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Aryeh Klapper
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Yeshiva of Newark Podcast
Chukas-Confidence Building Among Our Enemies-with Rabbi Aryeh Klapper
Please click on this link to contribute whatever you can to keep this podcast on the air: https://thechesedfund.com/yeshivaofnewarkpodcast/keeping-the-ark-afloat Rabbi Aryeh Klapper is Dean of the Center for Modern Torah Leadership, Rosh Beit Midrash of its Summer Beit Midrash Program and a member of the Boston Beit Din. Rabbi Klapper is a widely published author in prestigious Hebrew and English journals. He is frequently consulted on issues of Jewish law from representatives of all streams of Judaism and responds from an explicit and uncompromised Orthodox stance. The Yeshiva of Newark @IDT is...
2025-07-01
42 min
Yeshiva of Newark Podcast
Shelach-Losing Your Shadow-with Rabbi Aryeh Klapper
Please click on this link to contribute whatever you can to keep this podcast on the air: https://thechesedfund.com/yeshivaofnewarkpodcast/keeping-the-ark-afloat Rabbi Aryeh Klapper is Dean of the Center for Modern Torah Leadership, Rosh Beit Midrash of its Summer Beit Midrash Program and a member of the Boston Beit Din. Rabbi Klapper is a widely published author in prestigious Hebrew and English journals. He is frequently consulted on issues of Jewish law from representatives of all streams of Judaism and responds from an explicit and uncompromised Orthodox stance. The Yeshiva...
2025-06-20
46 min
The Jewish Drinking Show
Rabbi Yair Ḥayim Bacharach on Jews Drinking Gentile Wine, featuring Rabbi Aryeh Klapper [The Jewish Drinking Show, episode #178]
IntroductionA recurring topic on The Jewish Drinking Show is that of gentile wine. Having initially discussed it on episode #71 of the show on early rabbis on gentile [libation] wine, episode #135 of the show on how the rabbis of the Talmud perceived gentiles as compulsive libaters, and episode #83 of the show on Medieval rabbis on gentile wine, we also discussed it on episode #84 on Rabbi Moshe Isserles' infamous responsum on the Jews drinking gentile wine. For the 178th episode of The Jewish Drinking Show, we read of a duo of responsa on the matter by Rabbi...
2025-06-17
44 min
Taking Responsibility for Torah
Are Gated Communities Halakhically Acceptable? Opening shiur on Bava Basra 7b
By Rabbi Aryeh Klapper for Center for Modern Torah Leadership , September 15, 2024. To join this weekly inperson shiur in Riverdale, please email moderntorahleadership@gmail.com
2024-09-16
52 min
On Principle
Civilian Casualties and Rebuilding -Understanding Medinas Yisroel's Responsibility Towards the Gazans-with Rabbi Aryeh Klapper
Rabbi Aryeh Klapper is Dean of the Center for Modern Torah Leadership, Rosh Beit Midrash of its Summer Beit Midrash Program and a former member of the Boston Beit Din. Rabbi Klapper is a widely published author in prestigious Hebrew and English journals. He is frequently consulted on issues of Jewish law from representatives of all streams of Judaism and responds from an explicit and uncompromised Orthodox stance.
2023-12-14
51 min
Yeshiva of Newark Podcast
On Principle-Episode 94-Civilian Casualties and Rebuilding -Understanding Medinas Yisroel's Responsibility Towards the Gazans-with Rabbi Aryeh Klapper
Rabbi Klapper is a widely published author in prestigious Hebrew and English journals. He is frequently consulted on issues of Jewish law from representatives of all streams of Judaism and responds from an explicit and uncompromised Orthodox stance.
2023-12-14
51 min
Shu"T First, Ask Questions Later
9. The Limits of Pikuach Nefesh - Feat. Rabbi Aryeh Klapper
Pikuach Nefesh, the imperative to preserve life, is one of the most supreme Torah commandments, as it has the power supersede almost any other mitzvah. But are there limits? Our guest Rabbi Aryeh Klapper provides a close reading of a responsum of the Noda B'Yehudah (Y.D. 210) to shed light on this critical issue. Want to learn more from Rabbi Klapper? Check out his podcast, “Taking Responsibility for Torah”: https://open.spotify.com/show/3cVKvBl0ZjtNLGaVVFPsP3?si=5f211268a509436e Book: https://www.amazon.com/Divine-Will-Human-Experience-Explorations/dp/1667851438/ref=monarch_sidesheet We...
2023-11-27
36 min
Orthodox Conundrum
The Meaning of Amalek for Orthodox Jews Today, with Rabbi Aryeh Klapper (Originally released in March, 2022)
In preparation for Parashat Zachor, the Orthodox Conundrum is rereleasing an episode from last year with Rabbi Aryeh Klapper, dealing with questions surrounding Amalek. How should Orthodox Jews relate to the mitzvah of wiping out Amalek - a Torah law that might seem immoral? What are we remembering when we think of Amalek, and is there a message within that resonates with committed Torah Jews living in the 21st century? We hope this episode will give you food for thought as we move toward Parashat Zachor and Purim. Please listen to and share this podcast, and let...
2023-03-02
28 min
Taking Responsibility for Torah
Yeshiva of Newark Shiur in memory of Dr. Jacob Klapper: The Interrelationship of Science and Halakhah as Reflected in Discussions of the Gestation and Birth of Dinah
Sourcesheet is here
2022-12-04
1h 09
Yeshiva of Newark Podcast
Tshuvos and Poskim- The interrelationship of science and Halakhah as they concern The Gestation and Birth of Dinah-a shiur dedicated to the memory of Doctor Jacob Klapper A"h-presented by his son Rabbi Aryeh Klapper
וְאַחַ֖ר יָ֣לְדָה בַּ֑ת וַתִּקְרָ֥א אֶת־שְׁמָ֖הּ דִּינָֽה. דינה – פירשו רבותינו: דנה בעצמה, אם זה זכר, לא תהא רחל אחותי כאחת השפחות, ונתפללה ונהפך לנקבה. רש'י בראשית ל':כ'א As the Jewish people readied themselves to read the Parsha that details the birth of 11 of the men who founded the Shivtei Kah and the angst and prayers that preceded them The Issur Ben Tzvi Hersh Tshuvos and Poskim Shiur of the Yeshiva of Newark@IDT was honored to feature the renowned author, educator and Posek Rabbi Aryeh Klapper Dean of the Center for Modern Torah Leadership, author of Divine Will and Human Experience: Explorations of the Halakhic System and its Values To presen
2022-12-02
1h 09
Taking Responsibility for Torah
Halakhah and Freedom: SBM Fellows discuss Chapter 1 of Rabbi Klapper's "Divine Will and Human Experience"
SBM 2022 Fellows discuss Chapter 1 of Rabbi Klapper's new book, available on Amazon and many other sites. They address freedom from vs. Freedom to, slavery in halakhah, and many other issues
2022-08-15
43 min
Orthodox Conundrum
The Meaning of Amalek in 2022 with Rabbi Aryeh Klapper (Bonus Episode)
How should Orthodox Jews relate to the mitzvah of wiping out Amalek - a Torah law that might seem immoral? What are we remembering when we think of Amalek, and is there a message within that resonates with committed Torah Jews living in the 21st century? Join Scott as he talks with Rabbi Aryeh Klapper about Amalek, and what Parashat Zachor and Purim mean for Jews today. Please listen to and share this podcast, and let us know what you think on the Orthodox Conundrum Discussion Group on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/groups/432020081498108). Thanks to all of our Patreon...
2022-03-15
27 min
Taking Responsibility for Torah
Halakhic Employer-Employee Year: Shiur #10 HaSokher et HaUmanin YI Sharon
Archimedean points, issues in learning Yerushalmi, Halakhah as it is vis a vis how it ought to be - I think this is an excellent way in if you haven't been following the shiur, or haven't heard a Rabbi Klapper gemara shiur before
2021-12-15
56 min
Taking Responsibility for Torah
Halakhic Employer/Employee Law: Shiur #1, HaSokher Et HaUmanin, YI Sharon
given 10/12. Sourcesheet is at Laborlawchaburahtrymeks1.4.docx
2021-10-13
1h 05
Taking Responsibility for Torah
Learning Shelo Lishmoh: A Risky Shiur
Discuss the apparent contradictions in the Talmud as to whether learning shelo lishmoh is encouraged or discouraged, and how many trees were at the center of the Garden of Eden
2021-10-03
50 min
Taking Responsibility for Torah
Efshar Leverurei Episode 15 - Psak, Probability, and Reality
Igrot Moshe YD5:4. The difference between a shechitah knife that can't nbe checked because it was lost, and one that can't be checked because ti was damaged
2021-09-12
15 min
Taking Responsibility for Torah
"IN THE PLACE WHERE PENITENTS STAND, TZADDIKIM CANNOT STAND" - Where exactly is that place?
Delivered for the Beit Shemesh Community Beit Midrash on Nov. 12, 2017. Sourcesheet at https://www.yutorah.org/download.cfm?materialID=533037
2021-09-10
51 min
Taking Responsibility for Torah
Efshar Leverurei Episode 14 - The Unknown Shochet
Igrot Mosheh YD5:2
2021-09-03
24 min
Taking Responsibility for Torah
Efshar Leverurei Episode 13 - HeChadash Asur Min HaTorah
Rav Mosheh on when and why one can assume that commercially bought grain is yoshon
2021-08-27
15 min
Taking Responsibility for Torah
The Difference Between Doubt and Ignorance - Efshar Leverurei Episode 12
Implications of the lost chemical formula for distinguishing between blood and red dyes
2021-08-20
22 min
Taking Responsibility for Torah
Efshar Leverurei Episode 11: The Flatbush Eruv
When having all the evidence isn't good enough
2021-08-15
15 min
Taking Responsibility for Torah
Efshar Leverurei Episode 10: May One Presume That Marriages In Communist Russia Had No Halakhic Validity?
Rav Moshe models proactove agunah prevention, again
2021-08-06
13 min
Taking Responsibility for Torah
SBM 2021 - Sixteenth and final Main Shiur July 27
Is "constructing" halakhic concepts legitimate? Is "privacy" a coherent concept? Discusses critiques by Solovey and Schreiber, defense by Washofsky, and more
2021-07-30
1h 29
Taking Responsibility for Torah
The Fluid Boundaries of "Religious" Today: Directions and Implications. Eliyana Yashgur, SBM 2021 Guest Shiur
Sourcesheet is at https://1drv.ms/w/s!AgxlcbVaoV_ihPoIK-73V6QvWqOoQQ?e=RJgYkG
2021-07-29
2h 27
Taking Responsibility for Torah
SBM 2021 - Fifteenth Main Shiur July 28
Rabbi Dr. Judah Goldberg's article on truthtelling
2021-07-29
1h 42
Taking Responsibility for Torah
SBM 2021 - Fourteenth Main Shiur July 27
Rav Aviner and Tosafot Yom Tov on toelet for oneself and gilui sod; Tif'eret Yisroel; Rav Aviner on confidentiality of Kibbutz membership votes; Chelkat Yaakov on truthtelling to patients
2021-07-27
1h 43
Taking Responsibility for Torah
SBM 2021 - Thirteenth Main Shiur - July 26
Gilui Sod, Tzeniut, and Privacy
2021-07-26
1h 50
Taking Responsibility for Torah
Rabbi Jonathan Ziring: Toelet and Lashon Hora
Discusses the Chofetz Chayyim and critiques. With lively discussion with Rabbi Klapper and SBM Fellows
2021-07-25
2h 24
Taking Responsibility for Torah
Efshar Leverurei Episode 9 - Reliable evidence for unreliable divorces, and vice versa
Igrot Mosheh Even Haezer 4:16
2021-07-23
24 min
Taking Responsibility for Torah
The Ouroboros and the Oven SBM2021 Aggada #3
What is snaky about the Oven of Akhnai, and what can that tell us about the meaning of its story?
2021-07-23
56 min
Taking Responsibility for Torah
SBM 2021 - Twelfth Main Shiur July 22
Evaluating Rabbi Lamm's argument for a Torah right to privacy
2021-07-23
1h 39
Taking Responsibility for Torah
SBM 2021 - Eleventh Main Shiur July 21
Lining Rabbis Lamm and Bleich up with the Supreme Court opinions in Griswold
2021-07-22
1h 36
Taking Responsibility for Torah
SBM 2021 - Tenth Main Shiur - July 19
Evaluating Rabbi Shenkolovsky's disagreements with Rabbi Dichovsky, moving to the Griswold case
2021-07-21
1h 54
Taking Responsibility for Torah
SBM 2021 - Ninth Main Shiur - July 19
Rav Dichovsky on the right to a normal life, Chikekei Leiv on opening mail
2021-07-20
1h 58
Taking Responsibility for Torah
Efshar Leverurei Episode 8 - Review plus toveling dishes of uncertain origin
also available as two separate epsiodes from the Yeshiva of Newark Rav Moshe-The Art of Psak with Rabbi Aryeh Klapper-Episode 8-Chazarah is called for-A concise and cogent Rav Moshe-The Art of Psak with Rabbi Aryeh Klapper Episode 7-Population Assumptions on Tevilas Keilim
2021-07-20
17 min
Taking Responsibility for Torah
Does the Shaarei Yosher believe in an Ethic Independent of Halakhah? SBM 2021 Friday July 16
Uses Rabbi Alex Ozar's article and brief selections
2021-07-16
1h 29
Taking Responsibility for Torah
Rabbi Jonathan Ziring Lashon Hora Without Human Involvement SBM 2021 July 15
some Zoom breaks
2021-07-16
2h 37
Taking Responsibility for Torah
SBM 2021 - Eighth Main Shiur - July 15
Hezek Shmiyah, Privacy, and Strict Liability
2021-07-16
1h 23
Taking Responsibility for Torah
Why Rav sent Rav Kehana to Israel
sourchesheet is at ההוא גברא דהוה בעי אחוויי אתיבנא דחבריה5.docx
2021-07-15
1h 01
Taking Responsibility for Torah
SBM 2021 - Seventh Main Shiur - July 14
היזק ראיה and Eavesdropping part 1
2021-07-15
1h 52
Taking Responsibility for Torah
SBM 2021 - Sixth Main Shiur - July 13
Bonus: Rambam on Fall, Sin, and Trees Privacy: Warren-Brandeis and Ba BaMachteret
2021-07-14
2h 04
Taking Responsibility for Torah
Statutory Intepretation in Halakhah: Rabbi Dr. Shlomo Zuckier at SBM 2021
Sourcesheet is at https://1drv.ms/b/s!AgxlcbVaoV_ihPh5dh8GfsHfADe-lw?e=KO5qQC
2021-07-13
1h 19
Taking Responsibility for Torah
SBM 2021 - Fifth Main Shiur - July 12
Chatzi Shiur: Mushba veomeid?
2021-07-12
1h 46
Taking Responsibility for Torah
SBM 2021 - Second Main Shiur July 6
SBM 2021 - Second Main Shiur July 6
2021-07-12
1h 50
Taking Responsibility for Torah
Halakhic Morality: Law and Ethics in Rav Soloveitchik's Essay
SBM 2021 Friday July 9
2021-07-12
1h 23
Taking Responsibility for Torah
SBM 2021 - Fourth Main Shiur July 8
Shiiruim on Yom Kippur, morality of duty vs. morality of aspiration
2021-07-08
1h 56
Taking Responsibility for Torah
SBM2021ThirdMainShiurJuly7
Third Main Shiur - Rav Moshe, Shevet Levi, and Chashukei Chemed on autonomy in education
2021-07-08
2h 04
Taking Responsibility for Torah
SBM 2021 - First Main Shiur July 5
Email moderntorahleadership@gmail.com for sources. Sound quality varies.
2021-07-06
1h 59
Taking Responsibility for Torah
Efsharlevrurei Episode 7: A Tangent on Techumin
with a prologue on typologies of poskim
2021-07-02
31 min
Taking Responsibility for Torah
Chukat - Confidence-Building Measures in Ethnic Politics
also available at https://jewishpodcasts.fm/yeshivaofnewark/18226
2021-06-20
39 min
Taking Responsibility for Torah
Efsharlevrurei Episode 6: The Brain Death Controversy inverted
Sourcesheet is at https://1drv.ms/w/s!AgxlcbVaoV_ihPduPZPoGi5rkPA1Ow?e=qCT9r1. Also available via Yeshiva of Newark at https://jewishpodcasts.fm/yeshivaofnewark/18205
2021-06-20
18 min
Taking Responsibility for Torah
Efsharlevrurei Episode 3 - Shatnez checking
Sourcesheet is at RavMosheefsharepisode 3.docx. Also available at https://player.fm/series/yeshiva-of-newark-podcast/rav-moshe-the-art-of-psak-with-rabbi-aryeh-klapper-episode-3-asking-and-assuming-trusting-gynecologists-selling-shaatnez
2021-06-15
17 min
Taking Responsibility for Torah
Efshar Leverurei Episode 4 - Gelatin
Welcome to episode 4 of efshar livrurei (take 2).docx
2021-06-11
13 min
Taking Responsibility for Torah
Efsharlevrurei Episode 5: Two Lenient Teshuvot Involving Intermarriages
Outline and Sourcesheet is at Efshar leverurei Episode 5.docx. Look for previous episodes on this site and on the Yeshiva of Newark podcast
2021-06-11
16 min
Taking Responsibility for Torah
Shlach: Was Peter Pan a Canaanite?
Sourcesheet is at pan.docx. Also available at https://jewishpodcasts.fm/yeshivaofnewark/17581
2021-06-04
55 min
Taking Responsibility for Torah
B'Haalotkha - Mosheh and Yitro debate whether the Torah's promise of "one law for the naturalized and the born citizen" means that converts must have hereditary land in Israel
Souresheet is at אֵ֛לֶּה מַסְעֵ֥י בְנֵֽי־יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל לְצִבְאֹתָ֑ם וַיִּסָּֽעוּ.docx. Audio is also at https://player.fm/series/yeshiva-of-newark-podcast/rabbi-aryeh-klapper-on-behaaloscha-voice-at-the-table-moshes-offer-to-yisro-was-it-enough-to-get-him-to-stay
2021-05-28
38 min
Taking Responsibility for Torah
Efsharlevrurei2 (take 2) - Must one check to see whether a shechted bird is a treifah?
Sourcesheet is at RavMosheefsharepisode 2.docx. Also available via the Yeshiva of Newark at https://jewishpodcasts.fm/yeshivaofnewark/16593.
2021-05-25
21 min
Taking Responsibility for Torah
Efsharlevrurei2 - Must one check to see whether a shechted bird is a treifah?
Sourcesheet is at RavMosheefsharepisode 2.docx. Also available via the Yeshiva of Newark at https://jewishpodcasts.fm/yeshivaofnewark/16597.
2021-05-24
21 min
Taking Responsibility for Torah
Whose Emotions Does Prophecy Express? (Hosheia 1-2, Haftarat Bamidbar)
Sourcesheet is at הושע א-ב2.docx. Also available at https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/rabbi-aryeh-klapper-on-haftoras-parshas-bamidbar-hoshea/id1472242330?i=1000521660645
2021-05-14
1h 02
Taking Responsibility for Torah
EfsharLivrurei Eposode 1: The Agunah and Her Letter
Based on Igrot Moshe EH 1:49. This series is also available at https://jewishpodcasts.fm/ravmoshetheartofpsak/14744
2021-05-12
22 min
Taking Responsibility for Torah
Bechukotai: Netziv's Theology of Chosenness
Also available at https://jewishpodcasts.fm/yeshivaofnewark/14459. Sourcesheet is at Bechukotainetziv.q.docx.
2021-05-07
57 min
Taking Responsibility for Torah
Emor: Can just anyone make a chillul Hashem?
Sourcesheet is here. This recording and all my weekly parshah shiurim are also featured on the Yeshiva of Newark podcast.
2021-04-30
44 min
Taking Responsibility for Torah
One Rishon's Radical Position about Kavod haBeriyot: Can It Fit Into the Bavli?
This shiur was originally recorded for the Yeshiva of Newark podcast and is also available at https://jewishpodcasts.fm/yeshivaofnewark/13938.
2021-04-23
33 min
Taking Responsibility for Torah
Yoma 11b - Daf Yomi Shiur
Sourcesheet is at WexHebEng3.docx
2021-04-23
58 min
Taking Responsibility for Torah
What the "Goses" Category Can Teach us About Halakhah - Yom Iyyun Recording
Gosesyomiyyunmeks.3.docx
2021-03-14
2h 42
Taking Responsibility for Torah
Vayakhel: The World Recreated, Again
Sourcesheet is at YIVayakhelshiur2021.docx
2021-03-12
59 min
Taking Responsibility for Torah
Rav Henkin z"l on contributing to the rebuilding of torched churches
Sourcesheet is at https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jP_Z_RVHtpik8solz35Imxh0LSWEhXg2/view?usp=drive_web
2021-02-09
1h 04
Taking Responsibility for Torah
Should Poskim be Doctors of the Soul? Medical Metaphors for Law in Maimonides
Sourcesheet is at http://www.torahleadership.org/categories/medmetaphor1b_mek0.doc
2021-01-22
51 min
Taking Responsibility for Torah
Harry Potter and the Plague of Darkness
Was Mitzrayim invaded by dementors? Did Bnei Yisroel carry Hands of Glory? J.K. Rowling's accounts of occult darkness are used to illuminate readings from Jewish tradition
2021-01-22
1h 02
Taking Responsibility for Torah
Reversing Lekha Lekha: Avraham, Yitzchak, and Intermarriage
Why does Avraham insist that Yitzchak marry back into the family and culture that G-d ordered him to leave behind?
2020-11-13
59 min
Taking Responsibility for Torah
Lekh Lekha - When Relationship and Religious Growth Conflict
The shiur is in English and translates all sources. An all-Hebrew sourcesheet is available at https://drive.google.com/file/d/1gU4uTB61wmoEHP2yi2YGhzgmvO3ur_1y/view?usp=sharing.
2020-10-30
1h 07
Taking Responsibility for Torah
Rabbi Sacks' reading of the Tower of Babel story in Dignity of Difference
Provides philosophic and literary background, presents Rabbi Sacks', and discusses it in the context of Jewish tradition
2020-10-23
1h 04
Taking Responsibility for Torah
May One Eat in the Sukkah on Simchat Torah?
Mekorot are at https://drive.google.com/file/d/15WWgYFo_NElbZyu8wz_qvtsKIMxNZlfn/view?usp=sharing
2020-10-09
1h 04
Taking Responsibility for Torah
5 Minutes on Parshat Shelach - Equality under the law
Center for Modern Torah Leadership Dean Rabbi Aryeh Klapper explores the Torah's insistence that the law be the same for born and naturalized citizens, via the commentary of Netziv
2020-06-19
04 min
Taking Responsibility for Torah
Goses, Treifah, Zombie
Rabbi Aryeh Klapper establishes halakhic categories of "undeadness" and develops their implications for end-of-life issues.
2020-05-19
46 min
Taking Responsibility for Torah
Triage and Halakhah #8: The Position of Rav Asher Weiss, Rav Herschel Schachter, and some directional notes of my own
Sourceshhet is at http://www.torahleadership.org/categories/zoomtriage8.pdf
2020-05-18
1h 40
Taking Responsibility for Torah
Triage and Halakhah # 7: The Positions of Rabbi Moshe Sternbuch and His Correspondents
Sourcesheet is at http://www.torahleadership.org/categories/zoomtriage7sternbuch.pdf
2020-05-18
1h 15
Taking Responsibility for Torah
Thinking Briskly: Body, Mind, and Soul Part 2
Sourcesheer is at http://www.torahleadership.org/categories/zoomkavannahmeks_2_3.pdf
2020-05-12
1h 04
Taking Responsibility for Torah
Triage in Halakhah part 5: The Position of Rabbi Zalman Nechemyah Goldberg
Sourcesheet is at http://www.torahleadership.org/categories/triage_4_3.pdf
2020-05-10
1h 11
Taking Responsibility for Torah
Thinking Briskly: Are mitzvot performed by the body, the mind, or the soul?
Sourcesheet is at http://www.torahleadership.org/categories/zoomkavannahmeks_1.pdf
2020-05-10
1h 08
Taking Responsibility for Torah
Triage in Halakhah part 6: The Position(s) of Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Auerbach
Sourcesheet is at http://www.torahleadership.org/categories/zoomtriage6rsza.pdf
2020-05-10
1h 17
Taking Responsibility for Torah
Triage in Halakhah Part 4
Sourcesheet is at http://www.torahleadership.org/categories/triage_4_j1.pdf
2020-05-03
1h 29
The Tosafists
Judaism and Modernity: Rabbi Aryeh Klapper
Rabbi Aryeh Klapper is the head of the Center for Modern Torah Leadership and the Summber Bet Midrash; we discuss Judaism's message for mankind, Jewish law vs. Public Policy, the meaning of Modern Orthodoxy, the role of rabbis in the Modern Orthodox and Haredi societies, and more.
2020-05-02
1h 33
Taking Responsibility for Torah
Triage in Halakhah: Part 3
Sourcesheet is at http://www.torahleadership.org/categories/zoomtriage3_2.pdf
2020-04-28
1h 10
Taking Responsibility for Torah
Triage in Halakhah: Basic Principles 2
http://www.torahleadership.org/categories/zoomtriage2_1.pdf
2020-04-26
1h 17
Taking Responsibility for Torah
Triage in Halakhah: Basic Principles
Sourcesheet at http://www.torahleadership.org/categories/zoomtriage2_1.pdf
2020-04-23
1h 09
Taking Responsibility for Torah
Lost Wages from a Pandemic Shutdown Part 2: Outline and Agenda
The sourcesheet is here
2020-04-03
1h 07
Taking Responsibility for Torah
Lost Wages During a Pandemic Shutdown: Why A Din Torah Shouldn't Follow Din Torah
The sourcesheet is here
2020-04-02
1h 21
Taking Responsibility for Torah
Kaddish Derabannan in a Zoom minyan
The sourcesheet is here
2020-04-01
1h 20
Taking Responsibility for Torah
Can one form a minyan via ZOOM?
The sourcesheet is here. The next shiur will discuss the special case of kaddish derabannan.
2020-03-31
01 min
Taking Responsibility for Torah
The Rav and Rav Shagar walk into a holosuite bar . . . : Virtual and other realities in light of recent experience
Also known as "Halakhic Man Enters the Matrix" -
2020-03-29
1h 07
Taking Responsibility for Torah
Who Decides What is "Shabbesdik"?
Sourcesheet is here
2020-03-27
43 min
Taking Responsibility for Torah
Halakhah and Emerging Technologies 2: ZOOM
Sourcesheet is here
2020-03-27
1h 21
Taking Responsibility for Torah
Lifnim Mishurat Hadin, or: The Limits of Law
If Halakhah represents G-d's Will and the proper balance/Golden Mean among conflicting values, how can Judaism praise those who go beyond it? Rabbi Aryeh Klapper explores various models for resolving this conundrum.
2020-03-27
1h 13
Taking Responsibility for Torah
Who Decides Halakhah?
Sourcesheet is here. Part 3 of Halakhah: A User's Manual. Part 2 is How is Halakhah Decided Part 1 is How is Halakhah Organized
2020-03-26
1h 04
Taking Responsibility for Torah
How is Halakhah Decided?
The sourcesheet is here. Part 2 of Halakhah: A User'a Manual. Part 1 is "How is Halakhah Organized?"
2020-03-26
1h 02
Taking Responsibility for Torah
How Radically Can Halakhah Change in a Sh'at Hadchak?
Essential listening for those interested in evaluating halakhic approaches to the current crisis! The sourcesheet is available at http://www.torahleadership.org/categories/zoom_how_radically_can_halakhah_change_in_a_sh___at_hadchak_sourcwsheetdraft11.pdf
2020-03-24
1h 01
Taking Responsibility for Torah
How is Halakhah Organized?
This is Part 1 of Halakhah: A User's Manual. The sourcesheet is available here
2020-03-24
1h 05
Taking Responsibility for Torah
The Relationship Between Halakhah and Ethics: 3 Case Studies
Rabbi Aryeh Klapper brings cases from labor law, family law, and foreign policy to illustrate the complicated relationship between what Jewish law requires and what Judaism thinks the right thing to do is
2020-03-23
1h 18
Taking Responsibility for Torah
How Many Parshiyot Should We Lein the Shabbat After Quarantine?
The sourcesheet (Hebrew) is at here
2020-03-23
1h 09