TorahCast: Recent Episodes
Rabbi Shaanan Gelman
The rise and fall of a radical movement in Chassidut, what made Kotzk so unique? Why it ultimately failed?
Part one of series on the foundations and major personalities in Chassidut Includes a biographical sketch as well as philosophical underpinnings of the Baal Shem Tov's ideas.
"A Person's a Person no Matter How Small", Abortion, Euthanasia and the Value of Human Life according to Judaism
Reading someone else's email, is it ever permissible? What if it is done for the purpose of a mitzvah or to check up on a child out of concern for his/her well being? Can you read someone else's note which was placed in the Kotel? Is it permissible to set up a hidden camera to ensure that employees do not steal?
There is a runaway trolley barreling down the railway tracks. Ahead, on the tracks, there are five people tied up and unable to move. The trolley is headed straight for them. You are standing some distance off in the train yard, next to a lever. If you pull this lever, the trolley will switch to a different set of tracks. However, you notice that there is one person on the side track. You have two options: (1) Do nothing, and the trolley kills the five people on the main track. (2) Pull the lever, diverting the trolley onto the side track where it will kill one person. Which is the correct choice?
The second part of the Moral Dilemmas series. Does an employee "own" the time of an employee? Which leisure activities are acceptable and which are considered theft or inappropriate while on the company payroll? Find out now.
A Textual and Legal Analysis of the classic problem: A woman was near death from a special kind of cancer. There was one drug that the doctors thought might save her. It was a form of radium that a druggist in the same town had recently discovered. The drug was expensive to make, but the druggist was charging ten times what the drug cost him to produce. He paid $200 for the radium and charged $2,000 for a small dose of the drug. The sick woman's husband, Heinz, went to everyone he knew to borrow the money, but he could only get together about $1,000 which is half of what it cost. He told the druggist that his wife was dying and asked him to sell it cheaper or let him pay later. But the druggist said: “No, I discovered the drug and I'm going to make money from it.” So Heinz got desperate and broke into the man's store to steal the drug for his wife. Should Heinz have broken into the laboratory to steal the drug for his wife? Why or why not?
In depth Study of the Megilah, using textual analysis, classical commentaries and thematic development
In depth Study of the Megilah, using textual analysis, classical commentaries and thematic development
In depth Study of the Megilah, using textual analysis, classical commentaries and thematic development
In depth Study of the Megilah, using textual analysis, classical commentaries and thematic development
In depth Study of the Megilah, using textual analysis, classical commentaries and thematic development
In depth Study of the Megilah, using textual analysis, classical commentaries and thematic development
In depth Study of the Megilah, using textual analysis, classical commentaries and thematic development
In depth Study of the Megilah, using textual analysis, classical commentaries and thematic development
In depth Study of the Megilah, using textual analysis, classical commentaries and thematic development
In depth Study of the Megilah, using textual analysis, classical commentaries and thematic development
In depth Study of the Megilah, using textual analysis, classical commentaries and thematic development
In depth Study of the Megilah, using textual analysis, classical commentaries and thematic development
In depth Study of the Megilah, using textual analysis, classical commentaries and thematic development