As Elul winds down and Rosh Hashanah approaches, this shiur explores the battle inside our minds — the yetzer hara’s quiet whispers, the urge to overthink, the plans that collapse before they’re even built.
In this week’s parshah, Ki Seitzei, a mitzvah about putting a fence on a roof seems straightforward — until Chazal pull back the curtain. Suddenly it’s not about construction at all, but about the dangerous thoughts that can knock us down before we even realize it.
As Elul winds down and Rosh Hashanah approaches, this shiur explores the battle inside our minds — the yetzer hara’s quiet whispers, the urge to overthink, the plans that collapse before they’re even built. Through a powerful mashal of a man and his basket of eggs, we uncover how to build real fences around our thoughts, and how to find the strength to take life one step at a time.
A forgotten act of kindness.
A dying woman.
A Rebbe with a secret from thirty years earlier.
And one impossible command that would change everything in an instant.
A terrifying dybbuk encounter.
A haunting question from Rabbi Yerucham Levovitz.
And one chilling answer about why people cling to destructive habits—even when faced with the truth.
A torn Chumash pulled from a garbage dump. A curious boy. A mother who saw potential where no one else did. From that single moment emerged Rabbi Avigdor Miller — one of the most brilliant Torah minds of the last century.
