Rabbi Dr. Eliezer Brodt

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1:35 Hesped on R' Meir Simcha & relationship with the Rogatchover

13:25 More on R' Meir Simcha

15:23 Meshech Chochmah & its publishing history

21:00 The first attempt at publishing

22:00 Who discouraged him?

24:14 Publishing seforim young

27:19 Dating the work

35:10 The Gra school

36:20 Meshech Chochmah & Malbim

42:30 Forged Malbims

0:00 Introduction and Recap

3:08 Hesped from Rav Menachem Krakowski

5:15 Hesped from His Talmid, Rav Yoseph Rebbe

10:30 Why He Chose to Write on the Rambam

12:25 His Love for the Rambam

14:00 Locating Sources for the Rambam

17:30 The Yerushalmi as a Source for the Rambam

19:17 His Fascination With the Yerushalmi

20:49 The Yerushalmi Kodshim Forgery

21:30 Tosefta, Tanach, Midrash Halacha and Aggadah

23:15 The Rambam's Other Works, Including the Moreh Nevuchim

25:15 The Moreh Nevuchim in Lita, Such as Rav Yehuda Edel

27:28 The Rogatchover

28:55 His Sources: Geonim and Rishonim

29:22 The Rambam and the Ri Migash

30:15 Use of Newly Printed Rishonim

32:30 Rav Mordechai Rabinowitz

34:20 His Uncle

35:30 His Knowledge of Philosophy

36:18 Oneg Yom Tov

38:12 His Daughter and Mental Illness

0:00 Intro

2:15 Geonim — What Is That Time Period?

3:21 R' Saadyah Gaon : His Background & Importance (Brief)

4:10 Acharonim Who Used Rasag

6:02 Siddur Rasag

6:27 Binyamin Moshe Levine and Geonim

7:32 What Do We Know About Rasag?

10:29 Discovery of the Cairo Genizah

16:42 Gaon What Does It Mean? & Recent Literature on Rasag

22:07 Tafsir of Rasag

23:35 Rasag on Chumash

26:52 Mechon Aleh Zayis & Rasag

27:50 Creating a Team to Work on Rasag

30:12 How to Create This Work?

30:34 Friedberg Project

32:15 AI Discoveries & This Project

32:49 Did Rabbenu Chananel Write a Work on Chumash?

34:29 Translating the Material from Arabic

34:50 Description & Method of Producing This New Edition

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?

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

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