What's a Ben torah?with Rabbi Gershon Ribner – Rosh Kollel of Kollel Nesivos Hatorah – 12:27with Rabbi Yisroel Brog – Rosh Yeshiva Tiferes Avigdor – 17:15with Rabbi Moshe Taub – Rov of Young Israel of Holliswood, Rabbinic advisor of Ami Maga

6/8/24 – Shiur 470 – Learning Torah when it’s nearly impossible

15 days ago 2h 11m

What are valid reasons to cancel on your chavrusa or to miss your daily shiur?How can you concentrate on your learning when you are stressed about life and so distracted?How do you keep on learning over the long-term?What gets people off-tra

6/1/24 – Shiur 469 – Shemiras Einayim – Halachos, Chizzuk and Stories: the Vayimaen phenomenon

22 days ago 1h 43m

Practical Halachos of Shemiras EinayimHow to make Shemiras Einayim part of your lifeHow to turn over a new leaf in your lifeHosted by: Rabbi Shlomo Landau – Director of Mentorships, Olamiwith Rabbi Joey Haber – Renowned Speaker and Lecturer

5/25/24 – Shiur 468 – Conflict with the In-Laws – what causes it, how to deal with it

29 days ago 1h 43m

How do you handle a conflict between honoring in-laws and honoring your own parents? Are there times that married children need to listen to input from in-laws?Are there halachos about what to call your in-laws?What does a mother-in-law do w

5/18/24 – Shiur 467 – Un-Lavish Living – why are we embarrassed to live below our means?

May 17th, 2024 1h 46m

What keeps us spending when we can’t afford it?What’s the impact on children when parents have an expensive standard of living?Is there an obligation to refrain from looking at materialism which may tempt us?Can we spend on luxuries when peo

5/11/24 – Shiur 466 – Neurolinks and Shabbos, Alexa and Shabbos, Electronics and Shabbos

May 10th, 2024 1h 26m

Electronics activated through brainwaves is it permissible to use them on Shabbos?Electronics activated through voice is it permissible to use them on Shabbos?with Rabbi Aharon Sorscher – Rov in Waterbury, Maggid Shiur for Oraysa – 13:33Usin

4/20/24 – Shiur 465 – Achdus - does “Achdus” mean I am supposed to embrace Jews I really don’t agree with?

Apr 18th, 2024 2h 27m

Is Achdus a Halachic imperative, a Hashkafic concept or something else?What’s the definition of “Achdus”? Is it different from “Kiruv”?Can we outwardly express our disagreements?Should we look to have Achdus with groups and movements of Jews

4/13/24 – Shiur 464 – Pesach – Great Divrei Torah for your Seder and beyond. Plus, lessons for today from Lavan’s attempt to destroy K’lal Yisroel

Apr 12th, 2024 1h 57m

What's your favorite Pesach Devar Torah?Is there something unique you do at your seder? What do you do to prepare for Pesach?Is there something memorable that has happened to you at a seder?***Guest Hosted by Ari Wasserman ***with Rabbi S

4/6/24 – Shiur 463 – Revisiting Bachurim in the IDF: Is Shevet Levi Patur from Milchemes Mitzvah? Are all Bochurim Shevet Levi?

Apr 5th, 2024 1h 25m

Does Eretz Yisroel need an army or can it totally rely on Torah protection?Do we have responsibility to serve - besides the learning protection - like we find previous generations?The Bochurim who aren't learning should they go to the army?C

3/30/24 – Shiur 462 – What are our “Yeshiva bochers” struggling with nowadays?

Mar 29th, 2024 2h 7m

What are the biggest challenges, struggles and difficulties confronting our boys today?How do those challenges differ from those of the girls?What impact are technology and alcohol consumption having on the boys?Should Gemara be the focus of

3/23/24 – Shiur 461 – Everyone should be a shadchan – how to set up a shidduch

Mar 22nd, 2024 2h 48m

Should each of us be setting up Shidduchim?What are the biggest challenges and difficulties?Is the “shadchanus” fee only paid to a professional Shadchan, or even to beginners?What does the Shadchan need to do to earn the fee?Can you set up

3/16/24 – Shiur 460 – זכרון לנצח – Preserving the memory of Fallen Soldiers Through Posthumous Retrieval of זרע for Procreation

Mar 15th, 2024 1h 36m

Is it permitted, forbidden or a Mitzvah?Are you מקיים פריה וריבה?Does it exempt you from חליצה?Is there an issue of ניוול המת?Is there an issue of הנאה ממת?Is there an issue of ביטול מצוות קבורה?Are there any moral issues?with Rabbi Shlo

3/9/24 – Shiur 459 – The Haredi Dilemma in Military Conscription | Scaling Tradition: Reevaluating the Chazon Ish's Conscription Exemption | Study Time Required for והגית בו יומם ולילה

Mar 8th, 2024 1h 50m

Yeshiva Bochurim in the IDF | Is it possible to be Frum in the IDF?Don’t we have an Achrayus הַאַחֵיכֶם יָבֹאוּ לַמִּלְחָמָה וְאַתֶּם תֵּשְׁבוּ פֹה?What difficulties – if any – do Frum soldiers face in the army?What would a Frum army look l

3/2/24 – Shiur 458 – Frum on the outside and empty on the inside - why are some of our best girls struggling with Yiddishkite?

Feb 29th, 2024 2h 17m

What are the biggest challenges, struggles and difficulties confronting our girls today?How have things changed over the years?Should money be given to children if they will use it for the wrong purposes?What’s the impact that technology/sma

2/24/24 – Shiur 457 – Avoiding the #1 reason for divorce - how to stay connected with your spouse and not drift apart

Feb 23rd, 2024 2h 8m

What are the halachic obligations spouses have to each other?How does a relationship change over the course of a marriage?Are there differences in how to stay connected at the beginning of marriage, in the middle and later in life?What cause

2/17/24 – Shiur 456 – The Brisker Rov zt"l and Medinas Yisroel | Rav Shach zt"l and the IDF (צה"ל) – What did they really hold?

Feb 16th, 2024 1h 26m

Hakaros Hatov to the soldiersBeing Mevaker Choleh soldiersBeing Menachem Avel these familiesSaying a Mi Shebeirach for the soliderswith Rabbi Refoel Wolf – Gabbai of Reb Shach zt"l for over 30 years – 28:04with Rabbi Yissocher Eichorn–

2/10/24 – Shiur 455 – Getting over our fears - in dating, marriage, religious observance, of failure and more

Feb 16th, 2024 2h 11m

What are the most common fears that people have?How do we get over those fears?What is “Jewish Mindfulness” and how can it help?What are the most common fears in dating and marriage?Can anxiety or OCD ever make a person patur from mitzvos?

2/3/24 – Shiur 454 – Raising unspoiled children in a spoiled world

Feb 7th, 2024 1h 49m

How much should parents do for their children?What are parents’ financial obligations to their children? Is there a maximum?What causes a child to be spoiled?Is it detrimental to grow up with less than your peers?Do we need to treat all of

1/27/24 – Shiur 453 –The Shulchan Aruch of war

Jan 25th, 2024 1h 32m

Abortion of a fetus conceived through rapeWomen tying tzitzisSheva brachos without the chosson or kallahReturning home before Shabbos if one knows they will be called up on ShabbosReturning home while one's wife is niddah if he doesn't thin

1/20/24 – Shiur 452 – Dealing with traumatic times – how to dig out of a rut

Jan 18th, 2024 2h 3m

What’s currently causing us the most trauma? The war? The captives? Antisemitism? Something else?What’s the implication of not getting a body back from Hamas, and therefore no Kevura and no closure?Is hearing the news and looking at war image

1/13/24 – Shiur 451 – What’s really going on in the Gaza battlefield. In Memory of Yakir and David HY”D – “Chavrusas in life, Chavrusas in death, Chavrusas in Olam Habah”

Jan 12th, 2024 1h 20m

How to handle the stress of having a close relative fighting in Gaza and the loss of a loved one killed in battle.Is there a halachic requirement that the IDF bury dead Hamas terrorists? Other Gazans?What are the IDF soldiers experiencing? Wh

1/6/24 – Shiur 450 – Amazon in Halacha

Jan 4th, 2024 1h 52m

Hear from the trenches – How are the Kehilos and families in Eretz Yisroel Managing with Rabbi Elyada Goldvicht – Rav in Ranana, Head of Semichat Chaver Program, Head of Chevra Kadish in the IDF – 3:58Shabbos:Is it permissible to place an o

12/30/23 – Shiur 449 – Of course there should be Hakaras Hatov to the IDF soldiers. A response to a small minority who think otherwise. Does Torah-learning fully protect us, or is an army necessary?

Dec 28th, 2023 2h 20m

Is Hakaras Hatov a halachic requirement, or just a nice thing to do?Do we just feel gratitude, or do we need to say “thank you” or more?Historically, did the Gedolim show Hakaras Hatov towards the soldiers of the IDF?Why have a few Roshei Ye

12/23/23 – Shiur 448 – Is Israel an “occupier” of Palestinian land? Who owns “from the River to the Sea”?

Dec 22nd, 2023 1h 44m

Is there such a thing as the country of “Palestine”?What are the halachic borders of Israel?Is it mutar to give the Gaza Strip back now that Israel has retaken possession of it?Is there a mitzvah to be buried in Israel? To make Aliyah? To ex

12/16/23 – Shiur 447 – Zionism – Is today’s Zionism the same movement that caused so many religious to leave their roots and become irreligious?

Dec 16th, 2023 2h 9m

Before WWII a lot of Gedolim were opposed to Zionism, what were their reasons?After the war did a lot of the attitudes switch?Why did they switch?Is Zionism a danger to religion nowadays?with Rabbi Yaakov Shapiro – Author of The Empty W