This is a podcast primarily to give regular shiurim for the conversion course. I hope to be able to use this platform for the dafyomi learning as well.
Birkat KohanimWarum heisst es duchnen? Warum sollen die Kohanim schwanken und warum ist es ok um dem Aron Hakodesh den Rücken zu kehren?
A taste of our Synagogue in Bern. Chasan Raz leyns the first 3 aliot with 2 short thoughts from me in between. Shabbat shalom!
Our president leyns! And there is a small dvar tora from me. A taste of our Shabbat and Synagogue in Bern.
A taste of our Synagogue in Bern. Our Chazan Raz leyns the first two aliyot and I have a short Vort in between.
Our Chasan reads the first 2 aliyot. In the middle a short curiosity about the last names of Kohanim. Shabbat shalom!
Here is a short summary of our first Pesach shiur on Zoom. How to kasher dishwasher and oven. What are the rules for annulling chametz on Pesach? Why do the kosher list say we should buy the products before pesach?
Sing Zmirot with our Chazan and family! See the words to the songs here!
Hier ist eine kurze Gesangsstunde, die wir mit unseren Kindern gemacht haben, damit Ihre Kinder zusammen mit unseren singen konnten. Schabbat schalom!
Hier ist ein Versuch, Ihnen ein kleines Gefühl von unserem Schabbat in Bern zu vermitteln. Unser Chazzan singt die ersten 3 Aliots von Vayakel. Dazwischen gibt es zwei kleine Divrei Tora von mir. Schabbat shalom und bleib gesund! Here is an attempt to provide you with a small feeling from our Shabbat in Bern. Our Chazzan sings the first 3 aliot of Vayakel. In between there are two small Divrei Tora from me. Shabbat shalom and stay healthy!
Episode #2. Pages 135 - 139 in the book The Kosher Kitchen.
Meat and Milk #1. Why does it mention the prohibition 3 times? What is the reason for the prohibition?Pages 125-129 in the book The Kosher Kitchen.
Kashrut Course for our Giur Course in German. We are going through the book ‘Kosher in the Kitchen’. Kashering different Materials. Glass and the minhag Bern. Tevilah.
Kashrut Course for our Giur Course in German. We are going through the book ‘Kosher in the Kitchen’. Geschmack - Zeit - Temperatur.Bitul. Bitul Berov. Bitul Beshishim. Eino ben Yomo.
Daf 35From where are these matters, the obligation to recite a blessing before eating, derived?“…sanctified for praises before the Lord” (Leviticus 19:24)Kal vechomer - If when he is satiated, after eating, he is obligated to recite a blessing over food, when he is hungry, before eating, all the more so that he is obligated to recite a blessing over food.אֶלָּא, סְבָרָא הוּא: אָסוּר לוֹ לְאָדָם שֶׁיֵּהָנֶה מִן הָעוֹלָם הַזּהֶ בְּלאֹ בְּרָכָהall previous attempts at deriving this halakha are rejected. The fundamental obligation to recite a blessing over food is founded on logic: One is forbidden to derive benefit from this world without a blessing. תָּנוּ רַבָּנַן: אָסוּר לוֹ לְאָדָם שֶׁיֵּהָנֶה מִן הָעוֹלָם הַזֶּה בְּלאֹ בְּרָכָהSages taught in a Tosefta: One is forbidden to derive benefit from this world, which is the property of God, without reciting a blessing beforehand.The Mishna (20b) forbids a ba'al keri from reciting the berakhot before and after keri'at shema, and from reciting berakhot before partaking of food; he does, however, recite birkat ha-mazon after eating. The Gemara (21a) comments, "Rabbi Yochanan said: We learned…the obligation to recite a blessing before eating food through a kal va-chomer from the blessing over Torah… If Torah, which does not require a berakha afterward, requires a berakha beforehand, then food, which requires afterward, certainly requires before it." the Gemara notes, the Mishna's ruling, forbidding a ba'al keri from reciting berakhot before eating, clearly indicates that this requirement is rabbinic in origin. Otherwise, it could not be superseded by Ezra's enactment forbidding a ba'al keri from reciting berakhot (This ordinance established that one who is ritually impure due to a seminal emission, including a husband who engaged in conjugal relations with his wife, is forbidden to recite Shema, pray, or study Torah until he immerses himself and becomes ritually pure).This sugya, then, appears to explicitly portray birkot ha-nehenin as a rabbinically mandated obligation, seemingly in direct contradistinction to our sugya in the sixth chapter.Tosefot (35a s.v. lefanav): "This is not truly a kal va chomer, for if so, reciting a berakha before eating would originate from the Torah, and earlier (21a)…with regard to a ba'al keri, it appears that it is does not originate from the Torah."The Rashba (48b s.v. ha de-afligu): "That which the Tanna'im debate here as to from where we derive the berakha before eating bread, and they all maintain that it is mandated from the Torah – we follow none of them. Rather, the berakha before eating originates from the Rabbis, like the view in the Mishna…regarding a ba'al keri – 'over food he recites a berakha afterward, but not beforehand,' meaning, because the berakha afterward is from the Torah, and the berakha beforehand is not from the Torah."Peney Yehoshua: It appears from the writings of all the poskim that according to this conclusion here, every birkat ha-nehenin is mi-de-rabanan… In my humble opinion, this seems very difficult, for throughout the Talmud it seems that anything derived through logic is from the Torah. In fact, the Talmud often asks, 'Why do I need a verse – it can be deduced logically!'."Rambam, intro to Berachot: “There is a mitzvat asei from the Torah to bless after eating food, as it says, 'You shall eat and be satiated, and you shall bless'…and from the words of the Sages to bless over every food beforehand and only then partake of it… It is similarly required from the words of the Sages to bless after everything one eats and everything one drinks, provided that he drinks a revi'it or eats a ke-zayit."
What is the Halacha about tfillin in the bathroom? What is the difference between our bathrooms and Talmud's permanent bathrooms?
How do the tanna and Rabban Shimon Ben Gamliel disagree? What is aninut? Bereshit 35:18וַיְהִ֞י בְּצֵ֤את נַפְשָׁהּ֙ כִּ֣י מֵ֔תָה וַתִּקְרָ֥א שְׁמ֖וֹ בֶּן־אוֹנִ֑י וְאָבִ֖יו קָֽרָא־ל֥וֹ בִנְיָמִֽין׃ But as she breathed her last—for she was dying—she named him Ben-oni; but his father called him Benjamin.Und es geschah, als ihr die Seele ausging, denn sie starb, da nannte sie seinen Namen: Ben-Oni (Sohn meines Schmerzes), und sein Vater nannte ihn: Binjamin.Rashi:בן אוני. בֶּן צַעֲרִי: בן אוני means SON OF MY SORROW (Genesis Rabbah 82:9).What is the essence of mourning?Rambam Hilchot Avel 5:1These are the matters that are prohibited for a mourner on the first day by Torah law and on the remaining days by rabbinic law. It is prohibited for him to cut his hair, launder his clothes, wash, anoint himself, engage in sexual relations, wear shoes, work, study Torah, stand his bed upright, uncover his head, and greet others – eleven matters in total.Rambam Hilchot Sanhedrin 13:6One does not mourn those executed by the court…Although they do not observe mourning rites, they mourn [onenin], as acute mourning [aninut] is only in the heart.Ramban Torat HaAdam, Inyan HaAvelutMourning by Torah law is primarily [refraining from] indulgences, among them washing, smearing oil, and sexual relations, and tefillin, which are characterized as pe’er, and laundering, and cutting one’s hair, as these are joyful [simḥa] activities.” He continues: “Mourning, by definition, means that one should not involve himself in matters of happiness, rather in matters of mourning. And this is the mourning of the heart, from which they derived that one may not engage in matters of happiness.
What are the different mourning periods? Aninut in the Torah.
“With crowns on our heads we will enjoy the radiance of Hashem.”What is Rambam’s connection to olam haba?
How do we know that a mourner is exempt from Tfillin? How is this connected to God putting in tfillin? Berachot and psukim are connected with each other. In which language did David Hamelech write the Tehillim? Clearly in Bernese! Listen to the beautiful rendition of Tehillim 104:14 in berndeutsch.
Why is Elisha holy? What did Elisha build?? And why is it relevant?
One should pray facing the wall. One’s bed should be facing North to South. One who finishes praying earlier, should not leave a friend behind. Is this the case in every situation? Evil spirits (which may just mean anxieties) are all around us. What is the best way to deal with it? Best to pray in a synagogue. If ten people pray together, three people judge together and two (or even one) people learn together, the presence of God is there. God wears (figuratively) tefillin.And Scandinavian greeting rules.
Me learning with Dorit and Benu in the background. What is the difference between a lyre and a harp? How do you pronounce lyre? Why was David pious?
Why do the Gemara need to specify 3 different reasons for why not to enter a ruin?Why is there a machloket about how many parts of the night there are? And are there 3 or 4?
JGB dafyomi! Daf 3 only amud a. How many watches are there at night?Why is R. Eliezer using unclear language? What are Tannaim and Amoraim?
I received a question on how to make coffee on shabbat. This will take a few episodes to explain. We first have to start answering the question, when can something cook? What is the minimum required heat for something to be defined as cooking according to Halacha? The answer is Yad Soledet Bo. The episode is in German.
We go through the 13 principles of faith. You should make sure to focus on the background for why Rambam uses these specific principles. What makes these principles important. Some objections and other understandings are brought to highlight the philosophical concepts.
This is a first test to see if this can be of added value to our course. How can we understand the story of the binding of Yitzchak?
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