Q&A- Therapy, Censorship, and the Literal Ages of Torah Personalities

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00:00 What happened with Yehuda HaNasi’s grave?

 

00:17 Is therapy effective?

 

05:37 is one allowed to gamble in a casino or just with friends?

 

15:07 Excluding mesora, how should one decide to follow Mishna Berura or Orach Hashulchan?

 

21:03 Jews can’t go into churches for no reason. If a Jew is visiting Rome or a place where churches are like museums, what is the Halacha?

 

31:09 Is it permissible to make a powdered soup on Shabbat with a Kli shishi?

 

38:40 Is there an issue of giving respect to a place like the Sistine Chapel or the like?

 

42:33 What is the definition of Bitul Torah?

 

54:30 What is the Rav’s opinion on censorship?

 

1:14:50 Are Chazal censored?

 

1:16:38 Why does Lecha Dodi mention SHAMOR before ZACHOR when it’s opposite in the Torah itself?

 

1:18:01 Some Jews cut out verses of Lecha Dodi, why?

 

1:19:42 How do we explain machloket in the Gemara when there was a mesora from Rebbe?

 

1:23:37 What happens when we don’t posken like a Mishna?

 

1:26:23 We are given different ages of people in Tanach, should we take them literally?

 

1:29:20 If you’re sitting in shachris Shabbos morning, and a person you know to have been born a woman sits down next to you, what should you do?

 

1:36:13 Are children below 13/12 obligated in middos? 

 

1:39:15 What does it mean that Avraham was blessed “BAKOL” exactly, and what gives the right to the Ibn Ezra to give his opinion about the grammar of the pasuk?

 

1:44:22 What if a one’s parents don’t keep Shabbos?

 

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