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Sources of Halacha 18
You can watch and download the shiurim below. As always please send any comments, thoughts, ideas or criticisms to admin at hashkafacircle.com [flv:/sources/soh_18.flv 240 180] Video of shiur 18 Click here to download the shiur as an flv file Sources of Halacha 18 (you may have to right click on...
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Sources of Halacha 17 – Safek Berachos
Rabbi Triebitz continues with Berachos 12a and the topic of safek berachos lehakel. If someone thinks they have a cup of wine in their hand, but it turns out to be mead, do they have to make another beracha over it or not. Tosefos there brings an interesting opinion of the R”I that there are […]...
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Sources of Halacha 16 – Blessings of Torah, Sukkah and Tefillin
This shiur is a continuation of the previous one. Rabbi Triebitz goes through Tosefos (Berachos 11b “she-kvar niftar“) carefully, and examines their comparison of the blessings of Torah and the blessings of Sukkah. It seems that in both cases (and in the case of Tefillin) there was an original,...
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Sources of Halacha 15 – Birkas HaTorah
This shiur is on the Gemara Berachos 11b which discusses the obligation to recite blessings before learning Torah. Rashi there explains why the blessing before the Shema exempts a person from saying the blessings, but Tosefos attacks him based on a Yerushalmi (Berachos 9b). Other sources for the...
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Sources of Halacha 14 – Are Chumros heretical?
In this shiur Rabbi Triebitz discusses the basis for chumros, and when it is permitted to follow a chumrah. He begins with the Gemara’s discussion of Rabbi Tarfon (who was nearly killed because he wanted to be stringent like Beis Shammai – and the other Rabbis told him that he deserved to die...
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Sources of Halacha 13 – Arguing on Shulchan Aruch
If a person did not read the morning Shema in time, they may read it later. The question is whether they should recite the berachot or not. The Rosh, based on Rav Hai Gaon, says to read with berachot only up until the 4th hour. Rambam says even the whole day. The Shulchan Aruch (58:6) […] The…
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Sources of Halacha 12 – best two out of three?
In his introduction to the Beis Yosef Orech Chaim, Rav Yosef Karo states that he will follow the best two out of three of the Rif, Rambam and Rosh. Why does the Shulchan Aruch not follow his rule of following the majority ruling of Rif, Rambam and Rosh? In times of Shema he seems to […] The post...
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Sources of Halacha 11 – Halachic minhagim
This shiur is a continuation of last week’s shiur. The Talmud seems to contradict itself in the halachos of Shema in the evening and in the morning. It seems to uphold two opposing opinions. The Rif explains that one is l’chatchila and the other is b’di-eved, but maintains that both are halacha....
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