Shiurim on Pirkei DeRabbi Eliezer by Rabbi Reuven Chaim Klein

Shiurim on Pirkei DeRabbi Eliezer by Rabbi Reuven Chaim Klein

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Shiurim on Pirkei DeRabbi Eliezer by Rabbi Reuven Chaim Klein episodes

  • Episode 83: Chapter 40 - Egyptian Exile and Exodus
    Revelation at the Burning Bush (Yeridah #5) / Hashem is in pain alongside the Jewish People / The History of Moshe's Staff / What was written on Moshe's staff (plagues, names of God)? / The Legend of Excalibur the Sword & Moshe's Staff in Jethro's Garden / 40 Years of Moshe's Life: Shepherd for Yisro or King of Cush / The Intrigue of the Burning Bush / Take off your shoes in holy places / Moshe's enemies are dead / The Uniqueness of Moshe's Prophecy / Two souls in one body / Hashem reveals His name(s)
    1 hr 16 min
  • Episode 82: Chapter 39b - The Life of Jacob
    Joseph understands 70 languages & dream interpretation / Yosef escapes harm from the Ayin HaRa / Who was the "translator" (meilitz)? / Yosef never raised the prices / Egypt builds storagehouses for the famine / Yosef swears that he will bury Yaakov in the Holy Land / The Egyptians pay their last respects to Jacob & get rewarded / Eisav claims ownership of Maarat HaMachpelah & ends up killed / Who killed Esau (Chushim ben Dan or Yehudah ben Yaakov)? / Yehuda & Dan must join together to build the Temple & destroy Amalek / Rabbi Chaim Shmuelevitz: Don't get used to undesirable situations / Yitzchak prays on Eisav's behalf
    59 min
  • Episode 81: Chapter 39a - The Life of Jacob
    Hashem goes down to Egypt with Yaakov (Yeridah #4) / Yaakov sees the potential danger of being exiled to Egypt / Which of Jacob's wives came to Egypt with him (Was Bilhah still alive)? / Whom did Jacob's sons marry (twin sisters or Canaanite women)? / Counting Jacob's 70 Descendants (are Hashem, Yocheved, Bilhah, & Yaakov in the list?) / About 600,000 Jews exited Egypt / Yosef lives 110 years instead of 120 as a punishment / How is silence considered an admission (shitkah k'hodaah)? / A father is like a king / Yosef resists the temptation of Potiphar's wife / Joseph ejaculates from his fingers / For how long was Yosef in jail (Pirkei D'Rabbi Eliezer vs. Seder Olam)?
    1 hr
  • Episode 80: Chapter 38e - The Life of Jacob
    King Saul pronounces a ban on eating & his son Jonathan violates the cherem to eat honey / Yehonosson is spared from punishment & a Korban Olah is brought instead / A king's right to execute & pardon / The Assyrians import Kusim (Samaritans) into the Shechem area / The Kusim bring Mesopotamian idolatry to the Holy Land & are punished with lions / Two Jewish priests teach the Samaritans Torah / The Bad Samaritans antagonize the Jews / A cherem is imposed on eating kusi bread & they are banned from converting to Judaism / Later decrees against the kutim
    49 min
  • Episode 79: Chapter 38d - The Life of Jacob
    A Cherem is like an oath / Joshua conquers Jericho & consecrates it as a cherem for Hashem / Ramban's Mishpatei HaCherem: Different types of Cherem / Achan illegally takes from the booty of Jericho / The Golden Tongue of Terafim / Who died in the first battle of Ai (36 Tzaddikim or just Yair ben Menashe)? / Yehoshua figures out who violated the cherem (via Urim V'Tumim, lots, & the Holy Ark) / Achan is punished but has a place in Olam Haba / Aleinu should be said standing up / Yehoshua bin Nun wrote Alenu, Achan wrote Al Ken Nikaveh / The Concubine at Gibea (Pilegesh B'Givah) & the civil war against the tribe of Binyamin / The people of Yavesh Gilead violate the cherem / Ramban: Yiftach consecrates his daughter by way of cherem
    55 min
  • Episode 78: Chapter 38c - The Life of Jacob
    Yaakov loves his Ben Zekunim, Joseph's brothers are jealous / Gavriel helps Yosef find his brothers / Joseph's brothers put him in a pit & then sell him to Ishmaelites to buy shoes / Did Reuven know that Yosef was sold? / How much is Yosef worth as a slave (20 shekel)? / Joseph's brothers impose a cherem (excommunication/ban) on publicizing what they did to Joseph / Including Hashem in the minyan needed to institute the cherem / Nobody tells Yaakov that Yosef was sold / When does a cherem need 10 people (Rabbeinu Tam vs. Maharach Ohr Zarua & Zayis Raanan) / Asara Harugei Malchus (The Ten Martyrs) atone for the sin of selling Joseph
    56 min
  • Episode 77: Chapter 38b - The Life of Jacob
    How many wives did Eisav have? / Yaakov returns to his father's house & encounters Eisav / Did Esau live in Hebron or Mount Seir? / Yitzchak was still alive when Yosef was sold / Yaakov & Eisav split their father's inheritance / Esau consults with Ishmael or the Children of Ishmael / Esau leaves the Holy Land for Seir or Rome / When was Rome Established? / The Blessings of Esau / Is Rome a walled city to keep Shushan Purim?
    39 min
  • Episode 76: Chapter 38a - The Life of Jacob
    A snake comes out of the wall = Shechem ben Chamor the Hivvite / Was Dinah an immodest tomboy? / Shechem lures Dinah outside & rapes her / Osnath = Dinah's daughter from Shechem or an Egyptian convert / Why did Yaakov send away Osnat with an amulet containing Hashem's name? / Potiphar's wife adopts Osnas / Why did Shimon & Levi kill all the people of Shechem (3 answers)? / Yaakov curses Shimon & Levi in Greek / Why didn't Dinah do an abortion? The implications of the Yosef-Dinah story for Halachos of IVF
    41 min
  • Episode 75: Chapter 37 - The Life of Jacob
    Amos: Yaakov flees from a lion (Lavan) & encounters a bear (Eisav) / Arami Oved Avi = Laban tries to destroy the Jewish People / Jacob fights the angel sent to save him from Esau / The angel blesses Yaakov & gives him the name Yisrael / An angel's name tells us its job / The prohibition of Gid HaNashe / Michael-Metatron is the Kohen Gadol in the Heavens & Patron of the Jewish Nation / Yaakov gives maaser (tithe) of his animals to Eisav / Jacob gives 1/10 of his sons to HaShem (Levi) / The 4 Firstborns are already holy (Reuven, Dan, Gad, & Yosef) / Levi is chosen because he was born third to his mother /
    Importance of the third born (third-born calf, Moshe Rabbeinu) / The number 3 represents tiferes/emes as the perfect balance of chesed & gevurah / Eisav the blood-sucking vampire / Flattering the wicked to make peace
    1 hr 22 min
  • Episode 74: Chapter 36c - The Life of Jacob
    Abraham's Treaty with the Jebusites in buying the Mearat HaMachpelah (Cave of the Patriarchs) / Was Ephron a Hittite or Jebusite? / Yevus = Yerushalayim / Copper statues stop King David from conquering Jerusalem / King David hates idolatry / The blind man & the lame man / Dovid HaMelech conquers & buys Jerusalem / Yitzchak's new deal with the Philistines / The Jebusites of Jerusalem were really Plishitim / The Philistine treaty expired or was voided by the time of the Samson / Yaakov's treaty with Lavan / Sons are tantamount to brothers
    57 min

About Shiurim on Pirkei DeRabbi Eliezer by Rabbi Reuven Chaim Klein

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These lectures cover the entire Midrash Pirkei de-Rabbi Eliezer, including reading and elucidating the Hebrew text of that fascinating rabbinic work. The shiurim were delivered by Rabbi Reuven Chaim…