The Sunday Shiur By Rabbi Yoel Plutchok
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Exploring Halacha and Minhag through the lens of history
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Are “Moroccan Esrogim” Really Esrogim?
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Oct 09, 2025 |
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Why Chabad Doesn't Sleep in the Sukkah
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Oct 05, 2025 |
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The Great Esrog Debates — Chavivas HaMitzvos
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Oct 04, 2025 |
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The Rivah’s Fast — Suicide?
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Sep 29, 2025 |
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The 1848 Plague and Rabbi Yisroel’s Extraordinary Psak
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Sep 28, 2025 |
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A Rosh Hashanah Bidding War
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Sep 21, 2025 |
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Exotic Shofars—Rhino, Kudu, and Other Horns
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Sep 14, 2025 |
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Explosive Disagreement, Unbreakable Respect
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Sep 10, 2025 |
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Kiddush Ban: Rav Heinken’s Uncompromising Stand
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Sep 07, 2025 |
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The Shofar of Mashiach and Its Confusing Effect
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Aug 31, 2025 |
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Hafganot: A Method to the Madness
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Aug 10, 2025 |
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Siyum During the Sadness
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Jul 30, 2025 |
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A World Transformed: The Hidden Light of Yemos HaMashiach
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Jul 27, 2025 |
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Where Are the Missing Soldiers? — Unlocking the Secrets of the גורל הגְר״א
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Jul 20, 2025 |
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A Glimpse into Ikvesa D’Meshicha – Part 1
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Jul 19, 2025 |
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Mashiach’s ETA: When Should We Expect His Arrival?
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Jul 15, 2025 |
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Standing Alone: The Unshakable Bravery of אליהו הנביא
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Jul 13, 2025 |
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Eliyahu’s Final Call: Heralding the Geulah
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Jul 09, 2025 |
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The Halachic Storm Over Autopsies
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Jul 06, 2025 |
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Beyond the Grave: Astonishing Stories of Life After Death
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Jul 06, 2025 |
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Shabtai Tzvi’s Minhag, and Other Duchening Anomalies
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Jun 29, 2025 |
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A Good Death & Why Does It Matter?
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Jun 29, 2025 |
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The Yeshivah On Fire
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Jun 24, 2025 |
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The Gr”a in prison - A Sign from heaven
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Jun 22, 2025 |
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Can A Tefilla Be inappropriate?
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Jun 21, 2025 |
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From Ferrara to Brisk: Unraveling a Birchas Kohanim Mystery
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Jun 15, 2025 |
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Are There Any Real Kohanim in Persia?
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Jun 08, 2025 |
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A Chosen Death: The Legacy of the Shach’s Mesirus Nefesh
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Jun 01, 2025 |
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A Match Made in Heaven: Shabbos and the Torah
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May 27, 2025 |
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Who Is Tikkun Leil Shavuos Really For?
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May 25, 2025 |
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Shmuel hanavi’s Yartzeit & קבר שמואל
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May 25, 2025 |
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Echoes of Tzfat’s Golden Era
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May 20, 2025 |
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When קבלה and הלכה clash?
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May 18, 2025 |
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Minhag Miron: A Deeper Look Unpacking the Halachic Debate Surrounding These Minhagim(Repost)
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May 15, 2025 |
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Were Rabbi Akiva’s Talmidim Soldiers? Lag BaOmer Revisited
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May 13, 2025 |
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The story of the זהר הקדוש
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May 11, 2025 |
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In Defense Of The Talmud
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May 07, 2025 |
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Why We Learn Pirkei Avos and Its Connection to Moshe Rabbeinu
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May 04, 2025 |
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The Beis Yosef and His Maggid: Unlocking the Power of Mishnayos
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Apr 27, 2025 |
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Can Mechiras Chametz Be Just a Halachic Loophole?
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Apr 06, 2025 |
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An Elusive Dream: Korbanos in Our Time (Repost)
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Mar 30, 2025 |
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Napoleon‘s Court and the attempts to thwart the minhag Of Kitniyos
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Mar 23, 2025 |
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Square or Rounded? The Debate Over the Luchot’s Shape
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Mar 20, 2025 |
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Partnering with evildoers?
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Mar 18, 2025 |
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The Final Parah Adumah: A harbinger of Mashiach?
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Mar 16, 2025 |
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Klapping during krias hamegillah: The minhag
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Mar 11, 2025 |
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Blood money - Can We Accept Reparations from Amalek?
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Mar 09, 2025 |
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Zayen Adar: A day of significance (Repost)
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Mar 05, 2025 |
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MEGILLAS HITLER and the hunt for Amalek
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Mar 02, 2025 |
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Geirus and Mamzerus: A Clash that Divided the Rabanut
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Feb 16, 2025 |
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Repost: Sabbatai Tzvi & Tu Beshvat: The fascinating b origin story of Tu Beshvat and its unique minhagim
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Feb 11, 2025 |
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Ben-Gurion's “Shailah”
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Feb 09, 2025 |
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Fiery protest & Evolving Psakim The Saga Of Ethiopian Jews להלכה Part 2
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Jan 26, 2025 |
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Hostage Deals In History & Halacha (Reposted for current events)
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Jan 21, 2025 |
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The Saga Of Ethiopian Jews להלכה
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Jan 19, 2025 |
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What does גילוי אליהו look like? Eliyahu Hanavi Part 2.
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Jan 12, 2025 |
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The Vilna Gaon’s מופת & Birchas Habanim
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Jan 09, 2025 |
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REPOST: Fasts of tzadikim: The 9th of Teves
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Jan 08, 2025 |
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A fascinating Cure for Mental Illness Eliyahu Hanavi: Part One
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Jan 05, 2025 |
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Healing Oil - The hidden capabilities of the oil
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Dec 31, 2024 |
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Repost: Megillas Antiochos: The story about the Megilla we used to lein on Channuka
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Dec 30, 2024 |
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Repost: The mysterious journey of the menorah and where it stands today
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Dec 29, 2024 |
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Repost: Nittel Nacht: A night of varying minhagim
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Dec 24, 2024 |
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A Great Machlokes and its Chanuka implications
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Dec 22, 2024 |
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Dreams & Halacha
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Dec 18, 2024 |
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Are Dreams Meaningful? Always, Never, or Sometimes
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Dec 15, 2024 |
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When Arrogance is needed
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Dec 11, 2024 |
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Freeing a Agunah through Ruach Hakodesh
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Dec 08, 2024 |
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Banned(ish) Seforim
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Dec 04, 2024 |
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Was the Ohr Hachaim written with Ruach Hakodesh
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Dec 01, 2024 |
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A Phenomenal Purchase Me’aras Hamachpelah & it’s significance
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Nov 26, 2024 |
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A Modern Day Navi
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Nov 24, 2024 |
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Reb Moshe’s Frightening Story & Jacob Frank
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Nov 20, 2024 |
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Dinosaur Bone Wars - Pride In Our Masorah Part. II
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Nov 17, 2024 |
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The Holy Winter Nights
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Nov 12, 2024 |
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Afraid of a lion - On animals and men
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Nov 06, 2024 |
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Darwin, evolution, and the Torah, Our pride in the Mesorah
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Nov 03, 2024 |
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Repost; The Wondrous World of Aggadata: Literal or Mystical
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Oct 14, 2024 |
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The Esrogim Are Too Expensive! Boycott time?
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Oct 13, 2024 |
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Avinu Malkeinu: The Origin, Evolution, and Modern Day Adaptations
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Oct 06, 2024 |
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HOW THE BAALEI TOSAFOS CHANGED ROSH HASHANAH
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Sep 29, 2024 |
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Repost: Rosh Hashanah in Yerushalaim 1905: The story of the movement to blow shofar on shabbos
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Sep 25, 2024 |
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A Heavyweight Battle. Shofar During Elul & Beyond
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Sep 22, 2024 |
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Everybody Needs Something. A Debate Postscript
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Sep 17, 2024 |
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A Debate: Rav Chaim Voloziner & The Alter Rebbe
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Sep 15, 2024 |
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Elul’s Peculiarities Part 1. L’Dovid Hashem Ori
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Sep 08, 2024 |
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The Shas Wars & Techiyas Hameisim
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Aug 14, 2024 |
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The Kosel & It’s Secrets
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Aug 11, 2024 |
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Reb Yochanan Ben Zakkai: The unlikely Nasi and his reverberating impact
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Aug 04, 2024 |
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Repost; Tzipisah leyeshuah - Part II: The 3 weeks, 9 days and year round
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Jul 23, 2024 |
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Shabbos in Radin - At the Chofetz chaims table
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Jul 21, 2024 |
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Repost: Tzipisah leyeshuah: The paradoxical hashkafa of waiting for Moshiach
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Jul 17, 2024 |
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Upsherens - The minhag the origin and the controversy
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Jul 14, 2024 |
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Repost; Vav Chukas: From the Paris trials thru Gush Katif
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Jul 09, 2024 |
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TWA flight 741. Hostages in Halacha continued
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Jul 07, 2024 |
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Securing The Hostages-How & When
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Jul 04, 2024 |
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Czar Nicholas & His Cruel Edicts- Part 2
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Jul 03, 2024 |
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Czar Nicholas & His Cruel Edicts- Part 1
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Jun 30, 2024 |
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Taking A Stand- Electricity & Hadlakos Neiros
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Jun 26, 2024 |
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A Shteller Worth Fighting For- Nezirus As A Weapon!
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Jun 23, 2024 |
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Prague 1693: The tragic story of Shimon Abelles
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Jun 19, 2024 |
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Was the The Rogatchover Gaon a nazir?
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Jun 16, 2024 |
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Rav meir shliach tziburs Shavuos gift
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Jun 10, 2024 |
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A fantastic literary fraud or a lucky find?
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Jun 09, 2024 |
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When A Song Has A History - Ka Ribon Part 2
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Jun 05, 2024 |
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Napoleon’s Jews & The Bitter Divide Over The Nodah B’Yehuda’s Psak
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Jun 02, 2024 |
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Ka Ribon Understood- The Song, The Composer, & The Controversy
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May 29, 2024 |
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The Mekubalim’s Dress Code - An Interesting Debate
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May 26, 2024 |
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A Yiddishe Mamma- The Lag B’Omer Connection
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May 21, 2024 |
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The "Jewish" look. Beards & Profit
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May 19, 2024 |
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Bonus episode; Lag b’omer: Should it be cancelled?
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May 16, 2024 |
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A Forgetters Punishment
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May 15, 2024 |
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Is Gehenim Forever? A Unique Rabbinic Dispute
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May 12, 2024 |
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Repost; The Magen Dovid symbol: An ancient secret or a modern invention?
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May 08, 2024 |
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The Bach’s Gehenim and the Sugya of Chodosh
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May 05, 2024 |
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REPOST; Maos chittim
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Apr 21, 2024 |
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The Chumrah - One size fits all
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Apr 17, 2024 |
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A Marranos Pesach- Mexico 1649
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Apr 14, 2024 |
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A Kosher Evolution- Coca-Cola’s Story
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Apr 11, 2024 |
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Can a woman become a Posek?
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Apr 09, 2024 |
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A Korban In Our Times- A Unfulfilled Dream
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Apr 07, 2024 |
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Shir Hashirim- What Makes it Unique
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Apr 02, 2024 |
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Korban Pesach- Who’s Bringing and Who’s Waiting
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Mar 31, 2024 |
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REPOST; Matzoh Wars - Machine matzoh part 2.
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Mar 27, 2024 |
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REPOST; Matzoh Wars - Machine matzoh part 1.
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Mar 25, 2024 |
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A Scandalous Purim- The Trial That Shook Jerusalem
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Mar 21, 2024 |
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A Kabbalistic Prayer For All
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Mar 19, 2024 |
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A “Masking” dispute - Are Purim costumes ok?
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Mar 17, 2024 |
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The Greatest Song Ever Composed
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Mar 13, 2024 |
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Cigarettes Seforim, and other Mishloach Manos alternatives.
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Mar 10, 2024 |
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The Golem’s Impact on Prague’s Minhag.
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Mar 06, 2024 |
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Holocaust Remembrance- a Surprising Controversy. Continuing the sugyah of modern calendar additions.
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Mar 03, 2024 |
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Glasses. Halacha, Mofsim & more
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Feb 28, 2024 |
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REPOST. The Noam Elimelech: His life and works
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Feb 27, 2024 |
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The Miraculous Survival of Teveria
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Feb 25, 2024 |
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The Satan's cloak: Biggdei Shabbos Part 1.
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Feb 21, 2024 |
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The Tragic Tale of the Tosfos Yom Tov's Imprisonment!! Charting the Many “Purim’s” of the Jewish Calendar. Part 1.
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Feb 18, 2024 |
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The IDF and frum woman: The rift that never really healed!
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Feb 14, 2024 |
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The controversial kvittel that divided Galician poskim!!
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Feb 11, 2024 |
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The "Chasid's" Warning: Erev Shabbos Rosh Chodesh
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Feb 07, 2024 |
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The Kvitel: The mystery and the magic
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Feb 04, 2024 |
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The Ropshitzer's secret! : Nail cutting in Halacha & Kabbalah
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Jan 31, 2024 |
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The Violent Acts of the "Bris Hakanayim" : Civil Disobedience in the Eyes of the Torah
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Jan 28, 2024 |
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The Chofetz Chaim’s Promise
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Jan 23, 2024 |
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Shabbos and Hafganos: The gift worth fighting for
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Jan 17, 2024 |
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Cheftzei tzaddikim Part II: The tumultuous journey of the Great Chabad Library
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Jan 14, 2024 |
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Cheftzei tzaddikim: Ascribing value to the memorabilia of gedolim
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Jan 07, 2024 |
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REPOST: Shovavim! When did it start and what does it mean
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Jan 03, 2024 |
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Exploring the world of Hechsherim - Part I: The opinionated chemist who founded OU Kosher
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Dec 31, 2023 |
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Shechita in America Part II: The life and history of Rav Yaakov Yosef
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Dec 24, 2023 |
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Shechita in America Part I: The tumultuous controversies of early America
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Dec 17, 2023 |
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The Black Shabbos of 2004: The zebu discovery that rocked Eretz Yisroel
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Nov 26, 2023 |
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Turkey: The great kashrus debate of the new world
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Nov 23, 2023 |
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The bold movement to ban chassidishe shechita
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Nov 19, 2023 |
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Shechita controversies Part II: The position of the Torah
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Nov 12, 2023 |
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Shechita Controversies Part I: The Intriguing Story of the Sridei Aish
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Nov 05, 2023 |
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The Mediterranean Sea Lizard: The History of the Skinkus Marinus
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Oct 29, 2023 |
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Sterlit Cavier: The Hungarian fish controversy
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Oct 22, 2023 |
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Watch what you eat: The history and psakim of Timtum Halev
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Oct 15, 2023 |
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Beis Din in the Modern Era - Part III: Halacha L’maasah
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Sep 10, 2023 |
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Beis Din in the Modern Era - Part II: The Moser
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Sep 03, 2023 |
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Beis Din in the Modern Era - Part I: The Death Penalty
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Aug 27, 2023 |
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Shabbos in America - Part III: The Satmar Rebbe leaves his mark
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Jul 09, 2023 |
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Shabbos in America - Part II: The battles and psakim that helped shape Shabbos.
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Jul 02, 2023 |
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Shabbos in America - Part I: Background and Introduction
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Jun 18, 2023 |
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The “Shabbos Elevator” Controversy: Part 2
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Jun 11, 2023 |
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Shabbos Elevators :The “new”/old shailah
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Jun 04, 2023 |
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Reishis hagez
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May 29, 2023 |
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Ruach Rah and Shaidim l’halacha: The Ger Tzedek of Vilna
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May 21, 2023 |
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The Rama: Posek Of The Generations
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May 14, 2023 |
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Singing in shul: A beautifying edition, or an unnecessary distraction?
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May 14, 2023 |
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The World of Tehillim: Part III
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May 14, 2023 |
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The World of Tehillim: Part II
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May 14, 2023 |
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The World of Tehillim: Part I
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May 14, 2023 |
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Avodah Zara beshituf
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May 14, 2023 |
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East to West Between Sefard and Ashkenaz: Part III
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May 14, 2023 |
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East to West Between Sefard and Ashkenaz: Part II
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May 14, 2023 |
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East to West Between Sefard and Ashkenaz: Part I
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May 14, 2023 |
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Dikduk wars!
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May 14, 2023 |
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The Impossible Shailah: The Riots of York
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May 14, 2023 |
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The Teshuvah odyssey of a Meshumad
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May 14, 2023 |
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Reciting ”Leshem yichud” : A necessary preparation or a presumptuous declaration?
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May 12, 2023 |