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Each week, we study a particular responsum, or several related ones. There is generally no connection or continuity between the individual lectures.

Rabbi Yitzhak Grossman


    • Aug 16, 2024 LATEST EPISODE
    • infrequent NEW EPISODES
    • 48m AVG DURATION
    • 124 EPISODES


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    Property Devaluation (2024-07-03)

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 16, 2024 44:51


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    Giving Credit Where Credit Is Due (2024-01-03)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 14, 2024 54:36


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    Jewish Guilt (2023-08-23)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 4, 2024 49:36


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    King's David's Divorces: Devoutness and Devotion, Part 2: Shut. Heichal Yitzhak EH 2:35-36, Shut. Tzitz Eliezer 11:90, 15:57 (2023-11-08)

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 25, 2023 50:08


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    King David's Divorces: Devoutness and Devotion, Part 1: Shut. Divrei Malkiel 4:156 (2023-11-01)

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 25, 2023 49:42


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    Mekor Haim (Segalowitz) #29: The Law of Unintended Consequences (2023-12-20)

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 25, 2023 46:28


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    Shut. mi-Ma'amakim 4:23: Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 (#2) (2023-07-19)

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 15, 2023 53:32


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    Shut. Rabbi Akiva Yosef (Schlesinger) OH:49: Falsifying Torah (2023-07-12)

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 14, 2023 53:14


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    The World Gets Flatter and Flatter (2023-07-05)

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 13, 2023 44:57


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    Culpability and Kapparah; Ones and Atonement (2023-06-21)

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 1, 2023 48:11


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    Is What's Good For the Ganderling Good For the Gosling? (2023-06-14)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 31, 2023 50:30


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    Harm: Halachah Vs. Hippocrates (2023-06-07)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 28, 2023 46:02


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    Dvar Shmuel #54, #191: Gifts and Graft (2023-05-31)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 25, 2023 47:02


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    Shut. Maharit 2:YD:18: The Dos and Dont's of Dairy Doughs and Donuts (2023-05-24)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 25, 2023 41:12


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    Shut. Maharil #134: If It Looks Like A Goose ... (2023-05-17)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 24, 2023 47:41


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    Shut. ha-Rashba 1:274, Shut. Tuv Ta'am va-Da'as 1:123: Statistics and Sampling (2023-05-10)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 24, 2023 49:26


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    Damon and Pythias: Havalim ba-Ne'imim 3:108 (2023-05-03)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 4, 2023 47:51


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    Free At Last? Shut. Yabia Omer 6:OH:41 (2023-04-26)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 4, 2023 48:10


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    Kidneys: Coin and Kinyan (2023-04-19)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 27, 2023 50:21


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    Stamps, Shtaros, and Seforim (2023-03-29)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 27, 2023 50:10


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    When the Bread Of Affliction Is Afflictive (2023-03-22)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 27, 2023 48:04


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    Dreaming of Danger and Deliverance (2023-03-15)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 26, 2023 46:17


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    Eradicating Thorns From the Vineyard (2023-03-08)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 26, 2023 50:27


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    Shut. Dvar Shmuel #193: Purim Plays and Parodies (2023-03-01)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 21, 2023 45:29


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    Doing As the Romans Do (Revisited) (2023-02-22)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 2, 2023 51:51


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    Provisions For the Distant Way (Charitable Bequests) (2023-02-15)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 1, 2023 51:41


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    Shut. Hasam Sofer YD #336: Taphophobia (2023-02-08)

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 21, 2023 50:56


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    Shut. Zekan Aharon 2:145: Mesirah and Mens Rea (2023-02-01)

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 21, 2023 44:47


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    Price Protection (2023-01-25)

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 8, 2023 51:50


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    "He Has Not Assigned Our Portion Like Theirs Nor Our Lot Like All Their Multitudes" (2023-01-18)

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 6, 2023 44:10


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    Competion-Confining Covenants (2023-01-11)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 25, 2023 51:19


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    Imitating Life (2023-01-04)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 10, 2023 49:47


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    In Praise of the Quid Pro Quo (2022-12-28)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 2, 2023 55:30


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    Gelt, Gifts, and More (2022-12-21)

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 22, 2022 47:05


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    Spiritual Selfishness: Virtue Or Vice? (2022-12-14)

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 22, 2022 54:52


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    R. Moshe Stern and Modernity: Microphones, Marriage, and Medical Advice, Part 2 (2022-12-07)

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 15, 2022 61:11


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    R. Moshe Stern and Modernity: Microphones, Marriage, and Medical Advice (2022-11-30)

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 13, 2022 58:24


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    Shut. Rivash #15: A Single Woman of Large Fortune (2022-11-23)

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 13, 2022 56:55


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    Terumas ha-Deshen 1:315, Shut. Tashbatz 1:156: Family Feuds and Criminal Conspiracies (2022-11-16)

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 6, 2022 50:03


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    Shut. ha-Rashba 1:581: Naming Rights (Publicizing Charitable Donations) (2022-11-09)

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 5, 2022 50:36


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    Teshuvos Rabbi Eliezer #4: The Rabbi and His Relatives (2022-10-26)

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 1, 2022 49:52


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    Cholera, Coronary Disease, and Childbirth (2022-09-28)

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 1, 2022 33:58


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    The Fault Is Not In Our Stars, But In Ourselves: Genetic Screening For Tay-Sachs (2022-09-21)

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 24, 2022 46:02


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    Serenading Sovereigns, Statthalters and Sifrei Torah, and Sundry Other Scenarios (2022-09-14)

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 23, 2022 48:04


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    Co-sleeping and Its Discontents, Part 2 (2022-09-07)

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 17, 2022 51:27


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    Co-sleeping and Its Discontents, Part 1 (2022-08-31)

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 17, 2022 49:17


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    Shut. Maharsham 2:109, Shut. Yabia Omer 6:EH:14, 8:EH:26: Levirate Marriage in the Modern World (2022-07-27)

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 7, 2022 45:51


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    The Severed Servant: Severance Pay in Halachah (2022-07-20)

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 7, 2022 53:15


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    Casts, Cash, and Circumcision (2022-07-13)

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 7, 2022 43:32


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    Our Perfect Torah and Their Frivolous Speech: Intellectual Property In Halachah and Law (2022-07-06)

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 2, 2022 54:07


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    Shut. ha-Radvaz: Dogma, Philosophy, Heresy, and Name-Calling (2022-06-29)

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 31, 2022 49:09


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