Esther Wein has been teaching Jewish women for close to 30 years. She is known for teaching subjects such as Parsha, Tefillah, Navi, History on an intellectually advanced level, but gearing her shiurim towards students with all levels of education. With a strong text based and philosophical emphasis, she strives to expose students to fundamental Jewish ideas and their eternal truths. Drawing on great masters spanning from the Midrash, Rambam, and Ramban to more modern thinkers such as the Maharal, Ramchal, Rav Hirsh, her grandfather Rav Shimon Schwab and Rav Moshe Shapiro, she excites and inspires her audience with the ingenuity and profundity that is hiding just beneath the surface of the text.
8 nights, 8 luminaries, 8 sparks to light up your Chanukah, 8 minutes each.
What is the Al HaNisim for Chanukah trying to convey? What is the real fundamental disagreement between the Greek way of life and the Torah way of life?
What is exile? What does the Ramchal mean when he says all events that occur to the Jews as a nation are experienced by each individual in their own life?
The transition from Pesach to Shavuot: Pesach is parallel to not being able to eat from the Etz Hadaat (which according to one opinion was wheat) & Shavuot, the day we received the Torah (and when we bring the shtei halechem) is parallel to our being permitted to eat from the Etz Hadaat.
How do tumah and taharah relate to Korban Pesach, Chet HaEgel, Parah Adumah, and Yetziat Mitzrayim? How do they relate to the mitzvot of Pesach, Matzah, and Marror? Vayakhel-Pekudei 5772.
Fatalism and Freedom: Pharaoh’s Chanukah Dreams: Pharaoh’s dreams, through a long chain of events, led to a great revelation of a single God who controls nature. This concept is the antithesis of what the Greeks believed.
Ra (evil) is that which gets in the way of our achieving the tzurat ha’adam, man in his ideal state, as he was at the time of creation. For part 1 click here.
The big picture: the 3 weeks and the Fragmenting of the Tzurat Ha’adam – a much earlier concept which is found at the beginning of Sefer Bereishit expresses itself during the 3 weeks & especially on Tisha B’Av. For part 2 click here.
The Torah tells us that our children will ask the questions found in the Haggadah but it doesn’t label them, how did the Ba’al Haggadah know how to label each one? Why don’t the questions match the answers provided in the Torah?
Purim and the Mitzva of Hashavat Aveida (returning a lost object): Why do the terms lost (ibud), return (l’hashiv), & seek (l’vakesh) appear so many times in the megillah? For part 1 click here For part 2 click here
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