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Taking Responsibility for Torah — 323 episodes
Temurah Rashi Spring 2025 #3 Wednesday version
Temurah Rashi Spring 2026 #2 Tuesday version
Temurah Rashi Spring 2026 #1 Wednesday
Temurah Shiur #2 Tuesday version
Temurah Shiur #1 Wednesday version
Nightfall
Once Upon A Yovel
Psak and Policy
Siege Warfare in Jewish Law
The Patient as Posek
The Honeymooners
Nightmare on Almond Street
Psak and Probability: Second in the series "How Halakhah Learns About Reality"
The Powerless Posek: First in the series "How Halakhah Learns About Reality"
Sotah 2025 Iyyun Shiur #10 VIDEO
SOTAH 2025 Shiur#Final (=10) AUDIO
SOTAH 2025 Iyyun Shiur #9 - AUDIO
SOTAH 2025 Iyyun Shiur#8 VIDEO
SOTAH 2025 Iyyun Shiur #8 AUDIO
Chavot Yair #199 - Must one Return Money Stolen From a Tzedakah Box?
SOTAH 2025 Iyyun Shiur #7 VIDEO
SOTAH 2025 Iyyun Shiur #7 AUDIO
SOTAH 2025 Iyyun Shiur #6 VIDEO
Sotah 2025 Iyyun Shiur #6 AUDIO
SOTAH 2025 Iyyun Shiur #5 VIDEO
SOTAH 2025 Iyyun Shiur #5 AUDIO
A Theology for Gamblers? (Chaburah edition)
A Theology for Gamblers? Chavot Yair#61 (GPATS version)
SOTAH 2025 Iyyun Shiur #4 VIDEO
SOTAH 2025 Iyyun Shiur #4 AUDIO
Paskening for Bad People: Chavot Yair #163 (Har Etzion version)
Paskening for Bad People: Chavot Yair 163) Gruss Version
SOTAH 2025 Iyyun Shiur #3 VIDEO
SOTAH 2025 Iyyun Shiur #3 AUDIO
What is Halakhah's Relationship to Facts?
SOTAH 2025 Iyyun Shiur #2 AUDIO
SOTAH 2025 Iyyun Shiur #1 VIDEO
SOTAH 2025 Iyyun shiur #2 VIDEO
SOTAH 2025 Iyyun Shiur #1 Audio
Chavot Yair Chaburah on #163 - AUDIO
Chavot Yair Chaburah on #163 - VIDEO
Parshanut Puzzler Vayechi - התחת אלקים
Iyyun Shiur Sotah #14 VIDEO semester finale
Iyyun Shiur Sotah #14 AUDIO semester finale
Chavot Yair Chaburah #1
Iyyun Shiur Sotah #13 - VIDEO
Iyyun Shiur Sotah #13 AUDIO
Iyyun Shiur Sotah #12 AUDIO
Iyyun Shiur Sotah #12 VIDEO
Iyun Shiur Sotah #11 VIDEO
Iyyun Shiur Sotah #11 AUDIO
Iyyun Shiur Sotah #10 VIDEO
Iyyun Shiur Sotah #10 AUDIO
Iyyun Shiur Sotah #9: VIDEO
Iyyun Shiur Sotah #9 AUDIO
The Geometry and Pre-Calculus of Apportioning Security Costs: Shiur #8 on Bava Batra 7b
Iyyun Shiur #8 - Sotah: AUDIO
Iyyun Shiur Sotah#8 - VIDEO
How Does Halakhah Apportion Communal Costs? Shiur #7 on Bava Batra 7b?
How Should Communal Security Costs Be Apportioned? Shiur #6 on Bava Batra 7b
Iyyun Shiur Sotah #7 VIDEO
Iyyun Shiur Sotah #7 AUDIO
Iyyun Shiur Sotah #6 VIDEO
Iyyun Shiur Sotah #6 AUDIO
Iyyun Shiur Sotah #5 VIDEO
Iyyun Shiur Sotah #5 Audio
How Should Taxes be Apportioned? Shiur #5 on Bava Basra 7b
Modern Applications of the Gatehouse Sugya: Shiur #4 on Bava Batra 7b
Iyyun Shiur Sotah #4 VIDEO
Iyyun Shiur Sotah #4 AUDIO
How Can Halakhah Ignore an Unopposed Sugya? Bava Batra 7b Shiur #3 in the Gatehouse series
Iyyun Shiur Sotah #3 AUDIO
Iyyun Shiur Sotah #3 Video
Are Gated Communities Halakhically Acceptable? Shiur #2 Bava Batra 7b
IYYUN SHIUR ON SOTAH #2 VIDEO
SOTAH IYYUN SHIUR #2 AUDIO
Are Gated Communities Halakhically Acceptable? Opening shiur on Bava Basra 7b
Sotah Iyyun Shiur #1 AUDIO
Sotah Iyyun Shiur #1 VIDEO
:Parashat Reeh 2024: Is it "now" yet?
Do English Muffins Look Like Bullseyes? On the Kashrut of Dairy Bread and Cultured Meat
Chavot Yair 222: Women Saying Kaddish
Inclusion and Exclusion: A Jewish Values Perspective via Birkat Kohanim
Halakhah: Reintroducing the Rav Part 3
Equity and Equal Protection
Zionism:Reintroducing the Rav Episode 2
Diversity: A Jewish Values Perspective. Part 1 of a 3 part series on DEI
Should One Convey Terrible News on Shabbat? Rabbi Noah Cheses:
Holiness: Reintroducing the Rav Episode 1
Horaat Shaah and Halakhah: Part 2
Horaat Shaah: Part of Halakhah or an External Corrective? Part 1
The Meaning of "Mitzvah" in the Phrase "Milchemet Mitzvah"
One Last Step Before Redemption- Part 5
One Last Step Before Redemption - Part 4
One Last Step Before Redemption - Part 3
One Last Step Before Redemption - Part 2
One Last Step Before Redemption - Part 1
Ransoming Captives - at any price? #11 and final
Psak, Policy, and Inclusion: Birkat Cohanim as an Iconic and Ironic Example
Ransoming Captives - at any cost? #10
Guest Episode: Rav Elisha Ancselovits on Tereifot and Common Sense Halakhah
Ransoming Captives - at any price? #9
Ransoming Captives - at any price? #8
Ransoming Captives - at any price? #7
Ransoming Captives - at any price? #6
Ransoming Captives - at any price? #5
Ransoming Captives - at any price? #4
Riddle Me This: When Can Halakhah Uproot Torah?
Ransoming Captives - at any price? #3
Ransoming Captives - at any price? #2
Ransoming Captives - at any price? #1
Experiencing Halakhah as a Producer: An SBM Infomercial
Ethics, Halakhah and Civilian Casualties: with intro by R. Jonathan Ziring
Ethics, Halakhah, and Civilian Casualties: with intro by R. Dr. Elisha Ancselovits
Halakhah from First Principles: girsat Yeshivat Orayta
Halakhah from First Principles: girsat Midreshet Migdal Oz
Rav Shaul Yisraeli on Halakhah and Civilian Casualties
The Categorical Imperative and Halakhah: Physician-Assisted Suicide
Death and Transplants
The Categorical Imperative and Halakhah: Take 2
Halakhic Perspectives on Civilian Casualties Part 2
Halakahic Perspectives on Civilian Casualties Part 1
The Categorical Imperative and Halakhah: Part 1
Political Correctness and Onaas Devarim: Part 2 of 2
Political Correctness and Onaas Devarim - Part 1 of 2 at YI Sharon
Six Minutes on Tzelem Elokim, War, and Justice
Political Correctness and Halakhic Speech Ethics: With Rabbi Moshe Kurtz
ReCreational Repentance
An Unexpectedly Revolutionary Meiri, or at least Yesh Meforshim in the Meiri
Where do we go from here? Transissues #4 (Finale)
An Evaluation of Dor Tahpuchot: Transissues #3
Torah Lishmoh and Love of Torah
Can Surgery Affect Halakhic Sex? The Position of Tzitz Eliezer
Torah Lishmoh and Love of G-d
Transissues#1 - Crossdressing - recording from second microphone
Transissues#1 - Crossdressing
Is There Religious Obligation Independent of Halakhah? The Alter of Slobodka on saving Rachav the Canaanitess
Torah Lishmoh and Yeshiva Ideology #6
Torah for Torah's Sake and Yeshiva Ideology #5
Torah for Torah's Sake and Yeshiva Ideology: Back to the Sources Part 4
Torah for Torah's Sake: Back to the Sources Part 3
Torah for Torah's Sake and Yeshiva Ideology: Back to the Sources Part 2
Torah for Torah's Sake and Yeshivah Ideology: Back to the Sources Part 1
Eliyahu HaNavi: A Shabbat HaGadol Drashah
Halakhah and Values #15 - Kavod Haberiyot #4 GRAND FINALE
Halakhah and Values #14: Kavod Haberiyot #3
Halakhah and Values #13: Human Dignity Part 2
Halakhah and Values #12: Human Dignity Part 1
What do Angels Look Like? and other questions about Halakhah and Art: Shiur at 2023 Seforim Sale
Halakhah and Values #11 - Probability, Rav Shimon Shkop, and Moral Luck
MIT Hillel Shiur in Lieu of Halakhah and Values 10 - Probability and Normativity
Do Sugyot Have Shapes?
Halakhah and Values class #9: What are the odds that probability is predictive?
Open Sesame! A Dvar Torah for Chanukah
The Halakhic Status of Christianity
Halakhah and Values class#8: Can the moral interests of halakhic persons conflict?
Halakhah and Values Class #7 - Wrapping Up Series on New Rabbinic Legislation
Vayishlach - Who Won the Duel at Penuel?
Halakhah and Values class #6: Prohibition vs. Invalidation, Orignation vs. Rediscovery
Yeshiva of Newark Shiur in memory of Dr. Jacob Klapper: The Interrelationship of Science and Halakhah as Reflected in Discussions of the Gestation and Birth of Dinah
Halakhah and Values class #5: Instituting New Rabbinic Legislation part 1
Halakhah and Values class #4: Authority for Rabbinic Legislation part 2
Halakhah and Values class #3 - Rabbinic Authority Part 1 - Sources of Authority
Halakhah and Values class#2: Chazokos, Divine Will, and Human Experience
Halakhah and Values class#1: Freedom
Why did G-d give the Torah to human beings? A Model Reading of Meshekh Chokhmah
The "Advice of the Maharsham": Deliberately Creating Situations that Generate Retroactive Marriage Annulments as a Stratagem for Dealing with Cases of Mamzerut or Iggun
Halakhah and Freedom: SBM Fellows discuss Chapter 1 of Rabbi Klapper's "Divine Will and Human Experience"
Corporation, Competition Law, and Copyright: The Intersection of Halakhah and Economic Theory
Some Notes on the Relationship Between Halakhah and Its Values: Shiur at Cong. Kadima-Torah Moshe
Self-Care, Abuse, and Alienation: Practical Hilkhot Kibbud Av VaEim for Adult Parents and Children Part 3 of 3
Halakhah, Reason, and Moral Experience: Part 3 of 3? on the Politics and Halakhah of Abortion
Values Conflicts: Part 2 of 3 at YI Sharon on Practical Hilkhot Kibbud Av vaEim for Adult Parents and Children
Trimesters, Viability, and Other Lines in the Sand: Part 2 of 3 on The Politics and Halakhah of Abortion
Are Love and Obedience Required? Part 1 of 3 at YI Sharon on Practical Hilkhot Kibbud Av VaEim for Parents and Adult Children
Can the Ethics of Abortion Be Different for Jews and nonJews? Part 1 of 3 on The Politics and Halacha of Abortion
Independence Day Shiur - Democracy and Equal Protection in Jewish Theology, Political Theory, and Halakhah
The Impeachment of Rabban Gamliel
Halakhic Employer-Employee Law #27 - Rav Kuk on how rabbis have so much free time they can't be enslaved
Yi Halakhic Employer-Employee Law #28, and final: Theology and law in Rav Kuk vs. Rav Avraham Dov Levin
A Conspiracy of Silence Ends With A Loud Curse: Rereading the Story of the Mekallel
Halakhic Employer-Employee Law #26 - Cheshev Haeifod - retention bonus paid in advance
What is the Correct Ketubah Amount for a Couple that has been Civilly Married for Years? ("Things that cannot be said at all" in Igrot Mosheh, final episode)
Lo Notan leheiamer Pesach: Dough mixed with fruit juice
Halakhic Employer-Employee Law #25 - Avnei Nezer and Rav Mosheh read the Yerushalmi
Lo Nitan Leheiamer #16: Chalitzah for an adulteress
Halakhic Employer-Employee Law #24 - Avnei Nezer part 1
Lo Nitan Leheiamer #15: Abortion
Halakhic Employer-Employee Law #23
Lo Nitan LeHeiamer #14: Did Ezra Have the Power to Edit?
Halakhic Employer-Employee Law #22
Lo Nitan LeHeiamer #13: Do Dishwashers Need to be Kashered?
Halakhic Employer-Employee Law 21: Return to the Bavli
Halakhic Employer-Employee Law #20: Who is the master, who is the slave?
Lo Nitan Leheiamer #12: Should philanthropists prioritize the dignity of scholars over the lives of the ignorant?
Halakhic Employer-Employee Law #19: Cheshbon
Halakhic Employer-Employee Law #18: Back to Bava Metzia
Lo Nitan Leheiamer 11: Are Talmidei Chakhamim Needed?
Halakhic Employer-Employee Law#17/Miniunit on Klalei Horaah#3
Lo Nitan LeHeiamer Episode 10: May Kohanim Who Publicly Violate Shabbat Perform the Priestly Blessing?
Halakhic Employer-Employee Law #16: Miniunit on Klalei Horaah #2
Halakhic Employer-Employee Law #15: Miniunit on Klalei Horaah #1
Darkah Shel Torah: An Account of Halakhah That Demands Multiple Espistemologies and Can Integrate Ethics, from SBM 2013
Lo Nitan l'Heiamer Episode 9 (corrected): Can Formal Rules Prevent A Posek From Permitting an Agunah, When Substantively She Should be Free?
Halakhic Employer-Employee Law # 14: Having It Both Ways
Lo Nitan l'Heiamer 8: Do Apartment Houses Require an Eiruv Chatzeirot?
Halakhic Employer-Employee Law #13: Hasoker Et Haumanin YI Sharon
Devorah as Halakhic Judge - Exception or Paradigm?
"Lo Nitan Leheamer Clal" in Igrot Moshe, Episode 7: Responding to a Weak but Authoritative Heter Agunah
Halakhic Employer-Employee Law: Shiur #12 HaSokher et HaUmanin YI Sharon
"Lo Nitan LeHeamerClal" in Igrot Mosheh, Episode 6: Polio, Paralysis, and Phylacteries
"Stand your Ground" Laws: Yom Iyyun Shiur
Allegations of Abuse in Halakhah: Yom Iyyun Shiur
Halakhic Employer-Employee Law: Shiur #11 HaSokher et HaUmanin YI Sharon
Should Moshe Have Looked Away? Reflections on Tzeniut, Kavod, and Spiritual Risk
Are Mitzvot in Chutz LaAretz Just for Practice? Rereading Ramban's Introduction to Shemot
The Eligibility of a Woman with a Genetic Jewish Father and non-Jewish Mother, Born from a Jewish Surrogate, to Marry a Kohen
Halakhic Employer-Employee Year: Shiur #10 HaSokher et HaUmanin YI Sharon
Should Halakhah be Affected by Our Best Understanding of the Rationales for Mitzvot? 2012 SBM Intro Shiur (long)
Should Halakhah be Affected by Our Best Understanding of the Rationales for Mitzvot? 1997 SBM Intro shiur
Halakhic Employer-Employee Law: Shiur #9 HaSokher et HaUmanin YI Sharon
"Lo Nitan Leheamer Clal" in Igrot Moshe, Episode 5: Can Rationales for Mitzvot Affect Halakhah?
"Lo Nitan l'He'amer Clal" in Igrot Mosheh, Episode 4: Social Changes and their Effects on Halakhah, Agunah Edition
Halakhic Employer-Employee Law: Shiur #8 HaSokher et Haumanin at YI Sharon
Eight Minutes on Parshat Vayeshev: A Thanksgiving Sermon
Halakhic Employer-Employee Law: Shiur #7 Hasokher et HaUmanin at YI Sharon
"Lo Nitan L'heamer Klal" in Igrot Moshe, Episode Three: His money or your life?
Halakhic Employer-Employee Law: Shiur #6 Hasokher et HaUmanin at YI Sharon
"Lo Nitan L'heamer Klal" in Igrot Moshe, Episode Two: Defining "zonah"
Leah, Rachel, and Dinah: A Midrashic Speculation
Halakhic Employer/Employee Law: Shiur #5 HaSokeher et HaUmanin Shiue at YI Sharon
Halakhic Employer/Employee Law: Shiur #4 Hasokher et Haumanin Shiur at YI Sharon
Six Minutes on Chayyei Sarah - Political Halakhah Must Treat Jews and Non-Jews Identically
"Lo Nitan L'heamer Klal" in Igrot Moshe, Episode 1: Can a consensual sexual act be permitted to one party and forbidden to the other?
Halakhic Employer/Employee Law: Shiur #3 HaSokher et HaUmanin Shiur at YI Sharon
Thoughts of A Losing Defense Attorney: Avraham after Sodom
Five Minutes on Parshat Vayera - The Akeidah and Halakhah
Halakhic Employer/Employee Law: Shiur #2 HaSokher et HaUmanin Shiur at YI Sharon
Halakhic Employer/Employee Law: Shiur #1, HaSokher Et HaUmanin, YI Sharon
Learning Shelo Lishmoh: A Risky Shiur
Efshar Leverurei Episode 15 - Psak, Probability, and Reality
"IN THE PLACE WHERE PENITENTS STAND, TZADDIKIM CANNOT STAND" - Where exactly is that place?
Efshar Leverurei Episode 14 - The Unknown Shochet
Efshar Leverurei Episode 13 - HeChadash Asur Min HaTorah
The Difference Between Doubt and Ignorance - Efshar Leverurei Episode 12
Efshar Leverurei Episode 11: The Flatbush Eruv
Efshar Leverurei Episode 10: May One Presume That Marriages In Communist Russia Had No Halakhic Validity?
SBM 2021 - Sixteenth and final Main Shiur July 27
The Fluid Boundaries of "Religious" Today: Directions and Implications. Eliyana Yashgur, SBM 2021 Guest Shiur
SBM 2021 - Fifteenth Main Shiur July 28
SBM 2021 - Fourteenth Main Shiur July 27
SBM 2021 - Thirteenth Main Shiur - July 26
Rabbi Jonathan Ziring: Toelet and Lashon Hora
Efshar Leverurei Episode 9 - Reliable evidence for unreliable divorces, and vice versa
The Ouroboros and the Oven SBM2021 Aggada #3
SBM 2021 - Twelfth Main Shiur July 22
SBM 2021 - Eleventh Main Shiur July 21
SBM 2021 - Tenth Main Shiur - July 19
SBM 2021 - Ninth Main Shiur - July 19
Efshar Leverurei Episode 8 - Review plus toveling dishes of uncertain origin
Does the Shaarei Yosher believe in an Ethic Independent of Halakhah? SBM 2021 Friday July 16
Rabbi Jonathan Ziring Lashon Hora Without Human Involvement SBM 2021 July 15
SBM 2021 - Eighth Main Shiur - July 15
Why Rav sent Rav Kehana to Israel
SBM 2021 - Seventh Main Shiur - July 14
SBM 2021 - Sixth Main Shiur - July 13
Statutory Intepretation in Halakhah: Rabbi Dr. Shlomo Zuckier at SBM 2021
SBM 2021 - Fifth Main Shiur - July 12
SBM 2021 - Second Main Shiur July 6
Halakhic Morality: Law and Ethics in Rav Soloveitchik's Essay
SBM 2021 - Fourth Main Shiur July 8
SBM2021ThirdMainShiurJuly7
SBM 2021 - First Main Shiur July 5
Efsharlevrurei Episode 7: A Tangent on Techumin
Chukat - Confidence-Building Measures in Ethnic Politics
Efsharlevrurei Episode 6: The Brain Death Controversy inverted
Efsharlevrurei Episode 3 - Shatnez checking
Efshar Leverurei Episode 4 - Gelatin
Efsharlevrurei Episode 5: Two Lenient Teshuvot Involving Intermarriages
Shlach: Was Peter Pan a Canaanite?
B'Haalotkha - Mosheh and Yitro debate whether the Torah's promise of "one law for the naturalized and the born citizen" means that converts must have hereditary land in Israel
Efsharlevrurei2 (take 2) - Must one check to see whether a shechted bird is a treifah?
Whose Emotions Does Prophecy Express? (Hosheia 1-2, Haftarat Bamidbar)
EfsharLivrurei Eposode 1: The Agunah and Her Letter
Bechukotai: Netziv's Theology of Chosenness
Emor: Can just anyone make a chillul Hashem?
One Rishon's Radical Position about Kavod haBeriyot: Can It Fit Into the Bavli?
Yoma 11b - Daf Yomi Shiur
What the "Goses" Category Can Teach us About Halakhah - Yom Iyyun Recording
Vayakhel: The World Recreated, Again
Rav Henkin z"l on contributing to the rebuilding of torched churches
Should Poskim be Doctors of the Soul? Medical Metaphors for Law in Maimonides
Harry Potter and the Plague of Darkness
Reversing Lekha Lekha: Avraham, Yitzchak, and Intermarriage
Lekh Lekha - When Relationship and Religious Growth Conflict
Rabbi Sacks' reading of the Tower of Babel story in Dignity of Difference
May One Eat in the Sukkah on Simchat Torah?
5 Minutes on Parshat Shelach - Equality under the law
Goses, Treifah, Zombie
Triage and Halakhah #8: The Position of Rav Asher Weiss, Rav Herschel Schachter, and some directional notes of my own
Triage and Halakhah # 7: The Positions of Rabbi Moshe Sternbuch and His Correspondents
Thinking Briskly: Body, Mind, and Soul Part 2
Triage in Halakhah part 5: The Position of Rabbi Zalman Nechemyah Goldberg
Thinking Briskly: Are mitzvot performed by the body, the mind, or the soul?
Triage in Halakhah part 6: The Position(s) of Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Auerbach
Triage in Halakhah Part 4
Triage in Halakhah: Part 3
Triage in Halakhah: Basic Principles 2
Triage in Halakhah: Basic Principles
Lost Wages from a Pandemic Shutdown Part 2: Outline and Agenda
Lost Wages During a Pandemic Shutdown: Why A Din Torah Shouldn't Follow Din Torah
Kaddish Derabannan in a Zoom minyan
Can one form a minyan via ZOOM?
The Rav and Rav Shagar walk into a holosuite bar . . . : Virtual and other realities in light of recent experience
Who Decides What is "Shabbesdik"?
Halakhah and Emerging Technologies 2: ZOOM
Lifnim Mishurat Hadin, or: The Limits of Law
Who Decides Halakhah?
How is Halakhah Decided?
How Radically Can Halakhah Change in a Sh'at Hadchak?
How is Halakhah Organized?
The Relationship Between Halakhah and Ethics: 3 Case Studies
How Many Parshiyot Should We Lein the Shabbat After Quarantine?