The work of character
Rabbi Avrohom Zeidman's shiurim center on middos — the daily work of building character. Titles like "Givers and Takers," "How to Be a Giving Taker," and "How to Love Doing Chesed" show a teacher fascinated by the mechanics of generosity: not just that we should give, but what actually shapes a person into someone who gives.
He is willing to take on the hard cases. "How to Love Those You Hate" and "Altruism: Myth or Fact?" go straight at the places where good middos are most tested and most doubted. Rather than offering slogans, he examines whether real selflessness is even possible, and how a person might genuinely get there.
Bigger questions
The collection also reaches into deeper hashkafa. In "Back Again: Reincarnation," Rabbi Zeidman takes up gilgul — the soul's return — a subject usually left untouched, and treats it as a serious part of the Jewish understanding of the soul and its purpose in the world.
Handling a topic like this alongside practical middos is telling. For Rabbi Zeidman, character work and the big questions of the soul are not separate: understanding why we are here informs how we treat the people around us. The abstract and the everyday steadily feed one another.
Torah for children too
Rabbi Zeidman also teaches younger listeners through the StoryAnytime Kids series. The same interest in middos carries over, now delivered as stories pitched to hold a child's attention while planting the very values he explores with adults.
For families, that makes the collection genuinely multi-generational. Parents can learn his chesed and character shiurim while children have their own set built for them — a rare case where one teacher's work reaches the whole table at once, each at the right level.
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At a glance
Key takeaways
- Rabbi Avrohom Zeidman's shiurim center on middos and character — chesed, giving, and loving others.
- He takes on the hard cases, like loving those you hate and whether real altruism exists.
- His shiur "Back Again: Reincarnation" treats gilgul as a serious part of understanding the soul.
- His StoryAnytime Kids series brings the same values to children.
- Search FilteredTube for kosher, approved Torah video — the catalog grows every day.