July 16, 2023 · 01:36:39
This Tisha B'av, join Rabbi Breitowitz reading and explaining Kinnos followed by a day of Shiurim at ohr.edu. For dedication opportunities email [email protected] This episode is dedicated as a zechus for the health and well being of Yehuda Ben Miriam and Victoria 00:00 Why are Zimri and Cozbi only mentioned as an afterthought, and why is the vav of 'shalom' incomplete? 07:08 How would Jews calculate zmanim in a submarine, and if there had been Jews on the Titan, would their wives have been allowed to remarry? 14:28 Why is spirituality so delicate and vulnerable? 20:19 How could an entire species be forbidden because of idolatrous use, as in the case of cocoa when it was first discovered? 24:37 What is the story of the Ten Lost Tribes? 32:56 When the gemara says that nothing treif comes from heaven, does that include the creations of heaven? 34:03 What is a possible source for yoetzet halacha? 42:55 How could the Benjaminites take women from Shiloh and Yavesh Gilead? 46:52 Is it bitul Torah to travel, and will Jews in the Messianic Era take vacations? 54:04 How does the Ramban understand the gemara that Israel heard 611 mitzvos from Moshe? 58:35 Is one allowed to enter a Buddhist temple? 1:01:05 How were nusachot made, and can one do so today? 1:08:30 How did those at the time of Chazal know when the zmanim were? 1:11:11 Why not start our mourning period from the 9th of Tammuz? 1:15:35 What is the source for long peyos, and why do so many do it? 1:16:52 What is the heter for c