Learning Center
Amud Yomi (Daily)
Starting Meseches Sukkah on Monday, October 12!
- Sunday – Friday: 25 minutes before Shacharis
- Shabbos: 25 minutes before Mincha
Also available daily at HERE
Women's Halacha Class
First Sunday of every month at 8:45 AM
The Chabura
For single men and women under 35
Mondays at 8:30PM at the Motzens
Semichas Chaver Program
In-depth study of pertinent Halachos, with tests, and certification upon completion. For men. Registration is required. Please contact Rabbi Motzen at yisrael.motzen@gmail.com.
Tuesday evenings at 8:15 PM
Parsha Class
In-depth, text-based, and relevant exploration of the weekly parsha.
Thursdays at 11:00 AM in the Chapel.
Also available at HERE
Rav Soloveitchik on the Parsha
Shabbos morning at 8:45 AM
Rav Kook on Aggadah
Shabbos: Between Mincha and Maariv
Classes
Sermons
Rethinking the Narrow Bridge Parshas Chayei Sarah
A local educator asked me the other day what to tell her students after the election of Abdul El-Sayed, after the Vice President blamed the Jews, I mean, Israel, for of all of America’s problems, and after Trump announced he was cutting all aid to Israel. Her students...
Stay Salty Parshas Vayera
Back when every preteen couldn't stop saying, 6-7, I told myself I would never give a drasha on that topic. No drasha on sus, aura, cooked, crash-out. None of that. It would be way too cringe. But today I’m going to break that commitment and discuss one such term and...
Perhaps We Also Bear Some Guilt Parshas Lech Lecha
I’d like to read to you two sentences from a letter written by Rabbi Yechiel Yaakov Weinberg. Rabbi Weinberg, sometimes known by the name of his book, the Seridei Aish, was a leading Torah scholar, educated in a German university, survivor of the Holocaust, who lived...
Podcast
Halacha
Laws of Shabbos-Erev Pesach 2025
The search for Chametz is done on Thursday night after nightfall (8:21 PM). The burning of chametz is done Friday by 12:02 PM (Baltimore, MD). Although you may eat chametz until Shabbos morning at 10:56 AM, the sale of chametz takes place on Friday morning. Any...
Kashering the Kitchen for Pesach
Sink: One cannot kasher their sink unless it is made of stainless steel. 1) Clean sink thoroughly. 2) Do not use hot water in the sink for 24 hours prior to kashering. 3) Boil water. 3) Pour boiling water directly on every surface of one’s sink. Allowing the water to...
When Erev Pesach falls out on Shabbos (2025)
The search for Chametz is done on Thursday night after nightfall (8:21 PM). The burning of chametz is done Friday by 12:02 PM (Baltimore, MD). Although you may eat chametz until Shabbos morning at 10:56 AM, the sale of chametz takes place on Friday morning. Any...