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Dedicated to theRefuah Shleimahof Tamar Elisheva Bas DevorahRabbi Kivelevitz reads and explains passages from a responsa ofRav Shlomo Aviner,Shlita that in a concise manner deals with the Halachic problems of men not sporting a crewcut.The problems in Tefillin fulfillment and other Issurim are elaborated on,including the leeser known opinions of Rav Kook and the Chazon Ish Zt''l.Rabbi Avraham Kivelevitz has spent the last eight years writing and teaching for Dirshu International'sDaf Yomi B'Halacha,In general,every episode ofFine Tuned Halachadelves into an important Halachic textand extracts important nuggets of direction,history and most importantly,an understanding of how the Jewish legal system developed and continues to guide the lives of a committed people.While the learning tends to align with the seasons we find ourselves in,we are confident it will resonate well beyond the calendar into your consciousness.Please leave us a review or email us at [email protected] out more about this podcast fromyeshivaofnewark.jewishpodcasts.org See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. 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

The renowned educator and Principal of SAR High SchoolRabbi Jonathan Kroll provides a fascinating report on the school's recent graduation was able to proceed in full compliance with health official's stipulations.Kroll indicated how this year's ceremomies were particulary moving and an indicator of real hope in coming uncertain times. Please leave us a review or email us at [email protected] more information on this podcast visityeshivaofnewark.jewishpodcasts.org See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. 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

Dedicated to theRefuah Shleimahof Tamar Elisheva Bas DevorahRabbi Kivelevitz reads and explains passages from a responsa ofRav Shlomo Aviner,Shlita.Rabbi Avraham Kivelevitz has spent the last eight years writing and teaching for Dirshu International'sDaf Yomi B'Halacha,In general,every episode ofFine Tuned Halachadelves into an important Halachic textand extracts important nuggets of direction,history and most importantly,an understanding of how the Jewish legal system developed and continues to guide the lives of a committed people.While the learning tends to align with the seasons we find ourselves in,we are confident it will resonate well beyond the calendar into your consciousness.Please leave us a review or email us at [email protected] out more about this podcast fromyeshivaofnewark.jewishpodcasts.org See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. 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 Kivelevitz leads a ZOOMShiur.Please leave us a review or email us at [email protected] out more about this podcast fromyeshivaofnewark.jewishpodcasts.org See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. 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

Dedicated to theRefuah Shleimahof Tamar Elisheva Bas DevorahRabbi Kivelevitz reads and explains passages from a responsa ofRav Shlomo Aviner,Shlitathat analyzes the issue from early medeiaval sources down to the determinations of the modern Poskim,Rav Chaim Dovid HaLevi,Chacham Ovadiah Yosef and Rav Moshe Feinstein Zt"l.Rabbi Avraham Kivelevitz has spent the last eight years writing and teaching for Dirshu International'sDaf Yomi B'Halacha,In general,every episode ofFine Tuned Halachadelves into an important Halachic textand extracts important nuggets of direction,history and most importantly,an understanding of how the Jewish legal system developed and continues to guide the lives of a committed people.While the learning tends to align with the seasons we find ourselves in,we are confident it will resonate well beyond the calendar into your consciousness.Please leave us a review or email us at [email protected] out more about this podcast fromyeshivaofnewark.jewishpodcasts.org See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. 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 Mark Gottlieb,senior director of the Tikvah fund and respected intellectual spokesman responds toRabbis Kivelevitz and Bechhofer's Rischa Daraiisa 23 and Rabbi Chanina Weissman's call for Orthodox Jews to respond to the writing on the wall and move to Eretz Yisroel.Joining Rabbi Kivelevitz on a special mid-week episode,Gottlieb makes an impassioned reasoned plea to understand and preserve the values the United States was founded on that are shared with the ones espoused in the Torah and Neviim. He voices his worry over the erosion of crucial order and respect for divergent views that seems to be evaporating.Rabbi Kivelevitz and his guest discuss how the nuanced patriotism advocated by Rav Samson Raphael Hirsch translates into respect for the ideals of America's Founding Fathers and what appropriate Jewish attitudes should be.Rabbi Gottlieb invokes interesting Biblical precedent for adopting a holistic yet critical eye on the injustices that were sanctioned as part of the ugly past of this country without undermining the inspired core principles that the founding of the Republic embodied.Please leave us a review at [email protected] more information on this podcastvisit yeshivaofnewark.jewishpodcasts.org See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. 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

Dedicated to theRefuah Shleimahof Tamar Elisheva Bas DevorahRabbi Kivelevitz reads and explains passages from the responsa of Rav Shlomo Aviner,Shlita.Rabbi Avraham Kivelevitz has spent the last eight years writing and teaching for Dirshu International'sDaf Yomi B'Halacha,In general,every episode ofFine Tuned Halachadelves into an important Halachic textand extracts important nuggets of direction,history and most importantly,an understanding of how the Jewish legal system developed and continues to guide the lives of a committed people.While the learning tends to align with the seasons we find ourselves in,we are confident it will resonate well beyond the calendar into your consciousness.Please leave us a review or email us at [email protected] out more about this podcast fromyeshivaofnewark.jewishpodcasts.org See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. 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 Kivelevitz uses the secondary crisis of crowding in summer vacation spots during Covid 19,as a pretext to revive his old debate with Rabbi Worch over eliminating the notion of a long summer vacation from school.Throughout the last century there have been calls to alter a system based on an outmoded agrarian society where children were needed for labor in their parents fields.The system of the long stretch of school year followed by months of idleness for many disadvantaged children has already had severe consequences on America's educational standing in the world.Rabbi Kivelevitz points out how the adoption of this model into Jewish life consistently runs counter to the mourning period of the Three Weeks,and builds unrealistic summer hopes and demands by children for the families to engage in long expensive trips.Rabbi Worch counters by extolling the bonding that occurs between parents and children over this long extended period.He further states that children need to harbor dreams of an amazing extended summer as an incentive to apply themselves properly.Kivelevitz cites the positive effect on energy use staying closer to home will have during abbreviated vacations staggered throughout the year.Another result,he claims will be greater familiarity with persons in your immediate community, a solid recipe for more proactive positive citizenry.Worch believes that these plans are unrealistic and would not be accepted anyhow.Kivelevitz points to the changes society has absorbed so quickly during the pandemic as proof that if persons realize how crucial change is they can make it happen with alacrity.After listening to the program-please forward your views on the summer shake-up proposition of Rabbi Kivelevitz and how you are making use use of these weeks of relaxation within the confines of the health emergency that still rages.Please leaveusa review or email us [email protected] more information on this podcast visityeshivaofnewark.jewishpodcasts.org See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. 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 Mark Gottlieb is Senior Director of the Tikvah Fund and founding Dean of the Tikvah and Maimonides Scholars at Yale University. Prior to joining Tikvah, Rabbi Gottlieb served as Head of School at Yeshiva University High School for Boys and Principal of the Maimonides School in Brookline, MA.His writing has appeared inFirst Things,Public Discourse,the University Bookman,the Algemeiner,andthe Jewish Review of Books. Rabbi Gottlieb is a member of the Orthodox Forum Steering Committee and serves on the Editorial Committee ofTradition: A Journal of Orthodox Jewish Thought.With great subtlety,Rabbi Gottlieb uses the denouement of the Biblical narrative of this first class revolution,as an important response to the discord and anger that pervades our present time.Much more than a summary of a long ago struggle,and how it was put down by the ultimate authorities,Gottlieb's retelling and sketching of structure plus context serves as a heady rebuke to both sides in America's current combat zone.Basing his premise on the words of Fyodor Dostoevsky,Gottlieb invokes the novelist Gregory Wolfe who wrote in his 2014 book,Beauty Will Save the World: Recovering the Human in an Ideological Age“Whereas I once believed that the decadence of the West would only be turned around through politics and intellectual dialectics,I am now convinced that authentic renewal can only emerge out of the imaginative visions of the artist and the mystic . . . it involves the conviction that politics and rhetoric are not autonomous forces but shaped by the prepolitical roots of culture: myth, metaphor, and spiritual experience as recorded by the artist and the saint.”Gottlieb tempers his message with the directives put forth by the director of social, cultural, and constitutional studies at the American Enterprise Institute and the editor ofNational Affairs Yuval Levin in his recent book,A Time To Build to consistently provide arguments to our youth that are not rejected as hollow sloganeering to preserve power.The Yeshiva of Newark @IDT is proud to partner with Rabbi Gottlieb in sharing his insightsand thoughtsto as wide an audience as possible .We thank the Tikvah Fund for use of this materialPlease visithttp://tikvahfund.orgto discover the richness of the programs and educational opportunitiesoffered by that institution as well as scintillating lectures and interviewsPlease leaveusa review or email us [email protected] more information on this podcast visityeshivaofnewark.jewishpodcasts.org See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. 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

Energized by an endorphin releasing post-midnight workout,Rabbi Bechhofer begins this episode all guns firing, against the lawsuit filed in Federal Court against New York's Governor,Andrew Cuomo.The suit was brought by the Association of Jewish Camp Operators and demanded “declaratory and injunctive relief from constitutional deprivations,” after the state had announced a ban on sleepaway camps this summer because of the coronavirus pandemic.The language of the complaint,pennedby AJCO's legal counsel Avi Schick,(son of the noted Askan Marvin Schick Z''l) reads in part “for more than one hundred years, Jewish overnight camps have provided an immersive, seamless Jewish experience to their campers whose parents choose Jewish camping for their children. Every summer, tens of thousands of Jewish children in New York State benefit from the 24/7 immersive camp experience which offers them the opportunity to not only observe their religious practices but to live them. Jewish overnight camps foster a sense of cultural identity and instill traditional religious values in Jewish children. In Jewish overnight camps, they jointly recite prayers three times a day. Part of every day is devoted to religious study. They recite blessings over the food they eat throughout the day. They observe the weekly Shabbos. They learn about Jewish history, Jewish customs and Jewish heroes....the need for Jewish overnight camps is particularly true this summer, after several months of shutdowns of the yeshiva schools, to provide for the structured Jewish learning and living offered by the Jewish overnight camps....."Bechhofer discounts the argument,claiming that advancements in creative school programming since the 1960's and 70's,the expansion of Orthodox Jewish life into sylvan suburban areas,and the tendency of many Yeshiva schools to offer instruction into the late summer have bolstered the total educational picture for the majority of youngsters. He considers the lawsuit's claim to be a gross exaggeration.to say the least.Bechhofer's wrath is particularly stoked by this section of the camp owner's argument,"...On June 12, 2020, Defendant announced that overnight camps would be closed for the summer of 2020 under his COVID-19 orders, without making any exceptions for Jewish overnight camps, notwithstanding that these overnight camps involve core religious exercise...In contrast, Defendant has made a broad First Amendment exception from his COVID-19 orders for First Amendment activities that he favors.... In particular, Defendant has created a de facto exemption from his COVID-19 orders for mass demonstrations, explicitly proclaiming agreement with the message invoked by the protestors and actively encouraging the mass gatherings. Defendant has done so even though these mass protests pose greater risks of the transmission of COVID-19 than do Jewish overnight camps.Here Bechhofer stridently pronounces this argument to be a "Chilul Hashem" at the greatest levels. The equating of the public's justified disgust with police brutality and its subsequent organic reaction, with the greedy desires of Jewish businessmen is vile and feeds into the worst anti-Semitic stereotypes.Bechhofer asserts that the groundswell of this relentless push to defy the health authorities who are sincerely trying to guide us through the Covid-19 nightmare,has reached a nadir with the Yated Neman's publishing of this poem and repulsive caricature which depicts the governor pressing his knee into the neck of an anguished small child whose word balloon reads "I can't breathe".Bechhofer applauds the open criticism the Yated's move engendered,singling out the opinion essay of frequent Agudah mouthpeice Rabbi Avi Shafran.[On June 28th-The Yated Ne'eman's officialtwitter feed-posted a note saying that the cartoon and poem accidentally was published,and does not meet the standards of the paper.]Kivelevitz questions the Chilul Hashem aspect and objects to the lawsuit as expending Jewish political interest for a cause that isn't crucial when the big picture is considered.There are sure to be situations in the future when our community will need to marshal accumulated "protectzia" that this move will seriously deplete.With his co-host fully animated with animus,Kivelevitz ,attempts to engage Bechhofer in seeing an aspect of the law suit that has merit....Defendant also has allowed a wide array of similar, secular activities to remain open, such as numerous “non-essential” businesses and entities, child care services for “essential” workers, summer day camps, and special education services, provided that such entities follow health-related guidelines issued by the New York Department of Health to prevent the transmission of COVID-19.Unlike all of those entities, Defendant has not allowed Jewish overnight camps to adopt and implement health-related guidelines that would permit them to operate while balancing the twin goals of health and safety ...."and while Kivelevitz finds i

Rabbi Kalman Worch leads the Shiur through selected passages of the Zera Shimshon that provide an elevated perspective on community discord and unbridled criticism.Referencing classic Midrashic sources and the ethical teachings of the great Kabbalists,Rabbi Worch helps provide much needed wisdom for our present day tableau which unfortunately drips with vitriol.Rabbi Shimshon Chaim had only one child, a son, who died at a young age. Rabbi Shimshon Chaim decided to dedicate his'Sefarim' to the memory of this child who had no continuity of a family. Hence the name 'Zera Shimshon' In the introduction to his work,he promises that anyone that takes upon himself to learn from his writing, will be granted'children, praise, health, 'parnasa', wealth, honor'.We thank the Illinois Center for Jewish Studies for the use of this materialPlease leave us a review or email us at [email protected] more information on this podcast visityeshivaofnewark.jewishpodcasts.org See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. 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 Francis Nataf is a respected educator, writer and thinker, well known for his ability to find new ways of looking attextandtradition.He is the author of the groundbreaking book on the TorahRedeeming 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 .In this episode the Rabbi examines what appears to be strange behavior on Moshe's part when faced with God's anger in this week's Parsha.Rav Nataf invokes a statement attributed to Winston Churchill ,which stresses how much better leaders and all of us can be when we learn how to fail.The Rabbi wisely connects these ideas to the Israeli and American populace's complaints about our leaders' responses to Corona. Please visithttps://francisnataf.wordpress.com/for many more articles and audio classes from Rabbi NatafPlease leave us a review or email us at [email protected] more information on this podcast visityeshivaofnewark.jewishpodcasts.org See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. 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

Dedicated to theRefuah Shleimahof Tamar Elisheva Bas DevorahRabbi Kivelevitz reads the salient passages of the essay of Rav Yosef Shalom Eliyashiv Zt"l that delineate when a Talmud Chacham should forgive those that malign him and when he should forcefully make an example of the knave by subjecting him to Nidui and Kellalah. Rav Elyashiv also opines as to why there has been no breakthrough in the search for the cure for cancer with a message that has great relevance to our powerlessness in the face of the Covid 19 virus.Rabbi Avraham Kivelevitz has spent the last eight years writing and teaching for Dirshu International'sDaf Yomi B'Halacha,In general,every episode ofFine Tuned Halachadelves into an important Halachic textand extracts important nuggets of direction,history and most importantly,an understanding of how the Jewish legal system developed and continues to guide the lives of a committed people.While the learning tends to align with the seasons we find ourselves in,we are confident it will resonate well beyond the calendar into your consciousness.Please leave us a review or email us at [email protected] out more about this podcast fromyeshivaofnewark.jewishpodcasts.org See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. 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

Charlie Harary internationally known investor, strategic adviser and professor and motivational speaker sits down when his schedule allows with Rabbi Kivelevitz to discuss the interface of Jewish values in the greater western World and a touch of sports.With social interaction being severely curtailed during the Pandemic, many are proceeding through the Shidduch process hardly spending any actual time in each other's presence.Other couples who met in person before the lock down are now finding the new situation stressful and unnerving.Rabbi Kivelevitz suggests to Charlie that there might be trouble ahead when the vaccine arrives, and the boy and girl are operating under wholly different dynamics."Should we put dating on hold for a while?",he asks.Charlie argues forcefully for proceeding, despite the difficulties spawned by Covid 19.He actually sees benefits for meeting first without the accompanying tinsel and superficiality. He believes the seriousness that has permeated into our lives will result in more meaningful conversation and less coquettish posturing.He invokes the model of the young Jews from the DP camps who immediately began forming families, despite the uncertainty that lay ahead of them, and Kibbutzniks in Eretz Yisroel who understood that the tribe needed to be expanded despite being surrounded by hostile Arab forces bent on their destruction.The Rabbi and Charlie quibble if the antecedents are truly apt for this period,with Kivelevitz pointing to the directive of Amram during the dark days of the terror in Miyzrayim,and discounting Miriam's vigorous rebuttal.Rabbi Kivelevitz steers Charlie into devoting the final section of the episode into a primer for what a young Jewish woman should be asking her perspective suitor, and tips for listening and observing.Charlie makes a balanced call for parental involvement as well in his blueprint for the trials and triumphs that wait in the future. Please leave us a review at [email protected] more information on this podcast please visityeshivaofnewark.jewishpodcasts.org See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. 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 Kivelevitz leads a ZOOMShiur that discovers in the words of some Ashkenazi Rishonim the nascent perspective of animals as items of enjoyable utility for humans.Rav Shimshon of Sens , Rav Yosef Bechor Shor,and Rav Chaim Ohr Zerua all suggest that Halacha should not consider them Muktzeh on Shabbas.Kivelevitz connects these strands with the statements of Psak and direction given by Rav Moshe Feinstein,Rav Shlomo Zalman Auerabach,Rav Mordechai Eliyahu,and Rav Aharon Lichtenstein that should usher in a lifting of the Muktzah Ban on household pets.The episode concludes with a survey of the history of responsa dealing with allowing a blind person to enter the synagogue with his seeing -eye dog and highlights the forward empowering stance of Rav Moshe Feinstein towards persons with disabilities.Kivelevitz provides the background for the unusual civil court case that Rav Yosef Dov Soloveichick of Boston was called on to provide expert advice.Please leave us a review or email us at [email protected] out more about this podcast fromyeshivaofnewark.jewishpodcasts.org See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. 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

Dedicated to theRefuah Shleimahof Tamar Elisheva Bas DevorahIn a special 50th episode-Rabbi Kivelevitz deepens your appreciation for Halachic aspects of Parshas Korach by exploring three areas where the words of the Gedolei HaPoskim will astound you. Rabbi Avraham Kivelevitz has spent the last eight years writing and teaching for Dirshu International'sDaf Yomi B'Halacha,In general,every episode ofFine Tuned Halachadelves into an important Halachic textand extracts important nuggets of direction,history and most importantly,an understanding of how the Jewish legal system developed and continues to guide the lives of a committed people.While the learning tends to align with the seasons we find ourselves in,we are confident it will resonate well beyond the calendar into your consciousness.Please leave us a review or email us at [email protected] out more about this podcast fromyeshivaofnewark.jewishpodcasts.org See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. 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

In a Shiur given a number of years ago, Rabbi Duvie Weiss delineates the important differences between appropriate stringencies and actions taken for the sake of religiosity which are in actuality violations of proper behavior.Using sources as disparate as Rav Nachman of Breslov and Rav Eliyahu Dessler,with a healthy sprinkling of wisdom from Rav Moshe Feinstein, this lecture will undoubtedly change your perspective on the dynamics of living life according tothe Shulchan Oruch.Please leave us a review or email us at [email protected] out more about this podcast fromyeshivaofnewark.jewishpodcasts.org See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. 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

Dedicated to theRefuah Shleimahof Tamar Elisheva Bas DevorahRabbi Avraham Kivelevitz has spent the last eight years writing and teaching for Dirshu International'sDaf Yomi B'Halacha,In general,every episode ofFine Tuned Halachadelves into an important Halachic textand extracts important nuggets of direction,history and most importantly,an understanding of how the Jewish legal system developed and continues to guide the lives of a committed people.While the learning tends to align with the seasons we find ourselves in,we are confident it will resonate well beyond the calendar into your consciousness.Please leave us a review or email us at [email protected] out more about this podcast fromyeshivaofnewark.jewishpodcasts.org See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. 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

Dedicated to theRefuah Shleimahof Tamar Elisheva Bas DevorahRabbi Kivelevitz shares with the Shiur the salient points of a recent Corona -Era Psak of Rav Asher Weiss Shlita.Under normal conditions, a child whose 31st day of life occurs on a Shabbas,would have the Pidyon and Suedas Mitzvah on Sunday in order to highlight to all the persons invited the significance of the fulfillment of God's will.A Rabbi in Passaic asked the renowned decisor if due to the restrictions on public gatherings and the strictures of social distancing, the Halacha would dictate that all efforts be made to have the child redeemed by Shabbas.Rav Asher illuminates in his usual style the salient principles at work, and analyzes the words of the Terumas HaDeshen in his inimitable manner.Rabbi Avraham Kivelevitz has spent the last eight years writing and teaching for Dirshu International'sDaf Yomi B'Halacha,In general,every episode ofFine Tuned Halachadelves into an important Halachic textand extracts important nuggets of direction,history and most importantly,an understanding of how the Jewish legal system developed and continues to guide the lives of a committed people.While the learning tends to align with the seasons we find ourselves in,we are confident it will resonate well beyond the calendar into your consciousness.Please leave us a review or email us at [email protected] out more about this podcast fromyeshivaofnewark.jewishpodcasts.org See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. 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

Rabbis Worch and Kivelevitz discuss if one of the by-products of the Corona lock down will be an even greater dependence on technology.Worch worries that persons used to watching Shiurim on ZOOM from their lounge chairswon't come back to the Beis Medrash.He frets that relatives will now easily opt out from attending family Simchos,and in general people will maintain a distance and suspicion of the other which canonly be detrimental to society.Kivelevitz takes a much more moderate stance, and details some of the benefits of ZOOMreliance even after the vaccine is discovered.The pair also underscore the significant role the Orthodox keeping of Shabbas playsin warding off the inward addiction like behavior of being glued to your devices.Please leave us a review or email us at [email protected] out more about this podcast fromyeshivaofnewark.jewishpodcasts.org See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. 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

Dedicated to theRefuah Shleimahof Tamar Elisheva Bas DevorahRabbi Kivelevitz extracts important Halachic principles of the of Tzitzis and the real life applications of Hiddur Mitzvah from two Psakim from Rav Moshe Feinstein Zt"l and underscores the surprising practical conclusions of Rav Moshe ShternbachShlita in this regard.Rabbi Avraham Kivelevitz has spent the last eight years writing and teaching for Dirshu International'sDaf Yomi B'Halacha,In general,every episode ofFine Tuned Halachadelves into an important Halachic textand extracts important nuggets of direction,history and most importantly,an understanding of how the Jewish legal system developed and continues to guide the lives of a committed people.While the learning tends to align with the seasons we find ourselves in,we are confident it will resonate well beyond the calendar into your consciousness.Please leave us a review or email us at [email protected] out more about this podcast fromyeshivaofnewark.jewishpodcasts.org See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. 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

Rabbis Kivelevitz and Bechhofer -respond to listeners' comments and critique of Rischa Daraiisa 23 where halachic and sociological rationale was offered for not moving to Eretz Yisroel.The conversation becomes quite heated with the Rabbis arguing over the meaning of the Ramban and Rabbeinu Chaim Kohen's positions.Whether Rav Moshe Feinstein's defense of the Rambam's reason for not counting Yishiv Eretz Yisroel as a Mitzvah, is considered a sufficient explanation for the entrenchment of Diaspora Jewry is similarly debated.The Rabbis agree on why Tzitzis,despite being a Mitzvah Kiyimus ,has been virtually accepted as if it is binding on all males.Kivelevitz elaborates why a similar mindset has not taken root for living in Eretz Yisroel.Bechhofer's insistence on a person pursuing the status of a Mashpia,and staying in the place where they are being marbitz Torah, is countered by Kivelevitz by the examples of Rav Elyashiv Zt''l and Rav Chaim Kanyevski Shlita who shunned public positions.The pair discuss the differences and risks between youthful and older immigrants to Eretz Yisroel with scientific data indicating how risky a move at a later age can be if not buoyed by support from an institution or a healthy retirement fund.Bechhofer puts Kivelevitz on the defensive for being evasive and equivocal in his own explanation of why he hasn't picked up stakes and headed Mizrach,at one point comparing him to former President Bill Clinton.He further assails him for harboring over romantic delusions of grandeur for thinking that he would have written important scholarly works had he lived in Eretz Yisroel through the years.Kivelevitz reminds his co-host how the ultimate imperatives of constant Torah study and Dveikus to God are more accessible in that environment.and how he is certain that he would have discovered kindred spirits and mivakshei daas who shared his love of honest textual analysis.Reading from his letter to another listener,Kivelevitz states, "...despite the uglypolarizationthat seems to perpetuate exponentially into the social fabric of the Medinah,a strong unifying senseof shared victim hood consistently rises to the top during crisis and reveals greater bonds.....cogent Limud HaTorah will always shatter partitions and make externals irrelevant..."Please leave us a review or email us at [email protected] find out more about our podcastsvisityeshivaofnewark.jewishpodcasts.org See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. 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

Inspired by the recent headlines of stores ransacked and vandalized,renownedYadin Yadin PosekRav Gershon Eliezer Schaffel outlines the Halachos pertaining to valuables that were in a store overrun by a violent mob.Turning to the classic Talmudic sources and precedent of germane Tshuvos dealing with conceptually similar situations,( E.g.ransacked Jewish homes during the Holocaust)the Dayan comes to some startling conclusions.Helped by the probing questions of the attendees of this recent ZOOM teleconference Shiur,Rabbi Schaffel produces an enlightening and entertaining take on events that for most of us are sad and sobering,finding the burst of Torah instruction layered beneath all aspects of the world around us.The Yeshiva of Newark@IDT is committed to providing cutting edge relevant Halachic information during the Corona outbreak.We are 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 andHalachicinsight to an audience that appreciates well researched measured responses in these novel times.Please leave us a review or email us at [email protected] more information on this podcast visityeshivaofnewark.jewishpodcasts.org See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. 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 Avraham Shimon Moller has been a highly respected educator for over three decades. He serves as the superintendent of the Associated Talmud Torahs of Chicago.Chicago is the only Jewish community in North America with a central agency dedicated exclusively to community-wide Torah education. For three generations, the ATT has partnered with schools, principals, teachers and parents to support education, funding and advocacy for Jewish day schools. Rabbi Moller is responsible for offering advice and counsel to Yiddish-only Charedi-Chassidish Chaderim who are striving to retain the purity of the Chinuch of pre-war Europe,alongside co-ed Modern Orthodox institutions who consistently integrate educational approaches of Western culture.In this episode he discusses candidly with Rabbi Kivelevitz the challenges faced by the schools under the A.T.T.'s umbrella,particularly during the Covid-19 pandemic.Moller sketches the different attitudes to technology use,and degree of student empowerment that do not conform neatly to the preconceived notions the liberal world has of Torah True Judaism.With sagacity,he recounts the purported "revolutions" of the past that technology was promising to bring ,and the durable abidance of the standard schoolroom model.Rabbi Kivelevitz questions Rabbi Moller on the parameters of partnerships the diverse schools have with the parent-tuition paying body that support them.Rabbi Moller reports on how the fledgling re-opening is proceeding with gradations in line with school philosophies,and speculates from his enlightened perch what the next school year will look like.Please leave us a review or email us at [email protected] more information on this podcast visityeshivaofnewark.jewishpodcasts.org See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. 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 theChavrusaand acclaimed translator of theBnei Yessascharelaborates on a few carefully selected sections of the famed mystic and commentator,Rav Moshe Alshich's Perush on Chumash.Way beyond a mere translator,Rabbi Worch places the material in context of other great Kabbalistic thinkers. We thank the Illinois Center for Jewish Studies for the use of this materialPlease leave us a review or email us at [email protected] more information on this podcast visityeshivaofnewark.jewishpodcasts.org See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. 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 Kalman Worch leads the Shiur through selected passages of the Zera Shimshon that help us understand this difficult and troublingparsha.Rabbi Shimshon Chaim had only one child, a son, who died at a young age. Rabbi Shimshon Chaim decided to dedicate his'Sefarim' to the memory of this child who had no continuity of a family. Hence the name "Zera Shimshon" In the introduction to his work,he promises that anyone that takes upon himself to learn from his writing, will be granted"children, praise, health, 'parnasa', wealth, honor".We thank the Illinois Center for Jewish Studies for the use of this materialPlease leave us a review or email us at [email protected] more information on this podcast visityeshivaofnewark.jewishpodcasts.org See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. 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.In the second part of his exploration into Lost Wages during the Pandemic,Rabbi Klapper suggests novel solutions to an unprecedented situation.In this lecture given recently over ZOOM,Rabbi Klapper disects and distills important principles from the Gedolei HaPoskim,and uses his restructured formulations to analyze recent Tshuvos offered in the midst of Corona.He seamlessly weaves cardinal Halachic tenets,and secular Israeli law with established Western legal theory .The Yeshiva of Newark@IDT is committed to providing cutting edge relevant Halachic information during the Corona outbreak.We are proud to partner with Rabbi Klapper in this regard helping spread his scholarly thoughtful ideas and Halachic insight to an audience that appreciates measured responses in these novel times.Please visithttp://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 sitehttps://anchor.fm/aryeh-klapper.Please leave us a review or email us at [email protected] more information on this podcast visityeshivaofnewark.jewishpodcasts.org See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. 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

Dedicated to theRefuah Shleimahof Tamar Elisheva Bas DevorahRabbi Kivelevitz explains thePsakim and HanhagosofRav Yosef Shalom Eliyashiv Zt"l that deal with what an Avel's learning should be during Shiva,Halachic directives for a Baal Tshuvah,and offering Sandakaos to a father who is a Mechallel Shabbas.Rabbi Avraham Kivelevitz has spent the last eight years writing and teaching for Dirshu International'sDaf Yomi B'Halacha,In general,every episode ofFine Tuned Halachadelves into an important Halachic textand extracts important nuggets of direction,history and most importantly,an understanding of how the Jewish legal system developed and continues to guide the lives of a committed people.While the learning tends to align with the seasons we find ourselves in,we are confident it will resonate well beyond the calendar into your consciousness.Please leave us a review or email us at [email protected] out more about this podcast fromyeshivaofnewark.jewishpodcasts.org See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. 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 Kivelevitz leads a ZOOM Shiur through the salient sources regarding dog ownership in Chazal,starting with the Medrash that posits dog-human companionship as the act of God to guide Kayin through danger.Passages from the Talmud in Baba Kama are succinctly fleshed out for the communal responsibilities that are laid down there for dog owners.The Rabbi also highlights Chazal's warnings of moral deterioration that can develop from an over involvement with the canines.Kivelevitz discovers the rationalizations given by the early Achronim(Rav Yehoshua Boaz and Rav Shlomo Luria)for the flaunting of the Talmud's strictures for possessing dogs that was common in Ashkenazi society, and stresses the codification of Rav Shnuer Zalman of Liadi in this matter.The lecture ends on an analysis of Rav Yaakov Emden's Tshuva ,which lambastes Jews who keep pets in the strongest terms.Kivelevitz sees in Emden's words the indicators and worries of a Rabbi confronting an enlightenment culture whose appeal was tantalizing for formerly oppressed non citizens.Please leave us a review or email us at [email protected] out more about this podcast fromyeshivaofnewark.jewishpodcasts.org See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. 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

Dedicated to theRefuah Shleimahof Tamar Elisheva Bas DevorahRabbi Kivelevitz explains thePsakimofRav Yosef Shalom Eliyashiv Zt"l that are connected to persons in ill health along with hanhagos and halachos culled from Rav Elyashiv's own comportment and statements during the Aveilus he observed at the death of his daughter,Rebbitzen Layah Auerabach A"h.Rabbi Avraham Kivelevitz has spent the last eight years writing and teaching for Dirshu International'sDaf Yomi B'Halacha,In general,every episode ofFine Tuned Halachadelves into an important Halachic textand extracts important nuggets of direction,history and most importantly,an understanding of how the Jewish legal system developed and continues to guide the lives of a committed people.While the learning tends to align with the seasons we find ourselves in,we are confident it will resonate well beyond the calendar into your consciousness.Please leave us a review or email us at [email protected] out more about this podcast fromyeshivaofnewark.jewishpodcasts.org See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. 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

Dedicated to theRefuah Shleimahof Tamar Elisheva Bas DevorahRabbi Kivelevitz explains thePsakimofRav Yosef Shalom Eliyashiv Zt"l that flow from the narrative and laws that form Parshas Shlach.Rabbi Avraham Kivelevitz has spent the last eight years writing and teaching for Dirshu International'sDaf Yomi B'Halacha,In general,every episode ofFine Tuned Halachadelves into an important Halachic textand extracts important nuggets of direction,history and most importantly,an understanding of how the Jewish legal system developed and continues to guide the lives of a committed people.While the learning tends to align with the seasons we find ourselves in,we are confident it will resonate well beyond the calendar into your consciousness.Please leave us a review or email us at [email protected] out more about this podcast fromyeshivaofnewark.jewishpodcasts.org See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. 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

Weeks of lockdown, quarantine and social distancing has generated a reexamination of society's dress codes across the gamut of industry, social services and politics.in this episode the Rabbis debate whether a cudgel and chisel should be taken to the firmly established expectations of appearance in the Orthodox world.Rabbi Worch cites the mantra of the Sefer HaChinuch how persons are altered by consistent external actions into elevated noble beings.Rabbi Kivelevitz dismisses the application of the Chinuch's social theory to inherently illogical strictures, and argues for Rabbanim and Talmidim to be revered or vilified due to their behavior, and not beard length or shirt color.He cites Rav Aharon Lichtenstein as a paradigm of a Gadol,lamdan and Tzadik who did not sport a beard even in his later years when he was recognized as the leader of Dati Leumi Judaism,and respected in all corners of the Yeshiva intellectual world.Worch feels that it was precisely due to Lichtenstein's superior mind and moral character that he could dispense with the norms of culture, while the general populace needs to adhere and support what has arisen organically as the expected uniform for the field of endeavor and community a person chooses to be a part of.Kivelevitz feels that Lichtenstein should serve as an example that we should return to a pre World War II model, where the goatees and light colored suits that adorned the Lithuanian Yeshiva students and their Rabbinic mentors, thrived alongside the long beards and severe black frocks of the insular Chasidic community.The loosening of what are often arbitrary demands of appearance,can lead to the incorporation of a much larger swath of committed persons into a unified Klal Yisroel.Please leave us a review or email us at [email protected] out more about this podcast fromyeshivaofnewark.jewishpodcasts.org See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. 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

Dedicated to theRefuah Shleimahof Tamar Elisheva Bas DevorahThis episode is essentially reading the Psak of Rav Nochum Eliezer Rabinovitch z"l to leaders in a community in Eretz Yisroel,situated across the Green Line,if they need to take extreme security precautions for day to day life due to the violence that was unleashed after the Second Intifada.The Rabbi deals with the concept of Shomer Pesaim Hashem,and explains Chazal's reliance on the medical knowledge of the time.He develops the concept of subjective fear of death, which can direct the person so affected, but cannot bind others.The Tshuvah has a very strong bearing on the reopening of the country in the midst of the Pandemic.Rabbi Kivelevitz while learning faithfully Rav Rabinovitch'sPsak fromthesefer Siach Nachum,distinguishes between the question posed to him and our present reality.On Rav Rabinovitch seehereRabbi Avraham Kivelevitz has spent the last eight years writing and teaching for Dirshu International'sDaf Yomi B'Halacha,.In general,every episode ofFine Tuned Halachadelves into an important Halachic textand extracts important nuggets of direction,history and most importantly,an understanding of how the Jewish legal system developed and continues to guide the lives of a committed people.While the learning tends to align with the seasons we find ourselves in,we are confident it will resonate well beyond the calendar into your consciousness.Please leave us a review or email us at [email protected] out more about this podcast fromyeshivaofnewark.jewishpodcasts.org See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. 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

Dedicated to theRefuah Shleimahof Tamar Elisheva Bas DevorahShould last year's Teacher give a detailed rundown on the class to this year's teacher?Can you tell someone who asks you that a contractor is habitually late in completing work?Is venting about Jewish friends to non-Jewish persons a violation of Lashon Hara?If a business was built on stolen proprietary information, should that enterprise be boycotted?Can one spread the word that a Kollel Avrech is in desperate straits financially?These are just some of the questions that wereposed to Rav Chaim Kanyevski Shlita.Rabbi Kivelevitz selects important samples and elaborates to the Shiur illustrating with examples situations thatare constantly relevant in our community.Rabbi Avraham Kivelevitz has spent the last eight years writing and teaching for Dirshu International'sDaf Yomi B'Halacha,In general,every episode ofFine Tuned Halachadelves into an important Halachic textand extracts important nuggets of direction,history and most importantly,an understanding of how the Jewish legal system developed and continues to guide the lives of a committed people.While the learning tends to align with the seasons we find ourselves in,we are confident it will resonate well beyond the calendar into your consciousness.Please leave us a review or email us at [email protected] out more about this podcast fromyeshivaofnewark.jewishpodcasts.org See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. 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

After listening to this episode-please send in your opinion to [email protected] whether the Rischa Team could thrive in Eretz Yisroel having a larger impact than staying in the United States.There have been many calls for viewing the last few months as a clarion call for Mashiach.The strident columns penned by Rabbi Chananyah Weissman calling for Jews in America to plan their evacuation from the U.S.and begin resettlement in EretzYisroel have been widely circulated.Weissman,on the heels of the recent social unrest and protests wrote a passioned histrionic piece entitled"Why do Orthodox Jews want to stay in America?",warning of the dismantling of the safeguards of society to the peril of the Bnei Yisroel.(The full text can be found at Orthodox Jews against Discrimination and Racism.)Both Rabbis Kivelevitz and Bechhofer dismiss Weissman as an extremist, and instead discuss calmly if the forced lockdowns and weakening of schools should push younger persons who are able to plan their Aliyah.Rabbi Bechhofer succinctly reviews the Halachic opinions if one is bound to move to Eretz Yisroel,now that free immigration is offered to all Jews.He claims persons who are engaged in important Harbatzas HaTorah and are thriving have no responsibility to forsake their life calling to merely subsist without honor in the Holy Land.Rabbi Bechhofer asserts that both he and Kivelevitz would be considered men of mere average ability in the midst of the towering scholarship that flourishes in every corner of Yerushalayim and Bnei Brak.Furthermore due to their eccentricities,they would never find a following or create a successful Yeshiva in the highly polarized judgmental atmosphere that permeates the country.Kivelevitz thinks Bechhofer is selling himself short,and points out that the activities both of them are managing in America hardly qualify as crucial work on behalf of the less learned of our people.He cites the example of many Rabbis who adopted the strict mores of dress that was expected of them in Eretz Yisroel,yet remained true to their essence.They were capable of disseminating their unique approach in that environment to truly appreciative knowledge loving students and chaverim .Those Rabbanim submitted to the small minded dress expectations, yet gained in self fulfillment.Why not two sixtyish red headed fellows like themselves?Please leave us a review or email us at [email protected] more information on this podcast visityeshivaofnewark.jewishpodcasts.org See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. 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

Dedicated to theRefuah Shleimahof Tamar Elisheva Bas DevorahHow does a teaching staff report and deal with information on students?Can a teacher administer public oral tests to students?What is the preferred manner to inquire about a prospective bridegroom among his Yeshiva friends?These are just some of the questions posed to the Gedolei HaPoskim in Eretz Yisroel,Rav Shmuel Vozner Zt"l,Rav Yosef Shalom Elyashiv Zt"l,Rav Yitzchack Tuvia Weiss Shlita ,and Rav Chaim Kanyevski Shlita.Rabbi Kivelevitz selects important samples and elaborates to the Shiur,wading into this grey area of Lashon Hara that is relevant on a daily basis.Rabbi Avraham Kivelevitz has spent the last eight years writing and teaching for Dirshu International'sDaf Yomi B'Halacha,In general,every episode ofFine Tuned Halachadelves into an important Halachic textand extracts important nuggets of direction,history and most importantly,an understanding of how the Jewish legal system developed and continues to guide the lives of a committed people.While the learning tends to align with the seasons we find ourselves in,we are confident it will resonate well beyond the calendar into your consciousness.Please leave us a review or email us at [email protected] out more about this podcast fromyeshivaofnewark.jewishpodcasts.org See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. 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

Dedicated to theRefuah Shleimahof Tamar Elisheva Bas DevorahUsing material from culled from the groundbreakingTzurba M'Rabananlearning guide,Rabbi Kivelevitz elaborates on the essential guidelines for a Rabbi being honest in explaining his aloof behavior, and when a not yet religious spouse can be considered muchzekes in Taharas Mishpacha.This episode can also serve as a primer of how to adhere to a law without being condescending especially as it relates to the keeping of Trumos and Maaseros in Eretz Yisroel.Kivelevitz leads you through the comments of the Sdei Chemed and the contemporary Psak of Rav Moshe Shternbach ShlitaRabbi Avraham Kivelevitz has spent the last eight years writing and teaching for Dirshu International'sDaf Yomi B'Halacha,In general,every episode ofFine Tuned Halachadelves into an important Halachic textand extracts important nuggets of direction,history and most importantly,an understanding of how the Jewish legal system developed and continues to guide the lives of a committed people.While the learning tends to align with the seasons we find ourselves in,we are confident it will resonate well beyond the calendar into your consciousness.Please leave us a review or email us at [email protected] out more about this podcast fromyeshivaofnewark.jewishpodcasts.org See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. 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 Francis Nataf is a respected educator, writer and thinker, well known for his ability to find new ways of looking attextandtradition.He is the author of the groundbreaking book on the TorahRedeeming 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 .In this episode the Rabbi examines a common social malady.Things beginning to fall apart with a small complaint It is the story of Parshas Beha'alosecha,a story that has eternal relevance.The pros and cons of criticism and when and how to do it.Please visithttp://www.francisnataf.com/for many more articles and audio classes from Rabbi NatafPlease leave us a review or email us at [email protected] more information on this podcast visityeshivaofnewark.jewishpodcasts.org See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. 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 Kivelevitz leads a ZOOM lecture through the salient sources quoted by Rav Moshe Feinstein in a groundbreaking Tshuva that has been the basis for families walking the line ,adhering to Halacha and preserving the filial connections that are so crucial.Kivelevitz highlights the applications suggested by Rav Moshe Shternbach and the arguments against them. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. 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

Charlie Harary internationally known investor, strategic adviser and professor and motivational speaker sits down when his schedule allows with Rabbi Kivelevitz to discuss the interface of Jewish values in the greater western World and a touch of sports.Rabbi Kivelevitz discusses with Charlie the important lessons he garnered from the ESPN production of the Last Dance.Charlie is an unapologetic sports fan, and beyond being an admirer of the greatness displayed in the series, he takes inspiration in the ways Micheal Jordon and others overcome adversity to become champions.He zeroes in on the key components that allow those at the top of their sport to rise above the limits of their bodily talent, and believes that they can be translated to any field.In an interesting twist of the phrase in the Zohar "Istakal Baraaisa Bara Alma",Charlie distills the positives of a world wide phenomena, and suceeds in melding the figure of the icon Micheal Jordan with the great heroes of Klal Yisroel.Rabbi Kivelevitz pushes back a bit on Charlie concerning the methods Jordon used to motivate, including dressing down and insulting team mates and wonders if the Bulls Superstar can indeed be a model for leadership. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. 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 Shmuel Skaist is the Rosh Yeshiva of the Yeshiva of Newark at IDT in Newark, New Jersey.He holds a Master’s Degree in Clinical Counseling from Bellevue University.He served as a Senior Lecturer at Ohr Naava Women’s Torah Center in Brooklyn, New York for seven years.He was employed as an adjunct professor for teaching women at both Yeshiva University Stern College for Women in New York and in Bar Ilan University in Eretz Yisroel.He has been a much sought after Scholar in Residence in venues across the country and delivered the keynote address at many prestigious Torah themed events.In addition to his administrative and teaching duties,Rabbi Skaist is a licensed therapist,employed by the Jewish Family Service of New Jersey.On the heels of various reporting indicating that countries led by women are faring better in the pandemic than men, Rabbi Kivelevitz suggests we should re-examine how the Orthodox world is educating its women members.Rabbi Skaist ,drawing on his rich experience in women's education,articulates what he sees as lacking in most of the higher education institutions dedicated to women's learning.Citing a number of instructive examples from his own teaching observations,as well as trends he has noticed in his daughters schooling ,he bemoans the lack of Ahavas HaTorah for its own sake.He eschews any feminist agenda,yet argues passionately for Talmudic learning to be offered to and encouraged for female students,especially women who are discovering Torah after years of immersion in high level secular education in the sciences.He also believes that most girls are receiving a strong secondary message alongside the Torah in the classrooms.That the main role of a good Jewish woman is to be a submissive housewife and enable her husband's Torah growth.Rabbi Kivelevitz,informed by the article by Rivka Press Schwartz,describing the approach of Rebbetzin Chayah Ausband A'h,wonders if her success in inculcating deep love of Torah learning,cannot be replicated even in institutions wary of introducing Talmud study for their female attendees.The episode ends with an important comment heard in the name of Rav Yisroel Chait that makes a claim for women's Torah study as a means to Ahavas Hashem as per the Rambam's formulation in Sefer HaMitzvos.Please leave us a review or email us at [email protected] out more about this podcast fromyeshivaofnewark.jewishpodcasts.org See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. 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.In a lecture given recently over ZOOM,Rabbi Klapper wades into relatively unchartered Halachic waters to provide guidelines for dealing with what is sure to be a rash of cases of employees suing for lost wages due to the pandemic.The Yeshiva of Newark @IDT has been committed to providing cutting edge relevant Halachic information during the Corona outbreak.We are proud to partner with Rabbi Klapper in this regard helping spread his scholarly thoughtful ideas and Halachic insight to an audience that appreciates measured responses in these novel times.Please visithttp://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 sitehttps://anchor.fm/aryeh-klapper.Please leave us a review or email us at [email protected] more information on this podcast visityeshivaofnewark.jewishpodcasts.org See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. 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

Dedicated to theRefuah Shleimahof Tamar Elisheva Bas DevorahUsing material from culled from the groundbreaking Tzurba M'Rabanan learning guide,,Rabbi Kivelevitz elaborates on the essential guidelines for trusting another Jew's word that the food he is serving you is Kosher.From the Talmud ,Kivelevitz leads you through to the Rambam and Shulchan Oruch,and the important Psakim of Rav Yaakov Mendelson Z"land Rav Moshe Feinstein Z"l that deal with parents eating at the homes of their no longer religious children.Rabbi Avraham Kivelevitz has spent the last eight years writing and teaching for Dirshu International'sDaf Yomi B'Halacha,In general,every episode ofFine Tuned Halachadelves into an important Halachic textand extracts important nuggets of direction,history and most importantly,an understanding of how the Jewish legal system developed and continues to guide the lives of a committed people.While the learning tends to align with the seasons we find ourselves in,we are confident it will resonate well beyond the calendar into your consciousness.Please leave us a review or email us at [email protected] out more about this podcast fromyeshivaofnewark.jewishpodcasts.org See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. 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

Dedicated to theRefuah Shleimahof Tamar Elisheva Bas DevorahReading an important Psak from the Tshuva sefer"Aseh Licha Rav"byRav Chaim Dovid HaLevi Zt"l,Rabbi Kivelevitz deals with one of the most prevalent Halachic problems of the modern age.Can Non-Shabbas observant Jews be counted for a Minyan.In this case,the search for a solution was compounded by issues of Kibud Av,and the sociological realities of the Beis HaKneses in question.Rabbi Avraham Kivelevitz has spent the last eight years writing and teaching for Dirshu International'sDaf Yomi B'Halacha,In general,every episode ofFine Tuned Halachadelves into an important Halachic textand extracts important nuggets of direction,history and most importantly,an understanding of how the Jewish legal system developed and continues to guide the lives of a committed people.While the learning tends to align with the seasons we find ourselves in,we are confident it will resonate well beyond the calendar into your consciousness.Please leave us a review or email us at [email protected] out more about this podcast fromyeshivaofnewark.jewishpodcasts.org See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. 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

The Rabbis discuss the prevalent problem confronting religious persons who attempt to include their secular relatives in ritual Jewish events.Rabbi Kivelevitz believes that accommodations that validate the non religious members importance and self worth are crucial.Rabbi Worch states emphatically that this attitude leads to violations of the spirit and letter of our sacred laws and customs.Kivelevitz cites in example the actions of Rav Avraham Pam Zt'l and his Rebbetzin Sorah a"h in preparation for Halloween, while Worch strongly discounts the parallel.Rabbi Kivelevitz refers to a Shailah concerning a wedding that he was asked to rule on.In deference to the family's strong feelings,he instructed the Mesader Kedushin to introduce an accommodation that would preserve family unity.Rabbi Worch lambastes his co-host for his temerity in issuing such a Psak,and believes he will be censured for it in the Mesivta DaRekiya.The pair spar over the real meaning of the Biblical word דתand how that is reflected in the concept Das Yehudis.Please leave us a review or email us at [email protected] out more about this podcast fromyeshivaofnewark.jewishpodcasts.org See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. 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

Dedicated to theRefuah Shleimahof Tamar Elisheva Bas DevorahReading selections from a Psak fromEretz Chemdah's important collection ofTshuvos-Bimaareh HaBezek,Rabbi Kivelevitz deals with how a Mohel should conduct a Bris where Chilul Shabbas will occur on the part of attending family and friends.He also reads sections of the Psak of the renowned Dati LaEumi Rosh Yeshiva and Posek Rav Shaul Yisraeli Zt"l on the financial responsibility due to the Mohel by the father of the baby. Rabbi Avraham Kivelevitz has spent the last eight years writing and teaching for Dirshu International'sDaf Yomi B'Halacha.In general,every episode ofFine Tuned Halachadelves into an important Halachic textand extracts important nuggets of direction,history and most importantly,an understanding of how the Jewish legal system developed and continues to guide the lives of a committed people.While the learning tends to align with the seasons we find ourselves in,we are confident it will resonate well beyond the calendar into your consciousness.Please leave us a review or email us at [email protected] out more about this podcast fromyeshivaofnewark.jewishpodcasts.org See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. 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

Rabbis Kivelevitz and Bechhofer stridently condemn the opinion piece published by Rabbi Moshe Ben Chaimin his on line Mesora.org magazine.Ben Chaim's essay,which Kivelevitz deems a screed,displays great insensitivity and recycles standard condescending racist attitudes. Ideas,both Rabbis insist,that need to be stamped out and denied a public forum.Rabbi Bechhofer describes the racist attitudes that still prevail in his home town of Monsey in the populace and in the police as part of the larger ugly prejudice in our country.Kivelevitz believes Bechhofer hasn't gone far enough,and while condemning the violence protesters have unleashed against police and private property,cites the instructive opinion essay penned by David Remnick and the approach offered by Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. when he addressed the American Psychological association in September, 1967 in understanding social unrest and vandalism."Urban riots", King said, “may be deplored, but . . . they are not insurrections. The rioters are not seeking to seize territory or to attain control of institutions. They are mainly intended to shock the white community. They are a distorted form of social protest.” Even looting, he insisted, is an act of catharsis, a form of “shocking” the white community “by abusing property rights.”King quoted Victor Hugo to deepen his point: “If a soul is left in the darkness, sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness.”Kivelevitz goes further in calling for education beginning at the youngest age in Yeshivos to breed tolerance acceptance and love for all mankind,including teaching the role slavery played in entrenching the odious attitudes that still filter in to our interactions today with persons of color.The Charedi schools remain neglectful in planting positive attitudes towards the African American wider community in their students.Bechhofer attempts to see the fault lines for this development in the change of emphasis Rav Yitzchack Hutnerbegan in the 1950's when he rejected Rav Kook's inclusive agenda in favor of the Torah-only position of the Chazon Ish.Hutner's Chaim Berlin produced many of the most important Jewish educators of the second half of the 20th century.These administrators worked with blinders on,Bechhofer implies,and ignored the human compassion for others the Torah emphasizes.Kivelevitz is quite skeptical in assuming that the roots for endemic distrust and enmity lie in such a subtle source.He does however describe how his Yeshiva high school education was laced with vile anti African American attitudes,and he often heard degrading racial epithets in Ner Israel bandied about by the Rabbeim.He describes his childhood in Memphis,living in a neighborhood that due to white flight had become predominantly African American.The lessons of friendship and commonality he gained from his pleasurable innocent interactions with neighbors was cemented and enhanced by his Eastern European refugee father's displays of benevolence towards the Kivelevitz's African American tenants.The elder Kivelevitz instructed his son that they were victims who were caught in a grip of poverty and frustration.Sadly,that harmonious attitude was drummed out of him by his immersion in the Baltimore Yeshiva.The school's zeitgeist was rife with the residue of anger lingering from the mid 1960's when ruthless attacks were perpetrated on Yeshiva students on the Garrison Boulevard campus.The Rabbis make a pitch to share the ideals espoused in the Facebook group Bechhofer formedOrthodox Jews against Discrimination and Racism.Please leave us a review or email us at [email protected] more information on this podcast visityeshivaofnewark.jewishpodcasts.org See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. 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.In a striking exhaustive lecture given in August 2006 at Congregation Shaarei Tefillah in Newton, MA Rabbi Klapper dissects the salient texts where Rav Menachem Meiri espouses a novel tolerance and appreciation of Medieval Christianity.He weighs the possibilities of using this minority opinion as the basis for modern legal decisions.Over the almost two hour presentation,Klapper explains how he believes Moshe Halbertal has erred in tracing the source for the Meiri's statements as his philosophical orientation drawn from the Maimonidean philosophic tradition.Rabbi Klapper also brings to the forefront other modern Rabbinic champions of tolerance who reshaped the concept of aivah and Darchei Shalom in ways that can indeed govern our attitude and upgrade our behavior,and call for a halachic shift in relation to the majority world religions of today.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 visithttp://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 sitehttps://anchor.fm/aryeh-klapper.Please leave us a review or email us at [email protected] more information on this podcast visityeshivaofnewark.jewishpodcasts.org See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. 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

Dedicated to theRefuah Shleimahof Tamar Elisheva Bas DevorahReading selections from a Psak from Eretz Chemdah's important collection of Tshuvos-Bimaareh HaBezek, Rabbi Kivelevitz deals with how a community should continue to offer material and moral support to a tax scofflaw and his family,while not condoning his actions.The principles of community Tzedakah and Gemilas Chesed are delineated, as well as a clarification of what behavior brands a person as a mumar l'teyavon,and unworthy of the complete philanthropic options of their Kehillah.Rabbi Avraham Kivelevitz has spent the last eight years writing and teaching for Dirshu International'sDaf Yomi B'Halacha.In general,every episode ofFine Tuned Halachadelves into an important Halachic textand extracts important nuggets of direction,history and most importantly,an understanding of how the Jewish legal system developed and continues to guide the lives of a committed people.While the learning tends to align with the seasons we find ourselves in,we are confident it will resonate well beyond the calendar into your consciousness.Please leave us a review or email us at [email protected] out more about this podcast fromyeshivaofnewark.jewishpodcasts.org See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. 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 Binny Freedman is a highly engaging and inspirational educator who has a gift for synthesizing difficult, sophisticated material in a way that inspires both the novice and the scholar. His proficiency in applying classic Jewish concepts to contemporary life in a personal and meaningful way has made him a sought after speaker throughout North America and around the world.Rav Binny speaking to histalmidimthrough ZOOM teleconferencingposes thoughtprovoking questions the Mitzvah and ultimate meaning of Birchas Kohanimand provides his usual inventive and inspiring approach.We thank the Orayta Yeshivah for the use of this material-Check out more Shiurim and information on their websitehttps://www.orayta.org/Please leave us a review or comment at [email protected] more information on this podcast visityeshivaofnewark.jewishpodcasts.org See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. 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