A familiar voice on the weekly sedra
Rabbi Moshe Elefant on the Parsha is a weekly series in which a well-known maggid shiur turns to the sedra of the week. Rabbi Elefant has been, for many years, the maggid shiur of the Orthodox Union's Daf Yomi and a senior figure at OU Kosher, and that long experience of teaching a broad daily audience carries into his parsha shiurim. The series runs to some thirty recorded classes, each taking up the week's reading and drawing out a message a listener can carry.
A parsha series has a rhythm the calendar sets for you. The sedra arrives every week regardless, and a recorded shiur meets it — a place to prepare for Shabbos, to find a fresh angle on a familiar reading, or to bring a real dvar Torah to the table. Rabbi Elefant's clarity, honed on years of daily Gemara, makes his parsha teaching approachable without thinning it out, which is much of the series' appeal.
Message over commentary
The parsha can be taught many ways — as close pshat, as a survey of meforshim, as halacha rooted in the pesukim. This series leans toward theme and message: what the sedra as a whole is saying, and how it speaks to how a person actually lives. That approach makes it especially suited to families and to listeners who want more than information — who want the parsha to land as something to think about all week.
Because each week stands on its own, the series is easy to join at any point and easy to keep up with. A listener can follow the cycle straight through the year or drop in on whichever sedra is current, and either way arrive at Shabbos with a prepared thought. For a home that wants Torah tied to the real Jewish week rather than to a random syllabus, a steady parsha voice like this is a natural anchor.
Finding kosher Torah video for your family
FilteredTube is a kosher video service built for Jewish families — every single video is approved against one written standard before it can appear, with no open feed, no comments, and no surprises. It is a calm, safe place to look for the Torah and Jewish music you love.
If your family enjoys teachers like Rabbi Moshe Elefant, search FilteredTube for the speakers and topics that matter most to you. With a daf yomi shelf, a weekly parsha shelf, topic shelves, audio-only listening for the car, and a kids mode with a PIN, kosher Jewish video is easy to reach — and the approved catalog keeps growing every day.
At a glance
Key takeaways
- This is a weekly parsha series in which Rabbi Moshe Elefant takes up the sedra of the week.
- Rabbi Elefant is the OU's longtime Daf Yomi maggid shiur and a senior figure at OU Kosher.
- The series leans toward theme and message — what the sedra is saying and how it speaks to daily life.
- Some thirty recorded classes, each standing on its own, make it easy to join and keep up with the weekly cycle.
- Search FilteredTube for kosher, approved Torah video — the catalog grows every day.