Taking Responsibility for Torah

Halakhic Employer-Employee Law #19: Cheshbon 24.02.2022 59:19 ↓

Shiur given Feb 22, 2022 at YI Sharon. Partial sourcesheet is at רב.docx .  See also the sourcesheet for the previous shiur in this series.

Halakhic Employer-Employee Law #18: Back to Bava Metzia 16.02.2022 57:44 ↓

Sourcesheet with outline is here .  This shiur rapidly reviews prior constructions of the non/machloket between Rav and Rav Yochanan in the Yerushalmi; discusses whether/how that non/machloket is reflected in the Bavli, which does not cite Rav Yochanan; and how that might be affected by Rav Yochanan's position apparently conflicting with a stam mishnah or another of Rav Yochanan's own klalei...

Lo Nitan Leheiamer 11: Are Talmidei Chakhamim Needed? 11.02.2022 25:24 ↓

Sourcesheet is here

Halakhic Employer-Employee Law#17/Miniunit on Klalei Horaah#3 10.02.2022 59:07 ↓

Sourcesheet is here This concludes the minuunit and ties it back into Hasokher et Haumanin

Lo Nitan LeHeiamer Episode 10: May Kohanim Who Publicly Violate Shabbat Perform the Priestly Blessing? 04.02.2022 17:48 ↓

Sourcesheet is h http://www.torahleadership.org/categories/______________10_1.pdf ere

Halakhic Employer-Employee Law #16: Miniunit on Klalei Horaah #2 03.02.2022 59:59 ↓

Sourcesheet is here 

Halakhic Employer-Employee Law #15: Miniunit on Klalei Horaah #1 26.01.2022 56:05 ↓

Sourcesheet is here

Darkah Shel Torah: An Account of Halakhah That Demands Multiple Espistemologies and Can Integrate Ethics, from SBM 2013 26.01.2022 1:50:36 ↓

Sourcesheet is here

Lo Nitan l'Heiamer Episode 9 (corrected): Can Formal Rules Prevent A Posek From Permitting an Agunah, When Substantively She Should be Free? 21.01.2022 26:49 ↓

לא פלוג vs. משום עיגוא הקילו. Sourcesheet is here

Halakhic Employer-Employee Law # 14: Having It Both Ways 19.01.2022 54:01 ↓

Discusses how the Shulchan Arukh's position that employees can quit even if they can't immediately repay an advance can work according to both Rav and Shmuel, and how they can have the protections of eved ivri without its constraints.  Sourcesheet is here

Lo Nitan l'Heiamer 8: Do Apartment Houses Require an Eiruv Chatzeirot? 15.01.2022 18:48 ↓

Sourcesheet is here

Halakhic Employer-Employee Law #13: Hasoker Et Haumanin YI Sharon 12.01.2022 55:03 ↓

Sourcesheet is here

Devorah as Halakhic Judge - Exception or Paradigm? 11.01.2022 11:44 ↓

Uses the Netziv's models of halakhah to explain the ongoing dispute, and takes sides.  A written version is available at https://moderntoraleadership.wordpress.com/2017/02/10/devorah-as-shofetet-exception-or-paradigm/  

"Lo Nitan Leheamer Clal" in Igrot Moshe, Episode 7: Responding to a Weak but Authoritative Heter Agunah 07.01.2022 22:09 ↓

Sourcesheet is here .  Rav Mosheh responds to Rav Shlomo Kahane's heter for a post WWII women

Halakhic Employer-Employee Law: Shiur #12 HaSokher et HaUmanin YI Sharon 05.01.2022 59:55 ↓

Sourcesheet is here 

"Lo Nitan LeHeamerClal" in Igrot Mosheh, Episode 6: Polio, Paralysis, and Phylacteries 31.12.2021 23:38 ↓

also available at https://jewishpodcasts.fm/yeshivaofnewark/28122

"Stand your Ground" Laws: Yom Iyyun Shiur 26.12.2021 1:30:43 ↓

given 12/26/2021

Allegations of Abuse in Halakhah: Yom Iyyun Shiur 26.12.2021 1:31:24 ↓

Reading, translating, and discussing Responsa Shoeil Umeishiv 1:185 with specific reference to how it might be translated into contemporary public policy.  The sourcesheet can be found as pp. 10-18 of the 2021 CMTL End-of-Year Reader, available at http://www.torahleadership.org/?_download&_a=&type=pdf&url=/categories/2021draftreader3.pdf online shiur given 12/26/2021. 

Halakhic Employer-Employee Law: Shiur #11 HaSokher et HaUmanin YI Sharon 23.12.2021 56:04 ↓

The moment you've been waiting for all year - the Yerushalmi that everything depends on but that the Bavli does not cite - why?                      Sourcesheet is here

Should Moshe Have Looked Away? Reflections on Tzeniut, Kavod, and Spiritual Risk 21.12.2021 58:17 ↓

also available at https://library.yctorah.org/audio/should-moshe-have-looked-away-literary-and-theological-reflections-on-tzeniut-kavod-and-spiritual-risk/

Are Mitzvot in Chutz LaAretz Just for Practice? Rereading Ramban's Introduction to Shemot 20.12.2021 59:41 ↓

also available at https://library.yctorah.org/audio/why-does-the-torah-end-before-the-jews-enter-israel-some-thoughts-based-on-ramban/

The Eligibility of a Woman with a Genetic Jewish Father and non-Jewish Mother, Born from a Jewish Surrogate, to Marry a Kohen 19.12.2021 1:49:05 ↓

SBM alumi shiur

Halakhic Employer-Employee Year: Shiur #10 HaSokher et HaUmanin YI Sharon 15.12.2021 56:39 ↓

Archimedean points, issues in learning Yerushalmi, Halakhah as it is vis a vis how it ought to be - I think this is an excellent way in if you haven't been following the shiur, or haven't heard a Rabbi Klapper gemara shiur before

Should Halakhah be Affected by Our Best Understanding of the Rationales for Mitzvot? 2012 SBM Intro Shiur (long) 13.12.2021 3:12:10 ↓

האם דרשינן טעמא דקרא?

Should Halakhah be Affected by Our Best Understanding of the Rationales for Mitzvot? 1997 SBM Intro shiur 13.12.2021 1:29:40 ↓

האם דרשינן טעמא דקרא?