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Q&A 10-29-25 Q&A: Negiah, Kabbalah & Smartphones
0:00 Why don’t we mention the sins/mistakes of modern
Gedolim?
5:55 When a person speak lashon hara does he receive all of the
sins of the person he spoke lashon hara about?
6:50 What’s is the extent and details of the prohibition of shomer
negiah?
15:09 How was it morally correct for the Israelites to conquer the
land the Canaan from the Canaanite’s?
29:40 Why is it when you daven you are required to wear shoes, but
when Moshe was at the burning bush he was told to remove his shoes
because he was in a holy place?
33:02 Mishnah in Pirke Avot says Hashem created tens things on erev
Shabbat. Why did Hashem create them at that time? Why was Bilam’s
donkey created and this seems to contradict the Rambam who says the
whole episode was a prophecy and not an actually occurrence?
37:20 Why is there so many different opinions regarding the
resurrection of the dead?
46:10 Why do we daven silently today?
50:40 Why has it changed today that we are more open to learning
the hidden parts of the Torah, when there was a reluctance in the
engagement of this knowledge in the previous generations?
58:00 When a person die his marriage is severed and his wife is
allowed to marry someone else. How would this apply during the
resurrection of dead, will a person marry his same wife and what
would happen if his wife married someone after he passed in his
previous life?
1:01:00 Why is it that when the Kohen Gadol davens on Yom Kippur it
seems he prays for trivial things during the auspicious
time?
1:05:02 Why is it do we still eat cholent and gefilte fish when we
don’t live in those countries where this tradition
originated?
1:09:50 Why is the religious community so against smart phones even
with filters, while they are accepting of laptops?
1:14:53 Is whistling allowed and is there a source that whistling
summons demons?
1:17:47 Why was there a disagreement between Avraham and Sarah
regarding what to do with Yishmael and why do we learn from their
disagreement that the wife is always right?
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