• Foreword
  • Foreword

  • Introduction
    1. Why the name Vedibarta Bam?
    2. Acknowledgments
    3. Note on Transliteration and Format

• Bereishit • Genesis
  • Bereishit

  • Noach

  • Lech Lecha

  • Vayeira

  • Chayei Sarah

  • Toldot

  • Vayeitzei

  • Vayishlach

  • Vayeishev

  • Mikeitz

  • Vayigash

  • Vayechi

• Shemot • Exodus
  • Foreword
    1. Note on Transliteration and Format

  • Shemot

  • Va'eira

  • Bo

  • Beshalach

  • Yitro

  • Mishpatim

  • Terumah

  • Tetzaveh

  • Ki Tissa

  • Vayakheil

  • Pekudei

• Vayikra • Leviticus
  • Foreword
    1. Note on Transliteration and Format

  • Vayikra

  • Tzav

  • Shemini

  • Tazria

  • Metzora

  • Acharei Mot

  • Kedoshim

  • Emor

  • Behar

  • Bechukotai

• Bamidbar • Numbers
  • Foreword
    1. Note on Transliteration and Format

  • Bamidbar

  • Nasso

  • Beha'alotecha

  • Shelach

  • Korach

  • Chukat

  • Balak

  • Pinchas

  • Matot

  • Masei

• Devarim • Deutronomy
  • Foreword
    1. Note on Transliteration and Format

  • Devarim

  • Va'etchanan

  • Eikev

  • Re'eih

  • Shoftim

  • Ki Teitzei

  • Ki Tavo

  • Nitzavim

  • Vayeilech

  • Ha'azinu

  • Berachah

• Holidays
  • Chanukah-Mikeitz

  • Chanukah

  • Shabbat Shirah

  • Tu BeShevat

  • Purim

  • Megillat Esther

  • Purim Torah

  • Shabbat Hagadol

  • Lag BaOmer

  • Shavuot
    1. Dairy Meal
    2. Reading the Book of Ruth

  • Book of Ruth

  • Rosh Hashanah
    1. How Old is the World?
    2. The Master Key — A Broken Heart
    3. Grand Opening — Going Out of Business
    4. A Call From Hashem
    5. Pay Up Your Pledges
    6. Don't Discourage Your Child
    7. The Beauty of the Teruah
    8. The Shape of the Shofar
    9. "No Deposit No Return"
    10. "Here I am, my Son"
    11. Confusing Satan
    12. Asking Versus Wanting
    13. The Potential of the Individual
    14. Significance of Eating an Apple on Rosh Hashanah

  • Yom Kippur
    1. Teshuvah and the Stranger Within
    2. "It All Depends On Me"
    3. Is G-d Fair?
    4. "These I recall..."
    5. Yizkor
    6. You Can't Run Away from G-d

  • Succot
    1. How a Gentile Celebrates Succot

  • Simchat Beit Hasho'eivah

  • Shemini Atzeret
    1. Yizkor

  • Simchat Torah
    1. Everyone Has a Right to Rejoice

• Megillat Esther
  • Foreword
    1. About the Book
    2. The Name Vedibarta Bam
    3. Acknowledgments
    4. Note on Transliteration and Format

  • A Sefer For Mishlo'ach Manot?
    1. Two Reasons for the Mitzvah
    2. Two Famous Sefarim
    3. The Rama's Opinion
    4. Torah and the Seudah

  • Halachot U'minhagim Laws and Customs (Ta'anit Esther Fast of Esther)

  • Halachot U'minhagim Laws and Customs (Megillah Reading)

  • Halachot U'minhagim Laws and Customs (Mishlo'ach Manot — Sending of Edibles)

  • Halachot U'minhagim Laws and Customs (Matanot Le'evyonim — Gifts to the Poor)

  • Halachot U'minhagim Laws and Customs (Purim Seudah — Festive Meal)

  • Chapter One

  • Chapter Two

  • Chapter Three

  • Chapter Four

  • Chapter Five

  • Chapter Six

  • Chapter Seven

  • Chapter Eight

  • Chapter Nine

  • Chapter Ten

  • Should Mordechai Have Sacrificed His Torah Study?
    1. Favored by Most, but not By All
    2. "Blessed" or Merely "Protected"
    3. Light and Darkness
    4. The Effects of "Spiritual Geography"
    5. Giving up Greatness for Others
    6. In the Present as well as in the Past

  • Purim Torah

• Pirkei Avos
  • Foreword
    1. About the Sefer
    2. Acknowledgements
    3. Note on Transliteration and Format

  • All Israel

  • Chapter One

  • Rabbi Chananyah ben Akashya

  • Chapter Two

  • Chapter Three

  • Chapter Four

  • Chapter Five

  • Chapter Six

  • Rabbi Chananyah ben Akashya

• Tishrei
  • Foreword
    1. Acknowledgments
    2. Note on Transliteration and Format

  • Rosh Hashanah - Derashot - Sermonic Material (Ingredient for a Happy Marriage)

  • Rosh Hashanah - Derashot - Sermonic Material (Grand Opening - Going Out of Business)

  • Rosh Hashanah - Derashot - Sermonic Material (An Exercise in Translation)

  • Rosh Hashanah - Derashot - Sermonic Material (Practice What You Preach)

  • Rosh Hashanah - Derashot - Sermonic Material (How Old is the World?)

  • Rosh Hashanah - Derashot - Sermonic Material (The Master Key - A Broken Heart)

  • Rosh Hashanah - Derashot - Sermonic Material (A Call From Hashem)

  • Rosh Hashanah - Derashot - Sermonic Material (Pay Up Your Pledges)

  • Rosh Hashanah - Derashot - Sermonic Material (Don't Discourage Your Child)

  • Rosh Hashanah - Derashot - Sermonic Material (The Beauty of the Teruah)

  • Rosh Hashanah - Derashot - Sermonic Material (The Shape of the Shofar)

  • Rosh Hashanah - Derashot - Sermonic Material ("No Deposit No Return")

  • Rosh Hashanah - Derashot - Sermonic Material ("Here I am, my Son")

  • Rosh Hashanah - Derashot - Sermonic Material (Confusing Satan)

  • Rosh Hashanah - Derashot - Sermonic Material (Asking Versus Wanting)

  • Rosh Hashanah - Derashot - Sermonic Material (The Potential of the Individual)

  • Rosh Hashanah - Derashot - Sermonic Material (Never Write-Off Your Child)

  • Rosh Hashanah - Derashot - Sermonic Material (Avraham's Vision)

  • Rosh Hashanah - Derashot - Sermonic Material (Hearing the Cry of the Shofar)

  • Rosh Hashanah - Derashot - Sermonic Material ("What is With You, Hagar?")

  • Rosh Hashanah - Derashot - Sermonic Material (Personal Involvement a Must)

  • Rosh Hashanah - Derashot - Sermonic Material (Yitzchak's Greatest Fear)

  • Rosh Hashanah - Derashot - Sermonic Material (Vanishing or Flourishing?)

  • Rosh Hashanah - Torah Readings - Haftarot

  • Rosh Hashanah - Torah Readings - Haftarot (Maftir)

  • Rosh Hashanah - Torah Readings - Haftarot (Haftarah)

  • Machzor L'Rosh Hashanah - Prayers - Liturgy

  • Minhagim - Customs

  • Shabbat Shuvah Derashot - Sermonic Material (Sin for the "Sake of Heaven")

  • Shabbat Shuvah Derashot - Sermonic Material (Sermon in a Story)

  • Shabbat Shuvah Derashot - Sermonic Material ("Return, O Israel to Hashem, your G-d, for you have stumbled through your iniquity. Take words with you and return to Hashem.")

  • Yom Kippur Derashot - Sermonic Material (The Berditchever's Yom Kippur Plea)

  • Yom Kippur Derashot - Sermonic Material (The Cry of a Jewish Child)

  • Yom Kippur Derashot - Sermonic Material (All Jews are Beautiful)

  • Yom Kippur Derashot - Sermonic Material (The Value of Blushing)

  • Yom Kippur Derashot - Sermonic Material (Teshuvah and the Stranger Within)

  • Yom Kippur Derashot - Sermonic Material ("It All Depends On Me")

  • Yom Kippur Derashot - Sermonic Material (Garments of Linen, Garments of Gold)

  • Yom Kippur Derashot - Sermonic Material (A Resounding "Baruch Sheim")

  • Yom Kippur Derashot - Sermonic Material (Is G-d Fair?)

  • Yom Kippur Derashot - Sermonic Material (A U-Turn)

  • Yom Kippur Derashot - Sermonic Material (Adjust Your Clock)

  • Yom Kippur Derashot - Sermonic Material (New Garments)

  • Yom Kippur Derashot - Sermonic Material (A Parent's Request)

  • Yom Kippur Derashot - Sermonic Material (Winning the Race)

  • Yom Kippur Derashot - Sermonic Material (He-Goats and Priorities)

  • Yom Kippur Derashot - Sermonic Material (The "Right" Son)

  • Yom Kippur Derashot - Sermonic Material (The Sadducees and the Incense)

  • Yom Kippur Derashot - Sermonic Material (The Bond of Life)

  • Yom Kippur Derashot - Sermonic Material (You Can't Run Away from G-d)

  • Yom Kippur - Torah Reading - Haftarah

  • Yom Kippur - Torah Reading - Haftarah (Haftarah)

  • Machzor L'Yom Kippur - Prayers - Liturgy

  • Minhagim - Customs

  • Sukkot Derashot - Sermonic Material (The Driver's Seat)

  • Sukkot Derashot - Sermonic Material (How a Gentile Celebrates Sukkot)

  • Sukkot Derashot - Sermonic Material (Our Season of Rejoicing)

  • Sukkot Torah Reading

  • Sukkot Torah Reading (Maftir)

  • Simchat Beit Hashoeivah

  • Kohelet

  • Shemini Atzeret-Simchat Torah (A Wedding Invitation)

  • Shemini Atzeret-Simchat Torah (Yizkor - A Joyous Occasion)

  • Simchat Torah (Everyone Has a Right to Rejoice)

  • Simchat Torah (Siyum)

  • Minhagim - Customs

  • Shabbat Bereishit

• Chanukah
  • Foreword
    1. About The Sefer
    2. Acknowledgments

  • The Gemara's Account
    1. Why Were The Oils Defiled?
    2. How Were The Oils Defiled
    3. Why Was A Miracle Needed For Eight Days
    4. Why Was The Miracle Of Finding Oil Necessary?
    5. Which Kohen Gadol Sealed It?
    6. Beit Yosef's Question: Why Celebrate Eight Days?
    7. Enhanced Quality
    8. Four Additional Answers To Beit Yosef's Question
    9. 25th Commemorates Victory
    10. 25th Commemorates Finding Oil
    11. 25th Commemorates "Fire from Heaven"
    12. Flask Was Not Enough for 25th
    13. Five Additional Answers To Beit Yosef's Questions
    14. On 25th Some Oil Remained in Flask
    15. Without the One there Wouldn't be Seven
    16. 8 Days to Distinguish Between Beit Hillel and Beit Shammai
    17. 8 Days for 8 Yomim Tovim
    18. 8 Days for 8 Divine Salvations
    19. Why Not 9 Days
    20. 25th Or 26th?
    21. Significance Of 36 Candles
    22. Why Wasn't Yom Tov Declared Immediately?
    23. Why Not A Feast?

  • Insights on Laws of Chanukah

  • Prayers

  • Haneirot Hallalu

  • The Very Scrupulous

  • Maoz Tzur

  • Al Hanissim

  • Publicizing the Miracle

  • Declare on the Horn of an Ox

  • Kingdom of the Hasmoneans

  • Chanukah - Sukkot

  • The Dudaim Emit a Fragrance...

  • Hints and Customs

  • Hints for Chanukah in Vayeishev, Mikeitz, Vayigash

  • Hints for Chanukah in the Torah

  • Torah Reading for Chanukah

  • Days of Chanukah (Fifth Day Of Chanukah)

  • Days of Chanukah (Zot Chanukah)

  • My Zeide's Chanukah Message*

  • Dinim Menorah Lighting

  • The Menorah

  • "The Rambam's Opinion Concerning Menorah Lighting"

  • Insights on the Menorah

  • Oil

  • Megilat Antiochus The Scroll of the Hasmoneans

• Birkat Hamazon
  • Foreword

  • Hymns for Friday Evening

  • Kiddush for Friday Evening

  • Kiddush for the Shabbat Day

  • Order of Seudah Shelishit

  • Blessing After A Meal

  • Concluding Blessing After Certain Foods

  • Sheva Berachot

  • Additions to the Blessing After a Meal Following a Circumcision

  • The Laws Concerning the Redemption of a Firstborn Son
    1. Order Of The Redemption

  • Havdalah