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The Parsha Podcast - With Rabbi Yaakov Wolbe

The Parsha Podcast with Rabbi Yaakov Wolbe was started in 2016 with the goal of making the weekly Parsha accessible and useful. Every Sunday, the Parsha Podcast will feature an hour-long podcast outlining the story, narratives and major themes of that week’s Parsha and offer a selection of valuable and interesting insights from it. On Tuesdays and Thursdays, two more episodes that focuses on one idea, theme, or comment on the Parsha will be released. Please send comments or questions to

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58:00

Parshas Haazinu (The Rebroadcast)

The Parsha Podcast - With Rabbi Yaakov Wolbe ·

2025/09/28

Still in the final day of Moshe’s life, he conveys to the nation a 43-verse Song predicting the contours of Jewish history, both past, present, and future. The patterns are familiar to the readers of Deuteronomy and even casual observers and students of Jewish history: The nation is recipients of tremendous divine goodness, yet they […]

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50:01

Vayeilech – Mission Improbable

The Parsha Podcast - With Rabbi Yaakov Wolbe ·

2025/09/25

Moshe’s tenure as leader of the Jews was chock full of magnificent accomplishments. He spearheaded the Exodus, he brought the Torah down from Heaven, in his merit came the manna – Moshe’s CV is unparalleled. But now it’s time for him to hand over the reins to Joshua, his disciple and successor. In this Parsha […]

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Parshas Vayeilech (Rebroadcast)

The Parsha Podcast - With Rabbi Yaakov Wolbe ·

2025/09/21

Moshe is 120 years old to the day. He was born on the seventh of Adar and now it is the seven of Adar 120 years later. Today is his last day before his passing and he is taking leave from the nation and handing over the reins to Joshua. – – – – – […]

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Ki Savo – Dial of Joy (5783)

The Parsha Podcast - With Rabbi Yaakov Wolbe ·

2025/09/09

The Torah has a surprising view on joy and how to attain it. The prevailing attitude in our society is that a person’s state of joy is contingent upon circumstance: In good days, people tend to feel a bit more joyous. On bad days, it’s more difficult to feel joy. Joy, according to society, is […]

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Parshas Ki Savo (Rebroadcast)

The Parsha Podcast - With Rabbi Yaakov Wolbe ·

2025/09/07

As the Book of Deuteronomy draws to its conclusion, the narrative makes a transition: Moshe finishes conveying the mitzvos to the nation, and sets up his final parting message to the people. First, he commands the nation to perform several elaborate ceremonies on the very first day that they cross the Jordan River; then he […]

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54:57

Ki Seitzei – Yibbum Or Bust

The Parsha Podcast - With Rabbi Yaakov Wolbe ·

2025/09/04

The death of one’s spouse is always a tragedy, but there’s something particularly sad about someone who dies without children. Leaving no living progeny behind leaves a person without continuity, without a legacy in this world. When a man dies childless, the Torah instructs his wife to seek to marry her deceased husband’s brother in […]

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51:24

Ki Seitzei – The Upside of Laziness (5783)

The Parsha Podcast - With Rabbi Yaakov Wolbe ·

2025/09/02

Our parsha begins with the unusual law of the marriage of a Jewish warrior and an enemy captive woman. When a Jewish warrior spots a prisoner of war that he desires to marry, there is a process and a protocol for how he may marry her. The Talmud (also featured by Rashi) offers a very […]

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Shoftim – Crisper Genes (5783)

The Parsha Podcast - With Rabbi Yaakov Wolbe ·

2025/08/26

The nation is on the doorstep of Canaan. In our Parsha, the people are instructed in how they must treat the Canaanite inhabitants of the land. It’s not pleasant. The people are told that they must engage in total war against these nations. How do we understand the requirement to be so violent and aggressive […]

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Parshas Shoftim (Rebroadcast)

The Parsha Podcast - With Rabbi Yaakov Wolbe ·

2025/08/24

This week we learn the laws governing all kinds of leaders: The parsha begins by detailing the laws of judges, the jurisdiction of the Sanhedrin, the Supreme Court, and what happens to rebellious judges; we read about the unique laws related to kings; there are more laws pertaining to the Kohanim; and we find the […]

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1:00:15

Reeh – Path Independence

The Parsha Podcast - With Rabbi Yaakov Wolbe ·

2025/08/21

We like to maintain optionality and delay decisions if possible. The idea of being pigeonholed into one path irks us. But Moshe tells the nation that we must make a choice: “Behold I have placed before you today a blessing and curse.” The path of blessing is the total acceptance and adherence to God and […]

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Reeh – Making Dough (5783)

The Parsha Podcast - With Rabbi Yaakov Wolbe ·

2025/08/19

The Parsha ends with a delineation of the festivals. When discussing Passover, the verse notes that for 7 days we eat matzah because we left Egypt within great haste. The Exodus was so rapid and frantic, that the dough that we had been preparing was unable to rise and we did not have fluffy, puffy […]

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Eikev – Longevity Pill (5783)

The Parsha Podcast - With Rabbi Yaakov Wolbe ·

2025/08/12

A ubiquitous feature in Jewish homes, the Mezuzah contains a scroll with two paragraphs from the Torah, one from this week’s Parsha and one from last week’s. This mitzvah bears a distinction that it shares with no other mitzvah. In this interesting and useful podcast, we explore the secrets represented by the Mezuzah, and learn […]

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Parshas Eikev (Rebroadcast)

The Parsha Podcast - With Rabbi Yaakov Wolbe ·

2025/08/10

We pick up where we left off last week amid Moshe’s speech to the nation before his passing, and as in the previous few weeks, Parshas Eikev is jam packed with insights and timeless lessons. Moshe pivots between looking back on the conduct of the nation in the preceding 40 years and admonishing them for […]

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Vaeschanan – Two of Hearts

The Parsha Podcast - With Rabbi Yaakov Wolbe ·

2025/08/07

Even believers are incapable of understanding God. It’s supremely logical to observe that our wonderful world – our wonderful universe – certainly had a Creator, but how can we connect with God? How can we develop a relationship with Him? In our Parsha, we are commanded to develop emotions of love and fear towards God, […]

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Vaeschanan – Jordan Rules (5783)

The Parsha Podcast - With Rabbi Yaakov Wolbe ·

2025/08/05

As a result of Moshe’s sin of striking the rock, he was barred from crossing over the Jordan River and entering the Land of Canaan. In Moshe’s speech to the nation, he recounts how he petitioned God to have this decree rescinded. When studying Moshe’s prayer to enter the Land, we discover several incredible insights […]

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Parshas Vaeschanan (Rebroadcast)

The Parsha Podcast - With Rabbi Yaakov Wolbe ·

2025/08/04

This week’s parsha continues Moshe’s monologue to the nation in the weeks preceding his passing. He begins by recounting his repeated efforts in trying to convince God to rescind His decree that Moshe not enter the Land; Moshe then begins the retelling of the Torah; and we read many warnings and predictions about proper behavior […]

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1:00:16

Devarim – Wellsprings of Beer

The Parsha Podcast - With Rabbi Yaakov Wolbe ·

2025/07/31

There are many levels of Torah. There are many ways to acquire Torah, 48 by the calculation of our Sages. The human with the greatest understanding of Torah was obviously Moshe, the one who received Torah directly from God. In our Parsha we get a stunning description of the profound depth of Moshe’s understanding of […]

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Devarim – Middling East (5783)

The Parsha Podcast - With Rabbi Yaakov Wolbe ·

2025/07/29

In his speech to the Nation, Moshe revisits the episode of the Spies that occurred 39 years prior. When the nation was on the verge of entering the Land, Moshe commissioned 12 distinguished men to reconnoiter the Land and to share their findings with the nation. It was a debacle and a fiasco. As a […]

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Mattos & Masei – 49-Step Program (5783)

The Parsha Podcast - With Rabbi Yaakov Wolbe ·

2025/07/22

What did the nation do over the course of the 40 years in the wilderness? What was their objective? In our parsha we read that the nation stopped in 42 locations over the course of their 40-year sojourn. The Torah delineates the names of the 42 different venues where the nation encamped. What is the […]

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Pinchas – Sons of Anarchist (5783)

The Parsha Podcast - With Rabbi Yaakov Wolbe ·

2025/07/15

Korach’s rebellion claimed many victims: Some of the perpetrators were swallowed up in a miraculous sinkhole; some were consumed by a divine fire; and some were killed in a plague. In our Parsha, we discover that the sons of Korach did not die. Although they were participants in the rebellion initially, at the very last […]

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