Q&A- Souls, Murder & Charity

Nov 21, 2019

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Rabbi Dr Yitzchak Breitowitz, of Ohr Somayach Jerusalem, discussing the most common questions about Judaism.

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0:01 - Elokai Neshama, what is the true person

2:59 - Doing an aveira chayav misa, Rambams 4 categories of sins, teshuva

6:30 - Why does Avraham daven for Sodom to be saved but not for Yitzchak to be saved from the akeida

9:13 - The admission of a party is as good as one hundred witnesses, hodaas Baal din

11:48 - Why there is no word for million in lashon kodesh, why zachor and nekeiva is different in numbers, masculine and feminine

16:36 - How Jews should be a light onto the nations, why non-Jews aren't obligated to have children

20:43 - saying kiddish in front of married relatives with uncovered hair, saying a bracha in front of an untznius woman

25:51 - Is it lifnei iver to sell cigarettes

28:08 - Inviting non-observant Jews for Shabbos

33:54 - How did Eliezer know Rivka was the right match for Yitzchak

36:52 - How does Hashem get pleasure from Korbanos, reyach nichoach

38:47 - Is learning kabalah part of the requirement to learn Torah, Vilna Gaon on Kabbalah, chassidus

42:57 - What is the Torah

44:12 - Is Klal Yisroel responsible for the tragedies caused by Karl Marx's

49:11 - Kol Isha and recorded music

51:45 - The curse to Adam of "the sweat of your brow"

54:29 - The shalshelet, why Eliezer hesitated, Eliezers name not being mentioned, Eliezer's name not being mentioned

01:00:15 - What am I allowed to do if someone owes me money and won't pay

01:03:35 - Why is there so much repetition in the parsha, the Ran on the mida of kindness

01:12:44 - printing money, inflation, assuming the risks of a system

01:15:11 - why did Hashem allow so many types of Jews, Ahavas Yisroel

01:16:59 - The color for tzitzis

01:20:40 - Yeshiva bochur giving tzedaka

01:21:56 - Do not kill, do not murder, the conquest of Eretz Yisroel

01:26:27 - Davening in a public place without a mechitza

01:28:58 - On the Parsha

01:31:30 - Why is the amida silent

(Center-Q&A-5780-Parshas Chayei Sarah)