Fossils, dinosaurs and the neanderthal man conjure up images which challenge the authenticity of our Torah. In one of the most amazing lectures Rabbi Wagensberg has ever given, we will soon discover that we were not the first ones to walk the Earth.
If you usually skip over parsha talks, give a listen to Rabbi Wagensberg! His dynamic style gives an exciting twist to each week's parsha, often coming from a new vantage point.
In a puzzling event from this weeks Torah portion Sarah laughs when G-d tells her she will have a baby at the age of 90, and soon after this she appears to lie when Avraham confronts her disbelief. How can we attribute such behavior to this most saintly first lady? Hear how Rabbi Wagensberg recasts the apparent faults of our greatest pioneers into proper perspective.
What did Hashem really want of Avraham when He issued the command to bring Yitzchak up as an offering? Rabbi Wagensberg builds a picture of the intensity of love our patriarch felt for his long-awaited son, and the herculean task that faced him of directing all of that emotion toward His creator. How does this mirror the first test Avraham faced when asked to leave his father’s house?
Often, we have our own ideas as to what the right thing is to do and generally formulate very strong opinions. But once the will of G-d becomes crystallized, we must have the ability to surrender our own positions and bow to the Divine Ratzon. In this talk, Rabbi Wagensberg has us thinking about our own lives where we held our positions for the principle of the matter, and makes us wonder whether this was the correct approach.
In this weeks Torah portion the fundamental pillar of Chesed is discussed in several places. Rabbi Wagensberg raises the mitzvah of doing a favor for someone to a completely new dimension of impacting society, and it having an everlasting effect throughout the generations.
We all have our tests in life. Sometimes they seem to overwhelm us. Sometimes we actually feel that thunder clouds are gathering above us that are creating a very tense darkness. In this talk, Rabbi Wagensberg will give us the stamina to walk in the footsteps of Abraham our ancestor, who was equally tested of greatness and surmounted them!
Do you have any idea just how powerful your actions are? In this eye-opening lecture Rabbi Wagensberg will show how everything we do, say and think makes such an impact on our lives, on the lives of our family, affecting the entire generation, until the end of time.
There is an enormous amount of symbolism built into the sacrifice of Yitzchak on Mount Moriah. Follow Rabbi Wagensberg's esoteric thread of Israel's future from the eyes of the patriarchs, and the spiritual and physical struggles that lie ahead. He describes two hidden options within the storyline that may help to unravel the mess of exile and physicality that we are so caught up with today.
Sarah, our first matriarch, was a towering figure who was considered to be greater than Avraham in some areas. Rabbi Wagensberg explores this beautiful woman’s personality, and her monumental accomplishments that form the inner fabric of a Jewish woman.