Gaonic Literature Episode 26: Sa'adia Before He Was Gaon: The Ben Meir Calendar Controversy

I was the guest of my ongoing partner in the Rischa D'Orysa podcast series,

Rabbi Avrohom Kivelevitz shlita

on an episode of his Gaonic Literature series.

Gaonic Literature Episode 26:

Sa'adia Before He Was Gaon:

The Ben Meir Calendar Controversy 

with Rav Yosef Gavriel Bechhofer

https://jewishpodcasts.fm/yeshivaofnewark/49376

My English article on the subject,

co-authored with Rabbi Dr. Ari Zivitofsky,

is at:

https://www.academia.edu/80970476/The_Rabbi_Saadia_Gaon_Rabbi_Aharon_Ben_Meir_Controversy

and my Hebrew article on the subject

(which also corrects some errors in the English article)

is at:

https://www.academia.edu/8159269/The_Rabbi_Saadia_Gaon_Rabbi_Aharon_Ben_Meir_Controversy_Hebrew_Yeshurun_Torah_Journal_New_York_NY

 

Rischa D'Araisa Season 6 Episode 19: Does the Torah System of Sanhedrin-Navi-Melech Present a Model for the Modern State of Israel?

Rischa D'Araisa Season 6 Episode 19:

Does the Torah System of 

Sanhedrin-Navi-Melech

Present a Model for the 

Modern State of Israel?

https://jewishpodcasts.fm/yeshivaofnewark/49312

Note to our listeners:

One of regular listeners commented on this episode:

"Feisty Rischa. Show at its finest."

 

Rischa D'Araisa Season 6 Episode 18: Three Strikes and We're all Out: The Halachic and Ethical Considerations of Walking Out on Essential Jobs - Edited to Include New Information!

 

Rischa D'Araisa Season 6 Episode 18:

Three Strikes and We're all Out:

The Halachic and Ethical Considerations of Walking Out on Essential Jobs

https://jewishpodcasts.fm/yeshivaofnewark/48559

Edit:

An alert lister, Reb Yechezkel Moscovitz, sent in a record from the diary of the Aderes zt"l in which he records that he went in strike and refrained from paskening - with the consent of Reb Yitzchok Elchonon Spector zt"l!

See bottom of first page.

Creative Submission by a Student

I told my students they could submit their Timeline Projects on potato peels if they wanted. 

So this is one student's submission.

🤣

 

New Series! Michtav Me'Eliyahu Kuntres HaChesed for Adults, part 1

Michtav Me'Eliyahu Kuntres HaChesed

for Adults, part 1

First in a series of twelve shiurim exploring Rav Dessler zt"l's famous

Kuntres HaChesed

(Discourse on Loving-Kindness)

A pdf of the kuntres is at:

https://aspaqlaria.aishdas.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2022/08/Qunterus-haChessed.pdf

Links to subsequent shiurim in this series appear in the comments here.