Rabbi Agishtein In The Wild

Poor sound quality.  Link to source sheet: www.sefaria.org/sheets/404905

NLP and Psak: Can machines create Torah? A talk given at Chatam, a wonderful Shul in Rechovot.

Parsha Class Balak - Who was Bilam?

Monday Night Beiyun - Shabbos Elevators

Parsha Class Chukas - The Test Of Water

Monday Night Beiyun - Opening Beer and Tuna Cans on Shabbos

Monday Night Beiyun: Electricity On Shabbos

Parsha Class - Shelach: The Devastating Consequences of Settling 

Monday Night Beiyun - Psik Reisha De 'Lo Nicha Lei Applications: Video Recording   

Parsha Class Bamidbar: More Than A Number - Torah in a Desert

Monday Night Beiyun: Psik Reisha Halacha Lem'asa Introduction

Parsha Class: Behar Bechukosai: Studying Torah

Monday Night Beiyun: The Aruch and The Ri: Intentionality defining action

Parsha Class Emor: Lag Ba'Omer: Rabbi Akiva's Darkness, Rabbi Shimon's Light

Making it to Sinai: A guest class by Rabbi David Merkin "Who Was Rav Hirsch"

Monday Night Beiyun: Ainu Miskaven and Psik Reisha De'Lo Nicha Lei - Lecture 2: The Debate

Parsha Class Acharei Mos - Kedoshim: The Twin Goats for Twin Paths - A conversation about coincidence 

A Sefira focused Pirkie Avos class using the commentary of Rav Hirsch

A Sefira focused Pirkie Avos class using the commentary of Rav Hirsch

Monday Night Beiyun: Shhh, Alexa is listening - Ainu Miskaven and Psik Reisha De'Lo Nicha Lei

Parsha Class: Tazria Meztora: The Social Dilemma 

Source Sheet www.sefaria.org/sheets/310078

Parsha Class - Vayikra: Rambam vs. Ramban, Two Approaches to the Material World

Monday Night Beiyun - Selling Another's Chametz: The Player and the Self-Destructive Believer  

Parsha Class Vayakhel-Pikudei: Shabbos and the Mishkan, A Reciprocity of Affection 

Monday Night Beiyun: Selling Another's Chametz Episode 1: The Shelmazel

Parsha Class - Ki Sisa: What Was The Eigel All About?

Dvar Torah - Terumah

Parsha Class - Terumah

Dvar Torah - Mishpatim: G-d Goes Gangland

Parsha Class - Mishpatim

Dvar Torah - Yisro: Who Was Yisro?

Parsha Class - Yisro: The Ten Commandments 

Beshalach - Motzei Shabbos Dvar Torah

Monday Night Beiyun - Schar Shabbos: Gemara, Rishonim and Beis Yosef Part 1

Parsha Class - Bo

Monday Night Beiyun - Amira Le'Akum 12 

We started the laws of employees and craftsmen

Monday Night Beiyun - Amira Le'Akum 11: Day Laborers and Craftsman

Rav Hirsh and the Hyksos, Kiddush, and Havdalah, etc

Monday Night Beiyun - Maros Ayin and Cheese Burgers

Talmud Initiative - Brachos 4b Geula to Tefilla

Parsha Class Vayigash 

A question with no easy answer. Source Sheet: www.sefaria.org/sheets/287360

Epicureanism, Atomism, and the struggle of Chanukah.  Yosef, the next Esav

Monday Night Beiyun - Bein Hashmashos Is a Piece of Meat

Relating to Esav and his descendants. The battle for survival.

Yaakov: the Forefather of the Exile

Parsha Class - Chayei Sarah

Parsha Class - Toldos

In this class we discuss the opinion of the Geonim and the Shulchan Aruch

A discussion of the laws of Kli RIshon, Shieni and Shlishi with regards to Basar Bechalav. Source Sheet can be found here: https://www.sefaria.org/sheets/276945?lang=bi

Parsha Class - Vayera

We look at the contradiction between the Gemaros in Pesachim and Shabbos and introduce Rabbenu Tam's resolution. 

Parsha Class - Lech Lecha

We discuss the laws of hinting to a non-Jew to do some melacha on Shabbos.

Talmud Initiative - Brachos 4a - 4b 

Parsha Class - Noach

In this class, we discuss the question of using the same dishwasher for meat and milk. Source sheet can be found here: www.sefaria.org/sheets/271388 

Talmud Initiative - Brachos 3b - 4a

Monday Night Beiyun - Amirah Le ' Akum 8 - End of the laws of Deriving Benefit. 

Monday Night Beiyun - Amirah Le'Akum 7. We complete Siman 276 with a discussion regarding newspapers on Shabbat

Parsha Class - Vezos HaBracha

Parsha Class - Nitzavim-Vayelech

Rosh Hashana that Falls on Shabbos

Mishnayos Leilu Nishmas Dina Leah Bas Menachem Mendel

Talmud Initiative - Brachos 3a Part 2 - 3b Part 1

Talmud Initiative: Brachos 3a part 1 

Parsha Class - Parshas Ki Tzeitei

Mishyanos Leiluy Nishmas Dina Leah bas Menachem Mendal

Kitchen Disasters: Episode 4 "Coffee at a Restaurant"  

We begin sif 3 with a discussion of the laws of muktza and psik risha

Parsha Class: Shoftim

In this class we cover the Gemara until the bottom of 2b

Here we cover the principle of Nat Bar Nat. We start with the Talmudic sources and end with its practical implications.

Here we complete Siman 276:2. We discuss the Bad Haitur and some interesting consequences of his opinion.

Here we finish 2a and continue on 2b 

We conclude Tosfos, and discuss the possible regulations to the debate between Tosfos and Rashi. We then started the first section of the Gemara until the first two dots.

In this class we finish sif alef, resolve the contradiction between 276:1 and 252:4; and begin sif beis with a discussion of the leniency of the Baal Haitur with regards to tzorech mitzvah 

Mishnayos Eruvin Chapter 10 

Mishnayos Eruvin Chapter 9

Mishnayos Eruvin Chapter 8

Intro to Brachos. Mishna, and Rashi vs Tosfos on which Shema rules part 1

Parsha Class - Va'Eschanan

In this class we covered the first sif in Shulchan Aruch, Aruch Chaim 276. 

Eruvin Chapter 7

The Torah perspective on beauty and aesthetics: a class by Dr. Peryl Agishtein

Parsha Class - Parshas Devarim 

Eruvin Chapter 6

Eruvin Chapter 5

In this episode we cover the concept of Chanan, and the laws of Dakar tzli (roasted food) with two additional anacdotes.

Parsha Class - Parshas Mattos -Ma'asei

Eruvin Chapter 4

A discussion of the laws of davar charif and dechuka desakina

Parsha Class - Parshas Pinchas

Monday Night Beiyun - Amirah LeAcum 2 We talked about the reasoning behind the prohibition of benefiting from work done on your behalf on Shabbos, and why the standard laws of proxy do not suffice.

Eruvin Chapter 3

Eruvin Chapter 2

Parsha Class - Chukas Balak

Eruvin Chapter 1

Here we review the Talmud discussion on Shabbos 122 a-b and we begin the Tur and Beis Yosef

SBHC Beiyun - Masseh Shabbos 1