A Staten Island rav and popular maggid shiur
Rabbi Moshe Meir Weiss serves as the rav of the Agudath Israel of Staten Island and is one of the more widely heard parsha speakers in the American yeshiva world. His recordings gather roughly a hundred shiurim, most built around the weekly Torah portion and the yearly cycle of Jewish holidays. The tone is warm and practical: he tends to draw a clear lesson for daily life out of each week's reading rather than leaving the material abstract.
What comes across in his classes is consistency. Week after week he returns to the parsha, the chagim, and the daily learning cycles, building a body of material a listener can follow across a whole year. His sample titles — "Parashat Yitro Gems," "Parashat Mishpatim 5773 Gems," "Reflections on Pesach 5773" — show the pattern: a steady, dated series that tracks the Jewish calendar and rewards regular listening.
Parsha gems, week by week
The word "Gems" in so many of his titles is not accidental. Rabbi Weiss's parsha shiurim are known for pulling short, memorable insights — a striking Rashi, a Midrash, a question on the pshat — out of the week's reading and turning each into a usable idea. Titles such as "Parashat Vayeshev 5773" and "Parashat Tazria Gems 5773" show him working steadily through the Chumash in order.
That format suits a family Shabbos table. A parent can take one "gem" from the week's shiur and bring it to the meal, where children and adults can turn it over together. Because the series is dated and sequential, it also rewards the listener who returns each week, gradually building familiarity with the flow of the parsha across the whole yearly cycle rather than treating each portion in isolation.
Holidays, Chok l'Yisrael and everyday Torah
Beyond the weekly parsha, the collection reaches into the Jewish holidays and the classic Chok l'Yisrael cycle — the daily arrangement of Chumash, Nach, Mishnah and other texts studied a portion at a time. Recordings like "Reflections on Pesach 5773" show how he prepares listeners for a coming yom tov, laying out its themes and practical mitzvos before it arrives rather than after.
His topic tags also include Talmud and Mishnah, and the throughline is the same across all of them: take a real text, explain it clearly, and land on something a person can actually do. That mix — parsha, holidays, daily cycles and a steady dose of practical Torah — is what makes the material approachable for a listener who simply wants to learn a little every day.
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Key takeaways
- Rabbi Moshe Meir Weiss serves as the rav of the Agudath Israel of Staten Island and is a widely heard parsha speaker.
- His signature 'Gems' shiurim work through the weekly Torah portion in order, one memorable insight at a time.
- The collection follows the Jewish calendar closely, with dedicated holiday shiurim such as his Pesach reflections.
- He also covers the Chok l'Yisrael daily-learning cycle along with Talmud and Mishnah, always aimed at practical takeaways.
- Search FilteredTube for kosher, approved Torah video — the catalog grows every day.