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 33: Chapter 18c - The Creation of the World (Day Seven)
    The Prohibition of Lighting a Fire differs from the other 39 melachos (forbidden labors) on Shabbos / To Remember the Creation of the World, to Remember the Exodus / Shabbos the Day of Double / Shabbat as the nexus of potential and its realization / Shabbos & Yom Kippur / The Significance of the Number 7 / 7 Cycles of 7 Millennia / Observing Shabbos atones for sins / Was Enosh himself an idolater? / Shabbos = Male & Female, Singular & Plural / The Holiness of Shabbos Afternoon
    1 hr 9 min
  • Episode 31: Chapter 18a - The Creation of the World (Day Seven)
    Beis Shammai and Beis Hillel disagree over whether the Heavens were created first or the Earth was / Reducing Their Dispute to its Core: The House Shammai = Idealists, The House of Hillel = Pragmatic / Applying this Paradigm to Many Different Examples / Why do we pasken like Beis Hillel? / In the Future, we will pasken like Beis Shammai / Hillel continues Aharon's role as the peacemaker / Aharon's death as a prelude to the destruction of the Holy Temple / The Story of Kamtza and Bar Kamtza / Rabbi Zecharia ben Avkulis's Humility / Balancing between Flattery and Rebuke
    1 hr 18 min
  • Episode 30: Chapter 17b - The Creation of the World (Day Six)
    3 Kings & 4 Commoners who may have lost their place in the World to Come / Which sin caused the famine during King David's reign? / King Saul's improper burial, interring his remains, and reburial / The Gibeonites (Nesinim) demand revenge / The poetic eulogy over King Saul / Iddo's Prophecy of Josiah's birth / King Josiah the Child Iconoclast / Jewish Idolatry continues behind closed doors / Lamenting Josiah's tragic death / The Gate for Grooms & the Gate for Mourners/Excommunicated
    1 hr 22 min
  • Episode 29: Chapter 17a - The Creation of the World (Day Six)
    Chessed for the Dead / Happiness = Expansion, Sadness = Contraction / God buries Moshe / Aharon gets a proper eulogy / Mourning Moshe and Aharon / Learning the concept of shiva (7 days of mourning) from Jacob's death / The Egyptians' reward for giving their last respects to Yaakov / Learning Halachos from before Matan Torah / Jezebel dances with newlyweds and honors the dead / The daring mission to retrieve King Saul's corpse and their future reward / What is the difference between guf and giviyah? / Positively identifying corpses in Halacha / Does Hashem keep mitzvos?
    1 hr 22 min
  • Episode 28: Chapter 16b - The Creation of the World (Day Six)
    Eliezer & Rivka's return trip to Hebron / Suspecting Eliezer of Hanky-panky / Rivkah as a gilgul (reincarnation) of Sarah / Proving Rivka's virginity / The custom of digital defloration of the hymen / Avraham's servent Eliezer is Og, king of Bashan and son of Nimrod / Setting Eliezer Free / Is Og a title or a name? / Learning Sheva Brachos from Shimshon (Samson) / 18 Ways in which A Chosson (groom) is like a King / Why can't a chatan work during Sheva Brachos? / Separate Seating at Weddings / Standing up when the bridesgroom walks down the aisle
    1 hr 5 min
  • Episode 27: Chapter 16a - The Creation of the World (Day Six)
    3 Things on Which the World Stands (Gemach, Avodah, Torah) = Avraham, Yitzchak, & Yaakov = Chessed, Gevurah, Tiferet / On what covenant (bris) does the world stand? / Avodah = Tefillah (Prayer) and Korbanot (Sacrifices) / Why is making a bride and groom happy the epitome of Chessed? / God gladdens Adam and Eve at their wedding / Lovingkindness: Becoming a partner in creation / The changing definition of Chessed / The History of Sheva Brachos / Finding a Shidduch for Yitzchak / Playing Around with the rules of yerushah (inheritance) / Eliezer's 3 hour journey / Rivkah's royal lineage (Terach, Nachor, Bethuel) / The king's right to a virgin's "first night"
    1 hr 5 min
  • Episode 26: Chapter 15 - The Creation of the World (Day Six)
    Freedom to Choose Between Good and Bad / The Difference Between Tzaddik (Tzedakah) and Chossid (Chesed) / Samuel the Prophet takes both paths / Shmuel's Divine Gifts / Entering Gehinnom - Give Him Another Chance / What's Behind Door #4? / Hell and Heaven are one and the same / Rabbi Eliezer's Personal Experience with the Angels in Heaven / Elazar the Kohen Gadol's Prophecies / Releasing the Prisoners from Purgatory
    1 hr 1 min
  • Episode 25: Chapter 14b - The Creation of the World (Day Six)
    10 Curses of the Nachash (Snake/Serpent) / Snake's Gestation and Skin Shedding Every 7 years / Revenge like a Snake / 10 Curses of Eve (Chava) / Pain of Childrearing before the Pain of Pregnancy and Birth / Adam's 10 Curses / Why were Adam, Eve, & the Snake present for each other's judgement? / Why did the Land get punished?
    1 hr 14 min
  • Episode 24: Chapter 14a - The Creation of the World (Day Six)
    God's Ten Descents (Yeridos) / Hashem Judges Adam (Yeridah #1) / Adam Runs Aways and Hides / Naked from Mitzvos / Adam's Special Fingernail Skin / Custom of Looking at the Finger nails during Havdalah / The dangers of discarded finger nails / Adam and Eve's Defense Argument / 39 Punishments are Meted Out / The Curse of Long Hair, The Blessing of Long Beard
    1 hr 2 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…