Rabbi Kraz's Shiurim

Source Sheet (https://RabbiKraz.com/KissingMitzvahs)

• What's the Inyan of kissing the rocks of Eretz Yisroel?
• What are the 4 types of kisses?
• What about all other Mitzvos like Sukkah, Lulav, Esrog, Matzah Maror etc?
• Is it OK to smell or kiss an Esrog on Sukkos?
• Story of R Yaakov Tzemach.
• A Segulah to remember your learning.
• Is one allowed to use a Sefer for benefit?
• Kiss or touch the Mezuzah?
• Should one hold their Tzitzis during Shema?- Is kissing your Tefillin / Tzitzis during Tefilah a Hefsek?

Shiur sponsored by the Engel family in honor of Rabbi Mendy Engel's birthday

Source Sheet (https://RabbiKraz.com/ShaagasAryeh)

• History of the Sha'agas Aryeh
• Amount of times the Sha'agas Aryeh finished Shas
• His thoughts on his contemporaries
• Eating before Mussaf
• Tadir vs Ein Maavirin in Benching, Talis/Tefillin, Leining Chanukah/Rosh Chodesh.
• Until when can one daven Mincha?
• What takes precedence Mussaf or Mincha?
• Kedimah vs Dechiyah, Tadir vs Mekudash, Talis vs Tefillin
• Mekudash vs Maalin Bakodesh
• If one did not make a Bracha before the Mitzvah can he make it afterwards?
• When remembering the exodus from Egypt, does it need to be done by saying it or can one think it?
• When should one begin saying the Bracha on the Talis?
• Can a mute hear someone else say a Bracha or Shema and be Yotze?
• Can a deaf person be Yotze Shema even though he can't hear what he's saying?

Co - Sponsored by Evan Schecter - from the Chabad Central Boca Chevreh -"Thanks for a Geshmak Shiur week in and week out! "

Source Sheet (https://RabbiKraz.com/Unfaithful)

• Story of the woman who was unfaithful with good intentions
• When it comes to a situation of an unfaithful woman, is 1 witness enough?
• When do you need 2 witnesses?
• Machlokes R Eliezer and R Yehoshua in Sotah
• If a woman is violated is she Assur to her husband?
• What about a Ketanah?
• Binyan Tzion back and forth on the original story of the woman who was unfaithful with good intentions.
• The Maharik makes a Kal vachomer from Esther.

Sponsored by Dovid and Chana Keila Cohen in honor of all the family Simchas in the month of Sivan

Source Sheet

• Machlokes in the Yerushalmy, R Chanina Ben Gamliel, Rabanan, Rashbi, and R Simai regarding what was written on the Luchos
• Did the writing on the luchos go all the way through to the other side?
• Reconciling Rashi in the Chumash and Rashi in the Gemara
• Different opinions in how the luchos were written
• How we get to the count described in the Yerushalmy

Sponsored by הלל קנארק In Honor of ניר משה בן יצחק (אברך)

Source Sheets

• When were the Luchos written?
• Story of Moses Mendelson and the Vilna Gaon.
• Who wrote the second Luchos?-
• Size of the Luchos.
• Debate of bavli and yerushalmi.
• Mechilta of 5 commandments corresponding to the other 5.
• Kesav Ivri vs Kesav Ashuri.
• Ritva & Radvaz raise a big dilemma.
• Chasam Sofer on 10 commandments of each Luach.

Sponsored by:

• Rabbi Motti Dubov - for a Refuah Sheleima יעל בת חיה
• Moshe Abrahamson L'iluy Nishmas Perel bas Mordechai hakohen

Source Sheet

• History of the Geonim and the Rishonim
• History of the Rif
• Several Halachik instances where the Rif disagrees with most other opinions
• Is a jew allowed to ask a non jew to do a biblical prohibition on Shabbos if it's for a Mitzvah?
• How many Blessings do we make on Tefillin?
• Are the days of mourning Biblical or Rabbinic?
• Techum Shabbos
• How many times do the Rif and the Rambam disagree?
• In what case can a Beis Din blow Shofar on Shabbos?
• What does the Rif hold in a case of Teiku or a Cohen who grabbed?
• Why does the Shulchan Aruch pasken like Rabeinu Tam in Shkiah and not like the Rif and the Rambam?

Co-Sponsored by:- Moshe Krasnjansky: In Honor of my Yom huledes and refuah shleima for מושקא בת יוכבד שפרה ובת שבע בת יוכבד שפרה - Dovid Cohen: In Honor of Yehuda Cohen

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Source Sheet

• History of the Ba'al Hama'or.
• Why don't we say Shehecheyanu on Sefiras Haomer?
• Why do we make a Bracha on Sefirah if we're still going to do another Seder?
• Why don't we count 2 nights every night due to Safek?
• Is Sefiras Haomer today biblical or rabbinic?
• Why don't we make a Shehecheyanu when we burn the Chametz?
• Why don't we make a Shehecheyanu on Matzah?
• How does the Ramban say that Sefirah is a Mitzvah that is not bound by time?

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Source Sheet

• History of the Maharam
• Was the Maharam a Kabbalist?
• Was the money to redeem the Maharam actually raised?
• Can someone from a later generation argue with the Maharam?
• What did the Maharam say about Mesiras Nefesh?
• Why did the Maharam avoid his father?
• The Maharam said Mashuv Haruach 90x. What's the reasoning and does it work?
• Explaining the Machlokes of R Meir and R Yehudah

Pesach Special from Rabbi Kraz Sr.

Source Sheet

• Who wrote the Hagaddah?
• Are there parts of the Hagaddah that are more important than others?
• Is it 2 separate Chiyuvim to remember Yetzias Mitzrayim by day and night or is it 1 Chiyuv together?
• Moshe and the 50th gate of wisdom.
• R Akiva and the sale of Yosef
• Who wrote Tana Dvei Eliyahu?
• In which era was the Hagaddah compiled?
• What is the source of the name "Hagaddah"?