The Q & A with Rabbi Breitowitz Podcast

8-7-24

00:00 - What is Eliyahu HaNavi’s biography?

06:44 - Hazal talks about four exiles of Galus. Why is the Galus of Edom assumed to be the last and the one we are currently in?

15:34 - Why does the Gemara repeat itself word for word?

24:10 - When there is no speaker named in the Gemara do we assume it is Ravina and Rav Ashi?

25:10 - What are the minor Tractates?

31:55 - What is כרת, excision of the soul?

38:07 - When Yosef cried on Binyamin’s neck Chazal explains that this is referring to the destruction of the two temples. Why was this prophecy relevant at that time?

42:55 - When the Pasuk says that brothers were concerned what Yosef would do to them after Yaakov’s death, what exactly were they concerned about?

45:50 - How do we connect to Tisha Ba’Av?

56:48 - Were the Malachim lying when they asked where Sarah was?

01:03:15 - Why did Baalei Mussar find it difficult to accept Mashiach?

01:06:35 - What does it mean Derech Eretz Kadma L’Torah? Does this mean there is morality outside of the Torah?

01:15:50 - Hazal say that Tamar was a Bas Cohen. How does this work chronologically?

01:19:11 - Does we encourage people to convert who have a lot of opposition from their family?

01:25:09 - What are the halachos of a Cohen visiting Auschwitz?

01:27:20 - Did the holocaust lead to the state of Israel?

01:29:55 - What does it mean that it is a Halacha that Esav hates Yaakov?

01:32:35 - Should we encourage goyim to be Christian seeing as Rambam says Christianity is a necessary step from Paganism to belief in God?

01:33:55 - Is the ideal state of the world without a Beis Hamikdash?