We all like life hacks, and are looking for ways to be judged favorably this year. So here’s the life hack that Rav Elya Lopian shows us from this week’s parsha! We’re all drawn to life hacks. These are things that we find out about that can get us our desired results much quicker or…
Rosh HaShanah: 2 Minutes 4 Torah With Sruly Shain
On Rosh HaShanah, we eat many sweet foods for a sweet year, and we avoid bitter foods. We still need to remember what is really important. Growing up on a Yeshiva campus, we always spent the Rosh Hashana meals together with the entire Yeshiva in the Yeshiva dining room for many years. It was a…
Parshas Nitzavim: 2 Minutes 4 Torah With Sruly Shain
Tshuva can give us incredible abilities, and we simply need to turn to Hashem with our will to do better, and He’ll give us the strength to do it. I’m sure you’ve heard of one of those stories about somebody that had an adrenaline rush. They got this superhuman power to lift up a refrigerator…
Parshas Ki Savo: 2 Minutes 4 Torah With Sruly Shain
Sometimes we feel that people know we are thankful so we don’t need to verbalize it, though is that the right thing to do? We live in a world with a lot of online transactions and mobile orders, mobile deposits do it yourself, self service, and because of that, we condition ourselves a certain way,…
Parshas Shoftim: 2 Minutes 4 Torah With Sruly Shain
What does bribery really mean? And how can we make sure we don’t bribe ourselves into making the wrong decisions? People will tell you: “go with your gut, trust your judgment, you know you better than anyone else knows you.” They’ll tell you a lot of stuff like that. You know what I say?…
Parshas Re’eh: 2 Minutes 4 Torah With Sruly Shain
“Acharei Hashem Aleichem teileichu”, should we be “acharei” which means distantly away or “achar” which means closely behind? I’ve got a feeling that this week’s video is going to appeal to a little bit of a bigger fan base because it involves a conversation between the Chafetz Chaim and the Gerrer Rebbe. The Chafetz Chaim once…
Parshas Eikev: 2 Minutes 4 Torah with Sruly Shain
We sometimes see that good things happen to bad people, while bad things happen to good people, why is that? Rav Chatzkel Levenstein explains that the answer lies in this week’s Parshah! It’s the age old question, but it really never gets old. How can it be that Hashem can treat righteous people who are…
Parshas Devarim: 2 Minutes 4 Torah with Sruly Shain
In a world full of people flaunting what they have, the Parsha teaches us that we need to ‘be hidden’ and not show off what we have and increase jealousy and hatred. Okay, first, a disclaimer: this is in no way me telling you that I know the reason why we’re going through difficult times…
Parshas Maasei: 2 Minutes 4 Torah with Sruly Shain
The Parsha lists the 42 locations in the Midbar that Klal Yisroel traveled through, why do some of the names have positive connotations and some have negative? As our parsha discusses, the 42 travels that the Jewish nation did in the midbar, in the desert, we list the names of the locations where they stopped…
Parshas Pinchas: 2 Minutes 4 Torah with Sruly Shain
When the Torah lists all the family names, it mentions the Azni family and the Etzbon family, Rashi says they’re really the same family. What is the Torah teaching us by interchanging these last names? If you’re reading our Parsha this week, you’re probably cruising right through the part where we talk about the families…
