Jun 23, 2022
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00:00 Clarification about R Aryeh Kaplan and use of
drugs
00:58 Is there a source for wars being prevented for learning
Torah?
07:05 What is an appropriate response to answer a secular
person about slavery in the Torah?
14:14 How do we visualize demons, what did they look like? How
did we know they were there? Are they present today, or did they go
away with certain yeridas hadoros?
19:28 How should a convert act in terms of honoring parents,
shomer negiah, etc.?
23:47 What is the safek on mainstream techeles
today?
31:43 Why is Miriam punished instead of Aaron if listening to
Lashon Haro is worse than saying it according to the Chafetz
Chaim?
33:12 How should we think about Angels?
37:46 What are the levels of Angels?
38:44 Why is the Shema such a meaningful prayer and what does
it really mean?
40:25 When the Ark landed, how did animals spread to all parts
of the earth? does this contribute to the idea of one
continent/Pangea?
42:42 What are the Rav’s views on the different types of
kiruv?
47:05 Shuckling and vigorous flailing during davening looks
absurd, so should we stand still during Shemona Esrei?
51:42 What is wrong with occasionally drinking alcohol or
smoking marijuana?
54:40 What are the reasons that Sephardim and Ashkanazi Jews
have different ways to say certain tefillos out loud or not?
1:00:37 Are people who are married by a reform rabbi
halachically married?
1:05:52 Why does the Torah state things one way but we have a
mesorah that it means something else (such as eye for an
eye)?
1:07:08 What is something that surprised the Rav in his
life or his favorite sefer?
1:10:53 What are the halachic ramifications of a Jewish man
and woman being intimate outside of marriage?
1:17:10 Recently an animated Disney movie had a small
homosexual scene. Should we not be showing cartoons to our
kids?
1:21:40 Why does mashiach have to come in the form of a
person? Why wouldn’t it just be Hashem himself? What depends on a
human leader?
1:23:24 What is the opinion on causing a car to stop on
Shabbos to cross the street?
1:25:40 What about when someone needs to use transportation
for an emergency on Shabbos?
1:27:10 Should we not walk on grass on Shabbos?
1:28:00 In Parashas Shelach, why is there a seemingly larger
focus on Yetzias Mitzrayim if the miracle to get to Israel is
seemingly harder?
1:30:22 Where does the 250 incense offerings come from in
Parashas Korach?
1:33:04 After all the miracles and revelations of Hashem in
the Torah, why would anyone continue to question Moshe and Aharon’s
authority?
1:37:30 Why do we say speedily in our days when amoraim prayed
against that?
1:38:51 What does the Rav think of many Jews pursuing higher
education in relation to going off the Derech?
1:44:31 How do we posken with non-Jews opening and pouring
non-Mevushal wine?
1:49:29 Could a Kohen enter a cemetery of Karites?
1:50:40 If a convert stops being a shomer Torah Jew, do they
become invalid?
