Rabbi Michoel Frank shlit"a is the Rabbi of Ohr HaTorah in Silver Spring, MD. Rabbi Frank delivers a conference call shiur weekly on Thursday nights including 10 minutes of Halacha and 10 minutes of Parshas Hashavua.
This episode discusses the pasuk אהבתי כי ישמע ה' את קולי תחנוני.
This episode discusses the Zohar that we don't have to repent on all our individual sins, and the importance of asking Hashem for help in teshuvah.
This episode goes through the halachos of Yom Kippur and Sukkos.
This episode discusses whether you make a new brachah on each time a sick person eats or drinks on Yom Kippur.
This episode focuses on the difficulty davening and four suggestions to improve our davening.
This episode is a speech given by a pre-Selichos Melava Malka discussing the power of Tefillah.
We continue to explore the first perek of Mesilas Yesharim
This episode discusses the halachos of Erev Rosh Hashanah, Rosh Hashanah, and Aseres Yemay Teshuvah
This episode discusses blowing Shofar on Shabbos, beginning with the Rif who blew in his Beis Din, and culminating with Rabbi Akiva Yosef Shlesinger zatzal in the late 1800's and early 1900's in Yerushalayim.
This episode continues to learn the first perek of Mesilas Yesharim.
This episode discusses the dilemma of sharing secrets li'toeles.
This episode begins to learn the first chapter of Mesilas Yesharim in preparation for Yamim Noraim.
This episode discusses the prohibition against divulging secrets and when it applies.
This episode shares a beautiful idea of the Chasam Sofer on how to approach Elul in our hearts.
This episode discusses how long after you eat you are permitted to bench, and how to bench properly.
This episode discusses the first pasuk of this parshah where Hashem places a choice before us, what exactly is the choice, and the words of the Ohr Hachaim Hakadosh.
This episode discusses benching in the place where you ate, and the obligation of zimun.
This episode discusses how during the First Crusades the Jews who were faced with the oncoming mob chose to take their own and their children's lives, and what was the halachic justification for that.
This episode discusses how we can relate to missing the Beis Hamikdash through examing our lives.
This episode discusses the halachos of the Nine Days, Erev Tisha B'av and Tisha B'av as it applies this year.
This episode discusses where we know how to write the Aleph Beis and the deeper significance of each letter.
This episode discusses why Klal Yisrael complained about the Mann and praised Hashem for the Be'er.
This episode discusses the halachos of fasting and the Three Week mourning period.
This episode discusses what the Meraglim accomplished with Rachav Ha'Zoneh.
This episode discusses what constitutes kevius seudah to require bentching on Pas Haba'ah bi'Kisnin.
This episode contrasts the way Hashem rebukes Aharon and Miriam and the way He punishes Klal Yisrael with the Slav.
This episode discusses the brachah on Pizza and Mezonos Rolls.
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