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Halacha Headlines episodes

  • Female Rabbis - A problem of Halacha, Mesorah, or even worse?

    Is there a problem with giving “semicha” to a woman?
    Can a woman be a shul or community rabbi?
    Can a shul with a woman rabbi call itself “orthodox”?
    What if she’s called Rabbah, Maharat, etc. instead of being called “Rabbi”?
    What’s the line between what’s acceptable and what’s not?
    Can a woman pasken shaylos?

    1 hr 47 min
  • 6/19/21– Shiur 327 – Female Rabbis - A problem of Halacha, Mesorah or even worse

    Is there a problem with giving “semicha” to a woman? Can a woman be a shul or community rabbi? Can a shul with a woman rabbi call itself “orthodox”? What if she’s called Rabbah, Maharat, etc. instead of being called “Rabbi”? What’s the line between what’s acceptable and what’s not? Can a woman pasken shaylos?

    ***Guest Hosted by Ari Wasserman *** Author of "Making it Work", "Making it ALL Work" (for women) and 10 other Seforim, Maggid Shiur, Yerushalayim

    with Rabbi Yitzchak Breitowitz – Senior Lecturer at Yeshivas Ohr Somayach – 12:38with Rabbi Mayer Twersky – Rosh Yeshiva, Rabbi Yitzchok Elchanan – 48:00with Rebbitzen Miriam Kosman – Author, "Circle, Arrow, Spiral: Exploring Gender in Judaism" –1:05:31with Rabbi Dovid Kaplan – Mashgiach Ruchani, Yeshivas Beis Yisrael – 1:35:35

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    1 hr 47 min
  • 6/12/21– Shiur 326 – Lace Top Sheitels – Are They permissible?

    What's the difference from these to other Sheitlach? Is there really a difference? Can you see the hair underneath? Is there a problem of Maaris Ayin? Is it going against the Torah's will? 

    with Rabbi Yitzchok Berkowitz - Rosh Yeshiva Aish Hatorah – 12:05with Rabbi Shmuel Felder - Poseik BMG Lakewood – 14:03with Rabbi Gedaliah Oberlander - Rov, Heichal Menachem, Monsey NY – 17:24with Hagaon Rav Reuven Feinstein - Rosh Yeshiva Staten Island – 23:48with Rabbi Daniel Ahron Coren - Rov, Monsey NY – 29:15with Dini Weinberg - Dinis Wigs – 53:41

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    1 hr 6 min
  • 6/5/21– Shiur 325 – The great Techeilis debate – Hear from the Gedolei Hador and Gedolei Haposkim

    Do we know what the Techeilis is - Is it the murex or the cuttlefish? Are you obligated to wear it because of Safek? 

    with Hagaon Rav Shmuel Kamenetsky - Rosh Yeshiva of Philadelphia – 20:10with Hagaon Rav Menachem Mendel Shafran - Av Beis Din Hayashar V'hatov Yerushalayim, Rosh Yeshiva Noam Hatorah Bnei Brak – 20:34with Hagaon Rav Dovid Cohen - Rov of Gvul Yaavetz, Renowned Posek, Mechaber seforim – 21:30with Hagaon Rav Herschel Schachter - Rosh Yeshiva & Rosh Kollel YU, Leading Posek of OU –   25:10with Hagaon Rav Nissin Kaplan - Maggid Shiur, Mir Yerushalayim – 28:26with Hagaon Rav David Yosef - Rosh Kollel Yachveh Da'at Kollel, Chief Rabbi of Har Nof, Member Moetzet Chachmei HaTorah – 34:57with Rabbi Bentzion Halberstam, Rav of Khal Chassidim Westgate – 36:03with Hagaon Rav Moshe Heineman – Rov of Agudas Yisroel Baltimore, Renowned Poseik – 55:40with Rabbi Michoel Shlomo Bar-Ron – Founder Torath Moshe learning center – 1:11:54

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    1 hr 24 min
  • 5/29/21 – Shiur 324 – Comparing In-Town and Out-of Town Rabbanus and communities. How do they differ? How are they the same?

    What are the challenges a Rabbi has in a small Jewish community? What are the main issues and shaylos in-town versus out-of-town? What are the strangest issues that come up? How do the communities compare?

    ***Guest Hosted by Ari Wasserman *** Author of "Making it Work", "Making it ALL Work" (for women) and 10 other Seforim, Maggid Shiur, Yerushalayim

    with Rabbi Ilan Feldman – Rabbi of Cong. Beth Jacob, Atlanta, Georgia – 10:42with Rabbi Aryeh Lebowitz – Rabbi of Beis Hakenesses, North Woodmere – 40:44with Rabbi Moshe Walter – Rabbi of Woodside Synagogue Ahavas Torah, Silverspring, Maryland – 40:44with Rabbi Daniel Wasserman – Rabbi of Shaare Torah, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania – 1:39:33

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    2 hr 3 min
  • 5/22/21 – Shiur 323 – Dealing with children who are struggling with religion or OTD - Hear from the experts

    Should we show unconditional love or set boundaries? If there a time when we need to send our children out of the home? What's the root of the problem?

    with Rav Pinchos Friedman – Rosh Kollel of Belzer Kollelim in Eretz Yisroel, Rosh Yeshiva Yeshivas Mevakshei Hashem, Renowned lecturer, Mechaber Shvilei Pinchos – 12:51with Ronnie Cohen – Founder of Always our Kids AKA "Ronnies Rebels" – 26:58with Rav Ahron Glick, Rav of Kamenitz Brooklyn – 48:28

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    1 hr 16 min

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