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12 Lectures: The Tefilah of Asher Yatzar ■ The Har Habayis - The Temple Mount in Halacha and Hashkafa ■ Sonei Matonos Yichye - Refusing Gifts ■ The Bris Milah Seudah - Fleishigs or Milchig? ■ Getting Paid for Mitzvos ■ Fascinating Insights into the Tefilah of Mincha ■ Lashon Aramis - Aramaic ■ The Father of the Bride: His Responsibilities ■ Birthdays - A Jewish Minhag? ■ Davening for the Welfare
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Turn your commute time into learning time. As you listen, you’ll become part of the captivating shiur on each tape, exploring a panorama of fascinating halachic issues.
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10 Lectures: The Woman Mohel; Laser Milah ■ Checking Out Families for Shidduchim ■ Dishwashers on Shabbos ■ The Supernatural and the "Mun" dane ■ Kiddush B'mkom Seudah ■ Rabbinical Contracts ■ A Woman's First Candle Lighting Neigel Vasser- Washing Hands When Arising ■ The Mishebeirach in Halacha ■ Putting A Sefer Torah in the Aron
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Turn your commute time into learning time. As you listen, you will become part of the captivating shiur on each tape, exploring a panorama of fascinating halachic issues.
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6 Lectures: Cutting Branches of Fruit Trees ■ Ramps and Stages - Do They Need a Maakeh? ■ The Onain and Kaddish ■ Rosh Hashana & Yom Kippur- Asking and Giving Forgiveness ■ Tzom Gedaliah and Believing Lashon Harah ■ Teshuva, Tefillah and September 11
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Turn your commute time into learning time. As you listen, you will become part of the captivating shiur on each tape, exploring a panorama of fascinating halachic issues.
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Turn your commute time into learning time. As you listen, you’ll become part of the captivating shiur on each CD, exploring a panorama of fascinating halachic issues.
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Turn your commute time into learning time. As you listen, you will become part of the captivating shiur on each tape, exploring a panorama of fascinating halachic issues.
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10 Lectures: The Woman Mohel; Laser Milah ■ Checking Out Families for Shidduchim ■ Dishwashers on Shabbos ■ The Supernatural and the "Mun" dane ■ Kiddush B'mkom Seudah ■ Rabbinical Contracts ■ A Woman's First Candle Lighting Neigel Vasser- Washing Hands When Arising ■ The Mishebeirach in Halacha ■ Putting A Sefer Torah in the Aron
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Turn your commute time into learning time. As you listen, you will become part of the captivating shiur on each tape, exploring a panorama of fascinating halachic issues.
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Turn your commute time into learning time. As you listen, you will become part of the captivating shiur on each tape, exploring a panorama of fascinating halachic issues.
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12 Lectures: The Tefilah of Asher Yatzar ■ The Har Habayis - The Temple Mount in Halacha and Hashkafa ■ Sonei Matonos Yichye - Refusing Gifts ■ The Bris Milah Seudah - Fleishigs or Milchig? ■ Getting Paid for Mitzvos ■ Fascinating Insights into the Tefilah of Mincha ■ Lashon Aramis - Aramaic ■ The Father of the Bride: His Responsibilities ■ Birthdays - A Jewish Minhag? ■ Davening for the Welfare of the Government ■ Learning and Davening on the Road ■ Belief in the Coming of Moshiach
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Turn your commute time into learning time. As you listen, you’ll become part of the captivating shiur on each tape, exploring a panorama of fascinating halachic issues.
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8 Lectures: Eruv and the Big City ■ The Unfaithful Wife - Is Ignorance an Excuse? ■ Lox and Cream Cheese ■ K'rias Shema and K'eil Melech Ne'eman ■ Different Minhagim for Saying Kedusha ■ Choshed Bekesherim and Daan L'kaf Zíchus ■ Makom Kevuah Revisited ■ Women and Bentching
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Turn your commute time into learning time. As you listen, you’ll become part of the captivating shiur on each tape, exploring a panorama of fascinating halachic issues.
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6 Lectures: The Grandson and Kaddish ■ Chasunah Minhagim ■ The Staggering Cost of Lashon Ho'rah ■ My Father's Chumros ■ Personal Tefilos on Rosh Hashana ■ We Dare Not Despair
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10 Lectures: The Woman Mohel; Laser Milah ■ Checking Out Families for Shidduchim ■ Dishwashers on Shabbos ■ The Supernatural and the "Mun" dane ■ Kiddush B'mkom Seudah ■ Rabbinical Contracts ■ A Woman's First Candle Lighting Neigel Vasser- Washing Hands When Arising ■ The Mishebeirach in Halacha ■ Putting A Sefer Torah in the Aron
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6 Lectures: Cutting Branches of Fruit Trees ■ Ramps and Stages - Do They Need a Maakeh? ■ The Onain and Kaddish ■ Rosh Hashana & Yom Kippur- Asking and Giving Forgiveness ■ Tzom Gedaliah and Believing Lashon Harah ■ Teshuva, Tefillah and September 11
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6 Lectures: The Grandson and Kaddish ■ Chasunah Minhagim ■ The Staggering Cost of Lashon Ho'rah ■ My Father's Chumros ■ Personal Tefilos on Rosh Hashana ■ We Dare Not Despair
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8 Lectures: Eruv and the Big City ■ The Unfaithful Wife - Is Ignorance an Excuse? ■ Lox and Cream Cheese ■ K'rias Shema and K'eil Melech Ne'eman ■ Different Minhagim for Saying Kedusha ■ Choshed Bekesherim and Daan L'kaf Zíchus ■ Makom Kevuah Revisited ■ Women and Bentching
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8 Lectures: Gebrokts and Kneidelach ■ More Than Periodontal Problems ■ Baal Teshaktzu - Abstaining From Unpleasant Behavior ■ Lashon Harah and Lashon Hatov ■ The Prohibition of Hating Another Jew ■ Bracha of Mekadaish Es Shimcha B'rabim ■ The Kedusha of the Ezras Noshim ■Playing with Fire - The Destructive Power of Machlokes
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8 Lectures: Gebrokts and Kneidelach ■ More Than Periodontal Problems ■ Baal Teshaktzu - Abstaining From Unpleasant Behavior ■ Lashon Harah and Lashon Hatov ■ The Prohibition of Hating Another Jew ■ Bracha of Mekadaish Es Shimcha B'rabim ■ The Kedusha of the Ezras Noshim ■Playing with Fire - The Destructive Power of Machlokes
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12 Lectures: Adoption: Problems and Solutions ■ The Abortion Controversy ■ a Conversion (Geirus) ■ Mila and the "Yellow" Baby ■ The Shadchan in Halacha ■ Marriage Between Relatives ■ Obligation to Give Ma'aser ■ Xmas Eve in Halacha and Agadah ■ Chanukah Licht on Erev Shabbos ■ Chanukah Issues ■ Are Building Funds Kosher? ■ Establishing Time of Death
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10 Lectures: Husbands at Childbirth ■ Shabbos Emergency: Should One Call a Non-Shomer Shabbos Doctor? ■ Amirah L'Akum: The "Shabbos Goy" ■ Israel's Wars: 1948-1973, A Halachic Perspective ■ Kiddush: To Sit or Not to Sit ■ Malpractice ■ Changing Nusach: Ashkenaz vs. Sephard ■ The Gartel: To Wear or Not to Wear ■ Dealing with Illness on Shabbos ■ Pikuach Nefesh: To Save a Life
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10 Lectures: Going Up To Yerushalayim for Yom Tov: Does it Apply Today? ■ Sheitel: A Woman's Obligation to Cover Her Hair ■ Waiting Between Meat and Milk: Adults and Children ■ 061 Sh'lach The Minyan: Who Counts? ■ May the State of Israel Extradite a Jewish Criminal? ■ Intermarriage ■ The Yarmulka: At Home and In the Office ■ Polygamy and the Cherem of Rabeinu Gershom ■ Learning Hebrew: Mitzvah or Not? ■ The Mitzvah of Writing a Sefer Torah
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10 Lectures: Yerushalayim in Halacha ■ The Prohibition of Yichud ■ Reinstituting the S'micha ■ Mixed Seating at Weddings ■ Visiting the Sick ■ Rending Garments on Seeing Yerushalayim ■ Copying Cassette Tapes ■ Non-Halachic Marriage Ceremonies ■ The "Ins and Outs" of Mezzuzah ■ Reading Haftorah: Scrolls vs. Book
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12 Lectures: You and Your Wife - Ishto Kegufo ■ The Golam ■ Learning Vs Saving A Life ■ Asking and Giving Mechila ■ Feeding Your Animals ■ Yichud With Relatives ■ Tuiton and Maaser Money ■ Bowing to A Person ■ Determining Paternity ■ The Silver Menorah and Other Chanukah Issues ■ Being the Bearer of Bad Tidings ■ Honoring an Older Brother
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10 Lectures: Cholov Yisroel: Necessary or Not in Modern America? ■ Astrology: Is It For Us? ■ The Burning Issue of Smoking ■ The Mitzvah of Krias HaTorah ■ Christianity in Halacha ■ Withholding Medical Treatment ■ The Microphone on Shabbos ■ Parshas Zachor and Other Purim Issues ■ Returning From a Medical Emergency on Shabbos ■ The Melacha of Carrying
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12 Lectures: The Tefilah of Modeh Ani ■ Cosmetic Surgery ■ The Widow and the Divorcee - How Long Must They Wait to Remarry ■ Shalom Aleichem on Friday Night ■ Dating Etiquette ■ Shiva and the Wayward Son ■ The Tefilah of Baruch Hashem L'Olom Omein V'Omein ■ The Prohibition of Gid Hanasheh ■ Chanukah - Women Lighting for Husbands ■ The Bad Dream ■ K'rias Shema: Fascinating Insights ■ Fulfilling the Wishes of the Deceased
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10 Lectures: Shalosh Seudos in Shuls: Is There a Problem? ■ Magic Shows: More Than Meets the Eye ■ Tefillin and Long Hair ■ Female Vocalists: The Problem of Kol Isha ■ The Mitzvah of Kiddush for Men and Women ■ Medicine, Shabbos, and the Non-Jew ■ Davening Towards Mizrach ■ Candle Lighting on Friday Night ■ You and the Seriously Ill: How Much of a Responsibility? ■ The Melacha of Writing
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10 Lectures: The Korban Pesach Today ■ When to Make the Bracha of HaGomel ■ 005 Pesach Medicines Containing Chometz ■ The Insects-in-Vegetables Controversy ■ Self-Defense ■ Lifnei Ivair (Accessory to an Aveira) ■ Prohibition Against Using a Razor ■ Can Kohanim Visit Graves of Tzadikim ■ Rationing Medical Care ■ Can Teachers Strike?
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10 Lectures: Kosher Cheese: What Is It? ■ Kosher Cheese Continued - Cottage Cheese and Butter ■ Ya'ale V'Yovo ■ Kiddush or Netilas Yadayim - Which Comes First? ■ Resting Your Animal on the Shabbos ■ The Kesuba ■ The Po'roches ■ Having Your Own Megilah ■ Mincha - How Early, How Late? ■ Sitting in Judgement on Shabbos
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10 Lectures: Giving English Names ■ The Issur of Entering a Church ■ Sephardic vs. Ashkenazic Pronunciation Is There a Correct Way? ■ Standing for Krias Hatorah ■ Honoring In-Laws ■ Hashovas Aveida: Returning Lost Objects ■ Living Above a Shul ■ Purim Costumes: Anything Goes? ■ The Census: Can Jews Be Counted? ■ The Melacha of Tying Knots on Shabbos
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10 Lectures: Artificial Insemination ■ Ma'ariv and Mitzvos in the Land of the Midnight Sun ■ a Bris Mila: The Metzitzah Controversy ■ The Tzava'ah (Last Will and Testament) of Rabbeinu Yehuda Hachasid ■ Superstition in Halacha ■ Non-Kosher Medicines and the Birchas Hareiach (Scents) ■ Honoring Parents Who Are Not Observant ■ Tombstones: Halachic Questions and Answers ■ Katlanis: The Twice Widowed Woman ■ Prohibitions During Times of Crises ■ The Uses of Snow in Halacha ■ The Yissocher-Zevulun Partnership
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10 Lectures: Disposal of Shaimos ■ Learning in Kollel: Is It Always Permitted? ■ Kiddush Levanah ■ Music in Halacha ■ The Fearless Judge: A Difficult Task ■ Taking Medication on Shabbos ■ Selling a Shul ■ Purim Issues II ■ The Mitzvah of Shekalim and Davening Musaf ■ Making a Siyum
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10 Lectures: Learning On Shabbos--A Good Idea? ■ Shin Shel Tefillin & Ohr Echad ■ Rashi & Rabbeinu Ta'am's Tefillin ■ Using P'sukim for Nigunim? ■ Newspapers on Shabbos ■ Losing Your Coat at a Coat Check ■ Preventing the Building of a Shul ■ Matanos Le'evyonim ■ Machatzis Hashekel ■ Learning Kabbalah
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12 Lectures: A Mamzer's Obligation in Mitzvos ■ Teaching Torah to Non-Jews ■ a The Mitzva of Yishuv Eretz Yisroel ■ Milk and Eggs in Halacha ■ That "Mazik" of a Child: Is He Responsible? ■ The Bracha of "Baruch Sheptarani" ■ Making A Neder During Times of Trouble ■ The Difficult Childbirth ■ Secular Studies ■ "Lo Sechanaim"-Giving Gifts to Non-Jews ■ Honoring Elderly Parents ■ Funerals in Halacha
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12 Lectures: Kavod and Oneg Shabbos ■ The Ben Noach -- & the Nectarine ■ a Calling Avraham, Avrum ■ Walking by a Person Who Is Davening ■ The Badekin ■ Maris Ayin ■ A Million Dollars to Tzadaka IfÖ ■ Matzeivah Questions ■ Sending Someone on a Fatal Mission ■ Ner Chanukah: Where, When and Other Issues ■ Performing A Mitzvah Personally ■ Burial In Eretz Yisroel
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8 Lectures: Selling Chametz ■ Birchas Hagomel, Airplane Travel & Other Issues ■ Bedikas Chametz ■ Dangerous Medical Procedures ■ Treating Mitzvos with Respect ■ The Wayward Daughter ■ Marrying for Money ■ Hark, I Hear The Cannon Roar -- Giving the Benefit of the Doubt
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8 Lectures: Opening Cans on Shabbos and Yom Tov ■ Being Motzi a Wife in Kiddush ■ Kavod Sefer Torah Vs Kavod Talmid Chochom ■ Women and Tzitzis Revisited ■ The Kohain and the First Aliyah ■ Women Fasting on 17th Tamuz, Tisha B'av and Yom Kippur ■ Bishul Akum II ■ Disinheriting
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10 Lectures: Marrying Cousins? ■ Denying Jewishness ■ The Lefty and Tefilin ■ The Three Seudos of Shabbos ■ Eating Before Kiddush ■ Bitul B'rov ■ Bima In The Center Of The Shul ■ Reneging on a Tzedaka Pledge ■ Tallis: Bringing It Home On Shabbos ■ The Tefillah of B'rich Sh'mei
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12 Lectures: Melacha of Planting ■ Tzedaka and Non-Jews ■ a Sandik-Can You Change Your Mind ■ Mitzvah of Inviting Guests ■ Calling Off An Engagement ■ Lying to Keep What's Yours ■ Davening to a Malach ■ Celebrating Thanksgiving ■ The Ubiquitous Donor Plaque ■ Miracle Products and Other Chanukah Issues ■ Grandchildren in Halacha ■ Determining Date of Moshiach's Arrival
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6 Lectures: The Mitzvah of Escorting Guests ■ Trying on Suits that May Have Shatnes ■ Mentioning G-D's Name in Vain ■ Treatment of An Invalid Sefer Torah ■ Women and Shofar ■ It's All About Change
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8 Lectures: Hasogas G'vul: Infringing on Another's Livelihood ■ Mamzeirus: Possible Solutions? ■ Allocating Your Tzedaka Dollar ■ Shoteh: Mental Incompetence in Halacha ■ The Bracha of Hamelech Hakadosh ■ Yom Kippur vs. Tzom Gedaliah: Surprising Priorities ■ Succos -- Issues ■ The Era of Teshuvah
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12 Lectures: Inducing Labor: A Viable Option? ■ Suicide: Is it Ever Permitted? ■ a Conversion for Ulterior Motives ■ After Milchigs: How Long a Wait? ■ The Jewish Cemetery ■ G'neivas Da'as: Deception and Your Fellow Man ■ Tefilla B'tzibur: Is it Mandatory? ■ The Seven Noach -- ide Laws ■ HaMalbin P'nei Chaveiro: Shaming Another ■ Dreams in Halacha and Hashkafa ■ Baby Naming ■ The Sandik at a Bris
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8 Lectures: Confidentiality: The Prohibition Against Revealing Secrets ■ Pesach: The Mitzvah of Daled Kosos ■ Using a Mikveh for Non-Orthodox Conversions ■ Eyeglasses in Halacha ■ Inviting the Non-0bservant to Your Shabbos Table ■ Kohanim in Hospitals: A Real Problem ■ Kidney Donations: Endangering Oneself to Save Another ■ Affluence -- The Blessing and the Challenge
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8 Lectures: Birchas HaTorah ■ Sa'ar B'isha Ervah ■ When Do We Stand in Honor Of a Sefer Torah? ■ Women and Tzitzis ■ "Masiach L'fi Tumoh": The Coca Cola Question ■ Use of Unethical Medical Research ■ Pas Akum ■ The Do's and Don'ts of Kashering Keilim
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8 Lectures: Polygraph in Halacha ■ "Get Me'useh": The Problem of the "Forced Get" ■ Geirim and Davening: Some Unique Problems ■ Burying the Dead on Yom Tov Sheni ■ Does Eating Mezonos Require a Succah? ■ Issues Working on Chol Hamoed ■ Teshuvah and Midas Ha'emes ■ Quality of Life Vs. Sanctity of Life
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10 Lectures: The Laws and Customs of the Chupah ■ Do Secular Names of G-d Have Kedusha? ■ The Consequence of Dropping Tefillin or a Sefer Torah ■ Lechem Mishnah ■ Parental Wishes vs. Staying in Israel ■ Experimental Medical Treatment ■ Chazakah B'Mitzvos: Is This Maftir Yonah Mine? ■ Taanis Esther and The Personal Purim ■ Saying Tehillim at Night ■ Electricity in Halacha
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12 Lectures: Weddings in Shuls: Is There a Problem? ■ Euthanasia ■ a The Childless Couple in Halacha ■ The Bris Milah Seudah ■ The Laws and Customs of the Hesped ■ The Blind Person in Halacha ■ Marrying Off a Younger Child First ■ The Prohibition Against Flattery ■ The Complex Issue of Child Custody ■ Dreams in Halacha II ■ Twins ■ Embalming, Autopsies, and Cremation
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8 Lectures: Bathing On Shabbos and Yom Tov ■ Ain Osin Mitzvos Chavilos ■ Davening For A Choleh ■ Tzitzis: Must They Be Seen? ■ Truth Telling to Patients ■ The Jewish "Shabbos Goy" ■ Bishul Akum I ■ Making A Zecher Le'churban
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10 Lectures: Davening With Shoes ■ Davening for Non- Jews ■ Tefilin on Chol Hamoed ■ Being Motzi Others in Lechem Mishan and Other Brachos ■ Women and Havdalah ■ Lending Without Witnesses ■ Silk in Halacha ■ The Bracha of Blossoming Trees ■ The Meat Delivery At Your Door ■ The Melacha of Trapping
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8 Lectures: Omer Davar B'Sheim Omro - Giving Proper Credit ■ Chazonim and Chazanus ■ Sitting on Top of Seforim ■ Davening at the Graves of Tzadikim ■ Siamese Twins ■ Blended Whiskey ■ Ayin Hora ■ Maa'ris Ayin Revisited
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8 Lectures: Can One Charge for Teaching Torah? ■ Birchas Kohanim: Who Can and Who Can't? ■ Vegetarianism ■ Carrying Medicine on Shabbos ■ The Ethiopian Jewry Question ■ Stam Yeinom: Non-Kosher Wines ■ Reading Someone's Mail and Other Privacy Issues ■ Fasting on Tisha B'Av: Is It For Everyone?
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8 Lectures: Is Theft Permitted to Save a Life? ■ Pesach: The Mitzvah of Heseiba ■ Netilas Yadayim and Chatzizah ■ Women's Testimony in Hilchos Niddah ■ "Lo Sa'amod Al Dam Re'echa" ■ Kiddush Hashem: Is "Giluy Arayus" Ever Permitted? ■ The Physician's Obligation to Heal ■ What? Me Get Angry? Never!
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10 Lectures: Disposal of Shaimos ■ Learning in Kollel: Is It Always Permitted? ■ Kiddush Levanah ■ Music in Halacha ■ The Fearless Judge: A Difficult Task ■ Taking Medication on Shabbos ■ Selling a Shul ■ Purim Issues II ■ The Mitzvah of Shekalim and Davening Musaf
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10 Lectures: Is Shaving Permitted on Chol Ha'Moed? ■ Purim: Shalach Manos ■ The Tuna Fish Controversy ■ Moser: The Dilemma of the Jewish IRS Agent ■ Prohibition Against Revenge ■ Are Our Kohanim Really Kohanim? ■ Life Insurance: The Torah Policy ■ Candle Lighting & Havdalah: How Early & How Late?
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8 Lectures: Learning All Night ■ Causing the Erasure of Hashem's Name ■ Fish and Meat ■ The Issur of Histaklus ■ Bais Din's Power to Subpoena ■ Tefilah of a Tzadik for a Choleh ■ Tirocha D'zibura ■ Minhagim of the Three Weeks
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5 Lectures: May a Convict Escape? ■ Autopsies on Non-Jews ■ Teffilin Shel Rosh ■ Seudas Siyum Mesechta ■ A Plea for Shabbos ■ Selflessness -- The Key to Teshuva
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8 Lectures: Honey--Why Is It Kosher ■ Davening Quietly ■ Is Turkey Kosher? ■ Milah and the Sick Baby ■ Kisui Hadam ■ Standing Up While Doing Mitzvos ■ Lag B'omer ■ Surviving and Thriving In A Cynical World
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6 Lectures: Saying Kaddish for 12 Months ■ Burying a Rasha Next to a Tzadik ■ Reading the Tochacha ■ Selling a Sefer Torah ■ Danish and Coffee in the Succah? ■ Teshuva and the Capacity to Forego
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8 Lectures: Maror: A Bitter Problem? ■ Pesach: Women and Daled Kosos ■ Netilas Yadayim at Breakfast: Is One "Washed Up" for the Day? ■ Caesarian Section Births ■ The Do's & Don'ts of Giving Tochacha ■ Sterilization: Is It Permitted? ■ Onoas D'vorim: Snide Remarks ■ The Concept of Tznius in Dress and Deed
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8 Lectures: Eruv Tavshilin ■ Pesach: Daled Kosos: Another Look ■ Gelatin: Is It Kosher? ■ Getting an Aliyah After Childbirth ■ Giving Tochacha: Private or Public? ■ Eliyahu Hanavi and the "Dead" Child ■ The Obligation of Checking One's Teffilin ■ The Ben Torah in the Professional World: A Delicate Balancing Act
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8 Lectures: Ba'al Tashchis: Cutting Down That Troublesome Tree ■ Reconciling Divergent Customs Between Husband and Wife ■ The Prohibition Against Erasing G-d's Name ■ S'char Shabbos: How Do We Pay Rabbonim and Chazzanim? ■ The Shehechiyanu and Other Issues ■ Intravenous Feeding On Yom Kippur ■ The Mitzvah of Lulav: What Exactly Is It? ■ The Secret of Resilience
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6 Lectures: Can A Ger Be a Rosh Ha Yeshiva ■ Women Wearing Men's Clothing ■ Hagbeh ■ What Exactly Is Mitzva of Shofer ■ Esrog Hamurkov ■ Just One Deed
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10 Lectures: Turning an Offender Over to the Secular Authorities ■ Birchas Hamotzi ■ Mezzuzah-What Is a Door? ■ Making Ice On Shabbos ■ Dolls and Statues: Is There An Avodah Zarah Problem? ■ Bankruptcy ■ The Mechitza-How High? ■ The "Mazik" On Purim ■ The Melacha of Memachek ■ The Melacha of Tearing
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12 Lectures: Truth Telling and Shidduchim ■ Preventing A Suicide ■ a Mohel and Baby: Who Goes to Whom? ■ Makom Kavuah and Other Davening Issues ■ Intruding on Another's Shidduch ■ "Sorfin Al Hachzakos": The Concept of Chazaka in Halacha ■ "Ein Me'arvin Simcha B'Simcha" ■ Elective Surgery and Milah on Thursdays ■ Yichud and the "Open Door Policy" ■ Women and Chanukah Licht ■ The Bracha for Kings and Presidents ■ Yahrtzeit
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6 Lectures: Competition Among Teachers ■ The Double Portion of the Be'chor ■ Selichos ■ Lo Bashomayim He ■ The Apple In Honey and Other Simanim ■ Your Lasting Legacy
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6 Lectures: Tzedakah and the Twenty Percent Cap ■ May a Daughter Say Kaddish? ■ The Mitzvah of Ma'akeh ■ Shidduchim and Parental Wishes ■ Buying Seforim ■ Four Questions for Yom Kippur
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10 Lectures: The Do's and Don'ts of Naming Babies ■ Converting a Church Into a Shul ■ Chumros in Halacha ■ The Prohibition of Living in Egypt ■ The Reading of the "Aseres Hadibros" ■ Wrecking a Borrowed Car ■ Taking Out Two Sifrei Torah ■ Conditional Licht Benching ■ The Melacha of Dyeing ■ Leap Year and the Second Adar
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8 Lectures: Teaching Torah to Women ■ Yom Tov Candle Lighting ■ Birchas Kohanim ■ The Seven-Branched Menorah ■ 105 Sh'lach Tallis: Does it Cover Only Married Men? ■ The Temple Mount Today-Obligations & Restrictions ■ Rabbonim and Roshei Yeshiva: Do Sons Inherit? ■ Toiveling Dishes
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8 Lectures: Pesach Americans in Israel: Two-Day Yom Tov or One? ■ Non-Kosher Products: The Dilemma of the Jewish Merchant ■ Melacha Before Havdalah ■ Hallel on Yom Ha'atzma'ut? ■ The Mezonos Roll: Does it Exist? ■ "Kovod Habrios": The Concept of Human Dignity ■ "Ribis": Problems of Interest for the Jew in a Mercantile Society ■ "Cheremei Tzibur": A Ban on Living in Germany?
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8 Lectures: May A Child Carry A Sefer On Shabbos ■ Dee'chui Eitzel Mitzvos ■ Honoring Levi'im ■ Donning a Tallis for The Amud ■ Tachanun: To Say Or Not To Say ■ Detached Limbs and Tumah ■ Birchas Hamapil ■ Tu B'Av
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8 Lectures: The Obligation to Testify ■ Pesach: Netilas Yodayim for Karpas & Wet Fruit ■ Minhagim of the Days of Sefira ■ Speaking Lashon Horah on Baalei Machlokes ■ Giving An Injection to One's Father ■ The Ba'alas Teshuva & the Kohain ■ Supporting Jewish Merchants ■ Family of Jews -- Are We Really There For Each Other?
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12 Lectures: Is Marriage a Mitzvah? ■ Animal Experimentation ■ a Non-Jews and the Mitzvah of Kibud Av ■ Is Lying Ever Permitted? ■ Pilegesh: An Alternative to Marriage? ■ V'sain Tal U'matar ■ Maariv ■ Terrorism: How May an Individual Respond? ■ Grape Juice and Yayin Mevushal ■ Chanukah Issues II ■ Host Mothers in Halacha ■ Exhumation: When Is It Permitted?
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8 Lectures: An Early Start for Shavuos? ■ Yichud and the Housekeeper ■ Military Service and Potential Halachic Problems ■ The Concept of Prison in Jewish Law ■ Tachanun ■ Skin Grafts ■ Hilchos Brachos: Ikar VeTofel ■ Purchase of Entire Sefer Bamidbar ■ Tisha B'Av Thoughts
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8 Lectures: Rabbinic Confidentiality ■ Afikomen Revisited ■ The Aveil and the Haircut ■ Pidyon Haben - Daytime or Night? ■ Sofaik Be'racha ■ The Kohain and the Gerusha ■ Ribis and the Non-Jew ■ Every Jew's Job
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6 Lectures: Relying On a Goral ■ Shana Reshona-The First Year of Marriage ■ The Pushka in Halacha ■ The Brachos on the T'kious ■ Is Building a Succah a Mitzvah? ■ Life -- How Precious It Is
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6 Lectures: Circumstantial Evidence ■ The Mitzvah of Burial ■ The Prohibition of Chodosh ■ Fasting on Rosh Hashana ■ Succah Gezulah ■ A Matter of Faith and Forgiveness
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12 Lectures: The "Kedushai Ketanah" Controversy ■ Abortion to Save a Baby? ■ a Geirus--Mitzvah, Reshus or Issur? ■ The Mitzvah of Nichum Aveilim ■ Purchasing a Burial Plot ■ Neitz Hachama vs. Tefilah B'tzibur ■ Accepting Tzedaka from Women ■ Free Will vs. Hashgocha Pratis ■ Artificial Insemination Before Chemotherapy ■ Lighting Neiros in Shul, and Other Chanukah Issues ■ K'rias Shema: How Early, Interruptions, and Other Issues ■ Baruch Sheim K'vod Malchuso L'Olom Voed
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12 Lectures: Marriage and the Birchas Airusin ■ Milah for Non-Jews: Is It Permitted? ■ a Trading Terrorists for Hostages ■ Women and the Laws of Tznius ■ Determining the Salary of the Shadchan ■ Must Mincha Have a "Chazoras Hashatz"? ■ Must Women Daven? ■ Tefilas Haderech ■ "Chamar Medinah"-What Can Be Used For Kiddush? ■ Chanukah and Hidur Mitzvah ■ Honoring Grandparents ■ Asarah B'Teves
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8 Lectures: Shavuos: Two Days, She'cheyanu & Other Issues ■ The Faithful Unfaithful Wife ■ The City of Yericho ■ Ain Ma'averin Al Hamitzvos ■ Pidyon Habein and Vending Machines ■ Autopsies and Insurance ■ Pinchas and Eliyahu Hanavi ■ Leining on Fast Days and Other Ta'aneisim Issues
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10 Lectures: The Deaf Mute In Halacha ■ Shoveling Snow On Shabbos ■ The Dog In Halacha ■ Hidur Mitzvah ■ Lo Sachmod ■ Is Gambling Permitted ■ Bais Hakeneses & Bais Hamikdash--Differences & Similarities ■ How Many Shabbos Candles ■ Kiddush Shabbos Morning ■ Wearing A Watch on Shabbos
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12 Lectures: Choices in Marriage Partners ■ Assisting in a Suicide ■ a Anesthesia During Milah ■ Declining a Kibud ■ Daughters, Shidduchim & Parental Wishes ■ Accepting Tzedaka from Women ■ The Mitzvah of Mesameach Chasan V'Kallah ■ Executing a Ben Noach -- by Virtue of His Own Admission ■ Third Night of Chanukah But Only Two Candles ■ Taanis Chalom ■ The Umbrella On Shabbos ■ Aveilus Issues
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8 Lectures: Melech v'lo Malkah: A Jewish Queen? ■ The Pre-War "Get" ■ Giving a Sefer Torah to a Non-Jew ■ Kiddush Before T'kiyas Shofar ■ Habracha The Chol Hamoed Trip & Other Succos -- Issues ■ A Changing America -- Its Impact on the Jewish Family ■ Loshon Hora -Dealing with the Sickness Rather Than the Symptoms
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8 Lectures: Sefer Rus and Its Halachic Implications ■ Must A Kallah Cover Her Hair at the Chasunah? ■ Tefilas Tashlumin: Making Up a Missed Davening ■ Techeiles Today ■ Leaving a Chasunah Before Benching ■ Postponing a Funeral ■ Tisha B'Av on Motzoei Shabbos ■ Rebuilding the Bais Hamikdash -- What Can We Do?
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8 Lectures: A Unique Erev Pesach & Its Broader Implications ■ Pesach: Eating Matzo: How Fast? ■ Sefiras Ha'omer ■ The Microscope in Halacha ■ Mipnei Seiva Takum: Honoring the Elderly ■ The Kohain and the Divorcee ■ Sh'mita and the Heter Mechira ■ Humility vs. Self-Esteem -- Is There a Conflict?
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10 Lectures: Sh'nayim Mikra V'echad Targum ■ Kadima B'brachos--Hierarchy of Brachos ■ Doing Work on Rosh Chodesh ■ Must You Bench? ■ Making a Bracha on a Makom Neis ■ Litigating in Secular Courts ■ Shul Elections ■ Hesach Ha'daas and Tefilin ■ Fax Machines on Shabbos ■ The Melacha of Melabain (Laundering)
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8 Lectures: Chametz She'avar Olov HaPesach ■ Pesach: Afikomen After Chatzos ■ Don't Drink and Daven ■ Bris Milah That Causes Chilul Shabbos ■ Desserts--Do They Require a Bracha? ■ The Mitzvah of Ve'Kidashto - Honoring Kohanim ■ Using Shuls As A Shortcut ■ Envy -- The Enemy Within
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