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**The Q & A with Rabbi Breitowitz Podcast**

Rabbi Dr. Yitzchak Breitowitz’s weekly Question and Answer sessions at Ohr Somayach, Jerusalem.
A Project of Ohr.edu
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Latest Episodes:

Q&A - Holocaust, Religion & Conversion (Businessmen Edition) Nov 28, 2019

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Rabbi Dr Yitzchak Breitowitz, of Ohr Somayach Jerusalem, discussing the most common questions about Judaism.

To submit questions or feedback contact us at: podcasts@ohr.edu

(Q&A-With Atlanta Businessmen)

Q&A- Souls, Murder & Charity Nov 21, 2019

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Rabbi Dr Yitzchak Breitowitz, of Ohr Somayach Jerusalem, discussing the most common questions about Judaism.

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0:01 - Elokai Neshama, what is the true person

2:59 - Doing an aveira chayav misa, Rambams 4 categories of sins, teshuva

6:30 - Why does Avraham daven for Sodom to be saved but not for Yitzchak to be saved from the akeida

9:13 - The admission of a party is as good as one hundred witnesses, hodaas Baal din

11:48 - Why there is no word for million in lashon kodesh, why zachor and nekeiva is different in numbers, masculine and feminine

16:36 - How Jews should be a light onto the nations, why non-Jews aren't obligated to have children

20:43 - saying kiddish in front of married relatives with uncovered hair, saying a bracha in front of an untznius woman

25:51 - Is it lifnei iver to sell cigarettes

28:08 - Inviting non-observant Jews for Shabbos

33:54 - How did Eliezer know Rivka was the right match for Yitzchak

36:52 - How does Hashem get pleasure from Korbanos, reyach nichoach

38:47 - Is learning kabalah part of the requirement to learn Torah, Vilna Gaon on Kabbalah, chassidus

42:57 - What is the Torah

44:12 - Is Klal Yisroel responsible for the tragedies caused by Karl Marx's

49:11 - Kol Isha and recorded music

51:45 - The curse to Adam of "the sweat of your brow"

54:29 - The shalshelet, why Eliezer hesitated, Eliezers name not being mentioned, Eliezer's name not being mentioned

01:00:15 - What am I allowed to do if someone owes me money and won't pay

01:03:35 - Why is there so much repetition in the parsha, the Ran on the mida of kindness

01:12:44 - printing money, inflation, assuming the risks of a system

01:15:11 - why did Hashem allow so many types of Jews, Ahavas Yisroel

01:16:59 - The color for tzitzis

01:20:40 - Yeshiva bochur giving tzedaka

01:21:56 - Do not kill, do not murder, the conquest of Eretz Yisroel

01:26:27 - Davening in a public place without a mechitza

01:28:58 - On the Parsha

01:31:30 - Why is the amida silent

(Center-Q&A-5780-Parshas Chayei Sarah)

Q&A-Mashiach, Moreh Nevuchim & Angels Nov 14, 2019

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Rabbi Dr Yitzchak Breitowitz, of Ohr Somayach Jerusalem, discussing the most common questions about Judaism.

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0:00 Yetzer Hara, aveiros, teshuva in the days of Mashiach

1:53 Rambam on Korbanos, Morei Nevuchim, Avodah Zara, pork is bad for your health

9:44 Chelek Olam Habah, Yimos HaMoshiach, reward vs effort, why we yearn for Moshiach

21:03 What will happen to the Malach Hamaves when Mashiach comes, Rambams 13 principles of faith, Techiyat Hameisim

30:34 Wearing a watch on Shabbos, eruv

35:10 Malachim who disturbed Avraham Avinu after the bris

37:43 Tzoar, the destruction of Sodom, the five cities, Eretz Yisroel when there is sin, Lot

42:00 10 commandments, the first commandment, Anochi Hashem, why Morei Nevuchim is usually not in the beis medrash, Chovos Halevavos

50:32 Why are the commandments anochi Hashem and lo yihiye lecha divided

54:24 Rambam's 13 principles of faith, Kefira, tinok shenishba, Rav Albo's 3 principles, Apikorus

01:05:51 Relying on Torah in a dangerous place

01:08:08 Halacha on what a Jew has to believe

01:09:14 Why the minhag Ashkenazi is to stand during kaddish, learning during kaddish, kedusha

01:14:10 Dead sea scrolls, book of Chanoch

01:17:57 Yemenite Torah, 13 Sifrei Torah from Moshe Rabeinu, 13 Nusachs for tefillah

01:22:42 The book of maccabbis, guerilla warfare, book of jubilees

01:26:07 Rambam, Ramchal, Angels, Dreams

01:28:06 When did Bnei Yisroel start wearing tefillin

(Center-Q&A-5780-Parshas Vayera)

Q&A-Beards,Multiverse Theory & Guns Nov 07, 2019

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Rabbi Dr Yitzchak Breitowitz, of Ohr Somayach Jerusalem, discussing the most common questions about Judaism.

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(0:17)- Writing a Sefer Torah for a reform congregation

(2:57)- Origin of not wearing a tallis before marriage

(5:23)- Why we don't have a minhag/mitzvah to keep track of our geneology/ancestry back to har sinai

(10:56)- Why did Noach send a dove to find dry land if he was waiting for Hashem's command to leave the ark?

(14:01) - Jewish response to christians who say that the Jews haven't experienced Yoshka or are missing something from the Torah

(18:10) - Kuzari and Divine Revelation

(20:42)- Avos doing mitzvos

(28:15)- Growing a beard, trimming a beard, shaving a beard

(34:07)- The multiverse theory/ parallel universes

(40:01)- Did every Tanna and Amora have the koach to revive the dead?

(42:05)- Sefer Yetzira, The Gollum

(45:14)- Can a Gollum count for a minyan

(48:05)- Images of G-d, visualizations of Hashem

(50:19)- A tammeh/impure kohen

(52:52)- Source of Tikkunim

(55:50)- Why is there a big deal made about Avraham having a baby at an old age if Noach gave birth at an old age too.

(55:50)- Why is there an emphasis made about Avraham having a baby at an old age if Noach gave birth at an old age too. The Mabul. The changing of tevah/nature

(59:34)- The reason sefardim and ashkenazim have different davening, and why chasidim have different davening

(01:04:45)- Who can a safek mamzer marry, why can a geirus marry a safek mamzer

(01:06:21)- The kedusha of a mantle that is used to wrap a sefer Torah

(01:08:25)- Seudas mitzvah

(01:11:16)- Halachos of policing in a goyishe government, violating shabbos, carrying a gun

(01:14:52)- Deriving pleasure from the physical world, gashmius, the Jewish approach to appreciating the beauty of the world, making time for enjoying the world

(01:21:35) - When to be machmir and when to be makpid, chumra, heter

(Center-Q&A-5780-Parshas Lech Lecha)

Q&A- Nisyonos, Objective Morality & Kosher Nov 04, 2019

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