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00:00 Where were the bodies from the graves in the cave of Rebbe Yehuda HaNassi taken?   01:36 Why is V’shamru considered an inturruption in some minhagim?   06:09 Why can a blood avenger kill someone with no penalty?   12:18 What are the levels of Tumah?   17:38 What are insights of Shovevim?    26:21 What did Levites who didn’t live near the Temple do?    29:20 Can you break Shabbos to save the life of a non-frum person?  (additional clarification at the end)   33:34 Can you invite your non-religious Jewish friend to a Shabbat meal if you know he is going to drive?   41:42 How does one be empathetic to others’ problems without having the problems harm themselves?   46:36 When Chazal say “you must say…” how literally should we take this?   49:04 Why do people still hold to night D’Rabbeinu Tam?   58:54 Is bein Hashmashot an inherent safek?    1:05:07 How should we be reacting to the Omicron variant of Covid?   1:08:26 War, plague, famine were things that affected the world and made people cleave to Hashem. We don’t have those same exact issues today, so how do people cleave to Hashem now?    1:12:34 What advice would you give to people when it comes to making decisions in life?   1:19:04 Why is the Torah strict on things that don’t seem so bad (such as homosexuality) and then doesn’t address things that seem much worse (such as rape)?    1:25:46 How should we act toward gay people and gay Jews in particular?   1:31:23 What is the significance of wanting Rabbeinu Tam tefillin when you get married?    1:34:32 What is the halachic source of working on one’s middos and is it doraisa or drabanan?    1:39:50 Is it ok to bring a Christian missionary into a (non-orthodox) synagogue to speak?    1:41:56 How has the litvisha world change after WWII?    1:46:24 What is the element of Judaism that is passed down through matrilineal descent?   1:47:36 What is the bread of shame? Would taking money to learn Torah count under this?  

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Hashkafic History Series II

Ohr Lagolah Rabbinic Program  5776-8-Rav Kook Bio II

Rabbi Dr Yitzchak Breitowitz, of Ohr Somayach Jerusalem,  "Hashkafic History".

(Originally Rec 2015-16)

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00:00 Why do we say Kaddish?   04:28 Could you please describe the Kabbalistic middah of Malchus?    09:20 When did souls become “Jewish" souls?    17:11 Does anyone say that the Jewish transformation happened at Mt. Sinai?   18:24 Why do we stand with feet together in the Amidah?   20:13 Why are there very few Levites?   24:07 If Hashem created Teshuva for all people, how can Elisha Ben Avuya say the Acher couldn’t do Teshuva? And how do we make Teshuva for “dead and gone” situations?    29:34 How come we don’t know where the lost tribes are today?   35:48 If someone is traveling and they are looking for a shul, how do I know it’s a kosher minyan (e.g. if it were reform or conservative)?    43:10 What does the Rambam mean when he says we shouldn’t do Mitzvos for the sake of reward?    48:00 When does it become appropriate to study Kabbalah?   58:08 How does one know which voices to listen to inside oneself?   1:04:16 What is the Torah’s perspective on ghosts?   1:06:00 How do you explain learning Gemara to kids?   1:14:45 Are women allowed to learn Gemara?   1:20:53 Are there makhlosim between the Talmud Yerushalmi? Why is the Talmud Bavli more widespread if the Yerushalmi was written in a holier place?   1:30:58 Why is there not more of a push to learn Machshava in Yeshiva?    1:35:30 How would the Rav describe the fundamental difference between a Jew and a non-Jew to someone who has no idea about Judaism?   1:39:15 How do we relate to Avoda Zara references or images in literature?   1:42:45 Why do some sects of Judaism not learn on certain days (non-Jewish holidays)?  

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Hashkafic History Series II

Ohr Lagolah Rabbinic Program  5776-7-Rav Kook Bio II

Rabbi Dr Yitzchak Breitowitz, of Ohr Somayach Jerusalem,  "Hashkafic History".

(Originally Rec 2015-16)

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00:00 How can we reconcile the Gemara in Sukkah saying that certain actions bring about eclipses and the astronomical cycle of such eclipses?   06:37 How do we reconcile the fact that we’re a light unto the nations if translating the Torah is seen as bad, and why are so many important Jews secular?   14:00 Why is Havdalah related to (the bracha of) wisdom?    22:14 Has the Rav been positively affected by secular culture?   31:10 How can a Jew be involved in a career in creative writing?   42:00 How much do I have to wrong someone in order to require forgiveness?    46:28 What’s the difference between Olam Haba and Olam HaNeshamos?   48:38 In terms of “rodef,” could someone kill a doctor who is about to pull the plug on a patient?   54:08 Is the rav excited about Roe v Wade possibly being overturned?   1:03:06 What are the rav’s thoughts on men educating women when there are a lot of allegations and abuses?    1:12:35 Why did Hashem have to hold the mountain over the heads of the Jews? Were we forced into accepting it?   1:15:38 How do we view political campaigns that employ lashon hara?   1:21:00 Is sinas chinam still happening today?   1:21:46 Why are Pharoahs in the Torah not named?   1:22:42 How is removal of the spleen allowed with Adonyahu?   1:27:08 Does lashon hara extend to social media being allowed?    1:28:22 Shovavim eitzah for yeshiva bachurim?   1:31:37 When it comes to men wearing women’s garments or the like, what is kosher in terms of grooming?   1:36:00 What’s the message of growing out a beard?    1:40:05 Why is there not a more mainstream obligation to receive the COVID vaccine according to the gedolim?   1:42:43 Why should I listen to a gadol about medical advice?    1:47:54 Where is America headed in terms of Yiddishkeit?   1:51:50 How can there be other worlds in our world if Hashem created the beginning in Bereshis?   

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00:00 What is the Halacha on zmanim in space?   4:59 Why do some mishnayos not have Gemaras included with them?   15:02 Did people live outside of Garden of Eden alongside or before Adam and Chava (according to a Midrash)?   19:15 How do we understand the statement “the world was created for me” (in Sanhendrin)?   25:56 Are there any issues with playing basketball on Shabbat?   29:44 How do we reconstruct musical sounds from Tehilim?   34:42 What’s the Rav’s opinion on not letting a student of Baruch Spinoza enter a shul?    42:08 Why did Hashem created the world in stages and not all at once?   44:23 Does a Charem apply to the talmidim of the person with the charem?   45:20 Shouldn’t goyim be chayev in brachot (because it would be stealing)?    49:22 Why are there different shapes of menorahs?    55:16 If the Torah is a “blueprint for life,” why doesn’t the Torah explain how to stay physically healthy?    57:25 Is it lying to state an earlier time for an event when I know people will be late?   1:00:00 Is there a source that states that Israel belongs to the children of Shem?   1:04:05 Who was Agripas HaMelech?   1:09:09 Wouldn’t we make Aaron HaKohen the Kohen gadol rather than current gadolim of todays world?    1:12:39 What does the Torah say about dinosaurs and the like?   1:16:42 Is Jewish astrology real?   1:21:45 Why would Hashem keep destroying and rebuilding the earth?   1:24:44 Is having anxiety a lack of faith in Hashem?   1:26:55 Is it possible for someone to come back in a GilGul of a person who completed their tachlus?   1:30:46 If everything is from Hashem, how do we explain the seeming autonomy of the Satan and the like?   1:34:45 Who is Mashiach Ben Yosef?   1:40:22 How do we explain the structures of the pyramids?  

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