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Jewish Law (Halachah)

Q&A: Ghosts, Kabbalah, Lost Tribes, Saying Kaddish Reincarnation Jew/Non-Jew Women Learning and more

Rabbi Yitzchak Breitowitz – Nice Q&A session with Rabbi Breitowitz on many different topics including: kaddish, ghosts, the lost tribes, and the talmud. The Torah proofs and Jewish thoughts and philosophy on these topics are fascinating. Feel free to use the time stamps posted below to listen to specific questions and answers

Question Time Stamps:

00:00 WHY DO WE SAY KADDISH?

04:28 COULD YOU PLEASE DESCRIBE THE KABBALISTIC MIDDAH OF MALCHUS?

09:20 WHEN DID SOULS BECOME “JEWISH” SOULS?
17:11 DOES ANYONE SAY THAT THE JEWISH TRANSFORMATION HAPPENED AT MT. SINAI?

18:24 WHY DO WE STAND WITH FEET TOGETHER IN THE AMIDAH?

20:13 WHY ARE THERE VERY FEW LEVITES?

24:07 IF HASHEM CREATED TESHUVA FOR ALL PEOPLE, HOW CAN ELISHA BEN AVUYA SAY THE ACHER COULDN’T DO TESHUVA? AND HOW DO WE MAKE TESHUVA FOR “DEAD AND GONE” SITUATIONS?

29:34 HOW COME WE DON’T KNOW WHERE THE LOST TRIBES ARE TODAY?

35:48 IF SOMEONE IS TRAVELING AND THEY ARE LOOKING FOR A SHUL, HOW DO I KNOW IT’S A KOSHER MINYAN (E.G. IF IT WERE REFORM OR CONSERVATIVE)?

43:10 WHAT DOES THE RAMBAM MEAN WHEN HE SAYS WE SHOULDN’T DO MITZVOS FOR THE SAKE OF REWARD?

48:00 WHEN DOES IT BECOME APPROPRIATE TO STUDY KABBALAH?

58:08 HOW DOES ONE KNOW WHICH VOICES TO LISTEN TO INSIDE ONESELF?

1:04:16 WHAT IS THE TORAH’S PERSPECTIVE ON GHOSTS?

1:06:00 HOW DO YOU EXPLAIN LEARNING GEMARA TO KIDS?

1:14:45 ARE WOMEN ALLOWED TO LEARN GEMARA?

1:20:53 ARE THERE MAKHLOSIM BETWEEN THE TALMUD YERUSHALMI? WHY IS THE TALMUD BAVLI MORE WIDESPREAD IF THE YERUSHALMI WAS WRITTEN IN A HOLIER PLACE?

1:30:58 WHY IS THERE NOT MORE OF A PUSH TO LEARN MACHSHAVA IN YESHIVA?

1:35:30 HOW WOULD THE RAV DESCRIBE THE FUNDAMENTAL DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A JEW AND A NON-JEW TO SOMEONE WHO HAS NO IDEA ABOUT JUDAISM?

1:39:15 HOW DO WE RELATE TO AVODA ZARA REFERENCES OR IMAGES IN LITERATURE?

1:42:45 WHY DO SOME SECTS OF JUDAISM NOT LEARN ON CERTAIN DAYS (NON-JEWISH HOLIDAYS)?

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Weekly Torah Portion

The secret of achieving wealth!

Rabbi Moshe Pinto Shlita – Shares with us the underlying reason why Jews attract such wealth and success – the spiritual underpinnings of why that is. Also, what happens when we lose great wealth such as in the time of the Egyptian slavery – when we lose our standing and spirituality. And finally how we attain material and spiritual wealth by doing our part and relying on Hashem.

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Personal Growth

The secret how to end your challenges! Life is hard – why suffer?

Rabbi Alon Anava – Shares about how to deal with life on life’s terms without suffering and how to change your perspective to improve life’s outlook in general. A good dose of an attitude of gratitude is the overall theme of the video combined with a focus on the journey instead of destination thinking. I really enjoyed and felt empowered by this class.

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Chassidut Kabbalah

Seventy Faces – Changing Punctuation and Fundamentals of Kabbalah and Chassidut – Light – Part 6

Rabbi Trugman – Double feature of two videos by Rabbi Trugman revealing deep Chassidic and Kabbalah based secrets in an easy to understand way. I learned a lot from both these videos and they there are parts for both beginners and more advanced listeners. Perfect for before Shabbat!

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Personal Growth

It’s Forbidden to Get Old

Rabbi David Yisrael Kalmus – Shares about how reliance on nature and secular thought instead of on Hashem is the cause of all our suffering up until this very day. The story about Adam and Eve and the eating of the tree being the eating of nature and secular thought was the source of this suffering we experience today. The Rabbi explains the analogy of when we are an adult and we get a small cut on our hand it heals after a short period of time but when we get a cut as a baby we may have a scar for the rest of our life. This is the same as Adam and Eve’s original sin lasting as long as it has. Listen to the video to hear the entire back story.

Newsletter – Rabbi Kalmus’s organization, Tzion Breslov Project, also started a newsletter that comes out before Shabbat – you can sign up for that free here as well:

https://shoutout.wix.com/so/1fNmycvso?languageTag=en#/main

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Jewish Law (Halachah) Mussar (Ethics)

Suicide – Includes Current Events

Rabbi Yosef Mizrachi – Shares about how Jewish Law views suicide and its implications. We learn from the story of young Jews who were captured by the Romans and were about to be sent to Rome to be abused by their captors and they asked a Tanna (a Rabbi leader of that generation) whether they will still have a share in the World to come if they commit suicide instead of be being abused by their captors and he replied yes. We deduce from this that in other cases Jewish law forbids suicide since life is given by Hashem and only He can take it from us. To see exceptions to this law (and there are quite a few) please view the video.

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Shabbat

The Meaning of Shabbat: The Source of Blessing (Hebrew W/English Subtitles)

Rabbi Zamir Cohen – Pefect pre-Shabbat video. This class is a great summation of Shabbat and both a practical and spiritual guide on how to view Shabbat. Packed with information and how and why of Shabbat for both the observant and non-observant audience. A real video treasure.

Personal Thoughts – The examples Rabbi Cohen gives are exactly how I viewed Shabbat both before and at the beginning of my religious observance. It all looked like a lot of restrictions and boring(ness) and how could I get through a whole day of this. But both learning about and then slowly taking on new things slowly it became less of a burden and more of a delight until finally it became the absolute highlight of my week every week, never a burden, and something I could not live without. The process of becoming Shomer Shabbat and celebrating Shabbat (instead of just enduring it) created a constant and regular life changing spiritual experience. The advice that was given to me at the beginning was do one thing (light Shabbat candles, go to shul, learn) and do less of one thing work wise (don’t write or write less, don’t turn on any lights or do it less times, don’t open the phone or reduce) started a process that continues even today. Shabbat Shalom!

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Mussar

Lashon Harah – Introduction to the full course that will cover everything about Lashon Harah

Rabbi Alon Anava – This video is about the consequences both personally and globally of lashon harah (evil speech that is actually true and/or gossip). Obviously a very relevant topic of our time.

Personal Thoughts – This is a very difficult topic for me personally as although I’ve advanced in my spiritual condition over the years, when confronted with the topic of lashon harah I feel free far from any progress, except for the awareness that I’m far. I’ve read much information on the topic but it’s so difficult how to even grasp where to start. One Rabbi was asked how do you repent from speaking lashon harah and he said the analogy of taking a feather pillow and ripping it open on the top of a building on a windy day. Now that all the feathers have flown off go and collect all the feathers and put them back in the pillow. That’s how difficult it is to rectify lashon harah. Kind of a depressing topic to be honest but the first step is to try one little bit at a time to change what one says and hears.

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Prayer Weekly Torah Portion

Tuesday (!Short Clip!) Double Feature

Rabbi Yitzchak Breitowitz – Exodus From Egypt !Short Clip!

https://www.youtube.com/embed/8nrnUzXvtoM?start=3360&autoplay=1

Avraham Meyer Zajac – Shulchan Aruch, Din Brachos l’Krias Shema !Short Clip!

https://www.chabad.org/multimedia/video_cdo/aid/3885368/jewish/Shulchan-Aruch-Din-Brachos-lKrias-Shema-605a.htm

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Personal Growth

Finding Hope and Ending Depression

Rabbi David Yisrael Kalmus – Motzei Shabbat talk on experiencing depression and the seed of hope that this depression encompasses. Also the Rabbi’s back story and his deep experience with these two topics.

Newsletter – Rabbi Kalmus’s organization, Tzion Breslov Project, also started a newsletter that comes out before Shabbat – you can sign up for that free here as well:

https://shoutout.wix.com/so/1fNmycvso?languageTag=en#/main

If you are interested in more videos from this Rabbi please visit his YouTube Channel:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXpoH1TewxolChPsAZsuAtAAdAiRMO7Ee

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