YUTORAH: R' Dr. Aaron Rakeffet-Rothkoff -- Recent Shiurim Rakeffet-Rothkoff, Rabbi Dr. Aaron

Munkatcher Rebbe's Curses. R' Elya Svei's Attack on Aish Hatorah. Cohen Marrying a Convert. R' Moshe Sternbuch on Inviting Non-Observant to Shabbat Meals. Severely Restricting Divorce. R' Menashe Klein-Mishneh Halachot on Kiruv of Soviet Jewry. - May 26, 2024 - Munkatcher Rebbe: Letters of בר קמצא to curse Bundists & Belzers. Widower lighting Shabbat candles before Plag. Similar Oslo responsum. R' Elya Svei's attack on Aish HaTorah: Unjustified. My language abilities. R' Shlomo Carlebach & the Rebbe. Lubavitcher Rebbe on eating by non-frum parents. The Go-Kosher kashering service. Kohen marrying a convert. מלמד להואיל. The Rav on such a couple who were already married. Motivation to go to Bnei Akiva. R' Rakeffet: Would not permit divorce until youngest child is age 70. R' Hirsch: Boys & girls high schools next to each other. Ezra Youth Movement. R' Moshe Sternbuch: A short bio. His view on inviting non-observant to Shabbat meals. Mishneh Halachot 13:190 on bringing תינוקות שנשבו closer to Torah & mitzvot inside the Soviet Union. Brief introduction to history of USSR & Soviet Jewry. Communism in 1917. Hostility to religion. Ban on religious coercion. The single functioning synagogue. The poor economic life of Soviet citizens. Chabad in USSR. Footage from Jerusalem on Soviet TV in lead-up to Six Day War. Reawakening of Soviet Jewry. Nativ (לשכת הקשר). The positive result of Refuseniks not moving to Israel immediately and en masse in 1970s.

Volozhin Yeshiva. Comparing R' Naftali Tzvi Yehuda Berlin (Netziv) and R' Chaim Soloveitchik. Descriptions of the Various Ways R' Chaim Was so Unique and How Others Related to Him - May 20, 2024 - President Biden. How widower should light נרות שבת before plag. Disposable aluminum pans. Osher Ad. Rav Noah Weinberg on honoring non-observant supporters. R' Chaim Soloveitchik: His stature while in Volozhin compared to when he was in Brisk. How his nature differed from that of Netziv. How R' Boruch Ber Leibowitz related to R' Chaim compared to Netziv and how he addressed them. R' Aharon Kotler and the red-bearded man in London. Comparing R' Yitzchak Elchanan Spector and R' Chaim. R' Chaim Heller and the Rav. How the presence of German Jews during WW I in Poland resulted in Hildesheimer Rabbinical Seminary changing. R' Yechiel Yaakov Weinberg, the Rav, R' Chaim, and the GR"A. Why Ba'al Shem Tov was privileged. R' Chaim's chidushim on Rambam. R' Elye Pruzhaner's view of R' Chaim's uniqueness. R' Chaim: "Tell me what they say in my name". R' Chaim's precision. How R' Chaim wrote חדושי רבנו חיים הלוי. In 1850s Volozhin students wanted R' Chaim and the administration wanted Netziv. R' Meir Bar Ilan versus Tchernichovsky. The Golden Age of America is ending. Moving ahead the date of Yom Ha'atzmaut celebration because of Shabbat. 50% of IDF casualties are frum soldiers.

Kashering Dishes. Munkatcher Rebbe. R' Menashe Klein: Mishneh Halakhot 7:223: How Should Newly Observant Children Relate to Their Less-Observant Parents, Focusing on Eating in Their Home. - May 19, 2024 - R' Moshe David Tendler: Kasher inherited dishes in self-cleaning oven. Widower, lighting Shabbat candles before Plag Minchah: A solution. Wearing sneakers at Stern College today. Swing to the right. New Haven Yeshiva in Mishpacha Magazine. Moshe Streicher. Munkatcher Rebbe & Bar Kamtza. R' Revel responsum on child who intermarries. R' Teitz' daughter. Mishneh Halachot 7:223: Kellog's descendants. Children of non-observant parents who become observant. Eating at parents' home: Eat cold food. .טבילת כלים Parents will make kosher utensils unkosher. Western person's attitude toward kosher food. Aluminum foil pans. Plastic utensils. Glass dishes. Palmach had Dati units. Kashrut in IDF: various stories. Kashering a home. Young Israel of Woodmere results in R' Moshe Weinberger founding Congregation Aish Kodesh. Why R' Shlomo Carlebach left Chabad. Young Israel dances. R' Weinberger: No violations of halakhah for קירוב. Seinfeld's mother & cousin. Jason Alexander honored by Aish HaTorah. R' Norman Lamm advocates Centrist Orthodoxy for YU. R' Elya Svei's talk. Marriage of kohen to woman with halakhic problems: R' J. David Bleich. Melamed Leho'il's solution. Helen Seidman problem & R' Goren.

R' Menashe Klein: Mishneh Halakhot 17:190: Munkatch Rebbe Cursed Jews Publicly Whose Views He Disagreed With. 7:223: Children of Non-Observant Parents Become Observant. Children of Observant Parents Think They are Frumer and Boycott Their Parents. - May 12, 2024 - Cotton seed oil. Checking rice in IDF. R' Moshe Feinstein on learning mishnayot during חזרת הש"ץ. Mishneh Halachot 17:190: Rashi Tehilim 80:3: God protects us, including רשעים. Greek mythology. Munkatcher Rebbe, Minchas Elazar: R' Menashe knew him well. Munkatcher Rebbe cursed certain Jews, including even אגודיסטען, at end of almost every derashah. Detailed list of the cursed. R' Menashe upset with this but we don't have proper understanding of the Munkatcher's thinking. Maybe in Germany, as opposed to Hungary & Poland, those groups he cursed did not cause destruction & should not be cursed. German Jewry had developed immunity to these bad ideas. Not in Hungary & Poland. The Rav's Neturei Karta cheque. London Jews & U.S. Jews may have immunity: No need to curse them. There was in fact "frumkeit" in U.S. before 1945. R' Menashe opposed cursing Jews. R' Rakeffet: Munkatcher attitude ruins us. Mishneh Halachot 7:223: Children become frumer or think they are frumer than their parents. Also children of non-observant parents who become observant. Inviting parents for Shabbat meals. Issues with respect to eating by parents. Totally boycotting parents because father wears a kippah serugah.

Volozhin Yeshiva. Comparing R' Naftali Tzvi Yehuda Berlin (Netziv) and R' Chaim Soloveitchik. Sukkot in Volozhin. Descriptions of Some of the Students and Their Experiences. Graetz. R' Meir Bar-Ilan. - May 6, 2024 - Monty Michael Nussbaum, ז"ל. Chachmei Lublin Yeshiva: The Postcards. Maharam Shapiro and Ponevezher Rav visit a wealthy Jew in NY. Comparing Netziv to the Rav and Rav Aharon Kotler. Netztiv's shiurim to the general public: What they were like. His explanation of Bereishit being called Sefer Hayashar. How the IDF has made it possible for Torah observant soldiers to feel comfortable. Lack of Chassidic-like joy in Volozhin except for during Sukkot. The pale wasted wealthy student's hidden library including Graetz's history. The Lakewood restaurant. Netziv felt publishing a journal might lead to apikorsut. R' Yitzchak Nissenbaum, darshan of Warsaw worked with R' Shmuel Mohliver and Hibbat Tzion. Minsk monument. R' Nissenbaum's process of entry as a new student into Volozhin. The differing schedule and nature of the shiurim of R' Chaim Soloveitchik compared to Netziv. R' Meir Bar-Ilan. The Rav's mother and the matzot. Netziv and the student who shaved with a razor. Other stories about Netziv. A key source is ישיבות ליטא פרקי זכרונות by עמנואל אטקס, שלמה טיקוצ'ינסקי

R' Menashe Klein: Mishneh Halakhot 17:190: How Should We Interact With, Live With or Not Live With, and Try to Succeed in Influencing Non-Observant Jews? - May 5, 2024 - Addressing the Rav in 3rd person – correction to the story. Stephen S. Bressler was devoted to Aish Hatorah, he was a master chef and more. Mishneh Halachot 17:190: Do not maledict Jewish רשעים. The Rav on Reform Jews. Barton's candies problem on Pesach. R' Menashe on his worrying about being misunderstood. Rambam Hilkhot De'ot 6:1: Keep away from resha'im even if one must move to the desert to do this. Shabbat 55a and Ezekiel 9:4: The righteous must rebuke and try to influence resha'im but then not live with them as Rambam says. Who is and who is not a בעל תשובה? Hoshea was taught אסור להלשין reshai'm לקב"ה, to God or ללמד קטגוריה on them. This applies to individuals and also the entire nation. Hoshea was taught by God he must defend them. This Is My God by Herman Wouk. October 7th massacre. Lapid is right, Zionism is in fact Messianic. Belief in משיח led to its success. Being positive toward non-observant Jews is what succeeds. Examples of this happening, including in recent decades.