Taking Responsibility for Torah

SOTAH 2025 Iyyun Shiur#8 VIDEO 10.04.2025 1:26:09 ↓

Shiur resumes April 28 and concludes May 5

SOTAH 2025 Iyyun Shiur #8 AUDIO 09.04.2025 1:26:09 ↓

April 7. 2025. Next and last shiurim in this series iyH April 28 and May 5

Chavot Yair #199 - Must one Return Money Stolen From a Tzedakah Box? 04.04.2025 1:27:34 ↓

Chaburah March 31

SOTAH 2025 Iyyun Shiur #7 VIDEO 30.03.2025 1:27:31 ↓

March 24. 2025

SOTAH 2025 Iyyun Shiur #7 AUDIO 27.03.2025 1:27:31 ↓

March 24, 2025

SOTAH 2025 Iyyun Shiur #6 VIDEO 21.03.2025 1:13:54 ↓

March 17, 2025

Sotah 2025 Iyyun Shiur #6 AUDIO 19.03.2025 1:20:26 ↓

March 17, 2025

SOTAH 2025 Iyyun Shiur #5 VIDEO 16.03.2025 1:19:32 ↓

March 10, 2025

SOTAH 2025 Iyyun Shiur #5 AUDIO 14.03.2025 1:19:32 ↓

March 10, 2025

A Theology for Gamblers? (Chaburah edition) 14.03.2025 1:38:43 ↓

March 10, 2025

A Theology for Gamblers? Chavot Yair#61 (GPATS version) 13.03.2025 59:30 ↓

Given at GPATS March 11, 2025. Begins from Chavot Yair 41 regarding a Purim lottery which goes wrong twice, moves to Chavot Yair 163

SOTAH 2025 Iyyun Shiur #4 VIDEO 05.03.2025 1:30:09 ↓

Given 3/3/2025 Sponsored at YI by the Fistel family in memory of Eddie, lifelong learner and teacher

SOTAH 2025 Iyyun Shiur #4 AUDIO 05.03.2025 1:30:09 ↓

Given 3/3/2025 Sponsored at YI by the Fistel family in memory of Eddie, lifelong learner and teacher

Paskening for Bad People: Chavot Yair #163 (Har Etzion version) 04.03.2025 56:05 ↓

In dialogue with Rav Lichtenstein zt"l's reading in Values and Halakhah

Paskening for Bad People: Chavot Yair 163) Gruss Version 04.03.2025 1:13:58 ↓

In dialogue with Rav Aharon Lichtenstein's reading of this teshuvah in Values and Halakhah

SOTAH 2025 Iyyun Shiur #3 VIDEO 13.02.2025 1:22:20 ↓

Feb 10 2024 Torah Shiurim this week (Feb 10 -13) at YI Sharon are sponsored  by The Cheses family in memory of their grandfather–(Moshe ben Yehoshua) Morris Sulman’s upcoming yahrzeit.

SOTAH 2025 Iyyun Shiur #3 AUDIO 13.02.2025 1:22:20 ↓

Feb 10 2025Learning at YI this week sponsored by the Cheses family in memory of their grandfather–(Moshe ben Yehoshua) Morris Sulman’s upcoming yahrzeit.

What is Halakhah's Relationship to Facts? 10.02.2025 1:17:29 ↓

Harvard Hillel February 9 2025

SOTAH 2025 Iyyun Shiur #2 AUDIO 06.02.2025 1:35:15 ↓

Feb 3 2025 Is Expressing Jealousy a Mitzvah, an Aveirah, or Both? Sponsored in memory of Joe Epstein z’l Yosef Mordechai ben Shmuel HaLevi, by friends of his daughter Miriam Preil. 

SOTAH 2025 Iyyun Shiur #1 VIDEO 06.02.2025 1:31:38 ↓

January 20

SOTAH 2025 Iyyun shiur #2 VIDEO 06.02.2025 1:35:15 ↓

Is expressing jealousy a mitzvah, and aveirah, or both? February 3, 2025 Sponsored in memory of Joe Epstein z’l Yosef Mordechai ben Shmuel HaLevi, by friends of his daughter Miriam Preil. 

SOTAH 2025 Iyyun Shiur #1 Audio 29.01.2025 1:31:38 ↓

Tannaim dispute whether kinui sotah is a mitzvah or reshut. The stamma d'gemara assumes that kinui sotah is either lekhatchilah or assur. Amoraim dispute whether the husband who is mekanei his wife is under the sway of a ruach taharah or rather a ruach tum'ah. How can these positions best be aligned, reconciled, and/or synthesized? How do they relate to rishonim's statements about the...

Chavot Yair Chaburah on #163 - VIDEO 17.01.2025 1:23:47 ↓

January 14, 2025

Parshanut Puzzler Vayechi - התחת אלקים 10.01.2025 9:25 ↓

Why would the commentator say that?