YUTorah Online

Understanding Medrash: A Stroll through the Orchard of Torah

00:00 / 00:00

1.0x

speed

Update Required To play the media you will need to either update your browser to a recent version or update your Flash plugin.

How do we understand conflicting or fantastic Medrashim? Which Medrash is the true story? What is the purpose of Medrash?

More from this:

From Yam Suf to Yom HaAtzmaut: Saying Hallel on Yom haAtzmaut and Yom Yerushalayim
- Speaker: Rabbi Michael Friedman
- Date: Apr 28, 2020
- Duration: 25 min
An Archeologist, a Rationalist, and a Mystic Walk into a Pesach Seder
- Speaker: Rabbi Michael Friedman
- Date: Mar 30, 2020
- Machshava:
  
  History, Mitzvot, Spirituality
- Duration: 37 min
Sparks in the Straits: Inspiration for the Three Weeks with Rabbi Michael Friedman
- Speaker: Rabbi Michael Friedman
- Date: Aug 6, 2019
- Machshava:
  
  Chassidut, Three Weeks
- Play Later
- Play Now

Parshas Behaaloscha: Lighting the Ohr of Torah
- Speaker: Rabbi Michael Friedman
- Date: Jun 19, 2019
- Machshava:
  
  Chanukah, Chassidut
  
  Parsha:
  
  Behaalotecha
- Duration: 37 min
Sefiras haOmer: A Time for Shalom in the Jewish People
- Speaker: Rabbi Michael Friedman
- Date: May 8, 2019
- Machshava:
  
  Pluralism, Rav Kook, Sefirat HaOmer
- Duration: 36 min
Rav Avraham Yitzchak Kook: The Nation and the Individual
- Speaker: Rabbi Michael Friedman
- Date: May 2, 2019
- Personalities:
  
  Rav Kook
- Download
- Read Later

Ten Minute Torah Temimah Parshas Vayigash 5786
- Speaker: Mr. Chaim Fruchter
- Date: Dec 21, 2025
- Series: Ten Minute Torah
  
  Machshava:
  
  Torah
- Duration: 8 min
Chovas HaLevavos - Hakdama Shiur #23
- Speaker: Rabbi Mayer E. Twersky
- Date: Dec 18, 2025
- Venue: YU Wilf Campus
  
  Machshava:
  
  Middot, Torah, Yirat Hashem
- Duration: 46 min
Clues, Surprises and Disguises: Discovering Yosef's Strategy and Hashem's Subtle Directions
- Speaker: Rabbi Tanchum Cohen
- Date: Dec 18, 2025
- Series: Daily Shiur
  Venue: YU High School for Boys
  
  Gemara:
  
  Aggadeta, Ketuvot
  
  Halacha:
  
  Bein Adam l'Chaveiro, Business, Kibud Av v'Aim
  
  History:
  
  Period of Tanach
  
  Machshava:
  
  Bein Adam L'Chaveiro, Chanukah, Family & Ishut, Galut, Geulah, Leadership, Middot, Mussar, Prophecy, Ramban, Rav Tzadok, Spirituality, The Avos
  
  Midrash:
  
  Midrash Rabbah - Torah
  
  Nach:
  
  Kohelet, Tehillim
  
  Parsha:
  
  Mikeitz
- Duration: 28 min

Yearning for Learning: Our Response to the Yevanim
- Speaker: Rabbi Yaacov Feit
- Date: Dec 18, 2025
- Venue: YU Wilf Campus
  
  Machshava:
  
  Chanukah, Torah
- Duration: 10 min
Toronto Torah- Mikeitz Chanukah 5786
- Speaker: Rabbi Yehuda Mann Rabbi Ori Ezra Rabbi Ami Yunger Rabbi Shmaya Hendel
- Date: Dec 18, 2025
- Venue: YU Torah MiTzion Beit Midrash Zichron Dov
  
  Halacha:
  
  Chanukah
  
  Machshava:
  
  Chanukah, Geulah, Israel, Midrash
- Duration: 0 min
- Download
- Read Later
Five Short Parshas Miketz- Shabbos Chanukah- Chanukah Ideas 5786
- Speaker: Ari Mirzoeff
- Date: Dec 16, 2025
- Halacha:
  
  Chanukah, Torah
  
  Machshava:
  
  Chanukah, Chassidut, Torah
  
  Holidays:
  
  Kislev
  
  Parsha:
  
  Mikeitz
  
  Personalities:
  
  Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rebbe Nachman
- Duration: 17 min

Comments
0 comments Leave a Comment