Rabbi Eliyahu Weisman

Shiurim

• Bava Basra 61b - 62b

  Rabbi Eliyahu Weisman

  Navigating ambiguities of real estate contracts

• Koheles Ecclesiastes 7:28-29

  Rabbi Eliyahu Weisman

  King Solomon's search: finding a man, a social creature, who stands up against broadly supported societal evils is exceedingly rare; finding a woman, a supportive being, who stands up against her husband's evil is even more rare • Seek guid

• Koheles Ecclesiastes 9:13

  Rabbi Eliyahu Weisman

  Knowledge is power • The ability to do something can be seductive • Orienting oneself towards righteousness is critical to avoid stumbling

• Koheles Ecclesiastes 12:3

  Rabbi Eliyahu Weisman

  Confronting systemic decline begins with awareness • Realistic assessment of one's weaknesses should inform the challenges one engages • Appreciate and utilize fleeting gifts • Dietary recommendations shift as we age

• Sukkah 53b-54b

  Rabbi Eliyahu Weisman

  How many Chatzotzros (bugle-like) blasts were performed in the Temple, and when? • May we adjust the Jewish calendar due to pragmatic considerations?

• Yoma 28a - 29a

  Rabbi Eliyahu Weisman

  The Temple Service at dawn • Mincha of the Patriarchs • Learning Torah in yeshiva brings the illuminating Divine Presence to a person • Can a Mussaf offering precede the Tamid Shel Shachar?

• Koheles Ecclesiastes 10:5

  Rabbi Eliyahu Weisman

  The dangerous power of words • The strange world of politics • The tension between Divine providence and fortune

• Kesubos 67b - 68b

  Rabbi Eliyahu Weisman

  Is one ever permitted to give more than 20% to charity? • When may a person accept charity? • How much money from a man's estate should be distributed to his daughters for their dowries?

• Gittin 76a - 77a

  Rabbi Eliyahu Weisman

  How must a condition be structured to be binding? • When do a series of conditions present multiple options for validation, and when does a subsequent condition negate a previously offered option? • When is a condition understood to be effe

• Zevachim 21b - 22b

  Rabbi Eliyahu Weisman

  Requirements for washing before the Temple service • How and why is a fish-eye ritual bath kosher? • How is the assessment of foreskin as repulsive halachically relevant? • When does ritual impurity invalidate the Temple service?

• Bava Basra 12b - 13b

  Rabbi Eliyahu Weisman

  Equitable division of complex property • May one partner force the dissolution of a partnership, and if so, how? • When and why is a master required to free his slave? • When are mutually agreeable partners nonetheless barred from dividing

• Sanhedrin 34

  Rabbi Eliyahu Weisman

  Structural biases towards acquittal are incorporated into the judgement of capital cases

• Mishlei Proverbs 2:4-5

  Rabbi Eliyahu Weisman

  What similarities should infuse our pursuit of livelihood and our pursuit of understanding Divine Enlightenment? • What is the approach of a treasure hunter, and how does that inform our approach to apprehension of Divinity?

• Nazir 28a-29a

  Rabbi Eliyahu Weisman

  Until when can a husband neutralize his wife's Nazirite vow? • May married women cover their hair with a wig? • A father may impose a Nazirite vow on his minor son, with caveats

• Mishlei Proverbs 2:13

  Rabbi Eliyahu Weisman

  What are the consequences of going off the derech? • The paths of darkness have poor visibility

• Eruvin 13a-13b

  Rabbi Eliyahu Weisman

  The structural changes needed to permit carrying in alleys with narrow entryways • Sharpening the mind: a bit of disorientation dislodges dulling assumptions • May vitriol or iron sulfate be added to scribal ink? • Conscientious writing as

• Koheles Ecclesiastes 7:8-9

  Rabbi Eliyahu Weisman

  Actions engender moral knowledge that cannot be induced by intuitions of thought experimentation alone • The wise anticipate results and eschew gifts that would ultimately be burdensome • There are times when anger is necessary • Patience i

• Eruvin 20b-21b

  Rabbi Eliyahu Weisman

  Pasi Bera'os: minimal enclosures for private domains • Calculating the techum from the city's outskirts • The Torah is 3,200 times greater than the universe • The completely wicked have hope! All are instruments of the Divine Will • Rabbini

• Avodah Zarah 61

  Rabbi Eliyahu Weisman

  Making a kosher run of wine

• Bava Basra 41a - 42a

  Rabbi Eliyahu Weisman

  Establishment of possession requires a rightful claim • The squatter's mindset • Mistaken forgiveness • Consensus within contradictory testimony • What circumstances would invalidate the establishment of presumed possession?

• Derech Eretz Zuta 8, 9-10 & Koheles Ecclesiastes 4: 2-3

  Rabbi Eliyahu Weisman

  Facilities and bathhouse etiquette: disrobing modestly and conscientiously • Ingress and egress: which patron has the right of way? • Being victimized should not cloud one's identity • Calcutated emotion: engendering love, aloofness, and hu

• Kesubos 47

  Rabbi Eliyahu Weisman

  What rights does a father have concerning his daughter? • What rights and obligations does a husband have concerning his wife?

• Sanhedrin 110b, 111a - 111b

  Rabbi Eliyahu Weisman

  When does a human initiate his Divine service and merit eternal life? • To be spared Purgatory's expansion to swallow up one's soul, what is necessary? • Who will survive the Apocalypse? • The exceedingly pious accept Divine justice without

• Koheles Ecclesiastes 7:14

  Rabbi Eliyahu Weisman

  Enjoy fully and graciously all of God's gifts to you • Pain is rooted in error, sift through your past choices and abandon error - and true healing will begin • Divine justice is fundamentally comprehensible to man

• Berachos 29b - 30b

  Rabbi Eliyahu Weisman

  Daf Yomi

• Koheles Ecclesiastes 12:7

  Rabbi Eliyahu Weisman

  Death: the temporary divergence between body and soul • What happens to the body and soul after death? • Resurrection is by Divine invitation to ascend from the grave

• Mishlei Proverbs 2:6

  Rabbi Eliyahu Weisman

  How can we develop a thirst for Divine Enlightenment? • What steps are critical to successfully assimilate Wisdom into our being?

• Mishlei Proverbs 2:1

  Rabbi Eliyahu Weisman

  What does it mean to be considered a son of God - and how can we achieve it?

• Yevamos 13b-14b

  Rabbi Eliyahu Weisman

  What are the parameters of the prohibition of dividing into factions? • Is Lo Sisgodedu a biblical or rabbinic prohibition? • Is it permitted for residents of walled cities to read the Megillah on the 14th of Adar? • Is making an unnecessar

• Koheles 11:6

  Rabbi Eliyahu Weisman

  Prime yourself for growth • 7 things hidden from Man • Aggressive risk taking •

• Koheles Ecclesiastes 11:9

  Rabbi Eliyahu Weisman

  No bulk discount for sins • For the free bird, envy of a caged bird being fattened for slaughter is myopic • Justice is a consequence of choice; if one is too lustful to commit, he will perforce grow old alone

• Rosh Hashanah 29b-30b

  Rabbi Eliyahu Weisman

  When can the Shofar be blown on Shabbos? • The Lulav is taken seven days of Succos as a unique rabbinic enactment in memorial of Jerusalem • Bringing the Omer offering permits consumption of the new crop, what about after the destruction of

• Mishlei Proverbs 1:2

  Rabbi Eliyahu Weisman

  Access wisdom from the root • The importance of guidance • Where should one invest one's energies? • Where should one withhold further inquiry?

• Yevamos 6b-8a

  Rabbi Eliyahu Weisman

  Courts are biblically prohibited from administering punishments on Shabbos • Are other facets of judgement restricted? • May a murderer serve in the Temple? • May one bury an unidentified corpse on Shabbos?

• Mishlei Proverbs 2:9

  Rabbi Eliyahu Weisman

  Infuse yourself with Divine Enlightenment towards optimizing human relationships • In less than ideal conditions, modification of the ideal path can provide a more appropriate contextualized means to the ideal

• Koheles Ecclesiastes 8:15-16

  Rabbi Eliyahu Weisman

  When is rejoicing praiseworthy? • How can a person enhance their resilience? • How can one cultivate satisfaction with one's lot? • One's toil to fulfill God's Will is a continuous source of protection

• Koheles Ecclesiastes 7:15-17

  Rabbi Eliyahu Weisman

  Even typically righteous acts taken in excess can become destructive • Don't allow terror to dominate, yet allow yourself to feel healthy fear; longevity depends on the balance • Invest your limited energies judiciously; prioritize understa

• Berachos 57b-58b

  Rabbi Eliyahu Weisman

  Daf Yomi

• Menachos 57

  Rabbi Eliyahu Weisman

  How is parcooking distinct from cooking within the laws of Shabbos? • What actions render one liable for leavening a meal offering? • Consecration of dry and liquid service vessels • The prohibition of bringing leaven, honey, and sacrificia

• Koheles Ecclesiastes 9:7

  Rabbi Eliyahu Weisman

  Solomon's prophesy • By doing good, the pleasures of life can be experienced with deep satisfaction • Asceticism is inappropriate for one whose deeds are good and straight

• Parshas Re'eh 5782

  Rabbi Eliyahu Weisman

  Explore familial relationships through diverse contexts in the parsha • The enticer par excellence; constructing a defense of the snake through Tosafos

• Nazir 35a-36b

  Rabbi Eliyahu Weisman

  Examining Torah hermeneutics • Consuming prohibited foods combined with permitted foods: two modalities of liability; a single hybrid consumption of an olive's volume, and the more broad liability for consumption of a full olive's volume sp

• Shabbos 135a-136b

  Rabbi Eliyahu Weisman

  Circumcision on the eighth day • Circumcision of Jewish slaves • Newborns in halacha

• Mishlei Proverbs 2:22 - 3:1

  Rabbi Eliyahu Weisman

  The Meiri interprets this passage as King Solomon's exposition of the Tragedy of Eden • The transformative impacts of internalizing Divine enlightenment and fulfilling Divine imperatives

• Koheles Ecclesiastes 7:28-29

  Rabbi Eliyahu Weisman

  God created man to serve Him as perfectly as the ministering angels. In collaboration, man influenced man to pursue error • What underlies King Solomon's observations on the rarity of Righteousness, and what differentiates men and women in

• Mishlei Proverbs 3:4

  Rabbi Eliyahu Weisman

  By internalizing and sharing the values of Kindness and Truth, one also cultivates clarity of thought that will resonate with others • How to find grace in the eyes of God and man? • How Did Noah find grace in the eyes of God? • Why didn't

• Gittin 19b-21a

  Rabbi Eliyahu Weisman

  What differentiates a prank bill of divorce from a concern that a valid divorce has occurred? • Writing a Get on something that may not be utilized for one's benefit • What forms of writing are included in the Torah's definition of writing?

• Avodah Zarah 4b - 6a

  Rabbi Eliyahu Weisman

  Elasticity of free will • Demonstrating the awesome power of repentance was more important than providing fortification against losing an angelic and immortal state • With gratitude, seek Divine assistance to strengthen your heart's fear of

• Koheles 10:3-4

  Rabbi Eliyahu Weisman

  Dealing with pressure • Running away from God only brings complications

• Bava Metzia 110a - 111a

  Rabbi Eliyahu Weisman

  Adjudicating ambiguous lease agreements • Chazaka, established possession does not confer "squatter rights" • Do creditor rights to foreclosure include property improvements made subsequent to the lien? • The Torah obligation to pay employe

• Derech Eretz Zuta 9,9-10 & Koheles Ecclesiastes 5:7

  Rabbi Eliyahu Weisman

  Torah Sages: agents of enlightenment and peace • The eyes: powerful gates to the universe • Glimpse the framework of Divine judgment

• Nazir 56b-57b

  Rabbi Eliyahu Weisman

  When quoting a sourced tradition, the middle link may be omitted • When may a fortiori logic be employed within halacha? • How to manage two Nazirites with a questionable status of impurity • May a man shave the peyos hairs of minors? • May

• Chullin 53

  Rabbi Eliyahu Weisman

  The unique tereifa of derusa, a mortal wound by being clawed • Clawed by a fox or a dog? • When assessing a claw wound, it is the predatory thought that counts • A backscratch or a lion's swipe? • What to do when the mandates of preventing

• Kesubos 88b-89b

  Rabbi Eliyahu Weisman

  Justice: Balancing the ability to collect while ensuring the debtor is not taken advantage of • Writing a receipt • From when does a husband inherit his wife?

• Mishlei Proverbs 2:17

  Rabbi Eliyahu Weisman

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• Bava Basra 139a - 140a

  Rabbi Eliyahu Weisman

  Estate distributions • May the oldest brother pay for fine clothing from the estate? • Are wedding expenditures during the father's lifetime indicative of future wedding expenses to be paid from the estate? • A husband's rights to his wife'

• Mo'ed Katan 12a-13a

  Rabbi Eliyahu Weisman

  What activities are prohibited during the intermediate days of the festival? • Understanding the prohibition of breeding a first born animal and other invalidated sacrificial animals • Is working during the intermediate days permitted to pr

• Netziv on Antisemitism

  Rabbi Eliyahu Weisman

  What causes Amalek to agitate against Israel, and what causes them to escalate their aggression to violent attacks?

• Off The Daf

  Rabbi Eliyahu Weisman

  Shalom!

• Koheles Ecclesiastes 3:1-2

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  Koheles Ecclesiastes