The Sidur: From Specialized to Standardized (5) - "Nusah Ari"

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The Siddur: From Specialized to Standardized (4)

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The Sidur: From Specialized to Standardized (3)

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The Sidur: From Specialized to Standardized (2)

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The Sidur: From Specialized to Standardized (1)

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Agadah and Halakhah - Life and Law (1)

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Listen to "Agadah and Halakhah - Life and Law (2)" here.

Halakhah & Minhag: Unifying or Divisive?

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For further learning:

Listen to some of the past classes that we cross-referenced in today's class:

1) Listen to "Dictating יברכך: Origins & Development" here.

2) Listen to "Hallel on Rosh Hodesh: With or Without a Berakhah?" here.

3) Listen to "When to Say the Berakhah on Shabbat Candles" here.

4) Listen to "The Land of Israel and What We Do" here.

Friday Night Tefilah at a Hotel

 

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Should You Follow the Customs of the Minyan You Pray in?

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בריך שמיה: A Brief History

 

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The sources for this class were culled from R. Haim Talbi's Vezot HaTorah, pg. 97-111.

Can Midrash Determiine Halakhah? (3)

 

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For further research:

Listen to Part 1 and Part 2 of "Can Midrash Determine Halakhah?"

R. Ovadia Yosef: Texts & Traditions

 

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For further research:

Listen to our class on "Non-Jewish Cooking and the 'Coffee Shoppe'," here.

The "Secret" to "What We Do"

 

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For further research:

1) Listen to "The Kabbalists' Expansion of 'What We Do'," here.

2) Listen to "Halav Yisrael" here.

3) Listen to "The 'Danger' of Exposed Beverages," here.

R. Ovadia Yosef & "Changing What We Do" (2)

 

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For further research: 

1) Listen to our past class, "R. Ovadia Yosef & 'Changing What We Do' (1)," here.

2) Listen to our past class, "Repeating the Amidah 'Be-Kol Ram," here.

Can Dreams Determine Halakhah?

 

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For further research:

1) Read Prof. Israel Ta-Shma's "שאלות ותשובות מן השמים" here.

2) Read R. Dr. Ephraim Kanarfogel's "Dreams as a Determinant of Jewish Law" here.

3) Read Prof. Pinchas Roth's "Responsa from Heaven" here.

Why Don't We "Fall on Our Faces" Anymore?

 

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For further research: 

Listen to our class on "The Laws of Tahanun" - Part 1 and Part 2.

The Mystery of How to Pray "Silently"

 

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"Barukh Hu u-Barukh Shemo"

 

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Halakhah & Minhag

 

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"New" Berakhot & The Ways of Halakhah

 

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For further research:

Listen to our past class on "HaNoten LaYa'ef Koah" here.