Free Samples: theshmuz

OPTION 1: If you currently have iTunes installed, simply click the "Listen Now!" button below.

* If you do not have iTunes click here to download the latest version.

OPTION 2: If you choose not to use iTunes for listening to these samples, we have a number of other RSS feed options available by >clicking here


	#44 Bar Kamtza - Do you really have Free Will?

	I accept that each person’s life span is set before they are born. I also accept that the question is visited on Rosh Hashanah when Hashem decides who will live and who will die. All that is fine and well, until I pick up a gun and say to myself, can’t I decide to end that person’s life? Isn’t it obvious that whether that person will live or die is now in my hands? Using the Tisha B’Av...


	#19 Free will - Part 2: I Never Do Anything Wrong

	In this introduction to emunah, we are presented with four basic levels of belief: 1. Hashem created the world. 2. Hashem is involved in the really big picture issues - war, famine, life and death. 3. Hashem knows my inner thoughts. 4. Hashem is intimately involved in my day to day life. After outlining and defining the levels, we are given practical techniques to improve our level of belief in...


	#24 Understanding Life Settings

	It almost seems as if some people are born with a silver spoon in their mouth, while others are destined to suffer. Why is it is that some people are born with amazing capacity, and others are created so simple? Why is there autism in the world? Why Down Syndrome? If in fact God is just, why not mete out talents and abilities in an equal manner to all people? Using the backdrop of a...


	#20 Davening - Making it Real

	Of course we daven. Three times a day. Everyday. The question is how real our davening is, and to whom are we davening. It often seems that our davening is more talking to the walls than talking to Hashem. This Shmuz helps us focus on some of the most basic principles in Judaism, things we always knew, yet take for granted, and are so...


	#31 The Voice Inside

	Have you ever heard of something called a guilty conscience? What about a Jewish guilty conscience? While we all recognize that “Voice Inside”, that seems to moralize and lecture to us when we have stepped over the line, we assume that this is just one of those things that we have to sort of ignore. In this Shmuz we are brought to understand that “Voice” that HASHEM put inside every human...