All Episodes

Hive mind: Flexibility, Subjectivity, and Diversity in Halakha

Semikha Shabbat 12: Pikuah Nefesh ch. 328

Rosh HaShana laws and practices

Semikha Shabbat 11: Siman 306 Spirit of Shabbat

Semikha Shabbat 7:261 Lighting Candles

Semikha Shabbat8: 269-272 Kiddush

Semikha Shabbat 9:273-282 Kiddush to Torah Reading

Semikha 10: 301-302 Tur's Intro

Semikha Shabbat 6: Food on the Stove and Time issues

Semikha Shabbat 5: 250 - Timers and Delayed action

Semikha Shabbat 4: Transportation cont'd and rules of Pesikah

Semikha Shabbat 3: 248 - Transportation and travel

Semikha Shabbat 2: chapter 243: Lease and Rent

Semikha Shabbat 1: Shulhan Arukh 242

Shabbat 39 melakhot part 2

Shabbat 39 Melakhot, part 1

The Halakhic Process 2

The Halakhic Process Part 1

Avelut 13: Final Session

Avelut 12: Shiva and Sheloshim prohibitions

Avelut 11 Kaddish

Avelut 10: Mourning Practices

Avelut 9: Yoreh Deah 375-378 - Funeral and Sitting

Avelut 8: The Form of Burial/Attending to Non-Jews

Avelut 7: Tahara, Burial of Objects, Shrouds

The authority of the Posek 2

The Authority of the Posek 1

Avelut 6: Suicide; Cremation.

Avelut 5: Eulogy by women/ suicide

Avelut 4: End of life/Keri’a - tearing garments

Avelut 3: Visiting the sick/End of life

Avelut 2

Avelut 1

Semikha 19: historical review of Introductions - recap

Semikha 18: ROY3 - Disagreeing with Earlier Sages

Semikha 17 ROY2: ROY’s Intro to Yabia Omer

Semikha 16 ROY 1: R Ovadia Yosef’s intro to Yabia Omer

Semikha 15: Arokh HaShulhan 5 conclusion

Semikha 14-Arokh HaShulhan 4: Origin of Disputes

Responsa 2: R. Yosef Megas, Spain 11C

Semikha 13: Arokh HaShulhan 3: Sacred Talmud and Rashi

Responsa 1: RIF - R. Yitzhak Alfasi

Semikha 12: Aroch HaShulhan 2

Semikha 11: Aroch HaShulhan intro 1

Semikha 10: Intro of Mishnah Berurah

Advanced Bavli-Yerushalmi on Shabbat

Semikha 9: BY intro. - R Karo’s methodology explained

Advanced: Talmud Shabbat - liability for each transgressions

Advanced: Bet Yosef Intro 1

Bavli on the origin of 39 works

The 39- In depth analysis of Mishnah and Talmud 1

Semikha 8: Tur Intro.

Mishnah Shabbat: Intro. Ch. 1-2

Mishnah Berakhot ch. 7-9

Mishnah Berakhot ch. 5-6

Mishnah Berakhot ch. 1-4

Semikha 7: Maimonides Intro conclusion

Semikha 6B

Semikha 6A: Maimonides Intro 2

Semikha 6: Maimonides intro 1

Semikha 5: Post Talmud anonymous authors

Semikha 4: Disputes in Mishnah - uniformity vs. flexibility

Semikha 3: Talmud; Hillel of Babel

Semikha 2: Midrash Halakha and Mishnah

Semikha program1: Rationale and Structure

1: M. Halakha - interpretation or revelation?

Semikha 1.13 - Final Tanakh & Halakha Mindset

Semikha 1.12 - Tanakh & Halakha Mindset

Semikha 1.11: Tanakh & Halakhic Mindset: Deut. - Ezekiel

Semikha 1.10: Tanakh & Halakhic Mindset-adjustment to reality

Semikha 1.9: Tanakh & Halakhic Mindset - Num. 11-Deut. 19

Semikha 1.8: Tanakh & Halakhic Mindset

Semikha 1.7: Tanakh & Halakhic Mindset

Semikha 1.6: Tanakh & Halakhic Mindset: Sacrifice & Ritual

Semikha 1.5: Tanakh & Halakhic Minset

Semikha 1.4: Tanakh & the Halakhic Mindset: Exodus, Ten Commandments, Slavery

Semikha 1.3: Tanakh & Halakhic Mindset - Conclusion of Genesis

Semikha 1.2: Tanakh and the Halakhic Mindset: Tree of Knowledge

Semikha 1.1: Tanakh and the Halakhic Mindset