Class 57: Rambam's Introduction; exploring the lives and teachings of our Chachamim (Sages), continuing our focus in this class on Rabban Yochanan Ben Zakkai. (8/24/2021)

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Class 56: Rambam's Introduction; exploring the lives and teachings of our Chachamim (Sages), focusing in this class on Rabban Yochanan Ben Zakkai. (8/17/2021)

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Class 55: Rambam's Introduction; exploring the lives and teachings of our Chachamim (Sages), focusing in this class on Shammai HaZaken. (8/10/2021)

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Class 54: Rambam's Introduction; exploring the lives and teachings of our Chachamim (Sages), focusing in this class on Hillel HaZaken; story of potential converts requesting that Hillel and Shammai convert them; teaching the Torah on one foot; contemporary Jewish communities and their time limits on Divere Torah; converting for an ulterior motive; fundamental rules in the laws of conversion to Judaism; story regarding Rabbi Yaakov Yosef Hager and a special edition of a troubling Shabbat song; wisdom of Hillel HaZaken and his eighty students; the students of Porat Yosef in the generation of Rabbi Ezra Attia; more rational understandings of a puzzling Aggadeta, from the writings of Rabbi Yosef Messas; the importance of understanding the sciences and the world around us; the "divisive" method of teaching the traditions of Sepharadic and Ashkenazi Jews alongside each other; and more! (8/3/2021)

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Class 53: Rambam's Introduction; exploring the lives and teachings of our Chachamim (Sages), focusing in this class on Hillel HaZaken; story of Hillel's determination to learn; guards at the entry of the Bet Midrash; manipulation of contemporary Chachamim; dilemma that prompted Hillel's promotion to Av Bet HaDin; subsequent memory loss of certain Halachot and the humility that restored it; looking to the Jewish people's practice as a way to determine Halachah; wise people do not always need to know the answer to everything; Abraham Lincoln and Facebook; knowing how to research things you read before you believe them; story of two individuals who made a bet to upset Hillel on Erev Shabbat; the bet of Morenu HaRav Yaakov Peretz; Hillel's wealthy brother and his lack of support for his Torah study; and more! (7/27/2021)

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Class 52: Rambam's Introduction; exploring the lives and teachings of our Chachamim (Sages), focusing in this class on Shemayah and Avtalyon; the fourth generation of Zugot; a tangent in praise of the heroism and lofty stature of "Gere HaTzedek" - righteous converts to Judaism; the mistreatment of Gerim at the hands of the Jewish community; briefly recalling a Shiur of Rabbi Yosef Zarnighian regarding Gerim holding the office of Navi; Unite State's law requires the President to be born in the United States; a different understanding of the concept of "Serara"; perhaps a poor reflection but accurate understanding of Jewish society; women in positions of authority in the writings of Rabbi Benzion Meir Hai Uziel; Jewish descendants of Sancheriv and Haman; Jewish communities which don't count Gerim for a Minyan; Rambam consistently understands that Shemayah and Avtalyon are actual Gerim and not descendants of Gerim; imitation of one's rabbi; a unique tradition of Rabbi Yosef Kapach; a possible precedent to the Spanish Portugese custom of wearing special ritual clothing only in the synagogue; a showdown between the Kohen Gadol - High Priest - and Rabbinic leadership; a moving story and the legacy of Akavyah Ben Mehalalel; and more! (6/15/2021)

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Tonight’s Shiur is dedicated in merit of the Refuah Shelemah of Dr. Arthur Platt - Chaim Ozer Ben Leah.

Tonight’s Shiur is dedicated in merit of the Refuah Shelemah of Yisrael Yosef Chaim ben Leah.

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Class 51: Rambam's Introduction; exploring the lives and teachings of our Chachamim (Sages), focusing in this class on Shemayah and Avtalyon; the fourth generation of Zugot; historical background to understand Rabbinic contempt towards positions of authority; Queen Shlomzion's stable empire doesn't stay stable forever; Jewish civil war; the tragic death of Honi HaMe'agel; religious murderers and the pig who breached the wall of Jerusalem; Greek wisdom and academic gibberish; collaboration with the Roman's led to their occupation of the Land of Israel; the danger of Jewish partisanship; the significance of outsiders - "Gere HaTzedek" - stepping in to replace Jewish leadership; Ribbi Yosef Messas and the need for Jewish bipartisanship; and more! (6/14/2021)

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Tonight’s Shiur is dedicated in merit of the Refuah Shelemah of Dr. Arthur Platt - Chaim Ozer Ben Leah.

Tonight’s Shiur is dedicated in merit of the Refuah Shelemah of Yisrael Yosef Chaim ben Leah.

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Rambam’s Mishneh Torah - Edition and Commentary of Rabbi Yosef Kapach (Qafih)

Class 50: Rambam's Introduction; exploring the lives and teachings of our Chachamim (Sages), focusing in this class on Shimon Ben Shatach; the third generation of Zugot; brother-in-law of King Yanai, brother of Queen Shlomtzion; analyzing two different Aggadot regarding Shimon Ben Shatach and his relationship with King Yanai; murderers of rabbis who are careful to recite Birkat HaMazon; an episode of nine-hundred Nezirim; the sad decline of the "Hacham" in North African literature; the task of reclaiming the Sanhedrin from the hands of the Sadducees; Shimon Ben Shatach and the eighty witches of Ashkelon, as told by Rabbi Ovadia Yosef; a tragic story of revenge singling out the son of Shimon Ben Shatach; the Ishmaelite who blessed the God of Israel, the God of Shimon Ben Shatach; and more! (6/7/2021)

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Tonight’s Shiur is dedicated in merit of the Refuah Shelemah of Dr. Arthur Platt - Chaim Ozer Ben Leah. (At the time of the giving of this Shiur, the name Chaim was not yet added).

Tonight’s Shiur is dedicated in merit of the Refuah Shelemah of Rachel Savin's father - Shalom Ben Miriam.

Tonight’s Shiur is also dedicated in loving memory of Hyman Jebb Levy - Chaim Ben Yehuda V’Bella z”l. May his Neshamah have an Aliyah in Gan Eden, Amen!

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Class 49: Rambam's Introduction; exploring the lives and teachings of our Chachamim (Sages), focusing in this class on Yehudah Ben Tabai; the third generation of Zugot; the decline of the family of Hashmonaim, from Yochanan Kohen Gadol until King Yanai; slightly difference stance regarding King Yanai found between the Talmud Yerushalmi and Talmud Bavli; different opinions regarding which was the Nasi and which was the Av Bet HaDin; a brief history of autonomous self-government of the Jewish people in Sephardic lands, tragically ending with the establishment of the State of Israel; conspiring witnesses and one of the more devastating mistakes of Yehudah Ben Tabai's Rabbinic career; an early debate between the Sadducee and Rabbinic camps; the Hebrew word for lawyer, "Orech Din", arranger of the law; the nobility of Yehudah Ben Tabai and his ability to learn from his mistakes; and more! (6/1/2021)

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Tonight’s Shiur is dedicated in merit of the Refuah Shelemah of Dr. Arthur Platt - Chaim Ozer Ben Leah. (At the time of the giving of this Shiur, the name Chaim was not yet added).

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Rambam’s Mishneh Torah - Edition and Commentary of Rabbi Yosef Kapach (Qafih)

Class 47: Rambam's Introduction; exploring the lives and teachings of our Chachamim (Sages), focusing in this class on Yehoshua Ben Perachya; the second generation of Zugot; fleeing to Alexandria due to the persecution of Chachamim in Eretz Yisrael; the Halachic and extra-Halachic aspects of judging others favorably; Catholic censorship of classic Jewish texts, such as the Talmud; praying with the Siddur of the Catholic church; Rabbi Yehoshua Ben Perachya and Yeshu; the meaning of the name Yeshu HaNotzri; is Yeshu the historical Jesus or someone else?; a fateful meal at an inn on the way back to Jerusalem; Chachamim's advice to always draw close while pushing away; Rabbi Avraham Yitzchak HaKohen Kook's understanding of the nature of Yeshu's brick-worship; it is incorrect to mock another religion, rather when one increases light, darkness disipates on it's own; Avodah Zarah is turning a means into an end; the lighting bolt of Teshuvah; and more! (5/10/2021)

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This Shiur is dedicated in honor of our brothers and sisters who are under attack in Israel. May HaKadosh Baruch Hu bless them and protect them, and bring peace to our homeland, Amen.

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Shiviti Night Kollel

Rambam’s Mishneh Torah - Edition and Commentary of Rabbi Yosef Kapach (Qafih)