Dedicated by Anonymous in honor of Rav Breitowitz & Yeshivas Ohr Somayach. 🎙️ Dedicate a Shiur or Podcast Series: Opportunities available at https://ohr.edu/donate/qa 💬 Got Questions, Comments, or Suggestions? We'd love to hear from you! Q&A 0:00 Why did all snakes lose their feet if only the nachash in the garden of Eden 2:00 Is it assur to listen to Non-Jewish music/tunes?  9:55 If someone is cutting onions and starts tearing up should they think of the Bet HaMikdash to do the mitzvah? 13:05 Is it allowed to do raffles for Tzedakah?  16:20 How does modern futility treatment affect yibum? 21:30 Is believing in an omen or superstitions assur?  24:33 What does Mazal Tov mean? 34:20 Can a person accept a gift from someone whose main source of income is assur according to the Torah? 38:30 What ksav Ivri?  43:13 How do we defend the Ralbag who says Hashem has no knowledge of the future?  53:20 How important is Mesorah today? 56:50 How was the Ramchal accepted today when he was so controversial in his time?  1:07:15 If a person thinks and tries to learn from a previous mistake would that not be a lack of bitochon?  1:13:11 How was Chassidim allowed to change their davening nusach?  1:17:15 How can women do bedika chametz today if the Gemara in Pesachim says the contrary?  1:20:30 If someone is davening the amida as part of an airplane minyan, should he move to let someone pass?  1:22:30 How are we allowed to use disposable plasticware since it's wasteful? 🎙️ Dedicate a Shiur or Podcast Series: Opportunities available at https://ohr.edu/donate/qa 💬 Got Questions, Comments, or Suggestions? We'd love to hear from you! Email us at: [email protected] 📍 About Yeshivat Ohr Somayach Located in the heart of Jerusalem, Ohr Somayach is a premier institution for young, English-speaking Jewish men. Whether you're new to Jewish learning or already proficient in Gemara and other original sources, we offer tailored programs to meet your needs. 📚 Discover the perfect program for you: 🌐 Visit: https://ohr.edu/study in israel  📞 Call our placement specialist: +972 52-312-5921 Email us at: [email protected] PRODUCED BY: CEDAR MEDIA STUDIOS  

Rabbi Abraham Cooper is the Associate Dean of Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles. For decades he has been at the forefront of fighting antisemitism globally and promoting the cause of human rights. These efforts have taken him around the world scores of times to speak with world leaders. Thus, when he speaks, he marshals expertise and experience that has no peer.  Sound credits Yerachmiel Begun and the Miami Boy's Choir "Be a Mentsch" AQ's Blog and Grill interview with Guy Kawasaki Hayvi Bouzo Khaleej Times podcast with Secretary Mike Pompeo The National News Podcast: Pompeo on the Abraham Accords Resume 20.21 "The More you travel around the world" VOA: Tony Perkins, Chairman The United States Commission on International Religious Rights  Inside Museum Walls: What is the Museum of Tolerance IDF Choir: Machar Learn more at TellerFromJerusalem.com Don't forget to subscribe, like and share! Let all your friends know that that they too can have a new favorite podcast. © 2026 Media Education Trust llc

This Wednesday's QA shiur is generously sponsored by Bernie Samet. In loving memory of his father, Yaakov ben Rachel, whose yahrzeit is on the 29th of Shevat; in memory of his mother, Chaya Sarah bas Gittel, whose yahrzeit is on the 26th of Shevat; in memory of his beloved wife, Baila bas Zlata, a"h; whose yahrzeit was on 13th of kislev and in memory of his sister's granddaughter, Rachael bas Rivka Tova, a"h, who was niftar on the 17th of Shevat. May the learning of this shiur serve as an aliyah for their neshamot. 🎙️ Dedicate a Shiur or Podcast Series! 💬 Got Questions, Comments, or Suggestions? We'd love to hear from you! Email us at: [email protected] 📍 About Yeshivat Ohr Somayach Located in the heart of Jerusalem, Ohr Somayach is a premier institution for young, English-speaking Jewish men. Whether you're new to Jewish learning or already proficient in Gemara and other original sources, we offer tailored programs to meet your needs. 📚 Discover the perfect program for you: 🌐 Visit: https://ohr.edu/study in israel  📞 Call our placement specialist: +972 52-312-5921 Email us at: [email protected] Q&A  1:15: Can and should a Jew own a gun and would that be considered histadlut with the rise of antisemitism? 7:35 How many days of Yom Tov does an area that is not part of the State of Israel, but was part of biblical Israel keep?  12:18 Does the Rav have a favorite Sefer? 13:25 Should we support that the State of Israel to have a law legalizing mandatory death penalty for terroist?  26:00 Are Tzizits valid if they had the wrong amount of windings?  26:58 Why did David try to send Uriel back to  his wife, Bat Sheva?  39:15 Why does Hashem have to be limitless and uniformly one?  44:15 Whats the significance and holiness of Rosh Chodesh? 51:10 What kavanah should a person have when they say Birkat minim in the amidah?  56:02 How can Ester go back to Mordechai after she has been with Ahasuerus?  1:03:20 Whats the purpose of the world according to the Ramchal?  1:06:25 Why don't we give children original names anymore? 1:11:35 In the times of Mashiach we have to bring a sin offering for all our sins how would that be practically be fulfilled?  1:12:45 Are we allowed to bring a korban Pesach today? 1:16:50 How does reimbursement of Shabbat and Yom Tov work if someone is given money for the honor of Shabbat and Yom Tov?  1:19:00 What does the Gemara mean that blessing is only found in one's house because of the honor of one's wife 1:21:32 Why do we wait until Adar to go up in simcha? Shouldn't we always be b'simcha?  1:23:50 Was Ester taken forcibly or voluntarily by Ahasuerus? 1:24:40 Are secular self-help books proper to read and apply?  1:27:40 In the times of Messianic how do we know who is really of Kohen?  1:28:30 What's the obligation of taking on stringencies?  1:31:12 Can a person rely on those who darshan verses from nach to explain current events and the times of Mashiach?  1:33:28 Should we continue to give shiurs in Yiddish?  1:37:43 Why does the Torah repeat the building the Miskhan in detail multiple times throughout the Torah? PRODUCED BY: CEDAR MEDIA STUDIOS  

🎙️ Dedicate a Shiur or Podcast Series: Opportunities available ! 💬 Got Questions, Comments, or Suggestions? We'd love to hear from you! Email us at: [email protected] Q&A 0:00 Is the war between the U.S. and Iran alluded to in the Torah? 3:30 Is it proper to talk to Hashem throughout the day? 6:45 How to reconcile the timeline of when the Mashiach can come?  9:25 Will the Sanhedrin annul the animal offering in the times of Mashiach?  17:40 What is the evil eye? 26:05 How could Shlomo HaMelech make a mistake if he was the wisest of all men?  29:48 How could the Avot keep the mitzvot derabbanan if they can be change in each generation by the Sanhedrin? 31:12 Can a Jew go to therapy?  37:45 Whats the custom of Upsherin? 42:55 Why do some have a minhag not to learn Hilchot Avilut? 47:20 What is a Mazel?  1:01:30 How was Mordechai allowed to take the royal position of Persia in exchange for his position on the Sanhedrin?  1:11:35 Why was Kabbalah kept a secret?  1:15:09 What makes a good chavruta? 1:19:00 Is Gemara more important than Tanach?  1:20:35 Why did Ester not give up her life when taken by Ahashverous?  1:24:47 Why did Hillel give the golden rule of the Torah in the negative language?  1:29:53 How do we explain the concept of yeridas hadoros when in the times of Purim they accepted the Torah on a higher madreiga? 2-25-26 📍 About Yeshivat Ohr Somayach Located in the heart of Jerusalem, Ohr Somayach is a premier institution for young, English-speaking Jewish men. Whether you're new to Jewish learning or already proficient in Gemara and other original sources, we offer tailored programs to meet your needs. 📚 Discover the perfect program for you: 🌐 Visit: https://ohr.edu/study in israel  📞 Call our program placement specialist: +972 52-312-5921 Email us at: [email protected] PRODUCED BY: CEDAR MEDIA STUDIOS  

Aside from demonstrating that Israel felt responsible for the entire Jewish People, and accordingly would bring a mass-murderer to trial for an act that had been perpetuated before the State was formed, and not on its turf, extracting him from a third country half a world away, Israel's prime minister had an educational agenda that would be accomplished through the trial. Israel's youth had never encountered the Holocaust and were appallingly ignorant and derisive about the subject. How could Jews be so passive about their own deaths, they wondered, and they treated survivors with scorn instead of with the respect and sympathy that they deserved. The Eichmann trial changed all of this as the entire country listed in rapt attention as 110 witnesses took the stand and explained in meticulous detail what the Nazis perpetrated and what they had suffered. As Israel's lead prosecutor said in his opening statement that he does not stand alone, with him are six million accusers. The trial was well-received around the world as an embodiment of historical justice, although it surprisingly also revealed the banality of evil. Credits Schindler's list - John Williams - NL orchestra Guilliame How did the Mossad capture the Man who disappeared: Unpacked The Capture and Trial of Adolf Eichmann CBS Sunday Morning The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising | Yad Vashem Learn more at TellerFromJerusalem.com Don't forget to subscribe, like and share! Let all your friends know that that they too can have a new favorite podcast. © 2026 Media Education Trust llc