Would you like to sponsor an episode? A series?   We'd love to hear from you : [email protected]   https://podcasts.ohr.edu/   00:00 Clarification about R Aryeh Kaplan and use of drugs    00:58 Is there a source for wars being prevented for learning Torah?   07:05 What is an appropriate response to answer a secular person about slavery in the Torah?   14:14 How do we visualize demons, what did they look like? How did we know they were there? Are they present today, or did they go away with certain yeridas hadoros?   19:28 How should a convert act in terms of honoring parents, shomer negiah, etc.?   23:47 What is the safek on mainstream techeles today?    31:43 Why is Miriam punished instead of Aaron if listening to Lashon Haro is worse than saying it according to the Chafetz Chaim?   33:12 How should we think about Angels?   37:46 What are the levels of Angels?   38:44 Why is the Shema such a meaningful prayer and what does it really mean?   40:25 When the Ark landed, how did animals spread to all parts of the earth? does this contribute to the idea of one continent/Pangea?   42:42 What are the Rav’s views on the different types of kiruv?   47:05 Shuckling and vigorous flailing during davening looks absurd, so should we stand still during Shemona Esrei?    51:42 What is wrong with occasionally drinking alcohol or smoking marijuana?   54:40 What are the reasons that Sephardim and Ashkanazi Jews have different ways to say certain tefillos out loud or not?   1:00:37 Are people who are married by a reform rabbi halachically married?   1:05:52 Why does the Torah state things one way but we have a mesorah that it means something else (such as eye for an eye)?   1:07:08 What is something that surprised the Rav in his  life or his favorite sefer?   1:10:53 What are the halachic ramifications of a Jewish man and woman being intimate outside of marriage?   1:17:10 Recently an animated Disney movie had a small homosexual scene. Should we not be showing cartoons to our kids?   1:21:40 Why does mashiach have to come in the form of a person? Why wouldn’t it just be Hashem himself? What depends on a human leader?   1:23:24 What is the opinion on causing a car to stop on Shabbos to cross the street?   1:25:40 What about when someone needs to use transportation for an emergency on Shabbos?   1:27:10 Should we not walk on grass on Shabbos?   1:28:00 In Parashas Shelach, why is there a seemingly larger focus on Yetzias Mitzrayim if the miracle to get to Israel is seemingly harder?   1:30:22 Where does the 250 incense offerings come from in Parashas Korach?   1:33:04 After all the miracles and revelations of Hashem in the Torah, why would anyone continue to question Moshe and Aharon’s authority?    1:37:30 Why do we say speedily in our days when amoraim prayed against that?   1:38:51 What does the Rav think of many Jews pursuing higher education in relation to going off the Derech?   1:44:31 How do we posken with non-Jews opening and pouring non-Mevushal wine?   1:49:29 Could a Kohen enter a cemetery of Karites?   1:50:40 If a convert stops being a shomer Torah Jew, do they become invalid?    Visit us @ ohr.edu !   Produced by Cedar Media Studios