Can someone please do a video on the Yemeni orphans decree? I don't have access to Hebrew language sources

נתקלתי בסרטון זה במקרה (חיפשתי פרשנות לפיוט כתר מלכות של ר'אבן גבירול) חייבת לציין שתענוג להאזין לדבריך גם מבחינת התוכן הכה איכותי ומעניין ומעשיר והן מבחינת צליל העברית היפה והמתנגנת. תודה לך 🙏

Constantine didn’t make Christianity the religion of Rome, he merely legalized the religion and removed the possibility of persecution of Christianity by the state. It was the Theodosian decrees that effectively outlawed Christianity starting around 390.

Alot of modern antisemitism comes from propaganda and ignorance. Same type of propaganda that was pushed in WW2 seems to be being pushed now. Many Christian churches may have been infiltrated by "wolves in sheep's clothing". Lots of propaganda is pushed by muslims and other antisemitic forces, but to claim the gospels are antisemitic is silly. Has this woman read the new testament or the quran for that matter?

There was no one like Rav Kapach

As always A. Faur shows brilliant ignorance. And cherry picking definitions of terms at his convenience. His abuse of the term lead to false promises so craftly that men fall in it without even noticing it. Here is small quote from guide to the guide. You see, ʿolam does not mean eternal unless linked with ʿad-either after it, as in ʿolam vaʿed, or before, as in ʿad ʿolam. So Solomon’s saying le-ʿolam ʿomadet (endureth forever), is quite unlike David’s words moved never. David was clear as could be that the heavens will endure forever, along with all that they contain-their laws unchanged: Praise the Lord from the heavens. . . . For at His command were they created. . . . He made them to endure forever and set a law never to change (Psalms 148:1, 5, 6), meaning that the order God established will never change. For ‘law’ here means the laws of heaven and earth (Jeremiah 33:25). David says they were created: At His command were they created. Jeremiah says, He gave the sun for light by day and the laws of the moon and stars for light by night. . . . Should these laws leave Me, saith the Lord, then will Israel’s seed cease to be a nation (31:34-36). Although created, He vows, these laws will never lapse. Note on it Maimonides’ commitment to the world’s permanence, once created (subject to God’s grace), bespeaks his commitment to natural law, which he finds attested in the Psalms-a salient instance of the harmony of Scripture with the sciences that reach their assurance under the aegis of philosophy. Cf. the Stoic view cited by Alexander in De Providentia (frag. 1, Riedweg, 282-83). The real meaning of the term not that God was in naturel law which is obviously kefira. But rather he created world that has nature to it, if you want the order and if you follow this order of creation you live happy and good life not destroying your own life. (One example: God created man and woman and this is the natural law so if you decide to go against the world order and marry a man (whatever it means) you will not have kids and your mental and physical health will be destroyed) One of the hints in Torah for this numericals in the creation of the world. Numbers by their definition presuppose order.

Chazak uvarukh Hakham! Thanks for speaking the emeth about how the Geonic/Andalusian derekh ha'limud isn't just an alternative method to the pre or post Tosafot method, but the only authentic method! May HaShem have this original methodology become the mainstream

Shalom R Sina! I am reading your book "Vayiqra in Context" and really enjoying! Is there a way I can contact you?

Excellent lecture. I am a Christian and I am against anti-Semitism and anti-Jew. Christianity is a religion of love because God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. What you quoted from the Book of Matthew was what the crowd did. Your Messiah, our Lord, Jesus did not teach or imply any bit of Jew hatred. Jesus is a Jew himself. Jesus taught us to forgive our brother 70 times 7 times. Whoever, from the church, infer any bit of hatred is against the teaching of our Lord Christ. So is anything indicating anti-Semitism. I stand with Israel. ps: By the way, as I know Paul was not a tex collector but Matthew and they were both Jews.

Excellent lecture. Someone whose in command of this broad topic. It objective and insightful as any lecture should be.

חזק וברוך ותודה רבה על השיעור הזה! Whats the namd of the sefer you and Rabbi Berdugo worked on?

Thought provoking and great way to end the term. I like the willingness to engage in self examination and critique even of our own bet midrash. We should all ponder and internalize this message. Thank you for all the great shiurim.

Thank you very much. It was a very interesting talk

A common error I hear with this type of logic is Truth versus Morality however Morality is an outcome of a communities laws written and how those laws are understood. The reason laws are instituted against Emeth of Torah is to shift people’s moral centre to the point that almost anything can be justified as we have seen in the degradation of western society in areas of Modesty and sexual conduct previous unacceptable is now not even a comment of warrant a raised eyebrow. Case in point Polygyny was banned by Rome via the Roman Church enforcing Monogamy only laws which effectively changed the moral compass of society 1000 years ago in Europe this came through into secular society and even into the Modern STATE of ISRAEL as they continue the European Roman laws in this matter. However polygyny specifically has huge positive benefits in addressing the problems such as non functional wives due to illness dimentia and as well addressing issue of woman unable to be married to to insufficient matches in the monogamous marriage arrangement.

Excellent! And quite Faurian.

Ghata..

Wonderful conversation!

Wow, amazing. Can you please put videos on Spotify

Oh no, my Western sensibilities!

8:12 to 8:20 "Dogmatism is not part of the Jewish method of life. We don't say, 'Believe this, or else.'" But what about Rambam's 13 Principles of Faith?

I meant to say Radak not Radbaz!

אפשר את הקישור למאמר? תודה ויישר כחכם!

חזק וברוך! If i may, i think Rav David was just applying a literal perush to Pirke Avot our deeds create malakhim. Its not a Kabbalistic concept per se, though i agree Ha'Rambam interpreted allegorically. I always understood klalim and berakhot as HaShem might take your words into account regarding that person and potentially judge the subject of your speech

I hope we don't need to be attacked by our enemies to remember our common zeal for life rather than act out the hatred of our enemies between each other so that those who wish our destruction rub their hands together together in glee.

Fascinating shiur but do tread secular carefully philosophy or more popular today, psychology. Rambam was the first to deny the existence of angels as real and just forces of nature or divine intellects like Aristotle's separate intellects. Rambam to my knowledge was the first to interpret the account of Gan Eden entirely allegorical. Even Rav Sa'adya Gaon who was among the more rationalist Geonim still believed there was an actual snake that spoke to Adam and Chava, just through an angel if I remember correctly as Ibn Ezra recorded on Bereshit 3:1. Even Hakham Yamin Levy in his new sefer The Founding Father's of Sephardic Jewry admits Rav Hai Gaon felt his father-in-law Rav Sh'muel ben Chafni was too steeped into Greek philosophy. How can we know Rav Hai was right or wrong in that observation? Because as Rav Levy records, Rav Sh'muel went so far into rationalism he denied or held doubts Masekhet Chagiga was even written by Hazal! Learn, but we have to be careful.

My great grandfather used to attend Bevis Marks with his parents

Excellent answer on the inclusive question. I recently read a book by Menachem kellner, and wondered why he didn't simplify it in the same manner.

What could be LESS human that sacrifices especially one’s own flesh n blood! Nothing ‘natural’ or humane about it. Surely there’s a more logical explanation?! We may not know or understand what it is - granted.

Personally, I found Eden Golan's song inspirational and moving. It's about surviving the massacre and having faith in HKBH.

Comparing what has been happening in Gaza for months to the blood libels we've been victims of for centuries is crazy. I don't have the words. You're dehumanizing the victims. That's what the nations have done to us for centuries. I've been following the habura for a year now, and we'll keep doing so because I share the passion for understanding hashem. But this video is a darn shame for the whole movement imo. I love my people, those that are in the army or just in the land of my ancestors, I want them alive, well and protected. But I can't accept that this level of violence is necessary and I won't condone their action. What's happening is wrong and it's not protection. A permanent ceasefire could have happened a long time ago and we'd have our hostages back. The events of the last couple days proved that Israel's govt has been dragging the negotiations to inflict as much damage as possible (even if it means killing their own hostages). Ps: sorry for my poor english, I'm ESL

This was a year ago,a true prophetic vision became a reality in less than a year in westeren streets ,campuses,show biz gossips and not so street talks in SM and MSM

The Book of the Zohar and many books like it, the Kabbalah and the Kabbalistic - idolatry that stuck to Judaism like a cancer in the hearts of the Jewish people; imaginations, sorcerers, talismans and false visions; Disgrace to the people of Israel, cheap mysticism, heresy; And all these for the sake of the goddess themselves in the eyes of their seers as if they were the sons of God on earth, for honor, the public's fear of them, money and sustenance.

Thank you!

I am not Jewish, but this video is beautiful. The world has never been kind to Jews, and the second they decide to stand up for themselves and build their state, the world behaves as if the Jews owe something to them. Jews owe nothing to the world

Heartfelt video. Thank you for this. The general answer to our sarot is the same as the message from Sefer Shofetim and Sifre Nevi'im: we must do sincere and lasting teshuva.

אחר המחילה, הראשונים לציון היו ממגוון עדות בפרט אחרי היש"א ברכה אבל גם לפניו, היו בולגרים הונדורסים מערביים תוניסאים (לא בבליים וחלאבים, נדמה לי). על כל פנים היה מגוון ויש לציין גם שכולם נהגו במנהג אחד עד דורו של היש" א ברכה שרבו הקהילות וקינאו באשכנזים שעשו דין לעצמם, הספרים שנכתבו על מנהג ירושלים הם במקורם על המנהגים של ירושלים הזאת. יש עוד ספרים שהם מהתקופה כמו נהר פקוד וארץ החיים. הטענה שאין דבר כזה מנהג ירושלים היא של מאוחרי העדות שהתרגלו לבלאגן שנהיה עם קיבוץ הגלויות של אחרי תקופת היש"א ברכה, ואידך זיל גמור.

Thanks so much for this video Rav! Too many observant Jews take midrashim (more or less) literally and need to hear this shiur

Chazak uvarukh! Thank you for sharing your opinion Rav that if Kabbalah is legitimate or if not, whatever authentic Jewish mysticism is, had it been preserved instead of compeltely lost (like Rambam believed it was) would have been found among the Geonim/Rabbanim of Eres Yisrael and NOT in Bavel!

This is the most utterly laughable, transparent, obvious hasbara yet. Everyone but the Zionists knows that you don't oppose a genocide because people that sometimes conveniently associate themselves with a specific religion are doing it. You oppose a genocide because it's a genocide. The truth is out. Zionism has lost the narrative war forever. To think anyone else but the racist psychopaths that embrace this ideology is dumb enough to believe that the worldwide opposition to the Zionist terrorist regime has anything at all to do with religious discrimination instead of a global awakening to the exploitation of western-backed imperial colonialism is a complete joke. The only people that still swallow this B.S. are the ones who are buying up Palestinian land in Gaza and building beach resorts on top of bodies. Imagine being that broken in your brain that you think you have a valid justification for committing an actual holocaust. But what is most absurd is the persistent and fraudulent use of "antisemitism" as a smear when it is the colonized natives of Palestine and that entire region that are actually Semites and the European Zionists descended from the Khazars and the Ashkenazis playing the victim. I mean, you can't even get your terminology to align with history, much less anything else. Only addle-brained Baby Boomers are still buying into this. Go home. Your day is done. The future is anti-capitalist, anti-imperialist, anti-colonialist, and anti-Zionist. Jews are welcome to live anywhere in the world but the Zionist ones had better plan on leaving their racist, psychopathic ideology behind them because nobody is putting up with it anymore.

I have only heard anti semitism from Catholicism not from Protestants. Nowhere in the New Testament is there instruction to hate the Jewish people.

There is another more straightforward answer to the title of the video. If the Jewish people are supposed to be an אור לגויים as per the prophecy of Isaiah then the Haredi model is not fit for purpose because in no way is it taking us in that direction. If we are to pursue that noble and inspiring vision of the Prophets then we must model our Judaism and approach on that of our biblical leaders, hazal, our great Hakhamim, people like Maimonides, Abarbanel etc - who even in times of discrimination strove to integrate and inspire the world, modern day heroes such as Rabbi Sacks who shone a light on our Torah and brought religious remedies to an afflicted world and everyday Jewish citizens who are part of the workforce and the world who are ambassadors of the Jewish people and leave a Kiddush Hashem wherever they go. Being part of this world and maintaining our commitment to Torah and tradition, only then do we fulfill our national role and the other nations will turn at us and say לעיני העמים אשר ישמעון את כל החקים האלה ואמרו רק עם חכם ונבון הגוי הגדול הזה “that great nation is a wise and discerning people”

Perhaps not the answer he wanted, but what we call prayer is also the manifestation of various mitzvot.

27:10 The Gemara is Makkot 11a, and it’s not four cubits but three parsangs: lion eats man within three parsangs of R. Joshua b. Levi, and, measure for measure, Elijah has nothing to do with him for three days.

Thank you Rabbi, for the very informative video.

חזק וברוך!!

As a Noahide (goy), I was having a hard time going through Sefer Vayiqra. Now that I've learned this insight, I look at it in a much different way. Todah rabah, K'vod Harav.

Curious to hear thoughts on the Shalshelet note in today’s perasha on the word וישחט and how it fits into the theory of hesitancy/doubt mentioned in the shiur.