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All: Alissa Zeffren

Alissa Zeffren · YUTorah · 100 episodes

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The Shoftim Cycle and Jewish History

2015-06-28 · 45:30 · YUTorah ↗ · Audio ↗ · TorahApp ↗

'TAKE OFF YOUR SHOES!' And Other Life Lessons from Sefer Shmot

2017-07-24 · 45:30 · YUTorah ↗ · Audio ↗ · TorahApp ↗

Memory and Song in Tanach

2018-07-16 · 48:30 · YUTorah ↗ · Audio ↗ · TorahApp ↗

Hide and seek with Hashem: Motifs of hiding in Sefer Yonah and Megilat Esther

2019-08-05 · 50:30 · YUTorah ↗ · Audio ↗ · TorahApp ↗

Torah Learning Today: Where Tradition meets Innovation

2023-01-01 · 59:30 · YUTorah ↗ · Audio ↗ · TorahApp ↗

Yonah Part I: The "Jonah Complex" and Elul

2024-09-10 · 55:30 · YUTorah ↗ · Audio ↗ · TorahApp ↗

Yonah Part II: Yonah's Dilemma and Rosh Hashanah

2024-09-17 · 49:30 · YUTorah ↗ · Audio ↗ · TorahApp ↗

Yonah Part III: Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: Sefer Yonah & Yom Kippur

2024-09-24 · 50:30 · YUTorah ↗ · Audio ↗ · TorahApp ↗

Writing the Next Chapter of our Jewish Story

2024-09-29 · 35:30 · YUTorah ↗ · Audio ↗ · TorahApp ↗

Parshat Noach: “Imposter Syndrome” vs “Hidden Potential”

2024-10-29 · 53:30 · YUTorah ↗ · Audio ↗ · TorahApp ↗

Lech Lecha: Self-Actualization: It’s about the Journey and not the Destination

2024-11-05 · 48:30 · YUTorah ↗ · Audio ↗ · TorahApp ↗

Vayera: Productive Struggle and Growing through Life's Greatest Challenges

2024-11-12 · 43:30 · YUTorah ↗ · Audio ↗ · TorahApp ↗

Chayei Sarah: "All These Years were Equally for the Good": PERMA and Wellbeing

2024-11-19 · 45:30 · YUTorah ↗ · Audio ↗ · TorahApp ↗

Toldot: “All’s Well That Ends Well:” Self-Concept Theory and The Wells We Dig

2024-11-26 · 48:30 · YUTorah ↗ · Audio ↗ · TorahApp ↗

Vayetze: Rolling Stones: Self-Efficacy and Jewish Continuity

2024-12-03 · 49:30 · YUTorah ↗ · Audio ↗ · TorahApp ↗

Vayeshev: Mindfulness vs. "Jewish Mindfulness"

2024-12-17 · 50:30 · YUTorah ↗ · Audio ↗ · TorahApp ↗

Miketz: Yosef's Dreams - Vision and Self-Concordance

2024-12-24 · 47:30 · YUTorah ↗ · Audio ↗ · TorahApp ↗

Vayigash: Cognitive Reframing and the Stories We Tell

2024-12-31 · 56:30 · YUTorah ↗ · Audio ↗ · TorahApp ↗

Vayechi: Yaakov’s Blessings and Character Strength Education

2025-01-07 · 48:30 · YUTorah ↗ · Audio ↗ · TorahApp ↗

Making Jewish Peoplehood Part of our Vocabulary and our Lives

2025-01-12 · 42:30 · YUTorah ↗ · Audio ↗ · TorahApp ↗

Shemot: Empathy and Leadership: Seeing Vs. Noticing

2025-01-14 · 48:30 · YUTorah ↗ · Audio ↗ · TorahApp ↗

Vaera: Overcoming Self-Doubt and Learning Lessons from Failure

2025-01-21 · 54:30 · YUTorah ↗ · Audio ↗ · TorahApp ↗

Bo: Intentionality and the Meta-Story of the Exodus

2025-01-29 · 1:02:30 · YUTorah ↗ · Audio ↗ · TorahApp ↗

Beshalach: Collective Effervescence - Faith, Song, and Fortitude

2025-02-04 · 52:30 · YUTorah ↗ · Audio ↗ · TorahApp ↗

Yitro: Organizing Principles and the Structure of the 10 Commandments

2025-02-11 · 52:30 · YUTorah ↗ · Audio ↗ · TorahApp ↗

Mishpatim: Revelation, Routine, and the Power of Na’aseh V’Nishma

2025-02-18 · 57:30 · YUTorah ↗ · Audio ↗ · TorahApp ↗

Terumah: The Mishkan and the "IKEA Effect"

2025-02-25 · 53:30 · YUTorah ↗ · Audio ↗ · TorahApp ↗

Tetzaveh: Inside and Outside: Enclothed Cognition and the Priestly Garments

2025-03-04 · 43:30 · YUTorah ↗ · Audio ↗ · TorahApp ↗

Ki Tisa: Second Tablets and Second Chances

2025-03-11 · 38:30 · YUTorah ↗ · Audio ↗ · TorahApp ↗

Vayakhel: Shabbat and the Psychology of Connection

2025-03-18 · 49:30 · YUTorah ↗ · Audio ↗ · TorahApp ↗

Spiritual Preparation for Pesach

2025-03-24 · 52:30 · YUTorah ↗ · Audio ↗ · TorahApp ↗

Pekudei: Creativity and Commandedness in the Construction of the Mishkan

2025-03-25 · 41:30 · YUTorah ↗ · Audio ↗ · TorahApp ↗

Vayikra: Attachment Theory, Korbanot, and Building a Life-Long Relationship with Hashem

2025-04-01 · 53:30 · YUTorah ↗ · Audio ↗ · TorahApp ↗

Tzav: Crisis, Renewal, and Continual Growth (And Elevating Our Pesach Prep!)

2025-04-08 · 54:30 · YUTorah ↗ · Audio ↗ · TorahApp ↗

Shemini: Rules, Relationship, and Limits in Our Avodat Hashem

2025-04-22 · 49:30 · YUTorah ↗ · Audio ↗ · TorahApp ↗

Tazria-Metzora: Positive Solitude, Purification, and Personal Growth

2025-04-29 · 51:30 · YUTorah ↗ · Audio ↗ · TorahApp ↗

Parshat Acharei Mot - Kedoshim: “Kierkegaard, Freedom, and the Psychology of Love”

2025-05-07 · 52:30 · YUTorah ↗ · Audio ↗ · TorahApp ↗

Emor: Time Perception and the Duality of Time in the Torah

2025-05-13 · 47:30 · YUTorah ↗ · Audio ↗ · TorahApp ↗

NILI Journey of Inspiration: Chesed that Holds Up Our Community

2025-05-14 · 1:00:30 · YUTorah ↗ · Audio ↗ · TorahApp ↗

Behar-Bechukotai: Shemitta, Sabbaticals, and Spiritual Renewal

2025-05-20 · 46:30 · YUTorah ↗ · Audio ↗ · TorahApp ↗

Bamidbar: Midbar Sinai and the Psychology of Liminality

2025-05-27 · 46:30 · YUTorah ↗ · Audio ↗ · TorahApp ↗

Naso: Birkat Kohanim and a Psychology of Blessing

2025-06-04 · 44:30 · YUTorah ↗ · Audio ↗ · TorahApp ↗

Beha'alotcha: “When you Raise Up the Lights” - A Psychology of Uplifting Others

2025-06-10 · 47:30 · YUTorah ↗ · Audio ↗ · TorahApp ↗

Shelach: The “Looking-Glass Self” and Understanding the Behavior of the Spies

2025-06-18 · 52:30 · YUTorah ↗ · Audio ↗ · TorahApp ↗

Korach: Self-Determination Theory and Arguments "for the sake of Heaven"

2025-06-24 · 1:03:30 · YUTorah ↗ · Audio ↗ · TorahApp ↗

NILI Women's Health Forum: Unfiltered: A Multifaceted Approach to Women's Health, Hormones, and Wellbeing

2025-06-24 · 1:15:30 · YUTorah ↗ · Audio ↗ · TorahApp ↗

Songs of the Soul: Exploring Themes of Tehillim as the Soundtrack of Our Lives

2025-06-29 · 54:30 · YUTorah ↗ · Audio ↗ · TorahApp ↗

Chukat: Breaking the Cycle - Recognizing Behavior Patterns to Achieve Self-Transformation

2025-07-01 · 56:30 · YUTorah ↗ · Audio ↗ · TorahApp ↗

Balak: Blessings or Curses? The “Framing Effect”

2025-07-08 · 55:30 · YUTorah ↗ · Audio ↗ · TorahApp ↗

Pinchas: Initiative and Follow-Through: Case Studies in Decisive Leadership

2025-07-15 · 48:30 · YUTorah ↗ · Audio ↗ · TorahApp ↗

Matot-Masei: Memory and Nostalgia in the Midbar Experience

2025-07-22 · 36:30 · YUTorah ↗ · Audio ↗ · TorahApp ↗

Unlocking Megillat Eicha: Collective Memory and the Keys to Redemption

2025-07-22 · 1:07:30 · YUTorah ↗ · Audio ↗ · TorahApp ↗

Halachic Woman: Living Life with Meaning and Purpose

2025-07-27 · 58:30 · YUTorah ↗ · Audio ↗ · TorahApp ↗

Living an Intentional & Balanced Life

2025-07-27 · 1:13:30 · YUTorah ↗ · Audio ↗ · TorahApp ↗

Devarim: Alone But Not Lonely: Moshe’s Final Address to Bnei Yisrael

2025-07-29 · 44:30 · YUTorah ↗ · Audio ↗ · TorahApp ↗

Va’etchanan: How to Talk so Hashem will Listen and Listen so Hashem will Talk

2025-08-05 · 57:30 · YUTorah ↗ · Audio ↗ · TorahApp ↗

Re’eh: Is Seeing Believing? The Invisible Gorilla and the Power of Perspective

2025-08-19 · 53:30 · YUTorah ↗ · Audio ↗ · TorahApp ↗

Shoftim: Self-Awareness Theory and the Johari Window

2025-08-26 · 49:30 · YUTorah ↗ · Audio ↗ · TorahApp ↗

Ki Teitzei: "If You Give a Mouse a Cookie" and The Snowball Effect in the Parsha

2025-09-02 · 43:30 · YUTorah ↗ · Audio ↗ · TorahApp ↗

Ki Tavo: Finding the Anchors in our Lives

2025-09-09 · 1:01:30 · YUTorah ↗ · Audio ↗ · TorahApp ↗

Nitzavim: The “Fresh Start Effect” and Teshuva

2025-09-16 · 54:30 · YUTorah ↗ · Audio ↗ · TorahApp ↗

Ha'azinu: Taking the Bird's-Eye View and the Worm's-Eye View (With Thoughts on Teshuva for Yom Kippur)

2025-09-30 · 49:30 · YUTorah ↗ · Audio ↗ · TorahApp ↗

Noach: Rupture & Repair in the Aftermath of Destruction

2025-10-21 · 50:30 · YUTorah ↗ · Audio ↗ · TorahApp ↗

Lech Lecha and Haftorah: Faith and Emotion in our Relationship with Hashem

2025-10-28 · 50:30 · YUTorah ↗ · Audio ↗ · TorahApp ↗

Vayera and Haftorah: Nisayon and Nes: Adversity and Blessings that Shape Our Lives

2025-11-04 · 54:30 · YUTorah ↗ · Audio ↗ · TorahApp ↗

Chayei Sarah and Haftorah: Passing the Baton: Living and Leaving a Legacy

2025-11-12 · 46:30 · YUTorah ↗ · Audio ↗ · TorahApp ↗

Toldot and Haftorah: Torat Emet vs. Disillusionment and Despair

2025-11-18 · 54:30 · YUTorah ↗ · Audio ↗ · TorahApp ↗

Vayetzei and Haftorah: Gratitude as an Antidote to Exile

2025-11-25 · 57:30 · YUTorah ↗ · Audio ↗ · TorahApp ↗

Vayishlach and Haftorah: Becoming “Yisrael” and the Choices that Define Our Lives

2025-12-02 · 51:30 · YUTorah ↗ · Audio ↗ · TorahApp ↗

Vayeshev and Haftorah: Holding onto Hope and Faith from the Pits of Despair

2025-12-09 · 48:30 · YUTorah ↗ · Audio ↗ · TorahApp ↗

Miketz and Haftorah: Resilience, Adaptability, and Jewish Continuity (Shabbat Chanukah)

2025-12-16 · 52:30 · YUTorah ↗ · Audio ↗ · TorahApp ↗

Vayigash and Haftorah: Reconciliation and a Prototype of Jewish Unity

2025-12-23 · 52:30 · YUTorah ↗ · Audio ↗ · TorahApp ↗

Vayechi and Haftorah: “Know Thyself:” Self-Knowledge as a Key to Self-Improvement and Jewish Continuity

2025-12-30 · 48:30 · YUTorah ↗ · Audio ↗ · TorahApp ↗

Shemot and Haftorah: “Time is Life” and Breaking Free from Existential Slavery

2026-01-06 · 56:30 · YUTorah ↗ · Audio ↗ · TorahApp ↗

Becoming a Mikdash Me'at: Building Sacred Space within

2026-01-11 · 48:30 · YUTorah ↗ · Audio ↗ · TorahApp ↗

Vaera and Haftorah: Choosing Emunah over Self-Limiting Biases and Beliefs

2026-01-13 · 44:30 · YUTorah ↗ · Audio ↗ · TorahApp ↗

Bo and Haftorah: Nation-Building Through Concentric Circles of Belonging

2026-01-20 · 49:30 · YUTorah ↗ · Audio ↗ · TorahApp ↗

Yitro and Haftorah: The Power of Hineni and Being Present Through Life’s Challenges

2026-02-03 · 45:30 · YUTorah ↗ · Audio ↗ · TorahApp ↗

Parshat Shekalim (Mishpatim) and Haftorah: Healing Through Helping and the Power of Generosity

2026-02-10 · 48:30 · YUTorah ↗ · Audio ↗ · TorahApp ↗

Teruma and Haftorah: Process vs. Product in the Construction of the Mishkan and Mikdash

2026-02-17 · 48:30 · YUTorah ↗ · Audio ↗ · TorahApp ↗

Parshat Zachor (Tetzaveh) and Haftorah: The Psychology of Remembering and Forgetting

2026-02-24 · 1:01:30 · YUTorah ↗ · Audio ↗ · TorahApp ↗

NILI's A Journey of Inspiration: Women on the Homefront During the War

2026-02-25 · 1:12:30 · YUTorah ↗ · Audio ↗ · TorahApp ↗

Parshat HaChodesh (Vayakhel-Pekudei) and Haftorah: Hope Theory and Renewal after Crisis

2026-03-10 · 49:30 · YUTorah ↗ · Audio ↗ · TorahApp ↗

Vayikra and Haftorah: Authenticity in Our Relationship with God and in the Recipe for Repentance

2026-03-17 · 54:30 · YUTorah ↗ · Audio ↗ · TorahApp ↗

Tzav, Shabbat HaGadol, and Haftorah: Habits of the Heart and Opening the Door to Emunah and Redemption

2026-03-24 · 1:01:30 · YUTorah ↗ · Audio ↗ · TorahApp ↗

Tazria-Metzora and Haftorah: Mind the Gap! Gain Thinking Vs. Gap Thinking in Haftorat Rosh Chodesh

2026-04-14 · 44:30 · YUTorah ↗ · Audio ↗ · TorahApp ↗

Parsha and Positive Psychology Parshat Acharei Mot

2026-04-21 · 51:30 · YUTorah ↗ · Audio ↗ · TorahApp ↗

Emor and Haftorah: The “Power Paradox” and “Scrupulous Leadership” of the Kohanim

2026-04-28 · 51:30 · YUTorah ↗ · Audio ↗ · TorahApp ↗

Behar-Bechukotai and Haftorah: Blessings vs. Curses: Personal Responsibility vs. Blame and Shame (Parsha & Positive Psychology Series)

2026-05-05 · 42:30 · YUTorah ↗ · Audio ↗ · TorahApp ↗

Parshat Bamidbar and Machar HaChodesh Haftorah: Spiritual Chaos Theory and How Preparing for Shavuot Starts Yesterday

2026-05-12 · 48:30 · YUTorah ↗ · Audio ↗ · TorahApp ↗

Naso and Haftorah: “Situational Strategies for Self-Control” Through the Lens of Nazirut

2026-05-26 · 55:30 · YUTorah ↗ · Audio ↗ · TorahApp ↗

Beha’alotecha and Haftorah: Human Agency and the Turning Points in Our Lives

2026-06-02 · 1:00:30 · YUTorah ↗ · Audio ↗ · TorahApp ↗

Shelach and Haftorah: “Mission Control” and the Restorative Role of the Spies in Yehoshua

2026-06-08 · 55:30 · YUTorah ↗ · Audio ↗ · TorahApp ↗

Korach and Haftorah: Servant Leadership and the “Aspaklarya Meira”

2026-06-18 · 53:30 · YUTorah ↗ · Audio ↗ · TorahApp ↗

Haftarot for the Three Weeks: Divrei Yirmiyahu (Parshat Pinchas) - Hope as the Antidote

2026-06-30 · 44:30 · YUTorah ↗ · Audio ↗ · TorahApp ↗

Haftarot for the Three Weeks: Parshat Chazon (Devarim) - Cognitive Dissonance and the Roadmap to Redemption

2026-07-14 · 41:30 · YUTorah ↗ · Audio ↗ · TorahApp ↗

Tefillah in the Age of AI

2026-07-19 · 46:30 · YUTorah ↗ · Audio ↗ · TorahApp ↗

Fireside Chat Q & A with Rebbetzin Dr Hindi Posy, moderated by Alissa Zeffren

2026-07-19 · 22:30 · YUTorah ↗ · Audio ↗ · TorahApp ↗

Parshat Vaetchanan and Shabbat Nachamu: From Mourning to Meaning-Focused Coping

2026-07-21 · 46:30 · YUTorah ↗ · Audio ↗ · TorahApp ↗

Haftarot of Consolation: Parshat Eikev - How the Sheva D’Nechemta Create a “Holding Environment” for Healing

2026-07-28 · 42:30 · YUTorah ↗ · Audio ↗ · TorahApp ↗