Taking Responsibility for Torah

Harry Potter and the Plague of Darkness 22.01.2021 1:02:24 ↓

Was Mitzrayim invaded by dementors? Did Bnei Yisroel carry Hands of Glory? J.K. Rowling's accounts of occult darkness are used to illuminate readings from Jewish tradition

Reversing Lekha Lekha: Avraham, Yitzchak, and Intermarriage 13.11.2020 59:37 ↓

Why does Avraham insist that Yitzchak marry back into the family and culture that G-d ordered him to leave behind?

Lekh Lekha - When Relationship and Religious Growth Conflict 30.10.2020 1:07:16 ↓

The shiur is in English and translates all sources. An all-Hebrew sourcesheet is available at https://drive.google.com/file/d/1gU4uTB61wmoEHP2yi2YGhzgmvO3ur_1y/view?usp=sharing.

Rabbi Sacks' reading of the Tower of Babel story in Dignity of Difference 23.10.2020 1:04:25 ↓

Provides philosophic and literary background, presents Rabbi Sacks', and discusses it in the context of Jewish tradition 

May One Eat in the Sukkah on Simchat Torah? 09.10.2020 1:04:50 ↓

Mekorot are at https://drive.google.com/file/d/15WWgYFo_NElbZyu8wz_qvtsKIMxNZlfn/view?usp=sharing  

5 Minutes on Parshat Shelach - Equality under the law 19.06.2020 4:22 ↓

Center for Modern Torah Leadership Dean Rabbi Aryeh Klapper explores the Torah's insistence that the law be the same for born and naturalized citizens, via the commentary of Netziv

Goses, Treifah, Zombie 19.05.2020 46:54 ↓

Rabbi Aryeh Klapper establishes halakhic categories of "undeadness" and develops their implications for end-of-life issues. 

Triage and Halakhah #8: The Position of Rav Asher Weiss, Rav Herschel Schachter, and some directional notes of my own 18.05.2020 1:40:24 ↓

Sourceshhet is at http://www.torahleadership.org/categories/zoomtriage8.pdf

Triage and Halakhah # 7: The Positions of Rabbi Moshe Sternbuch and His Correspondents 18.05.2020 1:15:57 ↓

Sourcesheet is at http://www.torahleadership.org/categories/zoomtriage7sternbuch.pdf

Thinking Briskly: Body, Mind, and Soul Part 2 12.05.2020 1:04:36 ↓

Sourcesheer is at http://www.torahleadership.org/categories/zoomkavannahmeks_2_3.pdf

Triage in Halakhah part 5: The Position of Rabbi Zalman Nechemyah Goldberg 10.05.2020 1:11:00 ↓

Sourcesheet is at http://www.torahleadership.org/categories/triage_4_3.pdf

Thinking Briskly: Are mitzvot performed by the body, the mind, or the soul? 10.05.2020 1:08:03 ↓

Sourcesheet is at http://www.torahleadership.org/categories/zoomkavannahmeks_1.pdf

Triage in Halakhah part 6: The Position(s) of Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Auerbach 10.05.2020 1:17:49 ↓

Sourcesheet is at http://www.torahleadership.org/categories/zoomtriage6rsza.pdf

Triage in Halakhah Part 4 03.05.2020 1:29:46 ↓

Sourcesheet is at http://www.torahleadership.org/categories/triage_4_j1.pdf

Triage in Halakhah: Part 3 28.04.2020 1:10:58 ↓

Sourcesheet is at http://www.torahleadership.org/categories/zoomtriage3_2.pdf

Triage in Halakhah: Basic Principles 2 26.04.2020 1:17:52 ↓

http://www.torahleadership.org/categories/zoomtriage2_1.pdf

Triage in Halakhah: Basic Principles 23.04.2020 1:09:18 ↓

Sourcesheet at http://www.torahleadership.org/categories/zoomtriage2_1.pdf

Lost Wages from a Pandemic Shutdown Part 2: Outline and Agenda 03.04.2020 1:07:14 ↓

The sourcesheet is here

Lost Wages During a Pandemic Shutdown: Why A Din Torah Shouldn't Follow Din Torah 02.04.2020 1:21:11 ↓

The sourcesheet is here

Kaddish Derabannan in a Zoom minyan 31.03.2020 1:20:56 ↓

The sourcesheet is here

Can one form a minyan via ZOOM? 31.03.2020 1:09 ↓

The sourcesheet is here .  The next shiur will discuss the special case of kaddish derabannan.

The Rav and Rav Shagar walk into a holosuite bar . . . : Virtual and other realities in light of recent experience 29.03.2020 1:07:37 ↓

Also known as "Halakhic Man Enters the Matrix" - 

Who Decides What is "Shabbesdik"? 27.03.2020 43:59 ↓

Sourcesheet is here

Halakhah and Emerging Technologies 2: ZOOM 27.03.2020 1:21:09 ↓

Sourcesheet is here

Lifnim Mishurat Hadin, or: The Limits of Law 27.03.2020 1:13:41 ↓

If Halakhah represents G-d's Will and the proper balance/Golden Mean among conflicting values, how can Judaism praise those who go beyond it? Rabbi Aryeh Klapper explores various models for resolving this conundrum.