The Characters You Do Not Know

1.18.IYUN: Details Reveal the Essence: Part 2 18.08.2025 42:39 ↓

How the details of a law help us understand the law itself. (Shlichus)

1.17.IYUN: Details Reveal the Essence 18.08.2025 45:01 ↓

The bottom up approach to understanding a din, from the details you understand the din.

1.16.IYUN: How the Source Impacts the Essence of the Din: Part 3 18.08.2025 38:54 ↓

Final installation of this notion

1.15.IYUN: How the Source Impacts the Essence of the Din 2 20.07.2025 51:28 ↓

What is the source for Shlichus? 3 approaches in second perek of Kiddushin and the Shut Rivash's inference.

1.14.IYUN: How the Source Impacts the Essence of the Din 1 20.07.2025 55:29 ↓

Demonstrating that once you know the potential sources for the din the options may have fundamental impact on how the din actually works.

1.13.IYUN: Finding a Source 3 20.07.2025 51:22 ↓

Final class discussing what to do when the source for a din is a not clear

1.12.IYUN: Finding the Source 2 26.06.2025 53:10 ↓

Charting the debate between the Pney Yehoshua and the Tzlach on the nature of Svara as the source for a Biblical Law.

1.11.IYUN: Finding the Source 1 24.06.2025 49:00 ↓

How understanding the Source of a Halacha helps you really understand it. Biblical: (1) Verse (2) Svara (Logic/Tradition) (3) Halacha Li'Moshe Mi'Sinai (4) Disguised other Halacha Rabbinic

1.10.IYUN:Generic or Specific: Lifnei Iver Part 2 24.06.2025 58:31 ↓

Continuing to explore whether lifnei iver takes on the unique elements of each din it is applied to

1.9.IYUN:Generic or Specific: Lifnei Iver Part 1 15.05.2025 43:35 ↓

When a Lav Klali has a specific application

1.8.IYUN: Assumptions 27.02.2025 43:22 ↓

How Talmudic assumptions impact Jewish law.

1.7. IYUN: The Litmus Test: the Art of the Nafka Mina 20.02.2025 56:26 ↓

Learn about a Chakira about Mishloach Manot and then test it and see what emerges.

1.6. IYUN: Placement 14.02.2025 1:08:17 ↓

What we can learn from where a Halacha or Mishna is located.

1.5.IYUN: Rule Vs. Exception (Part 2) 06.02.2025 46:51 ↓

Reviewing how to analyze a new din found in the Talmud. Using the Rule Vs. Exception form of thinking to explain a debate.

1.4. IYUN: Rule Vs. Exception (Part 1) 04.02.2025 1:05:38 ↓

We discuss the value of understanding whether a Halacha you learn represents the rule or the exception using a debate between Rambam and Rashba about the nature of Safeik Diorita being biblically prohibited or rabbinically prohibited.

1.3. IYUN: Inferences (Diyukim) Vs. Svara 23.01.2025 55:54 ↓

Learn how to balance a close reading of a difficult text (Talmud, Rishon, Acharon) with a reading that can be easily explained.

1.2. IYUN: Comparisons 2 16.01.2025 54:58 ↓

Continuing to use the thought pattern established in class one.

1.1. IYUN: Comparisons 10.01.2025 1:05:59 ↓

Into to our new course and the first installment discussing how to unpack halachik comparisons like שומע כעונה.

Shoftim 20-21 09.01.2025 45:49 ↓

Pilegesh Bi'Givah 2

Shoftim 19-20 09.01.2025 49:49 ↓

Pilegesh Bi'Givah 1

Shoftim 17-18 09.01.2025 50:53 ↓

Pesel Michah

Shoftim 16 06.11.2024 43:02 ↓

Final Shimshon

Shoftim 15 05.11.2024 29:57 ↓

Shimshon 3

Shoftim 14 04.11.2024 43:48 ↓

Shimshon 2

Shoftim 13 01.11.2024 43:01 ↓

Shimshon 1