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Learn about this week's Torah Portion: Chukas and Balak
(Numbers represent the Hebrew year when a class was given)

Beginner Level

Drasha - by Rabbi Mordechai Kamenetzky
       A Never Ending Story - Balak, 5762
       Is Sincerity at Steak? - Balak, 5761
       Sorry for Nothing - Balak, 5758
       Partial View - Balak, 5757
       Listen To The Mocking Bird - Balak, 5756
       Crime and Punishment - Chukas, 5761
       Snake Eyes - Chukas, 5758
       Chukas Pocus - Chukas, 5757
       All Pain, No Gain - Chukas-Balak, 5760
       Symbolism Over Substance - Chukas-Balak, 5759
Dvar Torah
       A Candidate for Blessings - Balak, 5768
       All Day Long - Balak, 5767
       Found In Contempt - Balak, 5764
       Prophet Motive - Balak, 5761
       Straight From The Heart - Balak, 5760
       Bilaam was a 'Spiritual' Man - Balak, 5758
       Coincidence? - Balak, 5757
       It Works for Us Too! - Chukas, 5769
       There Was Water - Chukas, 5768
       What Are You Doing? - Chukas, 5767
       “Chok” is the Real Thing - Chukas, 5765
       Open to Receive - Chukas, 5764
       Subtle But Sublime - Chukas, 5761
       A Taste of the Ocean - Chukas, 5758
       Guided Through Darkness - Chukas, 5757
       A Real Yiddishe Kup! - Chukas-Balak, 5766
       In Order for Nothing to Happen - Chukas-Balak, 5763
       A 'Well' Learned Lesson - Chukas-Balak, 5759
Edutainment Weekly
Kol Hakollel - Edited by Rabbi Pinchas Avruch
       Hear What You Want - Balak, 5765
       Absolute Greatness - Balak, 5764
       Attention to Detail - Chukas, 5765
       Everyday Miracles - Chukas, 5764
       Uncommon Courtesy - Chukas-Balak, 5766
       Putting the Cart Before the Horse - Chukas-Balak, 5763
       Reflecting on G-d - Chukas-Balak, 5762
Legacy - by Rabbi Naftali Reich
       The Epitome of Righteousness - Balak, 5768
       Forever a Donkey - Balak, 5767
       The Inside Story - Chukas, 5768
       Miriam’s Well - Chukas, 5767
Lifeline - by Rabbi Yaakov Menken
       The Good Tents - Balak, 5761
       Why was Balak Worried? - Balak, 5757
       Conquer the Physical - Balak, 5755
       Fine Lines - Chukas, 5764
       Fine Lines - Chukas, 5758
       Time Out for Torah - Chukas, 5757
       Towards What End? - Chukas, 5755
       Bilaam's Obsession - Chukas-Balak, 5762
       'Kill' Yourself for Torah - Chukas-Balak, 5760
The Living Law - by Rabbi Osher Chaim Levene
       Three Festivals: The Holy Journey - Balak, 5767
       By Royal Appointment - Chukas, 5768
       Parah Adumah: A Matter of Life and Death - Chukas, 5767
Rabbi Wein - by Rabbi Berel Wein
       If Balak and Bilaam Were Here Today... - Balak, 5768
       Uses and Misuses - Balak, 5765
       Our Achilles' Heel - Balak, 5764
       Ph.D. in Morals - Balak, 5761
       Leadership or Independence? - Chukas, 5768
       Beyond Human Comprehension - Chukas, 5766
       The War of the Words - Chukas, 5764
       Knockin' on Heaven's Door - Chukas, 5761
Rabbi Zweig on the Parsha - by Rabbi Yochanan Zweig
       The Power of Prayer - Chukas-Balak, 5769
Table Talk - by Rabbi Raymond Beyda
       Die Like a Jew - Balak, 5767
       Wagon Full of Fuel - Chukas, 5767
       Manners - Chukas, 5765
       Habit Forming - Chukas-Balak, 5766
       Timepiece - Chukas-Balak, 5763
Thinking Outside the Box - by Rabbi Jeff Kirshblum
Parsha Summary - by Rabbi Aron Tendler
Haftorah Summary - by Rabbi Aron Tendler
Haftorah Commentary - by Rabbi Dovid Siegel

Intermediate Level

Beyond Pshat - by Rabbi Yosef Kalatsky
       Our Relevance to the Infinite - Chukas, 5763
       Our Relevance to the Infinite - Chukas-Balak, 5762
Hamaayan - by Shlomo Katz
       A Great Responsibility - Balak, 5768
       Tents Where Torah is Studied - Balak, 5767
       A Question Brings Hope - Balak, 5765
       Balak: Can You See It? - Balak, 5764
       Bilam: A Perfect Tzadik? - Balak, 5761
       Pray for the 'Right' Person - Balak, 5758
       An Idle Mind... - Chukas, 5768
       Staff Review - Chukas, 5765
       Tastes of the Mitzvos - Chukas, 5761
       Pro-Choice - Chukas, 5758
       The Uncursables - Chukas-Balak, 5766
       Moshe's Book and Bilam's Book - Chukas-Balak, 5763
       Bilam's Big Appetite - Chukas-Balak, 5760
       Why Didn't Moshe Enter Canaan? - Chukas-Balak, 5759
Olas Shabbos - by Rabbi Eliyahu Hoffmann
       Money Order - Getting Our Priorities Straight - Balak, 5764
       Don't Take it Personally! - Balak, 5761
       Behold! A Nation - Balak, 5758
       Back From The Dead - Chukas, 5769
       Balancing Act - Chukas, 5761
       Leap of Faith - Chukas, 5758
       Building on Shaky Foundations - Chukas-Balak, 5766
       Because He Said So - Chukas-Balak, 5763
       Living Through Death - Chukas-Balak, 5762
       Building With Failure - Chukas-Balak, 5760
Parsha Insights - by Rabbi Yisroel Ciner
       The Fourth Patriarch - Balak, 5761
       Jewish Dwellings - Balak, 5760
       Welcome, Oh Honored Me! - Balak, 5758
       You Can't Pick Your Cards... - Balak, 5757
       Decree of the Torah - Chukas, 5760
       Torah is Not a Religion - Chukas, 5758
       Red Cow Disease - Chukas, 5757
       A Purifying Proccess - Chukas-Balak, 5762
       Donkey Talk - Chukas-Balak, 5759
Perceptions on the Parsha - by Rabbi Pinchas Winston
       Bilaam... Reincarnated? - Balak, 5768
       A Local Call - Balak, 5767
       Window of Opportunity - Balak, 5766
       A Good Kind of Cover-up - Balak, 5765
       From Amidst The Ashes - Balak, 5764
       The Sod Of A Best-Seller - Balak, 5763
       Storm On The Horizon - Balak, 5761
       Mixed Multitude of Troubles - Balak, 5760
       'Balak' Magic - Balak, 5759
       G-d Doesn't Play Games - Balak, 5758
       Bilaam: A Hard Act to Swallow - Balak, 5757
       Do Not Pass - Chukas, 5769
       An Accounting Issue - Chukas, 5767
       An Invitation to Elevate - Chukas, 5766
       A True Bar Mitzvah - Chukas, 5765
       From The Nile to Denial - Chukas, 5764
       Zu L'Umus Zu - Chukas, 5763
       The TRUE Red Threat - Chukas, 5762
       Matters of Life and Death - Chukas, 5761
       Making a Good Impression - Chukas, 5760
       The Greatest "Choks" of the Century - Chukas, 5759
       The "Chok's" On You - Chukas, 5758
       The Point of No Discern - Chukas, 5757
Rabbi's Notebook - by Rabbi Aron Tendler
       A Generation Repents - Balak, 5761
       Conspiracies and Lost Opportunities - Balak, 5758
       The Red Heifer Reality - Balak-The Three Weeks, 5765
       Forgotten Oaths - Balak-The Three Weeks, 5764
       Remaining Mysteries - Chukas, 5765
       Not Because They Sinned! - Chukas, 5764
       Cutting the Apron Strings - Chukas, 5758
       It's All Free Will - Chukas-Balak, 5763
       Without Cover! - Chukas-Balak, 5762
       Working on the Outside - Chukas-Balak, 5760
Rav Frand - by Rabbi Yissocher Frand
       The Apter Rebbe Bends The Rules For Ahavas Yisrael - Balak, 5768
       The Sin of "Not Getting It" - Balak, 5767
       If It Can Happen To Bilaam, It Can Happen to Any of Us - Balak, 5765
       Bilaam Lost His Shock Value - Balak, 5764
       Was G-d Bilaam's Agent? - Balak, 5761
       It Could Happen to You! - Balak, 5758
       The Death of Miriam – Closure, But No Tears - Chukas, 5768
       We Should Appreciate People When We Have Them - Chukas, 5766
       The Connection Between The Parah Adumah and the Golden Mean - Chukas, 5764
       A Perplexing Fast Day - Chukas, 5761
       Never the Twain Shall Meet - Chukas, 5760
       Red Heifer in the Garden of Eden - Chukas, 5758
       Speculations on the Red Cow - Chukas, 5757
       Man is Like an Earthenware Vessel - Chukas, 5755
       Those Who Will Not See - Chukas-Balak, 5763
       Red Heifer and the Death of the Righteous - Chukas-Balak, 5762
       Miriam's Death - Chukas-Balak, 5759
       The Parah Paradox - Chukas-Balak, 5756
Short Vorts - by Rabbi Chaim Flom
       The Power of an Individual - 5767
       Making Time - 5767

Advanced Level

Abarbanel - by Rabbi Dr. Meir Tamari
Haaros - by Rabbi Yaakov Bernstein
Gal Einai - by Gedalia Litke
Jerusalem Views - by Rabbi Heshy Grossman
Mikra - by Rabbi Yitzchak Etshalom
Sfas Emes - by Dr. Nosson Chayim Leff
Nesivos Shalom - by Rabbi Yitzchok Adlerstein
Shabbos: Taam Hachaim - by Rabbi Binyomin Adler
Shem Meshmuel - by Rabbi Dr. Meir Tamari
Growing with the Parsha - By Rabbi Yaakov Horowitz

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