Google Hangout/You Tube/Conference Call Shiur:BMI

Google Hangout/You Tube/Conference Call Shiur: Ellul

Note new time: 

Tomorrow, Thursday evening,

10 pm EDT. 9 pm CDT, 7 pm PDT.

Answer the invitation to the Google Hangout at that time.

or 

go to 

youtube.com/mtajt

or

To join the conference call:

Dial: (209) 647-1600

Access Code: 435678#

Birchas HaChodesh Insight

We say in the Yehi Ratzon on Shabbos Mevorchim:

Chaim she'ein bahem busha u'kelima,
Chaim shel osher v'kavod
Chaim she'tehei banu ahavas Torah v'yiras shomayim

Last Shabbos Mevorchim it struck me that these three lines represent the three levels of Talmud Torah:

Al menas l'kanter
She'lo lishma
Lishma

The first request is that we should not learn Torah as a tool to embarrass or shame others.

The second request is that we should learn Torah even shelo lishma - for which the reward is b'smola osher v'kadod.

The third request is that we should Torah lishma (orech yamim b'yemina - l'yom she'kulo aroch) - with the approaches and ideals of ahavas Torah and yiras shomayim.

With this approach we can also explain the apparent redundant mention of yiras Shomayim, v'duk.

Tu b'Av (and Tu b'Shvat): Video and Audio

Video:

Audio

Cute Siyum HaShas anagram from a correspondent!

If you'd like to share this on your blog, I think your readers will enjoy it.

An anagram for Metlife Stadium is:

Elite Daf Summit

(authored by Phil Silverman)

Tu'Av Shiur

Today, Thursday August 2nd,

Tu b'Av

Google Hangout/You Tube Simulcast/Conference Call

Shiur

on Inyana d'Yoma

Sinas Chinam vs. Ahavas Chinam

11:00pm EDT

(10:00 pm CDT, 8:00pm PDT)

For video and audio:Send me a request for an invitation to the Google Hangout or go to youtube.com/mtajt

For audio only: At the scheduled date and time of the conference call, dial  the conference line: (209) 647-1600 and enter the access code followed by the pound sign: 435678# when prompted.