Shiurim on Pirkei DeRabbi Eliezer by Rabbi Reuven Chaim Klein

Yitzchak was not just a farmer, he instituted Maaser / Agriculture in Eretz Yisroel is a Mitzvah / Tzedakah has the power of Techiyas HaMeisim (Resurrecting the Dead) / Resurrection is an act of Gevurah / The Tzarfati Woman (mother of the prophet Yonah) hosts Eliyahu HaNavi / Casting Suspicions on Elijah the Prophets spurs him to pray for her dead son / How was Eliyahu allowed to live in the same courtyard as a widow? / Was Eliyahu HaNavi married? / If Eliyahu was a Kohen (Pinchas) how can he touch the body of the dead chld to become ritually impure (6 answers)?

How old was Rivkah when she married Yitzchak (1, 3, or 14)? / Targum Yonason: Rivkah was barren for 22 years / The 2 Hidden Years of Yitzchok's Life / A Pregnant Rebecca Consults with Shem / Yaakov & Eisav go in different directions / Who killed Nimrod (Esau or Abraham)? / How/why did Yitzchok become blind? / Isaac offers Blessings of Dew on Passover Night / Jacob brings his father 2 goats / The Voice of Jacob & the Hands of Eisav / Dew Rejuvenates and Resurrects

6 People named before their birth / Isaiah foretells of Cyrus / The Significance of the letters in Yitzchok's name / 2 Reasons for the name Ishmael / Iddo foretells of Josiah / The Satan tells Sarah about the Akeidah & she dies / 100 Blasts of the Shofar corresponds to 100 Sarah's cries (or Sisera's mother's) / Rashi: Sarah dies because Yitzchak was almost not slaughtered / Yitzchak mourns his mother's death for 3 years before getting married

The Ram that Abraham sacrificed instead of Isaac / The meanings of the Hebrew word Tachat (instead of, because of, underneath, buttocks) / The Blessings God gave after Akeidat Yitzchak / The Altar is built on the Ashes of Yitzchak / The Ram's sinews become strings of King David's harp, its skin becomes Eliyahu's Aderet / The Ram's Horns are used at Matan Torah & to herald the Messiah / How did parts of the ram survive being burnt as a Korban Olah (burnt-offering)? / The Merit of Bowing Down

Yitzchak worries about hurting his father or messing up the Korban / The Fire of Akeidat Yitzchak / Avraham Avinu was like a Kohen Gadol / If Abraham would slaughter Isaac, then how could he offer him as a sacrifice as an Onan? / Yitzchak dies at the Akeidah / Yitzchak comes back to life and stand on his own two feet / The Blessings of Mechayeh HaMeisim (He who resurrects the dead)

Why is Akeidas Yitzchok so special if Jews always gave up their lives throughout history? / Was Akeidat Yitzchak one of Avraham's 10 Tests? / Avraham wants Yitzchak to continue his mission / Abraham (convert Jew) differs from Shem and Ever (native Jew) / Why did Hashem need to test Avraham? / Why was Yishmael around by Akeidat Yitzchak? / Akeidat Yitzchak or Akeidat Yishmael? / The test of Akeidat Yitzchak was to remain happy enough to receive a second prophecy / Abraham's donkey was from the 6 Days of Creation / Moses & Moshiach ride on Abraham's Donkey / Isaac's age at Akeidat Yitzchak / Yishmael's Birthday (4th of Kislev) / When did Akeidas Yitzchok happen (Pesach, Rosh HaShanah, or Yom Kippur)? / The Binding Happened at Yerushalayim / Eliezer & Yishmael see nothing special at Moriah & are like donkeys / The Altar upon which Adam, Kayin, Hevel, Noach & Abraham Sacrificed

Hagar worships idolatry & and her flask is emptied / How old were Yitzchak and Yishmael when Yishmael was sent away? / God listens to Ishmael's prayers & gives them water/ The name of Ishamel's first wife (Eifah, Aisha, Issa) / Abraham visits Ishmael & tells him to marry somebody else / Are Moabite women modest? / Abraham approves of Ishamel's second wife (Fatumah, Fatimah) / Pirkei deRabbi Eliezer and the Koran / Ishmael's daughter Machalat and her daughter Iggeret / Abraham remarries Hagar (Keturah) / Halachic Definition of Pilegesh (concubine) / Are the Children of Keturah commanded to do circumcision? / Ethnography of Abraham's descendants / The Ishmael-Kayin connection / God's name is in Ishamel and Israel / Ishmael's conquests in the End of Days

Ishmael's association with bows & arrows / Sarah recommends getting rid of Yishmael and disinheriting him / Divorcing Hagar and sending her away / Making sure everyone knows Hagar is a slave / Did Sarah free Hagar before Abraham married her? / Milog (usufruct) and tzon barzel property

Burying the foreskin in sand-dirt-water / Yosef's trait of Yesod & the Weeks of Shovavim / King Solomon's pgam habrit and its ramifications / The Kingdom of Israel discontinues the commandment of circumcision / Ahab as the potential Moshiach ben Yosef / Why Baal & Asherah worshippers oppose circumcision / Dualing with the Baal Prophets at Mount Carmel / Elijah flees to Sinai / How many Jews did not worship Baal? / Pinchas = Eliyahu HaNavi / Elijah attends every Brit Milah

Circumcising converts to Judaism (proselytes) & slaves / The blocked prayers of the uncircumcised / Bathing with a non-Jew / Jacob is circumcised, Esau is not / Circumcision in Egypt and the Exodus / The blood of Milah and the Paschal Lamb (Korban Pesach) bring the redemption / Making a meal in honor of a Brit Milah / 3 Types of Affliction (fasting, jail, travelling) / Why did the Jews did not practice circumcision in the Wilderness? / Milah & Priyah / Joshua presides over mass circumcision / Were some Jews uncircumcised at Sinai? / Balaam sees Jewish foreskins in the desert / The Levites continue to practice circumcision even in the desert