Rabbi Dr. Eliezer Brodt episodes:

• May 06, 2026Chulin Throughout The Ages

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• March 24, 2026The Story of the Menorah: Design, Meaning & Legacy

  0:00 Introduction: The challenge of making the Menorah

  4:20 Bibliography on the Menorah

  6:04 Gemara & Beraisa D'Meleches HaMishkan

  8:27 Piyutei Yannai & the Menorah

  9:37 Visual depictions in early printed seforim

  12:02 Did Rashi & the Rambam draw pictures?

  19:00 R' Avigdor Nebenzahl on the Rambam's image

  19:25 The Arch of Titus

  21:54 Feet of the Menorah & Midrash Tadshe

  27:12 Was there a step before the Menorah? — Shiltei HaGiborim

  27:50 Making a mock model of the Mishkan — Shulchan Aruch, Maharik

  30:20 Schach — Shu"t R' Chaim Kohen, Chida

  34:56 Menorah on the shaar of seforim

  35:41 Menorah as decoration in shuls

  36:03 Segulah of the Menorah & the Maharshal

  38:33 Shiviti luach

  40:44 Reason behind the Menorah — Moreh & R' Shmuel Ibn Tibbon

  42:34 Toras HaOlah of the Rama

  45:00 The expression "Kaftor VaFerach"

  45:50 Where is the Menorah today?

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• March 12, 2026Teffillin: Rashi & Rabbeinu Tam Tefillin Through the Ages Pt. 2

  1:33 Recap

  6:37 Shibolei HaLeket

  14:30 Rav Hai Gaon and shofar

  17:45 Two ways to wear tefillin

  22:33 R Aviad Sar Sholom and kabbalah

  26:33 Rambam Migdal Oz Chachmei Lunel

  32:46 Maharil

  34:49 Kever Yechezkel

  35:37 Shoel UMeishiv

  37:20 Besamim Rosh

  39:05 Two Eshkols Shimusha Rabbah

  40:08 Arizal

  42:10 Rama MiPano

  45:30 R Shmuel Shar Aryeh

  47:28 Yosef Ometz

  49:34 Wearing Rashi and Rabbeinu Tam together

  52:20 R Nosson Adler controversy

  53:18 Chassidim and Misnagdim

  54:20 R Efraim Zalman Margolios controversy

  55:50 Gra and Rabbeinu Tam tefillin

  57:10 R Shlomo Zalman Auerbach and R Dovid Baran

  57:45 R Chaim Berlin and R Shlomo Dubnov

  58:38 Keren Orah and Aderes

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• February 24, 2026Rashi & Rabbeinu Tam Tefillin Through the Ages | Part One

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• January 28, 2026Names: Sources in Chazal and the World of R’ Chaim

  1:35 Introduction

  2:36 Sefer HaYashar and R’ Avraham ben HaGra

  7:02 The Ramban on Sefer HaYashar

  9:20 Torah Shelemah of R’ Menachem Kasher and R’ Chaim

  11:00 R’ Shlomo Buber

  11:56 Why This Topic Matters

  13:07 Names According to R’ Chaim

  16:20 R’ Moshe Feinstein’s Haskamah on Works About Names

  17:47 Tzavaas R’ Yehudah HaChassid

  27:50 The Name Noach

  29:14 Naming After a Rasha

  33:26 Quoting from Problematic Seforim

  37:20 Naming After Figures Mentioned Before Avraham Avinu in the Chumash

  39:50 Naming a Man After a Woman and Vice Versa

  44:07 Pronunciation of the Name Yissachar

  46:20 Naming After One’s Father and Bar Kappara

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• January 12, 2026Menachos Throughout The Ages

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• January 09, 2026The Chofetz Chaim and the Return to Kodshim: Inside Likutei Halachos

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• December 03, 2025Rav Chaim and His Chumash Seforim Pt. 2

  0:00 Introduction

  2:45 Gra and the word Get in Gittin

  15:00 Midrash Rabah and R' Chaim’s notes

  17:52 Sefer HaYashar on Chumash

  18:25 LeMechseh Ateik

  25:35 Ben Sira

  26:15 Sources for his Midrash knowledge and the value of learning Midrash

  27:23 Yalkut Shimoni

  28:28 R' Menachem de Lonzano

  29:30 R' Avraham ben HaGra

  33:10 Aharon Yellnick

  33:35 R' Shlomo Buber

  36:26 R' Eliezer Grenhaus

  36:55 R' Shlomo Wertheimer

  37:20 R' Menachem Kasher

  37:55 Otzar Midrashim of R' Eisenstein

  41:07 R' Yehudah Leib ben David and using problematic Midrashim

  44:38 Ben Sira

  48:19 Sefer HaYashar on Chumash

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• November 07, 2025R’ Chaim and His Chumash Seforim (Part 1)

  0:00 – Introduction

  4:26 – Ta'ama D'Kra

  10:13 – Feedback on the sefer

  13:27 – Deeper dive into the sefer

  18:18 – The Steipler on Chumash

  19:24 – Chumash and the Haskalah

  21:02 – R’ Shlomo Kluger learning Tanach

  21:35 – R’ Yaakov Kamenetsky

  23:43 – Simchas HaNefesh on Tanach

  24:20 – Pri Megadim

  25:05 – Menucha Kedosha on Tanach

  27:54 – Chafetz Chaim & Chumash

  28:39 – The Gra and Chumash in his Beis Medrash

  33:00 – Targumim

  34:49 – Chasser / Malei and Mesorah

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• September 17, 2025Mascehes Zevachim Throughout The Ages

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