The Q & A with Rabbi Breitowitz Podcast

This episode is dedicated in honor of the Baruch Dvinsky family

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0:55 Is music allowed during the davening services? 
9:00 Does the Shach's claim on the Terumat HaDeshen manufacturing his questions have any practical ramifications?  
16:45 Can you blow the shofar on Shabbat?
22:45 Who is judged for having a bad thought, who are only judged for doing a bad action?
25:00 Purim is considered to such a holy day, but seemingly all we do is eat and drink and not so much learning. Seems like an obvious contradiction. 
28:55 How do we have drashas and roshe tevot that allude to the names of the months, if the months were named later in history? 
34:00 When it come to ben adam l'chavero are mezid and shogeg judged equally? 
37:20 Is the establishment of Israel apart of the Messianic process? 
43:35 Do only Jews have Teshuva? 
47:15 Why is the bechirah Yisrael not part of the 13 principles of Faith? 
52:28 Does Hashem change his mind?
55:35 Can a Rav promote his haskafa and put down another Rav's haskafa and would it be considered lashon hara? 
58:57 Why do people read Shir HaShirim before Shabbat?
9-3-26
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This episode is sponsored & dedicated in memory of the 2nd yartzeit of Marshall Friedman (Mutya Yecheskel ben Shimon) by Mark and Tammy Friedman
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0:00 What does the pasuk mean that a person who wants to live should hate gifts? 
7:55 Can you curse wicked people? 
23:20 How does Hashem have middot?
33:35 Why did the girsa for the bracha of minim in the Amida change over time?
42:40 At the Kotel sometimes there is so many people that there is a mix of men and women davening in the plaza. It that allowed?
47:54 Should a person learn "What's bothering Rashi?" 
53:44 When Mashiach come will there be different nusachs and minhags or only one?
56:54 What is the origin of thought? 
58:15 How much is free will a product of your past experiences?
8-26-26
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0:00 Can man, who has not fulfilled the mitzvah of peru urevu marry a women, who is unable to give birth and does having a medical procedure to have a child affect the din? 
3:40 Can a person wear slides or crocs during davening?
6:20 How is it possible that in times of the mishna the times that the korbanot were offered were forgotten if it had only been one generation after the destruction of the Bet HaMikdash?
8:40 Why is the Ashkenaz minhag to make borei mine vesamim on all spices regardless of the type of spice for havdallah?
15:40 When should a person start learning kabbalah? 
21:50 Where does the halacha of someone who is undergoing conversion is obligated to violated shabbat? 
31:00 Did the Avot keep the Torah? 
44:24 Should we actively fight anti-semitism?
50:15 Does a Bet Midrash have the same din as a Shul in terms of using it as a shortcut?
52:15 Where was the wall of the Kotel located in the times of Bet HaMikdash?
55:35 What's the main objective of Rashi on The Chumash and Gemara? 
1:08:02 Significance of the five spaces between the fingers of the Kohanim during birkat cohanim?

8-19-26
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