Is a birthday a day to celebrate? If so, how? Are there more significant birthdays, like the 70th? How should Jonathan Rosenblum celebrate his 70th this week? Have the gedolim historically celebrated their own birthdays? Is there a problem of Chukas Hagoyim to have a birthday cake? To have candles on it? To blow out the candles? To make a wish?
***Guest Hosted by Ari Wasserman *** Author of "Making it Work", "Making it ALL Work" (for women) and 10 other Seforim, Maggid Shiur, Yerushalayim
with Rabbi Aharon Lopiansky – Rosh HaYeshiva, Yeshiva of Greater Washington – 8:25with Rabbi Avi Wiesenfeld – Rosh Yeshiva of Beis Dovid and posek of Kav Halacha Beis Hora'ah – 23:18with Rabbi Dr. Zvi Ron – Popular lecturer and maggid shiur at a number of yeshivos – 49:37with Rabbi Simon Jacobson – Chozer of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Renowned author and lecturer, Founder of the Meaningful Life Center – 1:19:46with Rabbi Manis Friedman – Famed author, speaker, educator and Chabad Shaliach – 1:33:23
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7/31/21 – Shiur 332 – Should birthdays be celebrated? Is having a birthday cake and candles a problem of Chukos Hagoyim? Can they be blown out?

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6/1/24 – Shiur 469 – Shemiras Einayim – Halachos, Chizzuk and Stories: the Vayimaen phenomenon

How do you handle a conflict between honoring in-laws and honoring your own parents? Are there times that married children need to listen to input from in-laws?Are there halachos about what to call your in-laws?What does a mother-in-law do when she sees deficiencies in her daughter-in-law?Are there typically father-in-law issues, and if so, what?What are healthy boundaries, and how do you establish them?
Hosted by: Ari Wassermanwith Rabbi Moshe Elefant – COO OU Kosher, renowned Daf Yomi Maggid Shiur and Rov – 13:53with Rebbetzin Feige Twerski – noted teacher and prolific author – 45:32with Dr. Michael Tobin – marriage and family psychologist for 50 years – 1:06:12
Conclusion and Takeaways – 1:35:05

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5/25/24 – Shiur 468 – Conflict with the In-Laws – what causes it, how to deal with it

What keeps us spending when we can’t afford it?What’s the impact on children when parents have an expensive standard of living?Is there an obligation to refrain from looking at materialism which may tempt us?Can we spend on luxuries when people need tzedakah?What are the minimums required to celebrate a bar/bas mitzvah and a wedding?Can having a low-budget bar/bas mitzvah or wedding hurt our children longer-term?
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with Rabbi Moshe Walter – Rabbi of Woodside Synagogue Ahavas Torah and noted author  – 10:52with Rabbi Naftali Horowitz – Managing Director at Morgan Stanley – 44:29with Dr. Shloimie Zimmerman – Renowned Psychologist, Author of “From Boys to Men” – 1:03:13

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5/18/24 – Shiur 467 – Un-Lavish Living – why are we embarrassed to live below our means?

Electronics activated through brainwaves is it permissible to use them on Shabbos?Electronics activated through voice is it permissible to use them on Shabbos?with Rabbi Aharon Sorscher – Rov in Waterbury, Maggid Shiur for Oraysa – 13:33
Using a whoop strap or a FitbitWhat is the issur of electricity?Is there an Issur of increasing current to exisitng electricity?What’s called a מעשה regarding מלאכת שבת?Binyan in Keilimwith Rabbi Tzvi Ortner – Head of Shabbos technology Dept for the OU, Rov of Linas Hatzedek in Boro Park – 44:39

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5/11/24 – Shiur 466 – Neurolinks and Shabbos, Alexa and Shabbos, Electronics and Shabbos

Is Achdus a Halachic imperative, a Hashkafic concept or something else?What’s the definition of “Achdus”? Is it different from “Kiruv”?Can we outwardly express our disagreements?Should we look to have Achdus with groups and movements of Jews who have values that are antithetical to Torah?
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with Rabbi Dr. Yitzchak Breitowitz – Renowned Posek and Senior Lecturer at Yeshivas Ohr Somayach – 15:32with Rabbi Moshe Hauer – Renowned Rabbi and EVP of the Orthodox Union – 43:09with Rabbi Dovid Gottlieb – Shul Rabbi in Ramat Beit Shemesh, Director of Tzalash https://tzalash.org/ – 1:01:43with Yoni Alon – Reservist in the IDF and works in the field of education – 1:36:16with Rabbi Shay Schachter – Rabbi and Rosh Beit Midrash at the Young Israel of Woodmere – 1:50:17
Conclusion and Takeaways – 2:15:08

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7/31/21 – Shiur 332 – Should birthdays be celebrated? Is having a birthday cake and candles a problem of Chukos Hagoyim? Can they be blown out?

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