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  • The Two Faces of Lag BaOmer

    The Two Faces of Lag BaOmer
    May 15 2025
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  • Q&A: Light Unto The Nations, Animal Pain & Wishing Wells

    Q&A: Light Unto The Nations, Animal Pain & Wishing Wells
    May 12 2025
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    Episode dedicated by Harold and Gilla Saltzman in appreciation for the Torah learned from Rav Breitowitz over the years.

    Dedication opportunities are available for episodes and series at https://ohr.edu/donate/qa Questions? Comments? podcasts@ohr.edu Yeshivat Ohr Somayach located in the heart of Jerusalem, is an educational institution for young Jewish English-speaking men. We have a range of classes and programs designed for the intellectually curious and academically inclined - for those with no background in Jewish learning to those who are proficient in Gemara and other original source material. To find the perfect program for you, please visit our website https://ohr.edu/study_in_israel​ whatsapp us at https://bit.ly/OSREGISTER or call our placement specialist at 1-254-981-0133 today!

    Q&A Timestamps 7 May

    00:00 - How do Hareidim balance being reclusive and being a light to the nations?

    03:55 - Why do we have a modern-day obligation to give Maaser on money when the Torah

    only refers to it in regard to agricultural produce?

    10:35 - Is there an issue of Tzar Baalei Chaim to tag the ears of cattle? What about piercing

    a person’s ear?

    17:35 - What caused the Mussar movement? Did they not need Mussar before that?

    29:15 - Why is it forbidden to use electricity on Shabbos?

    44:28 - Can someone lose his status as a Jew?

    51:00 - What is the status of Amen?

    56:34 - Is sirloin steak worse than pork?

    01:06:22 - Why do we permit listening to music?

    01:10:47 - In the Haftorah: when Dovid HaMelech made a mistake in how he transported

    the ark why should Uza be punished; how could he give such rebuke to Michal?

    01:15:55 - Are wishing wells considered Avodah Zara and could one take the coins from

    them?

    01:17:55 - Why is Birchas Cohanim in Loshon Yochid?

    01:21:55 - Why should it be permitted to go on a ship on shabbat but not a train or a car?

    01:27:34 - How is it that disparate people converge on the same interest?

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    1 h y 31 m
  • Q&A: AI, Atheism by Trauma & The Omer

    Q&A: AI, Atheism by Trauma & The Omer
    May 5 2025
    Join us in Jerusalem for Ohr Samayach's Inaugural Yarchei Kallah event from July 7th to 9th, 2024! Featuring HaRav Yitzchak Breitowitz shlit"a & HaRav Asher Weiss shlit"a and more Click here for more information. Dont miss this one of a kind experience! ---------------------------------------------------- Episode dedicated by Harold and Gilla Saltzman in appreciation for the Torah learned from Rav Breitowitz over the years. Dedication opportunities are available for episodes and series at https://ohr.edu/donate/qa Questions? Comments? podcasts@ohr.edu Yeshivat Ohr Somayach located in the heart of Jerusalem, is an educational institution for young Jewish English-speaking men. We have a range of classes and programs designed for the intellectually curious and academically inclined - for those with no background in Jewish learning to those who are proficient in Gemara and other original source material. To find the perfect program for you, please visit our website https://ohr.edu/study_in_israel​ whatsapp us at https://bit.ly/OSREGISTER or call our placement specialist at 1-254-981-0133 today! Q&A Timestamps 30 April 00:48 - Can a Jew go somewhere without sunset and sunrise such as the Arctic circle? 05:58 - The scientists say that the universe will end. Is there such an idea in Torah thought? 09:13 - Is it a Jewish concept to attach sentimental value to physical items? 12:43 - If you cross the international date line to the previous day would you daven again? 25:23 - How would you deal with someone who attacks Orthodox Judaism based on the behaviour of Jews? 28:40 - Does Judaism require that we look at the Torah as historical fact? 36:00 - What would be the status in Kashrus of something cooked entirely by a robot? 38:23 - Does putting one’s finger in his ear, nose or mouth require cleaning his hands before learning? 41:13 - And what about socks? 42:12 - What does it mean when Rishonim say L’Halacha v’Lo L’Maaseh? 46:23 - How do we understand refining oneself for a self-serving purpose? 53:25 - What if someone is an atheist based on trauma? 55:23 - Is one’s consciousness and his neshama the same? 56:20 - Should one be able to identify what mitzvah he is doing at each moment? 01:03:58 - Rambam says we should look at the maasim of Hashem to bring us to awe and love of Him. Does that mean we should study science? 01:08:53 - What is the best way to make use of the Omer period to prepare for Kabbolos HaTorah? 01:12:11 - Why do we discuss the difference between Magen Avraham and Gra for Sof Zman Krias Shema but not by Sof Zman Tefillah? Subscribe to the Rabbi Breitowitz Q&A Podcast at https://plnk.to/rbq&a Submit questions for the Q&A with Rabbi Breitowitz https://forms.gle/VCZSK3wQJJ4fSd3Q7 Subscribe to our YouTube Channel at https://www.youtube.com/c/OhrSomayach/videos You can listen to this and many other Ohr Somayach programs by downloading our app, on Apple and Google Play, ohr.edu and all major podcast platforms. Visit us @ https://ohr.edu PRODUCED BY: CEDAR MEDIA STUDIOS
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    1 h y 16 m
  • Pesach Freedom, Responsibility & the Hard Boiled Egg

    Pesach Freedom, Responsibility & the Hard Boiled Egg
    Apr 10 2025

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  • Q&A: Preparing for Pesach, OTD & Imposter Syndrome

    Q&A: Preparing for Pesach, OTD & Imposter Syndrome
    Apr 6 2025

    Dedicated by Anonymous in Honor of Rav Breitowitz

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    Q&A Timestamps 26 March

    00:00 - Could the Rav speak about some of Rav Schiller’s central ideas?

    14:30 - How does one fight the feeling that he could be learning something better?

    18:44 - How did we lose certain Mesoras?

    24:13 - Does the Rav have tips for raising children to be strong in their Yidishkeit? Why do

    the children of good parents go off the derech?

    41:12 - How much is Hashem involved in raffles?

    54:20 - Why is it so hard to find healthy family relationship in Tanach?

    56:20 - Why do we not have a tribal structure anymore?

    1:01:30 - How would the Rav prove the existence of God?

    01:11:19 - Could the Torah have been written by man and given to the ‘Jewish’ nation?

    01:15:05 - Advice on how to prepare for Pesach

    01:20:50 - What is the relationship between Yiras Hashem and Chochmah?

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  • Q&A: Chareidi Hashkafa, Mashiach & Petting Dogs

    Q&A: Chareidi Hashkafa, Mashiach & Petting Dogs
    Apr 1 2025

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    Q&A Timestamps 19 March

    00:00 - What is the argument for the Neturei Karta position?

    03:27 - Could you make the case for why the Hareidi hashkafa is superior to all other Orthodox hashkafas?

    05:21 - Is there a good way to take the best parts of all the different haskafas?

    11:38 - How does one choose who to take as a Rebbe?

    17:47 - How do we know Hashem didn’t make the offer to replace the Jewish people to prophets other than

    Moshe?

    23:55 - How could we arrive at the same questions that the great genius rabbis of the generations asked?

    28:00 - Where does the custom to learn Pirkei Avos between Pesach and Shavuos come from?

    30:44 - How does an Ashkenazi know when he can use a Sefardi Halachah?

    34:25 - Could the Oral Torah exist without the Written Torah?

    37:00 - How can one deal with other people being more successful than him?

    47:00 - Was the pin test really practiced and what are other similar feats of memory?

    54:30 - Which nation is the final one before Machiach?

    01:02:10 - Could the Rav elaborate on the discrepancy between the Jewish history time-line and Secular history

    time-line.

    01:12:20 - Why haven’t Klal Yisrael recreated real Smicha as according to the Rambam?

    01:17:50 - Should one always accept humiliation without retaliation?

    01:24:20 - How should one react to others when they treat him badly?

    01:27:55 - Can an Ashkenazi eat in a Sephardi restaurant?

    01:31:55 - What din of reshut is a large man-made canal?

    01:32:51 - Why doesn’t the Torah go in chronological order?

    01:33:45 - Why do we have an Oral Torah?

    01:34:50 - What is the authority of Chazal to uproot a Torah mitzvah?

    01:37:00 - When someone davens for a shidduch should he have a list of desirable qualities in mind?

    01:37:55 - What is the Jewish view of astrology?

    01:40:24 - Can one pet an dog on Shabbos

    01:43:00 - Should I put on a black hat?

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  • Q&A: Rav Nota Schiller zt"l, 13 & The Haggadah

    Q&A: Rav Nota Schiller zt"l, 13 & The Haggadah
    Mar 25 2025

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    (3-12-25) 00:00 - Words about the Rosh Yeshiva zt’’l

    05:37 - Why would Hashem create a situation in which there was a need to write the Oral Torah down? 14:00 - Even the Goyim were aware of the prophecy that the Temple would be rebuilt within 70 years 22:08 - What is the Halachic status of communal acceptance? 34:30 - How do we deal with the Haggadah’s treatment of the wicked son or the way the Mishnayos in Yevamos deal with women? 50:40 - There is a difference between the abbreviated form of the 13 principles of faith and the unabridged version. Why? 01:12:30 - Why didn’t the Jewish people ask Aharon to be their new leader rather than the Golden Calf? 01:17:30 - What is important about getting dead-bodies back and praying at a grave? 01:23:16 - Should one actively do a small aveirah to avoid doing a bigger aveirah passively? 01:31:00 - The Torah says all males need to go to the Temple. How would this function economically or spatially? 01:34:25 - Is there a hierarchy in mitzvos?

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  • Fasting on Taanis Esther

    Fasting on Taanis Esther
    Mar 13 2025

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