The Sunday Shiur By Rabbi Yoel Plutchok

The origin and significance of the kvitel The tzadik's tefillah  A revenue source

The Brisker Rov’s exemption Practical or religious expression    

The publishing of the אבני מילוים: The מגיד saves the day  The optimal time to prepare for shabbos  Erev shabbos all week  The Satmar Rebbe’s challah instructions

Shabbos the protector  The Chazon Ish’s surprising critique  Are we causing more chillul shabos  Fighting for our survival

The lawsuit of the Agudas Chassidei Chabad and the purchase of 770    The controversial pillaging of the library, the Rebbe goes public, and the ensuing legal proceedings    Sentimental value in Choshen Mishpat    The legendary healing powers of the Sar Shalom's hands   Analyzing the dilemma of purchasing holy artifacts

The streimel that sold for 1.8 Million dollars    The Chazon ish, the Steipler, R Aryeh Levin, and R’ Elyashiv: the origin story behind R Chaim’s streimel    Reb yehuda Hanasi’s plea to marry R Elazar Ben R Shimon’s widow    Retiring the artifacts of great people   “Chassidishe Genievus”: R shlomo Bobever’s story about the Baal Hatanya’s attempted Murder   The Tenke rebbe and R Chaim’s gartel swap...

Is fasting the only way? Are there special aveiros that Shovavim is supposed to address? Limud HaTorah

Jello - The conservative hill to die on    Woman shaving their heads - the origin story of Vaad Arba Hareutzus and their consequential psakim    The Hechsherim in halacha: Charting the progression from Meikel to Machmir   Eretz Yisroel in the modern day: R Shmuel Auerbach, R Moshe Sternbuch and the diminishing chezkes kashrus  

The Largest Funeral in NYC History   The posthumous Chassid   Funding the shechita overhaul: The plumba tax   The background of Shechita in Halacha   The dynamic laws of animal slaughter in NYC   The Weinberg Pen vs the Cincinnati Pen: Animal slaughter in the modern day   Shechita Miumedes: R Moshe Shternbuch opines   Rabbi Genack and Rabbi Belsky’s letters: The OU responds

The historic Spanish Portuguese synagogue of 1648: the Brazilian Jews of New York City   Yaakov Abram’s shechita : the investigation of R Shmuel Kreiser    “Hashgacha”: the great American innovation    The monumental shechita lawsuit: Leveraging trademarks to enforce Kashrus   Bleeding the Cows: The fiery halachic controversy of 1850   The Shoel Umashuv’s harrowing and prophetic teshuva   

  The gourmet mesorah dinner: A gathering to consume a smorgasbord of rare kosher food   A cattle made for the Israeli landscape: In pursuit of the Zebu   Understanding the consequential shitas haShach: the Chachmas Adam the Pri Migadim and the ensuing  machlokes between the Chazon Ish and R Herzog   Reb Elyashiv's psak and modern day distiction

Menashe Ben Israel, the origins of the Indians and the Aseres hashvatim   Anshei India from Moshe Rabbeinu    The genomes of modern day birds    Turkey in Europe: The Heter of the Netziv   The descendants of the Shlah, The Kamenetskys etc.          

The anatomy of the shechita knife   The legend of the Mezeritcher Maggid’s shechita knife    The Tzemach Tzeddek and Yankel am Haaretz : The grand bechina between the shochet and the rav    The end of the battle: The Industrial Revolution revolutionizes Shechita   Lubavitcher Shechita: The Baal hatanya’s passionate and detailed teshuva regarding shechita   The Lubavitcher bachurim of Shanghai     ...

  R Chaim’s famous grasshopper   The Piyuttim of R Eliezer Hakalir [Beribi]   How high is the Rekiyah? The machlokes Talmud Bavli and Yerushalmi   לצרף בריותיו - The Rambam on Shechita, Eiver Min Hachai and Tzar Balei Chayim   The letter from the Ramban: An animals ultimate will   The dichotomy of Shaul Hamelech’s rachmanus

  Rav Chaskel Sarna’s dramatic burial intervention   The Munkatcher chassunah of 1933   Predecessor to the Nuremberg laws: The Nazi ban against shechita    R Chaim Ozer’s self-insertion and the comprehensive retrospective review    Dr S.D.  Rosen and Dr Temple Gandin - Animal rights activists exonerate shechita   HaRav Hanazir Dovid Cohen: Rav Kook’s disciple's case for Veganism   The Shver and th...

  The Fish Matzeiva: The story of the hielige fish of Vienna   The Palestinian Avoda Zara   The Tosfos Yom Tov’s dilemma and Chazal’s eventual vindication      Shliya/Tench: The unique psak of the Baal Shem     

The Ramban’s definition and experiment  The Nodeh Beyehuda’s grand heter Ahron Charaner and the “Tik Fish” controversy  Reb Yitzchok Grishiver , the Nodeh Beyhuda’s “chazara” and R Shmuel Landau’s fiery response  The ensuing controversy and motives revealed When emes is sheker and sheker is emes - Reb Akiva, the Chassam Sofer,   and Reb Yaakov Kamanetsky  

Intentional vs inadvertent - The Monsey shechita fraud of 2006   The  story of the Baal Hatenya’s geziera and the incredible discovery of R Akiva Eiger   The Chasam Sofer’s psak halacha on the physical difference between a Jew vs non Jew    Blood transfusions from a non Jew: the psak of the Chelkas Yaakov, and the extraordinary story with Ponevezher rav’s transfusion in Mount Sinai NYC    Eating f...

DISCLAIMER: CONSULT WITH YOUR RAV BEFORE ACTING UPON MATTERS DISCUSSED IN THIS EPISODE.   The  Tannah Reb Elazar collaborating with local authorities   When mesira is a mitzva: the opinion of the Rashba   Reb Elyashiv's teshuva to the Badei Hashulchan on Mesira "Lesheim tikkun olam"   Killling Terrorists as Mosrim   Next episode (coming on Wednesday): The story of the movement to blow shofar on sh...

Mutilation vs killing   The Chazon Ish’s progressive psak   Moser - the great exception   The Czar Nikolai investigation that led to the Ruzhiner’s lengthy imprisonment    Coming next week: Part III - The Rabbanim that sit on the Israeli Supreme Court

- Beis din and their diminished power - The Mesora from the Geonim - The woeful story of Yannai Hamelech - Shimon Ben Shetach's unique rule and grand rectification   Coming Next Week: Beis Din in the Modern Era - Part II  

Nightfall in Halacha  The background and machlokes The minhag through the generations and the minhag today America the melting pot Elevating Shabbos

Reb Shlomo Eiger's poignant missive to deal with the Reform movement and the dissenting opinion from the Aruch La-ner The psak of the Roshei Yeshivos.  Reb Moshe sets the enduring policy