Halachah in Healthcare Settings 18a: Shabbat Candles in the Hospital, Part 2 - May 27, 2024 - A chabura on practical medical halachah, building from the sources toward the conclusions of the Nishmat Avraham. Lighting in a hospital bed, lighting when one cannot or will not benefit from the light, lighting and moving the candles.

Nechemiah Mini-Shiur Part 1: Meet Nechemiah - May 27, 2024 - A daily mini-shiur on the book of Ezra, in the merit of the soldiers of the IDF, as well as the hostages and the wounded. Who is Nechemiah?

Fourteen Centuries #19: Rav Shemuel bar Chofni, Part 1 - May 26, 2024 - Rav Shemuel ben Chofni, Gaon of Sura in the 10th-11th centuries. Note: The history is more overview than granular, and certainly not academic.

Ezra Mini-Shiur Part 46: 10:23-44 - The Conclusion - May 26, 2024 - A daily mini-shiur on the book of Ezra, in the merit of the soldiers of the IDF, as well as the hostages and the wounded. A roster of the intermarried families; why is this recorded here? And a remarkable letter of the Netziv.

Ezra Mini-Shiur Part 45: 10:15-18 - Starting the Separation - May 24, 2024 - A daily mini-shiur on the book of Ezra, in the merit of the soldiers of the IDF, as well as the hostages and the wounded. Ezra starts separating those who have intermarried - including the sons of the kohen gadol?

Our Mending Walls - May 23, 2024 - Derashah for Parshat Behar 5784. Robert Frost's Mending Wall includes the advice, "Good fences make good neigbors." Which walls are bad (surrounding our fields during shemitah, the walls blocking a walled city from the fields outside), and which walls are good (Yerushalayim, chuppah, succah)? Walls defining a collaborative unit and enabling propinquity vs. Walls that exclude those who belong within.

Ezra Mini-Shiur Part 44: 10:5-14 - Ezra Calls for Action - May 22, 2024 - A daily mini-shiur on the book of Ezra, in the merit of the soldiers of the IDF, as well as the hostages and the wounded. Ezra calls a convocation and demands that the intermarried couples separate - but it's cold and rainy outside.

Ezra Mini-Shiur Part 43: 10:3-4 - Matrilineal Descent? - May 22, 2024 - A daily mini-shiur on the book of Ezra, in the merit of the soldiers of the IDF, as well as the hostages and the wounded. Why didn't Ezra promote conversion for the non-Jewish women who married Jewish men? And why did Ezra remove the children of those marriages, but not of marriages of Jewish women and non-Jewish men?

Bava Metzia 83 - May 21, 2024 - Exaggeration, liability for workplace accidents, Lifnim mishurat hadin, working hours, policing Jews on behalf of the government and much more!

Ezra Mini-Shiur Part 42: 10:1-4 - Shechanyah to the Rescue - May 20, 2024 - A daily mini-shiur on the book of Ezra, in the merit of the soldiers of the IDF, as well as the hostages and the wounded. Shechanyah ben Yechiel urges Ezra to act!