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Hillel Eisenberg

Rabbi Hillel Eisenberg is a Jewish educator and Torah content creator, teaching at Torah Links in Lakewood and lecturing Princeton University students, and host of "The Parshah on Fire" podcast.

Aug 20, 2026

21:50
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21:54
I personally think they're very refreshing.
21:56
But I can tell you the immediate knee-jerk reaction when it comes to LL, my thoughts are, is that it has become immensely, immensely overly complicated.
22:07
And what once was supposed to be a sort of practical reset to Yeruva Yiddish Hashem, has become a very, very daunting, spiritually kind of complicated...
22:21
Exhausting.
22:22
And sadly, when you're in yeshiva, and depending on which shul you go to, the speeches you hear are often vague ideas about Yerushalayim and And I think that those are all important, and those are all important things, and they're lofty and they're great.
22:41
But I think that it's sort of ignoring the largest, most obvious need during Elul, and that is...

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