This Tisha B'av, join Rabbi Breitowitz reading and explaining Kinnos followed by a day of Shiurim at ohr.edu.
This episode is dedicated as a zechus for the health and well being of Yehuda Ben Miriam and Victoria
00:00 Why are Zimri and Cozbi only mentioned as an afterthought, and why is the vav of 'shalom' incomplete?
07:08 How would Jews calculate zmanim in a submarine, and if there had been Jews on the Titan, would their wives have been allowed to remarry?
14:28 Why is spirituality so delicate and vulnerable?
20:19 How could an entire species be forbidden because of idolatrous use, as in the case of cocoa when it was first discovered?
24:37 What is the story of the Ten Lost Tribes?
32:56 When the gemara says that nothing treif comes from heaven, does that include the creations of heaven?
34:03 What is a possible source for yoetzet halacha?
42:55 How could the Benjaminites take women from Shiloh and Yavesh Gilead?
46:52 Is it bitul Torah to travel, and will Jews in the Messianic Era take vacations?
54:04 How does the Ramban understand the gemara that Israel heard 611 mitzvos from Moshe?
58:35 Is one allowed to enter a Buddhist temple?
1:01:05 How were nusachot made, and can one do so today?
1:08:30 How did those at the time of Chazal know when the zmanim were?
1:11:11 Why not start our mourning period from the 9th of Tammuz?
1:15:35 What is the source for long peyos, and why do so many do it?
1:16:52 What is the heter for contraception?
1:20:50 How does one maintain kavana in our fixed davening?
1:23:27 Why do we use the word 'rabbi'?
1:24:42 Is it worth discouraging intermarriage if there's a 50/50 chance of acceptance?
1:25:42 Can we use the recent innovations in torat hanefesh that come from the non-Jewish world?
1:32:17 How does one capitalize on moments of inspiration, motivation, and connection to God?
1:34:15 Since there are so many opposing ideas in mussar, how do we know when to be pulled by one force and when to be pulled by its opposite?