Until his death in 1999, Rabbi Yaakov Weinberg was Rosh Yeshiva of Ner Yisroel in Baltimore. For more than 50 years, Rabbi Weinberg taught in various capacities at Ner Yisroel, as well as traveling the world imparting his wisdom to thousands of eager listeners. He is the older brother and mentor of Rabbi Noah Weinberg, the dean and founder of Aish HaTorah.
Rav Yaakov Weinberg examines Rambam's 13 Principles of Faith from the perspective of modern Jewish society and today's kiruv challenges. A deep class for the experienced learner on further appreciating the function of Rambam's approach.
Rav Yaakov Weinberg looks at Rambam's 13 principles of faith from the vantage point of our modern Jewish society and today's kiruv challenges. A great class for the experienced learner to understand the true function of Rambam's approach.
Rav Yaakov Weinberg looks at Rambam's 13 principles of faith from the vantage point of our modern Jewish society and today's kiruv challenges. A great class for the experienced learner to understand the true function of Rambam's approach.
What affect does the essential nature of Shabbos have on my life? This talk exemplifies how Shabbos is Judaism's central pillar to Jewish survival. Hear an inspiring discussion to awaken an invaluable appreciation of Shabbos, and to infuse more meaning into the rest of your week.
Holiness is the only order of existence that has no boundaries. This philosophical talk on 'the sanctification of man, time and space' discusses how humans that reach beyond their physical limitations is one way to relate with God. Another way is by combining holiness with time, which uses basic Jewish thought to open a new dimension for elevating ordinary people to live at higher levels of kedusha.
The primary message of Pesach seems to contradict itself at its core. While we trumpet the call to freedom from slavery, is it not apparent that we have merely traded one master for another? And isn't Torah observance, which many consider servitude, part and parcel of the redemption? Hear a powerful message from an excellent speaker of how the Torah intertwines freedom and responsibility.
This culmination of our relationship with Hashem began 49 days before with the Pesach Exodus out of Egypt. Rav Yaakov Weinberg underscores the foundation of Torah and how we are to use the world, including our physicality in the service of God.
What does the act of fasting accomplish more than a gnawing hunger and irritability? And how well do we appreciate how a lack of food and drink leads to the appropriate state of mind? Rav Yaakov examines the root cause of all the bad occurrences in history, past and future, and the character trait that the 10th of Tevet, the Holiday of Trees, is intended to heal.
Rav Yaakov Weinberg makes one bold statement after the next on why we fast this day. If it is to reawaken the pain of the Temple's destruction 2,000 year ago, real pain just won't plague us more than a years time. Perhaps it's to suffer the vacuum of all the treasures of life that we've lost? Hear what these three weeks are intended to awaken, and to even cry about. A brilliant talk.
To mourn the destruction of the Temple in a more meaningful way is to hear how it affects our self-definition and nationhood. In this beautiful class, Rav Yaakov describes how our relationship with God needs to be simple and unquestionably accepted, or it can leave one floundering in a haze of doubt with a strange dislike for others.