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- Haggadah: Saving the Jewish Firstborns
Discussion of Abarbanel's penetrating question: What's so significant about the fact that the Jewish firstborns didn't die in Egypt when they were innocent and hadn't been effected by any of the earlier 9 plagues either?
This podcast has been graciously sponsored by JewishPodcasts.fm. There is much overhead to maintain this service so please help us continue our goal of helping Jewish lecturers become podcasters and support us with a donation: https://thechesedfund.com/jewishpodcasts/donate44 min - Haggadah: A “70 Year Old” Teenager
Discussion as to how young R. Elazar ben Azaryah was when he reports being 'as 70 years old' in the Haggadah.
This podcast has been graciously sponsored by JewishPodcasts.fm. There is much overhead to maintain this service so please help us continue our goal of helping Jewish lecturers become podcasters and support us with a donation: https://thechesedfund.com/jewishpodcasts/donate43 min - Haggadah: Aramaic in the Haggadah
Discussion of a mysterious line in the Haggadah commentators explaining why Ha Lachma Anya is written in Aramaic, and not Hebrew (from R. Yisroel Dandrovitz).
This podcast has been graciously sponsored by JewishPodcasts.fm. There is much overhead to maintain this service so please help us continue our goal of helping Jewish lecturers become podcasters and support us with a donation: https://thechesedfund.com/jewishpodcasts/donate31 min - Pesach: A National Pesach Sheini
If the Beis Hamikdash is built between the first and second Pesachs, would everyone do the second Pesach together? Discussion of the debate in the Yerushalmi (quoted in Minchas Chinuch) and two explanations of it
This podcast has been graciously sponsored by JewishPodcasts.fm. There is much overhead to maintain this service so please help us continue our goal of helping Jewish lecturers become podcasters and support us with a donation: https://thechesedfund.com/jewishpodcasts/donate21 min - Pesach: Preparing for a Mitzvah
Discussion of the debate between the Tzlach and Minchas Chinuch as to whether a person is obligated to prepare to perform a mitzvah before its time, based on the case of someone who is far from Yerushalyim being exempt from Pesach
This podcast has been graciously sponsored by JewishPodcasts.fm. There is much overhead to maintain this service so please help us continue our goal of helping Jewish lecturers become podcasters and support us with a donation: https://thechesedfund.com/jewishpodcasts/donate36 min - Purim: God’s Absence in the Megillah
Why is God's name not mentioned in the Book of Esther? With additional discussion about why is Purim named after the lots Haman drew? and why is it in Adar not Nissan?
This podcast has been graciously sponsored by JewishPodcasts.fm. There is much overhead to maintain this service so please help us continue our goal of helping Jewish lecturers become podcasters and support us with a donation: https://thechesedfund.com/jewishpodcasts/donate31 min - Purim: Achashverosh’s Clothes
How does Rashi know what clothes Achashverosh wore at his party? And what does the word 'yakar' mean? (From R. Yisroel Dandrovitz)
This podcast has been graciously sponsored by JewishPodcasts.fm. There is much overhead to maintain this service so please help us continue our goal of helping Jewish lecturers become podcasters and support us with a donation: https://thechesedfund.com/jewishpodcasts/donate19 min - Purim: Are Antisemites Amalek? A Soloveitchik Debate
The debate between two Soloveitchik cousins - R. Yosef Dov from Boston and R. Berel from Yerushalayim - as to whether contemporary antisemites, such as the Nazis, are considered halachically to be Amalek
This podcast has been graciously sponsored by JewishPodcasts.fm. There is much overhead to maintain this service so please help us continue our goal of helping Jewish lecturers become podcasters and support us with a donation: https://thechesedfund.com/jewishpodcasts/donate26 min - Purim: R. Berel Soloveitchik on Amalek
Discussion of R. Berel Soloveitchik of Yerushalayim's ideas about the mitzvah to destroy Amalek, with important discussion of the many limitations set on this seemingly violent command
This podcast has been graciously sponsored by JewishPodcasts.fm. There is much overhead to maintain this service so please help us continue our goal of helping Jewish lecturers become podcasters and support us with a donation: https://thechesedfund.com/jewishpodcasts/donate34 min - Haggadah: Why Did Dasan and Aviram Leave Egypt?
According to tradition the wicked were not redeemed from Egypt, if so why did Dasan and Aviram, two terribly wicked people, get saved?
This podcast has been graciously sponsored by JewishPodcasts.fm. There is much overhead to maintain this service so please help us continue our goal of helping Jewish lecturers become podcasters and support us with a donation: https://thechesedfund.com/jewishpodcasts/donate34 min
About It's Genius
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The great Talmudic commentators of the past century have produced some of the most profound and penetrating Talmudic analyses in history. These writings offer us a window into the profound depth…
and insight of Jewish law and tradition. But often these ideas are not accessible to many people because of their complexity. These audio presentations by Rabbi Elisha Friedman are intended to make some of these insights more widely accessible.