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 53: Chapter 29a - Abraham's Ten Tests
    Who was Abraham's mohel (Shem or himself)? / Abraham's circumcision was done at midday (noon) / On what day was Avraham Avinu's Bris Milah (on Yom Kippur or in Tammuz)? / Circumcision on the Temple Mount / The bloody connection between circumcision and ritual sacrifices (korbanot) / The pain of the third day / Post-circumcision ritual impurity / Bikkur Cholim (Visiting the Sick) / Avraham's newfound level of prophecy / 5 Types of Blockage (Orlah)
    59 min
  • Episode 52: Chapter 28b - Abraham's Ten Tests
    Abraham's Levels of Prophecy (Chazon & Mareh) / Abraham's prophecies compared to Moses' / Counting the Stars / Reassuring Avraham of his merits / The animals at the Covenant Between the Pieces (Bris Bein HaBesarim) allude to the 4 Kingdoms of Exile / Combinations of the 4 Kingdoms (Islam and the Byzantine Empire) / Is Ishmael one of the Four Kingdoms? / Whom do the birds represents (Muslims, Erev Rav)? / The 3 Oaths / The Messiah will come in 1503 (according to Abarbanel) / A Great Dark Fear falls upon Avraham
    1 hr 9 min
  • Episode 51: Chapter 28a - Guest Lecture by Rabbi Shmuel Raber
    Allusions to the Four Kingdoms of Exile / Ishmael (Arabia) as one of the kingdoms of exile / Exile to Egypt purifies the Jews / The firewood of Gehinnom / The Geulah (Redemption) Process / The Visions of Daniel / The 4 Beasts and the World Wars at the End of Days / Gog leads the West / Balaam's prophecies tell us about the future / Returning to Eretz Yisrael with Moshiach ben Yosef / Which Jews will be spared?
    53 min
  • Episode 50: Chapter 27 - Abraham's Ten Tests
    Nimrod's Revenge: Kidnapping Lot to lure in Abraham / Who is the "refugee" (Og or the archangel Michael)? / Abraham rallies the troops - including Eliezer, Aner, Eshkol & Mamre / Where are Dan and Hobah? / Abraham foresees Jeroboam's Golden Calves / Layish = Leshem = Dan = Pameas = Paneas = Banias / How is Chovah north of Damascus? / Why Abraham left his army behind / Domestic Eliezer / Establishing the custom of Maasar (tithe) / Abraham meet Melchizedek / Who gives maaser to whom?
    1 hr 5 min
  • Episode 49: Chapter 26b - Abraham's Ten Tests
    The first famine / Why did God want Avraham to go down to Egypt? / Was the famine in Canaan one of Abraham's 10 tests? / Pharoah wants to marry Sarah & gets smitten / Sarah is abducted on Passover Night (twice) / The ketubah Pharaoh offered Sarah, including slaves / Pharaoh gives Sarah the Land of Goshen / Chasam Sofer: Pharaoh rapes Sarah / Abimelech's household becomes impotent / Why did God send Michael to punish Avimelech instead of Gabriel? / Abraham prophetically knew of Sarah's infertility / Quashing the scoffers' rumors about Yitzchak's parentage
    1 hr 12 min
  • Episode 48: Chapter 26a - Abraham's Ten Tests
    Receiving a test (nisayon) from Above / The Jews in the desert "test" Hashem 10 times / Listing Abraham's 10 Tests (15 opinions) / Baby Abraham is hidden from Nimrod / Why is being hidden in a cave considered a test? / Lashon HaKodesh (Hebrew Language) as a natural language / Avraham recognizes God at the age of 3 or 48 / Abraham is jailed in Cutha and Kardu (Kurdistan) / Ur Kasdim: Abraham in the fiery furnace / Relocating is especially hard for men to do / Where was Avraham born (Ur or Harran)? / When is Avraham called Avinu?
    59 min
  • Episode 47: Chapter 25b - Destruction of Sodom
    The cry of the girl smeared in honey / Lot's daughter Plotis gets the death penalty / Ammon & Moab follow in their Sodomite ancestors' footsteps / Abraham's hostel (eshel) / Lot becomes a judge in Sodom / Lot is caught hosting guests / The angels help Lot & family escape / Lot's wife (Edith/Iris) turns into a pillar of salt / Finding Lot's wife near the Dead Sea
    1 hr 5 min
  • Episode 46: Chapter 25a - Destruction of Sodom
    God deals with the sinners of Sodom (Yeridah #3) / Amora = Gomorrah / Good news and bad news / 3 angels with 3 missions / Israel is not under the influence of the Archangel Michael / The rich & stingy people of Sodom / Sins of Sodom (with their bodies and their money) / Sodom = Capitalists, Babel = Communists / The Ban on Visitors / Unfair laws and practices in Sodom / Judges in Sodom / Eliezer vists Sodom
    1 hr 7 min
  • Episode 45: Chapter 24 - Tower of Babel
    Giving Birth to 6 kids at a time / How the Taz married the Bach's daughter / Going to the Plain of Shinar (Sumer) / Enthroning Nimrod / Nimrod rebels against God / Nimrod gets Adam's special clothes / Uniting mankind against God / Building the Tower with bricks / Abraham protests the tower's construction / God makes a lottery to divvy the 70 nation between 70 angels / El Elyon is another name of God / God deals with the people who built the Tower of Babel (Yeridah #2) / Before Babel everyone spoke Hebrew / Who killed Nimrod (Abraham or Esau)? / Adam's special clothes in Rome
    1 hr 14 min
  • Episode 44: Chapter 23c - Story of Noah and the Flood
    Noah plants a grapevine from Gan Eden / Who castrated/sodomized Noah - Ham or Canaan? / Birth order of Noah's 3 sons / Why did Noach curse Canaan? / The curse of being a slave / The blessings, gifts and & lands Noah gave his children / Black is beautiful / Was Moses black like an Egyptian? / White tzaras (leprosy) on a German and Kushi
    59 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…