Taking Responsibility for Torah
Rav Aryeh Klapper
Shiurim by Rabbi Aryeh Klapper and alumni of the Center for Modern Torah Leadership, spanning halakhah, Talmud, Tanakh, ethics, and Modern Orthodox thought.
Shiurim
- 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
Rav Aryeh Klapper
Sourcesheet is here
- Halakhic Employer/Employee Law: Shiur #3 HaSokher et HaUmanin Shiur at YI Sharon
Rav Aryeh Klapper
Given 10/26/2021. Sourcepacket at Laborlawchaburahtrymeks1.4.docx (same as for Shiur #1 and #2)
- Triage in Halakhah: Basic Principles
Rav Aryeh Klapper
Sourcesheet at http://www.torahleadership.org/categories/zoomtriage2_1.pdf
- The Categorical Imperative and Halakhah: Take 2
Rav Aryeh Klapper
Given at YI Sharon November 8, 2023
- What is the Correct Ketubah Amount for a Couple that has been Civilly Married for Years? ("Things that cannot be said at all" in Igrot Mosheh, final episode)
Rav Aryeh Klapper
Based on Igrot Mosheh Even HaEzer 1:101
- Halakhah and Values Class #7 - Wrapping Up Series on New Rabbinic Legislation
Rav Aryeh Klapper
Sourcesheet is here
- Harry Potter and the Plague of Darkness
Rav Aryeh Klapper
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
- Lo Nitan Leheiamer #16: Chalitzah for an adulteress
Rav Aryeh Klapper
Sourcesheet
- SBM 2026 Shiur #1 July 6
Rav Aryeh Klapper
Rights and duties - Introduction
- How Should Taxes be Apportioned? Shiur #5 on Bava Basra 7b
Rav Aryeh Klapper
October 13, 2024 in Riverdale, NY. Sourcesheet is at https://www.torahleadership.org/categories/riverdale2_1a.pdf
- Cooking over Volcanos and Microwaves on Shabbat
Rav Aryeh Klapper
Part 3 of the American History via Igrot Mosheh series
- Why Rav sent Rav Kehana to Israel
Rav Aryeh Klapper
sourchesheet is at ההוא גברא דהוה בעי אחוויי אתיבנא דחבריה5.docx
- Efsharlevrurei Episode 3 - Shatnez checking
Rav Aryeh Klapper
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
- May Public Shabbat Desecrators Duchen?
Rav Aryeh Klapper
Part 1 of the American Orthodox History via Igrot Mosheh series
- Where do we go from here? Transissues #4 (Finale)
Rav Aryeh Klapper
Sourcesheet at http://www.torahleadership.org/categories/trans_n4sourcesheet_1.pdf
- Ransoming Captives - at any cost? #10
Rav Aryeh Klapper
Rabbi Yehuda Herzl Henkin's Position - Part 1 Sourcesheet is at http://www.torahleadership.org/categories/postravavodiahredeemingcaptives2.pdf In memory of Zecharia Haber Hy"d
- Halakhic Employer-Employee Year: Shiur #10 HaSokher et HaUmanin YI Sharon
Rav Aryeh Klapper
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
- Halakhah and Values class#1: Freedom
Rav Aryeh Klapper
Given at YI Sharon 11/1/2021.
- Halakhah and Values class #9: What are the odds that probability is predictive?
Rav Aryeh Klapper
Beginning a conversation about how halakhah treats probability and about whether there are things that are wrong but which halakhah chooses not to forbid, which will lead to Rav Shimon Shkop and perhaps the Telzer. Source sheet is here
- Sotah 2025 Iyyun Shiur #6 AUDIO
Rav Aryeh Klapper
March 17, 2025
- Psak and Policy
Rav Aryeh Klapper
Fourth and last in the series "How Halakhah Learns About Reality"
- SBM 2026 Shiur #18.1 August 8 CONCLUSION
Rav Aryeh Klapper
Levinas on כי לי בני ישראל עבדים
- Transissues#1 - Crossdressing
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SBM 2023 public shiur at YI Sharon July 10, 2023. Sourcesheet available here
- SBM2021ThirdMainShiurJuly7
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Third Main Shiur - Rav Moshe, Shevet Levi, and Chashukei Chemed on autonomy in education
- A Theology for Gamblers? (Chaburah edition)
Rav Aryeh Klapper
March 10, 2025
- One Last Step Before Redemption - Part 1
Rav Aryeh Klapper
Sourcesheet for all five parts is https://www.torahleadership.org/categories/_________________________________________hashkomoh1.pdf
- Devorah as Halakhic Judge - Exception or Paradigm?
Rav Aryeh Klapper
Uses the Netziv's models of halakhah to explain the ongoing dispute, and takes sides. A written version is available at https://moderntoraleadership.wordpress.com/2017/02/10/devorah-as-shofetet-exception-or-paradigm/
- Allegations of Abuse in Halakhah: Yom Iyyun Shiur
Rav Aryeh Klapper
Reading, translating, and discussing Responsa Shoeil Umeishiv 1:185 with specific reference to how it might be translated into contemporary public policy. The sourcesheet can be found as pp. 10-18 of the 2021 CMTL End-of-Year Reader, availa
- Are Love and Obedience Required? Part 1 of 3 at YI Sharon on Practical Hilkhot Kibbud Av VaEim for Parents and Adult Children
Rav Aryeh Klapper
Sourcesheet is here
- One Last Step Before Redemption - Part 2
Rav Aryeh Klapper
Sourcesheet
- Iyyun Shiur Sotah #12 VIDEO
Rav Aryeh Klapper
December 9, 2024
- Iyyun Shiur Sotah #6 VIDEO
Rav Aryeh Klapper
October 21, 2024
- Halakhic Employer-Employee Law #27 - Rav Kuk on how rabbis have so much free time they can't be enslaved
Rav Aryeh Klapper
Sourcesheet is here . We covered the first 3 of 18!! arguments in Orach Mishpat 21
- Halakhah and Values class #3 - Rabbinic Authority Part 1 - Sources of Authority
Rav Aryeh Klapper
Sourcesheet is here . Discusses when and why and in what way "the rabbis" have legislative authority
- Transissues#1 - Crossdressing - recording from second microphone
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YI Sharon July 10, 2023
- Triage in Halakhah part 5: The Position of Rabbi Zalman Nechemyah Goldberg
Rav Aryeh Klapper
Sourcesheet is at http://www.torahleadership.org/categories/triage_4_3.pdf
- SBM 2026 SHiur #11 July 24
Rav Aryeh Klapper
When Technicalities Prevent the Conversion of a Worthy Candidate
- Temurah Rashi Spring 2025 #3 Wednesday version
Rav Aryeh Klapper
2/18/2026
- Halakhic Employer-Employee Law: Shiur #9 HaSokher et HaUmanin YI Sharon
Rav Aryeh Klapper
How to read and not read Yerushalmi, and halakhic implications of those methodological issues. Sourcesheet is at תלמוד ירושלמ1.docx
- SOTAH 2025 Iyyun Shiur #7 VIDEO
Rav Aryeh Klapper
March 24. 2025
- SOTAH 2025 Iyyun shiur #2 VIDEO
Rav Aryeh Klapper
Is expressing jealousy a mitzvah, and aveirah, or both?February 3, 2025 Sponsored in memory of Joe Epstein z’l Yosef Mordechai ben Shmuel HaLevi, by friends of his daughter Miriam Preil.
- Halakhic Employer-Employee Law #22
Rav Aryeh Klapper
Sourcesheet is here
- Iyyun Shiur Sotah #13 AUDIO
Rav Aryeh Klapper
December 14, 2024
- SBM2026 Shiur #10 July 22
Rav Aryeh Klapper
Is there a right to convert?
- Ransoming Captives - at any price? #2
Rav Aryeh Klapper
In memory of Zechariah Pesach Haber Hy"d Sourcesheet is at http://www.torahleadership.org/categories/yiwedeinpodinmeks4.pdf
- How Can Halakhah Ignore an Unopposed Sugya? Bava Batra 7b Shiur #3 in the Gatehouse series
Rav Aryeh Klapper
September 29, 2024. To join this shiur live Sunday mornings in Riverdale, please email moderntorahleadership@gmail.com
- Siege Warfare in Jewish Law
Rav Aryeh Klapper
Summer Beit Midrash shiur in honor of Rabbi Jason Strauss at Cong. Kadima- Toraa Moshe
- Efshar Leverurei Episode 4 - Gelatin
Rav Aryeh Klapper
Welcome to episode 4 of efshar livrurei (take 2).docx
- Efsharlevrurei Episode 6: The Brain Death Controversy inverted
Rav Aryeh Klapper
Sourcesheet is at https://1drv.ms/w/s!AgxlcbVaoV_ihPduPZPoGi5rkPA1Ow?e=qCT9r1 . Also available via Yeshiva of Newark at https://jewishpodcasts.fm/yeshivaofnewark/18205
- Leah, Rachel, and Dinah: A Midrashic Speculation
Rav Aryeh Klapper
Explains why Rachel didn't cry, why Dinah was named Dinah, and more!
- SBM 2021 - Fifth Main Shiur - July 12
Rav Aryeh Klapper
Chatzi Shiur: Mushba veomeid?
- Temurah Shiur #1 Wednesday version
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sample/demo for projected weekly shiur on Talmud Temurah according to Rashi
- Should One Convey Terrible News on Shabbat? Rabbi Noah Cheses:
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Shiur delivered to SBM 2024 on July 7
- Five Minutes on Parshat Vayera - The Akeidah and Halakhah
Rav Aryeh Klapper
Addresses conflicts between what one understands as moral truth and what one understands as halakhic truth
- Lo Nitan l'Heiamer Episode 9 (corrected): Can Formal Rules Prevent A Posek From Permitting an Agunah, When Substantively She Should be Free?
Rav Aryeh Klapper
לא פלוג vs. משום עיגוא הקילו. Sourcesheet is here
- Chavot Yair Chaburah on #163 - VIDEO
Rav Aryeh Klapper
January 14, 2025
- Self-Care, Abuse, and Alienation: Practical Hilkhot Kibbud Av VaEim for Adult Parents and Children Part 3 of 3
Rav Aryeh Klapper
Sourcesheet is here . Given At YI Sharon 7/27/2022
- Efshar Leverurei Episode 8 - Review plus toveling dishes of uncertain origin
Rav Aryeh Klapper
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-Populat
- Halakhah and Values class#8: Can the moral interests of halakhic persons conflict?
Rav Aryeh Klapper
Sourcesheet is here
- SBM 2026 Shiur #6 July 14
Rav Aryeh Klapper
Two teshuvot of Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Auerbach on triage