Episodes

  • Nostalgia for Chezkas Habatim. Rav Yisroel Labkowski Weaves His Magic
    Feb 16 2025

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    • Explanation of Chezkas Habatim.
    • How does one keep their property while gone?
    • How long does someone need to keep their documentation of a property purchase?
    • If the person eats Orlah, Shevi'is, or Kilayim does that count as a Chazakah?
    • Can you make a Brocho on forbidden foods?
    • Does one have Hana'ah from forbidden foods?
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    1 hr and 24 mins
  • Cannibalism, and the Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571
    Feb 14 2025

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    • Are Mitzvos Aseh greater than Lo Saaseh?
    • Can you physically force someone to do an Aseh / not do a Lo Saaseh?
    • If yes, only before they commit the sin or only during?
    • Logic of "Aseh Docheh Lo Saaseh"
    • Tevel vs Neveilah - Tevel vs Shmita - Neveilah vs Shmita
    • What is the prohibition of eating human flesh, if any?
    • Is human blood or milk kosher?
    • Human flesh (Yid vs Goy) vs pig vs Neveilah.
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    1 hr and 34 mins
  • The Atheists Have a Field Day With This Bahag.
    Feb 10 2025

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    • Rambam vs bahag if there is a mitzvah to believe in Hashem.
    • Opinions of Sefer Hachinuch, Semag, Semak, Rashi.
    • The Netziv's take
    • The Megillas Esther defends the Rambam
    • The Abarbanel's proof
    • Tzemach Tzedek takes it to a new level.
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    1 hr and 29 mins
  • Black Magic and the Rambam
    Jan 26 2025

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    • Does Black Magic and Kishuf really exist?
    • Rambam vs Ramban
    • Meiri explains the relevent Gemorahs
    • Maase Rokeach, the Munkatcher, & The Rebbe explain that by believing in it it makes it real
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    1 hr and 28 mins
  • Moshe Rabenu's "Painting" Wreaks Havoc Between the Litvaks and the Chassidim
    Jan 17 2025

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    • The great controversy over the story of Moshe brought by the Tiferes Yisroel
    • Did it happen? Is it a Moshol? Is it OK to even see it as a Moshol?
    • Was Moshe a Tzadik from birth?
    • Did Moshe need to conquer his Yetzer Hara?
    • The phenomenon of face reading.
    • Reconciling Moshe's great qualities at birth (house filling with light, etc.)
    • Is it OK to say you want to kill, steal, etc. and only avoid because Hashem said so?
    • New explanation of "Moshe's face shone"
    • Why the rebbe sided with the Litvaks
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    1 hr and 27 mins
  • Reb Shlomo Molcho and the Ten Martyrs. The Kabbalists Will Blow Your Mind!
    Jan 5 2025
    Source sheet History and life of R' Shlomo Molcho The Mishnas Chassidim and R Yehuda Ben Bava Yibum the source of Gilgulim Weren't only 9 of the Shvatim involved in selling Yosef? Why did it take so many years for the Shvatim to be atoned? Did the Asara Harugai Malchus actually die? Did Yosef ever forgive his brothers? Did Reuven & Yaakov ever find out what happened to Yosef?
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    1 hr and 27 mins
  • Chanukah's Mysterious Ramoh: The Rosh (Rav Schochet) Dazzles Again
    Dec 29 2024

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    • What does it mean Mehadrin and Megadrin Min Hamehadrin?
    • Does beautifying a Mitzvah need to be done while still involved in the Mitzvah?
    • The Gri"z connects this to the Rambam's opinion on Menorah
    • R' Avraham of Prague explains Tosfos opinion would change today when we light inside instead of outside..
    • If you forget to make the Bracha on the first candle, can you make it on a later candle?
    • Is the obligation to light Menorah an obligation on the house or on the person?
    • The Rosh (Rav Schochet)'s Chiddush resolving the Rambam and Ramoh's opinions
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    1 hr and 30 mins
  • The Battle of the Titans. Shulchan Aruch HaRav vs Aruch Hashulchan.
    Dec 22 2024

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    • History of Halachic Seforim through the ages
    • Can you make up for missed Tefilos?
    • How far back can you make up?
    • Which Amida should you do first?
    • How do you make up for a day with Ya'aleh V'yavo?
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    1 hr and 32 mins