The Sunday Shiur By Rabbi Yoel Plutchok

The publishing of the אבני מילוים: The מגיד saves the day 

The optimal time to prepare for shabbos 

Erev shabbos all week 

The Satmar Rebbe’s challah instructions

Shabbos the protector 

The Chazon Ish’s surprising critique 

Are we causing more chillul shabos 

Fighting for our survival

The lawsuit of the Agudas Chassidei Chabad and the purchase of 770 

The controversial pillaging of the library, the Rebbe goes public, and the ensuing legal proceedings 

Sentimental value in Choshen Mishpat 

The legendary healing powers of the Sar Shalom's hands

Analyzing the dilemma of purchasing holy artifacts

The streimel that sold for 1.8 Million dollars 

The Chazon ish, the Steipler, R Aryeh Levin, and R’ Elyashiv: the origin story behind R Chaim’s streimel 

Reb yehuda Hanasi’s plea to marry R Elazar Ben R Shimon’s widow 

Retiring the artifacts of great people

“Chassidishe Genievus”: R shlomo Bobever’s story about the Baal Hatanya’s attempted Murder

The Tenke rebbe and R Chaim’s gartel swap

“Maklei shel R Meir”: The mikor from the Yerushalmi and many other Talmudic sources

The Satmer rebbe’s final request: The obsession with the Divrei Chaim’s possessions

The Vietzner Rav’s incredible survival of the holocaust and the Yitav Leiv’s Attarah

Is fasting the only way?

Are there special aveiros that Shovavim is supposed to address?

Limud HaTorah

Jello - The conservative hill to die on 

Woman shaving their heads - the origin story of Vaad Arba Hareutzus and their consequential psakim 

The Hechsherim in halacha: Charting the progression from Meikel to Machmir

Eretz Yisroel in the modern day: R Shmuel Auerbach, R Moshe Sternbuch and the diminishing chezkes kashrus

The Largest Funeral in NYC History

The posthumous Chassid

Funding the shechita overhaul: The plumba tax

The background of Shechita in Halacha

The dynamic laws of animal slaughter in NYC

The Weinberg Pen vs the Cincinnati Pen: Animal slaughter in the modern day

Shechita Miumedes: R Moshe Shternbuch opines

Rabbi Genack and Rabbi Belsky’s letters: The OU responds

The historic Spanish Portuguese synagogue of 1648: the Brazilian Jews of New York City

Yaakov Abram’s shechita : the investigation of R Shmuel Kreiser 

“Hashgacha”: the great American innovation 

The monumental shechita lawsuit: Leveraging trademarks to enforce Kashrus

Bleeding the Cows: The fiery halachic controversy of 1850

The Shoel Umashuv’s harrowing and prophetic teshuva 

The gourmet mesorah dinner: A gathering to consume a smorgasbord of rare kosher food

A cattle made for the Israeli landscape: In pursuit of the Zebu

Understanding the consequential shitas haShach: the Chachmas Adam the Pri Migadim and the ensuing  machlokes between the Chazon Ish and R Herzog

Reb Elyashiv's psak and modern day distiction

Menashe Ben Israel, the origins of the Indians and the Aseres hashvatim

Anshei India from Moshe Rabbeinu 

The genomes of modern day birds 

Turkey in Europe: The Heter of the Netziv

The descendants of the Shlah, The Kamenetskys etc.