Audio Roundup 2026:30
Hilchot Teshuvah 10:1 “One should not say: I will fulfill the commandments of the Torah and engage in its wisdom in order to receive all the blessings written therein… or in order to merit the World to Come… It is not fitting to serve God in this way.””One who serves in this manner serves out of fear. This is not the level of the prophets nor the level of the wise. Rather, only the common people, women, and children serve God in this way. They are educated to serve out of fear until their knowledge increases and they serve out of love.”
Question: What percentage of the population reach this level of serving out of love?
On Beitza 32a Rashi defines a certain utensil as a flat blank plate. Tosfot does not like that definition because of a concern of a contradiction with a different gemara. He therefore says it must be a different kind of utensil with a cover that can be opened but in the hamlets they don’t bother to.
This resolves the apparent contradiction, but was it a reality that they knew about (either in their times or in automatic times)? Similarly, in the prior Tosfot, he resolves a contradiction by positing how the clay pots were made. Again, is there historical knowledge of their own times or talmudic times or were these thought experiment solutions?
https://www.yutorah.org/lectures/1180705/
Rabbi Itamar Rosensweig-Property as a Bundle of Rights in the Jewish Law of Marriage
Property “ownership” involves a number of rights which can be allocated between different parties (e.g. right to manage, convey…). Nichsei melug, and nichsei tzon ubarzel as examples.
https://www.yutorah.org/lectures/lecture.cfm/1181152
Rabbi Aryeh Lebowitz-From The Rabbi’s Desk – An Unholy Kaddish?
Review of sources on women saying Kaddish. We don’t do it because it wasn’t done in the past (and it’s feminist). [Me – an example of “we don’t do it until enough do”?]
https://www.yutorah.org/lectures/lecture.cfm/1181153
Rabbi Aryeh Lebowitz-Ten Minute Halacha – Mezuzah on a Walk In Closet
Walk-in closets are complex based on size, layout, and position in the house. It’s at least a good chumra to place a mezuzah on them.
https://torahanytime.com/lectures/459772
R’ Asher Weiss-Birchas Kohanim
Is birchat cohanim three positive mitzvot or one? The chiyuv on the individual cohen is once a day, every day. Why? Are amida (standing) and nesiat capayim (raising hands) meakev? Can a cohen with a prosthetic arm duchen? With a bracha?
https://torahanytime.com/lectures/459776
R’ Yitzchak Breitowitz-Q&A Self Harm, Gedolim & Secular Education
Q&A including physical health (important in avodat hashem, what sports risks can you take?), what age/stage to wear a talit, Hebrew pronunciation (follow your minhag), can’t kasher Pyrex, proper Shabbat candle lighting procedures, defining gedolim, women wearing tefillin (don’t), ymot hamashiach et al, why women aren’t chayav in talmud torah (different neshamot), eino metzuveh v’oseh, peyot and beards (halacha and hashkafa), secular education (OK, but…), and emuna (how could there be atheist scientists)?
https://torahanytime.com/lectures/459262
R’ Shraga Kallus-There Are No Bad Questions Part 1
Q&A including ball playing/watching on Shabbat (no), different approaches to protests, learning Mishna Berura or Gemara in English, still in amida when kahal gets to kedusha, and hefsek in washing/brachot.
https://www.yutorah.org/lectures/lecture.cfm/1181167
Rabbi Moshe Sokoloff-How Much Before One’s Bar Mitzvah Should They Start Putting On Tephillin
The gemara talks about a katan wearing tefillin once he can be shomer them (not sleep? not pass gas?). How did the current (one month before bar mitzva) practice evolve [from subjective, to age 11–12, to 3 months, to 1 month] TBC.
https://www.yutorah.org/lectures/lecture.cfm/1180958
Rabbi Isaac Rice-Halachos Of Neighbors: Noisy Neighbors
The gemara provides a few case studies of permitted and prohibited property usages in residential areas. What are the general rules?
https://torahanytime.com/lectures/460089
R’ Shraga Kallus-Aderes Hatorah (R’ Senter’s Yeshiva) Q & A Part 4
Gambling is bad. How do you keep the fire of Torah burning?
https://www.yutorah.org/lectures/lecture.cfm/1181238
Rabbi Shay Schachter-Fasting Shiva Asar B’Tamuz During the Week of Sheva Brachos
The private simcha of sheva brachot is outweighed by the public aveilut of the churban.
https://www.yutorah.org/lectures/lecture.cfm/1181312
Rabbi Sariel Malitzky-Three Weeks & Nine Days: Halacha, Minhag, and Misconception
Topics include prohibitions related to shechiyanu, laundry, meat, wine, and music.
https://www.yutorah.org/lectures/lecture.cfm/1181320
Rabbi Chezkie Glatt-17 Tammuz and Shattered Illusions
The 17 of Tamuz was the warning shot klal yisrael ignored. We need to be aware that early warnings should be heeded.
https://www.yutorah.org/lectures/lecture.cfm/1181376
Rabbi Aryeh Lebowitz-Ten Minute Halacha – Putting a Stone on a Kever
https://www.yutorah.org/lectures/lecture.cfm/1181500
Rabbi Shay Schachter-Camp Simcha Campers Question and Answer Session With HaRav Sholom Kaminetsky
Q&A including what to look for in a shidduch (mentch), how to deal with someone making fun of your challenge (can’t control them but they are really making fun of HKBH), emotional questions (can’t be answered/we don’t know, but emotions must be addressed), and why does HKBH give us challenges
https://www.yutorah.org/lectures/lecture.cfm/1181501
Rabbi Aryeh Lebowitz-AYS – Answering YUr Shailos – Pinchas 5786
Q&A including davening by a reflecting window (close your eyes), middle of the night wake up procedures, taking non-Jewish money for aliyah (no, but…), DMD for Hov lanes and moderate speeding (yes, no), girls need spiritual mentors too (could be family rabbi), reheat dry food with “slight” gravy (OK), kavod av when making aliyah (go, but not exempt), new purchases during three weeks (not if would say shechiyanu), and counselor meetings (rules of lashon hara/toelet apply).
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-yce3p-1aff363?download=1&__cf_chl_f_tk=1XIAXhmA2cHDr0Xi21Q1a0W_6PM0O66My7R5oRa67Ao-1783056752-1.0.1.1-eI.EQ6JuO.Xl0iJW7aRcTgA6udwPLUY.zT6lgM9_qKA
Ari Wasserman, Rabbi Daniel Rapp,Mr. Morris Smith,Mrs. Stacey Zrihen-6/27/26 – Shiur 566 – Stock Market Investing: How Much Risk Is Too Much?
How does halacha differentiate between forbidden gambling and permitted investing? (Are you actually buying real assets?) Savings and investment advice provided.
https://www.yutorah.org/lectures/lecture.cfm/1181517
Rabbi Michael Taubes-Parshas Pinchas Tefillas Mussaf – Some Insights from Rav Soloveitchik, zt’l
R’YBS on the integral connection between the karban tamid and mussaf, as well as the implications for the text of our tefilot.
https://www.yutorah.org/lectures/lecture.cfm/1181504
Rabbi Michoel Zylberman-America at 250 5: Ninteenth Century Kevurah, Tzedakah, and Kashrus Teshuvos
Shailot from the new world including when aninut ends, temporary burials, reinterments to kivrei avot, tzedaka allocations of US collected funds, and kashrut of US birds without a mesora.
https://www.yutorah.org/lectures/lecture.cfm/1181315
Rabbi Shay Schachter-Camp Simcha Medical Shabbos Considerations
Camp HASC has many campers with complex medical conditions. Counselors must get comfortable with halachot that require what otherwise would be shabbat violating activities (but it’s not a free pass)
https://www.yutorah.org/lectures/lecture.cfm/1181603
Rabbi Aryeh Lebowitz-From The Rabbi’s Desk – An Artist on His Throne
Interesting case to be mlamed zchut – are toilet color changing targets a problem of tzoveah or kotev for adults? (I’m not kidding)
https://torahanytime.com/lectures/423693
R’ Yissocher Frand-Shailos U’Teshuvos B’Hilchos Bein Hametzarim
Do the three weeks prohibitions start on the evening of 17 Tammuz except for fasting for the 17th which starts in the morning? Also discussed – saying shechiyanu and wearing freshly laundered shirts during the nine days.
https://www.yutorah.org/lectures/lecture.cfm/1181171
Rabbi Yitzchak Etshalom-Bein haMetzarim: ברית סיני וברית ציון
The events recorded by the gemara on 17 Tammuz represent fissures in brit sinai (Jew and HKBH relationship), the 9th Av events represent fissures in brit tzion (Jewish nation representing HKBH to the world).
https://torahanytime.com/lectures/460671
R’ Shraga Kallus-What Will The World Look Like When Moshiach Comes?
When Moshiach comes we will have to be a lot more sensitive to tuma and tahara issues and reach halachic consensus on such issues.
https://www.yutorah.org/lectures/lecture.cfm/1181742
Rabbi Aryeh Lebowitz-From The Rabbi’s Desk – Half a Haircut
Rules on haircuts during the Three Weeks and how short may hair be cut in a pinch.
https://www.yutorah.org/lectures/lecture.cfm/1181743
Rabbi Aryeh Lebowitz-From The Rabbi’s Desk – What a Time To Win a Rolex
General rule – we don’t say Shehecheyanu during the Three Weeks, but if timing wasn’t under your control, we do.
https://torahanytime.com/lectures/460783
R’ Zev Smith-Addressing Challenging “Maaser Kesafim” Questions – M”B Chelek Daled – Siman 429
There are sources on maaser ksafim in Tanach, but it’s a minhag. Specifics on priorities and what is ma’aserable income.
https://www.yutorah.org/lectures/lecture.cfm/1181377
Rabbi Aryeh Lebowitz-Ten Minute Halacha – Eating Meat on Yom Tov
It’s a “mitzvah” (TBD) to eat meat on Yom Tov.
https://torahanytime.com/lectures/460765
R’ Asher Weiss-Leshem Yichud Controversy
The question whether to say Leshem Yichud predates Chassidim, but their saying it energized the debate over its appropriateness (as a symbol of a then questionable movement). Should one be thinking of these heavenly forces or just be aware of them and focus on the act or the words at hand?
https://www.yutorah.org/lectures/lecture.cfm/1181739
Rabbi Etan Schnall-When the Music Stops… Understanding the Customs of the 3 Weeks and 9 Days
Zecher l’churban and zecher l’mikdash insights. Music represents spirituality/connection with HKBH. We shouldn’t feel normal during this time period. (Yes, I say al naharot.)