A teacher of emunah and Jewish thought
Rabbi Sholom Ahron Ehrenfeld's recorded shiurim center on the foundations of Jewish belief — emunah — and the broader world of Jewish thought that surrounds it. The collection here leans toward hashkafa: how we know what we know, why the world was created, and what belief in Torah actually rests on. These are the questions that sit beneath everyday observance, and his classes take them seriously rather than treating them as settled slogans, which is what makes the series worth sitting with.
His topics range across Jewish philosophy, Pirkei Avos, the Yamim Tovim, and elements of Jewish mysticism, but they tend to return to the same root concern: building emunah on a foundation a thinking person can stand on. That orientation shapes how he teaches — patiently, from first principles — so that a listener is not asked to accept conclusions on trust but is walked toward them step by step, with the sources laid out along the way.
The Foundations of Emunah series
The heart of this collection is a numbered series called Foundations of Emunah. It opens with the revelation at Sinai and the experience of an entire nation encountering Hashem, then moves through the transmission of the Oral Torah, the purpose behind creation, and the Rambam's thirteen principles of faith. Taught in sequence, it functions less like isolated lectures and more like a course — each installment building on the last toward a coherent picture of what Jewish belief includes and why.
Alongside that series, his parsha shiurim bring the same reflective habit to the weekly reading, asking pointed questions — for instance, whether all Jews were created equal — and drawing the answer out of the text. The result is Torah that engages the mind. For a family that wants more than a surface retelling of the parsha, these shiurim model how to read closely and think honestly about what the words are actually teaching.
Why emunah deserves this kind of attention
It is easy to treat emunah as a given — something absorbed in childhood and never revisited. Rabbi Ehrenfeld's approach assumes the opposite: that faith grows stronger when it is examined, and that a person who has thought carefully about why they believe stands on firmer ground than one who has only inherited it. His shiurim make room for the honest questions rather than avoiding them, which is precisely what gives their conclusions weight.
That matters especially for a home raising children in an age of easy skepticism. Parents who have worked through the foundations themselves can meet a child's hard question with something better than discomfort — a considered answer, offered calmly. A structured series on emunah equips a family with exactly that: not slogans to repeat, but an understanding that can be explained, tested, and passed on with confidence.
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At a glance
Key takeaways
- Rabbi Sholom Ahron Ehrenfeld's shiurim focus on emunah and the foundations of Jewish belief.
- His Foundations of Emunah series runs in order from Sinai through the Rambam's thirteen principles.
- He also teaches Pirkei Avos, the Yamim Tovim, Jewish philosophy, and elements of Jewish mysticism.
- His parsha shiurim ask sharp questions and draw the answers out of the text itself.
- Search FilteredTube for kosher, approved Torah video — the catalog grows every day.