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Discussion of the Rambam's view that it's prohibited to use 2 lulavs or etrogs at the same time This podcast has been graciously sponsored by JewishPodcasts.fm. There is much overhead to maintain this service so please help us continue our goal of helping Jewish lecturers become podcasters and support us with a donation: https://thechesedfund.com/jewishpodcasts/donate

Two major views as to the timeline of the original historical Yom Kippur and the significance of that for what Yom Kippur means nowadays This podcast has been graciously sponsored by JewishPodcasts.fm. There is much overhead to maintain this service so please help us continue our goal of helping Jewish lecturers become podcasters and support us with a donation: https://thechesedfund.com/jewishpodc...

Discussion of the debate whether there were lotteries for the service of Yom Kippur, and how this is reflected in the poems we recite in our davening This podcast has been graciously sponsored by JewishPodcasts.fm. There is much overhead to maintain this service so please help us continue our goal of helping Jewish lecturers become podcasters and support us with a donation: https://thechesedfund.c...

Discussion of 3 major approaches - Rashi, Rambam and Ramban - to understanding the confession on Erev Yom Kippur  This podcast has been graciously sponsored by JewishPodcasts.fm. There is much overhead to maintain this service so please help us continue our goal of helping Jewish lecturers become podcasters and support us with a donation: https://thechesedfund.com/jewishpodcasts/donate

Rashi and Ramban debate the meaning of the phrase in the Torah (Vayikra 23:24) that Rosh Hashana is a day of 'remembering blowing' This podcast has been graciously sponsored by JewishPodcasts.fm. There is much overhead to maintain this service so please help us continue our goal of helping Jewish lecturers become podcasters and support us with a donation: https://thechesedfund.com/jewishpodcasts/d...

Two pieces from Rav Soloveitchik about Rosh Hashana. A) Blowing Shofar on Shabbos Rosh Hashana nowadays. B) Keeping two days of Rosh Hashana in Israel nowadays This podcast has been graciously sponsored by JewishPodcasts.fm. There is much overhead to maintain this service so please help us continue our goal of helping Jewish lecturers become podcasters and support us with a donation: https://thech...

Some discussion regarding the suspension of Shofar blowing when Rosh Hashana falls out on Shabbos This podcast has been graciously sponsored by JewishPodcasts.fm. There is much overhead to maintain this service so please help us continue our goal of helping Jewish lecturers become podcasters and support us with a donation: https://thechesedfund.com/jewishpodcasts/donate

Discussion of Maharal's view that there is reward for traveling to shul (Sotah 22a) but not to do other mitzvahs, and the explanation and outcomes of that.  This podcast has been graciously sponsored by JewishPodcasts.fm. There is much overhead to maintain this service so please help us continue our goal of helping Jewish lecturers become podcasters and support us with a donation: https://the...

Discussion of the Rambam's expansive view of Charoset and the broader role it plays throughout the Seder compared to our practices This podcast has been graciously sponsored by JewishPodcasts.fm. There is much overhead to maintain this service so please help us continue our goal of helping Jewish lecturers become podcasters and support us with a donation: https://thechesedfund.com/jewishpodcasts/d...

Discussion of Abarbanel's penetrating question: What's so significant about the fact that the Jewish firstborns didn't die in Egypt when they were innocent and hadn't been effected by any of the earlier 9 plagues either? This podcast has been graciously sponsored by JewishPodcasts.fm. There is much overhead to maintain this service so please help us continue our goal of helping Jewish lecturers be...

Discussion as to how young R. Elazar ben Azaryah was when he reports being 'as 70 years old' in the Haggadah. This podcast has been graciously sponsored by JewishPodcasts.fm. There is much overhead to maintain this service so please help us continue our goal of helping Jewish lecturers become podcasters and support us with a donation: https://thechesedfund.com/jewishpodcasts/donate

Discussion of a mysterious line in the Haggadah commentators explaining why Ha Lachma Anya is written in Aramaic, and not Hebrew (from R. Yisroel Dandrovitz). This podcast has been graciously sponsored by JewishPodcasts.fm. There is much overhead to maintain this service so please help us continue our goal of helping Jewish lecturers become podcasters and support us with a donation: https://theche...

If the Beis Hamikdash is built between the first and second Pesachs, would everyone do the second Pesach together? Discussion of the debate in the Yerushalmi (quoted in Minchas Chinuch) and two explanations of it This podcast has been graciously sponsored by JewishPodcasts.fm. There is much overhead to maintain this service so please help us continue our goal of helping Jewish lecturers become pod...

Discussion of the debate between the Tzlach and Minchas Chinuch as to whether a person is obligated to prepare to perform a mitzvah before its time, based on the case of someone who is far from Yerushalyim being exempt from Pesach This podcast has been graciously sponsored by JewishPodcasts.fm. There is much overhead to maintain this service so please help us continue our goal of helping Jewish le...

Why is God's name not mentioned in the Book of Esther? With additional discussion about why is Purim named after the lots Haman drew? and why is it in Adar not Nissan? This podcast has been graciously sponsored by JewishPodcasts.fm. There is much overhead to maintain this service so please help us continue our goal of helping Jewish lecturers become podcasters and support us with a donation: https...

How does Rashi know what clothes Achashverosh wore at his party? And what does the word 'yakar' mean? (From R. Yisroel Dandrovitz) This podcast has been graciously sponsored by JewishPodcasts.fm. There is much overhead to maintain this service so please help us continue our goal of helping Jewish lecturers become podcasters and support us with a donation: https://thechesedfund.com/jewishpodcasts/d...

The debate between two Soloveitchik cousins - R. Yosef Dov from Boston and R. Berel from Yerushalayim - as to whether contemporary antisemites, such as the Nazis, are considered halachically to be Amalek This podcast has been graciously sponsored by JewishPodcasts.fm. There is much overhead to maintain this service so please help us continue our goal of helping Jewish lecturers become podcasters a...

Discussion of R. Berel Soloveitchik of Yerushalayim's ideas about the mitzvah to destroy Amalek, with important discussion of the many limitations set on this seemingly violent command This podcast has been graciously sponsored by JewishPodcasts.fm. There is much overhead to maintain this service so please help us continue our goal of helping Jewish lecturers become podcasters and support us with...

According to tradition the wicked were not redeemed from Egypt, if so why did Dasan and Aviram, two terribly wicked people, get saved? This podcast has been graciously sponsored by JewishPodcasts.fm. There is much overhead to maintain this service so please help us continue our goal of helping Jewish lecturers become podcasters and support us with a donation: https://thechesedfund.com/jewishpodcas...

Survey of the views of Rambam, Ramban, and Maharal regarding the pattern in Onkelos to change the language of the Torah which sounds like God has physicality This podcast has been graciously sponsored by JewishPodcasts.fm. There is much overhead to maintain this service so please help us continue our goal of helping Jewish lecturers become podcasters and support us with a donation: https://theches...

Can one toast bread on Shabbos? Put toasted bread (croutons) in hot soup? Put stale bread in hot soup? (Based on Minchas Baruch 1:35,36) This podcast has been graciously sponsored by JewishPodcasts.fm. There is much overhead to maintain this service so please help us continue our goal of helping Jewish lecturers become podcasters and support us with a donation: https://thechesedfund.com/jewishpodc...

Is there a Torah prohibition to cook things which can be eaten raw, like apples or water, on Shabbos? What is the halachic definition of cooking water? Can water which was cooked before Shabbos be reheated on Shabbos? (Based on Minchas Baruch 1:28, 31,32) This podcast has been graciously sponsored by JewishPodcasts.fm. There is much overhead to maintain this service so please help us continue our...

Are there limitations to Torah study on Shabbos? Is complex, tiring Torah study allowed? Did Moshe die on Shabbos afternoon? (Based on Minchas Baruch, preface) This podcast has been graciously sponsored by JewishPodcasts.fm. There is much overhead to maintain this service so please help us continue our goal of helping Jewish lecturers become podcasters and support us with a donation: https://thech...

Does Yom Tov require two Challahs (like Shabbos)? Did the Manna fall on Yom Tov? Is there Shalosh Seudos on Yom Tov? Should one use three Challahs when Yom Tov and Shabbos are combined? Could Shabbos Manna be kept indefinitely?  This podcast has been graciously sponsored by JewishPodcasts.fm. There is much overhead to maintain this service so please help us continue our goal of helping Jewish...

Survey of three major reasons for covering the Challahs and how they differ practically This podcast has been graciously sponsored by JewishPodcasts.fm. There is much overhead to maintain this service so please help us continue our goal of helping Jewish lecturers become podcasters and support us with a donation: https://thechesedfund.com/jewishpodcasts/donate