Halacha Headlines

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May 24, 2024 5/25/24 – Shiur 468 – Conflict with the In-Laws – what causes it, how to deal with it
How do you handle a conflict between honoring in-laws and honoring your own parents?
Are there times that married children need to listen to input from in-laws?
Are there halachos about what to call your in-laws?
What does a mother-in-law do when she sees deficiencies in her daughter-in-law?
Are there typically father-in-law issues, and if so, what?
What are healthy boundaries, and how do you establish them?
Hosted by: Ari Wasserman
with Rabbi Moshe Elefant – COO OU Kosher, renowned Daf Yomi Maggid Shiur and Rov – 13:53
with Rebbetzin Feige Twerski – noted teacher and prolific author – 45:32
with Dr. Michael Tobin – marriage and family psychologist for 50 years – 1:06:12
Conclusion and Takeaways – 1:35:05
מראי מקומות
1 hr 44 min
May 17, 2024 5/18/24 – Shiur 467 – Un-Lavish Living – why are we embarrassed to live below our means?
What keeps us spending when we can’t afford it?
What’s the impact on children when parents have an expensive standard of living?
Is there an obligation to refrain from looking at materialism which may tempt us?
Can we spend on luxuries when people need tzedakah?
What are the minimums required to celebrate a bar/bas mitzvah and a wedding?
Can having a low-budget bar/bas mitzvah or wedding hurt our children longer-term?
Guest Hosted by Ari Wasserman
with Rabbi Moshe Walter – Rabbi of Woodside Synagogue Ahavas Torah and noted author – 10:52
with Rabbi Naftali Horowitz – Managing Director at Morgan Stanley – 44:29
with Dr. Shloimie Zimmerman – Renowned Psychologist, Author of “From Boys to Men” – 1:03:13
מראי מקומות
1 hr 47 min
May 10, 2024 5/11/24 – Shiur 466 – Neurolinks and Shabbos, Alexa and Shabbos, Electronics and Shabbos
Electronics activated through brainwaves is it permissible to use them on Shabbos?
Electronics activated through voice is it permissible to use them on Shabbos?
with Rabbi Aharon Sorscher – Rov in Waterbury, Maggid Shiur for Oraysa – 13:33
Using a whoop strap or a Fitbit
What is the issur of electricity?
Is there an Issur of increasing current to exisitng electricity?
What’s called a מעשה regarding מלאכת שבת?
Binyan in Keilim
with Rabbi Tzvi Ortner – Head of Shabbos technology Dept for the OU, Rov of Linas Hatzedek in Boro Park – 44:39
מראי מקומות
1 hr 27 min
April 18, 2024 4/20/24 – Shiur 465 – Achdus - does “Achdus” mean I am supposed to embrace Jews I really don’t agree with?
Is Achdus a Halachic imperative, a Hashkafic concept or something else?
What’s the definition of “Achdus”? Is it different from “Kiruv”?
Can we outwardly express our disagreements?
Should we look to have Achdus with groups and movements of Jews who have values that are antithetical to Torah?
***Guest Hosted by Ari Wasserman ***
with Rabbi Dr. Yitzchak Breitowitz – Renowned Posek and Senior Lecturer at Yeshivas Ohr Somayach – 15:32
with Rabbi Moshe Hauer – Renowned Rabbi and EVP of the Orthodox Union – 43:09
with Rabbi Dovid Gottlieb – Shul Rabbi in Ramat Beit Shemesh, Director of Tzalash https://tzalash.org/ – 1:01:43
with Yoni Alon – Reservist in the IDF and works in the field of education – 1:36:16
with Rabbi Shay Schachter – Rabbi and Rosh Beit Midrash at the Young Israel of Woodmere – 1:50:17
Conclusion and Takeaways – 2:15:08
מראי מקומות
2 hr 28 min
April 12, 2024 4/13/24 – Shiur 464 – Pesach – Great Divrei Torah for your Seder and beyond. Plus, lessons for today from Lavan’s attempt to destroy K’lal Yisroel
What's your favorite Pesach Devar Torah?
Is there something unique you do at your seder?
What do you do to prepare for Pesach?
Is there something memorable that has happened to you at a seder?
***Guest Hosted by Ari Wasserman ***
with Rabbi Shay Schachter – Rabbi and Rosh Beit Midrash at the Young Israel of Woodmere – 14:16
with Rabbi Binyomin Wolff – shul rav and popular magid shiur in Yerushalayim – 33:48
with Rabbi Aron Moss – rabbi of the Nefesh Community in Sydney, Australia – 45:04
with Rabbi Dovid Ostroff – posek and teacher at many seminaries in Yerushalayim – 53:42
with Mrs. Michal Horowitz – popular lecturer and teacher – 1:02:48
with Rabbi Isaac Rice – Mora De'asra of Congregation Anshei Chesed, Hewlitt NY – 1:12:12
with Rabbi Immanuel Bernstein – popular teacher and prolific author – 1:22:26
with Rabbi David Foreman – noted lecturer and founder of Aleph Beta – 1:32:03
Conclusion and Takeaways - 1:49:52
מראי מקומות
1 hr 58 min
April 05, 2024 4/6/24 – Shiur 463 – Revisiting Bachurim in the IDF: Is Shevet Levi Patur from Milchemes Mitzvah? Are all Bochurim Shevet Levi?
Does Eretz Yisroel need an army or can it totally rely on Torah protection?
Do we have responsibility to serve - besides the learning protection - like we find previous generations?
The Bochurim who aren't learning should they go to the army?
Can we have Frum battalions run according to Torah?
What's are we going to do when the Chareidim are a majority?
with Rabbi Nachum Eisenstein - Talmid Muvhak of HaRav Eliyashiv ZT"L – 22:54
with Yossi Levy – Nachal Chareidi Officer – 48:08
with Rabbi Shay Tahan – Rosh Kollel and Av Beis Din of Shaarei Ezra – 1:00:51
מראי מקומות
1 hr 26 min
March 29, 2024 3/30/24 – Shiur 462 – What are our “Yeshiva bochers” struggling with nowadays?
What are the biggest challenges, struggles and difficulties confronting our boys today?
How do those challenges differ from those of the girls?
What impact are technology and alcohol consumption having on the boys?
Should Gemara be the focus of yeshiva learning?
What’s holding the boys back from performing at their best?
***Guest Hosted by Ari Wasserman ***
with Rabbi Avi Wiesenfeld – Rosh Yeshiva of Beis Dovid and posek of Kav Halacha Beis Hora'ah – 9:43
with Rabbi Naftali Kaplan – zekan hamashgichim B'Eretz Yisrael, mashgiach of Yeshivat Netiv Ha’Da’at – 33:05
with Rabbi Dovid Kaplan – Mashgiach Ruchani, Yeshivas Beis Yisrael – 50:09
with Rabbi Daniel Mechanic – Director of Project Chazon – 1:09:30
with Rabbi Aharon Spivak – Rav, Author and Therapist – 1:33:53
Wrap-up, takeaways and lessons learned – 1:58:32
מראי מקומות
2 hr 8 min
March 22, 2024 3/23/24 – Shiur 461 – Everyone should be a shadchan – how to set up a shidduch
Should each of us be setting up Shidduchim?
What are the biggest challenges and difficulties?
Is the “shadchanus” fee only paid to a professional Shadchan, or even to beginners?
What does the Shadchan need to do to earn the fee?
Can you set up two non-observant Jews? One frum and one not frum? Two non-Jews?
What advice do professional Shadchanim have for amateurs?
***Guest Hosted by Ari Wasserman *** , Maggid Shiur, Yerushalayim
with Rabbi Moshe Walter – Rabbi of Woodside Synagogue Ahavas Torah and noted author – 13:41
with Rabbi Dovid Schoen – Av Bais Din for The Bais Din of Florida – 39:16
with Mrs. Miriam Levitan – Noted Shadchan, Eretz Yisroel – 1:09:49
with Shlomo Lewenstein – Noted Shadchan, Lakewood – 1:09:49
with David Katzoff – “amateur” shadchan – 1:49:11
with Noah and Ruchama Tradonsky – “amateur” shadchanim – 2:09:53
Wrap-up, takeaways and lessons learned – 2:32:20
מראי מקומות
2 hr 49 min
March 15, 2024 3/16/24 – Shiur 460 – זכרון לנצח – Preserving the memory of Fallen Soldiers Through Posthumous Retrieval of זרע for Procreation
Is it permitted, forbidden or a Mitzvah?
Are you מקיים פריה וריבה?
Does it exempt you from חליצה?
Is there an issue of ניוול המת?
Is there an issue of הנאה ממת?
Is there an issue of ביטול מצוות קבורה?
Are there any moral issues?
with Rabbi Shlomo Brody – Renowned Lecturer and Author – 15:00
with Irit Rosenblum – Attorney, Founder & Executive Director of New Family – 46:11
with Rabbi Gideon Weitzman – Director of the Puah Institute – 1:07:26
מראי מקומות
1 hr 37 min
March 08, 2024 3/9/24 – Shiur 459 – The Haredi Dilemma in Military Conscription | Scaling Tradition: Reevaluating the Chazon Ish's Conscription Exemption | Study Time Required for והגית בו יומם ולילה
Yeshiva Bochurim in the IDF | Is it possible to be Frum in the IDF?
Don’t we have an Achrayus הַאַחֵיכֶם יָבֹאוּ לַמִּלְחָמָה וְאַתֶּם תֵּשְׁבוּ פֹה?
What difficulties – if any – do Frum soldiers face in the army?
What would a Frum army look like?
When a majority of Eretz Yisroel is Frum what will become of the army?
with Rabbi..... – Rov, Talmid of Tifrach, Reb Shmuel Auerbach, Chevron, 20 Years in the army – 17:46
with Rabbi Pinchas Friedman – Rosh Hakollel of Belz Kollelim, Mechaber Shvilei Pinchos – 42:47
with Naftoli Pudell – Solider – 55:04
with Rabbi Yehosua Pfeffer – Rav in Yerushalayim, Head of Netzach Yisrael – Nachal Chareidi – 1:01:47
והגית בו יומם ולילה – All day and night?
Are you obligated to learn every spare second you have?
Does it depend on someone’s health, wealth or stamina?
with Rabbi Moshe Aharon Friedman – Maggid Shiur in the Mir – 1:26:58
מראי מקומות

1 hr 51 min