Yeshiva of Newark Podcast

With such a polarized world overwhelming measured voices and patient logic, Rabbi Kalman Worch,-Co host of the Chavrusaand acclaimed translator of the Bnei Yessaschar presents a series culled from our history and vast Rabbinic literature to help lower the temperature.We thank the Illinois Center for Jewish Studies for the use of this materialPlease leave us a review or email us at [email protected]  This podcast has been graciously sponsored by JewishPodcasts.fm. There is much overhead to maintain this service so please help us continue our goal of helping Jewish lecturers become podcasters and support us with a donation: https://thechesedfund.com/jewishpodcasts/donate

Rabbi Aryeh Klapper is Dean of the Center for Modern Torah Leadership, Rosh Beit Midrash of its Summer Beit Midrash Program and a member of the Boston Beit Din.       Rabbi Klapper is a widely published author in prestigious Hebrew and English journals. He is frequently consulted on issues of Jewish law from representatives of all streams of Judaism and responds from an explicit and uncompromised Orthodox stance.       The Yeshiva of Newark @IDT is proud to partner with Rabbi Klapper to help spread his scholarly thoughtful ideas and Halachic insight to as wide an audience as possible .                       Please visit       http://www.torahleadership.org/       for many more articles and audio classes from Rav Klapper and to find out about his Summer programs as well as Rabbi Klapper's own podcast site       https://anchor.fm/aryeh-klapper.                       Please leave us a review or email us at [email protected] This podcast is powered by Jewish Podcasts. Start your own podcast today and share your content with the world. Click here to get started.  This podcast has been graciously sponsored by JewishPodcasts.fm. There is much overhead to maintain this service so please help us continue our goal of helping Jewish lecturers become podcasters and support us with a donation: https://thechesedfund.com/jewishpodcasts/donate

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As great sections of the world move out of the shadow of the Covid-19 Pandemic   The Issur Ben Tzvi Hersh   Tshuvos and Poskim Shiur   Of the Yeshiva of Newark@IDT examined one of the most difficult medical ethical questions that Corona spawned In light of one of the most familiar Aggadic sections of the Talmud   King David has Died! Long live our ICU patients The episode features readings in The Talmud Bavli and Yerushalmi   Statements of Rav Shlomo ben Shimon Duran Biurim of The Chasam Sofer explanations of Rav Avraham Yitzchak HaKohen Kook Psakim of Rav Moshe Feinstein Clarifications of Rav Zalman Nechemiah Goldberg זצוק'ל זי'ע And the courageous directives from Rav Herschel Schachter Shlit”a  This podcast has been graciously sponsored by JewishPodcasts.fm. There is much overhead to maintain this service so please help us continue our goal of helping Jewish lecturers become podcasters and support us with a donation: https://thechesedfund.com/jewishpodcasts/donate

An interview program that seeks to pick the brain of one of the most influential Rabbinic figures of North America. Rabbi Reuben Joshua Poupko has been the Rabbi of Beth Israel Beth Aaron Congregation in Montreal for over 30 years.  This podcast has been graciously sponsored by JewishPodcasts.fm. There is much overhead to maintain this service so please help us continue our goal of helping Jewish lecturers become podcasters and support us with a donation: https://thechesedfund.com/jewishpodcasts/donate

'This podcast is operated with the activity of Rabbi Kolakowski as a private individual and not as a representative of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the Department of Corrections, or any facility, bureau or office thereof. None of the statements, representations, viewpoints, images or other media contained herein has been sanctioned, approved or endorsed by the Commonwealth or the Department. Nothing contained herein should be deemed to represent the official views of the Commonwealth or the Department.'   This podcast has been graciously sponsored by JewishPodcasts.fm. There is much overhead to maintain this service so please help us continue our goal of helping Jewish lecturers become podcasters and support us with a donation: https://thechesedfund.com/jewishpodcasts/donate

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An unrealistic optimistic stance is a common response to challenges and crises. R. Kivelevitz points to the general Israeli reaction to recent group accident tragedies among Israeli Haredim and the odd oblivious reaction in the victims’ cohorts. Prof. Juni adds to the mix the Israeli pattern of reckless driving and the fact that many are unfazed by the chronic threat from Gaza. He outlines the classic developmental understanding of positivity in people as based on the childhood experience of the omnipotent father who can do anything. As the child matures and realizes that he or she is not under comprehensive protection, this attitude of absolute trust in powerful others continues even when there are no concrete powerful others around. Indeed, Dr. Juni points out that this attitude becomes amalgamated into a religious perspective that G-d is in absolute control of everything around us. Rabbi K. points out that classic Theological thinkers in Judaism actually see childhood omnipotent beliefs as the basis of orthodox Jewish theology. The discussants explore other understandings of reckless practices among many cultures. One idea advanced is that in pre-scientific times, people have no idea of physical causality, and therefore evinced a general model of unrealistic positivity – – which was then incorporated into general culture and religion. In other strains of thought among certain groups, is that belief in good outcomes somehow causes those very outcomes, a notion evident in the “Think well, and it shall be good” bumper stickers throughout religious communities. A theological train of thought is explored based on religious belief in Divine micromanagement which can be seen either as absolute trust that G-d will bring only positivity, but it is also expressed as fatalism in some, implying that we might as well not do anything because we cannot change anything. Finally, the historical origins of Jewish life for hundreds of years is discussed, noting that the only possible defense Jews had in their experience with countless uncontrollable programs was the defense of denial, and that this stance has continued even when denial became necessary and non-functional. R. Kivelevitz concludes that constant focus on possible dangers and disasters would be paralyzing and incapacitating, so that some degree of optimism and ignoring potential dangers is crucial for “normal“ living, and that we must balance caution with optimism (even if the optimism is sometimes unwarranted) in order to maintain our daily lives. In this vein, certain risks are warranted and even required so that individuals and societies can exist and thrive.  Doctor Samuel Juni is one of the foremost research psychologists in the world today. He has published groundbreaking original research in seventy different peer reviewed journals, and is cited continuously with respect by colleagues and experts in the field who have built on his theories and observations. Samuel Juni studied in Yeshivas Chaim Berlin under Rav Yitzchack Hutner, and in Yeshiva University as a Talmid of Rav Joseph Dov Soloveitchick. Professor Juni is a prominent member of the Association of Orthodox Jewish Scientists, and has regularly presented addresses to captivated audiences. Associated with NYU since 1979, Juni has served as Director of MA and PhD programs, all the while heading teams engaged in important research. Professor Juni's scholarship on aberrant behavior across the cultural, ethnic, and religious spectrum is founded on psychometric methodology and based on a psycho-dynamic psychopathology perspective. He is arguably the preeminent expert in Differential Diagnostics, with each of his myriad studies entailing parallel efforts in theory construction and empirical data collection from normative and clinical populations. Professor Juni created and directed NYU's Graduate Program in Tel Aviv titled Cross-Cultural Group Dynamics in Stressful Environments. Based in Yerushalayim, he collaborates with Israeli academic and mental health specialists in the study of dissonant factors and tensions in the Arab-Israeli conflict and those within the Orthodox Jewish community, while exploring personality challenges of second-generation Holocaust survivors. Below is a partial list of the journals to which Professor Juni has contributed over 120 articles. Many are available on line Journal of Forensic Psychology Journal of Aggression, Maltreatment, and Trauma. International Review of Victimology The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease International Forum of Psychoanalysis Journal of Personality Assessment Journal of Abnormal Psychology Journal of Psychoanalytic Anthropology Psychophysiology Psychology and Human Development Journal of Sex Research Journal of Psychology and Judaism Contemporary Family Therapy American Journal on Addictions Journal of Criminal Psychology Mental Health, Religion & Culture As Rosh Beis Medrash, Rabbi Avraham Kivelevitz serves as Rav and Posek for the mo

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With such a polarized world overwhelming measured voices and patient logic, Rabbi Kalman Worch,-Co host of the Chavrusaand acclaimed translator of the Bnei Yessaschar presents a series culled from our history and vast Rabbinic literature to help lower the temperature.We thank the Illinois Center for Jewish Studies for the use of this materialPlease leave us a review or email us at [email protected] This podcast is powered by Jewish Podcasts. Start your own podcast today and share your content with the world. Click here to get started.   This podcast has been graciously sponsored by JewishPodcasts.fm. There is much overhead to maintain this service so please help us continue our goal of helping Jewish lecturers become podcasters and support us with a donation: https://thechesedfund.com/jewishpodcasts/donate

Well crafted insights from one of the United States' most important Jewish educatorsThis podcast is powered by Jewish Podcasts. Start your own podcast today and share your content with the world. Click here to get started.  This podcast has been graciously sponsored by JewishPodcasts.fm. There is much overhead to maintain this service so please help us continue our goal of helping Jewish lecturers become podcasters and support us with a donation: https://thechesedfund.com/jewishpodcasts/donate

Is it permitted to take vitamins on Shabbos? Does it matter whether the vitamins are taken to treat a medical condition, or simply strengthen a person who is feeling weak?   The Yeshiva of Newark is proud to partner with Dayan Schaffel and the Chicago Choshen Mishpat Kollel of which he is a senior member,to help spread his scholarly thoughtful ideas and Halachic insight to an audience that appreciates well researched measured responses in these novel times.  This podcast has been graciously sponsored by JewishPodcasts.fm. There is much overhead to maintain this service so please help us continue our goal of helping Jewish lecturers become podcasters and support us with a donation: https://thechesedfund.com/jewishpodcasts/donate

Kings and servants, husbands and wives. What metaphors can still be used for the relationship between God and man? Rabbi Nataf diggs into an insight from Rabbi Shlomo Wolbe, z'l.  Rabbi Francis Nataf is a respected educator, writer and thinker, well known for his ability to find new ways of looking at text and tradition. He is the author of the groundbreaking book on the Torah Redeeming Relevance. The Yeshiva of Newark @IDT is proud to partner with Rav Nataf to help spread his important messages to as wide an audience as possible . Please visit https://anchor.fm/francis-nataf/episodes for an unedited version of this episode and https://francisnataf.wordpress.com/ for many more articles and audio classes from Rabbi Nataf. Please leave us a review or email us at [email protected] This podcast is powered by JewishPodcasts.org. Start your own podcast today and share your content with the world. Click jewishpodcasts.fm/signup to get started.This podcast is powered by Jewish Podcasts. Start your own podcast today and share your content with the world. Click here to get started.  This podcast has been graciously sponsored by JewishPodcasts.fm. There is much overhead to maintain this service so please help us continue our goal of helping Jewish lecturers become podcasters and support us with a donation: https://thechesedfund.com/jewishpodcasts/donate

Rabbi Aryeh Klapper is Dean of the Center for Modern Torah Leadership, Rosh Beit Midrash of its Summer Beit Midrash Program and a member of the Boston Beit Din.       Rabbi Klapper is a widely published author in prestigious Hebrew and English journals. He is frequently consulted on issues of Jewish law from representatives of all streams of Judaism and responds from an explicit and uncompromised Orthodox stance.       The Yeshiva of Newark @IDT is proud to partner with Rabbi Klapper to help spread his scholarly thoughtful ideas and Halachic insight to as wide an audience as possible .                       Please visit       http://www.torahleadership.org/       for many more articles and audio classes from Rav Klapper and to find out about his Summer programs as well as Rabbi Klapper's own podcast site       https://anchor.fm/aryeh-klapper.                       Please leave us a review or email us at [email protected] This podcast is powered by Jewish Podcasts. Start your own podcast today and share your content with the world. Click here to get started.   This podcast has been graciously sponsored by JewishPodcasts.fm. There is much overhead to maintain this service so please help us continue our goal of helping Jewish lecturers become podcasters and support us with a donation: https://thechesedfund.com/jewishpodcasts/donate

Rabbi Aryeh Klapper is Dean of the Center for Modern Torah Leadership, Rosh Beit Midrash of its Summer Beit Midrash Program and a member of the Boston Beit Din.       Rabbi Klapper is a widely published author in prestigious Hebrew and English journals. He is frequently consulted on issues of Jewish law from representatives of all streams of Judaism and responds from an explicit and uncompromised Orthodox stance.       The Yeshiva of Newark @IDT is proud to partner with Rabbi Klapper to help spread his scholarly thoughtful ideas and Halachic insight to as wide an audience as possible .                       Please visit       http://www.torahleadership.org/       for many more articles and audio classes from Rav Klapper and to find out about his Summer programs as well as Rabbi Klapper's own podcast site       https://anchor.fm/aryeh-klapper.                       Please leave us a review or email us at [email protected] This podcast is powered by Jewish Podcasts. Start your own podcast today and share your content with the world. Click here to get started.   This podcast has been graciously sponsored by JewishPodcasts.fm. There is much overhead to maintain this service so please help us continue our goal of helping Jewish lecturers become podcasters and support us with a donation: https://thechesedfund.com/jewishpodcasts/donate

Rabbi Aryeh Klapper is Dean of the Center for Modern Torah Leadership, Rosh Beit Midrash of its Summer Beit Midrash Program and a member of the Boston Beit Din.   Rabbi Klapper is a widely published author in prestigious Hebrew and English journals. He is frequently consulted on issues of Jewish law from representatives of all streams of Judaism and responds from an explicit and uncompromised Orthodox stance.   The Yeshiva of Newark @IDT is proud to partner with Rabbi Klapper to help spread his scholarly thoughtful ideas and Halachic insight to as wide an audience as possible .           Please visit   http://www.torahleadership.org/   for many more articles and audio classes from Rav Klapper and to find out about his Summer programs as well as Rabbi Klapper's own podcast site   https://anchor.fm/aryeh-klapper.           Please leave us a review or email us at [email protected] This podcast is powered by Jewish Podcasts. Start your own podcast today and share your content with the world. Click here to get started.  This podcast has been graciously sponsored by JewishPodcasts.fm. There is much overhead to maintain this service so please help us continue our goal of helping Jewish lecturers become podcasters and support us with a donation: https://thechesedfund.com/jewishpodcasts/donate

 וְקִדַּשְׁתּוֹ כִּי אֶת לֶחֶם אֱלֹקִיךָ הוּא מַקְרִיב You must [strive to] keep him holy, since he presents the food offering to God.   Rashi וקדשתו    על כרחו, שאם לא רצה לגרש, הלקהו ויסרהו עד שיגרש:   You shall sanctify him: Against his will- [meaning], that if he refuses to divorce [such a woman, lash him and chastise him until he divorces [her]. —   The Issur Ben Tzvi Hersh   Tshuvos and Poskim Shiur   Of the Yeshiva of Newark@IDT Presented a discourse on an aspect of the Shidduch Crisis that demanded closer examination Marital options for the older Kohain in a diverse community The Shiur was dedicated to the memory and elias neshama of Yonason Abraham יונתן בנימין הכהן בן נחום אליהו   גאון במוחו וליבו שאף לאור תורתו וניצוצי שאר כני מנורתו נפש נדכאה בעול השׁתקקותו עמקותו המופלא במתק הסברו נפטר כ'ד תשרי תשסט יִשָּׁקֵנִי מִנְּשִׁיקוֹת פִּיהוּ כִּי טוֹבִים דֹּדֶיךָ מִיָּיִן שיר השירים פרק-א-ב     בְּדֶרֶךְ עֵדְוֹתֶיךָ שַׂשְׂתִּי כְּעַל כָּל הוֹן [תהילים פרק-קיט-יד] תנצבצ'ה   This episode features The Talmud and Rashi Rambam Tosfos Ritva Maharshdam Beis Shmuel Aruch HaShulchan Rav Yehuda Leib Tzirelsohn And the Tzitz Eliezer This podcast has been graciously sponsored by JewishPodcasts.fm. There is much overhead to maintain this service so please help us continue our goal of helping Jewish lecturers become podcasters and support us with a donation: https://thechesedfund.com/jewishpodcasts/donate

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Rabbi Worch-Co host of theChavrusaand acclaimed translator of theBnei Yessascharelaborates on two carefully selected sections from the famed Chasidic Rebbe and scholar,Rav Yehuda Aryeh Lev of Gur,culled from the classic workSefas Emes.Rabbi Worch brings out the important lessons ofAvodas Hashemthat are indicated by the novel interpretations ofChazaland thePesukimthat are suggested in the work.We thank the Illinois Center for Jewish Studies for the use of this material  This podcast has been graciously sponsored by JewishPodcasts.fm. There is much overhead to maintain this service so please help us continue our goal of helping Jewish lecturers become podcasters and support us with a donation: https://thechesedfund.com/jewishpodcasts/donate

Is it permitted to use various ploys and techniques to force a claimant to accept a compromise for less than the amount that is actually owed?  The Yeshiva of Newark is proud to partner with Dayan Schaffel and the Chicago Choshen Mishpat Kollel of which he is a senior member,to help spread his scholarly thoughtful ideas and Halachic insight to an audience that appreciates well researched measured responses in these novel times.  This podcast has been graciously sponsored by JewishPodcasts.fm. There is much overhead to maintain this service so please help us continue our goal of helping Jewish lecturers become podcasters and support us with a donation: https://thechesedfund.com/jewishpodcasts/donate

Rabbi Aryeh Klapper is Dean of the Center for Modern Torah Leadership, Rosh Beit Midrash of its Summer Beit Midrash Program and a member of the Boston Beit Din. Rabbi Klapper is a widely published author in prestigious Hebrew and English journals. He is frequently consulted on issues of Jewish law from representatives of all streams of Judaism and responds from an explicit and uncompromised Orthodox stance. The Yeshiva of Newark @IDT is proud to partner with Rabbi Klapper to help spread his scholarly thoughtful ideas and Halachic insight to as wide an audience as possible .     Please visit http://www.torahleadership.org/ for many more articles and audio classes from Rav Klapper and to find out about his Summer programs as well as Rabbi Klapper's own podcast site https://anchor.fm/aryeh-klapper.     Please leave us a review or email us at [email protected] This podcast is powered by Jewish Podcasts. Start your own podcast today and share your content with the world. Click here to get started.  This podcast has been graciously sponsored by JewishPodcasts.fm. There is much overhead to maintain this service so please help us continue our goal of helping Jewish lecturers become podcasters and support us with a donation: https://thechesedfund.com/jewishpodcasts/donate

מה אבותיכם לא נכנסו לברית אלא במילה וטבילה והרצאת דם, אף הם לא יכנסו לברית אלא במילה וטבילה והרצאת דמים' (בבלי כריתות ט ע'א). As we began the Shloshes Yimei Hagvalah in preparation for Matan Torah and reliving the events that transformed our people and created a unique identity for us in perpetuity The Issur Ben Tzvi Hersh Tshuvos and Poskim Shiur Of the Yeshiva of Newark@IDT offered a special halachic discussion on Geirus that was presented by one of the leading Jewish scholars of our day Rabbi Micheal J.Broyde professor of law at Emory University School of Law senior fellow and projects director at the Center for the Study of Law and Religion The Concise Code of Jewish Law for Converts (Second Edition forthcoming, 2021, Urim) Michael J. Broyde מצות אהבת הגרים :שנצטוינו לאהוב הגרים, כלומר שנזהר שלא לצער אותם בשום דבר, אבל נעשה להם טובה ונגמול אותם חסד כפי הראוי והיכולת. והגרים הם כל מי שנתחבר אלינו משאר האומות שהניח דתו ונכנס בדתנו, ועליהם נאמר ] דברים י ', י 'ט[ ואהבתם את הגר כי גרים הייתם. – ספר החינוך מצוה תלא We are commanded to love the convert: In particular, we are directed not to cause converts to suffer in any way, but rather to do them good and charitably as they deserve and as we can. The converts are all those who have joined us from other nations and abandoned their religion and joined ours. About this group, the Torah [Devarim 10:19] says, “Love the stranger [convert] since you were strangers.” – Sefer HaChinuch Mitzva 431 The mitzva of loving the convert is fundamental to this work. Most sources that discuss this mitzva indicate that it adds to the force of the obligation to love any Jew – to love the convert specifically. The question for a practical halachic work, however, is: “How should one love the convert in particular?” Should one love the convert as in the Midrashic parable of the stag joining the flock of sheep, recognizing that the convert is always an outsider and will never exactly fit in? Or should one love the convert as a long-lost member of a family, who needs to be reunited with the community as if the convert were always a family member, lest, out of loneliness, they return to their original community? This work adopts both of these alternatives as inherent to the complexity of the mitzva of loving the convert – to love the convert because a convert is different and to love the convert by helping them fit in and not be different. The first way of loving calls for heightening the pace and the degree of integration of the convert within the Jewish community, so that they are no longer perceived as a convert. This complements one of the basic purposes of the mitzva to love the convert: to make sure that the convert remains part of the Jewish community and does not feel out of place or like a stranger. This is the basic message of Rambam’s famous letter to Rabbi Ovadia (the Convert) directing him to pray in a similar manner as all other Jews. Thus, in all situations in which there is a dispute about the mandates of Jewish law, this work follows this halachic factor in preferring to adopt the normative Jewish law view which brings the convert to further integration into the Jewish people. The view that highlights the convert’s status as an outsider is generally disfavored, while that which encourages integration is generally favored. As Rabbi Moshe Feinstein (cited below in the introduction) taught: The mitzva to love the convert obligates us to resolve disputed Jewish laws (where a convert is involved) in a way that further helps the convert find their place within the community. However, in certain situations, the convert’s status as a stranger within our community creates an affirmative need of assistance navigating law, custom, and nuance. Ignoring that fact in the name of purely formalist equal status – pretending that the convert is not a convert – is not truly loving. For example, Shulchan Aruch (OC 529:2) records that when the Jewish festivals (chagim) arrive, there is a particular duty to reach out to invite the convert into one’s home for festival meals. When all others are celebrating with family, one must manifest the love of the convert in particular by acknowledging that they need special attention. To ignore a person’s status as a convert when everybody else is family-focused does not manifest love and integration of the convert as an insider; it simply causes the convert to focus on his family-less status. This work recognizes this reality and takes into account that the duty to love the convert sometimes requires highlighting the fact that this person is a convert. This is the two-sided nature of the duty to love the convert: One must both welcome the convert as an outsider, as well as do one’s best to help them cease being an outsider. This work is aware of both ways of fulfilling the obligation to love the convert and factors them both into its determinations of normative Jewish law. Modern Jewish life in America has a number of unique characteristics, almost

Practical Halakhah exists in constant dialogue with the world around it. Competent poskim know and respond to the social, political, and economic realities of their communities. In turn, halakhah shapes those realities in important ways. Consider for example the effect of capitalism on the laws of interest, and the effect of halakhah on the price of ungrafted citrons. Igrot Mosheh EH 1:49 was written when Rav Moshe Feinstein was living in Luban, Belarus. According to the biography printed at the start of Igrot Mosheh vol. 8, most of Rav Moshe’s teshuvot written in that period were lost in transit. The ones that survive often establish themes that recur in his halakhic decisions. In general, while Rav Moshe’s specific halakhic positions sometimes shifted over time, his underlying commitments were rock-solid. One of those commitments was to freeing agunot, and more, to an expansive notion of what constitutes a situation of iggun. Belarus had joined the USSR in 1922, and Stalin had come to power in 1924. The combination of ideological opposition to religion and totalitarianism changed the reality of agunah cases in three ways. First, many women had a real option of leaving the religious community if the rabbis refused them permission to remarry. Second, even women who stayed within the community might see halakhah on this issue as an obstacle course rather than as a substantive moral guide. Third, husbands might very well be “disappeared” forever without notice and without record. Each of these factors potentially altered the classical calculus of credibility. Mishnah Yebamot 15:1 states that if a couple goes abroad, and the woman returns alone claiming to be a widow, she is believed, even if her ground for the claim is hearsay. Ordinarily, two valid direct witnesses are necessary to undo a presumption of marriage. The Talmud offers a complex explanation for why the standards of evidence are relaxed here. There is a stick: if a court allows the remarriage and the husband turns up alive, she is forbidden to both men, and her children from the remarriage are now considered mamzerim. There is a motive: the Rabbis were lenient in order to free women from being agunot. And there is a rationale, framed as a chazakah or legal presumption: women investigate comprehensively before they remarry. Rav Moshe’s interlocutor questions whether the chazakah is still applicable. He notes that in the Talmud, a woman is believed if she claims in her presumptive husband’s presence that he has divorced her. The ground for believing her is a chazakah attributed to Rav Hamnuna that “A woman is not brazen in the presence of her husband”. But RAMO EH 17:2 codifies the position that because of societal changes, this chazakah no longer generates the credibility necessary to allow remarriage. Perhaps the same is true for the chazakah that woman investigate comprehensively before remarrying? Rav Moshe responds with an emphatic no. The changes that led RAMO to sideline Rav Hamnuna’s chazakah regarding divorce have no necessary implications for the chazakah regarding death. Rav Moshe ignores entirely, and I suggest deliberately, the question of whether changes specific to his own time and place have weakened the latter chazakah. Everything he says could have been written identically in the late 16th century. Two halakhic issues remain, however. The first is that the Mishnah says that the widow is believed only if “there is peace in the world and peace among them”. If there is war, then perhaps the husband is alive and prevented from returning or communicating. If there was marital strife, then perhaps the husband is maliciously staying out of contact precisely to make his wife an agunah. Rav Moshe notes that even by the woman’s account, the husband had been completely out of touch for twenty years before his death. That seems to show clearly that he was in fact willing and maybe eager to leave her an agunah, so why is she believed? He offers three responses. The first is entirely technical. Talmud Yebamot 116a limits “lack of peace between them” to the extreme case in which the wife has previously made a false claim of divorce. RAMO EH 17:48 cites a position that adds the case of a husband who apostasized. Rav Moshe argues that RAMO does not intend to broaden the category to cases like those two cases, but only to add that one case. He contends that this is a better reading of RAMO’s source in Shiltei Gibborim. (I am not sure why.) Rav Moshe’s second response is that in this case, there are witnesses that the woman behaved as a widow the moment she reported the husband’s death. He contends that this enhances her credibility. (I am not sure why.) The third response is that even the extension to apostasy is controversial. Rav Moshe does not address the question whether the gulag might play the same role as “lack of peace in the world”. Overall, Rav Moshe’s responses seem weak if his goal is to convince us that the woman is obviously being trut

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Sleep deprivation is marked by its physiological repercussions and its negative effects on cognitive and psychological functioning. Stressing that dreaming is essentially entails a detour from reality testing as one dives into fantasy, Prof. Juni limits his comments to the latter as he discusses the psychoanalytic formulation of the purpose of dreams. He argues that dreaming is a regression to an irrational world of early childhood which almost resembles psychotic thinking. Adults are socialized to censor primitive basic thoughts and emotions. The dream process allows adults to revert to their natural basic primitive functioning mode each night for a limited time, with the understanding that they can then return to adult style functioning by repressing the details of that journey. The inability to remember dream contents is affected by repression. R. Kivelevitz pointed out that people vary -- from having no access to their dreams at all, to those who are very distressed and haunted by dreams that they remember vividly. Juni explained that neither of those extremes are typical of individuals with solid mental health, as they obviously are either totally divorced from their basic needs and motivations or totally undefended from primitive rationality, respectively. Regarding individuals who crave sleep constantly and would run off to bed at any time if only feasible, Juni describes them as manifesting an intense need to regress and avoid reality.… Kivelevitz raises the issue of prevalent sleep deprivation modes which can be seen in avid students, scholars, or hobby enthusiasts. Juni responds by urging individuals to listen to their body about sleep needs, arguing that sleep deprivation must have negative affect on the sophistication of thoughts. Juni and Kivelevitz both deplore the traditional practice in hospitals where interns are forced to function for many hours without sleep.… In responding to a challenge from Kivelevitz, Juni admits that majority of his colleagues do not view dream content as significant, since the mental health field no longer hardly considers dynamics, dealing instead with problematical symptoms at the pragmatic level. Juni sees this as a continuation of the millennia-long evolution of the mind body problem, sadly noting that the body is winning out over the mind throughout the medical and psychiatric domains.… Returning to the main focus of the discussion, Kivelevitz laments the zombie-like state of many folks who push themselves to attend lectures and classes on Shavuot Eve, seeing this as part and parcel of the shallowness of which is promoted in some contemporary religious circles. Juni takes the position that there is a benefit to pushing yourself occasionally beyond your body’s comfort zones in the service of being part of a larger group experience, especially if it offers a religious/social mode of group identification.   Doctor Samuel Juni is one of the foremost research psychologists in the world today. He has published groundbreaking original research in seventy different peer reviewed journals, and is cited continuously with respect by colleagues and experts in the field who have built on his theories and observations. Samuel Juni studied in Yeshivas Chaim Berlin under Rav Yitzchack Hutner, and in Yeshiva University as a Talmid of Rav Joseph Dov Soloveitchick. Professor Juni is a prominent member of the Association of Orthodox Jewish Scientists, and has regularly presented addresses to captivated audiences. Associated with NYU since 1979, Juni has served as Director of MA and PhD programs, all the while heading teams engaged in important research. Professor Juni's scholarship on aberrant behavior across the cultural, ethnic, and religious spectrum is founded on psychometric methodology and based on a psycho-dynamic psychopathology perspective. He is arguably the preeminent expert in Differential Diagnostics, with each of his myriad studies entailing parallel efforts in theory construction and empirical data collection from normative and clinical populations. Professor Juni created and directed NYU's Graduate Program in Tel Aviv titled Cross-Cultural Group Dynamics in Stressful Environments. Based in Yerushalayim, he collaborates with Israeli academic and mental health specialists in the study of dissonant factors and tensions in the Arab-Israeli conflict and those within the Orthodox Jewish community, while exploring personality challenges of second-generation Holocaust survivors. Below is a partial list of the journals to which Professor Juni has contributed over 120 articles. Many are available on line Journal of Forensic Psychology Journal of Aggression, Maltreatment, and Trauma. International Review of Victimology The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease International Forum of Psychoanalysis Journal of Personality Assessment Journal of Abnormal Psychology Journal of Psychoanalytic Anthropology Psychophysiology Psychology and Human Development Journal of Sex Re

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The following is a letter from Rabbi Kivelevitz . Shalom Ubracha- It is quite unnecessary to state here how stressful the last fourteen months have been. As Klal Yisroel places an immeasurable value on learning and intellectual growth, many of us have weathered this storm by entrenching ourselves deeper into our rich literary heritage, discovering insight and inspiration and using the pause of hustle bustle activity to savor new texts and articulate probing questions. The tools of teleconferencing have generated the bracha of wide attendance in Shiurim and access to the world's finest Torah teachers. Energized by these positives, I am humbly offering to partner with all of you on a venture of discovery. Over twenty-five years ago, I listened with rapt attention as Professor Haym Soloveichick eulogized his father. He said the Rambam,Maimonides, was the Girsa DaYankusa of his father, which the prodigy grew up memorizing like nursery rhymes, with all of Mishna Torah etched in his memory and flowing easily from his lip. However,it was in that other Moshe, Nachmanides, that the elder Soloveichick discovered his intellectual approach and soul. It can be assumed that Rav Soloveichick's flowering as the premier Talmudist of our times was built in great part by contrasting the words of each of these Medieval teachers in areas they had both worked on, or where Ramban levels his often withering criticism of Rambam's position. There are scores of examples throughout Shas,and in particular in the work Nachmanides dedicated to staking his disagreements with his Egyptian counterpart-Hasagos to the Rambam's Sefer HaMitzvos. In his classic towering Perush on Chumash,Ramban forcefully attacks many of Rambam's explanations of mitzvos and interpretations of biblical events. We can together discover anew these diamond like gems of codification, inquiry analysis and poetic barbs that issued from these giants.....-armed with the salient texts, and buoyed by an enthusiasm to discover, I relish the prospect of learning with you.  This podcast has been graciously sponsored by JewishPodcasts.fm. There is much overhead to maintain this service so please help us continue our goal of helping Jewish lecturers become podcasters and support us with a donation: https://thechesedfund.com/jewishpodcasts/donate

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Well crafted insights from one of the United States' most important Jewish educators   This podcast has been graciously sponsored by JewishPodcasts.fm. There is much overhead to maintain this service so please help us continue our goal of helping Jewish lecturers become podcasters and support us with a donation: https://thechesedfund.com/jewishpodcasts/donate

With such a polarized world overwhelming measured voices and patient logic, Rabbi Kalman Worch,-Co host of theChavrusaand acclaimed translator of theBnei Yessaschar presents a series culled from our history and vast Rabbinic literature to help lower the temperature.We thank the Illinois Center for Jewish Studies for the use of this materialPlease leave us a review or email us at [email protected] This podcast is powered by Jewish Podcasts. Start your own podcast today and share your content with the world. Click here to get started.  This podcast has been graciously sponsored by JewishPodcasts.fm. There is much overhead to maintain this service so please help us continue our goal of helping Jewish lecturers become podcasters and support us with a donation: https://thechesedfund.com/jewishpodcasts/donate

Can a slave commit to accept the responsibility of a kesubah or is he unable to due to his inability to own property?  The Yeshiva of Newark is proud to partner with Dayan Schaffel and the Chicago Choshen Mishpat Kollel of which he is a senior member,to help spread his scholarly thoughtful ideas and Halachic insight to an audience that appreciates well researched measured responses in these novel times.  Please leave us a review or email us at [email protected] This podcast is powered by Jewish Podcasts. Start your own podcast today and share your content with the world. Click here to get started.  This podcast has been graciously sponsored by JewishPodcasts.fm. There is much overhead to maintain this service so please help us continue our goal of helping Jewish lecturers become podcasters and support us with a donation: https://thechesedfund.com/jewishpodcasts/donate

Rabbi Aryeh Klapper is Dean of the Center for Modern Torah Leadership, Rosh Beit Midrash of its Summer Beit Midrash Program and a member of the Boston Beit Din. Rabbi Klapper is a widely published author in prestigious Hebrew and English journals. He is frequently consulted on issues of Jewish law from representatives of all streams of Judaism and responds from an explicit and uncompromised Orthodox stance. The Yeshiva of Newark @IDT is proud to partner with Rabbi Klapper to help spread his scholarly thoughtful ideas and Halachic insight to as wide an audience as possible . Please visit http://www.torahleadership.org/ for many more articles and audio classes from Rav Klapper and to find out about his Summer programs as well as Rabbi Klapper's own podcast site https://anchor.fm/aryeh-klapper. Please leave us a review or email us at [email protected] This podcast is powered by Jewish Podcasts. Start your own podcast today and share your content with the world. Click here to get started.  This podcast has been graciously sponsored by JewishPodcasts.fm. There is much overhead to maintain this service so please help us continue our goal of helping Jewish lecturers become podcasters and support us with a donation: https://thechesedfund.com/jewishpodcasts/donate

It seems that the Torah wants us to be exposed to risk in certain contexts, such as shemitah. Is there a middle road or should we try to find other avenues to God-awareness? Rav Nataf provides some possible guideposts along the way.  Rabbi Francis Nataf is a respected educator, writer and thinker, well known for his ability to find new ways of looking at text and tradition. He is the author of the groundbreaking book on the Torah Redeeming Relevance. The Yeshiva of Newark @IDT is proud to partner with Rav Nataf to help spread his important messages to as wide an audience as possible . Please visit https://anchor.fm/francis-nataf/episodes for an unedited version of this episode and https://francisnataf.wordpress.com/ for many more articles and audio classes from Rabbi Nataf. Please leave us a review or email us at [email protected] This podcast is powered by JewishPodcasts.org. Start your own podcast today and share your content with the world. Click jewishpodcasts.fm/signup to get started.This podcast is powered by Jewish Podcasts. Start your own podcast today and share your content with the world. Click here to get started.  This podcast has been graciously sponsored by JewishPodcasts.fm. There is much overhead to maintain this service so please help us continue our goal of helping Jewish lecturers become podcasters and support us with a donation: https://thechesedfund.com/jewishpodcasts/donate

This episode is dedicated by Rabbi Bodenheim and the Yeshiva of Newark in the liului Nishmas the 45 who perished in Meron Ariel Ahdut, 21; a student at Yesodot HaTorah yeshivah in Tel Aviv. Rabbi Yisrael Alnakvah, 24, of Beit Shemesh; a father of Avrohom Daniel Ambon, 21, of Argentina; student at Yeshivas Heichal Yitzchak in Jerusalem. Moshe Ben-Shalom, 20, of Bnei Brak, Israel; student at Yeshivas Ponavezh. Rabbi Moshe Bergman, 24; a student at the Mir Yeshiva in Jerusalem. Rabbi Yonoson Chevroni of Givat Shmuel, Israel; a father of three daughters. Yedidya Chayut, 13, of Bnei Brak, Israel. Eliyahu Cohen, 16, of Beitar Ilit, Israel; a student at Yeshivas Heichal Avraham. Rabbi Simcha Bunim Diskind, 23, of Beit Shemesh, Israel. Chen Doron, 41, of Holon. Moshe Mordechai Elhadad, 12, of Jerusalem. Yosef Dovid Elhadad, 18, of Jerusalem. Moshe Natan Englander, 14, of Jerusalem. Yehoshua Englander, 9, of Jerusalem. Mordechai Yoel Fekete, 23. Yedidya Fogel, 22, of Givat Shmuel; a student at Yeshivas Hatziyonit Hadatit. Elazar Gefner, 52, of Jerusalem. Rabbi Shragi Gestetner, 33, of Monsey, N.Y.; a well-known singer and composer. Rabbi Eliezer Mordechai Goldberg, 37, of Beitar Illit, Israel; a teacher at Talmud Torah Aderes Eliyahu. Rabbi Yosef Greenbaum, 22, of Haifa. Rabbi Eliezer Tzvi Joseph, 26, of Kiryas Joel, Monroe, N.Y.; a father of four. Nachman Kirschbaum, 15, of Beit Shemesh, Israel. Rabbi Shmuel Tzvi Klagsbald, 34, of Beitar, Israel; a Torah scholar at Maor Einayim. Menachem Knoblowitz, 22, of Brooklyn, N.Y. Yossi Kohn, 21, of Cleveland, Ohio; a student at Mir Yeshiva in Jerusalem. Elazar Yitzchak Koltai, 13, of Jerusalem; formerly of Passaic, N.J. Rabbi Dovid Krause, 33, of Beit Shemesh, Israel, survived by his wife and nine children. Shlomo Zalman Leibovitch, 19, of Tzefat; a student at Knesset Yehezkel Yeshiva. Yosef Yehuda Levi, 17, of Rechashim, Israel. Moshe Levy, 14, of Bnei Brak. Yosef Mastorov, 26, of Ramle Israel; a student at Yeshiva Rinah Shel Torah in Carmiel. Rabbi Shimon Matlon, 37, of Beitar Ilit; teacher in Talmud Torah Chanichei Hayeshivos. Yishai Me’ulam, 17, of Rechashim, Israel. Nachman Daniel (Doni) Morris, 19, of Teaneck, N.J.; a student at Sha’alavim. Chaim Rock, 18, of Beit Shemesh, Israel; a student at Yeshivas Mir-Brachfeld in Modi’in Ilit. Yehuda Leib Rubin, 27, of Beit Shemesh, Israel; a father of three. Rabbi Chaim Ozer Seller, 24, of Jerusalem; a father of two, one was born two weeks before the tragedy. Elkanah Shilah, 29, of Jerusalem. Rabbi Chanoch Slod, 52, of Ashdod, Israel. Dov Steinmetz, of Montreal; a student at Mir Yeshiva in Jerusalem. Yaakov Elchanan Strakovsky, 20, of Elad, Israel; student at Yeshiva Be’er Yisrael. Yosef Amram Tauber, of Monsey, N.Y., a student at Yeshivas Brisk in Jerusalem. Rabbi Ariel Tzadik, 56, of Jerusalem. Rabbi Moshe Tzarfati, 65, of Jerusalem; a father of four children and 25 grandchildren. Rabbi Menachem Asher Zakbach, 24, of Kiryat Sefer, Israel. 'Cheesecake for Kiddush!' 'A whole Milachig Suedah?' 'Okay...which meal are we getting dairy plates ready for...?''We're splitting up the meal?' The Issur Ben Tzvi Hersh Tshuvos and Poskim ShiurOf the Yeshiva of Newark@IDT presented a special halachic discussionof one of the most pervasive Minhagim we have adopted Dairy Meals on Shavuos:- A 'Meaty' Topic with year long ramifications It was led by the distinguished Marbitz Torah renowned for his clarity and matching fervorRabbi Baruch Bodenheim Associate Rosh Yeshiva of Passaic Torah Institute (PTI)/Yeshiva Ner Boruch and a regular contributor of Torah thoughts in the Jewish Link , Monsey Mevaser and other widely circulated publications It featured readings in the Talmud,Rashi and Rambam-The Shulchan Oruch-and the Shach and Piskei Rav Elyashiv זצוק״ל  This podcast has been graciously sponsored by JewishPodcasts.fm. There is much overhead to maintain this service so please help us continue our goal of helping Jewish lecturers become podcasters and support us with a donation: https://thechesedfund.com/jewishpodcasts/donate

An interview program that seeks to pick the brain of one of the most influential Rabbinic figures of North America. Rabbi Reuben Joshua Poupko has been the Rabbi of Beth Israel Beth Aaron Congregation in Montreal for over 30 years. Please leave us a review at [email protected]   This podcast has been graciously sponsored by JewishPodcasts.fm. There is much overhead to maintain this service so please help us continue our goal of helping Jewish lecturers become podcasters and support us with a donation: https://thechesedfund.com/jewishpodcasts/donate

'This podcast is operated with the activity of Rabbi Kolakowski as a private individual and not as a representative of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the Department of Corrections, or any facility, bureau or office thereof. None of the statements, representations, viewpoints, images or other media contained herein has been sanctioned, approved or endorsed by the Commonwealth or the Department. Nothing contained herein should be deemed to represent the official views of the Commonwealth or the Department.'   Rabbi Yitzchak Kolakowski is the Facility Chaplaincy Program Director at the The State Correctional Institution (SCI) at Waymart, Pennsylvania. The institution is a medium security prison facility housing 1,100 inmates and a 120 bed Forensic Treatment Center, which provides inpatient psychiatric treatment in a secure setting for adult male offenders. Kolakowski is the first Rabbi in the history of the Commonwealth to serve as head chaplain in a state prison. Prior to his present position, he served pulpits and chaplaincy positions in Virginia and Upstate New York. The Rabbi has emerged as a talented speaker in areas of religion, politics, spirituality, popular culture, history, and interfaith affairs. He has created an extremely popular YouTube channel with thousands of followers. Kolakowski unashamedly recounts his personal history. While his mother was raised in a Modern Orthodox home in Queens, his father is a devout Roman Catholic. He had a bris in an Orthodox synagogue but was also baptized in a Catholic church. His maternal grandparents encouraged him to have a bar mitzvah in their Orthodox Shul which spurred the young Kolakowski to adopt a frum lifestyle. At eighteen, he spent a year in a Yeshiva in Yerushalayim, whose environs drew him into Hasidic practice and philosophy . Kolakowski went on to study for and receive semichah at Yeshiva Or Kedoshim Biala in Brooklyn. He recognized the need to obtain a B.A. in psychology from Lander College for Men .Hearing the call to become a communal leader, he matriculated to Touro College for a postgraduate certificate in Advanced Rabbinics and Synagogue Management in conjunction with the National Council of Young Israel and the Young Israel Council of Rabbis. Rabbi Kolakowski's English translation of sefer Seder HaYom by the late Biala Rebbe was published in 2006 in Israel to wide acclaim. He can be reached at [email protected]   This podcast has been graciously sponsored by JewishPodcasts.fm. There is much overhead to maintain this service so please help us continue our goal of helping Jewish lecturers become podcasters and support us with a donation: https://thechesedfund.com/jewishpodcasts/donate

 As a preamble to the discussion, Professor Juni outlines the politics of autonomous Haredi functioning in Israeli government policy. The general attitude of Israeli agencies has been to leave Haredim to their own devices even as they suffer from the negative repercussions. This manifest, as well, in the benign neglect of dangerous violations of Covid regulations by Haredim, which persisted for a while, until they were perceived as endangering the population at large .Juni summarizes in non-scientific terms the technical aspects of danger that persist in the pandemic even in populations with widespread immunization program, specifically highlighting mutational dangers among the non-vaccinated which can break the vaccination barrier to endanger the entire population.    The main focus of the discussion is the Meron phenomenon, which centers on visiting Graves of Saints, and also branches out to visiting graves of beloved family members. Many of these visitors relate to the deceased and interact with them as if they were still with us. Prodded by Rabbi Kivelevitz, Juni shares his own bifurcated style of functioning, where he conducts his general life based on rational considerations yet visits his parents’ graves and relates to them on the level of emotionally childish logic – – as he carries on one-side of conversations with them. While the notion of visiting graves is suggested to be a pagan in origin, Kivelevitz sees the recent huge and unsafe Meron pilgrimage as a cathartic reaction to the easing down of the long Covid lockdown. He also suggests that relating to loved ones who have passed on is a way of a allaying the existential terror of death which we all face by acting as if the after-life is a given.    Analyzing the general Israeli reaction to the Meron tragedy, the discussants analyze the nature of the profound vilification of Haredim by the Israeli public. The reciprocal condemnation by Haredim of all “others” is posited to entail a circling the wagons, and is especially designed to minimize the allure of the secular world to Haredi youth. Resulting in the total alienation of Haredim from the social milieu, this essentially means that the chances of outsiders choosing the Haredi way of life are minimalist. R. Kivelevitz suggests that the template of positive positively oriented PR which has been used successfully by the gay movement and the woke culture to gain general acceptance might be utilized – – in the style of Chabad and Rabbi Sacks – – to present any more attractive picture of the virtues of Haredi life by those engaged in positive outreach efforts   Doctor Samuel Juni is one of the foremost research psychologists in the world today. He has published groundbreaking original research in seventy different peer reviewed journals, and is cited continuously with respect by colleagues and experts in the field who have built on his theories and observations. Samuel Juni studied in Yeshivas Chaim Berlin under Rav Yitzchack Hutner, and in Yeshiva University as a Talmid of Rav Joseph Dov Soloveitchick. Professor Juni is a prominent member of the Association of Orthodox Jewish Scientists, and has regularly presented addresses to captivated audiences. Associated with NYU since 1979, Juni has served as Director of MA and PhD programs, all the while heading teams engaged in important research. Professor Juni's scholarship on aberrant behavior across the cultural, ethnic, and religious spectrum is founded on psychometric methodology and based on a psycho-dynamic psychopathology perspective. He is arguably the preeminent expert in Differential Diagnostics, with each of his myriad studies entailing parallel efforts in theory construction and empirical data collection from normative and clinical populations. Professor Juni created and directed NYU's Graduate Program in Tel Aviv titled Cross-Cultural Group Dynamics in Stressful Environments. Based in Yerushalayim, he collaborates with Israeli academic and mental health specialists in the study of dissonant factors and tensions in the Arab-Israeli conflict and those within the Orthodox Jewish community, while exploring personality challenges of second-generation Holocaust survivors. Below is a partial list of the journals to which Professor Juni has contributed over 120 articles. Many are available on line Journal of Forensic Psychology Journal of Aggression, Maltreatment, and Trauma. International Review of Victimology The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease International Forum of Psychoanalysis Journal of Personality Assessment Journal of Abnormal Psychology Journal of Psychoanalytic Anthropology Psychophysiology Psychology and Human Development Journal of Sex Research Journal of Psychology and Judaism Contemporary Family Therapy American Journal on Addictions Journal of Criminal Psychology Mental Health, Religion & Culture As Rosh Beis Medrash, Rabbi Avraham Kivelevitz serves as Rav and Posek for the morning mi

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Well crafted insights from one of the United States' most important Jewish educators  This podcast has been graciously sponsored by JewishPodcasts.fm. There is much overhead to maintain this service so please help us continue our goal of helping Jewish lecturers become podcasters and support us with a donation: https://thechesedfund.com/jewishpodcasts/donate

Rabbi Worch-Co host of the Chavrusa and acclaimed translator of the Bnei Yessaschar elaborates on this carefully selected section from the classic Toras Moshe by the Alshich. Rabbi Worch brings out the important lessons of Avodas Hashem that are indicated by the novel interpretations of Chazal and the Pesukim that are suggested in the work. We thank the Illinois Center for Jewish Studies for the use of this material Please leave us a review or email us at [email protected] This podcast is powered by Jewish Podcasts. Start your own podcast today and share your content with the world. Click here to get started.  Please leave us a review or email us at [email protected]  This podcast has been graciously sponsored by JewishPodcasts.fm. There is much overhead to maintain this service so please help us continue our goal of helping Jewish lecturers become podcasters and support us with a donation: https://thechesedfund.com/jewishpodcasts/donate