Center for Modern Torah Leadership

Shiurim

• How Does Halakhah Apportion Communal Costs? Shiur #7 on Bava Batra 7b?

  Rav Aryeh Klapper

  11/10/2024

• SBM 2021 - Eleventh Main Shiur July 21

  Rav Aryeh Klapper

  Lining Rabbis Lamm and Bleich up with the Supreme Court opinions in Griswold

• Halakhic Employer-Employee Law#17/Miniunit on Klalei Horaah#3

  Rav Aryeh Klapper

  Sourcesheet is here This concludes the minuunit and ties it back into Hasokher et Haumanin

• Ransoming Captives - at any price? #4

  Rav Aryeh Klapper

  In memory of Zechariah Pesach Haber Hy"d Sourcesheet is at http://www.torahleadership.org/categories/yiwedeinpodinmeks4.pdf

• How many shuls may one build in Flatbush?

  Rav Aryeh Klapper

  Discusses Rav Moshe's application of halakhic competition law to synagogues in Brooklyn. Part 2 of the American History via Igrot Moshe series

• Iyyun Shiur Sotah #14 VIDEO semester finale

  Rav Aryeh Klapper

  December 23, 2024

• Iyyun Shiur Sotah #4 VIDEO

  Rav Aryeh Klapper

  Listen to Iyyun Shiur Sotah #4 VIDEO by Rav Aryeh Klapper, from Taking Responsibility for Torah.

• Can one form a minyan via ZOOM?

  Rav Aryeh Klapper

  The sourcesheet is here . The next shiur will discuss the special case of kaddish derabannan.

• Halakhic Employer-Employee Law #18: Back to Bava Metzia

  Rav Aryeh Klapper

  Sourcesheet with outline is here . This shiur rapidly reviews prior constructions of the non/machloket between Rav and Rav Yochanan in the Yerushalmi; discusses whether/how that non/machloket is reflected in the Bavli, which does not cite R

• Chavot Yair Chaburah on #163 - AUDIO

  Rav Aryeh Klapper

  Listen to Chavot Yair Chaburah on #163 - AUDIO by Rav Aryeh Klapper, from Taking Responsibility for Torah.

• SBM 2021 - Fourth Main Shiur July 8

  Rav Aryeh Klapper

  Shiiruim on Yom Kippur, morality of duty vs. morality of aspiration

• How Many Parshiyot Should We Lein the Shabbat After Quarantine?

  Rav Aryeh Klapper

  The sourcesheet (Hebrew) is at here

• Is There Religious Obligation Independent of Halakhah? The Alter of Slobodka on saving Rachav the Canaanitess

  Rav Aryeh Klapper

  also discusses Rav Chaim Dovid Halevi.

• Ransoming Captives - at any price? #1

  Rav Aryeh Klapper

  In memory of Zechariah Pesach Haber Hy"d Sourcesheet is at http://www.torahleadership.org/categories/ransoming_captives__1_sourcesheet.pdf

• Torah for Torah's Sake and Yeshiva Ideology #5

  Rav Aryeh Klapper

  Does the Ish HaHalakhah actually learn with deveikus?

• SOTAH 2025 Iyyun Shiur #1 VIDEO

  Rav Aryeh Klapper

  January 20

• Halakhic Employer/Employee Law: Shiur #1, HaSokher Et HaUmanin, YI Sharon

  Rav Aryeh Klapper

  given 10/12. Sourcesheet is at Laborlawchaburahtrymeks1.4.docx

• SOTAH 2025 Iyyun Shiur #3 AUDIO

  Rav Aryeh Klapper

  Feb 10 2025Learning at YI this week sponsored by the Cheses family in memory of their grandfather–(Moshe ben Yehoshua) Morris Sulman’s upcoming yahrzeit.

• Triage and Halakhah # 7: The Positions of Rabbi Moshe Sternbuch and His Correspondents

  Rav Aryeh Klapper

  Sourcesheet is at http://www.torahleadership.org/categories/zoomtriage7sternbuch.pdf

• Halakhic Employer-Employee Law: Shiur #6 Hasokher et HaUmanin at YI Sharon

  Rav Aryeh Klapper

  Laborlawchaburahtrymeks1.4.docx (same as for Shiur #1 and #2)

• Halakhic Employer-Employee Law #20: Who is the master, who is the slave?

  Rav Aryeh Klapper

  Sourcesheet is here

• Efshar Leverurei Episode 9 - Reliable evidence for unreliable divorces, and vice versa

  Rav Aryeh Klapper

  Igrot Mosheh Even Haezer 4:16

• "Lo Nitan l'He'amer Clal" in Igrot Mosheh, Episode 4: Social Changes and their Effects on Halakhah, Agunah Edition

  Rav Aryeh Klapper

  A long-term agunah claims to have received a letter from her brother saying that her husband is dead. Is that enough to permit her immediate remarriage?

• Political Correctness and Onaas Devarim: Part 2 of 2

  Rav Aryeh Klapper

  A discussion in dialogue with Rabbi Moshe Kurtz's RJJ Essay, now part of his book Challenging Assumptions. Sourcesheet is ⁠here⁠

• Yoma 11b - Daf Yomi Shiur

  Rav Aryeh Klapper

  Sourcesheet is at WexHebEng3.docx

• Are Mitzvot in Chutz LaAretz Just for Practice? Rereading Ramban's Introduction to Shemot

  Rav Aryeh Klapper

  also available at https://library.yctorah.org/audio/why-does-the-torah-end-before-the-jews-enter-israel-some-thoughts-based-on-ramban/

• Diversity: A Jewish Values Perspective. Part 1 of a 3 part series on DEI

  Rav Aryeh Klapper

  Part 1 of a 3 part series on DEI at YI Sharon.

• "Lo Nitan Leheamer Clal" in Igrot Moshe, Episode 5: Can Rationales for Mitzvot Affect Halakhah?

  Rav Aryeh Klapper

  Compares Rav Moshe's position to those of Rav Meir Twersky regarding Sefer HaChinnukh and Rav Yosef Dov Soloveitchik regarding Rambam

• "Lo Nitan L'heamer Klal" in Igrot Moshe, Episode 1: Can a consensual sexual act be permitted to one party and forbidden to the other?

  Rav Aryeh Klapper

  Sourcesheet is at לא ניתן להאמר podcastmeks1.1.docx

• Ethics, Halakhah and Civilian Casualties: with intro by R. Jonathan Ziring

  Rav Aryeh Klapper

  given at Yeshivat Migdal HaTorah, December 24, 2023. Sourcesheet is here

• "Lo Nitan Leheamer Clal" in Igrot Moshe, Episode 7: Responding to a Weak but Authoritative Heter Agunah

  Rav Aryeh Klapper

  Sourcesheet is here . Rav Mosheh responds to Rav Shlomo Kahane's heter for a post WWII women

• Iyyun Shiur Sotah #3 AUDIO

  Rav Aryeh Klapper

  Sept 22, 2024. Live on Zoom Monday nights 7:30-9pm. To join, please email moderntorahleadership@gmail.com

• Halakahic Perspectives on Civilian Casualties Part 1

  Rav Aryeh Klapper

  CMTL Zoom Shiur given לזכות חיילי צה"ל ואנשי כחות הבטחון November 5, 2023 Sourcesheet is here

• Iyyun Shiur Sotah #5 VIDEO

  Rav Aryeh Klapper

  October 14, 2024

• Open Sesame! A Dvar Torah for Chanukah

  Rav Aryeh Klapper

  Delivered at Cong. Etz Chaim, Sharon MA on 8th night Chanukkah 5783

• Chavot Yair 222: Women Saying Kaddish

  Rav Aryeh Klapper

  with SBM 2024 Fellows.

• Experiencing Halakhah as a Producer: An SBM Infomercial

  Rav Aryeh Klapper

  given at Midreshet Lindernbaum, December 27, 2023

• Modern Applications of the Gatehouse Sugya: Shiur #4 on Bava Batra 7b

  Rav Aryeh Klapper

  October 6, Tzom Gedalyah

• Vayishlach - Who Won the Duel at Penuel?

  Rav Aryeh Klapper

  Addresses Rashi and Rashbam's understanding of Yaakov's psychology throughout the confrontation with Esav

• SOTAH 2025 Iyyun Shiur #3 VIDEO

  Rav Aryeh Klapper

  Feb 10 2024 Torah Shiurim this week (Feb 10 -13) at YI Sharon are sponsored by The Cheses family in memory of their grandfather–(Moshe ben Yehoshua) Morris Sulman’s upcoming yahrzeit.

• Goses, Treifah, Zombie

  Rav Aryeh Klapper

  Rabbi Aryeh Klapper establishes halakhic categories of "undeadness" and develops their implications for end-of-life issues.

• One Last Step Before Redemption - Part 4

  Rav Aryeh Klapper

  Sourcesheet

• Vayakhel: The World Recreated, Again

  Rav Aryeh Klapper

  Sourcesheet is at YIVayakhelshiur2021.docx

• Iyyun Shiur Sotah #11 AUDIO

  Rav Aryeh Klapper

  Decenber 2, 2024

• Temurah Shiur #2 Tuesday version

  Rav Aryeh Klapper

  sample/demo for projected weekly shiur on Talmud Temurah according to Rashi

• SOTAH 2025 Iyyun Shiur #5 AUDIO

  Rav Aryeh Klapper

  March 10, 2025

• Kaddish Derabannan in a Zoom minyan

  Rav Aryeh Klapper

  The sourcesheet is here

• SBM 2021 - First Main Shiur July 5

  Rav Aryeh Klapper

  Email moderntorahleadership@gmail.com for sources. Sound quality varies.

• Halakhah: Reintroducing the Rav Part 3

  Rav Aryeh Klapper

  Part of Series at YI Sharon. The sourcesheet is not yet available.

• A Theology for Gamblers? Chavot Yair#61 (GPATS version)

  Rav Aryeh Klapper

  Given at GPATS March 11, 2025. Begins from Chavot Yair 41 regarding a Purim lottery which goes wrong twice, moves to Chavot Yair 163

• 5 Minutes on Parshat Shelach - Equality under the law

  Rav Aryeh Klapper

  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

• Zionism:Reintroducing the Rav Episode 2

  Rav Aryeh Klapper

  Sourcesheet is here

• Paskening for Bad People: Chavot Yair #163 (Har Etzion version)

  Rav Aryeh Klapper

  In dialogue with Rav Lichtenstein zt"l's reading in Values and Halakhah

• EfsharLivrurei Eposode 1: The Agunah and Her Letter

  Rav Aryeh Klapper

  Based on Igrot Moshe EH 1:49. This series is also available at https://jewishpodcasts.fm/ravmoshetheartofpsak/14744

• SBM 2021 - Fourteenth Main Shiur July 27

  Rav Aryeh Klapper

  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

• Just dunk 'em all? Igrot Mosheh on nonJewish students in community day schools

  Rav Aryeh Klapper

  last in a series on American Orthodox history via Igrot Mosheh August 3 2026 at YI Sharon

• How is Halakhah Decided?

  Rav Aryeh Klapper

  The sourcesheet is here . Part 2 of Halakhah: A User'a Manual. Part 1 is "How is Halakhah Organized?"

• Halakhic Employer/Employee Law: Shiur #4 Hasokher et Haumanin Shiur at YI Sharon

  Rav Aryeh Klapper

  Laborlawchaburahtrymeks1.4.docx (same as for Shiur #1)

• SOTAH 2025 Iyyun Shiur#8 VIDEO

  Rav Aryeh Klapper

  Shiur resumes April 28 and concludes May 5

• Halakhah and Values class #6: Prohibition vs. Invalidation, Orignation vs. Rediscovery

  Rav Aryeh Klapper

  Sourcesheet is here