Rabbanit Iris Odani Elyashiv: Tomer Devorah and Emunah Classes

A women's Torah teacher

Rabbanit Iris Odani Elyashiv is a women's Torah teacher with a large recorded library of shiurim, several hundred classes in all. Her subjects center on emunah and faith, the Jewish holidays, practical halacha and the study of classic seforim. She teaches for an audience of women and families looking to learn these areas in depth rather than in passing.

Her classes stay anchored to the sources themselves. Rather than speaking in generalities, she works through a text line by line and draws out its meaning, so a listener comes away having actually learned the sefer under discussion and not only heard a talk about it.

Learning Tomer Devorah

A signature part of her teaching is a sustained series on Tomer Devorah, the classic mussar work of Rabbi Moshe Cordovero, the Ramak. Tomer Devorah teaches how a person can emulate Hashem's thirteen attributes of mercy in everyday character and conduct, and she unpacks its ideas patiently across many sessions.

Within that series she takes up the deep themes the sefer touches: the level of Adam before and after the sin, the nature of the human soul, and the meaning carried by the twenty-two letters of the Hebrew alphabet. These are demanding topics, and she presents them so that a motivated learner can follow.

Emunah, holidays and daily life

Emunah runs through much of her material. She connects faith to concrete concerns such as parnasa and geulah, reading events in the natural world — as in her talks linking the plague of locusts to livelihood and redemption — as windows into how a person can strengthen trust in Hashem.

Alongside this she teaches the holidays and areas of practical halacha, helping listeners understand both the reasons behind the observances and how to keep them. The result is a body of classes that moves comfortably between big ideas and the details of a Jewish life.

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Yehuda Yosef two Mashiachim and lighting the candle of Havdala . Vayigash 12 31 2024 Eng52:53Mischievous Correction Parashat Shemot Hebrew 01 06 202629:47How to walk in the way of HaShem Parashat Ekev . 08 11 2025 English48:12My people remember what Balak king of Moab schemed... 06 30 2020 English51:28

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As of today, Rabbanit Iris Odani Elyashiv has 1,496 approved videos on Lehallel, strongest in Halacha, Mussar & Chizuk, Parsha.

Newest approved: “זאת חנוכה 12/09/2018” (35 min) · “Laws of Honoring Father and Mother , 39 Melachot , guarding our Tongue . 09 05 2024 English” (1h 13m) · “Honor due Rebbe, Aged , Scholar and Kohain , 39 Melachot , Guarding our Tongue . 01 02 2025 English” (1h 1m).