YUTORAH: R' Hershel Schachter -- Recent Shiurim Schachter, Rabbi Hershel

Megillah Shiur#24 YCQ - May 23, 2024 - Define biblical ribbis and rabbinic ribbis. How many levels of rabbinic ribbis are there? Is paying back a loan with interest incorporated in installments, biblical ribbis? Can one do a friend a favor, and charge way less than the interest of a bank, so that the friend can grow his business and become wealthy? Is one required to return the interest received? Are inheritors required to return the interest that their late father received? Can one be mekadesh a woman using the interest received from a loan? Why did the Rambam not include returning interest, in his 613 count? Can companies or societies charge interest? If one pledges to donate to a shul, can one back out? Who owns a shul? Is ribbis bein adam lamakom or bein adam lechaveiro? Why are the laws of ribbis in yoreh deah and not in choshen mishpat? Can one lend ribbis to a mumar? Does one need to return the lost object of a mumar? Why did the maskilim praise the Vilna Gaon as open minded? Why are there so many convoluted cases of ribbis in perek eizehu neshech? What is the theme of the sugya asking rabbis- in what merit did you live a long life? Should one have a mission in life? Should one choose one mitzva to excel in?

Katz Kollel Kiddushin 77b-78a: ליקוטי עניינים - May 22, 2024 -

Megillah Shiur#23 YCQ - May 14, 2024 - Define yachid and rabim in regards to charity, oaths, and nedarim? How can a girl be a orphan while her father is alive? Define meisis and mediach. How was Yehoshua fooled? When can a worker quit mid work? Can a rebbi quit mid semester? How can one make something hefker? Define public owned. Was the kohen who burned the red heifer totally tahor? When can kohanim eat trumah? Can humans be as holy as Hashem? Does the torah quote individuals verbatim? Are shemita fruits hefker on their own? Can a person violate bal yeraeh chametz on someone else's chametz or on chametz shel hefker? Can one be podeh the birds of a metzorah? What are the four types of ribis?

Megillah Shiur#22 YCQ - May 8, 2024 - Define chumash? How many times did the Rav make a siyum? Why are there multiple gradations of holiness? Is kedushas beis keneses biblical? Which objects that when sold, transfer it's properties to the money? Is there a difference in law, between a sefer torah owned by a synagogue versus privately owned? Is the violation of taking interest bein adam lamakom or bein adam l'chaveiro? Why would a beis midrash be holier than a shul? Why are bimahs elevated in shuls but not in batei midrashim? Why should one lain the haftorah from a klaf? Define oath taken in public? Can a potential employee back out of an agreement with a shul board?

Pesach 2024 YCQ Shiur#2 - Apr 16, 2024 - Why is remembering leaving Egypt so important? Why do we remember receiving the Torah on Mt Sinai? Which tenets of belief are derived from yitzias Mitzraim? Is maror biblical today? Define lechem? Which mitzvos require lechem? Can rice become chametz? Why did the rabbis not experiment to see which items can become chametz? Define lechem oni? Can one fulfil the mitzvah with egg matzos? Can one fulfil the mitzvah of matzo with tevel? What can be used to make a eiruv chatzeros? How thick can a matzo be? Can one fulfil the mitzva if one boiled the matzo? Can one make lechem from a loose batter? Which half of the hallel of the hagada is more important? Should one try to bake one's own matzos? When de we say the a shaliach is good enough to fulfil a given mitzva, and when do we advise to fulfil the mitzva by oneself? What are the ingredients of charoses? Is charoses a mitzva to eat? Why is there no bracha on charoses? How did Bnei Yisrael pray to Hashem in Egypt?

Brachos Chazara Shiur 3.3 - Feb 27, 2024 -