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Q&A-Beards,Multiverse Theory & Guns
Q&A-Beards,Multiverse Theory & Guns
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85 minutes
Released:
Nov 7, 2019
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Podcast episode
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Rabbi Dr Yitzchak Breitowitz, of Ohr Somayach Jerusalem, discussing the most common questions about Judaism. Submit questions or feedback here (0:17)- Writing a Sefer Torah for a reform congregation (2:57)- Origin of not wearing a tallis before marriage (5:23)- Why we don’t have a minhag/mitzvah to keep track of our geneology/ancestry back to har sinai (10:56)- Why did Noach send a dove to find dry land if he was waiting for Hashem’s command to leave the ark? (14:01) - Jewish response to christians who say that the Jews haven’t experienced Yoshka or are missing something from the Torah (18:10) - Kuzari and Divine Revelation (20:42)- Avos doing mitzvos (28:15)- Growing a beard, trimming a beard, shaving a beard (34:07)- The multiverse theory/ parallel universes (40:01)- Did every Tanna and Amora have the koach to revive the dead? (42:05)- Sefer Yetzira, The Gollum (45:14)- Can a Gollum count for a minyan (48:05)- Images of G-d, visualizations of Hashem (50:19)- A tammeh/impure kohen (52:52)- Source of Tikkunim (55:50)- Why is there a big deal made about Avraham having a baby at an old age if Noach gave birth at an old age too. (55:50)- Why is there an emphasis made about Avraham having a baby at an old age if Noach gave birth at an old age too. The Mabul. The changing of tevah/nature (59:34)- The reason sefardim and ashkenazim have different davening, and why chasidim have different davening (01:04:45)- Who can a safek mamzer marry, why can a geirus marry a safek mamzer (01:06:21)- The kedusha of a mantle that is used to wrap a sefer Torah (01:08:25)- Seudas mitzvah (01:11:16)- Halachos of policing in a goyishe government, violating shabbos, carrying a gun (01:14:52)- Deriving pleasure from the physical world, gashmius, the Jewish approach to appreciating the beauty of the world, making time for enjoying the world (01:21:35) - When to be machmir and when to be makpid, chumra, heter (Center-Q&A-5780-Parshas Lech Lecha)
Released:
Nov 7, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode
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Q&A-Beards,Multiverse Theory & Guns: Rabbi Dr Yitzchak Breitowitz, of Ohr Somayach Jerusalem, discussing the most common questions about Judaism. by The Q & A with Rabbi Breitowitz Podcast