Welcome to Monday Torah, a riveting class by Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Jacobson, one of the most sought after speakers in the Jewish world today and spiritual leader of Congregation Bais Shmuel in Crown Heights.
The weekly video webcast is aired on TheYeshiva.net and COLlive.com each Monday evening at 8:30 PM EST.
This week’s lecture, accompanied by a full study curriculum, explores the tragic life of Lot and why his wife turned into salt when she turned around. What is so bad with turning around? He asks.
The class discusses the tragic music of ambivalence: the shalsheles note found only four times in the Torah.
VIDEO: Will begin at 8:30 pm EST. A replay will be available afterwards. Sign in to watch.
That note…familiar from the animation films Shrek & Little Mermaid; both produced by Yidden from Eastern European ancestors-wow! Not an isolated borrowing of our holy tunes, put into movies successfully produced by Jewish founders of Hollywood. Interesting!
briliant lesson. it applies also to us in chabad. are we really ready to embrace who we are?!
excellent! It’s truly amazing all that the Torah has to teach us-may we all be blessed with the receptiveness to accept it