Q&A- Mazal, Korbanos & Cherem

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00:00 What is the classical understanding of the size of the letters in Megillas Esther before 1945? 

 

04:10 Why couldn’t Gd just give us Israel uninhabited? Why did we have to fight for it? 

 

08:12 What is the origin of the Reisha and the Seifa in a Mishna?

 

13:32 Is there any issue with having a temporary bima in a shul?

 

19:13 How does it make sense that we’re commanded to love Hashem? 

 

26:00 In terms of kavod of Torah and Beis Midrash, what’s halachically acceptable to help you stay awake or otherwise? 

 

29:34 There are 72 3-letter names of Gd. Which names were written on the Urim v Turim? 

 

31:37 How do we understand the point of existence without having eaten from the Etz HaDa’as?

 

37:20 What is the importance of saying the recitation of Korbanos? 

 

40:55 How should a mainstream Yeshiva handle a former Talmid who is mchalel mitzvos bfarhesia by leading a publicly homesexual lifestyle, but expresses a genuine interest in attending an alumni Shabbos and will actually keep that Shabbos properly. On one hand, this may send a bad message to the attendees and their kids, but on the other hand he will keep that Shabbos and will have a better shaichus to Torah. What should they do? Is it worth having him?

 

43:58 What exactly does the term “mazal” mean? 

 

53:32 What exactly did it mean to learn Torah before Chumash and Mishna?

 

56:52 What was the source of Kabbalah before Chumash/Zohar? 

 

58:55 How could Jews derive certain laws without the Torah itself? 

 

1:03:16 What is the purpose of the activity of the deep ocean in relation to Jewish avoda?

 

1:07:14 What was part of the tefillin before Moshe?

 

1:09:32 How do we understand or accept the grandchildren of a Rasha teaching Torah?

 

1:14:45 Is there Teshuva for non-Jews?

 

1:17:40 Why do we sometimes switch Chazzanim at Yishtabach?

 

1:19:36 Do nidoi and cherem apply today?

 

1:22:58 Why does Hashem put special needs children in the world?

 

1:24:48 What are the specifics of the cherem from the GRA to the chassidim? 

 

1:30:20 Kosher phones in Israel?

 

1:32:34 If the GRA considers our universe absent of G-d, how would he see the idea of Hashem Echod? 

 

1:36:31 Why did Hashem make angels? 

 

1:38:54 What is the argument of tucking peyos behind the ear?

 

1:39:57 Rav Breitowitz talks on a question from last week regarding someone’s mission in life vs. learning Torah. 

 

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