Rabbi Dr. Eliezer Brodt

0:00 Intro 2:15 Geonim — What Is That Time Period? 3:21 R' Saadyah Gaon : His Background & Importance (Brief) 4:10 Acharonim Who Used Rasag 6:02 Siddur Rasag 6:27 Binyamin Moshe Levine and Geonim 7:32 What Do We Know About Rasag? 10:29 Discovery of the Cairo Genizah 16:42 Gaon What Does It Mean? & Recent Literature on Rasag 22:07 Tafsir of Rasag 23:35 Rasag on Chumash 26:52 Mechon Aleh Zayis & Ras...

0:00 Introduction: The challenge of making the Menorah 4:20 Bibliography on the Menorah 6:04 Gemara & Beraisa D'Meleches HaMishkan 8:27 Piyutei Yannai & the Menorah 9:37 Visual depictions in early printed seforim 12:02 Did Rashi & the Rambam draw pictures? 19:00 R' Avigdor Nebenzahl on the Rambam's image 19:25 The Arch of Titus 21:54 Feet of the Menorah & Midrash Tadshe 27:12 Was there a step befo...

1:33 Recap 6:37 Shibolei HaLeket 14:30 Rav Hai Gaon and shofar 17:45 Two ways to wear tefillin 22:33 R Aviad Sar Sholom and kabbalah 26:33 Rambam Migdal Oz Chachmei Lunel 32:46 Maharil 34:49 Kever Yechezkel 35:37 Shoel UMeishiv 37:20 Besamim Rosh 39:05 Two Eshkols Shimusha Rabbah 40:08 Arizal 42:10 Rama MiPano 45:30 R Shmuel Shar Aryeh 47:28 Yosef Ometz 49:34 Wearing Rashi and Rabbeinu Tam togethe...

1:35 Introduction 2:36 Sefer HaYashar and R’ Avraham ben HaGra 7:02 The Ramban on Sefer HaYashar 9:20 Torah Shelemah of R’ Menachem Kasher and R’ Chaim 11:00 R’ Shlomo Buber 11:56 Why This Topic Matters 13:07 Names According to R’ Chaim 16:20 R’ Moshe Feinstein’s Haskamah on Works About Names 17:47 Tzavaas R’ Yehudah HaChassid 27:50 The Name Noach 29:14 Naming After a Rasha 33:26 Quoting from Prob...

0:00 Introduction 2:45 Gra and the word Get in Gittin 15:00 Midrash Rabah and R' Chaim’s notes 17:52 Sefer HaYashar on Chumash 18:25 LeMechseh Ateik 25:35 Ben Sira 26:15 Sources for his Midrash knowledge and the value of learning Midrash 27:23 Yalkut Shimoni 28:28 R' Menachem de Lonzano 29:30 R' Avraham ben HaGra 33:10 Aharon Yellnick 33:35 R' Shlomo Buber 36:26 R' Eliezer Grenhaus 36:55 R' Shlomo...

0:00 – Introduction 4:26 – Ta'ama D'Kra 10:13 – Feedback on the sefer 13:27 – Deeper dive into the sefer 18:18 – The Steipler on Chumash 19:24 – Chumash and the Haskalah 21:02 – R’ Shlomo Kluger learning Tanach 21:35 – R’ Yaakov Kamenetsky 23:43 – Simchas HaNefesh on Tanach 24:20 – Pri Megadim 25:05 – Menucha Kedosha on Tanach 27:54 – Chafetz Chaim & Chumash 28:39 – The Gra and Chumash in his Beis...

We’re sharing this conversation now after finishing Pirkei Avos with Mishnah Yomi, and with summer being the time many people focus on learning Avos. Dr. Steven Weiss, as you'll hear, has an incredible passion for all things Avos. He has collected thousands of seforim and meticulously documented nearly every work on the subject up until 2015. His vast knowledge is a treasure for anyone interested...

0:00 Introduction – Recap 3:23 Maharil 5:00 Tashbetz Koton 9:52 Hanhagos of the Arizal 11:34 Context of this Genre of Seforim 14:46 Magen Avraham and Arizal 16:30 Reliability 19:26 Shimush Talmidei Chachomim & Reading Gedolim Books 20:23 Toldos Adam 22:01 Chafetz Chaim’s Sons’ Work 24:00 Importance of Live Shimush Talmidei Chachomim 31:20 R’ Meir Greinman’s Work 32:55 R’ Chaim Kanievsky’s Comments...

0:00 General Introduction 1:40 – Introduction: Oral Traditions and Pesakim of the Chazon Ish 6:52 – Hanhagos of the Chazon Ish (based on his sister, R’ Chaim’s mother) 7:55 – Minhagim of the Lederman Shul 10:41 – R’ Chaim’s Notes on Maaseh Ish volumes 13:10 – R’ Chaim’s Notes on Rav Steinman material 19:45 – Notes from Rav Bramberger and R’ Chaim 21:58 – Rav Tieger’s Derech Ish 22:56 – Introductio...

0:00 Introduction 1:20 About the sefer & why he wrote it 11:03 Sources 12:00 Bitul Torah 15:40 Zerizus 18:06 Mikvah 21:20 Overspending 23:20 Beards & shaving 32:10 Success comes from learning a lot 33:28 R’ Yehoshua Heller 35:30 Chinuch: when & how 38:05 Hitting children 44:20 Tefilah 45:30 Mitzvos b’simcha & doing more 46:40 Kavod of a talmid chacham 48:57 Ruach Hakodesh

1:53 – Intro 3:40 – Key sources 5:40 – Yichus 6:56 – Connection to R' Meshulam Igra 9:27 – Rav of Lissa 13:53 – Financial status 15:30 – Ties to Gedolim 18:40 – Chayei Adam on him 20:24 – Why he became so popular 23:40 – Nesivos & relationship with Ketzos 31:23 – Chavas Daas on Yoreh Deah 34:10 – Mekor Chaim 36:16 – Beis Yaakov on Kesubos 36:56 – Toras Gittin 37:44 – Derech Chaim 38:28 – Ethical w...

0:00 Introduction 1:04 – Censorship in Margoliyos HaYam 3:15 – Intro: Visit to the Rambam Library 5:12 – Early Life 6:47 – His Seforim Store & Publishing Torah Works 9:17 – Prolific Writer of Torah 10:03 – Relationship with R' Meir Arik 12:10 – Beginning of His Writing Career 15:02 – Earliest Published Work on the Maharsha 16:56 – Work on the Or HaChaim HaKadosh 19:04 – Sefer Chassidim & R' Yehuda...

1:24 introduction 2:04 Beraisa D’Meleches HaMishkan and its printing history 5:40 R’ Emanuel Chai Riki 7:08 R’ Avrohom Ben hagra 8:00 R’ Efraim Zalman Margolis 9:11 Malbim 9:45 R’ Chaim Kanievsky on this work 11:32 R’ Chaim’s Introduction 21:59 Menorah Branches 26:30 Learning with visual aid 33:25 R’ Chaim and Teshuvos on Mishkan 35:30 Aron 37:12 R’ Azariah Min HaAdomim 38:29 Shiltei Geborim 40:24...

0:00 Introduction 1:50 Shach 6:20 Shach Manuscript Discovery 10:18 Knesses HaGedolah 12:15 Machane Efraim 15:45 Tumim 21:48 Ketzos HaChoshen 22:59 Nesivos HaMishpat 26:00 Ketzos & Olam HaYeshivos 28:07 Letters of R' Tzvi Pesach Frank To Son 36:54 Bi'ur HaGra 37:52 Oruch HaShulchan To listen to Musings of a Book Collector: https://alldaf.org/series/9440 Listen to full episodes of Musings of a Book...