The Sunday Shiur By Rabbi Yoel Plutchok

Shechita controversies Part II: The position of the Torah

 
R Chaim’s famous grasshopper
 
The Piyuttim of R Eliezer Hakalir [Beribi]
 
How high is the Rekiyah? The machlokes Talmud Bavli and Yerushalmi
 
לצרף בריותיו - The Rambam on Shechita, Eiver Min Hachai and Tzar Balei Chayim
 
The letter from the Ramban: An animals ultimate will
 
The dichotomy of Shaul Hamelech’s rachmanus

Shechita Controversies Part I: The Intriguing Story of the Sridei Aish

 
Rav Chaskel Sarna’s dramatic burial intervention
 
The Munkatcher chassunah of 1933
 
Predecessor to the Nuremberg laws: The Nazi ban against shechita 
 
R Chaim Ozer’s self-insertion and the comprehensive retrospective review 
 
Dr S.D.  Rosen and Dr Temple Gandin - Animal rights activists exonerate shechita
 
HaRav Hanazir Dovid Cohen: Rav Kook’s disciple's case for Veganism
 
The Shver and the Eidem: The Din Torah classifying meat between the Bach and Taz

The Mediterranean Sea Lizard: The History of the Skinkus Marinus

 
The Fish Matzeiva: The story of the hielige fish of Vienna
 
The Palestinian Avoda Zara
 
The Tosfos Yom Tov’s dilemma and Chazal’s eventual vindication 
 
 
Shliya/Tench: The unique psak of the Baal Shem 
 
 

Sterlit Cavier: The Hungarian fish controversy

The Ramban’s definition and experiment 
The Nodeh Beyehuda’s grand heter
Ahron Charaner and the “Tik Fish” controversy 
Reb Yitzchok Grishiver , the Nodeh Beyhuda’s “chazara” and R Shmuel Landau’s fiery response 
The ensuing controversy and motives revealed
When emes is sheker and sheker is emes - Reb Akiva, the Chassam Sofer,   and Reb Yaakov Kamanetsky
 

Watch what you eat: The history and psakim of Timtum Halev

Intentional vs inadvertent - The Monsey shechita fraud of 2006
 
The  story of the Baal Hatenya’s geziera and the incredible discovery of R Akiva Eiger
 
The Chasam Sofer’s psak halacha on the physical difference between a Jew vs non Jew 
 
Blood transfusions from a non Jew: the psak of the Chelkas Yaakov, and the extraordinary story with Ponevezher rav’s transfusion in Mount Sinai NYC 
 
Eating fish on shabbos d’oraisah? The Tzemach Tzedek’s boycott
 
 

Beis Din in the Modern Era - Part III: Halacha L’maasah

DISCLAIMER: CONSULT WITH YOUR RAV BEFORE ACTING UPON MATTERS DISCUSSED IN THIS EPISODE.
 
The  Tannah Reb Elazar collaborating with local authorities
 
When mesira is a mitzva: the opinion of the Rashba
 
Reb Elyashiv's teshuva to the Badei Hashulchan on Mesira "Lesheim tikkun olam"
 
Killling Terrorists as Mosrim
 
Next episode (coming on Wednesday): The story of the movement to blow shofar on shabbos
 
 
 

Beis Din in the Modern Era - Part II: The Moser

Mutilation vs killing
 
The Chazon Ish’s progressive psak
 
Moser - the great exception
 
The Czar Nikolai investigation that led to the Ruzhiner’s lengthy imprisonment 
 
Coming next week: Part III - The Rabbanim that sit on the Israeli Supreme Court

Beis Din in the Modern Era - Part I: The Death Penalty

- Beis din and their diminished power
- The Mesora from the Geonim
- The woeful story of Yannai Hamelech
- Shimon Ben Shetach's unique rule and grand rectification
 
Coming Next Week: Beis Din in the Modern Era - Part II
 

Shabbos in America - Part III: The Satmar Rebbe leaves his mark

Nightfall in Halacha The background and machlokesThe minhag through the generations and the minhag todayAmerica the melting potElevating Shabbos

Shabbos in America - Part II: The battles and psakim that helped shape Shabbos.

Reb Shlomo Eiger's poignant missive to deal with the Reform movement and the dissenting opinion from the Aruch La-ner
The psak of the Roshei Yeshivos. 
Reb Moshe sets the enduring policy