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For half a century in Buffalo, Rabbi Heschel Greenberg — director of the Jewish Discovery Center — has elevated the way people live and feel by elevating the way they think. Classes on the weekly parsha, Chassidus and the Rambam — free to watch, listen and read.

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By Torah portionWeekly ParshaClasses and essays for each parsha, from Bereishit to V'Zot HaBerachah. SeriesRambam In-DepthThe Rambam's Mishneh Torah, one law at a time. The Jewish yearHolidaysFrom Rosh Hashanah to Shavuot — classes and essays for every season. Read onlineBooksLight from the Future, Safe Kabbalah, Pirkei Avos and more, chapter by chapter. Your teacherAbout Rabbi GreenbergFifty years of teaching in Buffalo, NY.
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Video ETHICS OF OUR FATHERS – CHAPTER 4 MISHNA 1 Part II
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Live Classes Classes streamed live as they happen, kept up afterwards. 286 episodes Watch the Series
Weekly Parsha Video Insight into the Torah portion, every week of the year. 171 episodes Watch the Series
Rambam In-Depth The Rambam's Mishneh Torah, one law at a time — short, sharp classes on the logic behind each halacha. 185 classes Watch the Series
Jewish Holidays The meaning and depth of the Jewish calendar, festival by festival. 92 episodes Watch the Series
Pirkei Avot (Ethics of the Fathers) Ethics of the Fathers — timeless guidance, one mishnah at a time. 75 videos Watch the Series
Life Skills Jewish wisdom applied to the ordinary business of living. 51 videos Watch the Series

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Rambam In-Depth 138 classes Torah Studies 30 classes Relationships 25 classes Judaism 21 classes Kabbalah 19 classes Holidays 16 classes Moshiach 9 classes Chanukah 9 classes
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Rambam In-Depth: Why the Beis HaMikdash Was Divided—But Yerushalayim Wasn't 5 min · Oct 13, 2026
Rambam In-Depth I The Illusion of Idols 9 min · Oct 29, 2024
Was Noah Really Righteous? The Torah's Surprising Answer 38 min · Oct 29, 2024
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Rambam In-Depth I When Poverty Leads to Idolatry 7 min · Jan 29, 2024
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E-Lights Noach – Noach and the Bar Mitzvah Why did Noach, a tzadik, fail to influence even one person in 120 years? From obedience to empathy: the spiritual maturation of the soul. E-Lights Bereishis – Touching Perfection Why did Eve add a prohibition against touching the Tree of Knowledge? The etrog tree, means and ends, and the Messianic vision. E-Lights V'zot Haberachah – The Torah’s Final Words Who wrote the last eight verses of the Torah, and why do they have a different status? Moses, Joshua, tears, and the light of Moshiach. E-Lights Sukkot – The Sukkah: Between the Collective and the Individual Does the Sukkah commemorate the Clouds of Glory or the booths our ancestors lived in? Two opinions, and two dimensions of Jewish existence.
Rabbi Heschel Greenberg
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A voice of clarity in a sea of information.

Rabbi Heschel Greenberg is the founder and director of the Jewish Discovery Center in Buffalo, New York, and a senior lecturer at the Institute of Jewish Studies. He has taught in Buffalo for more than fifty years.

He teaches the whole range of Jewish learning — the weekly Torah portion, Talmud, the Rambam's Mishneh Torah, Jewish law, Kabbalah and Chassidic philosophy — to beginners and advanced students alike. His long-running series include Rambam In-Depth, Torah Study: Beyond the Reading, an advanced Talmud class and Basics of Judaism 101.

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