Shiurim on Pirkei DeRabbi Eliezer by Rabbi Reuven Chaim Klein

King Saul pities Agag, king of Amalek / Leaving over Amalekite animals for ritual sacrifices / Amalekite sorcerers use magic to turn into animals / Riding a human donkey in the marketplace / Agag is an ancestor of Haman; Shaul, of Mordechai / Who will defeat Amalek (Binyamin, Yosef, Rachel)? / Shmuel HaNavi kills Agag and makes a comment about childless women / Eisav's opposition to Jewish Women / All the Matriarchs descend from Haran / A gnat in Titus' skull / Nebuchadnezzar the Midget

The 5 Final Letters allude to the Geulah (Redemption) / Serach bas Asher confirms that Moshe is the real deal (Pakod Pakaditi) / The Secret of the Double Peh / Making Bricks & Mortar / Rachel, daughter of Shuselach (connection to Methuselah) / The Jews exit Egypt in the day (not at night) / 4 Times to start the day (midnight, midday, sunrise, sunset) / Redemption in the merit of Yichud Hashem / Maintaining Hebrew Names & the Hebrew Language

Moses sees an Egyptian hit a Levite Hebrew / The 3 Signs Moses Presents the Pharaoh / Pharaoh's magicians cannot mimic the Plague of Boils / The Ten Plagues / The Blasphemer is the son of Shlomis bas Divri & an Egyptian / God uses 10 Fingers / Why does the Gemara start from the pinky, not the thumb? / Dipping one's finger in wine at the Passover Seder / Thumb War against Yishmael (oyev) & Eisav (soneh, tzar) in Messianic Times

When did the enslavement in Egypt begin? / When was Miriam born? / The Children of Efrayim leave Egypt 30 years early / Who killed the Ephraimites (Egyptians or Philistines)? / What did the people of Efrayim do wrong (haughtiness, miscalculating the time of redemption, violating the oath)? / The bitter part of the exile lasted only 83 or 86 years (one hour in God's time) / Throwing Jewish boys into the Nile River / When was that decree enacted - before Aharon was born or afterwards? / The Birth of Moshe / Moshe is named Yekusiel or Tov (Moshe's 10 Names) / Did Bithiah speak Hebrew? / Basya saves baby Moses

Abraham questions Hashem's promise & receives bad news about the future enslavement / Chronology of the events of Abraham's life (his age at the Covenant between the Pieces) / The Jews were only in Egypt for 210 years, not 400 / Yocheved is born in Egypt, but her mother conceived elsewhere / Did Levi meet Moshe & Aharon? / Why is the miracle of Yocheved giving birth at the age of 130 not mentioned in the Torah? / 430 years begins from the birth of Efrayim and Menashe (day & night reckoned separately) / Adding 30 years to the 400 year exile & changing the whole calendar / Completing the years of the Egyptian Exile before the arrival of the Messiah

The Theology of the Baal Peor cult / Promiscuity & Idolatry are especially bad / Sexual immorality weakens the Tzelem Elokim & leads to Avodah Zarah / Pinchas spears Zimri & Kozbi in their sexual organs / The priestly presents of the forearm, cheeks, & stomach / Pinchas prayed for the end of the plague / Pinchas = Eliyahu (double theophoric name) / 80 Kohanim Gedolim descend from Pinchas / Can Eliyahu HaNavi's wife get remarried? / The prohibition of Stam Yaynam (gentile wine) / Spear (romach) = mercy (rachamim) = donkey (chamor) = womb (rechem) / Ibn Virga on the ban on gentile wine / The Festival of the First Vintage in the DSS / Wine leads to promiscuity / Pinchas leads the War of Revenge against Midian / Elazar's prophecy about what to do with Midianite vessels / Why did the Jewish Soldiers bring back Midianite women?

Jews are on a higher level than angels / Do Jews die because of Adam's sin or because of the sin of the Golden Calf? / Why do we light candles on Erev Shabbos? / Freedom from death = Dying by Divine kiss / The angels take back the crowns they gifted the Jews / Yeshiva = Sitting with tranquility & complacency / Did the Jews stray after Moabite woman or Midianite women? / Are Midianites black? / The Midianites entice Jewish Men with cheaper deals / The etymology of the word aphrodisiac / Sinning under the influence of wine / The prince of Shimon publicly fornicates with a Midianite princess

Limitations of the Satan's Power / Does the Satan have power on Yom Kippur? / Sukkos is a time for repentance from love / The Scapegoat as a bribe to the Satan / Why is the Scapegoat not considered Avodah Zarah? / Imitating the ministering angels on Yom Kippur / The Minhag to stand the entire Yom Kippur / The angels violate the ban on cooking meat & milk together / Going to the Mikvah on Erev Yom Kippur / Moshe wants to "see God" before asking for forgiveness / Who said the 13 Attributes of Mercy (Moshe or Hashem)? / Why didn't Moses ask for atonement for all future sins as well?

Who wrote the second pair of Luchos (Tablets)? / The number 40 represents a new creation / The angels are jealous of the Jews receiving the Torah & Moshe's response / The angels wanted the esoteric parts of the Torah without its simplest, literal meaning / Supernatural remedies / Investigating the Letters of the Torah / Blowing the Shofar on Motzei Yom Kippur / When does Yom Kippur offer its atonement? / Why is Yom Kippur called Shabbaton? / Dying on Erev Yom Kippur, Yom Kippur, & Motzei Yom Kippur / Yom HaKippurim = Yom Kippur = The One Day of the Year / Yom Kippur & Purim will always continue to exist

What day of the year was Matan Torah (6 Sivan or 7 Sivan) & what day of the week (Friday or Shabbos)? / Eating dairy on Shavuos because the Torah was given on Friday / Moshiach will come in 1990 / How long did Matan Torah take? / The Jewish Men return to their wives ("tents") / Moshe separates from his wife / Studying the Written Torah during the day (male, sun) & Oral Torah at night (female, moon) / Moshe breaks the Luchos on the 17th of Tammuz / Moshe spends 40 days wiping out idolatry from amongst the Jews / Seder Olam: Moshe Rabbeinu spends 3 periods of 40 days atop Mount Sinai / Blowing the Shofar on Rosh Chodesh Elul amp; the entire month of Elul / Not blowing Shofar on Erev Rosh HaShanah / Tekiah-Teruah-Tekiah: Sounding the Shofar "sweetens" the Din (Elokim) into Rachamim (Hashem) / Rachamim begins after Chatzos (Midnight) / The Torah makes man free