A Torah State Of Mind
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A Torah State of Mind brings powerful Jewish wisdom into everyday life. Rabbi Shlomo Farhi shares deep Torah insights, mussar, stories, and practical tools for real personal growth. Each episode blends classic sources with modern relevance — inspiring you to think deeper, live with purpose, and elevate your week through Torah. For anyone seeking clarity, courage, joy, and spiritual strength. To subscribe as a supporter of this podcast please go here: https://creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/rabbifarhi/subscribe
Episódios 1.452
Toldot - Putting the No Back in Now
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Latest episode of the podcast. Please consider sponsoring a class online in someones merit, memory or refuah shelemah. You can donate here in the app or send us an email at [email protected] with the dedication you want to make. Thanks!
Toldot - Let Him Die
Toldot - Let Him DieHow can someone be the model of honoring his parents and still wish his father gone? Rabbi Shlomo Farhi explores the competing desires we all carry, and why learning to love our …
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Toldot - Let Him Die
How can someone be the model of honoring his parents and still wish his father gone? Rabbi Shlomo Farhi explores the competing desires we all carry, and why learning to love our responsibilities changes everything.
Toldot - One More Time
Toldot - One More TimeHow do you stay close to a child who is choosing a different path? Rabbi Shlomo Farhi explores how a father's love can hold the door open, and why faith in a child can outlast every no.
Toldot - Time to Pray
Toldot - Time to PrayIf God already promised it, why pray for it? Rabbi Shlomo Farhi explores why even the surest things in life still need prayer, and how a delay can deliver a better version of what you asked for.
Toldot - Prayer Fuel
Toldot - Prayer FuelHow do you believe in yourself without losing your humility? Rabbi Shlomo Farhi explores what gives prayer its power, and how learning to hold two truths at once can change the way you face …
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Toldot - Prayer Fuel
How do you believe in yourself without losing your humility? Rabbi Shlomo Farhi explores what gives prayer its power, and how learning to hold two truths at once can change the way you face challenges and understand other people.
Chaye Sara - What's Next?
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Latest episode of the podcast. Please consider sponsoring a class online in someones merit, memory or refuah shelemah. You can donate here in the app or send us an email at [email protected] with the dedication you want to make. Thanks!
Chaye Sara - Before They Are Gone
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Latest episode of the podcast. Please consider sponsoring a class online in someones merit, memory or refuah shelemah. You can donate here in the app or send us an email at [email protected] with the dedication you want to make. Thanks!
Chaye Sara - Need to Know Basis
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Latest episode of the podcast. Please consider sponsoring a class online in someones merit, memory or refuah shelemah. You can donate here in the app or send us an email at [email protected] with the dedication you want to make. Thanks!
Vayera - Yireh + Shalem
Vayera - Yireh + ShalemWhy did a valley have to become a mountain before it could become Yerushalayim? Rabbi Shlomo Farhi on Vayera: the Akeidah, the two names joined into Yerushalayim, and what it means to …
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Vayera - Yireh + Shalem
Why did a valley have to become a mountain before it could become Yerushalayim? Rabbi Shlomo Farhi on Vayera: the Akeidah, the two names joined into Yerushalayim, and what it means to bring Hashem into the low places of your life.
Vayera - How's the Wife
Latest episode of the podcast. Please consider sponsoring a class online in someones merit, memory or refuah shelemah. You can donate here in the app or send us an email at [email protected] with the dedication …
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Latest episode of the podcast. Please consider sponsoring a class online in someones merit, memory or refuah shelemah. You can donate here in the app or send us an email at [email protected] with the dedication you want to make. Thanks!
Vayera - Nobody vs No Body
Vayera - Nobody vs No BodyWould you show the same kindness to someone who can't offer you anything in return? Rabbi Shlomo Farhi explores the motives behind our good deeds, and how difficult guests and everyday …
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Vayera - Nobody vs No Body
Would you show the same kindness to someone who can't offer you anything in return? Rabbi Shlomo Farhi explores the motives behind our good deeds, and how difficult guests and everyday encounters can become chances to grow.
Vayera - Surround Sound
Vayera - Surround SoundWhy does Avimelech ask for a covenant that stops at Avraham's grandchildren? Rabbi Shlomo Farhi on Vayera: Avimelech's covenant, the destruction of Sedom, and what it means to give with humility.
Vayera - Upside Down
Vayera - Upside DownWhy does the Torah place Sarah's kidnapping right before Yitzchak is born? Rabbi Shlomo Farhi on Vayera: Avimelech taking Sarah, praying for others when you need it yourself, and finding the …
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Vayera - Upside Down
Why does the Torah place Sarah's kidnapping right before Yitzchak is born? Rabbi Shlomo Farhi on Vayera: Avimelech taking Sarah, praying for others when you need it yourself, and finding the blessing inside a crisis.
Lech Lecha - Cracks and Shoelaces
Lech Lecha - Cracks and ShoelacesEven Avraham made mistakes - so what makes someone a tzaddik? Rabbi Shlomo Farhi on Lech Lecha, taking ownership, and what to do when you've put someone in a hard spot.
Lech Lecha - Looking for You
Lech Lecha - Looking for YouWhy doesn't Hashem just prove Himself with open miracles? Rabbi Shlomo Farhi on Lech Lecha, Avraham's journey, and what it means for every journey of faith.
Lech Lecha - France is Burning
France is burning. And Rabbi Shlomo Farhi says he isn't surprised at all.Within hours of the looting, burning and mobs filling the streets of Paris, Rabbi Shlomo Farhi opens Parashat Lech Lecha with a question …
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France is burning. And Rabbi Shlomo Farhi says he isn't surprised at all.
Within hours of the looting, burning and mobs filling the streets of Paris, Rabbi Shlomo Farhi opens Parashat Lech Lecha with a question: when is it time to leave, and when is it time to fix the place you're standing in? Avraham is told "Lech Lecha" by Hashem. But in the very same parsha, "there was a famine in the land" and Avraham reads the writing on the wall and leaves on his own. A man in the shiur was born on October 15, 1942, the very day the Nazis wiped out his mother's city of Brisk. She had read the signs and escaped.
The irony, Rabbi Farhi says, is that we read that same morning about a world destroyed over petty theft and looking the other way, and then watched exactly that play out in one of the most famous cities on earth. When governments reward criminal behavior and turn the victims into the criminals, you've told people it's okay. But his message is not "run." Only a prophet can say that. It's the hotel room with the toilet nobody flushed: you've asked for a new room, so why sit in the stench for the 20 minutes you're still there? Flush it. Vote. Demand the rule of law back. Be the school that said no to smartphones. Be the families who cap the simcha spending so everyone else can breathe.
By the end, Rabbi Farhi hands the room a gift: "I gave you back your own No." Either we watch it burn like the generation of Noach, we build a teiva and set our own terms inside it, or, when nothing else is left, we go somewhere else and build.
CHAPTERS
0:00 Welcome and dedications
1:06 France is burning
2:25 Lech Lecha: forced out, or choosing to leave
3:47 Born the day his city died
4:47 From petty theft to anarchy
10:08 Would you flush the toilet?
14:29 Strategic capitulation
21:54 A challenge to our community
30:06 Burn, build a teiva, or leave
33:09 The gift: the word "No"
What is one thing you've accepted as "just the way it is" that you could actually change? Tell us in the comments.
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Noach - You First
Who eats first, you or your animals? The Torah gives two different answers, and Rabbi Shlomo Farhi says the difference changes how you see your whole life.When Hashem tells Noach to bring food into the teiva …
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Who eats first, you or your animals? The Torah gives two different answers, and Rabbi Shlomo Farhi says the difference changes how you see your whole life.
When Hashem tells Noach to bring food into the teiva, the pasuk says "it will be for you and for them to eat." You first, then the animals. But in the Shema we say the opposite: Hashem gives grass to your animals, and only then "you will eat and be satisfied." In fact, the halacha is that you have to feed your animals before you sit down to eat. So why is Noach's order backwards? Rabbi Farhi brings the Gemara's startling answer: "Man and beast Hashem will save" means man is saved in the merit of the animal. The animal is doing exactly what it was created to do, and if its owner isn't saved, Bessie the cow pays the price. In the teiva it was the reverse: the animals were only saved to repopulate the earth, while Noach was saved as a tzaddik. There, the animals lived in his merit, so he ate first.
That's the point, Rabbi Farhi says: we're mistaken about why we get what we get. You think the blessing came because you worked hard, or gave tzedakah last week. Maybe your whole parnassah is in the merit of your wife, your children, or a mother who hasn't stopped davening for you. So, now what? Widen your circles. He tells the story of a man who gets a call from a king: "My son is coming to live with you for four years." No room? The king buys a house. Not enough food? A private chef. Every child is the son of a King, and comes with what he needs. If you can be blessed for a cow, you can be blessed for a holy Jewish child. And every real friend who would be pained to see you fall is another layer of protection over you. The only price is being invested in them.
Finally: why didn't Hashem just grow mushrooms all over the teiva? Because Noach had to earn his keep. The mitzvah of feeding the animals was his merit, and what Noach did for animals, the Torah asks us to do for people: show up, prepare for their needs, and be there in their hour of need.
CHAPTERS
0:00 Welcome and dedications
1:22 "For you and for them": a strange order
5:25 Who eats first? Noach vs. the Shema
9:44 Saved in the merit of your cow
11:40 Which animals got into the teiva
15:25 Why you get what you get
18:56 Widen your circles
19:34 The king's son moves in
23:20 Why no mushrooms in the teiva
25:10 What Noach did for animals, we do for people
Who in your life might be the reason for your blessings? Tell us in the comments.
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Noach - It's Only A Little
Noach - It's Only A LittleWhy is stealing $1 worse than stealing $100? The generation of the flood wasn't wiped out for grand larceny. It was something smaller and far more common. Rabbi Shlomo Farhi on why the …
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Noach - It's Only A Little
Why is stealing $1 worse than stealing $100? The generation of the flood wasn't wiped out for grand larceny. It was something smaller and far more common. Rabbi Shlomo Farhi on why the tiniest theft can sink a whole world, and a watch story you won't forget.
Monday Night Musar Class - Rav Ovadia Yosef's Yartzeit
Monday Night Musar Class in memory of Rav Ovadia
Noach - Names Galore
Why did some people in Noach's generation spend their time alone, thinking, instead of living only for the farm? Learn how a blink of an eye takes you from one stage of life to the next, and what to do with the …
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Why did some people in Noach's generation spend their time alone, thinking, instead of living only for the farm? Learn how a blink of an eye takes you from one stage of life to the next, and what to do with the time in between.
Noach, names and their meaning, Rabbi Shlomo Farhi
Noach - Exactly Opposite
Is making the money worth losing your soul? Noach's family shows what a sale really costs.Topics: Torah portion Noach, mindset, righteousness#Noach #ParshatNoach #Torah #Mindset #Emunah #JewishWisdom #Chazak …
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Is making the money worth losing your soul? Noach's family shows what a sale really costs.
Topics: Torah portion Noach, mindset, righteousness
#Noach #ParshatNoach #Torah #Mindset #Emunah #JewishWisdom #Chazak #RabbiShlomoFarhi
Noach - Previously on Noach
If God needed to save the world today, why would He choose you? Noach only becomes a righteous man in next week's parsha, and the Torah teaches why.Topics: chinuch, parenting, raising children, Torah portion …
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If God needed to save the world today, why would He choose you? Noach only becomes a righteous man in next week's parsha, and the Torah teaches why.
Topics: chinuch, parenting, raising children, Torah portion Noach
#Noach #ParshatNoach #Chinuch #Parenting #RaisingChildren #Noah #Fatherhood #BreakfastAndTheClass #TorahLearning #RabbiShlomoFarhi
Beresheet - EyeWeAre
Who, me, jealous? Everyone is, and it hides in plain sight. Find out where jealousy lives in your life.Topics: jealousy, mindset, money, character#Beresheet #Jealousy #Kinah #Mindset #Money #Character …
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Who, me, jealous? Everyone is, and it hides in plain sight. Find out where jealousy lives in your life.
Topics: jealousy, mindset, money, character
#Beresheet #Jealousy #Kinah #Mindset #Money #Character #JewishWisdom #BreakfastAndTheClass #Torah #RabbiShlomoFarhi
Beresheet - A Flash of Light
Be the kind of person who matters, not just the kind who exists. Find out what the first Shlomo said about joy.Topics: dating, marriage, compatibility, character#Beresheet #Dating #Marriage #Shidduch …
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Be the kind of person who matters, not just the kind who exists. Find out what the first Shlomo said about joy.
Topics: dating, marriage, compatibility, character
#Beresheet #Dating #Marriage #Shidduch #Compatibility #Soul #Neshama #BreakfastAndTheClass #Torah #RabbiShlomoFarhi
Hoshana Raba - The Sound of Silence
Five Hebrew letters change shape at the end of a word. Where did they come from, and who forgot them?Topics: prayer, speech, mindset#HoshanaRabbah #Sukkot #Prayer #Silence #Speech #Tefillah #Torah …
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Five Hebrew letters change shape at the end of a word. Where did they come from, and who forgot them?
Topics: prayer, speech, mindset
#HoshanaRabbah #Sukkot #Prayer #Silence #Speech #Tefillah #Torah #BreakfastAndTheClass #JewishHolidays #RabbiShlomoFarhi
Sukkot - Peace Partners
The hadas branch is meant to be hidden under its leaves. What does that teach about unity and sharp-edged people?Topics: peace, relationships, inclusion#Sukkot #Shalom #Peace #Inclusion #Relationships #Truth …
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The hadas branch is meant to be hidden under its leaves. What does that teach about unity and sharp-edged people?
Topics: peace, relationships, inclusion
#Sukkot #Shalom #Peace #Inclusion #Relationships #Truth #Sukkah #BreakfastAndTheClass #Torah #RabbiShlomoFarhi
Sukkot - The Big Three
Faith comes before the miracle, not after it. Discover the three levels of Israel and which one you are.Topics: emunah, relationships, mindset#Sukkot #Emunah #LoveOfHashem #FearOfHashem #Faith #Torah #Hashem …
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Faith comes before the miracle, not after it. Discover the three levels of Israel and which one you are.
Topics: emunah, relationships, mindset
#Sukkot #Emunah #LoveOfHashem #FearOfHashem #Faith #Torah #Hashem #BreakfastAndTheClass #JewishHolidays #RabbiShlomoFarhi
Sukkot - Integrated Congruence
Why does the Torah call a fellow Jew "Yisrael" when it talks about returning a lost object? See how head, heart and kidneys set the order of a good life.Topics: integrity, character, mindset#Sukkot #Integrity …
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Why does the Torah call a fellow Jew "Yisrael" when it talks about returning a lost object? See how head, heart and kidneys set the order of a good life.
Topics: integrity, character, mindset
#Sukkot #Integrity #Congruence #Character #Mindset #Authenticity #Sukkah #BreakfastAndTheClass #Torah #RabbiShlomoFarhi
About Last Night
A man washes in the river just before his sentence is extended. What does that story say about the night before Sukkot?Topics: Yom Kippur, teshuva, forgiveness, mindset#YomKippur #Teshuva #Forgiveness #Mindset …
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A man washes in the river just before his sentence is extended. What does that story say about the night before Sukkot?
Topics: Yom Kippur, teshuva, forgiveness, mindset
#YomKippur #Teshuva #Forgiveness #Mindset #Azazel #Kapparah #BreakfastAndTheClass #Torah #JewishHolidays #RabbiShlomoFarhi
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