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...

Hashem says, Comfort My People! Comfort My People! (Yeshayahu 40:1) Why does it say 'Yomar' Elokeichem – that Hashem is saying it? Shouldn't it have said 'Omar' Elokeichem - that Hashem said it in the past? It's the deepest secret: To whom do...

This question always bothered me. Imagine somebody is begging you for a glass of wine, he begs his neshama out five hundred and fifteen times “Please please, won't you give me some of that Ingerishe Wine!” and at the end you tell him "Okay, you begge...

When you lose something precious, it really hurts that you lost it and don't have it anymore, but then life goes on. But you know when life never ever goes on? When you have something, but you can't access it. The money is yours, but you have no way ...

Do you remember the story of the ugly duckling? It’s mamesh a gevalt story. (If you don't know it, well, then get it and read it!) There was this swan egg that somehow rolled into this duck family, and so he's raised as a duck. But he's really a swan...

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...

But aren’t we talking about רוצחים? Who cares about their Tefillos? Who cares that they’re being Mispallel that the holiest Jew in the world should die? The mother of the Cohen Gadol really had to go bring them food? Wow, when somebody is desperat...

Why in the world would Hashem need us little creations to love him, to the extent that every single day we say ואהבת את השם אלוקיך? And the Baal Shem Tov says one of the most amazing teachings, the reason why we need to love Hashem is not for Hashem....

There’s what you say you want, and then there’s what you really want. For example, if somebody says he wants a Rolex to tell time, does he want to know the time? You can tell time with your Me’isher phone too! What he means to say is “I want prestige...

Doesn’t it seem cruel? Moshe Rabeinu is begging his whole life to go to Eretz Yisrael, and finally he’s begging and he makes all these prayers, and Hashem says you can’t go, but עלה ראש הפסגה – I’m going to let you go on top of the mountain and you c...