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Ohr HaChaim #33 - Menorah as the salve that solves Aharon's angst
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FN Nasso - May a Kohen IDF soldier duchen even if he killed a Gazan civilian
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SD Bamidbar - Why the Bechorim lost leadership role to Leviim
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FN Bamidbar - Standing or sitting for the Aseret HaDibrot
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Ohr HaChaim #32 - God's unrequited love for the Jewish People (Shavuot)
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FN Bechukotai - Why say Kappitel 79 after Oct 7th
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Ohr HaChaim #31 - שֶׁתִּהְיוּ עֲמֵלִים בַּתּוֹרָה
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SD Behar - No stasis as to our spiritual status
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FN Behar - Irony of Meiri as source of ל״ג בעומר
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FN Emor - Soldiers in Gaza keeping 2nd day Yom Tov
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SD Acharei Mot - The connection between the שני שעירים of Yom Kippur and the שתי צפורים of the Metzorah
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FN Acharei Mot - "גוים" keeping the 613 Mitzvot
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Ohr HaChaim #27 - The connection of Nadav and Avihu's demise to Yom Kippur
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Shabbat HaGadol Drasha Women - אַף הֵן הָיוּ בְּאוֹתוֹ הַנֵּס
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FN Metzora - Are we to expand Kitniyot to new food items?
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Ohr HaChaim #26 - Moses' deliberate excision from the Haggadah
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15 בין ישראל לאומות - Translating the Torah. Part 2
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SD Tazria - Treat your wife and kids in a Chametzdike manner
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FN Tazria - Are Ashkenazi IDF soldiers in Gaza permitted to eat Kitniyot?
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Ohr HaChaim #25 - Ensuring righteous sons via imprinting
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14 בין ישראל לאומות - Translating the Torah. Part 1
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FN Shmini - Machine Shmura vs Hand Shmura Matza
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13 בין ישראל לאומות - Torah . Part II Teaching גוים
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SD Tzav - Chametz on Pesach and in the Beit HaMikdash
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FN Tzav - A woman's obligation to drink 4 cups of wine at the Seder
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Ohr HaChaim #23 - קרבן עולה provides succor to a nation in exile
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SD Vayikra - Why is there a requirement to drink on Purim?
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Ohr HaChaim #22 - Ohr HaChaim's Rishon L'Tzion commentary on Esther
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SD Pekudei - Torah flowers in a world lacking miracles
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FN Pekudei - If IDF solider can only lein Megillah on the 14th by day or by night, which is preferred?
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11 - גּוֹיִם studying Torah. Are they like the High Priest or deserving death? Part II
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Making space for the Divine is more important than God making space for humanity
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FN Vayakhel - May an IDF fighter going on a mission on the 14th lein on the 11th, 12th or 13th?
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Ohr HaChaim #20 - Is there a mitzvah to work 6 days a week?
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FN Ki Tisa - Should IDF soldiers also lein Megillat Esther on the 15th of Adar?
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Ohr HaChaim #19 - The problem with King David's counting the Jewish People
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10 - גּוֹיִם studying Torah. Are they like the High Priest or deserving death? Part I
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SD Tetzaveh - So what if Israel is Satan's handiwork
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FN Tetzaveh - A way for IDF soldiers in Gaza to give משלוח מנות
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Ohr HaChaim #18 - Moshe's Mishkan role as a Tikkun
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Ohr HaChaim #17 - Forcing people to give "צדקה"
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SD Mishpatim - נַעֲשֶׂ֥ה וְנִשְׁמָֽע as providing a license to be more Heimishe and less Yekkish
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FN Mishpatim - Is it halachically permitted for גּוֹיִם to live in Israel?
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Ohr HaChaim #16 - The parasha of עבד עברי as emblematic of an individual's and the Jewish People’s saga
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7 בין ישראל לאומות - אַתֶּם קְרוּיִין אָדָם וְאֵין הַגּוֹיִם קְרוּיִין אָדָם
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SD Yitro - The strange affinity between משפחת יתרו and עמלק
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FN Bo - Must you treat political leaders respectfully?
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Ohr HaChaim #14 - How could Pharaoh not permit the Jewish People to leave Egypt for a few days to serve God?
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6 - Ontological differences between Jews and Non-Jews. Part III
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SD Vaeyra - What would you give up life or limb for?
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FN Vaeyra - May we be happy when Sinwar and Deif are killed?
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5 - Ontological differences between Jews and Non-Jews. Part II
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SS Shemot - At the onset of Shovavim and not attempting to emulate Moses in areas of intimacy
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SD Shemot - On not following the news for a week
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FN Shemot - Was there a requirement for individuals on Oct 7th to rescue?
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4 - Ontological differences between Jews and Non-Jews. Part I
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Comparing Reuven, Shimon, Levi, Yehuda and Yosef
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SD Vayechi - כָּל מַחֲלֹקֶת שֶׁהִיא לְשֵׁם שָׁמַיִם סוֹפָהּ לְהִתְקַיֵּם means disagreement in many areas
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FN Vayechi - Jacob's Avelut being a source for sitting Shiva before burial
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Ohr HaChaim #11 - Yaakov or Yisrael or what's in a name?
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3 - Differences between Jewish and Non-Jewish bodies
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SD Vayigash - Yehuda believed that Binyamin had been framed
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FN Vayigash - When is the right time to make Kiddush Friday Night?
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Ohr HaChaim #10 - O”H’s struggle with Hishtadlut. Part II
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2 - Representative Halachot as they relate to 'עכו״ם'. Part II. Jewish vs. Non-Jewish doctors
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SD Mikeitz - Why we must constantly iterate and reiterate Oct 7?
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FN Mikeitz - Why do we wait 3 days to say קידוש לבנה?
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Ohr HaChaim #9 - O”H’s struggle with Hishtadlut. Part I
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Shalom Zachar Vayeshev - Explaining the decree against Shabbat, Rosh Chodesh and Brit Milah
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FN Vayeshev - Should IDF soldiers light Chanukah candles in Gaza?
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SD Vayislakh - How could Rashi explain וְהָיָ֛ה הַמַּחֲנֶ֥ה הַנִּשְׁאָ֖ר לִפְלֵיטָֽה as going to war?
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FN Vayislakh - Were there innocent civilians in Shechem?
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1 - Representative Halachot as they relate to 'עכו״ם'. Part I
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FN Vayetze - Does Judaism permit plural marriage?
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Ohr HaChaim #7 - How Yaakov, Yosef, Pharaoh and the Sar HaMashkim and Sar HaOfim knew their dreams were true
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Institution of Kollel #44 - Practically, do we decide the Halacha like the Rambam or Tashbetz? Part II
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SD Toledot - Was it appropriate to attend the Washington DC Rally for Israel?
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FN Toledot - Did Yitzchak marry a 3 year old girl?
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Ohr HaChaim #6 - OH's attempt to explain away the enigma of Yitzchak
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Institution of Kollel #43 - Practically, do we decide the Halacha like the Rambam or Tashbetz? Part I
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The three holiest areas of Eretz Yisrael that were purchased not conquered
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Ohr HaChaim #5 - Abraham's various attempts to ensure that there was not even a hint of אונאה in his purchase of the מערת המכפלה
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Institution of Kollel #42 - Tashbetz's response to Maimonides. Part V
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"Tahrif" and responses to 7 higher forms of Anti Semitism
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Ohr HaChaim #4 - Explaining away God's "white lie"
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Institution of Kollel #41 - Tashbetz's response to Maimonides. Part IV
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"Never Again" and finding the proper balance between being active or passive in life
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Who makes the bracha of להכניסו בבריתו של אברהם אבינו if the father isn't at the Bris?
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Ohr HaChaim #3 - The Four Banishments by Avraham Avinu
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Institution of Kollel #40 - Tashbetz's response to Maimonides. Part III
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Why doesn't the Torah make mention of Olam Haba?
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Ohr HaChaim #2 - The Midrashically infused Peshat approach of the Ohr HaChaim
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Institution of Kollel #39 - Tashbetz's response to Maimonides. Part II
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On the nature of the exclusion of women from the mitzvah of "פרו ורבו" and the rabbinic mitzvah of "לשבת"
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Why doesn't the Rambam bring down as Halacha the drasha from "וּלְקַחְתֶּם" that requires "לְקִיחָה בְּיַד כׇּל אֶחָד וְאֶחָד"?
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Problematic Kol Nidrei and a potential solution
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Shabbat Shuva Drasha - Why isn't Teshuva counted as one of the 613 Mitzvot?
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Rosh HaShana - Blowing Shofar on R"H that falls out on Shabbat. From the Rif, to R' AY Schlesinger to "The Sanhedrin"
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Ibn Ezra #40 - Is intercessory prayer prohibited, permitted or promoted?
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Saturday Day Nitzavim Vayelech - Would you like to go out on a date vs I planned a date - what day works for you
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Institution of Kollel #38 - Tashbetz's response to Maimonides. Part I
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Ibn Ezra #39 - Ibn Ezra's opinion of Rashi's Chumash commentary and piyutim generally
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Institution of Kollel #37 - The position of Maimonides. Part II
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Ibn Ezra #38 - Ibn Ezra on the distinction between men and women
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Saturday Day Ki Teitze - On the disappearance of the husband's duty to be משמח his wife during שנה ראשונה
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Friday Night - Ki Teitze. לזכור מה שעשה לנו עמלק בפּ׳ כי תצא בשנה לפני שנת העיבור
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Institution of Kollel #36 - The position of Maimonides. Part I
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Ibn Ezra #37 - The dispute amongst the Rishonim about the "reality" of magic
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Ibn Ezra #36 - The "deviation" of Ibn Ezra's 7 day matzah requirement and his permitting exegesis only within Halachic confines
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Institution of Kollel #35 - Examples of Tannaim and Amoraim that worked. Part XV. Elul prep and Rebbe Chaninah ben Dosa
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Ibn Ezra #35 - Differing approaches among the Rishonim as to the test of the Manna
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Institution of Kollel #34 - Examples of Tannaim and Amoraim that worked. Part XIV. Tu B'Av and Rabbah
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Institution of Kollel #33 - Examples of Tannaim and Amoraim that worked. Part XIII. R' Yochanan HaSandler, Rebbe Akiva, 9 Av
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Ibn Ezra #34 - Ibn Ezra preceded Rav Kook in advocating "אהבת חנם"
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Ibn Ezra #33 - Ibn Ezra's 'אלה דברי משה' and the 'סוד השנים עשר'
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Institution of Kollel #32 - Examples of Tannaim and Amoraim that worked. Part XII. The definition of "רבנן"
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Ibn Ezra #32 - Balaam’s talking donkey and Ibn Ezra's אנשי שקול הדעת
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Institution of Kollel #31 - Examples of Tannaim and Amoraim that worked. Part XI. Rav Huna
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Institution of Kollel #30 - Examples Tannaim and Amoraim that worked. Part X. Rebbe Zeira
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Ibn Ezra #30 - Ibn Ezra vs Rashi vs Rashbam vs Karaites as it relates to Tzitzit
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Institution of Kollel #29 - Examples Tannaim and Amoraim that worked. Part IX. R' Elazar ben Rebbe Shimon & R' Bana'ah
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Ibn Ezra #29 - Ibn Ezra's understanding of 'כושית' contrasted with Rashi Rashbam and Chazal
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Institution of Kollel #28 - Examples Tannaim and Amoraim that worked. Part VIII. Bar Kappara
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Ibn Ezra #28 - Ibn Ezra's approach to the סמיכות הפרשיות of Sotah and Nazir and the אשה פרושה
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Institution of Kollel #27 - Examples Tannaim and Amoraim that worked. Part VII. לא תשיג
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Institution of Kollel #26 - Examples Tannaim and Amoraim that worked. Part VI. Rav Chisda
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Ibn Ezra #27 - Ibn Ezra's Decalogue exegesis as providing insight to his approach on the literalness of Aggadah
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Institution of Kollel #25 - Examples Tannaim and Amoraim that worked. Part V. Shmuel and Abaye
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Institution of Kollel #24. Examples of Tannaim and Amoraim that worked. Part IV. Rebbe Elazar ben Azariah
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Ibn Ezra #25: Ibn Ezra's unswerving fidelity to Chazal. Part II
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Institution of Kollel #23. Examples of Tannaim and Amoraim that worked. Part III
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Ayin Hara Part VII - Is the evil eye a renegade power
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Ayin Hara Part VI - Some Halachic Implications of the Evil Eye and Maimonides’ position
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Ayin Hara Part V - Bleigissen (lead pouring) is prohibited as it is דרכי אמרי
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Ayin Hara Part IV - Rebbe Yochanan vs his teacher Rebbe Chanina
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Ayin Hara Part III - Harming oneself with the Evil Eye and the Evil Eye of non-scholars
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Ayin Hara Part II - Exploring the bizarre pseudo-scientific theories behind the evil eye’s power
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Ayin Hara Part I - Background, Imprinting & the eyes of Scholars
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Institution of Kollel #22 - Examples of Tannaim and Amoraim that worked. Part II
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23 – The great debate among the pashtanim as to the science of Tzaraat
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Institution of Kollel #21: Examples of Tannaim and Amoraim that worked. Part 1
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Ibn Ezra #22: How bad was the slavery in Egypt?
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Institution of Kollel #20: Proto Kollel. Part V
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Institution of Kollel #19: Proto Kollel. Part IV
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Ibn Ezra #20: The presence of presents from the women in the Mishkan
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Institution of Kollel #18: Proto Kollel. Part III
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Ibn Ezra #19: Ibn Ezra’s opinion as to who wrote the 2nd Luchot
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Institution of Kollel #17: Proto Kollel. Part II
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Ibn Ezra #18: Ibn Ezra’s commentary to Megillat Esther
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Institution of Kollel #15: Proto Kollel. Part I
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Institution of Kollel #15: אין סומכין על הנס. Part III
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Institution of Kollel #14: אין סומכין על הנס. Part II
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Ibn Ezra #16: Ibn Ezra’s philosophy of the Mitzvot
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Institution of Kollel #11: Rashbi as a practical example. Part I
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Ibn Ezra #13: Ibn Ezra's understanding of Moses' ascension.
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Institution of Kollel #10: Rebbe Shimon bar Yochai and Yissachar
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Ibn Ezra #12: The Ibn Ezra’s approach to prophecy
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Institution of Kollel #9: The position of Rebbe Shimon bar Yochai. Part III
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Ibn Ezra #11: The Ibn Ezra’s wholehearted embrace of דיברה תורה כלשון בני אדם
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Ibn Ezra #10: "No two cities have counted more with mankind than Athens and Jerusalem"
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Institution of Kollel #8: The position of Rebbe Shimon bar Yochai. Part II
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Ibn Ezra #9: The Ibn Ezra’s unwillingness to countenance children being born to very young or old parents.
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Institution of Kollel #7: The position of Rebbe Shimon bar Yochai. Part I
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Ibn Ezra #8 The Ibn Ezra’s approach to being מצדיק the אבות. Part II
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Ibn Ezra #7 - The Ibn Ezra’s approach to being מצדיק the אבות.
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Institution of Kollel #5: Ilfa vs R' Yochanan. Part II
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Ibn Ezra #5: Was Yitzchak destined to marry Rivka?
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Ibn Ezra #4: Does the Ibn Ezra accept the principle of השגחה פרטית?
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Institution of Kollel #3: Did Chazal envision the possibility of just learning and not working?
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Ibn Ezra #3: Ibn Ezra's application of אין מוקדם ומאוחר בתורה
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Institution of Kollel #2: Working vs Learning. Part II
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Ibn Ezra #2: Ibn Ezra's unswerving fidelity to Chazal
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Introduction to the Ibn Ezra's commentary on Chumash
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Calendrical difficulties: Are we in the year 5783?
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A source in the Ramban that perhaps shows that the Spanish Portuguese custom was once to read from a Torah standing (rather than laying) on the bimah.
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The long past predictions from the Rishonim of the date of Moshiach's arrival.
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The Ramban's validation of necromancy and other forms of magic.
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Year 6000. On the literalness of Aggadah. Part VI. The approach of the Rambam.
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Rashi and Ramban's dispute as to how the Land of Israel was divided.
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Year 6000. On the literalness of Aggadah. Part V. The approach of the Maharal.
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Year 6000. On the literalness of Aggadah. Part IV
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The Ramban's utilization of the word "חלילה" delimits the extent of his exegetical parameters.
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Year 6000. On the literalness of Aggadah. Part III
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Year 6000. On the literalness of Aggadah. Part II
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Year 6000. On the literalness of Aggadah. Part I
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The dispute between the Ramban and the Rambam as to the Nazir and its ramifications to asceticism.
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Moshiach must come by the year 6000 isn't the only opinion in Chazal. Part II
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The fundamentally opposing approaches of the Rambam and the Ramban to medicine and doctors
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Moshiach must come by the year 6000 isn't the only opinion in Chazal.
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The Ramban faults the מקלל to be מצדיק the Bnei Yisrael.
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The centrality of the land of Israel to the prohibitions against immorality in the thought of the Ramban
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The Ramban's measured approach to Greek wisdom and the relationship between the scapegoat and the scapebird.
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Rambam vs Ramban on Korbanot and its ramifications for tefila
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How the 3
Oaths were understood through the generations. Part V. Tzitz Eliezer, R' Chaim Zimmerman and Rav Tzvi Yehuda Kook.
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How the 3
Oaths were understood through the generations. Part IV. Rav Soloveichik's 6 Knocks.
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The development of Purim as a holiday with 2 different days of observance. Ramban vs Ran.
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How the 3
Oaths were understood through the generations Part III. The "shita hakedosha" of Satmar.
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The Torah is written in chronological order according to the Ramban, or is it?
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How the 3 Oaths were understood through the generations. Part II. Maharal, Rav Yonasan Eybeschütz, Maharatz Chajes and Rav Hirsch
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How the 3 Oaths were understood through the generations
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Ramban vs Rambam on the purpose of divine testing.
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The development of Moshe Rabbenu from princeling to prophet.
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The Ramban's maximalist approach to the miraculous.
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Jewish life ceases if there are no Jews living in the land of Israel.
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The relationship of Yosef and the brothers as per the Ramban's exegetical approach.
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Two Vayomer theory as inspired in part by the Ramban.
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Canaanite servants matter or the interplay of the mitzvot of lo tasgir and l'olam bahem yaavodu. Part II
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The hints in the sidra to life in Christendom or מעשה אבות סימן לבנים.
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Canaanite servants matter or the interplay of the mitzvot of lo tasgir and l'olam bahem yaavodu.
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Choosing between peshat and being matzdik the avot. Part II
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The mitzvah of yishuv Eretz Yisrael nowadays Part III.
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Choosing between peshat and being matzdik Yitzchak
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The mitzvah of yishuv Eretz Yisrael nowadays. Part II
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Ramban class: Where did Avraham actually come from Charan or Ur of the Chaldees?
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Which of the Rambam or the Ramban's approach to prophecy is more consonant with peshat?
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The Ramban's willingness to find and point out "mistakes" of the Avot.
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Chazal's negative view of secular studies. Part V.
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Chazal's negative view of secular studies. Part IV
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Chazal's negative view of secular studies. Part III
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Rashbam vs. Rava and why we hang folks on trees
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Chazal's negative view of secular studies. Part II
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The Rashbam's approach to the validity and viability of magic.
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Part III of whether secular studies was only a bedieved or really a lechatchilla for the Rambam.
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The Rashbam's preoccupation with כֹּחִי֙ וְעֹ֣צֶם יָדִ֔י.
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Are secular studies to be prohibited, permitted or promoted: Was secular studies a bedieved or lechatchilla for the Rambam? Part II
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Rashbam shiur: How much autonomy did Moshe have in writing Devarim?
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2021-07-08 Rashbam shiur on Ein Mukdam Umeuchar
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2021-07-04 Sunday morning shiur - going from the Rashba to the Shulchan Aruch
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2021-07-01 Rashbam shiur on Census and the Evil Eye
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The subtopic for this week's Shiur on whether secular studies are to be prohibited, permitted or promoted is: The two bans on the Rambam in the years 1232 and 1305 Part II
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2021-06-20 Sunday morning shiur, more on the Rambam and the ban of 1230. #rambam #ramban #raaved
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Sunday morning shiur continuing the topic of: "Are secular studies prohibited, permitted or promoted?"
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Sunday morning shiur continuing the topic of: "Are secular studies prohibited, permitted or promoted?"
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Sunday morning shiur continuing the topic of: "Are secular studies prohibited, permitted or promoted?"
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Sunday morning shiur continuing the topic of: "Are secular studies prohibited, permitted or promoted?"
