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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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58:48

Tehilim 23 REDUX: The Lord is My Shepherd (Part 3)

The Tefilah Podcast ·

2024/11/14

Have any questions, insights, or feedback? Send me a text!Length: 58 minutesSynopsis: Tonight (11/13/24), in our Wednesday night Tehilim shiur, we successfully "landed the plane"! Last time we ran through the Radak to get the big picture and I shared the core of my theory. This time we read through him at a more deliberate pace and then brought it all together by asking a key question: When should this perek be said? The answer to that question unlocked the main idea and purpose of the perek...

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46:31

The Nature of Nusach (Liturgy) Part 1: How and Why...

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2024/11/08

Have any questions, insights, or feedback? Send me a text!Length: 46 minutesSynopsis: This morning (11/8/24), in our tefilah-focused Machshavah Lab series for women, we began a new topic: the nusach ha'tefilah (liturgy). We began by reviewing the relevant facts: what the mitzvah of tefilah from the Torah entailed, how Ezra and his Beis Din changed it, and the historical reasons why. I then presented my understanding of the REAL reasons why tefilah desperately needed this change, which I supp...

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27:07

Tefilah Reexamined: Part 5 - Recap of Four Models of...

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2024/11/08

Have any questions, insights, or feedback? Send me a text!Length: 26 minutesSynopsis: This morning (11/8/24), in the "Tefilah Reexamined" series of our Machshavah Lab for women, I decided to start with a review of the three models of tefilah we've learned in Parts 1-4, followed by a quick overview of my "go to" model of tefilah that has been the foundation of my approach to tefilah for years. This review is not intended as a substitute for the in-depth analysis we engaged in over the past co...

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59:06

Tehilim 23 REDUX: The Lord is My Shepherd (Part 2)

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2024/11/07

Have any questions, insights, or feedback? Send me a text!Length: 58 minutesSynopsis: Tonight (11/6/24), in our Wednesday night Tehilim shiur, we quickly reviewed the perek and all the questions from last time. After exploring an approach from one of the shiur attendees, we learned the Radak's commentary which I attempted to elucidate with a little help from the Ibn Ezra. I believe I managed to get everything out on the table, but we'll need to mull it over and come back to it next week to s...

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57:57

Tehilim 23 REDUX: The Lord is My Shepherd (Part 1)

The Tefilah Podcast ·

2024/10/31

Have any questions, insights, or feedback? Send me a text!Length: 58 minutesSynopsis: Tonight (10/30/24), in our Wednesday night Tehilim shiur, we began (re)learning what I believe is the most well-known psalm of them all. The last time I gave shiur on this was WAAAY back in November 2020, and I figured it was time to revisit it, especially now that I have new resources. We translated the perek on our own, then consulted four other translations. We theorized about the pivot point, then raise...

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87:53

Tefilah Reexamined: Part 4 - Six Ways of...

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2024/09/27

Have any questions, insights, or feedback? Send me a text!Length: 1 hour 27 minutesSynopsis: This morning (9/27/24), in our NEW Machshavah Lab series for women called "Tefilah Reexamined," we began with a grand review of the essential ideas in parts 1-3, focusing on the mitzvah de'oraisa of tefilah as explained by Ralbag, Rambam, and Ramban. Picking up where we left off last time, we reviewed the Rav's explanation of the machlokess between the Rambam and Ramban, bringing support from "Rav sc...

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58:30

Tehilim 24 REDUX: Sunday's Psalm (Shir Shel Yom...

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2024/09/26

Have any questions, insights, or feedback? Send me a text!Length: 57 minutesSynopsis: Tonight (9/25/24), in Wednesday night Tehilim shiur, our goal was "to land the plane" - to distill all of our insights and observations into a unified theory - and land the plane we did! Thanks to Sforno and R' Elia di Nola, we emerged with a powerful understanding of what it REALLY means to want Moshiach and gained clarity on what we're asking Hashem to do in this perek. We even managed to explain how this...

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83:14

Tefilah Reexamined: Part 3 - Ramban's Alternative...

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2024/09/20

Have any questions, insights, or feedback? Send me a text!Length: 1 hour 22 minutesSynopsis: This morning (9/20/24), in our NEW Machshavah Lab series for women called "Tefilah Reexamined," we began with a comprehensive review of Parts 1 and 2, then delved into the Ramban's critiques of the Rambam's stance on tefilah. After reading through the Ramban, we compared and contrasted his approach with the Rambam's, which - at this point - seem worlds apart. We concluded by reading the Rav's creativ...

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59:22

Tehilim 24 REDUX: Sunday's Psalm (Shir Shel Yom...

The Tefilah Podcast ·

2024/09/19

Have any questions, insights, or feedback? Send me a text!Length: 58 minutesSynopsis: Tonight (9/18/24), in Wednesday night Tehilim shiur, I decided not to review and refine the approaches we came up with last time, but instead, to jump right into the Sforno. We learned through his commentary at a leisurely pace, with lots of help from R' Moshe Kravetz's footnotes and R' Elia di Nola's commentary. During the last 15 minutes of shiur we worked on coming up with a unified theory. It feels like...

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99:38

Tefilah Reexamined: Part 2 - Rambam on "Avodah" (and...

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2024/09/13

Have any questions, insights, or feedback? Send me a text!Length: 1 hour 38 minutesSynopsis: This morning (9/13/24), in our NEW Machshavah Lab series for women called "Tefilah Reexamined," we began by reviewing our questions on the Rambam's initial presentation of the mitzvah of tefilah and the Ralbag's answer. We then delved into the Rambam's Allegory of the Palace in the Guide for the Perplexed, in which he presents his definition of "avodah" (Divine service) and "avodah she'ba'lev" (servi...

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57:54

Tehilim 24 REDUX: Sunday's Psalm (Shir Shel Yom...

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2024/09/12

Have any questions, insights, or feedback? Send me a text!Length: 57 minutesSynopsis: Tonight (9/11/24), in Wednesday night Tehilim shiur, we reviewed our cleaned-up translation of the perek from last time, went over all our questions (raising some new ones in the process), and then we opened the floor for approaches. There were a LOT of great ideas, but three complete theories for the perek, each one good in its own way. I didn't even get to share the approach I'm developing, which worked o...

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88:35

Tefilah Reexamined: Part 1 - Questions and a First Step

The Tefilah Podcast ·

2024/09/06

Have any questions, insights, or feedback? Send me a text!Length: 1 hour 28 minutesSynopsis: This morning (9/6/24), in the first shiur of our NEW Machshavah Lab series for women called "Tefilah Reexamined." Since I'm designing and teaching a year-long course on tefilah for high school students, I decided this summer to investigate the whole subject of tefilah afresh, from the ground up. We'll begin with a deep dive into what the mitzvah of tefilah is, and we'll see where that takes us. In th...

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58:04

Tehilim 24 REDUX: Sunday's Psalm (Shir Shel Yom...

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2024/09/05

Have any questions, insights, or feedback? Send me a text!Length: 57 minutesSynopsis: Tonight (9/4/24), in our first Wednesday night Tehilim shiur of the 2024-2025 season, we began our re-analysis of Sunday's Shir Shel Yom. We learned through this in shiur two years ago (10/26/22, 11/2/22), but found it to be difficult. I don't remember what we said, but I remember that I wasn't satisfied. Because this perek if featured prominently in the Malchiyos section of the Mussaf Rosh ha'Shanah, I tho...

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70:17

Tehilim 7: Shigayon le'David (Part 3)

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2024/05/30

Have any questions, insights, or feedback? Send me a text!Length: 1 hour 9 minutesSynopsis: Last night (5/29/24), in our Wednesday night Tehilim shiur, we attempted to "land the plane." Since it had been two weeks since our last shiur, we began by reviewing everything - the translations, the questions, and the approaches - and then set out to get as many individual ideas as we could. The ideas were great, but I wasn't sure we'd be able to pull it all together. But with Hashem's help, we were...

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64:01

Tehilim 7: Shigayon le'David (Part 2)

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2024/05/16

Have any questions, insights, or feedback? Send me a text!Length: 1 hour 3 minutesSynopsis: Last night (5/16/24), in our Wednesday night Tehilim shiur, we dove into our in-depth analysis of this perek, raising a bunch of questions, making a bunch of observations, and following our intuition. We discussed a few ideas from the meforshim - most notably, Radak's interpretation of the grammatically anomalous word: יִרַדֹּף - but the main moves we made came from our own theorizing. We began develo...

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62:47

Tehilim 7: Shigayon le'David (Part 1)

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2024/05/09

Have any questions, insights, or feedback? Send me a text!Length: 1 hour 2 minutesSynopsis: Tonight (5/8/24), in our Wednesday night Tehilim shiur, we began a new and unfamiliar perek. I selected it because it's clearly about David's struggles with his enemies and (unfortunately) that theme continues to be relevant to Jews in Israel and in the Diaspora today. The translation-work was difficult and we didn't get super far into our analysis beyond finding the pivot point and getting the backgr...

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65:46

Tehilim 113: Beginning of Hallel REDUX (Part 3)

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2024/04/18

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58:51

Tehilim 113: Beginning of Hallel REDUX (Part 2)

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2024/04/04

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60:44

Tehilim 113: Beginning of Hallel REDUX (Part 1)

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2024/03/28

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62:33

Tehilim 22: Al Ayeles ha'Shachar (Part 3: An Approach)

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2024/03/21

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