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In our fourth Tehilim shiur (12/3/20 at YBT), we continued our analysis Tehilim 146, developing the ideas we had last time and bringing them to a polished state.
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מקורות:
תהלים קמו
ירמיהו יז:ה-ח
ירמיהו - תהלים קמו
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If you're interested in a written version of this shiur, check out this article.

If you missed the crash-course on "How to Learn Tehilim," here are links to the YouTube video, the podcast episode, and the written version.

Here's another article I wrote entitled How TO and How NOT to Apply Tehilim to Your Life.

Lastly, here's an article I wrote entitled How to Say Tehilim for the Sick Without Violating Halacha.
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In our third Tehilim shiur (12/1/20 at YBT), we applied our "Adler's Four Questions" and "Pivot Point" methods to Tehilim 146. This, too, should be a familiar perek, since we say it after Ashrei every morning. But in all of your recitations, have you noticed the pivot point? And if you did, have you thought about its implications? In this first shiur we develop a general approach to the perek. Next time we will refine it and bring it hope, God willing.
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מקורות:
תהלים קמו
ירמיהו יז:ה-ח
ירמיהו - תהלים קמו
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If you missed the crash-course on "How to Learn Tehilim," here are links to the YouTube video, the podcast episode, and the written version.

Here's another article I wrote entitled How TO and How NOT to Apply Tehilim to Your Life.

Lastly, here's an article I wrote entitled How to Say Tehilim for the Sick Without Violating Halacha.
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If you have questions, comments, or feedback, I would love to hear from you! Please feel free to contact me at rabbischneeweiss at gmail.
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In our second Tehilim shiur (11/24/20 at YBT), we applied our "Adler's Four Questions" and "Pivot Point" methods (discussed in our "How to Learn Tehilim Crash Course") to Tehilim 23. Although this is a familiar perek, it proved to be a surprisingly difficult to crack. The smoothest approach I've found is that of the Ibn Ezra - albeit slightly modified, with help from the Rambam.
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מקורות:
תהלים כג
אבן עזרא - תהלים כג
רמב"ם - מורה הנבוכים ג:יב
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For a write-up of the shiur, which went further than the shiur itself, here's a link to the article.

If you missed the crash-course on "How to Learn Tehilim," here are links to the YouTube video, the podcast episode, and the written version.

Here's another article I wrote entitled How TO and How NOT to Apply Tehilim to Your Life.

Lastly, here's an article I wrote entitled How to Say Tehilim for the Sick Without Violating Halacha.
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If you have questions, comments, or feedback, I would love to hear from you! Please feel free to contact me at rabbischneeweiss at gmail.
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"The Mishlei Podcast": https://mishlei.buzzsprout.com
"The Stoic Jew" Podcast: https://thestoicjew.buzzsprout.com
"Rambam Bekius" Podcast: https://rambambekius.buzzsprout.com
"Machshavah Lab" Podcast: https://machshavahlab.buzzsprout.com 
"The Tefilah Podcast": https://tefilah.buzzsprout.com
Our Yeshiva: https://www.yeshivabneitorah.org/
Our Women's Program: https://www.lomdeha.org/

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Tonight, in our first official Tehilim shiur (11/19/20 at YBT), we applied our "Adler's Four Questions" and "Pivot Point" methods (discussed in our "How to Learn Tehilim Crash Course") to the familiar Tehilim 92. We emerged with a nice idea, and saw the methodology in action.

For a write-up of the shiur, which went further than the shiur itself, check out my blog post: https://kolhaseridim.blogspot.com/2018/06/tehilim-92-mizmor-shir-lyom-hashabbos.html

If you missed the crash-course on "How to Learn Tehilim," here are links to the YouTube video, the podcast episode, and the written version.

Here's another article I wrote entitled How TO and How NOT to Apply Tehilim to Your Life.

Lastly, here's an article I wrote entitled How to Say Tehilim for the Sick Without Violating Halacha.
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מקורות:
תהלים צב
רד"ק - תהלים צב
כוזרי ג:יא:כב-כה
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Tonight (11/17/20) in YBT I gave the introductory session of a shiur in Tehilim I'll be giving on Tuesday and Thursday nights, instead of my Koheles class. In this "crash course" I go over some introductory points about Tehilim and present an overview of the three methods I use when learning Tehilim. Note that this is just a "crash course." The real learning begins on Thursday!

For a written version of this shiur, check out this article I wrote on my blog: https://kolhaseridim.blogspot.com/2018/06/how-to-learn-tehilim-psalms.html
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Tonight's tefilah shiur (11/16/20 at YBT) was different. I found out last night that my great-aunt - Sister Susan, a Catholic nun - died from COVID-19 at the age of 93. Half an hour before the shiur my mom sent me a newspaper clipping from when Sister Susan retired after 44 years of service with the Sisters of Social Service (a convent which, during World War II, is credited with saving the lives of over a thousand Jews from Nazi persecution). This clipping contained a short quotation from Sister Susan about prayer. I decided to start our tefilah shiur tonight by discussing that quotation and its implications. This turned into a whole discussion about how we can improve our davening, and the discussion was very productive. I barely knew Sister Susan, but I am grateful that her words led to tonight's shiur.
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In tonight's tefilah shiur (11/9/20 at YBT) we analyzed the mishnah's statement that "one should only daven from a state of submissiveness." We learned the Gemara in light of the context of the pesukim it cited and arrived at three possibilities for the type of submissiveness that the halacha requires.
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מקורות:
תלמוד בבלי מסכת ברכות דף ל עמוד ב עם פירוש רש"י
תהלים פרק ב עם פירוש הרד"ק
א' שמואל פרק א, ב:א-ב
תהלים פרק ה
תהלים פרק כט
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We ended off last time with a bunch of questions on the (now obsolete) Hiskabdu Mechubadim Kedoshim. Tonight (10/26/20 at YBT) we attempted to answer those questions on behalf of the Rambam. We realize that these answers don't work according to most of the other Rishonim and Achronim, but we think that this approach is at least a reasonable possibility for the Rambam himself. I guess you'll be the judge of that!
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מקורות:
תלמוד בבלי מסכת ברכות דף ס עמוד ב
רמב"ם, ספר אהבה, הלכות תפלה וברכת כהנים ז:ו
רמב"ם, ספר אהבה, הלכות תפילין ומזוזה וספר תורה ה:ד; ו:יג
רמב"ם, ספר קדושה, הלכות שחיטה יד:טז
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Before we analyzed Asher Yatzar (i.e. the "prayer after using the bathroom") we thought it would be prudent to learn Hiskabdu Mechubadim (i.e. the "prayer before using the bathroom"). In this shiur (given on 10/19/20 at YBT) we learned through the main source, raised the major questions and problems, and then gave a rudimentary definition of malachim which only strengthed these questions. Hopefully we'll be able to answer them next time!
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מקורות:
תלמוד בבלי מסכת ברכות דף ס עמוד ב
רמב"ם - פירוש המשניות, סנהדרין הקדמה לפרק חלק
רמב"ם - משנה תורה, ספר המדע, הלכות עבודה זרה ב:א
רמב"ם - מורה הנבוכים ב:ו; ג:כב
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This is Part 2 of our analysis (given on 9/24/20 at YBT) of the first bakashah that we add into the amidah during the Aseres Ymei Teshuvah, in which we answer the questions we raised yesterday.
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מקורות:
ספר אבודרהם סדר תפלת ראש השנה
ר"י בר יקר סדר תפלת ראש השנה
מלאכי ג:יג-כא
רד"ק מלאכי ג:יג-כא
יחזקאל יח:כא-לב
ישעיהו מח:א-יא
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"The Tefilah Podcast": https://tefilah.buzzsprout.com
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