The Q & A with Rabbi Breitowitz Podcast

🎙️ 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. Q&A  0:00 What do the similar terms in Kel Melech Rachamim mean? 3:10 What was the halachic and haskafic issue with women voting?  12:53 Was the split of the Kingdom of Israel already alluded to in sefer Shmuel? 19:00 Why can't we come close to Hashem through secular knowledge?  31:35 Does the word Vayashkem mean Tefillah or Keriat Shema?  33:52 Are secular self help books advisable to use for correcting middot?  43:10 Is there a concept of eternal damnation in Judaism?  53:47 Do the bodies of tzadikkim decompose in grave? 58:30 Why is there so much repetition in davening?  10-21-26 📚 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  

🎙️ 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. 0:00 In Sefer Shoftim a nation claims that we stole their land and the gemara gives a teretz that is different than the first comment of Rashi on Chumash. 4:30 Why don't we follow the medical advice of chazal today 9:30 When certain Islamic countries where Sharia law is broken harsh punishment is administered and this is typically looked down upon, but doesn't the Torah administer similar punishments to someone who breaks Torah law? 16:12 Does an event like October 7th change certain stances that the gedolim of the previous generation took? 29:00 Is the adoption of techelet an attempt to change the social norm? 35:00 Does the IDF actively try to make a person not frum?  43:35 Was R'Hirsch against all musicaly instruments being used during davening or just the use organ/piano? 51:30 Why doesn't sefer Hachinuch list any mitzvot in Parsha Noah? Q&A 10-14-26 📚 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  

This episode is sponsored in appreciation for HaRav Breitowitz's support for the Tosfos project. The first printing of Tosfos in English is now SOLD OUT. One can now join the 2nd printing & Pre-Order a set of Tosfos in english at https://tosfosinenglish.shop/home?am_id=ohrsomayach8570 🎙️ 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. 0:00 Tosfos & Bris story 5:35 How do we understand that Yom Kippur atones on its own 9:28 Does toil in Torah be considered kapparot for Teshuva 10:11 Does Teshuva count if a person repeats the same sin again? 15:03 How much Teshuva does a peson need to do? 19:53 How to know which halachic opinions to follow? 21:03 Is any nation in the world following the Noahide laws? 24:35 What's the machlochet on Emunah and Bitachon between Novardik, Slabodka, and Chazon Ish? 37:09 How much do you need to have a Rabbi? 44:28 Can a gentile daven for a Jew? 46:33 What is special about the children of Israel?  📚 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  

This episode is dedicated in honor of the Baruch Dvinsky family 🎙️ 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]&A 0:55 Is music allowed during the davening services?  9:00 Does the Shach's claim on the Terumat HaDeshen manufacturing his questions have any practical ramifications?   16:45 Can you blow the shofar on Shabbat? 22:45 Who is judged for having a bad thought, who are only judged for doing a bad action? 25:00 Purim is considered to such a holy day, but seemingly all we do is eat and drink and not so much learning. Seems like an obvious contradiction.  28:55 How do we have drashas and roshe tevot that allude to the names of the months, if the months were named later in history?  34:00 When it come to ben adam l'chavero are mezid and shogeg judged equally?  37:20 Is the establishment of Israel apart of the Messianic process?  43:35 Do only Jews have Teshuva?  47:15 Why is the bechirah Yisrael not part of the 13 principles of Faith?  52:28 Does Hashem change his mind? 55:35 Can a Rav promote his haskafa and put down another Rav's haskafa and would it be considered lashon hara?  58:57 Why do people read Shir HaShirim before Shabbat? 9-3-26 📍 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 placement specialist: +972 52-312-5921 Email us at: [email protected] PRODUCED BY: CEDAR MEDIA STUDIOS  

This episode is sponsored & dedicated in memory of the 2nd yartzeit of Marshall Friedman (Mutya Yecheskel ben Shimon) by Mark and Tammy Friedman 🎙️ 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] Q&A 0:00 What does the pasuk mean that a person who wants to live should hate gifts?  7:55 Can you curse wicked people?  23:20 How does Hashem have middot? 33:35 Why did the girsa for the bracha of minim in the Amida change over time? 42:40 At the Kotel sometimes there is so many people that there is a mix of men and women davening in the plaza. It that allowed? 47:54 Should a person learn "What's bothering Rashi?"  53:44 When Mashiach come will there be different nusachs and minhags or only one? 56:54 What is the origin of thought?  58:15 How much is free will a product of your past experiences? 8-26-26 📍 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 placement specialist: +972 52-312-5921 Email us at: [email protected] PRODUCED BY: CEDAR MEDIA STUDIOS