Rischa D'Araisa Season 2-Episode 17-Responding to the Public: "Sheva Zekukin DiNura"- A Lightning Round with seven topics suggested by our listeners

 

Rischa D'Araisa Season 2-Episode 17-Responding to the Public: "Sheva Zekukin DiNura"- A Lightning Round with seven topics suggested by our listeners

Rabbis Bechhofer and Kivelevitz offer quick yet concise answers on selected queries from listeners over the past few months.

Topics dealt with

1. Political Hebraism of the founding fathers

2. Climate change and environmentalism

3. The consistent ignoring of the ban on eulogies at funerals occurring on Rosh Chodesh, Chanukah and Erev Shabbos.

4. Greater exposure and circulation of the psakim and Divrei Torah of Rav Nota Tzvi Greenblatt Shlita

5. The permissibility of studying the works of Shmuel Dovid Luzzatto and others who denied the authenticity of the Zohar and the received mystical tradition.

6. The Agudah's vilifying of Yeshiva University and other centrist Orthodox groups and their Halachic positions.

7. Who chooses who are the 'gedolim'? What are the requirements to obtain a seat on the Moetzes?

Give us 35 minutes, we'll probably make someone angry.