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Simply Deep

Although the words of the Torah, Chazal, and Rishonim may at times seem simple, they are deeply layered with profound insights and lessons. This podcast explores the hidden depths beneath seemingly straightforward statements in Rashi, Aggadata, and other Torah sources.

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01:12:50

Invisible Mazikin

Simply Deep ·

2025/02/04

The Gemara in Brachos 6a discusses various ideas about mazikin or sheidim. Among other points, it discusses their chicken footprints in ashes around your bed. This episode (a shiur given during COVID time) provides an approach to explaining this and similar gemaras about sheidim.

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00:11:09

Reward for Accepting, Going, and Doing

Simply Deep ·

2025/01/31

This episode analyzes the various elements of reward that Rashi (Shmos 12:28) says the Jews received for doing the Korban Pesach.

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00:34:17

Bechira and Hardening Pharaoh’s Heart

Simply Deep ·

2025/01/29

In Shmos 7:3, Hashem tells Moshe that He’ll harden Pharaoh’s heart. Why is it just to punish him if he didn’t have free will? This episode discusses various answers to this question, with a specific focus on Rashi.

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00:16:11

Stoning from Sinai

Simply Deep ·

2025/01/24

The details of the mitzvah of stoning certain sinners are learned from how the Torah describes what would be done to someone who breached the boundary of Har Sinai (Sanhedrin 45a). This episode analyzes why the details of this permanent mitzva would be learned from the momentary event at Har Sinai. In doing so, we discuss some fundamental ideas about capital punishment in the Torah.

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00:25:13

Detecting Sheidim

Simply Deep ·

2025/01/17

This episode analyzes the Gemara in Gittin 66a that discusses how to detect if someone is a sheid (demon) or a regular person: look if his shadow has a shadow.

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00:41:33

Yaakov’s Gift of Shechem to Yosef

Simply Deep ·

2025/01/15

In Bereishis 48:22, Yaakov gave Yosef one “Shechem” over his brothers. Rashi has two pshatim in Shechem: (1) the city Shechem; (2) a portion. This episode analyzes how each of these pshatim learn this passuk.

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00:09:42

How Yosef Appeased his Brothers

Simply Deep ·

2025/01/10

After Yaakov died, Yosef’s brothers worried that he would take revenge. Yosef appeased them by saying (Bereishis 50:19-20) two points: 1) Am I in place of God? 2) While you planned evil against me, God planned that this would be for the good, so that I can be here, in Egypt, to support our nation. On the surface, Yosef’s answers don’t seem compelling. This episode analyzes them according to Rashi and Rashbam.

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00:35:20

Pharaoh’s Prophecy

Simply Deep ·

2025/01/08

Rashi in Bereishis 45:18 teaches that when Pharaoh told Yosef that he would give his family the good of the land of Egypt, he was unknowingly expressing a prophecy that the Jews would empty Egypt of all its wealth. This episode discusses the meaning and significance of this hidden prophecy.

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00:19:10

Binyamin’s Ten Sons

Simply Deep ·

2025/01/03

Rashi (Bereishis 43:30) tells us that Binyamin’s ten sons were all named for Yosef and the tzaros that happened to him. This episode analyzes these names to derive lessons about Binyamin’s relationship with Yosef.

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00:35:18

Three Forefathers and the Many Similarities Between...

Simply Deep ·

2025/01/01

Rashi (Bereishis 37:2) quotes a Midrash that lists more than twenty similarities between the lives of Yaakov and Yosef. This episode analyzes the significance of these similarities and develops two perspectives for viewing the unfolding of our nation.

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00:40:03

Tamar and Avraham’s Tent

Simply Deep ·

2024/12/25

This episode analyzes Rashi’s (Bereishis 38:14) claim that Tamar chose to meet Yehuda at Avraham’s door.

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01:15:03

Benefits of Learning Gemara

Simply Deep ·

2024/12/20

This episode discusses three benefits of learning gemara.

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00:35:49

Dinah in a Box

Simply Deep ·

2024/12/18

Rashi (Bereishis 32:23) says that Yaakov hid Dinah in a box to prevent Eisav from taking her. He was therefore punished with Dinah being raped by Shechem. This episode discusses the following questions and more: 1) Would it really have been a good idea to use Dinah to bring Eisav to Torah? 2) Why was this appropriate punishment for Yaakov? 3) Where’s the justice to Dinah?

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00:28:47

Dealing with your mazik - takeaways from the 7-headed...

Simply Deep ·

2024/12/18

After hearing the episode on the seven-headed serpent, someone asked me how one should deal with their own mazikim. This episode discusses some practical takeaways from this story.

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00:21:00

Rav Acha vs. The Seven-Headed Serpent

Simply Deep ·

2024/12/13

This episode discusses the Gemara in Kiddushin 29b about the “mazik” that appeared like a seven-headed serpent in the Beis Midrash of Abayei.

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00:40:45

Lavan’s Dream

Simply Deep ·

2024/12/11

Hashem told Lavan in a dream to be careful not to speak to Yaakov from good to bad (Bereishis 31:24). While it’s not clear exactly what this means, Lavan followed up by engaging Yaakov in an extended conversation - an apparent violation of Hashem’s warning. This episode analyzes the import of Lavan’s dream and the dialogue that followed.

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00:16:40

Who Named Levi: Leah or Gavriel?

Simply Deep ·

2024/12/06

After providing Leah’s reason for the name of her third son, Levi, the Torah says (Bereishis 29:34) says, “Therefore, he called him Levi.” Rashi says that the passuk used the masculine because the one who named Levi was the malach, Gavriel. This episode analyzes this strange claim and provides an important framework for understanding other events of this parsha.

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00:37:36

Rivka’s Plan

Simply Deep ·

2024/12/04

After Yaakov expressed concern that Yitzchak would feel him and notice he wasn’t Eisav, why didn’t Rivka immediately tell Yaakov her plan of putting hairy skins on his arms and neck? And what did she tell him?

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00:16:54

Why/How did Yaakov Grab Eisav’s Heel?

Simply Deep ·

2024/11/29

Rashi (Breishis 25:26) tells us that Yaakov was grabbing Eisav’s heel while emerging from the womb because he was trying to take the bechora that rightfully belonged to him. This episode analyzes this strange midrash and other pesukim/Rashi’s that discuss the meaning(s) of the name “Yaakov.”

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00:45:49

Why the Torah Repeated the Eliezer Story

Simply Deep ·

2024/11/27

The Torah repeats the story of Eliezer selecting Rivka. Rashi (Bereishis 24:42) says that we learn from this that the conversations of the servants of the Avos are better before Hashem than the Torah of their sons (because many details of mitzvos are only alluded to in the Torah). The same Rashi also tells us that the ground “shrunk” for Eliezer to allow him to arrive on the same day that he departed (as alluded to in the passuk). This episode analyzes each of these points in Rashi and discusses the

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