The Sunday Shiur By Rabbi Yoel Plutchok

The anatomy of the shechita knife

The legend of the Mezeritcher Maggid’s shechita knife

 The Tzemach Tzeddek and Yankel am Haaretz : The grand bechina between the shochet and the rav 

The end of the battle: The Industrial Revolution revolutionizes Shechita

Lubavitcher Shechita: The Baal hatanya’s passionate and detailed teshuva regarding shechita

The Lubavitcher bachurim of Shanghai 

R Chaim’s famous grasshopper

The Piyuttim of R Eliezer Hakalir [Beribi]

How high is the Rekiyah? The machlokes Talmud Bavli and Yerushalmi

לצרף בריותיו - The Rambam on Shechita, Eiver Min Hachai and Tzar Balei Chayim

The letter from the Ramban: An animals ultimate will

The dichotomy of Shaul Hamelech’s rachmanus

Rav Chaskel Sarna’s dramatic burial intervention

The Munkatcher chassunah of 1933

Predecessor to the Nuremberg laws: The Nazi ban against shechita 

R Chaim Ozer’s self-insertion and the comprehensive retrospective review 

Dr S.D.  Rosen and Dr Temple Gandin - Animal rights activists exonerate shechita

HaRav Hanazir Dovid Cohen: Rav Kook’s disciple's case for Veganism

The Shver and the Eidem: The Din Torah classifying meat between the Bach and Taz

The Fish Matzeiva: The story of the hielige fish of Vienna

The Palestinian Avoda Zara

The Tosfos Yom Tov’s dilemma and Chazal’s eventual vindication 

Shliya/Tench: The unique psak of the Baal Shem 

The Ramban’s definition and experiment 

The Nodeh Beyehuda’s grand heter

Ahron Charaner and the “Tik Fish” controversy 

Reb Yitzchok Grishiver , the Nodeh Beyhuda’s “chazara” and R Shmuel Landau’s fiery response 

The ensuing controversy and motives revealed

When emes is sheker and sheker is emes - Reb Akiva, the Chassam Sofer,   and Reb Yaakov Kamanetsky

Intentional vs inadvertent - The Monsey shechita fraud of 2006

The  story of the Baal Hatenya’s geziera and the incredible discovery of R Akiva Eiger

The Chasam Sofer’s psak halacha on the physical difference between a Jew vs non Jew 

Blood transfusions from a non Jew: the psak of the Chelkas Yaakov, and the extraordinary story with Ponevezher rav’s transfusion in Mount Sinai NYC 

Eating fish on shabbos d’oraisah? The Tzemach Tzedek’s boycott

DISCLAIMER: CONSULT WITH YOUR RAV BEFORE ACTING UPON MATTERS DISCUSSED IN THIS EPISODE.

The  Tannah Reb Elazar collaborating with local authorities

When mesira is a mitzva: the opinion of the Rashba

Reb Elyashiv's teshuva to the Badei Hashulchan on Mesira "Lesheim tikkun olam"

Killling Terrorists as Mosrim

Next episode (coming on Wednesday): The story of the movement to blow shofar on shabbos

Mutilation vs killing

The Chazon Ish’s progressive psak

Moser - the great exception

The Czar Nikolai investigation that led to the Ruzhiner’s lengthy imprisonment 

Coming next week: Part III - The Rabbanim that sit on the Israeli Supreme Court

- Beis din and their diminished power

- The Mesora from the Geonim

- The woeful story of Yannai Hamelech

- Shimon Ben Shetach's unique rule and grand rectification

Coming Next Week: Beis Din in the Modern Era - Part II

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