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PODCAST

The Tefilah Podcast

Rabbi Matt Schneeweiss

My name is Rabbi Matt Schneeweiss, and this is the hub for all of my shiurim (classes) on Tefilah (Prayer) and related topics, such as Tehilim (Psalms) and Berachos (Blessings)! The shiurim I upload here are given in a variety of formats with different lengths and intended for different audiences. The common theme which unites all of these shiurim is our focus on strengthening our relationship with Hashem through Avodah she"ba"Lev (Service of the Heart). If you have any questions feel free to email

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64:26

Amidah Analysis: Avos (Part 6) Atoh

The Tefilah Podcast ·

2025/03/07

Have any questions, insights, or feedback? Send me a text! Length: 1 hour 4 minutes Synopsis: This Friday morning (3/7/25), in our tefilah-focused Machshavah Lab series for women, we resumed our analysis of berachos. After reviewing and slightly expanding upon our explanation of what kavanah to have when we say Hashem's name, we delved into a question that tends to escape the notice of many Jews: that throughout davening and in many berachos, we switch back and forth between talking to Hashe...

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56:50

Tehilim 43: Shofteini Hashem ve'Rivah Rivi (Part 3)

The Tefilah Podcast ·

2025/03/06

Have any questions, insights, or feedback? Send me a text! Length: 56 minutes Synopsis: Tonight (3/5/25), in our Wednesday night Tehilim shiur, we successfully and SMOOTHLY "landed the plane"! Not only did we get the main idea and purpose of the perek, but we explained nearly every phrase in the perek - except for the very last phrase, which we decided we can't fully understand without learning the previous perek. This short perek proved to be HIGHLY relevant to our current situation, and is...

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59:31

Tehilim 43: Shofteini Hashem ve'Rivah Rivi (Part 2)

The Tefilah Podcast ·

2025/02/27

Have any questions, insights, or feedback? Send me a text! Length: 59 minutes Synopsis: Tonight (2/26/24), in our Wednesday night Tehilim shiur, we continued our analysis of the short perek we began last time. After reviewing our translation, our pivot point theories, and our questions, we came up with a few ideas and approaches. I presented the findings that my chavrusa and I came up with, which I think carry real promise. The central idea we developed today is fundamental in our relationsh...

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67:30

Amidah Analysis: Avos (Part 5) "Hashem" and "Baruch"

The Tefilah Podcast ·

2025/02/24

Have any questions, insights, or feedback? Send me a text! Length: 1 hour 7 minutes Synopsis: This morning (2/21/25), in our tefilah-focused Machshavah Lab series for women, we resumed our analysis of the first berachah of the shemoneh esrei ... well, of ALL berachos! We began by reviewing what we covered last time - namely, what we mean by "Hashem" - which we reinforced with additional sources. We then learned through several sources about the word "Baruch," which we ALMOST finished, but no...

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59:01

Tehilim 43: Shofteini Hashem ve'Rivah Rivi (Part 1)

The Tefilah Podcast ·

2025/02/20

Have any questions, insights, or feedback? Send me a text! Length: 58 minutes Synopsis: Tonight (2/19/24), in our Wednesday night Tehilim shiur, we began a new and (to us) unknown chapter towards the beginning of Book II. I chose it because it was unfamiliar, short, and looked like it might help us to cope with the current situation Israel is in, and the despondent feelings of many Jews around the world. We spent much of the time going over various translations, then discussed where the pivo...

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57:43

Amidah Analysis: Avos (Part 4) - Who is Hashem?

The Tefilah Podcast ·

2025/02/14

Have any questions, insights, or feedback? Send me a text! Length: 57 minutes Synopsis: This morning (2/14/25), in our tefilah-focused Machshavah Lab series for women, I decided on a last-minute change of plans. After reviewing the main ideas and takeaways we've developed so far, we went back to the beginning of the berachah with the INTENT to analyze the phrase, "Baruch atoh Hashem," but we "only" ended up analyzing what we mean by "Hashem." I now know why I initially decided to skip this p...

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59:05

Tehilim 65: "To You, Silence is Praise" (Part 3)

The Tefilah Podcast ·

2025/02/13

Have any questions, insights, or feedback? Send me a text! Length: 58 minutes Synopsis: Tonight (2/12/24), in our Wednesday night Tehilim shiur, we attempted to "land the plane" - and I believe we succeeded! We reviewed our analysis from last time, honed in on the key questions we intended to resolve, then managed to synthesize the steps we took, thanks to one new step which tied everything together. We emerged with a solid understanding of the main idea of the perek and its application. Thi...

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78:33

Amidah Analysis: Avos (Part 3)

The Tefilah Podcast ·

2025/02/07

Have any questions, insights, or feedback? Send me a text! Length: 1 hour 18 minutes Synopsis: This morning (2/7/25), in our tefilah-focused Machshavah Lab series for women, we continued our analysis of the first berachah of the Amidah. Since it's been a while, we began by reviewing what we covered last time, refining it in the process. We then focused on three explanations of "the Great, Mighty, and Awesome God" - two given by the Eitz Yosef and another by Sforno - and we developed some exc...

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57:14

Tehilim 65: "To You, Silence is Praise" (Part 2)

The Tefilah Podcast ·

2025/02/06

Have any questions, insights, or feedback? Send me a text! Length: 56 minutes Synopsis: Tonight (2/5/24), in our Wednesday night Tehilim shiur, we continued our analysis of the perek we began last week. Day 2 of learning a new perek is like a box of chocolates: you never know what you're going to get. I was actually a bit worried that we wouldn't get ANYWHERE tonight, as sometimes happens on Day 2, but I was pleasantly surprised. We came up with three general approaches which all overlapped,...

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57:22

Tehilim 65: "To You, Silence is Praise" (Part 1)

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2025/01/30

Have any questions, insights, or feedback? Send me a text!Length: 57 minutesSynopsis: Tonight (1/29/24), in our Wednesday night Tehilim shiur, we began a new perek! I chose this one because of the famous opening line (which is central to the Rambam's writings about praising Hashem). As usual, we spent much of this first session reading and translating the perek, and BOY WAS IT A TEETHBREAKER! The words, grammar, and syntax in this perek are NOT simple! Still, we hobbled together a translatio...

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77:14

Amidah Analysis: Avos (Part 2)

The Tefilah Podcast ·

2025/01/10

Have any questions, insights, or feedback? Send me a text!Length: 1 hour 16 minutesSynopsis: This morning (1/10/24), in our tefilah-focused Machshavah Lab series for women, we continued our analysis of the first berachah of the Amidah. Due to personal circumstances and a reconsideration of halachic priorities, we deviated from our original plan of focusing on the conclusion of the berachah. Instead, we began analyzing each word and phrase in the berachah. We started by discussing why this ap...

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60:46

Does Hashem Love Us Unconditionally? (Part 2)

The Tefilah Podcast ·

2025/01/09

Have any questions, insights, or feedback? Send me a text!Length: 1 hourSynopsis: Tonight (1/8/24), in our Wednesday night tefilah shiur, we continued our analysis of what we mean when we say that Hashem loves us. We began by reviewing the essence of what we covered last time, but in a much slower, clearer, and thought-out manner than last time. As we reviewed the sources, we sharpened last week's approach. We then read an excerpt from R' Joseph B. Soloveitchik's "From There Shall You Seek" ...

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78:02

Amidah Analysis: Avos (Part 1)

The Tefilah Podcast ·

2025/01/03

Have any questions, insights, or feedback? Send me a text!Length: 1 hour 17 minutesSynopsis: This morning (1/3/24), in our tefilah-focused Machshavah Lab series for women, we began a new series: an analysis of the berachos in the amidah! What, exactly, does this entail? That's what we spent the first 20 minutes of shiur discussing: how can we get the most out of our analysis, given our temporal limitations, and what should our objectives be? After we settled on 5-6 objectives, we translated ...

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60:34

Does Hashem Love Us Unconditionally? (Part 1)

The Tefilah Podcast ·

2025/01/02

Have any questions, insights, or feedback? Send me a text!Length: 1 hourSynopsis: Tonight (1/1/24), in our Wednesday night tefilah shiur, we took up a question that was sparked by a debate I had on Facebook about whether Hashem loves us unconditionally which, itself, was sparked by the popular Israeli song "Tamid Ohev Oti." We began with a surface-level analysis of the two berachos before krias Shema in which we talk about God's love for Israel, raising some basic and powerful questions. We ...

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58:46

Modim (Part 4: Tying Up Loose Ends)

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2024/12/19

Have any questions, insights, or feedback? Send me a text!Length: 58 minutesSynopsis: Tonight (12/18/24), in our Wednesday night tefilah shiur, we attempted to "land the plane" - or at least, to tie up some loose ends. After a brief review of last time, I tried yet again to say over the idea that my chavrusa and I came up with. Yet again, I don't feel like I did it justice. The good news is that we were successful enough in other aspects of our discussion to get some nice ideas. This was a d...

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74:35

The Nature of Nusach (Liturgy) Part 3: Rambam's...

The Tefilah Podcast ·

2024/12/13

Have any questions, insights, or feedback? Send me a text!Length: 1 hour 14 minutesSynopsis: This morning (12/13/24), in our tefilah-focused Machshavah Lab series for women, we attempted to understand the Rambam's view, as expressed in a pair of seemingly contradictory halachos. We learned through two commentaries on the Rambam who offered explanations: the Kesef Mishneh and the Yad Peshuta. Believe me, I didn't intend for these to be highly technical halachic shiurim (which is usually the t...

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58:12

Modim (Part 3: The Living Bow to the Living)

The Tefilah Podcast ·

2024/12/12

Have any questions, insights, or feedback? Send me a text!Length: 57 minutesSynopsis: Whoops! I forgot to upload last week's tefilah shiur. Last Wednesday (12/11/24), in our Wednesday night tefilah shiur, we continued our analysis Modim. After reviewing and refining what we covered last time, we attempted to understand the midrash cited by the Abudarham about how since we are alive and God is "alive," therefore, we should bow to Him. Our analysis was going well until I got up to the main ide...

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74:49

The Nature of Nusach (Liturgy) Part 2: The Big Nusach...

The Tefilah Podcast ·

2024/12/06

Have any questions, insights, or feedback? Send me a text!Length: 1 hour 13 minutesSynopsis: This morning (12/6/24), in our tefilah-focused Machshavah Lab series for women, we continued our exploration of the nusach ha'tefilah. After reviewing what we covered in Part 1, we busted what I call "The Big Nusach Myth" about "the original nusach" and how all the nuschaos we have today came about. We examined sources from Geonim, Rishonim, Acharonim, and academics. This insight led to a number of q...

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59:21

Modim (Part 2: "Modim Anachnu Lach")

The Tefilah Podcast ·

2024/12/05

Have any questions, insights, or feedback? Send me a text!Length: 58 minutesSynopsis: This evening (12/4/24), in our Wednesday night tefilah shiur, we continued our analysis Modim. After reviewing our updated translation, going over a few insights I accrued since last week, and examining three ancient nuschaos, we delved into the Abudarham's commentary on the first three words of the berachah. He made four points, and we made it through 3.5 of them (leaving one major question unanswered). Ne...

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57:51

Modim (Part 1: Reading and Translation)

The Tefilah Podcast ·

2024/11/28

Have any questions, insights, or feedback? Send me a text!Length: 57 minutesSynopsis: This evening (11/27/24), in our Wednesday night Tehilim/Tefilah shiur on Erev Thanksgiving, we commenced our in-depth analysis of the blessing of thanksgiving: Modim! We began with a 15-minute review of my "MMMMMMM!" method of tefilah analysis. After that, we spent the rest of the shiur figuring out the reading and translation of the berachah - a task more difficult than people might imagine! Although we on...

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