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by Joel Rich

Rabbi Baruch Simon-Binyan Tokeph Kabbalat Hatorah Beshvuot

 

https://www.yutorah.org/lectures/lecture.cfm/1177171

part 1

Does sinai replace mitzvot bnai noach or build on them? Since shiurim are halacha moshe msinai, a ben noach becomes a gadol whenever he individually gets seichel-Chatam Sofer (CS)

 

https://www.yutorah.org/lectures/lecture.cfm/1177503

Part 2

Can a Jewish katan have a maaseh aveira? Maybe only by arayot or other mitzvot bnai noach (if we take the building on the approach).

 

https://www.yutorah.org/lectures/lecture.cfm/1177597

Part 3

If a Jewish katan can have a maaseh aveira, does he have a chiyuv tshuva?

 

https://www.yutorah.org/lectures/lecture.cfm/1177599

Part 4

Start of an analysis of CS on the trigger of daat for a non-Jewish katan based on the gemara in nazir.

 

https://www.yutorah.org/lectures/lecture.cfm/1178252

Part 5

Is the gemara in nazir a proof against the CS’s presumption of adulthood for a non-Jew not being a fixed age definition?

 

https://www.yutorah.org/lectures/lecture.cfm/1178254

Part 6

If a non-Jewish woman “marries” a Jewish man who continues to observe, what is the status of chametz she “owns”? (Kana baalah with bnai noach ishut?)

 

https://www.yutorah.org/lectures/lecture.cfm/1178329

Part 7

Gemara says that there are really 30 mitzvot bnai noach (or 7 may be categories).

 

https://www.yutorah.org/lectures/lecture.cfm/1178546

Part 8

Does nechira take meat out of the category of nveila for bnai noach?

Is the exclusion of a katan from preparations for certain mitzvot (not in kshira [tefillin], not in ktiva) only when the mitzvah requires lishma?

 

https://www.yutorah.org/lectures/lecture.cfm/1178921

Part 9

Is the mitzva of tefillin every day or measured by elapsed time? Is the kshira/ktiva type requirement only for a mitzvah chiyuvit? How do these combine in practice with a Jewish katan with seichel?

 

https://www.yutorah.org/lectures/lecture.cfm/1179180

Part 10

More on whether a Jewish katan is bound by ben noach rules if he would not be considered akatan by their rules.

 

https://www.yutorah.org/lectures/lecture.cfm/1179185

Part 11

Examples of halachot where a Jewish katan is held responsible – they’re all bnai Noach topics.

 

https://www.yutorah.org/lectures/lecture.cfm/1179307

Part 12

Specific focus on shvua of a katan (vs neder) – shvua may be covered by bnai noach mitzva of dinim and thus enforceable with a Jewish katan who has seichel.

 

https://www.yutorah.org/lectures/lecture.cfm/1179761

Part 13

Continuation of analysis of shvua case.

 

https://www.yutorah.org/lectures/lecture.cfm/1179762

Part 14

Continuation of analysis of shvua case. R’Simon’s interesting insight into the requirement of yishuvo shel olam for non-Jews.

 

https://www.yutorah.org/lectures/lecture.cfm/1180024

Part 15

More on R’ Yitzchak Elchanan’s approach. Related discussion on the status of a katan’s matana and the definition of shoteh.

 

https://www.yutorah.org/lectures/lecture.cfm/1180026

Part 16

Does a katan need to act to get a kapara (bydei shamayim)on a maaseh aveira  or perhaps as an element of chinuch?

 

Joel Rich

Joel Rich is a frequent wannabee cyberspace lecturer on various Torah topics. A Yerushalmi formerly temporarily living in West Orange, NJ, his former employer and the Social Security administration support his Torah listening habits. He is a recovering consulting actuary.

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