The Q & A with Rabbi Breitowitz Podcast Rabbi Dr Yitzchak Breitowitz

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00:00 - What is the difference between my suffering being a Kapara (atonement) or a result of my own mistakes?
 
05:00 - The Torah mentions many miraculous things occurring as a result of keeping mitzvos (Shemita and Sotah). Do we have historical or archaeological evidence that these things happened?
 
11:30 - We know that it is forbidden to ‘put a stumbling block before the blind’. Would this also apply to giving someone food of a lower standard of kashrut than you would personally eat?
 
16:20 - What is the significance and effect of mourner’s kaddish?
 
22:00 - Can women say kaddish?
 
24:20 - Can a convert say kaddish for a non-Jewish parent?
 
26:10 - There seems to be a contradiction in how the Torah views money. On the one hand, the Torah says that one who has possessions will have worry; on the other hand, money is celebrated when it is given as a donation to the yeshiva.
 
31:40 - If I could know for certain that I could be a successful business person
 
34:50 - There is a torah prohibition against Beged Isha. A man wearing a woman’s item of clothing. This has been extended to plucking hairs or dying hairs. However, we have a principle that what is deemed ‘woman’s behaviour’ changes with the era in history. Could this permit plucking hairs and the like?
 
38:00 - Is Beged Isha the reason why religious women do not wear pants?
 
39:00 - What percentage of men need to practice a behaviour in order to for it be permissible in regard to the prohibition of Beged Isha?
 
40:40 - What is the significance of Ana BoKoach and why do we say it during Sefiras HaOmer?
 
44:00 - How do we relate to stories of Gedolim that are beyond us?
 
51:00 - Banned Books and Boruch Epstein
 
58:00 - Why did Volozhin yeshiva close?
 
1:00:10 - Men and Women touching is usually forbidden but is mutar in professional settings. Is it fitting to be machmir in such professional settings?
 
1:02:45 - Sexual Harassment and the modern-day relevance of Halachic boundaries on male-female interactions
 
01:07:30 - What is the purpose for Aggedata in the Gemara? Is it all literally true?
 
01:18:40 - What is Geula? Is it physical or spiritual, personal or national?
 
01:22:00 - Is the son of Cohen and a convert a Cohen?
 
01:23:30 - Is the child of a woman who converted during pregnancy Jewish by descent or a convert?
 
01:25:30 - What is the Torah view on Progressive Income Tax?
 
01:28:45 - Why do they play music before candle-lighting during Sefira?
 
01:31:00 - Should we be more lenient in Halacha in the interest of achdus(unity)?
 
01:35:00 - Is it a problem to say hamapil in pajamas? What about talking after hamapil?

 
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Join us in Jerusalem for Ohr Samayach's Inaugural Yarchei Kallah event from July 1st to 4th, 2024!
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Join us in Jerusalem for Ohr Samayach's Inaugural Yarchei Kallah event from July 1st to 4th, 2024!
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00:00 How does one not lose track of the big picture when learning the minutiae of Gemara?
 
16:39 Would some common practices at the Shabbos table be considered halachically problematic?
 
20:34 How should one view Jews with special needs?
 
31:53 What if speaking about the past puts you in a bad place?
 
39:32 What is the definition of kol isha and how strict is it?
 
55:28 How can one fulfill the mitzvah of writing a Sefer Torah?
 
1:02:57 How is it possible for humans to create holiness?
 
1:06:35 Why do Ashkenazim preserve the Yiddish pronunciations, even in davening?
 
1:13:55 How is it possible for the Moshiach to unite all the Jewish communities?
 
1:17:26 Is it proper to chew bubblegum?
 
1:19:30 Why is Nach considered part of the Written Torah if it wasn't given at Mt Sinai?
 
1:23:30 Should a Sephardi Jew say Aleinu after Sefirah in an Ashkenazi minyan?

 
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00:00 What is the source for the custom to end an Aliyah on a "high note"?  
05:22 What are the holes in the Theory of Evolution, and is it more logical to believe it or not? 
 
13:20 Why is the tefillin shel rosh holier?
 
21:50 Why is the word "mitzvah" sometimes spelled with two vavs?
 
24:58 Why is there a yod in "achshav"?
 
26:24 Which religion should a Jew study if he is forced to learn about a different one? 
 
33:30 Would Rav Ovadia Yosef's psak on kol Isha change if she is dead?
 
37:58 Why don't we see more Avrahams etc in the Tanakh?
 
41:30 What is the significance of the kiddush cup with the names of the rivers of Eden?
 
43:56 What does it mean to 'daven' for something? 
 
46:17 Is there a place in Judaism for rabbis threatening another rabbi with herem?
 
50:50 What's the deal with the book Besamim Rosh?
 
56:21 Should one communicate nicely with non-Jews, or remain silent? 
 
1:01:31 Is the war a milchemes mitzvah, and what are gedolim thinking about it?
 
1:08:06 Should Israel accept Eritrean refugees? 
 
1:09:58 Are the Ethiopians and the Bene Israel of India Jews with valid traditions? 
 
1:13:22 How does a Levi prepare for the rebuilt Temple?
 
1:16:10 Does the prohibition of a son to sit in his father's seat apply even outside the house?

 
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