Rabbi Yakov Bronsteyn - Parsha Classes

**Throwback Episode** We survey the Halachic Responsa literature regarding this issue. We discuss the crux of the issue upon which it is contingent. We also suggest, based on our discussion, what should be the contemporary Halachic practice. This class was given at the Phoenix Community Kollel on 3/11/10.

This class was given by my teacher, colleague, and friend, Rabbi Dovid Heber. He’s a world renowned expert in the Jewish Calendar and an author on the subject. He is also a Kashrus Administrator of the Star-K Kosher Certification. This is an interesting and lively discussion of the intricacies of the calendar. How does the solar and lunar combination of this calendar work? Why do we have leap year...

We discuss the experience that one should have when participating in a meal with Torah Scholars. We also discuss the nature of the World to Come and what it will be like. We explain that physical enjoying is derived from physical items while Spiritual enjoyment is derived from spiritual items.

**Throwback Episode** This class was given at Ahavas Torah of Scottsdale on 3/13/09.

We discuss the how one is conduct themselves against enemies during war and with people in general during peace time. This class was given at the Phoenix Community Kollel on 1/12/22

**Throwback Episode** We present the various opinions about what to do in terms of keeping Mitzvos in places where there are no days and nights including Outer Space. Maybe you don’t? This class was given at the Phoenix Community Kollel on 1/28/10.

We discuss the role, ascetics and beauty in Jewish Thought that is borne out of the Gemara. Why does the Torah make it a point to bestow adulation on physical beauty? Why do we find statements to the contrary that are disparaging? This class was given for the Taanis Chaburah on 1/6/22 at the Phoenix Community Kollel.

We discuss the prophecy of Zephaniah about the language to be spoken in Messianic times. We explain the Ohr HaChaim HaKodesh regarding why Moshe didn’t use his staff for the plague of Darkness.

**Throwback Episode** We peruse through the various opinions of the Midrash, Rishonim, and Achronim as to what exactly was the reality of this supernatural phenomenon. We especially focus on the opinion of the Nesivos Shalom who posits that it was a monstrously acute light. This class was given at the Phoenix Community Kollel on 1/28/09.

**Throwback Episode** This class was given at the Phoenix Community Kollel on 12/29/10.

**Throwback Episode** We the discuss some aspects of the plague of Barad/Hail. From there the conversation leads into a discussion of how to fill a Mikvah properly with snow. This class took place in 2005 right after the completion the Ohr HaTorah Keilim Mikvah.

We discuss the reason why Dassan Veaviran couldn’t hurt Moshe. This is the reason why Hashem tells him to return to Egypt. We also present the perspective of the Maharal as why the state of poverty has an aspect to it that’s tantamount to death.

**Throwback Episode** We discuss the reasoning behind the Permission of the One Hundred Rabbis document and present a Responsa with a novel idea to centralize its impact in 1946 to alleviate the calamity that befell the survivors of the Holocaust. This class was given at Ahavas Torah of Scottsdale on 1/8/10.

We discuss the opinions of the Ramban in his commentary on the Torah and The Disputation and that of the Maharal in his Gur Aryeh about the nature of Yehuda’s monarchal requisition. What was the actual Bracha that Yaakov gave him promising that his monarchy would never be usurped.

**Throwback Episode** We discuss his anatomy as an Angel, his charge, appearance, and purview. This class was given at the Phoenix Community Kollel on 1/08/09.

We discuss the perspective of the Gur Aryeh as to what was the status of the Forefathers before the giving of the Torah at Sinai regarding keeping Mitzvos. This class was at the Phoenix Community Kollel on 12/8/21.

**Throwback Episode** We discuss the concept of dignified etiquette both in the Temple and on one’s person. We explain why there had to be guards in the Temple and reasoning of why certain materials were used in the construction of the vessels. We also explain why Yosef had to be groomed before his audience with Pharoh. This class was given at the Phoenix Community Kollel on 12/23/09.

We read the Gur Aryeh’s explanation regard why Yosef required the Egyptians to get a Bris before he would support them. We also read the Beis Elokim’s explanation of why donuts are better then wheat kernels. This class was given at the PJCC ON 12/1/21

**Throwback Episode** This class was given at the Phoenix Community Kollel on 12/24/08.

We discuss some reasons as to why Yosef remained in prison for two more years the he was supposed. We also explains why sometimes there are seemingly dire consequences to to minuscule acts.

**Throwback Episode**

This class was given to the Kinyan Masechtah Chaburah in Congregation Ohr HaTorah and the Phoenix Community Kollel at the PJCC. We discuss the opinion of the Ra’avad that the statement of the Talmud is understood literally. Hashem has 3 Keys; rain, birth, and Resurrection. That is to say that they are never given out.

We discuss the Rambam’s perspective as to why Shimon and Levi were justified in killing the males of an entire city. We analyze his opinion with the commentaries of the Ramban and the Gur Aryeh.

**Throwback Episode** We discuss the different aspects of tombstones and the various reasons why they are put up. We present the Halacha, Jewish Thought, and Kabbalah. This class was given at the Phoenix Community Kollel in 2007.

We discuss what a Torah Scholar is supposed be. A person who isn’t an animal nor an angel. But, rather a perfectly balanced human to whom the Torah was given.