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00:00 What is the classical understanding of the size of the letters in Megillas Esther before 1945?
04:10 Why couldn’t Gd just give us Israel uninhabited? Why did we have to fight for it?
08:12 What is the origin of the Reisha and the Seifa in a Mishna?
13:32 Is there any issue with having a temporary bima in a shul?
19:13 How does it make sense that we’re commanded to love Hashem?
26:00 In terms of kavod of Torah and Beis Midrash, what’s halachically acceptable to help you stay awake or otherwise?
29:34 There are 72 3-letter names of Gd. Which names were written on the Urim v Turim?
31:37 How do we understand the point of existence without having eaten from the Etz HaDa’as?
37:20 What is the importance of saying the recitation of Korbanos?
40:55 How should a mainstream Yeshiva handle a former Talmid who is mchalel mitzvos bfarhesia by leading a publicly homesexual lifestyle, but expresses a genuine interest in attending an alumni Shabbos and will actually keep that Shabbos properly. On one hand, this may send a bad message to the attendees and their kids, but on the other hand he will keep that Shabbos and will have a better shaichus to Torah. What should they do? Is it worth having him?
43:58 What exactly does the term “mazal” mean?
53:32 What exactly did it mean to learn Torah before Chumash and Mishna?
56:52 What was the source of Kabbalah before Chumash/Zohar?
58:55 How could Jews derive certain laws without the Torah itself?
1:03:16 What is the purpose of the activity of the deep ocean in relation to Jewish avoda?
1:07:14 What was part of the tefillin before Moshe?
1:09:32 How do we understand or accept the grandchildren of a Rasha teaching Torah?
1:14:45 Is there Teshuva for non-Jews?
1:17:40 Why do we sometimes switch Chazzanim at Yishtabach?
1:19:36 Do nidoi and cherem apply today?
1:22:58 Why does Hashem put special needs children in the world?
1:24:48 What are the specifics of the cherem from the GRA to the chassidim?
1:30:20 Kosher phones in Israel?
1:32:34 If the GRA considers our universe absent of G-d, how would he see the idea of Hashem Echod?
1:36:31 Why did Hashem make angels?
1:38:54 What is the argument of tucking peyos behind the ear?
1:39:57 Rav Breitowitz talks on a question from last week regarding someone’s mission in life vs. learning Torah.
