Rabbi Kraz's Shiurim

Source Sheet

• History of R Elimelech of Lizhensk and his great Talmidim who became Rebbeim.
• Why do we follow Beis Hillel over Beis Shamai?
• Stories of R' Elimelechs humility
• R' Elimelech did Teshuva for sins as a youth and before.
• R' Elimelechs Sefer is all about Tzadikim
• Did the Alter Rebbe write a Sefer of Tzadikim? What happened to it?

Source Sheet

• Why did Esther show Haman favor in front of Achashverosh?
• How could Haman think that Esther wanted him and why would he covet the kings wife?
• How could a Malach frame Haman for a crime he didn't commit?
• What actually happened between Yael and Sisra?
• Why were Chevers family and the Keini friendly with Yavin and Sisra?
• Was Yael a Yid, ger or ger toshav?
• Is it greater to commit an Aveira Lishma or a Mitzvah not Lishma?
• Why was Yael greater than other great women?Who was Yaels Gilgul?
• Who was Sisras Gilgul?

Source Sheet (https://rabbikraz.com/Chida)

• The Chida's teachers.
• The night they sought to bring Mashiach.
• The consequences of forcing the redemption.
• The Rashash leaves Yerushalayim and passes on.
• Rav Chaim De La Roza receives 4 missos beis din.
• B'nei yissaschar accepts the Chida"s authority.
• Explanations of the Chida.
• Episode of the unfaithful woman in Livorno.
• Rav Ovodia challenges the Chida. Rav Yaakov Hillel defends.
• The Chida and the Chasidim.
• Chida's sadness after the untimely passing of his wife.
• The Rebbe publicizes the Chida's remedy for the redemption.

Source Sheet

• History of R Elimelech, The Chozeh, the Yid Hakadosh, R Simcha Bunim and The Kotzker
• History of Kotzk
• Did the Tzemach Tzedek and the Kotzker correspond?
• The scholarship of the Kotzker
• Torah thoughts of the Kotzker

Source Sheet

• How can G-d command me to what to desire?
• The Ibn Ezra's story of the princess
• The Reishis Chochma's story of the saint in the cemetery
• The curious tales of the Semak
• Reb Tzadok Hakohen encourages the lustful man
• The debates of the Rambam & Ra'avad
• The Chofetz Chaim's unexpected instruction
• The Kuzheglaver and the Imrei Emes

Source Sheet

• History/Biography of the Ibn Ezra- Did the Ibn Ezra give up his life Al Kiddush Hashem?
• Was the Ibn Ezra a Ba'al Talmudah?
• Why didn't the Jews fight back against the Egyptians?
• Why did that generation have to die in the desert?
• Why was it important that Moshe grow up in the royal palace?
• Were all Pesukim in the Torah written by Moshe?
• Ibn Ezras cryptic explanation on the goat of Azazel.
• Is one allowed to go to doctors?
• Did the Jews eat Matzah in Egypt?

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

• Did the jews wear Tefillin in the desert?
• The Medrashim debate this point.
• The Mabit and the Ra'avan take one side.
• The Rashba's revolution.
• The difficult Ramban and the Radvaz's objections.
• Reb Memachem Ziemba and his son.
• Reb Shaul Berlin's take
• The Malbim believes it's all based on a debate in Gittin.
• The Rebbe spins it in the opposite direction.

Source Sheet

• Is one allowed to teach if he does not know Tanach?
• What does the Mitzvah of Yedias Hatorah entail?
• The Efodi explains the importance of Tanach.
• Is one allowed to learn Tanach by heart? What about at night?
• What did Rashi mean when he wrote Makas Bechoros is equal to all of the Makos?

Source Sheet

• History of Chassidim who were also Rabbanim
• Point 1 - There is no need to aspire to be a Rov.
• Point 2 - There were many Chassidim who were also Rabbanim, however they weren't known as Rabbanim, rather they were known as great Chassidim.
• Should a Talmid Chacham who Toraso Umnaso (private individual) be required to pay community taxes? Must he be a Moreh Hora'ah (public individual)
• Point 3 - Ri Migash. Most today don't learn Halacha, they focus on Gemara. The amount of knowledge needed to properly pasken Halacha is immense and not many have that...
• Point 4 - Spiritual danger of being a Rov.
• Point 5 - Physical danger of being a Rov
• On what do we make Shehecheyanu?
• Why don't we make a Shehecheyanu on Sefiras Haomer?

Source Sheet

• Mummifying practices of ancient Egypt
• Why did they mummify people?
• Who mummified Yaakov? Yosef?
• Letter from the Mahara"tz Chiyus
• Embalming vs autopsy vs cremation