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Dedicated to theRefuah Shleimahof Tamar Elisheva Bas DevorahRabbi Kivelevitz reads and explains passages from a responsa ofRav Shlomo Aviner,Shlitathat analyzes the issue from early medeiaval sources down to the determinations of the modern Poskim,Rav Chaim Dovid HaLevi,Chacham Ovadiah Yosef and Rav Moshe Feinstein Zt"l. Rabbi Avraham Kivelevitz has spent the last eight years writing and teaching...

Rabbi Mark Gottlieb,senior director of the Tikvah fund and respected intellectual spokesman responds toRabbis Kivelevitz and Bechhofer's Rischa Daraiisa 23 and Rabbi Chanina Weissman's call for Orthodox Jews to respond to the writing on the wall and move to Eretz Yisroel. Joining Rabbi Kivelevitz on a special mid-week episode,Gottlieb makes an impassioned reasoned plea to understand and preserve t...

Dedicated to theRefuah Shleimahof Tamar Elisheva Bas DevorahRabbi Kivelevitz reads and explains passages from the responsa of Rav Shlomo Aviner,Shlita. Rabbi Avraham Kivelevitz has spent the last eight years writing and teaching for Dirshu International'sDaf Yomi B'Halacha,In general,every episode ofFine Tuned Halachadelves into an important Halachic textand extracts important nuggets of direction...

Rabbi Kivelevitz uses the secondary crisis of crowding in summer vacation spots during Covid 19,as a pretext to revive his old debate with Rabbi Worch over eliminating the notion of a long summer vacation from school. Throughout the last century there have been calls to alter a system based on an outmoded agrarian society where children were needed for labor in their parents fields. The system of...

Rabbi Mark Gottlieb is Senior Director of the Tikvah Fund and founding Dean of the Tikvah and Maimonides Scholars at Yale University. Prior to joining Tikvah, Rabbi Gottlieb served as Head of School at Yeshiva University High School for Boys and Principal of the Maimonides School in Brookline, MA.His writing has appeared inFirst Things,Public Discourse,the University Bookman,the Algemeiner,andthe...

Energized by an endorphin releasing post-midnight workout,Rabbi Bechhofer begins this episode all guns firing, against the lawsuit filed in Federal Court against New York's Governor,Andrew Cuomo. The suit was brought by the Association of Jewish Camp Operators and demanded “declaratory and injunctive relief from constitutional deprivations,” after the state had announced a ban on sleepaway camps t...

Rabbi Kalman Worch leads the Shiur through selected passages of the Zera Shimshon that provide an elevated perspective on community discord and unbridled criticism. Referencing classic Midrashic sources and the ethical teachings of the great Kabbalists,Rabbi Worch helps provide much needed wisdom for our present day tableau which unfortunately drips with vitriol. Rabbi Shimshon Chaim had only one...

Rabbi Francis Nataf is a respected educator, writer and thinker, well known for his ability to find new ways of looking attextandtradition. He is the author of the groundbreaking book on the TorahRedeeming Relevance. The Yeshiva of Newark @IDT is proud to partner with Rav Nataf to help spread his important messages to as wide an audience as possible .In this episode the Rabbi examines what appears...

Dedicated to theRefuah Shleimahof Tamar Elisheva Bas DevorahRabbi Kivelevitz reads the salient passages of the essay of Rav Yosef Shalom Eliyashiv Zt"l that delineate when a Talmud Chacham should forgive those that malign him and when he should forcefully make an example of the knave by subjecting him to Nidui and Kellalah. Rav Elyashiv also opines as to why there has been no breakthrough in the s...

Charlie Harary internationally known investor, strategic adviser and professor and motivational speaker sits down when his schedule allows with Rabbi Kivelevitz to discuss the interface of Jewish values in the greater western World and a touch of sports. With social interaction being severely curtailed during the Pandemic, many are proceeding through the Shidduch process hardly spending any actual...

Rabbi Kivelevitz leads a ZOOMShiur that discovers in the words of some Ashkenazi Rishonim the nascent perspective of animals as items of enjoyable utility for humans. Rav Shimshon of Sens , Rav Yosef Bechor Shor,and Rav Chaim Ohr Zerua all suggest that Halacha should not consider them Muktzeh on Shabbas. Kivelevitz connects these strands with the statements of Psak and direction given by Rav Moshe...

Dedicated to theRefuah Shleimahof Tamar Elisheva Bas DevorahIn a special 50th episode-Rabbi Kivelevitz deepens your appreciation for Halachic aspects of Parshas Korach by exploring three areas where the words of the Gedolei HaPoskim will astound you. Rabbi Avraham Kivelevitz has spent the last eight years writing and teaching for Dirshu International'sDaf Yomi B'Halacha,In general,every episode of...

In a Shiur given a number of years ago, Rabbi Duvie Weiss delineates the important differences between appropriate stringencies and actions taken for the sake of religiosity which are in actuality violations of proper behavior. Using sources as disparate as Rav Nachman of Breslov and Rav Eliyahu Dessler,with a healthy sprinkling of wisdom from Rav Moshe Feinstein, this lecture will undoubtedly cha...

Dedicated to theRefuah Shleimahof Tamar Elisheva Bas DevorahRabbi Avraham Kivelevitz has spent the last eight years writing and teaching for Dirshu International'sDaf Yomi B'Halacha,In general,every episode ofFine Tuned Halachadelves into an important Halachic textand extracts important nuggets of direction,history and most importantly,an understanding of how the Jewish legal system developed and...

Dedicated to theRefuah Shleimahof Tamar Elisheva Bas DevorahRabbi Kivelevitz shares with the Shiur the salient points of a recent Corona -Era Psak of Rav Asher Weiss Shlita. Under normal conditions, a child whose 31st day of life occurs on a Shabbas,would have the Pidyon and Suedas Mitzvah on Sunday in order to highlight to all the persons invited the significance of the fulfillment of God's will....

Rabbis Worch and Kivelevitz discuss if one of the by-products of the Corona lock down will be an even greater dependence on technology. Worch worries that persons used to watching Shiurim on ZOOM from their lounge chairswon't come back to the Beis Medrash. He frets that relatives will now easily opt out from attending family Simchos,and in general people will maintain a distance and suspicion of t...

Dedicated to theRefuah Shleimahof Tamar Elisheva Bas DevorahRabbi Kivelevitz extracts important Halachic principles of the of Tzitzis and the real life applications of Hiddur Mitzvah from two Psakim from Rav Moshe Feinstein Zt"l and underscores the surprising practical conclusions of Rav Moshe ShternbachShlita in this regard. Rabbi Avraham Kivelevitz has spent the last eight years writing and teac...

Rabbis Kivelevitz and Bechhofer -respond to listeners' comments and critique of Rischa Daraiisa 23 where halachic and sociological rationale was offered for not moving to Eretz Yisroel. The conversation becomes quite heated with the Rabbis arguing over the meaning of the Ramban and Rabbeinu Chaim Kohen's positions. Whether Rav Moshe Feinstein's defense of the Rambam's reason for not counting Yishi...

Inspired by the recent headlines of stores ransacked and vandalized,renownedYadin Yadin PosekRav Gershon Eliezer Schaffel outlines the Halachos pertaining to valuables that were in a store overrun by a violent mob. Turning to the classic Talmudic sources and precedent of germane Tshuvos dealing with conceptually similar situations,( E.g.ransacked Jewish homes during the Holocaust)the Dayan comes t...

Rabbi Avraham Shimon Moller has been a highly respected educator for over three decades. He serves as the superintendent of the Associated Talmud Torahs of Chicago. Chicago is the only Jewish community in North America with a central agency dedicated exclusively to community-wide Torah education. For three generations, the ATT has partnered with schools, principals, teachers and parents to support...

Rabbi Worch-Co host of theChavrusaand acclaimed translator of theBnei Yessascharelaborates on a few carefully selected sections of the famed mystic and commentator,Rav Moshe Alshich's Perush on Chumash. Way beyond a mere translator,Rabbi Worch places the material in context of other great Kabbalistic thinkers. We thank the Illinois Center for Jewish Studies for the use of this materialPlease leave...

Rabbi Kalman Worch leads the Shiur through selected passages of the Zera Shimshon that help us understand this difficult and troublingparsha. Rabbi Shimshon Chaim had only one child, a son, who died at a young age. Rabbi Shimshon Chaim decided to dedicate his'Sefarim' to the memory of this child who had no continuity of a family. Hence the name "Zera Shimshon" In the introduction to his work,he pr...

Rabbi Aryeh Klapper is Dean of the Center for Modern Torah Leadership, Rosh Beit Midrash of its Summer Beit Midrash Program and a member of the Boston Beit Din. Rabbi Klapper is a widely published author in prestigious Hebrew and English journals. He is frequently consulted on issues of Jewish law from representatives of all streams of Judaism and responds from an explicit and uncompromised Orthod...

Dedicated to theRefuah Shleimahof Tamar Elisheva Bas DevorahRabbi Kivelevitz explains thePsakim and HanhagosofRav Yosef Shalom Eliyashiv Zt"l that deal with what an Avel's learning should be during Shiva,Halachic directives for a Baal Tshuvah,and offering Sandakaos to a father who is a Mechallel Shabbas. Rabbi Avraham Kivelevitz has spent the last eight years writing and teaching for Dirshu Intern...

Rabbi Kivelevitz leads a ZOOM Shiur through the salient sources regarding dog ownership in Chazal,starting with the Medrash that posits dog-human companionship as the act of God to guide Kayin through danger. Passages from the Talmud in Baba Kama are succinctly fleshed out for the communal responsibilities that are laid down there for dog owners. The Rabbi also highlights Chazal's warnings of mora...