YUTORAH: R' Hershel Schachter -- Recent Shiurim

Chagiga Shiur#6 YCQ - May 12, 2026 - Which temeim cannot enter Har Habayis? Who are the tumah hayotzei alav m'gufo? If someone touched a dead person on Tuesday, when is the earliest day that he can have mei para sprinkled on him? Did the Rambam ever pray on Har Habayis? On which pasukim did the tanaim and amoraim cry when reading them? Why would Yosef ask a second time from the brothers, if their father was alive, if the brothers had no new information? Why is one not permitted to move a body from one grave to another? Does anyone ever die before their time? Who is Dumah? When is one punished for performing a mitzva? When is the right time to give a poor person charity? Does a Jew always have it "good" in the diaspora? How did the Mirrer mashgiach in Shanghai, R Yechezkel (Chatzkel) Levenstein know when to tell talmidim to move from one apartment to another, prior to the apartment being destroyed by a bomb? Is it proper to enable gentiles to learn torah shel ba'al peh?

The Proper Chinuch For Our Children - May 11, 2026 -

Behind a Posek’s Derech HaPsak - May 11, 2026 - Given at the 2026 RCA Convention

Kesuvos Bechina 4 Chazara 3 - May 11, 2026 -

Behar (Bechukosai) 5786 - May 7, 2026 -

Saying Goodbye to Rabbi Jeremy Wieder as He Makes Aliyah - May 6, 2026 - https://youtu.be/rqmj-DDVDvc

Kesuvos Bechina 4 Chazara 2 - May 6, 2026 -

Chagiga Shiur#5 YCQ - May 5, 2026 - Which mitzvos asseh shehazman grama are women required to fulfil? Why is there an appeal in shul on Yom Tov? Should one try to buy an aliya on Yom Tov? Is the simcha of learning torah similar to the simcha of Yom Tov? Why are women not obligated in tefillin? How does an androgenous differ from a tumtum? Can a child born as an androgenous, who had corrective surgery, and has the XY chromosomes, blow shofar for men? How did women perform semicha on their karbanos? Can a woman wearing a four cornered linen garment, place techeles on the corners? Is safek d'oraisa l'chumra biblical or rabbinic? Is Shavuos a day long or week long holiday? How does one fulfil chinuch? How does a half slave half free man, fulfil tefillin, if his arm is like half free and half enslaved? Can a pregnant gentile woman, convert on behalf of herself and her fetus, with one dip in the mikveh? Can that fetus renounce the conversion upon reaching bar mitzva? Should Israeli soldiers on Har Habayis wear leather boots? Is a baal keri an av or rishon l'tumah and why? Can the uncircumcised brother of brothers who died after circumcision eat teruma? Why have people not gone up to Har Hayis even after going to mikveh?

The Rav on Inyanei Yom Kippur - May 5, 2026 -

Kesuvos Bechina 4 Chazara 1 - May 5, 2026 -

Chagiga Shiur#4 YCQ - Apr 28, 2026 - Shiur prerecorded on Youtube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4Em_gt2pXU). Why was R Gamliel fired? Define Hashem echad. Why are the teachings of rabbis like nails? Did the Ri Hazaken have sixty students? Should a zionist paskin on the kasharus of an eiruv, based on the psak of a neturei karta rav? How can two holy rabbis come to opposite conclusions, if they are both learning the torah properly? Why in Amon and Moav did they tithe in the shemita year? Can a halacha l'Moshe m'Sinai be on a rabbinic law? Did the Jews ever lose ownership of Eretz Yisrael? Can temple mount have kedusha while the land of Israel lacks kedusha? Can someone with Napoleon syndrome divorce his wife? What occurred with the Kleve get? Why did a German shul hire a chasidic rav- the Hafla'ah? Define cheiresh and shoteh. Is a half eved Canaani required to wear tifilin? Should one force one's twelve year old child to perform mitzvos, if it will push him away from religion?

Kesuvos Shiur #79 - Definition of a Chiddush, Bassar BiChalav, Middos SheHaTorah Nidreshet BaHem (32a-32b) - Apr 28, 2026 -

Kesuvos Shiur #78 - Abortion, Reshus HaRabim, Mezuzah, Kim Leh Bidrabah Minah (31b-32a) - Apr 27, 2026 -

Mishnah Berura Hilchos Taanios 5 - Siman 552:1-12 - Apr 27, 2026 - Mishnah Berura Chaburah given after davening in Glueck

Kesuvos Shiur #77 - Kim Leh Bidrabah Minah, Meshichah and Hagbah, Yavirenu Arbah Amos (31a-31b) - Apr 23, 2026 -

Mishnah Berura Hilchos Taanios 4 - Siman 551:6-18 - Apr 23, 2026 - Mishnah Berura Chaburah given after davening in Glueck

Mishnah Berura Hilchos Taanios 3 - Siman 551:2-5 - Apr 22, 2026 - Mishnah Berura Chaburah given after davening in Glueck

Chagiga Shiur#3 YCQ - Apr 21, 2026 - Can a person who thinks he is Napoleon, give a get? Is a deaf mute obligated in mitzvos? Are Shemita and Yovel biblical today? Is it proper to do a remembrance of Hakhel, today? Why does Rabeinu Tam say that women can recite a bracha prior to their volunteering to perform a mitzva? What position did the Aderes have in Jerusalem? Is it a mitzva to look at the temple mount on Yom Tov? In what year was Avraham Avinu born, and at what age did he start to preach about monotheism? In what way is Jewish history divided into three, two thousand year segments? How does the mitzva of learning torah differ between men and women? Is there a mitzva on a father to bring his infant to the temple? Why do Chabad chasidim not say echad me yode'ah, at the seder? Who is a real Goy? Why do the gentiles blame all the Jews, for the sin of a single Jew?

Kesuvos Shiur #76 - Kim Leh Bidrabah Minah, Maavir Arbah Amos, Kinyan Hagbah, Eruvin (30b-31a) - Apr 21, 2026 -

The Rav on Kriyas HaTorah - Apr 21, 2026 -