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Nauseous or Not? Depends on Whether You’re in France or Spain

October 21, 2026 · 1 hr 12 min

A dangerously ill person needs to eat chicken on Shabbos, and nonkosher is available. Do you feed him the nonkosher chicken, or slaughter one properly and violate Shabbos? The Raavad’s answer survives in conflicting versions, and the…
What An Honor! The History and Evolution of the Sandek and Kvatter

October 14, 2026 · 1 hr 14 min

How and when did the bris take the shape we recognize today? When did the sandek and kvatter enter the ceremony, and what do those words even mean? Today’s class traces the development of the bris in Ashkenaz between the twelfth and…
A Blast From the Past: The Shabbos Shofar Showdown in the Early 1900s (Part II)

September 9, 2026 · 1 hr 8 min

Today we pick up where we left off: it's just before Rosh Hashanah 1904, and Rabbi Akiva Yosef Shlesinger's plan to sound the shofar on Shabbos looks promising. Today we find out what actually happened that Rosh Hashanah and why, and how…
A Blast From the Past: The Shabbos Shofar Showdown in the Early 1900s (Part I)

September 4, 2026 · 1 hr 10 min

As Jews prepared for Rosh Hashanah 1904, Rabbi Akiva Yosef Shlesinger took up his pen and wrote to a rabbinic journal in Hungary, laying out why he believed the shofar should be sounded on Shabbos despite the rabbinic ban. In this class…
A Chasidic Letter on Anxiety

August 14, 2026 · 1 hr 12 min

A man wrote to the Tzemach Tzedek, the third Rebbe of Chabad, about fears he couldn’t shake in matters of health and money. What came back was a long letter working through Torah sources to explain how fear takes hold and how to loosen…

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HaRav Levi Yitzchak, In His Own Words: A Commemorative Study

August 4, 2026 · 1 hr 0 min

HaRav Levi Yitzchak Schneerson spent his final years in exile in Kazakhstan, banished there by the Soviets for his work strengthening Jewish life across the Soviet Union. Soon after arriving there in 1940, he wrote a brief account of his…
The Rabbi-Doctor Who Wrote a Sefer on the Beis Hamikdash with Both Hands Tied Behind His Back

July 16, 2026 · 1 hr 5 min

In 1612, Avraham Portaleone of Mantua published a landmark work of encyclopedic proportions covering all things Beis Hamikdash. Reading through four of his discussions, we meet a man working under far-from-ideal conditions. His sefer…
From Philadelphia to Newport: An Early American Teshuvah (1790)

July 1, 2026 · 1 hr 14 min

In 1790, Moses Seixas of Newport, Rhode Island, and Manuel Josephson of Philadelphia corresponded, with Josephson composing what effectively amounts to a halachic teshuvah. Josephson raised concerns about the conduct of the Touro Synagogue…
What Did the Rebbe Say About Going on Har Habayis?

June 16, 2026 · 1 hr 11 min

In this final class of the series, we will examine the Rebbe’s statements and correspondence regarding going up to Har Habayis. By studying the available sources, we will seek to better understand what the Rebbe did—and did not—say about…
Is the Dome of the Rock Where the Mikdash Stood?

June 4, 2026 · 1 hr 14 min

Whether Jews may enter Har Habayis largely depends on whether we know where the Beis Hamikdash stood. A common assumption is that we don’t know for sure, but that assumption has a history. This class traces the story of this uncertainty…
The Boy at the Bimah: A History of Bar Mitzvah Celebrations

May 14, 2026 · 1 hr 13 min

The bar mitzvah ceremony didn’t always look the way it does today. In fact, for much of Jewish history, it barely looked like anything at all. In this episode, we investigate: When did a ceremony first appear? What did it look like? When…
The First Crusade: The 1096 Massacres and the Rituals They Created

May 6, 2026 · 1 hr 7 min

In the spring of 1096, crusading armies swept through the Jewish communities of the Rhineland, leaving devastation in their wake. This class traces how those events gave rise to rituals of memory. In the community of Worms, fast days…

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Text-based classes on assorted Judaic topics, with a special emphasis on Jewish history. New episodes every week. Made Possible by Unzer-Chadash Shul, Brooklyn NY.