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Tonight’s shiur has been sponsored by Dassa, one of my early Shalhevet students, to bring awareness for people to daven for יוסף שלום בן אסתר שיינדל, “a young married guy battling a brain tumor” who had “surgical resection today and recovery ahead.” She added that the zechus of our learning should bolster our tefilah. We spend the first 10-15 minutes or so reflecting on this

Length: 59 minutes
Synopsis: This evening (9/16/26), in our Wednesday night Tehilim shiur, after a few off-topic introductory reflections, we reviewed our perek and got to work trying to "land the plane." We reviewed the translation of the perek according to the Radak, then reviewed the key Radaks from last time and read the ones we didn't have time to get to. Then we attempted to come up with a Grand Theory of the perek based on the Radak. That "based on the Radak" part was the real challenge: it was SO tempting to incorporate the many ideas and themes about Rosh ha'Shanah we're familiar with ... but we had to face the fact that the Radak didn't mention any of them. We ended up with two approaches, both of which were good, and neither of which were complete. I'm happy with this round, and I look forward to the next time I get to think about this!
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מקורות:
רמב"ם - משנה תורה: ספר המדע, הלכות תשובה א:א; ב:ו; ז:א
Ari Bleicher - Tefillat Shav: The Limits of Prayer as a Means to Understanding its Transformative Nature (https://hakirah.org/Vol%2012%20Bleicher.pdf)
תהלים פא
רד"ק (תורת חיים)
נוסח התפילה - עמידה לראש השנה
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refuah sheleimah for her father. Shanah tovah!

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Length: 59 minutes
Synopsis: This evening (9/9/26), in our Wednesday night Tehilim shiur, we continued our analysis of our perek. After a quick review of our Claude-Radakified translation, we raised a few major questions, then went straight to the Radak. I had pre-selected the key comments necessary to appreciate the thrust of his approach, which sheds a new and wild light on shofar and Rosh ha'Shanah. If you want something tantalizing to think about this year, make sure to check this shiur out before Rosh ha'Shanah starts. Next time, in our third and final session on this perek, our goal will be to answer our major questions and "land the plane."

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מקורות:
תהלים פא
רד"ק (תורת חיים)
ראש השנה דף י עמוד ב - יא עמוד ב
ויקרא כג:כד
במדבר י:י; כט:א
רמב"ם - משנה תורה: ספר זרעים, הלכות שמיטה ויובל י:י,יד
מאירי - תהלים פא:ה
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The Torah content for the remainder of Elul is sponsored by Chaim Peck and Rifka Kaplan-Peck. May Hashem grant us all a new year filled with learning and growth!

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Length: 1 hour 3 minutes
Synopsis: This evening (9/2/26), in our first Wednesday night Tehilim shiur of the season, we began learning a perek from the daily AND annual liturgy! I chose it because Rosh ha'Shanah is right around the corner and I remembered there being a really good Rosh ha'Shanah insight here, but I have very little recollection of what it is. This time we spent almost the entire time on the somewhat difficult translations, then attempted to identify the pivot point. At the very end I teased the Radak's introduction to the perek, which was the source of my Rosh ha'Shanah insights, but we'll have to wait until next time to pursue that.
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מקורות:
תהלים פא
Artscroll
Neima Novetsky
Robert Alter
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The Torah content for the remainder of Elul is sponsored by Chaim Peck and Rifka Kaplan-Peck. May Hashem grant us all a new year filled with learning and growth!

Additionally, I’m in search of a sponsor for this year’s Zoom subscription and for an actual SoferAI account, so that I can start transcribing my 700+ recorded Mishlei shiurim in preparation for writing my book on Mishlei.

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Length: 1 hour 1 minute
Synopsis: This evening (6/17/26), in our last Wednesday night Tehilim shiur of the season, we took another pass at our perek. After reviewing the text, the questions and problems, and our approaches from last time. We then learned through the Meiri's first approach and the Radak's commentary, providing us with two interpretations of the perek. We developed them a bit and attempted to understand this perek's relationship with the previous one. Did we succeed? Somewhat. While we now have a working understanding - well, TWO working understandings - of the perek, and each pasuk, I don't think anyone felt like we really cracked it. There wasn't the satisfying, "Aha!" that we often feel at the end of our learning. Oh well. That just means we get to come back for another attempt in the future, God willing!

In my opinion, this was a great year of Tehilim-learning! I enjoyed spending nearly the entire year within the same set of perakim. I'm excited to revisit this in an attempt to grasp the big picture, now that we have nearly all the pieces.
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מקורות:
תהלים צג
מאירי
רד"ק
בראשית א:א-ט
תרגום אונקלוס - שמות טו:א
ירמיהו טז:יד-טו
תרגום רס"ג - הערות הרב קאפח
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Length: 1 hour 1 minute
Synopsis: This evening (6/10/26), in our Wednesday night Tehilim shiur, we began the final perek in our "Kabbalas Shabbos" series: the short and thematically-difficult-to-pin-down Psalm 93! Translation didn't take long, so we were able to pitch several theories. I did my best to share my own, but knew going in that more work was necessarily. As Hashem's will would have it, this did NOT end up being our last shiur of the year. We'll give it another go next week (בג"ה).
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מקורות:
תהלים צג
Artscroll
Neima Novetsky
Robert Alter
מצודת דוד
אבן עזרא - פירוש שני
רש"י
רד"ק - תהלים צב
אדון עולם
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Length: 1 hour 5 minutes
Synopsis: This evening (6/3/26), in our Wednesday night Tehilim shiur, we completed our learning of the Radak's commentary on our perek. After reviewing what we covered last time - the first six pesukim - we delved into the critical seventh pasuk which opened up his whole approach. We then finished learning [the critical parts of] his commentary, stepped back, and compared it with our own analysis, emphasizing the thematic and practical differences. I had to do everything in my power to resist bringing in ideas from the Rambam on Iyov, which would be appropriate but would necessarily fail to do them justice. All in all, I'm super happy with how our learning of this perek went. As I mention at the end of the shiur, this is perhaps the BEST introductory perek to Tehilim - the contents, the method, and the benefits. I can't wait until the next time I learn it!
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מקורות:
תהלים צב
רד"ק
רמב"ם פירוש המשניות - ברכות ט:ה
רמב"ם - מורה הנבוכים ג:כג
איוב לג
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The Torah content for this month has been sponsored by Meir Areman, l'zeicher nishmas Zelda bas Ziesel, his grandmother, whose yahrzeit is on the 21st of Sivan.

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Length: 1 hour 1 minute
Synopsis: This evening (5/27/26), in our Wednesday night Tehilim shiur, we began by reviewing the text and our questions. We then spent the rest of shiur learning the Radak's commentary on the first six pesukim, with forays into the Meiri, Rambam, and R' Avraham ben ha'Rambam. I COULD have rushed in order to finish the perek today, but there were so many delicious ideas in the Radak's commentary that I wanted to savor. Our goal next time will be to learn through his commentary on the second half, and then arrive at a unified understanding.
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מקורות:
תהלים צב
רד"ק
מאירי
רד"ק - בראשית ב:ג
נוסח אשכנז - ברכת יוצר של שבת
רמב"ם - משנה תורה: ספר המדע, הלכות תשובה י:ג
רמב"ם - משנה תורה: ספר המדע, הלכות יסודי התורה הקדמה; ד:יא-יג
ר' אברהם בן הרמב"ם - המספיק לעובדי השם
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The Torah content for this month has been sponsored by Meir Areman, l'zeicher nishmas Zelda bas Ziesel, his grandmother, whose yahrzeit is on the 21st of Sivan.

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Length: 1 hour 9 minutes
Synopsis: This evening (5/13/26), in our Wednesday night Tehilim shiur, we began our analysis of the Shir shel Yom of Shabbos. I gave shiur on this a long time ago (November 2020), but since we've been learning through all the "Kabbalas Shabbos" perakim, and this is the centerpiece, we had to take it up once again! Tonight, we translated the perek, raised a ton of questions, and came up with our own approaches. I shared my own approach, inspired by advice from my rebbi, Rabbi Moskowitz zt"l, and by a passage in the Kuzari. Next time (the week after Shavuos, בג"ה), we'll take up one of the meforshim.
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מקורות:
תהלים צב
מצודת ציון
תרגום כתובים
רבינו יונה - אבות ב:ה
מצודת דוד - תהלים צ:א
רמב"ם - משנה תורה: ספר המדע, הלכות תשובה ח:ב
ר' יהודה הלוי - כוזרי ג:יא
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The Torah content for the month of Iyyar is sponsored by Naomi Schwartz Rothschild in memory of her mother, Breindel Bracha bas Mordechai z"l, whose yahrzeit falls on the 8th of Iyyar. She learned and lived Torah, and was a tremendous baalas chesed.
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