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’ Elazar Ben Aroch, instead of saying הַחֹדֶשׁ הַזֶּה לָכֶם - ‘This month shall be the head month to you.’ he read החרש היה לבם - ‘their hearts were deaf.’ The difference between being deaf and being able to hear - is one little drop. If you loo...

When the Torah says וַתִּבְאַשׁ הָאָרֶץ - ‘and the land stank.’ It really stank. From what did that stench come from? From piles and piles of dead frogs. Where did those dead frogs come from? From somebody beating an issue. First, there was one fr...

When all hail was about to break loose, the posuk tells us: הַיָּרֵא אֶת דְּבַר ה' מֵעַבְדֵי פַּרְעֹה הֵנִיס אֶת עֲבָדָיו וְאֶת מִקְנֵהוּ אֶל הַבָּתִּים - ‘Some of Pharaoh's subjects feared G-d's word, and they made their slaves and livestock flee in...

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 told Moshe Rabbeinu ‘Go speak to Pharaoh,’ and Moshe said ‘But I have swollen lips, I don’t know the language, I don’t have the confidence to go speak to Pharaoh, I can’t communicate with him! It’s not going to work out.’ And Hashem tells h...

So you think that מכת חשך is when it's dark outside? You know what the essence of חשך is? לא ראו איש את אחיו - you don't see your brother, ולא קמו איש מתחתיו - and you can't pick yourself up, that's the real מכת חשך. And that's what hits every...

So here's the amazing thing about precious stones: It's extremely precious, but you know how much more valuable it becomes when you put it into a setting? You put it on a silver setting - wow, you put it on a gold setting with other precious ston...

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