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The Person Who Pleases Everyone Ends With Nothing — Rabbi Pinto

🎬 It is very convenient to be a people pleaser — to smile at this one, say hello to that one, and think you are good with everyone. Rabbi Yoshiyahu…

What Is the Evil Eye? — Rabbi Yoshiyahu Yosef Pinto Explains

🎬 What is the evil eye? It is not a curse and it is not a superstition — it is the eye that makes you feel like you are nothing,…

Why We Bless Children “Like Ephraim and Manasseh” — Rabbi Yoshiyahu Yosef Pinto

🎬 Wherever there is great closeness, there is a danger of great hatred — and the distance between immense love and immense hatred is the width of a single hair.…

Do Not Be Led by Your Inner Impulses — Rabbi Yoshiyahu Yosef Pinto

🎬 Silence is stronger than speaking. Rabbi Yoshiyahu Yosef Pinto, shlit'a, takes one sentence and turns it into a whole way of living: what you do with the person who…

A Remedy That Costs a Penny: The Power of Za’atar

🎬 "Put za'atar in your pocket — it wards off the evil eye, wards off spells, wards off bad things." A shiur from Rabbi Yoshiyahu Yosef Pinto, shlit'a, on the…

How a Person Reaches Every Salvation That Exists

🎬 "This is the time of Moses our Teacher — a time when a person can reach salvations the mind cannot even conceive." A shiur from Rabbi Yoshiyahu Yosef Pinto,…

The Secret of Ibur — Why the Sages Kept the Leap Year From the Nations

🎬 "One does not reveal the secret of Ibur to the nations of the world." What is Ibur — and why is our whole life in France a gestation? A…

She Gave Up Her Husband — and Won Mercy for Israel Forever

🎬 No Jew is ever alone in his pain — Rachel our Matriarch is standing right there. The Gemara describes the moment the Holy One, Blessed be He, sought to…

The House of G-d and the Gate of Heaven: Rachel and Leah

🎬 "You married Leah — that's what happened, just move on with your life." Jacob refused. Here is why. Jacob arrives at Laban's house and finds Rachel and Leah —…

Abaye and Rava — The Two Ways to Serve G-d

🎬 "You are neither a bird in the heavens nor a caterpillar on the ground. You exist in between, bridging heaven and earth." — a full shiur from Rabbi Moshe…