Dream Analysis in Halacha: Aruch ha'Shulchan and Rambam

Have any questions, insights, or feedback? Send me a text!This Friday morning "Machshavah Lab" shiur for women (12/16/22) was something like a follow-up from last week's shiur on "The Meta-Halachic Implications of the Halachos of Fingernail Cutting." Although the topics of dreams, prophecy, and prophetic dreams are fraught with difficulty, they DO have an anchor in two halachic institutions: the strange "ritual" of Hatavas Chalom (interpreting a bad dream for the good) and Taanis Chalom (fasting in response to a nightmare). Today we examined both subjects as presented by the Aruch ha'Shulchan and the Rambam, with a little help from Jonathan Lear's take on Freudian dream analysis. -----מקורות:Rav Samson Raphael Hirsch: Letters on Aggadata, Letter #4 שולחן ערוך אורח חיים רכברכות דף נה עמוד בערוך השולחן אורח חיים רכ:א-הJonathan Lear, "Freud" (2005) pp.115-116Jonathan Lear, "Radical Hope: Ethics in the Face of Cultural Devastation" (2006), pp.115-116תענית דף יב עמוב דברכות דף לא עמוד ברמב"ם – משנה תורה: ספר זמנים, הלכות תעניות א:יברב האי גאון - אוצר הגאונים תענית (התשובות סי' מה; עמ' 22 וכן הוא בברכות התשובות סימן קצו)שם ברכות (הפירושים סי' קלה; עמ' 44) בשם רב האי גאוןרבינו חננאל - ברכות דף לא עמוד ב -----The Torah content for the month of Kislev has been sponsored by Serena and Paul Koppel, who want to be makir tov and express gratitude.-----If you have questions, comments, or feedback, I would love to hear from you! Please feel free to contact me at rabbischneeweiss at gmail.-----If you've gained from what you've learned here, please consider contributing to my Patreon at www.patreon.com/rabbischneeweiss. Alternatively, if you would like to make a direct contribution to the "Rabbi Schneeweiss Torah Content Fund," my Venmo is @Matt-Schneeweiss, and my Zelle and PayPal are mattschneeweiss at gmail.com. Even a small contribution goes a long way to covering the costs of my podcasts, and will provide me with the financial freedom to produce even more Torah content for you.If you would like to sponsor a day's or a week's worth of content, or if you are interested in enlisting my services as a teacher or tutor, you can reach me at rabbischneeweiss at gmail.com. Thank you to my listeners for listening, thank you to my readers for reading, and thank you to my supporters for supporting my efforts to make Torah ideas available and accessible to everyone.-----Substack: rabbischneeweiss.substack.com/Patreon: patreon.com/rabbischneeweissYouTube Channel: youtube.com/rabbischneeweissBlog: kolhaseridim.blogspot.com/"The Mishlei Podcast": mishlei.buzzsprout.com"The Stoic Jew" Podcast: thestoicjew.buzzsprout.com"Rambam Bekius" Podcast: rambambekius.buzzsprout.com"Machshavah Lab" Podcast: machshavahlab.buzzsprout.com"The Tefilah Podcast": tefilah.buzzsprout.comWhatsApp Group: https://chat.whatsapp.com/GEB1EPIAarsELfHWuI2k0HAmazon Wishlist: amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/Y72CSP86S24W?ref_=wl_sharel