The Sunday Shiur By Rabbi Yoel Plutchok

The Chofetz Chaim’s Promise

The publishing of the אבני מילוים: The מגיד saves the day 
The optimal time to prepare for shabbos 
Erev shabbos all week 
The Satmar Rebbe’s challah instructions

Shabbos and Hafganos: The gift worth fighting for

Shabbos the protector 
The Chazon Ish’s surprising critique 
Are we causing more chillul shabos 
Fighting for our survival

Cheftzei tzaddikim Part II: The tumultuous journey of the Great Chabad Library

The lawsuit of the Agudas Chassidei Chabad and the purchase of 770 
 
The controversial pillaging of the library, the Rebbe goes public, and the ensuing legal proceedings 
 
Sentimental value in Choshen Mishpat 
 
The legendary healing powers of the Sar Shalom's hands
 
Analyzing the dilemma of purchasing holy artifacts

Cheftzei tzaddikim: Ascribing value to the memorabilia of gedolim

The streimel that sold for 1.8 Million dollars 
 
The Chazon ish, the Steipler, R Aryeh Levin, and R’ Elyashiv: the origin story behind R Chaim’s streimel 
 
Reb yehuda Hanasi’s plea to marry R Elazar Ben R Shimon’s widow 
 
Retiring the artifacts of great people
 
“Chassidishe Genievus”: R shlomo Bobever’s story about the Baal Hatanya’s attempted Murder
 
The Tenke rebbe and R Chaim’s gartel swap
 
“Maklei shel R Meir”: The mikor from the Yerushalmi and many other Talmudic sources
 
The Satmer rebbe’s final request: The obsession with the Divrei Chaim’s possessions
 
The Vietzner Rav’s incredible survival of the holocaust and the Yitav Leiv’s Attarah
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

REPOST: Shovavim! When did it start and what does it mean

Is fasting the only way?
Are there special aveiros that Shovavim is supposed to address?
Limud HaTorah

Exploring the world of Hechsherim - Part I: The opinionated chemist who founded OU Kosher

Jello - The conservative hill to die on 
 
Woman shaving their heads - the origin story of Vaad Arba Hareutzus and their consequential psakim 
 
The Hechsherim in halacha: Charting the progression from Meikel to Machmir
 
Eretz Yisroel in the modern day: R Shmuel Auerbach, R Moshe Sternbuch and the diminishing chezkes kashrus
 

Shechita in America Part II: The life and history of Rav Yaakov Yosef

The Largest Funeral in NYC History
 
The posthumous Chassid
 
Funding the shechita overhaul: The plumba tax
 
The background of Shechita in Halacha
 
The dynamic laws of animal slaughter in NYC
 
The Weinberg Pen vs the Cincinnati Pen: Animal slaughter in the modern day
 
Shechita Miumedes: R Moshe Shternbuch opines
 
Rabbi Genack and Rabbi Belsky’s letters: The OU responds

Shechita in America Part I: The tumultuous controversies of early America

The historic Spanish Portuguese synagogue of 1648: the Brazilian Jews of New York City
 
Yaakov Abram’s shechita : the investigation of R Shmuel Kreiser 
 
“Hashgacha”: the great American innovation 
 
The monumental shechita lawsuit: Leveraging trademarks to enforce Kashrus
 
Bleeding the Cows: The fiery halachic controversy of 1850
 
The Shoel Umashuv’s harrowing and prophetic teshuva 
 

The Black Shabbos of 2004: The zebu discovery that rocked Eretz Yisroel

 
The gourmet mesorah dinner: A gathering to consume a smorgasbord of rare kosher food
 
A cattle made for the Israeli landscape: In pursuit of the Zebu
 
Understanding the consequential shitas haShach: the Chachmas Adam the Pri Migadim and the ensuing  machlokes between the Chazon Ish and R Herzog
 
Reb Elyashiv's psak and modern day distiction

Turkey: The great kashrus debate of the new world

Menashe Ben Israel, the origins of the Indians and the Aseres hashvatim
 
Anshei India from Moshe Rabbeinu 
 
The genomes of modern day birds 
 
Turkey in Europe: The Heter of the Netziv
 
The descendants of the Shlah, The Kamenetskys etc.