Q&A- Halacha in Space, Basketball on Shabbos & Jewish Astrology

00:00 What is the Halacha on zmanim in space?

 

4:59 Why do some mishnayos not have Gemaras included with them?

 

15:02 Did people live outside of Garden of Eden alongside or before Adam and Chava (according to a Midrash)?

 

19:15 How do we understand the statement “the world was created for me” (in Sanhendrin)?

 

25:56 Are there any issues with playing basketball on Shabbat?

 

29:44 How do we reconstruct musical sounds from Tehilim?

 

34:42 What’s the Rav’s opinion on not letting a student of Baruch Spinoza enter a shul? 

 

42:08 Why did Hashem created the world in stages and not all at once?

 

44:23 Does a Charem apply to the talmidim of the person with the charem?

 

45:20 Shouldn’t goyim be chayev in brachot (because it would be stealing)? 

 

49:22 Why are there different shapes of menorahs? 

 

55:16 If the Torah is a “blueprint for life,” why doesn’t the Torah explain how to stay physically healthy? 

 

57:25 Is it lying to state an earlier time for an event when I know people will be late?

 

1:00:00 Is there a source that states that Israel belongs to the children of Shem?

 

1:04:05 Who was Agripas HaMelech?

 

1:09:09 Wouldn’t we make Aaron HaKohen the Kohen gadol rather than current gadolim of todays world? 

 

1:12:39 What does the Torah say about dinosaurs and the like?

 

1:16:42 Is Jewish astrology real?

 

1:21:45 Why would Hashem keep destroying and rebuilding the earth?

 

1:24:44 Is having anxiety a lack of faith in Hashem?

 

1:26:55 Is it possible for someone to come back in a GilGul of a person who completed their tachlus?

 

1:30:46 If everything is from Hashem, how do we explain the seeming autonomy of the Satan and the like?

 

1:34:45 Who is Mashiach Ben Yosef?

 

1:40:22 How do we explain the structures of the pyramids?

 

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