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- Iyun Lemachshava English
Sanehdrin is the place to have discussions not the place to count opinions
Pirkei Avos, and the Mishnah itself, can be read as a philosophy book, where philosophy means learning from a position of not-knowing rather than repeating…
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Avos are the Principles for the rest of the Mishna – The Tragic dilemma behind “Ethics from Sinai”
This lecture examines the organizational structure and purpose of Pirkei Avot (Ethics of the Fathers) within the Mishnah, arguing that "Avot" means…
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Avos is the locus for ethics – What is the locus of Avos?
This lecture examines the fundamental dispute between Rambam (Maimonides) and Rashi regarding the proper interpretive framework for Pirkei Avos (Ethics of the…
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Halell and Lulav without Mikdash is like the Meshichist Kos Shel Beracha
This lecture examines two fundamental approaches to Jewish observance: the Litvish emphasis on correct performance of mitzvos according to halacha, and the…
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Purification and Atonement Beyond moral repentance and guilt
This lecture examines the philosophical structure of atonement (kapara) and purification (tahara) in Jewish thought, arguing that the Rambam's reduction of all…
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Approaching the reality prior to language through language – Discussion with Shmuli
This discussion examines the relationship between language, thought, and reality, asking whether words merely point to things or actively shape our…
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How to philosophize in any language – Discussion with Shmuli
This philosophical discussion examines whether language differences create genuine conceptual barriers or merely surface-level translation challenges. The core…
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Overcoming yourself vs. Pretending to be a good person
Overcoming yourself vs. Pretending to be a good person
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Sins of the eyes or of the sense of touch using eyes
Sins of the eyes or of the sense of touch using eyes
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The Secret of Yisrael in Galus
This lecture examines the philosophy of fasting through multiple frameworks: as a time-management strategy that creates space for spiritual focus by removing…
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Desiring People vs Desiring natural pleasure
This lecture examines Aristotle's distinction between natural/common pleasures and chosen/specific pleasures in Jewish ethics, focusing on food and sex as the…
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Obesity Epidemic isn’t a failure of Temperance (NE III.11)
This lecture examines Aristotle's hierarchy of human goods and the virtue of temperance, distinguishing between natural bodily desires (shared by all humans)…
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Dialectic restricting temperance to pleasures of body and to sense of touch (NE III.10)
Dialectic restricting temperance to pleasures of body and to sense of touch (NE III.10)
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Broad and Specific meanings of Sôphrosunê or Zehiurs
This shiur examines the virtue of zehirus (temperance/self-control) as presented in Rambam's Shemonah Perakim, tracing how abstract virtue-language developed…
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Authority, Form, and Content in Prophecy
Religious truth operates across three distinct dimensions that are often confused: authority (the source of truth), content (what is being taught), and form…
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Shavuos, Harvest, and the value and danger of belief in torah from heaven
This lecture examines Shavuot's true meaning as an agricultural festival celebrating the wheat harvest and economic prosperity, rather than simply…
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Stop beating your torah rock! Rambam and Mekubalim on shells and fruit in Torah
This shiur examines the fundamental distinction between virtues (character excellences) and mitzvos (commandments), arguing that mitzvos function as teachers…
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Talmidei Chachamim as elite investors – The Rambamist way of supporting Torah
The Rambam's approach to supporting Torah scholars is not a prohibition on fundraising but a specific economic model based on business partnership. According…
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Do you want the truth and ways to list the virtues
This lesson examines why character development (middos) must precede Torah learning and investigates the fundamental question of which virtues are most…
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Avrohom Avinu didn’t care for his children
This lecture addresses the question of why Jews should remain Jewish rather than assimilate, examining Leo Strauss's argument that assimilation fails because…
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Remember you were OTD in Egypt too – The night of apikorses
Religious questioning follows predictable stages: initial rejection of obvious absurdities, attempts to connect with those who've left observance, and eventual…
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The Chazon Ish’s struggle to explain the ancient kind of good jew
This lecture examines the fundamental shift in Jewish ideals from the classical emphasis on Torah study and mitzvah observance (the Talmid Chacham ideal) to…
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Why everyone started to think internal intention is the only good thing
The modern split between "inner" and "outer" goodness stems from the loss of natural teleology — once you deny that things in the world have inherent purposes…
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Contrasting two theories s of Lo Sachmod
This shiur examines the prohibition of Lo Tachmod (do not covet) through two competing readings: one that treats desire itself as the root of all evil and…
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Lo Sachmod is the Midda for Lo Tignov Tirtzach Tinaf Taane
This lecture explores the distinction between authentic and false interiority in Jewish ethics, arguing that true inner virtue must always be directed toward…
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Being a good person internally doesn’t mean wanting to be a good person
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Should we be happy we received the torah
This lesson examines whether we should genuinely be happy about receiving the Torah, distinguishing between defending an abstract religious ideal and…
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Campaign Opening: The secret of money and helping each other in wisdom
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The meaning of the metaphor “health of the soul”
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Philosophy is for the working class
since philosophy is the human kind of thought, it is the only kind proper for normal humans which are thinking animals, not only the kind of animal known as…