Yeshayah, Week 35: 22:8-25 - The Fall of Jerusalem / Shevna - Nov 12, 2019 - Yeshayah criticizes Yerushalayim for failure to look to Gd as they prepare their defenses against Assyria, and predicts a disgraceful downfall. Shevna "over the house" is headed for a fall - but who is he?

Legal Ethics: Avoiding Sharp Practice - Nov 11, 2019 - Why is it wrong for a lawyer to take advantage of errors that don't go to the merits of a case? How do the rules change if the opposing party is self-represented? With the perspectives of both Torah and secular legal thought.

Bava Metzia Perek 6: Poel vs Eved, Part 2 - Nov 8, 2019 - Part 2 of an anticipated 3 on the similarities and differences of (1) the relationship between an eved ivri (Jewish slave) and an adon, and (2) the relationship between a poel (employee) and an employer. Looking at the views that a poel is not a form of eved, and therefore he may leave his job, and that he is similar enough to an eved that we are afraid of the similiarity and therefore we guarantee his ability to leave. Also: Definition of the poel-employer relationship. And does a poel have the ability to forfeit the right to leave?

Maaseh Avot Siman laBanim: Becoming Our Parents or Our Children? - Nov 7, 2019 - Exploring the midrashic concept that events recur across a family's generations. Is this a bond legitimizing the next generation, a way in which the previous generation paves the way for the next, or an opportunity for the next generation to build on the acts of the previous one?

Shemuel #41 - 13:3-14: War Begins; Shaul's Error (#1) - Nov 7, 2019 - Why did Yehonatan kill the Plishti governor? And why did Shaul bring the korban too early?

Life After Death, Week 1: What is the Soul? - Nov 6, 2019 - An introduction to the biblical presentation of the Soul, and what it does. The idea of a soul which both animates the body and has an independent role leads to the logical conclusion that its beginning and end need not match those of the body. Geared toward a group including people without strong background in Torah text study.

Shoftim 5:1-12 - Women and War; Devorah's Song - Nov 5, 2019 - The halachic questions surrounding Devorah's role in the military camp and Yael's execution of Sisera; the first half of Devorah's poem.

Two Jews in a Bad Neighourhood - Nov 5, 2019 - What was the meaning of Hashem's command to Avraham and Sarah to "be a blessing" for the nations of Canaan? Essentially the same material is in the "Be a Berachah" shiur of 5779, but geared toward a crowd including people without strong background in Torah text study.

Yeshayah, Week 34: 22:1-7 - The Fall of Jerusalem to Assyria? - Nov 5, 2019 - Introduction to Chapter 22: Chizkiyahu's defense of Assyria, and Michah's successful message to Chizkiyahu. Yeshayahu condemns the cowardice of the defenders of Jerusalem.

Bava Metzia Perek 6: Poel vs Eved, Part 1 - Nov 1, 2019 - Part 1 of an anticipated 3 on the similarities and differences of (1) the relationship between an eved ivri (Jewish slave) and an adon, and (2) the relationship between a poel (employee) and an employer. Looking at the view that a poel is a form of eved, and therefore he may leave his job, forfeiting salary, just as an eved can buy out the rest of his servitude.