Rabbi Kaplan conducts weekly Torah classes at Ohav Zedek, JCC, and on ZOOM online. Please click the links below to listen to recordings (.mp3 format).
Parsha of the Week Classes
Oct. 30 - "Israel, One Nation Upon The Earth"
Oct. 19 - "Genesis: The Big Inning"
Sep. 28 - "Sukkot"
Sep. 11 - "Rosh Hashanah"
Aug. 31 - "Chancing Upon Destiny"
June 21 - "Dispute and the Road to Hell"
June 8 - "Sticks and Stones"
May 24 - "Do You Want My Torah? Cowabunga!"
May 11 - "Missing the Forest for the Trees"
Mar. 30 - "Passover Haggadah"
Mar. 16 - "Why a Golden Calf?"
Mar. 2 - "The Run for the Roses"
Feb. 16 - "Inlaws and Outlaws"
Feb. 6 - "Kvetching About Miracles"
Feb. 2 - "Haman & Hitler's Origin Story"
Jan. 12, '23 - "Exodus: My Name Is Nobody"
Dec. 26 - "I Dreamed a Dream"
Dec. 8 - "Are Chanukah Harry and Santa Claus Friends"
Dec. 1 - "The Art of the Con"
Nov. 21 - "The Laughter of Sodom"
Nov. 10 - "A Man Hears What He Wants To Hear"
Oct. 27 - "A Towering Sin"
Oct. 13 - "Dancing Past The Graveyard"
Sep. 21 - "He Who Laughs Last"
Sep. 14 - "Royalty"
Sep. 7 - "Chance & Circumstance"
Jul. 27 - "Kamtza & Bar Kamtza"
Jul. 20 - "The Grand Illusion"
Jul. 14 - "Bilaam and the Golden Calf"
Jul. 7 - "Death, Be Not Proud"
Feb. 28, '22 - "Shemoneh Esrei"
Oct. 21 - "Keeping Up Appearances"
Oct. 14 - "The Most Unkindest Cut of All"
Oct. 4 - "Flooding the Tower of Babylon"
Sep. 13 - "Checking the Yom Kippur Clock Every 5 Minutes"
Sep. 2 - "For Whom the Bell Tolls"
Jun. 28 - "The Golden Calf: Welcome to the Grand Illusion"
Jun. 15 - "Korach and the Road to Hell"
May. 24 - "Parshat Beha'alotecha"
Apr. 12 - "Rabbi Akiva"
Mar. 8 - "Dayeinu"
Feb. 24 - "The Chance of a Lifetime"
Jan. 11, '21 - "A Rose By Any Other Name"
Dec. 21 - "I Dreamed a Dream in Time Gone By"
Dec. 8 - "Galaxies for Peanuts"
Nov. 30 - "When Dr. Jekyll became Mr. Hyde"
Nov. 18 - "Hunting Esau"
Nov. 9 - "Camelot"
Nov. 4, '20 - "Lessons from Simon & Garfunkel"
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Book of Esther Classes (2022)
Book of Esther Part 6
Book of Esther Part 5
Book of Esther Part 4
Book of Esther Part 3
Book of Esther Part 2
Book of Esther Part 1
Pesach Workshop Class
Class 1
Pirkei Avot ZOOM Classes (Apr-May '20)
Class #1
Class #2
Class #3
Class #4
In 2020, Rabbi Kaplan had recorded pre-Shabbat messages on each week's parsha to YouTube during the lockdown. Click the link below to visit the channel.
Ohav Zedek YouTube