Rabbi Dr Yitzchak Breitowitz, of Ohr Somayach Jerusalem, discussing the most common questions about Judaism. To submit questions, feedback or for sponsorship opportunities, contact us at: [email protected] -Rabbi Breitowitz Autobiography -Evolution Perspectives -Science -Filling our life's mission -Abortion -Judaism approach to minimalist lifestyle -Teachers and Family -Why get challenges to keep Judaism -Marrying Baalei Teshuva -Baal Teshuva communities Pros and Cons -Engaging in secular culture -Rav Wolbe, Jean Piaget, Lord Saks -Which deceased Jewish personality would you want to meet most? -Rav Chaim Ozer -Torah elevating people -Gemara -Closing blessings (ALT 12-19) (Produced: CedarStudios Podcasting 2020)

Rabbi Dr Yitzchak Breitowitz, of Ohr Somayach Jerusalem, discussing the most common questions about Judaism. To submit questions, feedback or for sponsorship opportunities, contact us at: [email protected] 0:02 - Secular schooling, reading academic journals6:01 - Controversial ideas in Masechet Kedushin and in Gemara in general12:05 - Ibn Ezra controversy, additions made to the Torah, who wrote the last few pesukim16:35 - Discrepancies of the different versions of the Torah23:17 - Why Rashi and Tosfos are more mainstream30:57 - Rambam vs Nefesh Hachaim on Hashgacha Protis and Hashem's involvement with the world35:47 - Proper approach to yearning for Moshiach41:03 - The purpose of the Cosmos, Stars, and Galaxies, space travel, life on other planets49:49 - Copying and distributing from sefarim53:30 - Vaccinations, Vaccinating01:03:54 - Gam Zu Letova, Nachum Ish Gamzu, Rabbi Akiva01:05:08 - Why was Shmuel upset that Klal Yisroel asked for a king, the origin of Artscroll01:09:34 - When Halacha contradicts personal logic and reason01:16:40 - Staying up to date with Politics01:18:49 - A question on a Rambam that G-d does not have a body01:22:40 - Are having Gedolei Yisroel a concession for not having a Sanhedrin01:25:06 - Goyim as witnesses01:27:32 - Understanding Abaye and Rava, their relationship, Rav Yochanan and Reish Lakish01:36:52 - Women as witnesses01:37:53 - Solving Sinat Chinam01:46:46 - Understanding the Tower of Bavel (Center-Q&A-5780-Parshas Vayechi) (Produced: CedarTree Podcasting 1-8-2020)

Rabbi Dr Yitzchak Breitowitz, of Ohr Somayach Jerusalem, discussing the most common questions about Judaism. To submit questions, feedback or for sponsorship opportunities, contact us at: [email protected] 00:01 - Corporations in Halacha 10:47 - Ribbis with credit cards, Heter Iska 14:53 - Sheluach Haken 18:40 - A Kasha On The Gemara In Kedushin 21:12 - How Do We View The Role of Women 28:28 - The Halachic Issues of Crossbreeding Humans and Animals 31:56 - Megillas Channukah/ Megillas Antiochus 34:42 - Halacha on Cryogenic Freezing 39:44 - Jewish State With Absence of Sanhedrin 49:20 Is There A Source For The 10 Sefiros 52:16 The War With Rome and The Time of The Famine, Chronology of Events 01:02:13 Rav Kook on the secular government 01:02:54 Tumah of Dead Animals 01:05:14 Halacha on War, Laws of Rodef, Terrorism 01:10:00 Restitution for Stealing Bzman Hazeh 1:12:25 Avodas for Channukah, Kavanahs for Channukah (Center-Q&A-5780-Parshas Vayeishev)

Rabbi Dr Yitzchak Breitowitz, of Ohr Somayach Jerusalem, discussing the most common questions about Judaism. To submit questions, feedback or for sponsorship opportunities, contact us at: [email protected] SheIdim and mazikim (demons and damaging creatures); mention dibuk (troubled soul in limbo) Parshas Vayera – Avraham asked Hashem that people should get old with visible signs of age, but Sarah became old with clear, fresh skin Gezel sheina; opening and closing window in winter or summer Saying tachanun during hazaras hashatz Celebrating Hebrew and Gregorian birthdays “Heter kiruv” (mention of inviting secular for shabbos) Birth control for financial strain Piru u'rvu (be fruitful and multiply)-why was it given to Adam and Noach and not bnei Noach (non-Jews) Yishuv Eretz Yisrael Bircas kohanim (blessing the kohanim) being discontinued/not practiced in chutz laaretz but only in E”Y and by Sephardim Kohanei chazaka: believing a kohen/cohen that he is a cohen and halachos nowadays that apply to him (e.g. Torah reading, marriage, duchan) Frequency of going to the Kotel/Kosel-Western Wall Eliyahu haNavi answering teku and what happens when mashiach comes regarding machloksim, kashiyos, minhagim etc. (11/13/2012)

Rabbi Dr Yitzchak Breitowitz, of Ohr Somayach Jerusalem, discussing the most common questions about Judaism. To submit questions, feedback or for sponsorship opportunities, contact us at: [email protected] 0:00 - Telling non-Jews to keep the 7 Noahide Laws 2:52 - Lo sechonen, role of goyim, potential of goyim and potential of Jews, Rabbi Akiva Pirkei Avos 14:23 - Nefesh Hachaim vs Rabbi Akiva in Pirkei Avos 16:54 - Yaakov Avinu kissing Rachel by the well 20:40 - The Chinese social credit system from a halachic perspective 29:48 - Why do Sefardim and Ashkenazim daven differently 35:17 The tribes when Moshiach comes 38:22 The opposition between the litvish world and the chassidish world 50:17 Vayikatz Yaakov, Yaakov Avinu's sleep 53:02 - Mayim achronim 57:09 - Gilgulim and Techias Hameisim 01:03:30 - Reuven bringing Roses to Leah 01:05:27 - The Torah and Olam Habah, reward in this world, reward in Olam Habah 01:15:13 - Why do we die and come back instead of living until we complete our neshama's goal? 01:18:16 - Mitzvahs in Eretz Yisroel vs outside of Israel 01:24:01 - Not learning Tanach at night 01:26:00 - How come Bilaah and Zilpah aren't mentioned as Imahos? 01:27:14 - Why are the Imahos barren? 01:13:16 - Question on the parsha 01:32:44 - The pachad of Yaakov 01:34:20 - Yaakov's journey (Center-Q&A-5780-Parshas Vayeitzei)

Rabbi Dr Yitzchak Breitowitz, of Ohr Somayach Jerusalem, discussing the most common questions about Judaism. Submit questions or feedback here 0:01 - Elokai Neshama, what is the true person 2:59 - Doing an aveira chayav misa, Rambams 4 categories of sins, teshuva 6:30 - Why does Avraham daven for Sodom to be saved but not for Yitzchak to be saved from the akeida 9:13 - The admission of a party is as good as one hundred witnesses, hodaas Baal din 11:48 - Why there is no word for million in lashon kodesh, why zachor and nekeiva is different in numbers, masculine and feminine  16:36 - How Jews should be a light onto the nations, why non-Jews aren't obligated to have children 20:43 - saying kiddish in front of married relatives with uncovered hair, saying a bracha in front of an untznius woman 25:51 - Is it lifnei iver to sell cigarettes 28:08 - Inviting non-observant Jews for Shabbos 33:54 - How did Eliezer know Rivka was the right match for Yitzchak 36:52 - How does Hashem get pleasure from Korbanos, reyach nichoach 38:47 - Is learning kabalah part of the requirement to learn Torah, Vilna Gaon on Kabbalah, chassidus 42:57 - What is the Torah 44:12 - Is Klal Yisroel responsible for the tragedies caused by Karl Marx's 49:11 - Kol Isha and recorded music 51:45 - The curse to Adam of "the sweat of your brow" 54:29 - The shalshelet, why Eliezer hesitated, Eliezers name not being mentioned, Eliezer's name not being mentioned 01:00:15 - What am I allowed to do if someone owes me money and won't pay 01:03:35 - Why is there so much repetition in the parsha, the Ran on the mida of kindness 01:12:44 - printing money, inflation, assuming the risks of a system 01:15:11 - why did Hashem allow so many types of Jews, Ahavas Yisroel 01:16:59 - The color for tzitzis 01:20:40 - Yeshiva bochur giving tzedaka 01:21:56 - Do not kill, do not murder, the conquest of Eretz Yisroel 01:26:27 - Davening in a public place without a mechitza 01:28:58 - On the Parsha 01:31:30 - Why is the amida silent (Center-Q&A-5780-Parshas Chayei Sarah)

Rabbi Dr Yitzchak Breitowitz, of Ohr Somayach Jerusalem, discussing the most common questions about Judaism. Submit questions or feedback here 0:00 Yetzer Hara, aveiros, teshuva in the days of Mashiach 1:53 Rambam on Korbanos, Morei Nevuchim, Avodah Zara, pork is bad for your health 9:44 Chelek Olam Habah, Yimos HaMoshiach, reward vs effort, why we yearn for Moshiach 21:03 What will happen to the Malach Hamaves when Mashiach comes, Rambams 13 principles of faith, Techiyat Hameisim 30:34 Wearing a watch on Shabbos, eruv 35:10  Malachim who disturbed Avraham Avinu after the bris 37:43 Tzoar, the destruction of Sodom, the five cities, Eretz Yisroel when there is sin, Lot 42:00 10 commandments, the first commandment, Anochi Hashem, why Morei Nevuchim is usually not in the beis medrash, Chovos Halevavos 50:32 Why are the commandments anochi Hashem and lo yihiye lecha divided 54:24 Rambam's 13 principles of faith, Kefira,  tinok shenishba, Rav Albo's 3 principles, Apikorus 01:05:51 Relying on Torah in a dangerous place 01:08:08 Halacha on what a Jew has to believe 01:09:14 Why the minhag Ashkenazi is to stand during kaddish, learning during kaddish, kedusha 01:14:10 Dead sea scrolls, book of Chanoch 01:17:57 Yemenite Torah, 13 Sifrei Torah from Moshe Rabeinu, 13 Nusachs for tefillah 01:22:42 The book of maccabbis, guerilla warfare, book of jubilees 01:26:07 Rambam, Ramchal, Angels, Dreams 01:28:06 When did Bnei Yisroel start wearing tefillin (Center-Q&A-5780-Parshas Vayera)  

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)

Rabbi Breitowitz, of Ohr Somayach Jerusalem, discussing the most common questions about Judaism. 11/06/2012 Midrash and aggadatah's respective placement Beis Hillel/Beis Shammai machlokes better (or not) for man to be created Incorrect citation of verses in gemara by Chazal Sifra, Sifre, Mishna, Baraisa, etc. Chiyuv (obligation) to learn nister (i.e. kaballah) Why Yitzchak was given his name-regarding laughter Proper conduct at the Kotel Constant creation and speaking world into existence Differences of Tanya and Nefesh HaChaim Certain charitable causes taking precedent over others; mention of Rubashkin and Pollard; incarceration of religious Jews Jews being imprisoned and tainted money

09/10/2012 Rabbi Breitowitz, of Ohr Somayach Jerusalem, discussing the most common questions about Judaism. Hasheves aveida (returning lost object) to a non-Jew Mi chamocha b'elim hashem; Hashem yimloch leoloam vaed-meaning of such verses Piyutim of Rosh Hashana-what one can focus on if he can't follow Sotah referred to in Berachos 31b 3 stages of Tachanun; no sefer Torah tachanun Internet and non-kosher phones Blowing shofar at musaf and its relevance over shachris Kol isha-its spectrum and opinions Milchemes reshus similar to pillage and plunder campaign Women covering hair 50 years ago and its laxness; women covering hair in general 2 days yontif in Eretz Yisrael Onas devarim and geneivas daas applying to jokes Giving reproof to those who don't listen (shortened)