We like to think that if we witnessed one clear miracle, everything would fall into place; our emunah, our davening, our clarity. This shiur dismantles that assumption.

Through a vivid, almost unsettling reconstruction of Mitzrayim from the Egyptian perspective, Rabbi Shafier exposes a deeper truth: belief is not driven by evidence, but by honesty. Even those who lived through open miracles found ways to explain it away. Why? Because they didn’t want to see.

This is a shiur about intellectual integrity, self-deception, and the real barrier to emunah. Listen carefully, and you’ll gain a sharper lens on your own thinking and a far more demanding, but real, path to genuine belief.

Most people assume that one open miracle would change everything. Rabbi Shafier dismantles that illusion.

In this gripping shiur, he takes you into Mitzrayim not from the Jewish side, but from the Egyptian side, and asks a startling question: how could people live through blood, frogs, lice, darkness, and Krias Yam Suf and still refuse to believe? The answer is a penetrating look at free will, self-interest, and the human ability to explain away even the most obvious truth. If you want a sharper, more honest understanding of emunah, this shiur will force you to rethink what really keeps a person spiritually stuck.

This week’s Shmuz is about Mitzrayim.

It’s about what Mitzrayim looks like in your life right now.

The places you feel stuck. The things you’ve just accepted as “this is who I am.” The parts of life that feel impossible to move past.

Pesach comes and reminds you that’s not the full story.

You’re not as limited as you think.

Hashem took you out of Mitzrayim to show you that change is always possible. That a person can grow and become more than they thought they could be.

Not sure where to start? Listen now.