Q&A- Gehennom, Gilgul & Naftali Bennet

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00:00 In shidduchim, what is a dealbreaker and what is a legitimate compromise?

4:01 It is said when a person becomes a baal teshuva he amputates his limbs—what does that mean? 

10:20 Why do we follow rabbinic ordinances so much these days when the Torah says both not to add and subtract, and also to follow one’s rabbi?

23:00 How do we have a consensus on a gadol hador, and why do Charedim ask him for everything including personal advice?

33:24 If the takana of Rabbeinu gershom only applied to Ashkenazim, why do Sephardim also follow it?

37:33 How are we so mediak in the Rambam if it is translated (from Arabic)?

39:19 Media are calling Naftali Bennett the first religious PM of Israel, but they also say his wife is secular. Can both be true?

42:31 We try and avoid a machloches in metzios, but in meseches midos this is the case.

46:44 Some involved in Kiruv use more forceful methods. To what extent to these scare-tactics justify the means of it might push some away?

51:45 What’s the difference between sheidim and malachei chabala?

55:14 It seems the Torah world’ attitude on technological advancement is to leave it to the goyim. Is there any idea of being involved in the creation?

1:02:38 How could the Gra praise secular understanding and decry the Rambam learning Greek philosophy?

1:03:33 Why are there both gehenom and gilgul? 

1:07:27 The Maharal says that tzitzis is the mitzvah to encapsulate the rest, and yet it seems to technically be an optional mitzvah. How can that be?

1:09:38 a man crossing the dateline from San Francisco to Australia could skip all of a day’s davening. How can that be?

1:12:00 What is the difference between malachei chabala and malachei hashares

1:13:40 What is the difference between a traditional marriage and a pilegesh?

1:17:25 Why did Herod renovate the Beis Sheini?

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