Why does Hashem say "I" twice in Haazinu? What is the sin of "timhon levav" that we confess every Yom Kippur? And why would the seforim call the holiest day of the year "a day like Purim"? In this week's episode, Rabbi Asaf Prisman follows the Kli Yakar and Rav Gedaliah Schorr into a concept that is basic to these days of Aseres Yemei Teshuva, as we prepare for Yom Kippur. He ends with a remarkable story of how this idea shows itself, sometimes in a very unusual way: how going to prison for a crime he never committed turned out to be the best thing that ever happened to one man.

What is the single worst thing you could do to a priceless Picasso? Slashing the canvas ruins the picture, but it doesn't destroy the value. In this Rosh Hashana episode, Rabbi Asaf Prisman uncovers why our calendar seems completely backwards. Rosh Hashana is the Day of Judgment and Yom Kippur is the Day of Forgiveness, so why are we judged before we are cleansed? Should we not come into the Day of Judgment with a clean slate? The answer reaches why Hashem refuses to audit your failures on the Day of Judgment, and the hidden royal signature inside every single soul that no mistake on earth can ever erase.

Why does the Torah tell us to choose life so that both we and our children will live? Why should a parent's choice determine what the next generation wants? Rav Moshe Feinstein finds a startling warning in the wording: a person can keep every mitzvah and still fail to pass Torah on. A father preparing for his son's bar mitzvah faced five stranded yeshiva students and made a choice that turned an entire feast into something his son would never forget. This episode asks what children truly inherit when they watch our avodas Hashem, and why the feeling they see may matter as much as the actions themselves.