Rabbi Jack Bieler

KMS is indeed fortunate to have as its Rabbi a distinguished educator and scholar, Rabbi Jack Bieler. Rabbi Bieler was raised in Bayside, Queens, and attended local public schools. Following graduation from Yeshiva College and the James Striar School for Jewish Studies in 1969, he attended Yeshivat Kerem B'Yavneh in Israel in 1969-71. Rabbi Bieler then returned to Yeshiva University where he was ordained by the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary and received an MA in Jewish Education from the Ferkauf Graduate School of Education in 1974. Following graduation from Yeshiva, Rabbi Bieler served on the faculty and was Chairman of the Talmud Department of the Joseph H. Lookstein Upper School of Ramaz from 1974-1988. During his tenure at Ramaz, he was awarded a Gruss Outstanding Educator award in 1984. Concurrently, Rabbi Bieler served on the faculty of the Adult Education Institute of the Lincoln Square Synagogue between 1971-1977, and as permanent scholar-in-residence of Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun from 1977-1988. In 1985, he received a Jerusalem Fellows fellowship and spent the year with his family in Jerusalem. In 1988, Rabbi Bieler assumed the position of Lead Teacher and Chairman of the Judaic Studies Department at the Hebrew Academy of Greater Washington, now the Melvin J. Berman Hebrew Academy in Rockville, MD. He became the Upper School Assistant Principal in charge of Judaic Studies in 1991. In 1993 he was appointed as Rabbi of the Kemp Mill Synagogue. He has published numerous articles on Jewish education and on issues facing Judaism today, especially concerning Modern Orthodoxy. Below are:

one of his recent articles of Jewish education,
a Dvar Torah on Pesach,
a Dvar Torah from the Summer 2002 issue of Kol Mevaser, on Crisis Management,
and a Dvar Torah for Rosh Hashanah from the September 2002 issue of Kol Mevaser on Simanim for a good year.
a Dvar Torah from the November/December (Chanukah) 2002 issue of Kol Mevaser on Lighting Up.
a Dvar Torah from Shabbat Mishpatim, 5762.
Audio lectures from a class on the philosophy of Rav Kook (wma format). Warning: these files are large, about 7MB each.
- Lecture 1
- Lecture 2
- Lecture 3
- Lecture 4
- Lecture 5
Modern Orthodox Jewish Day Schools and Non-Jews,
"Preserving Modern Orthodoxy in our Day Schools", from Edah, Monograph Series, Number 2.

Jewish Year 5763

Dvar Torah from Shabbat Korach, 5763: "A Gift of Dignity" (MS Word format).
Dvar Torah from Shabbat Matot-Masai, 5763: "The Relationship between What I Say and What I Do" (MS Word format).
Dvar Torah from Shabbat Devarim, 5763: "Multiple Possibilities"
Dvar Torah from Shabbat Va'etchanan 5763: "Seeing Judaism through the Eyes of Others"
Dvar Torah from Shabbat Eikev 5763: "Moshe's Expectations for his Biological and Spiritual Descendents"
Dvar Torah from Shabbat Re'eh 5763: "Mitzva "+"'s and "-"'s"
Dvar Torah from Shabbat Shoftim 5763: "Spiritual Wholeness"
Dvar Torah from Shabbat Ki Tetze 5763: "Winning Hearts and Minds"
Dvar Torah from Shabbat Ki Tavo 5763: "A Disconcerting Divine Emotion"
Dvar Torah from Shabbat Nitzavim/Vayelech 5763: "Decoding a Tora Cipher"
Dvar Torah from Shabbat Ha'azinu 5763: "Poetry Not Only as Aesthetic Experience, but also as Divine Challenge"
Thinking About Ellul, thoughts for the season of repentance, 5763-64
Becoming Fluent in Shofar-ese, another thought for the season of repentance, 5763-64
Thirteen Keys to Repentance, thoughts for the season of slichot, 5763-64

Jewish Year 5764

Can One be Haunted by His/Her Future?, a Dvar Torah for Rosh HaShana, 5764
Using Kohelet to Inform our Happiness, a Dvar Torah for Sukkot, 5764
Thoughts Upon Stepping Up to the Tora, a Dvar Torah for Simchat Tora, 5764
Dvar Torah from Shabbat Breishit, 5764: "The Perils of the Number One Son"
Dvar Torah from Shabbat Noach, 5764: "Stealth Tora Teachers"
Dvar Torah from Shabbat Lech Lecha, 5764: "Avraham, the Blessing"
Dvar Torah from Shabbat VaYera, 5764: "Avraham, the Gadfly"
Dvar Torah from Shabbat Chayei Sara, 5764: "Avraham, Father of Multitudes"
Dvar Torah from Shabbat Chayei Sara, 5764: "Struggling to Be a Multi-Faceted Community"
Dvar Torah from Shabbat Toldot, 5764: "Free Agents or Automatons?"
Dvar Torah from Shabbat VaYetze, 5764: "What's in a Name?"
An essay on educating children in Sefer Beraishit, Shabbat VaYetze, 5764
Dvar Torah from Shabbat VaYishlach, 5764: "Stretching the Truth: Sometimes It Bends, Sometimes It Breaks"
Dvar Torah from Shabbat VaYeshev (Shabbat Chanukah I), 5764: "The Mating Game"
Dvar Torah from Shabbat Mikketz (Shabbat Chanukah II), 5764: "It All Depends Upon How You Look at It"
Dvar Torah from Shabbat VaYigash, 5764: "Was Yosef's Economic Policy Also a Social Policy?"
Dvar Torah from Shabbat VaYechi, 5764: "Yaakov's Leger de Main"
Dvar Torah from Shabbat Shemot, 5764: "The Exceedingly Humble Prophet"
Dvar Torah from Shabbat VaEira, 5764: "Irreligious Fearers of God"
Dvar Torah from Shabbat Bo, 5764: "Pharoah Looks for a Blessing"
Dvar Torah from Shabbat BeShalach, 5764: "What Have You Done for Me Lately?"
Dvar Torah from Shabbat Yitro, 5764: "Human Emotions and the Worship of God"
Dvar Torah from Shabbat Mishpatim, 5764: "Sealing the Deal"
Small Children Learning to Be Pray-ers, an article from Sh'ma, February 5764
Dvar Torah from Shabbat Teruma, 5764: "Duties of the Heart"
Another Dvar Torah from Shabbat Teruma, 5764: "Different Forms of Passion"
Dvar Torah from Shabbat Zachor, 5764: "Remembering Amalek Constructively and Meaningfully"
Dvar Torah from Shabbat Ki Tisa, 5764: "Artistic Talents as Divine Gifts"
Dvar Torah from Shabbat VaYakhel-Pekudei, 5764: "The Renaissance Man as a Religious Ideal"
Dvar Torah from Shabbat VaYikra, 5764: "Competing Visions of the Purpose of Korbanot"
Dvar Torah from Shabbat Tzav (Shabbat Hagadol), 5764: "The Olah Sacrifice: The Exception or the Rule?"
Dvar Torah from Shabbat Chol HaMoed Pesach, 5764: "Shir HaShirim in Light of Shabbat and Yom Tov"
Dvar Torah from Shabbat Shmini, 5764: "Aharon's Reversals of Fortune and Unflagging Courage"
Dvar Torah from Shabbat Tazria-Metzora, 5764: "Tzara'at and the Book of Job"
Dvar Torah for Yom HaAtzmaut, 5764: "The State of Israel-Reishit Tzimichat Geulatainu"
Dvar Torah from Shabbat Acharei-Kedoshim, 5764: "Assuring Jewish Uniqueness"
Dvar Torah from Shabbat Emor, 5764: "Striving to Create a Climate of Respect"
Dvar Torah from Shabbat Behar-Bechukotai, 5764: "The Most Subtle Form of Oppression"
Dvar Torah from Shabbat Bamidbar 5764: "To Be an Honorary Levite or a Firstborn? -- That is the Question!"
Dvar Torah from Shabbat Naso 5764: "Divine Assessment of the Tabernacle"
Dvar Torah on the 17-year cicadas, May, 2004 (Sivan, 5764)
Dvar Torah from Shabbat Beha'alotcha 5764: "The 7 Books of Moses?"
Dvar Torah from Shabbat Shelach 5764: "Kalev's Shining Hour"
Dvar Torah from Shabbat Korach 5764: "The Disappearing Act of Ohn ben Peles"
Dvar Torah from Shabbat Chukat 5764: "Being Sorely Challenged to Keep the Faith"
Dvar Torah from Shabbat Balak 5764: "Bila'am as "Darth Vader""
Dvar Torah from Shabbat Pinchas 5764: "Now You See Them and Now You Don't"
Dvar Torah for the 3 Weeks before Tisha B'Av, 5764
Dvar Torah from Shabbat Matot-Masei 5764: "High Priests and Accidental Murderers"
Dvar Torah from Shabbat Devarim 5764: "But We and Our Parents have Sinned"
Dvar Torah from Shabbat Va'Etchanan 5764: "What Is "The Just and the Good in HaShem's Eyes"?"
Another Dvar Torah from Shabbat Va'Etchanan 5764: "Thinking about Life through the Lens of the Shema"
Dvar Torah from Shabbat Eikev 5764: "Commanding Us to Acknowledge the Goodness of HaShem"<
Dvar Torah from Shabbat Re'eh 5764: "What Is "The Just and the Good in HaShem's Eyes"? (Part II)"
Another Dvar Torah from Shabbat Re'eh 5764: "Healing the Body, the Soul, and the Community"
Dvar Torah from Shabbat Shoftim 5764: "Learning Lessons from Non-Jewish Society"
Another Dvar Torah from Shabbat Shoftim 5764: "Weighing and Being Weighed on the Scales of Justice"
Dvar Torah from Shabbat Ki Tetze 5764: "Remembering and Taking to Heart the Story of Miriam"
Dvar Torah from Shabbat Ki Tavo 5764: "The Tora's Time Warp"
Dvar Torah from Shabbat Nitzavim-VaYelech 5764: "Justifying Transgressions Past and Present"

Jewish Year 5765

Dvar Torah from Rosh Hashanah 5765: "Insuring a Happy New Year"
Dvar Torah from Yom Kippur 5765: "Kiddush HaShem?"
Dvar Torah from Sukkot 5765: "A Mysterious Prayer for Salvation"
Another Dvar Torah from Sukkot 5765: "Exercising Good Taste"
Dvar Torah from Shmini Atzeret 5765: "The Soul of the Matter"
Dvar Torah from Shabbat Lech Lecha 5765: "Avraham: Proactive Monotheist"
Dvar Torah from Shabbat VaYera 5765: "You Can Take Her Out of Sodom"
Another Dvar Torah from ShabbatVaYera 5765: "Translations as Interpretations"
Dvar Torah from Shabbat Chayei Sara 5765: "A Young Girl Who Certainly Knows Her Mind"
Dvar Torah from Shabbat Toldot 5765: "Transmitting Tora to One and All"
Dvar Torah from Shabbat VaYetze 5765: "Holy Places as Resources for Leading Spiritual Lives"
Dvar Torah from Shabbat VaYishlach 5765: "Adolescent Risky Behavior: Biblical and Contemporary Challenges"
Dvar Torah from Shabbat VaYeshev 5765: "A Powerful Adolescent Commitment to Righteousness"
Dvar Torah from Shabbat VaYigash 5765: "Goshen as Part of Yosef's Master Plan"
Dvar Torah from Shabbat VaYechi, 5765: "Yosef's Post-Adolescent Righteousness is Met with Parental Skepticism"
Dvar Torah from Shabbat Shemot, 5765: "Coming of Age and Searching for Oneself"
Another Dvar Torah from Shabbat Shemot, 5765: "Tora Reflections on Tsunamis, New Years and the Human Condition"
Dvar Torah from Shabbat VaEira, 5765: "Bolstering One's Spirits by Studying"
Dvar Torah from Shabbat Bo, 5765: "Does It Take a Miracle to See a Former Enemy in a Favorable Light?"
Dvar Torah from Shabbat BeShalach, 5765: "Testing in the Desert"
Dvar Torah from Shabbat Yitro, 5765: "The Coda of the Ten Commandments"
Dvar Torah from Shabbat Mishpatim, 5765: "Parashat Mishpatim's Relationship to What Comes Before"
Dvar Torah from Shabbat Teruma, 5765: "An Aggadic Example of `Destroying in Order to Repair'"
Dvar Torah from Shabbat Tetzave, 5765: "Humility as a Key to Holiness"
Dvar Torah from Shabbat Ki Tisa, 5765: "Broken Tablets: Embarrassment or Inspiration?"
Dvar Torah on the occasion of the end of the Daf Yomi cycle, March 2005: "The Play's the Thing!"
Dvar Torah from Shabbat Pekudei/Shekalim, 5765: "Planetary Simcha"
Dvar Torah from Shabbat Vayikra/Zachor, 5765: "Lessons of Beraishit 4 for Vayikra 1"
Dvar Torah from Shabbat Tzav (Shushan Purim), 5765: "Kohen Gadol as Divine Medium"
Dvar Torah from Shabbat Shmini/Parah, 5765: "Being Able to Tell the Difference"
A "Torah U'Madda Autobiography", written for the 75th anniversary of Yeshiva College.
Dvar Torah from Shabbat Metzora, 5765: "Shaving One's Hair: Purification and Reconnection"
Dvar Torah from Shabbat Acharei Mot (Shabbat Hagadol), 5765: "A Yom Kippur Lottery and a Pesach Parallel"
Dvar Torah from Shabbat Shevi'i shel Pesach, 5765: "Lovesickness"
Dvar Torah from Shabbat Kedoshim, 5765: "Connecting Beginnings and Endings"
Dvar Torah from Shabbat Emor, 5765: "The Sacrificial Service as a Paradigm"
Dvar Torah from Yom Haatzmaut, 5765: "The Menora in Parshat Emor and as the Emblem of the State of Israel"
Dvar Torah from Shabbat Behar, 5765: "Crises of Faith for Only the Farmer?"
Dvar Torah from Shabbat Bechukotai, 5765: "Developing a Fear of HaShem"
Dvar Torah from Shabbat Bamidbar, 5765: "Nachshon, Prince among Princes?"
Dvar Torah for Yom Yerushalayim (28 Iyar), 5765: "The 3rd Blessing of Birkat Hamazon and Yom Yerushalayim"
Dvar Torah for Shavuot, 5765: "Conversion and Sinai"
Dvar Torah from Shabbat Behaalotcha, 5765: "I've Looked at Clouds from Both Sides Now" (Joni Mitchell)
The Challenges With Regard To Shabbat Observance
Dvar Torah from Shabbat Shelach, 5765: "The Mysterious Case of the Shabbat Wood-Gatherer"
Dvar Torah from Shabbat Korach, 5765: "Moshe at a Loss for Words?"
Dvar Torah from Shabbat Chukat, 5765: "A Sibling Rivalry that Refuses to be Put to Rest"
A special Dvar Torah concerning the terrorist bombing in London: "9/11, 7/7, 121"
Dvar Torah from Shabbat Balak, 5765: "Divine Entrapment?"
Dvar Torah from Shabbat Pinchas, 5765: "A Peace Prize for a Zealot?"
Dvar Torah from Shabbat Matot, 5765: "Moshe Begins to Take a Back Seat"
A special Dvar Torah concerning Jewish unity in difficult times
Dvar Torah from Shabbat Masei, 5765: "A Tora Travelogue"
Dvar Torah from Shabbat Devarim, 5765: "Tisha B'Av's Parshiot"
Dvar Torah from Shabbat VaEtchanan, 5765: "The Roots of Repentance"
Dvar Torah from Shabbat Eikev, 5765: "The Interplay between Singularity and Plurality"
Dvar Torah from Shabbat Reeh, 5765: "The Holiness of Blood"
Dvar Torah from Shabbat Shoftim, 5765: "Forcing an Entire City to Engage in Introspection"
Dvar Torah from Shabbat Ki Tetze, 5765: "Taking into Account Animals' Feelings"
Dvar Torah from Shabbat Ki Tavo, 5765: "Blessings and Curses"
Dvar Torah from Shabbat Nitzavim, 5765: "Will We as a People Ever Truly Repent?"

Jewish Year 5766

Dvar Torah from Shabbat Breishit, 5766: "The First Penitent?"
Dvar Torah from Shabbat Noach, 5766: "A Paradigm Shift in the Understanding of Human Nature"
Dvar Torah from Shabbat Lech Lecha, 5766: "Avraham and his Friends"
Dvar Torah from Shabbat VaYera, 5766: "Seeking a God-Fearing Society"
Dvar Torah on the occasion of the rededication of the Berg Sefer Torah, 5766
Dvar Torah from Shabbat Chayei Sara, 5766: "Yishmael Comes Around"
Dvar Torah from Shabbat Toldot, 5766: "Gastronomic Reflections Concerning Yitzchak and Eisav"
Dvar Torah from Shabbat Vayetze, 5766: "Stealing Hearts and Minds"
Dvar Torah from Shabbat Vayishlach, 5766: "Devora: A Messenger Ignored in Life, but Mourned in Death?"
Dvar Torah from Shabbat Vayeshev, 5766: "What Might They have been Thinking?"
Dvar Torah from Shabbat Miketz, 5766: "Yosef's Egyptian Makeover"
Dvar Torah from Shabbat Vayigash, 5766: "Yosef Plays Pharoah"
Another Dvar Torah from Shabbat Vayigash, 5766: "Yaakov's Unguarded Moment?"
Dvar Torah from Shabbat Vayechi, 5766: "Diplomacy and Yaakov's Final Resting Place"
Dvar Torah from Shabbat Shemot, 5766: "A Task for a "Master of Humility"?"
Dvar Torah from Shabbat VaEira, 5766: "Pharoah's Hardened Heart and the Plague of Hail"
Dvar Torah from Shabbat Beshalach, 5766: "Spiritual Slavery as a Virtue"
Dvar Torah from Shabbat Yitro, 5766: "A Blessing from Without"
Dvar Torah from Shabbat Mishpatim, 5766: "Prohibiting Aggression against Parents"
Dvar Torah from Shabbat Teruma, 5766: "Shouldering the Burden of the Tabernacle"
An editorial on Jewish education: "Day Schools as Moral Thermostats"
Another Dvar Torah from Shabbat Teruma, 5766: "Putting the ! into Mitzvot"
Dvar Torah from Shabbat Tetzave, 5766: "A Favorite Tabernacle Artifact"
Dvar Torah from Shabbat Ki Tisa, 5766: "To Look or Not to Look?"
Dvar Torah from Shabbat Vayakhel(-Pekudei-Hachodesh), 5766: "39 Chief Melachot"
"A Light to the Nations", an article from Tradition
Dvar Torah from Shabbat Vayikra, 5766: "Offering Up One's Soul"
Another Dvar Torah from Shabbat Vayikra, 5766: "The Fire from Within"
Dvar Torah from Shabbat Tzav (Shabbat Hagadol), 5766: "Thanks but No Thanks!"
Dvar Torah from Shabbat Shmini, 5766: "Who Authored Birkat Kohanim?"
Dvar Torah from Shabbat Tazria-Metzora, 5766: "Tzora'at's Silver Lining?"
Dvar Torah from Shabbat Acharei-Kedoshim, 5766: "A Most Holy Refrain"
Dvar Torah from Shabbat Emor, 5766: "Shabbat as Part of Judaism's Overall Dialectic"
Dvar Torah from Shabbat Behar-Bechukotai, 5766: "A Tora View of Property"
Dvar Torah from Shabbat Bamidbar, 5766: "A Lack of Respect in So Many Ways"
Dvar Torah from Chag Shavuot, 5766: "Tora Study for All: Pie-in-the-Sky?"
Dvar Torah from Shabbat Naso, 5766: "Parents and Teachers as Quasi-Kohanim?"
Dvar Torah from Shabbat Beha'alotcha, 5766: "The Allure of Pesach"
Dvar Torah from Shabbat Shelach, 5766: "Achieving Divine Forgiveness via God's Own Words"
Dvar Torah from Shabbat Korach, 5766: "What could the 250 have been Thinking?"
Dvar Torah from Shabbat Chukat-Balak, 5766: "Lessons of the Nachash Nechoshet (Copper Snake)"
Dvar Torah from Shabbat Pinchas, 5766: "So What Did He Really Do?"
Dvar Torah from Shabbat Matot-Masei, 5766: "Trying to Be Above Suspicion"
Dvar Torah from Shabbat Devarim (Chazon), 5766: "Getting the Story Straight"
Dvar Torah from Shabbat Va'etchanan (Nachamu), 5766: "Hitting the Rock: An Example of the Blame Game?"
Dvar Torah from Shabbat Eikev, 5766: "Paternalistic Parenting in the Desert"
Dvar Torah from Shabbat Re'eh, 5766: "Rescinding Loans, Respect and Self-Respect"
Dvar Torah from Shabbat Shoftim, 5766: "Warfare, Trees and People"
Dvar Torah from Shabbat Ki Tetze, 5766: "Paying One's Employees on Time"
Dvar Torah from Shabbat Ki Tavo, 5766: ""Tochechot" and the Lessons of Jewish History"

Jewish Year 5767

Dvar Torah from Shabbat VaYigash, 5767: "A `Big Idea'"
Dvar Torah from Shabbat VaYechi, 5767: "Blessing our children" (audio file, MP3 format, ~13MB)
Dvar Torah from Shabbat Shemot, 5767: "The relationship between Avraham, Moshe and Esther" (audio file, MP3 format, ~7MB)
Dvar Torah from Shabbat Vaera, 5767: "The importance of time" (audio file, MP3 format, ~13MB)
Dvar Torah from Shabbat Bo, 5767: "The mechanisms of the plagues" (audio file, MP3 format, ~20MB)
Dvar Torah from Shabbat BeShalach, 5767: "The complaints of the Jewish people" (audio file, MP3 format, ~14MB)
Dvar Torah from Shabbat Yitro, 5767: "Yirat Hashem" (audio file, MP3 format, ~13MB)
Dvar Torah from Shabbat Mishpatim (Shekalim), 5767: "The problem of slavery" (audio file, MP3 format, ~19MB)
Dvar Torah from Shabbat Teruma, 5767: "See and make!" (audio file, MP3 format, ~28MB)
Dvar Torah from Shabbat Tetzave (Zachor), 5767: "Aharon: From Golden Calf to High Priest" (audio file, MP3 format, ~25MB)
Dvar Torah from Shabbat Ki Tisa (Parah), 5767: "Moshe's Reaction to the Golden Calf" (audio file, MP3 format, ~23MB)
Dvar Torah from Shabbat Vayakhel-Pekudei (Hachodesh), 5767: "Netilat Yadayim and its Tabernacle Sources" (audio file, MP3 format, ~26MB)
Dvar Torah from Shabbat VaYikra, 5767: "The guilt offerings for stolen property or failure to testify" (audio file, MP3 format, ~31MB)
Dvar Torah from Shabbat Tzav (Shabbat Hagadol), 5767: "The law of the sin offering" (audio file, MP3 format, ~21MB)
Dvar Torah from Shabbat Shmini, 5767: "Making yourselves holy" (audio file, MP3 format, ~7MB)
Dvar Torah from Shabbat Tazria-Metzora, 5767: "Separation from, and rejoining, society" (audio file, MP3 format, ~19MB)
Dvar Torah from Shabbat Acharei Mot-Kedoshim, 5767: "The sin of the sons of Aaron" (audio file, MP3 format, ~21MB)
Dvar Torah from Shabbat Emor, 5767: "The tale of the blasphemer" (audio file, MP3 format, ~20MB)
Dvar Torah from Shabbat Behar-Bechukotai, 5767: "The warning and the concept of `keri'" (audio file, MP3 format, ~20MB)
Dvar Torah from Shabbat Bamidbar, 5767: "The place and role of the children of Kehat" (audio file, MP3 format, ~23MB)
Dvar Torah from Shabbat Naso, 5767: "The law of the Sotah" (audio file, MP3 format, ~19MB)
Dvar Torah from Shabbat Behaalotcha, 5767: "The silver trumpets" (audio file, MP3 format, ~20MB)
Dvar Torah from Shabbat Shelach, 5767: "The instructions to the spies" (audio file, MP3 format, ~23MB)
Dvar Torah from Shabbat Korach, 5767: "Moshe's reaction to the insurrection" (audio file, MP3 format, ~33MB)
Dvar Torah from Shabbat Chukat, 5767: "Making vows" (audio file, MP3 format, ~23MB)
Dvar Torah from Shabbat Balak, 5767: "A Nation that dwells alone" (audio file, MP3 format, ~23MB)
Dvar Torah from Shabbat Pinchas, 5767: "Moses preparing for transition" (audio file, MP3 format, ~20MB)
Dvar Torah from Shabbat Matot-Masei, 5767: "Annulling vows" (audio file, MP3 format, ~12MB)
Dvar Torah from Shabbat Devarim (Chazon), 5767: "Why did God really prevent Moshe from entering the Promised Land?" (audio file, MP3 format, ~15MB)
Dvar Torah from Shabbat Vaetchanan (Nachamu), 5767: "For your sake" (audio file, MP3 format, ~15MB)
Dvar Torah from Shabbat Eikev, 5767: "Learning from history" (audio file, MP3 format, ~19MB)
Dvar Torah from Shabbat Re'eh, 5767: "Making choices" (audio file, MP3 format, ~16MB)
Dvar Torah from Shabbat Shoftim, 5767: "Repentance and Forgiveness"
Another Dvar Torah from Shabbat Shoftim, 5767: "Righteousness, righteousness" (audio file, MP3 format, ~22MB)
Dvar Torah from Shabbat Ki Tetzei, 5767: "Why are so many laws repeated in Deuteronomy?" (audio file, MP3 format, ~16MB)
Dvar Torah from Shabbat Ki Tavo, 5767: "Reviewing Jewish history in reference to the land of milk and honey" (audio file, MP3 format, ~23MB)
Dvar Torah from Shabbat Nitzavim-Vayelech, 5767: "Repairing our hearts" (audio file, MP3 format, ~19MB)
Jewish Year 5768
"A vision of a modern orthodox Jewish eduction"
For links to some other papers, see here. For copyright reasons, you need to obtain a username and password from Shiri Swissa at the Mandel Leadership Institute (shiris@mli.org.il) to access these other resources and the full site.
Dvar Torah from Shabbat Behar, 5768: "It Might not Matter What I Call a Rose"
Dvar Torah from Shabbat Bamidbar, 5768: "Spiritual Lessons of the Desert"
Dvar Torah from Shavuot, 5768: "Yom Hakahal: One day per year, or every day?"
Dvar Torah from Shabbat Korach, 5768: "The Nature of Kehilla (Community)"
Dvar Torah from Shabbat Masei, 5768: "Don't Let Things Get Old"
Dvar Torah from Shabbat Chazon, 5768: "Sometimes, Tora Study is not an Option"