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Overcome Elul Anxiety: The Path to Complete Teshuvah and Freedom from Addiction | Mordechai Weiss (Rebroadcast)

Elul is meant to awaken us—not overwhelm us. Yet for many people, the sound of the shofar and the approach of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur can trigger anxiety, perfection

Stop Trembling. Start Changing: The Elul Reset You Actually Need | Rabbi Hillel Eisenberg

Elul doesn't have to be a month of vague pressure and guilt. Rabbi Hillel Eisenberg joins The Motivation Congregation to make teshuva painfully practical: stop colle

6 Minutes That Could Change the Next 60 Years of Your Life (ELUL MINDSET)

Excuses can sound smart, compassionate, even responsible, until you realize they’re costing you your life. As Elul arrives and Rosh Hashanah gets closer, we challenge the

Why Moshiach is a Baal Habos and how to Mourn for the Beis HaMikdash When You Feel Nothing | Rabbi Don Jarashow

You’re told to mourn the Beis HaMikdash, but you’ve never seen it. So what are you actually supposed to feel during the Nine Days and on Tisha B’Av, and how do you get th

How the Missing Beis Hamikdash Fuels Today's Tragedies—and the Blueprint to Demand It Back

A crying mother is mourning her young son next door to Rabban Gamliel, and he can’t stop crying with her. It goes so far that his students worry for his health. That midr

Why "Wrapping It Up" Changes Everything

A deal can feel done long before it’s real. We start with a line you’ll hear from top real estate agents in New Jersey, “just wrap it up,” and unpack why it works: it pus

ARE LAKEWOOD MANSIONS A LIE? The Shocking Contradiction Real Estate Agents Won't Talk About! (LONGING FOR MOSHIACH)

Million-dollar homes, manicured yards, and $500-per-square-foot listings force a question most of us would rather dodge: can we build a comfortable life in Lakewood while

Stop Prepping for Shavuos Until You Watch This! 🛑

Shavuot can feel like a sprint: new clothes, a polished plan, a late-night learning schedule, and the unspoken pressure to prove you’re “doing it right.” We start with th

Seforim Chatter’s Nachi Weinstein Reveals His Top 10 Haggados — A Special Sit-Down

The Haggadah is the one Jewish book that refuses to stay “finished” because every generation keeps rewriting the margins. As Pesach gets close, I sit down with Nahi Weins

5 Years in Kollel. 4 Months in Real Estate. Here’s What I’ve Learned About Life.

Clarity can be comforting, but it can also be a hiding place. We start with a personal reflection on the first five years of married life in Kollel, the kind of Torah lea

The Art of Delivering the Perfect Compliment: The Three Things You Need to Know

Words can lift a soul or leave it flat, and the difference often comes down to how specific, empathic, and generous we are. We take a focused look at the craft of giving

50 Days in NJ Real Estate: The Rude Awakening & The Lessons Learned

A deal gone sideways can expose more than a bad contract—it can reveal the gap between who we say we are and how we actually work. I share a raw story from my first 49 da

Parshas Vayigash: The Chofetz Chaim Meets Rav Elchonon Wasserman - An Unbelievable Story

A handful of students follow Rabbi Elchonon Wasserman to Radan and find themselves in a quiet side room with the Chafetz Chaim, where a single question reshapes how we th

Twelve Against Ten Million (Lessons From the Chanukah Story & Miracle)

A single van’s worth of fighters against a sprawling empire isn’t the setup for a myth—it’s the spine of a moral challenge. We take a hard look at the Maccabean revolt an

We Think We Need Something New, But We Really Need To Make What Matters Feel New Again (Chanukah)

Ever notice how quickly we jump to the next thing—new job, new podcast, new scroll—without finishing what’s in front of us? We chase novelty as if the cure for boredom li

Hope Is Kosher, Quitting Isn’t

A quiet epidemic is spreading, and it doesn’t look like a fever. It looks like old dreams shelved, alarms snoozed, and a heart that once burned now running on dim. We nam

YOM KIPPUR LESSONS FROM MODULE 17 OF MY REAL ESTATE COURSE

A simple lesson from a real estate course—every deal starts with a purchase agreement—sparked a new way to hear the High Holiday plea “Zachreinu L’Chaim.” We explored how

NO EXCUSES, REBUILD YOUR LIFE - YOM KIPPUR PREP

Who would dare preach regression in an era obsessed with forward momentum? As artificial intelligence and technology race ahead faster than we can comprehend, the Almight

5785 Teshuvah Drasha: You're Repenting the Wrong Way! True Teshuvah is Right in Front of You!

What if everything you thought you knew about repentance was making it harder than it needs to be?  The concept of teshuva (repentance) often feels overwhelming—a comple

I INTERVIEWED MY HONORABLE FATHER ESQ. ABOUT HIS INCREDIBLY RARE SEFER BY THE CHOFETZ CHAIM HE OWNS!

Perched on our family bookshelf is a remarkable relic of Jewish history: a rare edition of "Nidchei Yisrael" (The Dispersed of Israel) by the revered Chafetz Chaim. Its s