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Is Open Orthodoxy Orthodox 26.10.2019 1:25:58 ↓

Is Open Orthodoxy Orthodox

Sukkos Joy: Understanding Simchas Yom Tov 19.10.2019 1:18:19 ↓

How should we translate the word “Simcha”? Why is Simcha so central to Jewish Torah life? What is special about the Simcha of Sukkos? How does Simcha become an ethical imperative? and much more…

Today’s Teshuvah is different than past generations: Find out how 05.10.2019 1:25:49 ↓

Today’s Teshuvah is different than past generations: Find out how

Preparing for the best year of your life 28.09.2019 1:28:38 ↓

Yud Gimmel Middos: How does it work? Is it magic? What do they mean? A fascinating new understanding

Financial challenges of the workplace, and how to stay out of the “headlines” 21.09.2019 2:25:04 ↓

Does the employer or employee get to keep the frequent flyer miles, is bathroom time on the clock, how sick do you need to be to take a “sick day,” taking personal calls on company time, using the company printer, and much more…

Understanding the differences in Hashkafah between the Litvish and Lubavitch worlds 07.09.2019 2:30:55 ↓

The incredible impact & Mesiras Nefesh of the Shiluchim – from all six continents

Choshen Mishpat in the Workplace – how clean do we need to be? Remaining Ehrlich - what is allowed and what’s not? 31.08.2019 2:17:55 ↓

Getting double reimbursements, expensing a business class ticket and flying coach, leaving your jacket at work so nobody knows you left, and much more

Safety in Halacha 24.08.2019 1:21:02 ↓

Dina D’Malchusa, Texting and Driving, Chiyuv to wear a seatbelt, Halachically allowed activities, and many more shailos

Summer Halachos: Visitng Beis Hakavoros & Kivrei Tzadikim, What to know about Kashrus when you are away, Shabbos in hotels and much more 17.08.2019 1:47:26 ↓

Can we Daven to Meisim? What needs a Hechsher? Sensors and motion detectors on Shabbos

Tisha B’Av, Galus and the destruction of the Beis Hamikdash 10.08.2019 1:11:00 ↓

Understanding the Holocaust

Maran Harav Shach and the Lubavitcher Rebbe: 30 years later, understanding their Hashkafic and Halachic differences 03.08.2019 1:56:00 ↓

Are they still relevant? Have things changed? Would they still hold their positions today?

Gedolim and Jewish Leaders 27.07.2019 1:59:37 ↓

Should we put them on a pedestal and deify them, or see them as human with the possibility of  foibles  and errors? Is infallibility a Jewish or Christian concept? A look back at the banned Sefer “The  Making  of a Godol”

Pets in Halacha and Hashkafah 20.07.2019 1:45:44 ↓

Should we own a dog? The recent ban in Eretz Yisroel to dog ownership, Muktzah, Hotzaah, Feeding, Neutering, and many more Shailos

Ethiopian Jews’ Protests Challenge Racism in Israel 13.07.2019 1:45:57 ↓

Why are they  protesting? Why is the young generation going off the Derech? Understanding Rav Ovadia Yosef’s historic Psak in support of Ethiopian Jewish identity

Sports in Halacha 06.07.2019 2:11:30 ↓

Playing  contact sports, going to games, following and cheering pro teams, idolizing sports heroes, Moshav Leitzim, and many other Halachos regarding sports

Rabbis’ Sons Syndrome: Chessed and Kiruv at what cost? 26.06.2019 1:47:42 ↓

In Halacha and Hashkafah

Global warming & environmental issues. What are our halachic requirements if any? 22.06.2019 1:29:34 ↓

What are our halachic requirements, if any?

Challenges faced by women in the workplace 15.06.2019 2:16:11 ↓

Nivul Peh, social events, unwanted touching and conversation, and many other challenges discussed

Extremist groups and extreme Chumros in Halacha, Hashkafa and historically 01.06.2019 1:47:39 ↓

Extremist groups and extreme Chumros in Halacha, Hashkafa and historically

Extremism and Fringe Groups Part 1 25.05.2019 1:56:01 ↓

Effects on our image, Chinuch and Kiruv, Dangers and benefits of extremism and much more 

Training and Arming our Shuls in Halacha and Hashkafah 18.05.2019 1:40:18 ↓

Muktzah, Hotza’ah, Women, Kovod Beis Haknesses, Correct to arm our communities, does it help? Amazing story from Rabbi of Poway Chabad  

Kibbud Av in Halacha 11.05.2019 2:17:42 ↓

Moving away from parents to Eretz Yisroel, When a child is Frummer, Chiyuvim of child to parent, and much more…