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We'd love to hear from you : [email protected] https://podcasts.ohr.edu/ Visit us @ ohr.edu Video available here 00:00 What is the classical understanding of the size of the letters in Megillas Esther before 1945? 04:10 Why couldn’t Gd just give us Israel uninhabited? Why did we have to fight for it? 08:12 What is the origin of the Reisha and the Seifa in a Mishna? 13:32 Is there any issue with having a temporary bima in a shul? 19:13 How does it make sense that we’re commanded to love Hashem? 26:00 In terms of kavod of Torah and Beis Midrash, what’s halachically acceptable to help you stay awake or otherwise? 29:34 There are 72 3-letter names of Gd. Which names were written on the Urim v Turim? 31:37 How do we understand the point of existence without having eaten from the Etz HaDa’as? 37:20 What is the importance of saying the recitation of Korbanos? 40:55 How should a mainstream Yeshiva handle a former Talmid who is mchalel mitzvos bfarhesia by leading a publicly homesexual lifestyle, but expresses a genuine interest in attending an alumni Shabbos and will actually keep that Shabbos properly. On one hand, this may send a bad message to the attendees and their kids, but on the other hand he will keep that Shabbos and will have a better shaichus to Torah. What should they do? Is it worth having him? 43:58 What exactly does the term “mazal” mean? 53:32 What exactly did it mean to learn Torah before Chumash and Mishna? 56:52 What was the source of Kabbalah before Chumash/Zohar? 58:55 How could Jews derive certain laws without the Torah itself? 1:03:16 What is the purpose of the activity of the deep ocean in relation to Jewish avoda? 1:07:14 What was part of the tefillin before Moshe? 1:09:32 How do we understand or accept the grandchildren of a Rasha teaching Torah? 1:14:45 Is there Teshuva for non-Jews? 1:17:40 Why do we sometimes switch Chazzanim at Yishtabach? 1:19:36 Do nidoi and cherem apply today? 1:22:58 Why does Hashem put special needs children in the world? 1:24:48 What are the specifics of the cherem from the GRA to the chassidim? 1:30:20 Kosher phones in Israel? 1:32:34 If the GRA considers our universe absent of G-d, how would he see the idea of Hashem Echod? 1:36:31 Why did Hashem make angels? 1:38:54 What is the argument of tucking peyos behind the ear? 1:39:57 Rav Breitowitz talks on a question from last week regarding someone’s mission in life vs. learning Torah. Produced by: Cedar Media Studios