The Revolution in Egypt, a Message for the Jews

Rabbi Joey Haber, of LearnTorah.com, prepared a special out-of-the-ordinary shiur (lecture), just to talk about the revolution in Egypt and how it impacts world Jewry. He advocates that we should wake up from our slumber, much like what Rebbetzin Esther Jungreis has forewarned in her past shiurim, and that we Jews must react to this. Without prophecy, we look at world events as messages from Hashem. Everything happens for a reason, it is not for naught, and there is no coincidence.

This is another wake-up call for teshuva (repentance). The voice is the voice of Yaakov -- that's our weapon for all time. We need to better ourselves, commit ourselves to do more good than we are doing now, stay away from our bad habits and get closer to Hashem. It doesn't matter where we are, the Chutz, or in Eretz Yisrael.

According to the Rambam (Maimonides), there are 24 ways that can prevent us from doing teshuva. Watch and listen to Rabbi Yossi Mizrachi deliberate on four very important ways, in his shiur, "24 Ways that Prevent Teshuva".