחֲסָדִים וּמִכָּל הָאֱמֶת אֲשֶׁר עָשִׂיתָ אֶת...

Lavan had one thing really going for him, that whatever he did, whenever he lied, he did it with all the energy in the world; he lived his lie. I saw this gevaldig Chassidishe concept from the Chofetz chaim. He says, Yaakov Avinu told himself עִם ...

There's two times when the Torah says that somebody met an איש. One of them was Yaakov Avinu, וַיֵּאָבֵק אִישׁ עִמּוֹ - and Chazal say he was שרו של עשו. And then we have Yosef meeting an ‘Ish’, וַיִּמְצָאֵהוּ אִישׁ - and Chazal say he was מלאך גבריא...