# All: R Yoni Mozeson

- **Teacher:** R Yoni Mozeson
- **Source:** YUTorah
- **Episodes:** 99
- **Categories:** YUTorah Teacher
- **YUTorah page:** https://www.yutorah.org/teachers/Rabbi-Yoni-Mozeson
- **RSS:** https://feeds.thetorahapp.org/yu/83571/all.xml
- **TorahApp:** https://torahapp.org/share/p/YU_83571_all

## Episodes

- **[Midrash Vayera: The twisted morality of misplaced compassion.](https://torahlm.org/shiurim/YU_83571_all/e/yu%3A1053174)** (2022-10-28) — [YUTorah](https://yutorah.org/lectures/1053174) · [audio](https://shiurim.yutorah.net/2022/13928/1053174.mp4) · [TorahApp](https://torahapp.org/share/p/YU_83571_all/e/yu%3A1053174)
- **[Midrash on Chayei Sarah: A primer on prayer from Avraham Avinu](https://torahlm.org/shiurim/YU_83571_all/e/yu%3A1053172)** (2022-10-30) — [YUTorah](https://yutorah.org/lectures/1053172) · [audio](https://shiurim.yutorah.net/2022/13928/1053172.mp4) · [TorahApp](https://torahapp.org/share/p/YU_83571_all/e/yu%3A1053172)
- **[Midrash Rabbah Parshat Bereishis: Hanoch - the angel with human foibles:](https://torahlm.org/shiurim/YU_83571_all/e/yu%3A1057660)** (2022-11-01) — [YUTorah](https://yutorah.org/lectures/1057660) · [audio](https://shiurim.yutorah.net/2022/13928/1057660.mp4) · [TorahApp](https://torahapp.org/share/p/YU_83571_all/e/yu%3A1057660)
- **[Midrash Lech Lecha. For challenging God’s justice, Avraham was rewarded with prophesy](https://torahlm.org/shiurim/YU_83571_all/e/yu%3A1053171)** (2022-11-06, 6:30) — [YUTorah](https://yutorah.org/lectures/1053171) · [audio](https://shiurim.yutorah.net/2022/13928/1053171.mp4) · [TorahApp](https://torahapp.org/share/p/YU_83571_all/e/yu%3A1053171)
- **[Midrash Bereishis: A major moral principle of Judaism that few have heard of](https://torahlm.org/shiurim/YU_83571_all/e/yu%3A1075857)** (2022-11-09, 7:30) — [YUTorah](https://yutorah.org/lectures/1075857) · [audio](https://shiurim.yutorah.net/2023/13928/1075857.MP4) · [TorahApp](https://torahapp.org/share/p/YU_83571_all/e/yu%3A1075857)
- **[Midrash Rabbah Bereishis: By the sweat of your brow shall you eat bread.” Blessing or curse? ](https://torahlm.org/shiurim/YU_83571_all/e/yu%3A1056684)** (2022-11-10, 5:30) — [YUTorah](https://yutorah.org/lectures/1056684) · [audio](https://shiurim.yutorah.net/2022/13928/1056684.mp4) · [TorahApp](https://torahapp.org/share/p/YU_83571_all/e/yu%3A1056684)
- **[Midrash Toledot: God operates at the intersection of destiny and free will Part I](https://torahlm.org/shiurim/YU_83571_all/e/yu%3A1053170)** (2022-11-13) — [YUTorah](https://yutorah.org/lectures/1053170) · [audio](https://shiurim.yutorah.net/2022/13928/1053170.mp4) · [TorahApp](https://torahapp.org/share/p/YU_83571_all/e/yu%3A1053170)
- **[Midrash on Parshat Bereishis: Was the serpent a heretic or just a snake oil salesman.](https://torahlm.org/shiurim/YU_83571_all/e/yu%3A1053181)** (2022-11-14) — [YUTorah](https://yutorah.org/lectures/1053181) · [audio](https://shiurim.yutorah.net/2022/13928/1053181.mp4) · [TorahApp](https://torahapp.org/share/p/YU_83571_all/e/yu%3A1053181)
- **[Midrash Vayera: The binding of Yitzchak - making sense of the incomprehensible](https://torahlm.org/shiurim/YU_83571_all/e/yu%3A1075858)** (2022-11-16, 6:30) — [YUTorah](https://yutorah.org/lectures/1075858) · [audio](https://shiurim.yutorah.net/2023/13928/1075858.MP4) · [TorahApp](https://torahapp.org/share/p/YU_83571_all/e/yu%3A1075858)
- **[Midrash Parshat Bereishis - Why was the Torah written with black fire on white fire](https://torahlm.org/shiurim/YU_83571_all/e/yu%3A1053179)** (2022-11-18, 6:30) — [YUTorah](https://yutorah.org/lectures/1053179) · [audio](https://shiurim.yutorah.net/2022/13928/1053179.mp4) · [TorahApp](https://torahapp.org/share/p/YU_83571_all/e/yu%3A1053179)
- **[Midrash Toledot: God operates at the intersection of destiny and free will Part II](https://torahlm.org/shiurim/YU_83571_all/e/yu%3A1053169)** (2022-11-20) — [YUTorah](https://yutorah.org/lectures/1053169) · [audio](https://shiurim.yutorah.net/2022/13928/1053169.mp4) · [TorahApp](https://torahapp.org/share/p/YU_83571_all/e/yu%3A1053169)
- **[Midrash Parshat Bereishis: The Pathology of a Serpent in Paradise: Evil snake or society misfit?](https://torahlm.org/shiurim/YU_83571_all/e/yu%3A1053178)** (2022-11-22) — [YUTorah](https://yutorah.org/lectures/1053178) · [audio](https://shiurim.yutorah.net/2022/13928/1053178.mp4) · [TorahApp](https://torahapp.org/share/p/YU_83571_all/e/yu%3A1053178)
- **[Midrash Parshat Bereishis: Cain’s audacious accusations against God](https://torahlm.org/shiurim/YU_83571_all/e/yu%3A1053177)** (2022-11-24) — [YUTorah](https://yutorah.org/lectures/1053177) · [audio](https://shiurim.yutorah.net/2022/13928/1053177.mp4) · [TorahApp](https://torahapp.org/share/p/YU_83571_all/e/yu%3A1053177)
- **[Midrash Rabbah Bereishis: What is the moral lesson of an Adam “destined” for failure? Midrash Rabbah](https://torahlm.org/shiurim/YU_83571_all/e/yu%3A1057336)** (2022-12-05, 6:30) — [YUTorah](https://yutorah.org/lectures/1057336) · [audio](https://shiurim.yutorah.net/2022/13928/1057336.MP3) · [TorahApp](https://torahapp.org/share/p/YU_83571_all/e/yu%3A1057336)
- **[Midrash Miketz: While He often seems to be late, God is always on time.](https://torahlm.org/shiurim/YU_83571_all/e/yu%3A1052639)** (2022-12-21, 6:30) — [YUTorah](https://yutorah.org/lectures/1052639) · [audio](https://shiurim.yutorah.net/2022/13928/1052639.mp4) · [TorahApp](https://torahapp.org/share/p/YU_83571_all/e/yu%3A1052639)
- **[Midrash Noach: AKA Bill Gates, Henry Ford & the Wright Brothers](https://torahlm.org/shiurim/YU_83571_all/e/yu%3A1053175)** (2022-12-26) — [YUTorah](https://yutorah.org/lectures/1053175) · [audio](https://shiurim.yutorah.net/2022/13928/1053175.mp4) · [TorahApp](https://torahapp.org/share/p/YU_83571_all/e/yu%3A1053175)
- **[Midrash Parshat Vayigash: Yoseph's emotionally charged group therapy session](https://torahlm.org/shiurim/YU_83571_all/e/yu%3A1053068)** (2022-12-27, 6:30) — [YUTorah](https://yutorah.org/lectures/1053068) · [audio](https://shiurim.yutorah.net/2022/13928/1053068.mp4) · [TorahApp](https://torahapp.org/share/p/YU_83571_all/e/yu%3A1053068)
- **[Midrash Vayechi: The secret that Yaakov could not reveal.](https://torahlm.org/shiurim/YU_83571_all/e/yu%3A1053735)** (2023-01-04, 7:30) — [YUTorah](https://yutorah.org/lectures/1053735) · [audio](https://shiurim.yutorah.net/2023/13928/1053735.mp4) · [TorahApp](https://torahapp.org/share/p/YU_83571_all/e/yu%3A1053735)
- **[Midrash Tanchuma Shemot: True Jewish leadership means the ability to feel God’s pain](https://torahlm.org/shiurim/YU_83571_all/e/yu%3A1054049)** (2023-01-07) — [YUTorah](https://yutorah.org/lectures/1054049) · [audio](https://shiurim.yutorah.net/2023/13928/1054049.mp4) · [TorahApp](https://torahapp.org/share/p/YU_83571_all/e/yu%3A1054049)
- **[Midrash Tanchuma Shemot: The Egyptian bondage - A lesson in anti-Semitism that no one wants to hear.](https://torahlm.org/shiurim/YU_83571_all/e/yu%3A1054256)** (2023-01-09) — [YUTorah](https://yutorah.org/lectures/1054256) · [audio](https://shiurim.yutorah.net/2023/13928/1054256.mp4) · [TorahApp](https://torahapp.org/share/p/YU_83571_all/e/yu%3A1054256)
- **[Midrash Tanchuma Vaera: Signs of Punishment. SIgns of Healing.](https://torahlm.org/shiurim/YU_83571_all/e/yu%3A1054771)** (2023-01-17, 10:30) — [YUTorah](https://yutorah.org/lectures/1054771) · [audio](https://shiurim.yutorah.net/2023/13928/1054771.mp4) · [TorahApp](https://torahapp.org/share/p/YU_83571_all/e/yu%3A1054771)
- **[Midrash Parshat Bo: Did darkness go rogue and produce a more intense plague than God asked for?](https://torahlm.org/shiurim/YU_83571_all/e/yu%3A1055606)** (2023-01-25, 12:30) — [YUTorah](https://yutorah.org/lectures/1055606) · [audio](https://shiurim.yutorah.net/2023/13928/1055606.mp4) · [TorahApp](https://torahapp.org/share/p/YU_83571_all/e/yu%3A1055606)
- **[Midrash Tanchuma Beshalach: The rebellion to be “unchosen."](https://torahlm.org/shiurim/YU_83571_all/e/yu%3A1056012)** (2023-01-29) — [YUTorah](https://yutorah.org/lectures/1056012) · [audio](https://shiurim.yutorah.net/2023/13928/1056012.mp4) · [TorahApp](https://torahapp.org/share/p/YU_83571_all/e/yu%3A1056012)
- **[Midrash Tanchuma Yitro: Hearing is believing - A pagan priest’s unlikely journey](https://torahlm.org/shiurim/YU_83571_all/e/yu%3A1056654)** (2023-02-05, 6:30) — [YUTorah](https://yutorah.org/lectures/1056654) · [audio](https://shiurim.yutorah.net/2023/13928/1056654.mp4) · [TorahApp](https://torahapp.org/share/p/YU_83571_all/e/yu%3A1056654)
- **[Midrash Tanchuma Mishpatim: Finding God in the palaces of tyrants](https://torahlm.org/shiurim/YU_83571_all/e/yu%3A1057330)** (2023-02-12) — [YUTorah](https://yutorah.org/lectures/1057330) · [audio](https://shiurim.yutorah.net/2023/13928/1057330.mp4) · [TorahApp](https://torahapp.org/share/p/YU_83571_all/e/yu%3A1057330)
- **[Midrash Tanchuma Terumah: A foreboding message woven into the fabric of the Mishkan](https://torahlm.org/shiurim/YU_83571_all/e/yu%3A1058239)** (2023-02-21, 4:30) — [YUTorah](https://yutorah.org/lectures/1058239) · [audio](https://shiurim.yutorah.net/2023/13928/1058239.mp4) · [TorahApp](https://torahapp.org/share/p/YU_83571_all/e/yu%3A1058239)
- **[Purim: Haman’s antisemitic letter to the Persian empire sounds eerily familiar](https://torahlm.org/shiurim/YU_83571_all/e/yu%3A1058706)** (2023-02-26, 5:30) — [YUTorah](https://yutorah.org/lectures/1058706) · [audio](https://shiurim.yutorah.net/2023/13928/1058706.mp4) · [TorahApp](https://torahapp.org/share/p/YU_83571_all/e/yu%3A1058706)
- **[Purim: Mordechai’s anguished decision to save Achashverosh. (Midrash Rabbah Parshat Lech Lecha)](https://torahlm.org/shiurim/YU_83571_all/e/yu%3A1058707)** (2023-02-26, 4:30) — [YUTorah](https://yutorah.org/lectures/1058707) · [audio](https://shiurim.yutorah.net/2023/13928/1058707.mp4) · [TorahApp](https://torahapp.org/share/p/YU_83571_all/e/yu%3A1058707)
- **[Midrash Tanchuma Ki Tisa: Why did Moshe ask God if He is jealous of a hunk of metal?](https://torahlm.org/shiurim/YU_83571_all/e/yu%3A1059705)** (2023-03-09, 5:30) — [YUTorah](https://yutorah.org/lectures/1059705) · [audio](https://shiurim.yutorah.net/2023/13928/1059705.mp4) · [TorahApp](https://torahapp.org/share/p/YU_83571_all/e/yu%3A1059705)
- **[Midrash Tetzaveh: Why light a menorah in a place radiating God’s light?](https://torahlm.org/shiurim/YU_83571_all/e/yu%3A1075859)** (2023-03-10, 4:30) — [YUTorah](https://yutorah.org/lectures/1075859) · [audio](https://shiurim.yutorah.net/2023/13928/1075859.MP4) · [TorahApp](https://torahapp.org/share/p/YU_83571_all/e/yu%3A1075859)
- **[Midrash Tanchuma Pekudei: Why does an angel disable our moral compass at birth](https://torahlm.org/shiurim/YU_83571_all/e/yu%3A1059937)** (2023-03-12, 3:30) — [YUTorah](https://yutorah.org/lectures/1059937) · [audio](https://shiurim.yutorah.net/2023/13928/1059937.mp4) · [TorahApp](https://torahapp.org/share/p/YU_83571_all/e/yu%3A1059937)
- **[Midrash Tanchuma Vayakhel: Shouldn’t wisdom be given to the one who needs it most - the fool?](https://torahlm.org/shiurim/YU_83571_all/e/yu%3A1060021)** (2023-03-13) — [YUTorah](https://yutorah.org/lectures/1060021) · [audio](https://shiurim.yutorah.net/2023/13928/1060021.mp4) · [TorahApp](https://torahapp.org/share/p/YU_83571_all/e/yu%3A1060021)
- **[Midrash Tanchuma Vayikra: When we blur the lines between pure and impure motives](https://torahlm.org/shiurim/YU_83571_all/e/yu%3A1060681)** (2023-03-19, 5:30) — [YUTorah](https://yutorah.org/lectures/1060681) · [audio](https://shiurim.yutorah.net/2023/13928/1060681.mp4) · [TorahApp](https://torahapp.org/share/p/YU_83571_all/e/yu%3A1060681)
- **[Midrash Tanchuma Tzav: God favors those who know that life is a divine illusion](https://torahlm.org/shiurim/YU_83571_all/e/yu%3A1061356)** (2023-03-27, 5:30) — [YUTorah](https://yutorah.org/lectures/1061356) · [audio](https://shiurim.yutorah.net/2023/13928/1061356.mp4) · [TorahApp](https://torahapp.org/share/p/YU_83571_all/e/yu%3A1061356)
- **[The elephant in the room on Seder night - Addressing a 5th question](https://torahlm.org/shiurim/YU_83571_all/e/yu%3A1061949)** (2023-04-02, 10:30) — [YUTorah](https://yutorah.org/lectures/1061949) · [audio](https://shiurim.yutorah.net/2023/13928/1061949.mp4) · [TorahApp](https://torahapp.org/share/p/YU_83571_all/e/yu%3A1061949)
- **[Midrash Tanchuma Shemini. Lessons about change you can learn from an alcoholic.](https://torahlm.org/shiurim/YU_83571_all/e/yu%3A1062247)** (2023-04-10, 5:30) — [YUTorah](https://yutorah.org/lectures/1062247) · [audio](https://shiurim.yutorah.net/2023/13928/1062247.mp4) · [TorahApp](https://torahapp.org/share/p/YU_83571_all/e/yu%3A1062247)
- **[Midrash Tanchuma Metzora. Seven slanderers who paid the ultimate price](https://torahlm.org/shiurim/YU_83571_all/e/yu%3A1062521)** (2023-04-15) — [YUTorah](https://yutorah.org/lectures/1062521) · [audio](https://shiurim.yutorah.net/2023/13928/1062521.mp4) · [TorahApp](https://torahapp.org/share/p/YU_83571_all/e/yu%3A1062521)
- **[Midrash Tanchuma Tazria. Whose creations are more pleasing, man’s or God’s?](https://torahlm.org/shiurim/YU_83571_all/e/yu%3A1062522)** (2023-04-16) — [YUTorah](https://yutorah.org/lectures/1062522) · [audio](https://shiurim.yutorah.net/2023/13928/1062522.mp4) · [TorahApp](https://torahapp.org/share/p/YU_83571_all/e/yu%3A1062522)
- **[Midrash Tanchuma Tazria: Spiritual leprosy: a blessing or a betrayal?](https://torahlm.org/shiurim/YU_83571_all/e/yu%3A1062523)** (2023-04-17) — [YUTorah](https://yutorah.org/lectures/1062523) · [audio](https://shiurim.yutorah.net/2023/13928/1062523.mp4) · [TorahApp](https://torahapp.org/share/p/YU_83571_all/e/yu%3A1062523)
- **[Midrash Tanchuma Parshat Kedoshim. The spirit that needed to be rescued by a human.](https://torahlm.org/shiurim/YU_83571_all/e/yu%3A1063200)** (2023-04-24, 5:30) — [YUTorah](https://yutorah.org/lectures/1063200) · [audio](https://shiurim.yutorah.net/2023/13928/1063200.mp4) · [TorahApp](https://torahapp.org/share/p/YU_83571_all/e/yu%3A1063200)
- **[Midrash Tanchuma Parshat Kedoshim. The spirit that needed to be rescued by a human](https://torahlm.org/shiurim/YU_83571_all/e/yu%3A1063247)** (2023-04-25, 5:30) — [YUTorah](https://yutorah.org/lectures/1063247) · [audio](https://shiurim.yutorah.net/2023/13928/1063247.mp4) · [TorahApp](https://torahapp.org/share/p/YU_83571_all/e/yu%3A1063247)
- **[Midrash Tanchuma Emor: The curse of not letting go of victimhood.](https://torahlm.org/shiurim/YU_83571_all/e/yu%3A1063959)** (2023-05-01, 7:30) — [YUTorah](https://yutorah.org/lectures/1063959) · [audio](https://shiurim.yutorah.net/2023/13928/1063959.mp4) · [TorahApp](https://torahapp.org/share/p/YU_83571_all/e/yu%3A1063959)
- **[Midrash Tanchuma Emor - Don’t communicate with dead people or dead gods.](https://torahlm.org/shiurim/YU_83571_all/e/yu%3A1063960)** (2023-05-01, 6:30) — [YUTorah](https://yutorah.org/lectures/1063960) · [audio](https://shiurim.yutorah.net/2023/13928/1063960.mp4) · [TorahApp](https://torahapp.org/share/p/YU_83571_all/e/yu%3A1063960)
- **[Midrash Tanchuma Emor - Alexander the not so Great](https://torahlm.org/shiurim/YU_83571_all/e/yu%3A1063961)** (2023-05-01) — [YUTorah](https://yutorah.org/lectures/1063961) · [audio](https://shiurim.yutorah.net/2023/13928/1063961.mp4) · [TorahApp](https://torahapp.org/share/p/YU_83571_all/e/yu%3A1063961)
- **[Bechukosei/Lag baomer: The indomitable spirit of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai: Seeing blessings within the curse:](https://torahlm.org/shiurim/YU_83571_all/e/yu%3A1064602)** (2023-05-07, 5:30) — [YUTorah](https://yutorah.org/lectures/1064602) · [audio](https://shiurim.yutorah.net/2023/13928/1064602.mp4) · [TorahApp](https://torahapp.org/share/p/YU_83571_all/e/yu%3A1064602)
- **[Midrash Tanchuma Behar - The two greediest men in the Torah](https://torahlm.org/shiurim/YU_83571_all/e/yu%3A1064898)** (2023-05-09, 5:30) — [YUTorah](https://yutorah.org/lectures/1064898) · [audio](https://shiurim.yutorah.net/2023/13928/1064898.mp4) · [TorahApp](https://torahapp.org/share/p/YU_83571_all/e/yu%3A1064898)
- **[Midrash Tanchuma Bechukotai: When mankind perceives God as the enemy.](https://torahlm.org/shiurim/YU_83571_all/e/yu%3A1064899)** (2023-05-10, 3:30) — [YUTorah](https://yutorah.org/lectures/1064899) · [audio](https://shiurim.yutorah.net/2023/13928/1064899.mp4) · [TorahApp](https://torahapp.org/share/p/YU_83571_all/e/yu%3A1064899)
- **[SHAVUOT - Why the Torah had to be given in a desert- Midrash Tanchuma Bamidbar:](https://torahlm.org/shiurim/YU_83571_all/e/yu%3A1065307)** (2023-05-15, 4:30) — [YUTorah](https://yutorah.org/lectures/1065307) · [audio](https://shiurim.yutorah.net/2023/13928/1065307.mp4) · [TorahApp](https://torahapp.org/share/p/YU_83571_all/e/yu%3A1065307)
- **[Midrash Tanchuma Naso - Why God takes the tragedy of a Sotah to heart](https://torahlm.org/shiurim/YU_83571_all/e/yu%3A1066106)** (2023-05-24) — [YUTorah](https://yutorah.org/lectures/1066106) · [audio](https://shiurim.yutorah.net/2023/13928/1066106.mp4) · [TorahApp](https://torahapp.org/share/p/YU_83571_all/e/yu%3A1066106)
- **[Why each of the Birkat Kohanim (Priestly Blessings) need an antidote. Midrash Tanchuma Naso](https://torahlm.org/shiurim/YU_83571_all/e/yu%3A1066107)** (2023-05-24, 5:30) — [YUTorah](https://yutorah.org/lectures/1066107) · [audio](https://shiurim.yutorah.net/2023/13928/1066107.mp4) · [TorahApp](https://torahapp.org/share/p/YU_83571_all/e/yu%3A1066107)
- **[Midrash Tanchuma Behaalotcha: A Menorah for those who can’t see in the dark](https://torahlm.org/shiurim/YU_83571_all/e/yu%3A1066408)** (2023-05-29, 6:30) — [YUTorah](https://yutorah.org/lectures/1066408) · [audio](https://shiurim.yutorah.net/2023/13928/1066408.mp4) · [TorahApp](https://torahapp.org/share/p/YU_83571_all/e/yu%3A1066408)
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- **[Midrash Tanchuma Shelach: Did God set us up for failure?
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