The Sunday Shiur By Rabbi Yoel Plutchok
Exploring Halacha and Minhag through the lens of history
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Sunday Dec 17, 2023
Sunday Dec 17, 2023
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
Sunday Dec 10, 2023
Sunday Dec 10, 2023
Rabbi Shaul Lieberman: The conservative rosh yeshiva who wrote a Pirush on the entire Tosefta
The history of the Karaim: Iraq circa 800
Turkey, Year 1500: The Psak of the R'em regarding Kariam
The origin of Megillas Antiochos: R Saadia Goan's quest to immortalize the Chashmonaim
Are we allowed to study the Book of the Maccabees? "Seforim chatzonim" in Halacha
Sunday Dec 03, 2023
Sunday Dec 03, 2023
The depictions on the Arch of Titus: What happened next?
The Peroiches and the Tzitz: R’ Shimon’s testimony
The Radziner Rebbe’s Oddysey to find the Menorah: The Visigoths and King Alaric I
The Menorah swap theory: A child's fable that gained traction
The conscientious story behind the real gold menorah by the Kosel today
Reb Akiva Eiger’s chassideshe Eidem and his Leichter
The iconic angled menorah of Chabad: The Rambam’s depiction
Sunday Nov 26, 2023
Sunday Nov 26, 2023
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
Thursday Nov 23, 2023
Thursday Nov 23, 2023
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.
Sunday Nov 19, 2023
Sunday Nov 19, 2023
The anatomy of the shechita knife
The legend of the Mezeritcher Maggid’s shechita knife
The Tzemach Tzeddek and Yankel am Haaretz : The grand bechina between the shochet and the rav
The end of the battle: The Industrial Revolution revolutionizes Shechita
Lubavitcher Shechita: The Baal hatanya’s passionate and detailed teshuva regarding shechita
The Lubavitcher bachurim of Shanghai
Sunday Nov 12, 2023
Sunday Nov 12, 2023
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
Sunday Nov 05, 2023
Sunday Nov 05, 2023
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
Sunday Oct 29, 2023
Sunday Oct 29, 2023
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
Sunday Oct 22, 2023
Sunday Oct 22, 2023
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
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