Audio Roundup Special: Rav Sobolofsky

by Joel Rich

Rabbi Zvi Sobolofsky-Hilchos Bris Milah -Efrayim and Rivka Hershkowitz zl Halacha Shiur

https://www.yutorah.org/lectures/lecture.cfm/1173902

01

Introduction to the mitzvah of mila which includes mila (removing of orlah), priah (peel back lower membrane), and metzitza. When are the brachos said? Is metzitza purely for health reasons? Is any change in that process allowed?

https://www.yutorah.org/lectures/lecture.cfm/1173908

02

Who is the primary chiyuv for mila and who is secondary? (father, son, bet din, grandfather). Is there a concept of shlichus or is it a mitzva bgufo?

https://www.yutorah.org/lectures/1174872/Hilchos-Bris-Milah-03-(Women-As-a-Mohel)Efrayim-and-Rivka-Hershkowitz-zl-Halacha-Shiur

03 (Women As a Mohel)

Women are exempt from seeing that their sons have a brit (shehazman grama or gzeirat hakatuv) but can they be a moel? (probably yes, especially if the other choice is a non-Jew.)

https://www.yutorah.org/lectures/1175723/Hilchos-Bris-Milah-04-(Mila-BZman-or-Even-Before-the-*th-Day)Efrayim-and-Rivka-Hershkowitz-zl-Halacha-Shiur

04 (Mila BZman or Even Before the *th Day)

We usually wait for netz to do the brit. If the brit was done before the proper zman we do hatafat dam brit. What do we do, it’s unclear if born bein hashmashot? What are the rules for a sick baby? A caesarian section?

https://www.yutorah.org/lectures/1176471/Hilchos-Bris-Milah-05-(Mila-BZman-Shabbos-or-Yom-Tov-When-there-is-a-C-Section)Efrayim-and-Rivka-Hershkowitz-zl-Halacha-Shiur

05 (Mila BZman Shabbos or Yom Tov When there is a C Section)

Discusses the evolution of the status of caesarian sections in terms of which day to do thebrit, and being doche shabbat or yom tov. What shabbat issur would be involved? (tzovea, dash or shochet). Would amira lakum be allowed?

https://www.yutorah.org/lectures/1177051/Hilchos-Bris-Milah-06(Brachos-at-the-Bris-)-Efrayim-and-Rivka-Hershkowitz-zl-Halacha-Shiur

06 – (Brachos at the Bris )

What is the nature of the bracha of lhachniso and how does that inform on its timing and the order of precedence of who says it?

https://www.yutorah.org/lectures/1177890/Hilchos-Bris-Milah-07Efrayim-and-Rivka-Hershkowitz-zl-Halacha-Shiur

07

The gemara doesn’t connect the bracha of kiddesh ydid mbeten to the borei pri hagafen. Is there an issue of hefsek? Who says the bracha, who drinks, and what is the minimum measure to drink?

https://www.yutorah.org/lectures/1178738/Hilchos-Bris-Milah-08-(Minhagim)Efrayim-and-Rivka-Hershkowitz-zl-Halacha-Shiur

08 (Minhagim)

There are varying practices concerning saying shechiyanu at a brit. It is said at a pidyon habein. Is it because it’s an infrequent mitzvah or because of simcha (child not a nefel)? Is brit the same reasoning?

Other topics include: sandak, kvater, seudah (meat), tachanun, and brit falling on taanit tzibbur.