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The Tefilah Podcast
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254 episodes
Tehilim 105-106: A Psalmist's Sipur Yetzias Mitzrayim? (Part 2 - Radak on 105)
Length: 1 hour 3 minutesSynopsis: This evening (4/22/26), in our Wednesday night Tehilim shiur, we briefly reviewed the translation of 105, asked a few more questions, then set out to understand the Radak's approach. Our theory emerged from...
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Tehilim 105-106: A Psalmist's Sipur Yetzias Mitzrayim? (Part 1 - Translation and Questions)
Length: 1 hour 3 minutesSynopsis: What if I told you that we're going to take up TWO perakim of Tehilim, totaling 93 pesukim? You'd probably think, "This is gonna take MONTHS!" Well, I've long said that one of the tricks to learning Tehilim...
Tehilim 136: Hallel ha'Gadol (Part 3 - Malbim)
Length: 1 hour 1 minuteSynopsis: This evening (3/25/26), in our Wednesday night Tehilim shiur, we began with the Radak's comments on the "ki le'olam chasdo" refrain, followed by a brief comment by Sforno's student on the fine-tuning of the ...
Tehilim 136: Hallel ha'Gadol (Part 2 - Our Theory)
Length: 1 hour 1 minutesSynopsis: This evening (3/11/26), in our Wednesday night Tehilim shiur, we began by reviewing the translation and questions from last time, and then set out to explain the perek. Thankfully, we managed to come up wit...
Tehilim 136: Hallel ha'Gadol (Part 1 - Translation and Questions)
Length: 1 hourSynopsis: This evening (3/4/26), in our Wednesday night Tehilim shiur, we took another break from our "Kabbalas Shabbos" perakim to do something Pesach related: Hallel ha'Gadol (i.e. Tehilim 136). We began by reviewing the rel...
Tehilim 29: Mizmor le'David, Havu la'Shem Bnei Elim (Part 3 - A Thematically on Point Approach)
Length: 58 minutesSynopsis: This evening (2/25/26), in our Wednesday night Tehilim shiur, we concluded our analysis of Tehilim 29. After reviewing the text and the original approach we came up with last week, we delved into R. Elia di Nola'...
Tehilim 29: Mizmor le'David, Havu la'Shem Bnei Elim (Part 2 - One and a Half Approaches)
Length: 1 hourSynopsis: This evening (2/18/26), in our Wednesday night Tehilim shiur, we resumed our analysis of this perek after a little break. After reviewing the translation, our pivot point theories, and the questions, we came up with ...
Tehilim 29: Mizmor le'David, Havu la'Shem Bnei Elim (Part 1 - Translation and Questions)
Length: 1 hour 1 minuteSynopsis: This evening (2/4/26), in our Wednesday night Tehilim shiur, we continued in our learning of the so-called "Kabbalas Shabbos" perakim, jumping back to 29. As usual, we devoted this first session to translati...
Tehilim 100: Mizmor le'Todah - A Psalm of Thanksgiving (REDUX)
Length: 1 hour 7 minutesSynopsis: This evening (1/28/26), in our Wednesday night Tehilim shiur, we took a brief detour from our we've so-called "Kabbalas Shabbos" perakim of Tehilim. We recently finished 95-99, and although the next perek a...
Tehilim 99: Hashem Malach Yirgezu Amim (Part 2 - Main Idea)
Length: 1 hour 6 minutesSynopsis: This evening (1/14/26), in our Wednesday night Tehilim shiur, we managed to "land the plane"! After reviewing the translation, questions, and observations from last time, we tossed around a few approaches, ...
Tehilim 99: Hashem Malach Yirgezu Amim (Part 1 - Translation and Questions)
Length: 1 hourSynopsis: This evening (1/7/26), in our first Wednesday night Tehilim shiur of 2026, we commenced our analysis of the next perek in our "Kabbalas Shabbos" series, which also happens to be the last perek in the 95-99 cluster be...
Tehilim 30: Mizmor Shir Chanukas ha'Bayis le'David (Part 3 - Complete Radak Analysis)
Length: 1 hour 15 minutesSynopsis: This evening (12/24/25), in our Wednesday night Tehilim shiur, we learned through the Radak's commentary a second time, refining our understanding of the main idea we developed by trying to discern every p...
Tehilim 30: Mizmor Shir Chanukas ha'Bayis le'David (Part 2 - Radak's Approach)
Length: 1 hour 11 minutesSynopsis: This evening (12/17/25), in our Wednesday night Tehilim shiur, we began with a quick review, then made it our mission to learn through the entire commentary of the Radak. Thankfully, he states his main ide...
Tehilim 30: Mizmor Shir Chanukas ha'Bayis le'David (Part 1 - Translation and First Impressions)
Length: 1 hour 6 minutesSynopsis: This evening (12/10/25), in our Wednesday night Tehilim shiur, we (read: I) decided that we needed a break from the "Kabbalas Shabbos" series we've been learning. Since Chanukah is right around the corner, ...
Tehilim 98: ANOTHER New Song?!
Length: 1 hourSynopsis: This evening (12/3/25), in our Wednesday night Tehilim shiur, we experienced a small miracle: we learned an entire perek in one sitting! It helped that this chapter clearly builds on the previous two, although that c...
Tehilim 97: Hashem Malach Tageil ha'Aretz (Part 2: Main Idea)
Length: 1 hourSynopsis: This evening (11/26/25), in our Wednesday night Tehilim shiur, we completed our analysis of Tehilim 97. After reviewing what we covered last time in 97 and the ideas we developed in 96, we focused in on the central p...
Tehilim 97: Hashem Malach Tageil ha'Aretz (Part 1: Translation, Questions, and Opening Moves)
Tehilim 97: Hashem Malach Tageil ha'Aretz (Part 1: Translation, Questions, and Opening Moves)Length: 1 hour 6 minutesSynopsis: This evening (11/12/25), in our Wednesday night Tehilim shiur, we began the next perek in (what we're uno...
Tehilim 96: Shiru la'Shem Shir Chadash (Part 2: Our Approach)
Length: 1 hour 3 minutesSynopsis: This evening (11/5/25), in our Wednesday night Tehilim shiur, we had something of a “do-over” of last week’s session, which didn’t record because of a hardware failure. Thankfully, this version turned out f...
Kavanah Primer: Avos (1st Berachah of the Amidah)
Length: 2 hours 6 minutesSynopsis: The halachah states: “One who davens must have kavanah during all the berachos, but if one is unable to have kavanah in all of them, one should at least have kavanah in Avos” (Shulchan Aruch, Orach Chayim ...
Tehilim 96: Shiru la'Shem Shir Chadash (Part 1: Translation and Questions)
Length: 1 hour 2 minutesSynopsis: This evening (10/22/25), in our Wednesday night Tehilim shiur, we began the next perek in our "Tehilim we say at Kabbalas Shabbos" series. This one was very ... "Tehilimmy"! As usual, we spent the bulk of t...
How to Use the Preface to the Vidui Yom ha'Kippurim
Length: 45 minutesSynopsis: This morning (10/1/25), in place of our Morning Mishlei shiur, we attempted to understand the preface to the Vidui Yom ha'Kippurim: what are we saying, and why? Drawing on the Rambam's framework for teshuvah, we ...
Tehilim 95: Lechu Neranena (Part 2)
Length: 58 minutesSynopsis: Tonight (9/17/25), in our Wednesday night Tehilim shiur, we (read: I) realized that we're going to miss the next FOUR Wednesdays on account of the Moadim! Given that consideration, I decided to expedite our usual...
Tehilim 95: Lechu Neranena (Part 1)
Length: 56 minutesSynopsis: Tonight (9/10/25), in our first Wednesday night Tehilim shiur of the 2025-2026 season, we began Tehilim 95, a.k.a. the first perek in Kabbalas Shabbos. I didn't choose it because of Kabbalas Shabbos (though it's ...
Tehilim 123: Shir ha'Maalos for When We're Scorned by the Nations
Length: 1 hour 1 minuteSynopsis: Tonight (6/4/25), in our Wednesday night Tehilim shiur, we started and finished (?) an extremely short perek about an unfortunately relevant topic: How should we approach Hashem when we, the Jewish peo...
Sforno on Tehilim 45: Philosophy as the Ticket Out of Galus (Part 3)
Length: 57 minutesSynopsis: Tonight (5/28/25), in our Wednesday night Tehilim shiur, we concluded our experimental learn-through of Sforno and R' Elia di Nola on our perek. We began by clarifying Sforno’s nuanced take on Torah u’Mada,...