More Audio Shiurim

Rabbi Bachrach - Halachos of Kashering Keilim shiur1 - סימן תנא סעיף א.mp3 - Halachos of kashering:  chametz keilim that aren't being kashered, are the keilim sold? Are the blios sold? Why or why not?  If the keilim are sold do they have to be toveled after pesach?  When putting away chametz keilim for pesach how well do you have to lock them up? Is it better to buy special keilim for pesach and not rely on kashering?

Rabbi Bachrach - Halachos of Kashering Keilim shiur2-  סימן תנא סעיף א.mp3 - Is there a mitzvah to kasher keilim? The rule of kbolo kach polto.  Which materials can you kasher for pesach and other issurim - can you kasher aluminum? Steel? Stone? Can you kasher plastic and rubber and teflon for pesach or other issurim? A porcelain sink? A stone counter? A counter made of crushed stone combined with plastic? Can you kasher enamel? 

Rabbi Bachrach - Halachos of Kashering Keilim shiur3 - סימן תנא סעיף א-ד.mp3 - Is there any case you can kasher a kli cheres? The concept of hetera bala and issura bala and the difference between them with regard to kashering.  Is chametz on pesach hetera bala or issura bala? Libun kal and libun gamur/libun chamur: How do we define each one? When do we rely on libun kal? Does a self clean oven work as libun gamur?  Can you kasher an oven with libun kal - for pesach, other issurim, from fleishig to parve? 

Rabbi Bachrach - Halachos of Kashering Keilim shiur4 - סימן תנא סעיף ד-ה.mp3 - More about libun kal and libun gamur and kashering ovens. Kashering stove-top grates for pesach.  What to do with a hotplate for pesach.  Hagalah. 

Rabbi Bachrach - Halachos of Kashering Keilim shiur5 - סימן תנא סעיף ג-ו.mp3 - The machlokes if you can kasher according to rov tashmisho or you need to kasher for the miut tashmisho.  Kashering knives for pesach and shaar issurim. Removing rust and dirt before hagalah. 

Rabbi Bachrach - Halachos of Kashering Keilim shiur6 - סימן תנא סעיף ו.mp3 - Kashering a big pot with an even meluban. Kashering dishwashers for pesach and shaar issurim, using one dishwasher for milchig and fleishig dishes. How to kasher a hotplate/plata for pesach. 

Rabbi Bachrach - Halachos of Kashering Keilim shiur7 - סימן תנא סעיף ו.mp3 - Does an urn have to be kashered for pesach and how to kasher it.  Kashering dentures and fillings - do parts of a human body bolea and polet blios? Do dentures and fillings have to be kashered between meat and milk? Do they have to be kashered for pesach? How would one kasher them?

Rabbi Bachrach - Halachos of Kashering Keilim shiur8- סימן תנא סעיף ג-ו.mp3 - The minhag of not kashering from milchig to fleishig: The reason for the minhag, do Sfardim have the minhag also, does it apply to libun also or just hagalah. Some cases you can kasher a kli from milchig to fleishig: if it became treif, when kashering for pesach, when kashering to be parve, etc. Kashering ovens from milchig to fleishig - is it allowed?

Rabbi Bachrach - Halachos of Kashering Keilim shiur9 - סימן תנא סעיף ז-יב.mp3 - The din of a machvas (frying pan) for pesach and other issurim - when does it need libun and when does it need hagalah. When do you need to kasher the whole kli including the handle, and what is cham miktzaso cham kulo.  What if the handle is held on by screws?

Rabbi Bachrach - Halachos of Kashering Keilim shiur10 - סימן תנא סעיף יג-יד.mp3 - Can you kasher with steam? How do you kasher a microwave? Can you kasher a microwave for pesach and/or shaar issurim? 

Rabbi Bachrach - Halachos of Kashering Keilim shiur11 - סימן תנא סעיף טו-כ.mp3 - How to kasher cloth and fabric items like tablecloths and towels. How to prepare/kasher for pesach your cabinets, fridges and freezers, tables, and counters . Do counters need an even meluban?

Rabbi Bachrach - Halachos of Kashering Keilim shiur12 - סימן תנא סעיף כ.mp3 - more on kashering tables and counters for pesach. The reasons why a counter would need even meluban. Other ways to kasher counters.  How to kasher counters for shaar issurim. Kashering sinks and faucets for pesach. 

Rabbi Bachrach - Halachos of Kashering Keilim shiur13 - סימן תנא סעיף כא-כו.mp3 - Kashering things that became assur with kavush. Kashering with miluy v'iruy - how is it done, with which issurim do we rely on it, do we rely on it today? Kashering glass for pesach - the different shittos and the minhag of Sfardim and Ashkenazim. Kashering glass for other issurim - the different shittos and minhagim.  

Rabbi Bachrach - Halachos of Kashering Keilim shiur14 - סימן תנא סעיף כו-כז.mp3 - More on kashering glass for pesach and shaar issurim. Pyrex for pesach and shaar issurim - how is it different than glass and what are the shittos.  Kashering duralex and correlle and corningware for pesach and shaar issurim.  Is there a svara that modern keilim like stainless steel don't bolea?

Rabbi Bachrach - Halachos of Kashering Keilim shiur15 - סימן תנב סעיף א-ב.mp3 - The actual process of doing hagalah:  What is the difference if you kasher before or after zman issur chametz?  Can you do hagalah or libun on pesach? The ways to prevent the blios from going into the water and back into the kli: aino ben yomo and shishim. Can you kasher a ben yomo if there is shishim? To be aino ben yomo do you need to clean and then wait m'eis l'eis or can you wait m'eis l'eis and then clean and kasher?

Rabbi Bachrach - Halachos of Kashering Keilim shiur16 - סימן תנב סעיף א-ב.mp3 - The hetter to kasher a ben yomo if you put a davar hapogem into the water.  Kashering 3 days before pesach. What happens if the water wasn't boiling when you kashered. Does the rav need to oversee the hagalah? When you do hagalas keilim for pesach should you kasher in a chametz pot or a pesach pot? 

Rabbi Bachrach - Halachos of Kashering Keilim shiur17 - סימן תנב סעיף א-ה.mp3 - If you used the kli at a temperature below boiling can you kasher at that temperature? If the water cooked at hotter than boiling like a pressure cooker how hot does it need to be to kasher it? Can you use the kashering water after the kashering?  How to put the kli in the water and ensure every part gets hot water on it - can you hold with tongs? put in a basket? Can you pile keilim on top of each other? How long do you keep the keilim in the water when you do hagalah? Can you toss the keilim into the water and get them out when it cools off?

Rabbi Bachrach - Halachos of Kashering Keilim shiur18 - סימן תנב סעיף ה-ז.mp3 - Can water heated in a microwave be used to kasher? Or water heated in a dud shemesh? Kashering with liquids besides water: the controversy about kashering with chocolate.  The pot that you use to do iruy on your counters, can it be used for cooking pesach food?  The minhag of washing the kli with cold water after hagalah. 

Rabbi Bachrach - Halachos of Kashering Keilim shiur19 - סימן קכא סעיף א-ה.mp3 - Which is first when you buy a used treif kli - tevila or kashering? Do new pots need to be kashered since they are shined with non-kosher oil? Are you allowed to use a treif kli derech arai for cold food?

Rabbi Bachrach - Halachos of Kashering Keilim shiur20 - סימן קכא סעיף ה-ז.mp3 - Kashering knives by sharpening them. Kashering knives with neitzah - how is neitzah done, what does it do, does cleaning with steel wool work for neitzah?

Rabbi Bachrach - Hilchos Rosh Hashanah shiur1 - Introduction to Elul.mp3 - An introduction to the month of elul - What is the avodah of Elul: Is Elul a time of din or rachamim? Are we scared during elul or are we happy during elul? 

Rabbi Bachrach - Hilchos Rosh Hashanah shiur2 - סימן תקפא סעיף א.mp3 - The minhag of blowing shofar in elul - do you start the first day of rosh chodesh elul or the second and why? Does someone who davens beyechidus blow shofar? Slichos - What is the best time to say slichos and what is the worst - before alos, after alos, after chatzos or before chatzos? Do you skip tachanun at the end of slichos for a bris? Is it assur to say the piyut of machnisei rachamim? 

Rabbi Bachrach - Hilchos Rosh Hashanah shiur3 - סימן תקפא סעיף א.mp3 - more on halachos of slichos - do you have to say slichos if it will ruin your learning? Do women say slichos? When you daven at kvarim are you allowed to daven to the meisim and ask them for things? What does an avel do for slichos? What is the reason for the minhag that the person who davens for the amud for slichos davens for the amud the rest of the day, and why don't some people have this minhag? 

Rabbi Bachrach - Hilchos Rosh Hashanah shiur4- סימן תקפא סעיף א-ד.mp3 - The idea of getting a chazaka to daven for the amud or blow shofar: What happens when the person with the chazaka can't do it one year, or if rosh hashanah falls on shabbos who gets to blow the second day? Can an avel be a shaliach tzibbur or baal tokea on yamim noraim or the rest of elul and yemei slichos? Ledovid: Why is it said and why do some poeple not say it? Getting married in elul or aseres yemei tshuva - is it a good idea? Fasting on erev rosh hashanah - who fasts, for how long, and why? The minhag of fasting during aseres yemei tshuva. Hataras nedarim on erev rosh hashanah- why is it done, what does it help for, do women do it?

Rabbi Bachrach - Hilchos Rosh Hashanah shiur5 - סימן תקפב סעיף א.mp3 - Changing hakeil hakadosh to hamelech hakadosh and melech ohev tzedakah umishpat to hamelech hamishpat - why do we change these brachos? If you forget to change them do you have to go back? What if you can't remember what you said? What if the shaliach tzibbur forgot one of them in chazaras hashatz? If on rosh hashanah itself you can't remember if you said hamelech hakadosh?

Rabbi Bachrach - Hilchos Rosh Hashanah shiur6 - סימן תקפב סעיף א-ג.mp3 - The chiddush of Rav Aveli Posoveller that if you miss hamelech hakadosh on the night of Rosh Hashanah you don't have to go back - who paskens like him and who doesn't? The din of toch keday dibbur - how does it work and when does it work? Is it 3 words or 4? What if you aren't sure if you corrected yourself within toch keday dibbur? Saying hamelech hakadosh in meein sheva on Friday night of aseres yemei tshuva - if the chazzan forgets it does he go back?

Rabbi Bachrach - Hilchos Rosh Hashanah shiur7 - סימן תקפב סעיף ד-ה.mp3 - The minhag to bow during the entire shmone esrei of yamim noraim. The insertions in shmone esrei of zachrenu, mi kamocha etc. Do we go back if we forgot them? What if you forgot uvechen ten pachdecha? The different minhagim of whether the tzibbur says zachrenu and mi kamocha when the chazzan reaches them in chazaras hashatz. 

Rabbi Bachrach - Hilchos Rosh Hashanah shiur8 - סימן תקפב סעיף ו-ט.mp3 - Changing the bracha of hamevarech es amo yisrael bashalom to oseh hashalom - who does it and why or why not? Why do we change to leila uleila? The minhag to daven shmone esrei louder on yamim noraim - who is ok with it and who is against it and why? What is the proper greeting on the night of rosh hashanah - leshana tova tikasev? leshana tova tikasev vesechasem? And what is the reason for each one? 

Rabbi Bachrach - Hilchos Rosh Hashanah shiur9 - bakashas tzrachim on rosh hashanah.mp3 - Is there an issur of bakashas tzrachim on rosh hashanah? On rosh hashanah if it falls on shabbos? Is it proper to ask for your own needs on rosh hashanah or is it better to focus on davening for kavod shamayim? 

Rabbi Bachrach - Hilchos Rosh Hashanah - Hilchos tekias shofar shiur1 - סימן תקצ סעיף א-ב.mp3 - The halachos of tekias shofar: what is the minimum amount of tekios? Where does it come from to blow nine tekios and where does it come from to blow thirty tekios?  How could there have been a safek what a truah sounded like?  If a person can only blow 10 kolos does he make a bracha? 

Rabbi Bachrach - Hilchos Rosh Hashanah - Hilchos tekias shofar shiur2 - סימן תקצ סעיף ג.mp3 - What are the maximum and minimum sizes for  a  tekiah, shvarim, and truah? The minimum size of a tekiah of a tarat, tashat, and tashrat? The maximum size of a each shever so it doesn't become a tekiah? Is it possible to be yotze tekias shofar for both Rashi and Tosfos?  

Rabbi Bachrach - Hilchos Rosh Hashanah - Hilchos tekias shofar shiur3 - סימן תקצ סעיף ד-ט.mp3 - Is shvarim-truah blown in neshimah achas or shtei neshimos - what are the different shittos and the reasons? Why does the Rama pasken two neshimos and Mechaber to do some of each? Do you actually need to breathe for shtei neshimos or just need a kdei neshima?  Mistakes during tekias shofar - which mistakes require you to redo that sound and which mistakes require you to go back to the beginning of the set?  The maase in Magenza. 

Rabbi Bachrach - Hilchos sukkos shiur1 - סימן תרכה.mp3 - What are we remembering when we sit in a sukkah - ananei hakavod, sukkos mamish, or yetzias mitzrayim?  Is the kavana for these things meakev?  Is the regular kavana to do the mitzvah of sitting in the sukkah more important by sukkah than other mitzvos? Why is sukkos in Tishrei and not Nissan? Why do we have a yom tov to remember ananei kavod and not to remember the be'er or mahn? 

Rabbi Bachrach - Hilchos challah shiur1 - הקדמה.mp3 -  Introduction to hilchos challah - What are the reasons for the mitzvah of challah, what did chazal say about mitzvas challah? Why is it a woman's mitzvah, and what are the nafka minas? The inyan of baking and taking challah erev shabbos - what are reasons and nafka minas? 

Rabbi Bachrach - Hilchos Challah shiur2 - הקדמה וסימן שכב סעיף א .mp3 -  The inyan of baking challah erev shabbos - what if you like bakery challah better? Is it better to bake a small amount every erev shabbos without taking challah or bake a large amount every few weeks with taking challah? Or is there an option to make a shiur of dough and freeze half the dough and still take challah with a bracha and also bake every erev shabbos?  Is challah a mitzvah or mattir? Is it one mitzvah to mafrish challah and give to a kohen or two separate mitzvos? 

Rabbi Bachrach - Hilchos challah shiur3 - סימן שכב סעיף ב-ה.mp3 - How much challah is taken in Eretz Yisrael and in chutz laaretz? Is challah ever able to be given to a kohen or kohen katan today? If rov of klal yisrael goes to eretz yisrael will challah be deoraisa? 

Rabbi Bachrach - Hilchos challah shiur4 - סימן שכב סעיף ה.mp3 - Why can't we give challah today to a kohen meyuchas? Why do we burn the challah instead of giving it to the kohen to burn?  Does challah have to be burned or can it be wrapped up and thrown away? Can you save up all your challah pieces to burn erev pesach?

Rabbi Bachrach - Hilchos challah shiur5 - סימן שכב סעיף ה וסימן שכג סעיף א.mp3 - The differences between challas eretz yisrael and challas chutz laaretz: in chutz laaretz one can eat  and leave over a piece to be mafrish later. Is that lechatchailah or bdieved? Is the shiur to be battel in chutz laaretz rov or 101? Being shoel on the neder if the challah fell back in the dough. 

Rabbi Bachrach - Hilchos challah shiur6 - סימן שכג סעיף א.mp3 - More on the din in chutz laaretz of eating and being mafrish later: Is it lechatchilah? Do you make a bracha when you mafrish later? When you mafrish after baking do you have to mafrish on the blios in the oven? More on the din of being shoel on the neder: When you shoel on the neder and take a new piece of challah do you make another bracha? 

Rabbi Bachrach - Hilchos challah shiur7 - סימן שכג סעיף א - סימן שכד סעיף א.mp3 - When you shoel on the neder of making challah that gell back in, who does the hataras nedarim the husband or wife? The 5 types of grain that are chayav in challah- what are they? The argument of professor Felix that shiboles shual is not oats. 

Rabbi Bachrach - Hilchos challah shiur8 - סימן שכד סעיף א.mp3 - What is the amount of flour that is chayav in challah which is 43.2 beitzim - how much is that in volume and weight? The shitta of the Tzlach and Chazon Ish that eggs got smaller: who agreed and who didn't?  How much flour do you need to take challah with and without a bracha in pounds and cups?

Rabbi Bachrach - Hilchos challah shiur9 - סימן שכד סעיף א-ג.mp3 - more on the amount of flour to be chayav in challah, the shiurim of the Tzlach and those who argue on him and each side's arguments. The shiur of challah in pounds and cups. The machlokes if whole wheat bread needs a larger shiur because the bran is taken out and put back in.

Rabbi Bachrach - Hilchos challah shiur10 - סימן שכד סעיף א-ח.mp3 - More on the shitta of the Tzlach.  Which of the 5 types of grain combine with each other in one dough to create a shiur of challah? Which of the 5 types of grain combine to create a shiur of challah if they are each separate doughs with less than a shiur? If two different doughs are different types of grain and each have a shiur by itself, with which combinations of grains can you take challah from one to pattur the other? Being mafrish from dough made of grain of one year for dough made of grain of another year. 

Rabbi Bachrach - Hilchos challah shiur11 - סימן שכד סעיף ח-יד.mp3 - Continuation of discussion of being mafrish from dough made of grain of one year onto dough made of grain of another year. 

Rabbi Bachrach - Hilchos challah shiur12 - סימן שכה סעיף א-ב.mp3 - Two doughs that each have less than a shiur challah, what are the ways to combine them to create a chiyuv challah: neshicha, tziruf sal, mapa. Do the doughs have to touch in the sal? Can you take challah from matzahs that are in boxes? When you have two doughs that each have a shiur, how close do they have to be to be considered min hamukaf and be able  to take challah from one to pattur both of them: do they have to be together or is in the same house good enough? The tevel matzah system versus the tevel dough ball system, the maalos and chesronos of each. Is there tziruf sal in a freezer?

Rabbi Bachrach - Hilchos challah shiur13 - סימן שכו סעיף א.mp3 - The din that hakpada prevents tziruf: when making two doughs each less than a shiur, if the person making the dough would not want them to mix, then they don't combine for a shiur.  What if you are makpid they shouldn't mix but not makpid they shouldn't touch? If you made one dough but use half for challah and half for cake is there tziruf? Al menas lechalek - what is it? 

Rabbi Bachrach - Hilchos challah shiur14 - סימן שכו סעיף ב-ה.mp3 - The sugya of al menas lechalek: If a lady makes a shiur of dough but gives part of the dough away to others can she still take challah with a bracha? If she bakes all the dough but gives out some of the challahs to give out to her neighbors does she still take challah with a bracha? If you bake a shiur of challahs to give out as shalach manos do you take challah with a bracha? If a lady makes a shiur of dough but some she bakes and some she freezes for next erev shabbos can she take challah with a bracha?  At a challah bake is there a way to be able to take challah with a bracha? A teacher who gives out dough to each student to bake, do they take challah?

Rabbi Bachrach - Hilchos challah shiur15 - סימן שכז וסימן שכח סעיף א.mp3 - At what point in the kneading process can you take challah? When is the best time to take challah? Can you take challah from flour? From a baked item? If you add more flour after you took challah what do you need to do? What is the bracha on being mafrish challah?

Rabbi Bachrach - Hilchos challah shiur16 - סימן שכח סעיף א-ג.mp3 - What is the nusach of the bracha on being mafrish challah? Do you have to say harey zu challah after being mafrish the challah? Why or why not? Do you make the bracha before or after you separate the challah? Do you have to stand when making the bracha? Is challah a mitzvah or mattir? Can you ever take challah for someone without permission? If the husband makes the dough who takes the challah. the husband or wife?

Rabbi Bachrach - Hilchos challah shiur17 - סימן שכט סעיף א-ח.mp3 - What types of dough need to have challah taken from them: If its a blila raka that is cooked? If its a blilah raka that is baked? When do you take challah from a blila raka that is baked? A blilah ava that is cooked do you need to take challah?  Do you take challah on cake and cookies? Doughnuts? Noodles? Yerushalmi kugel?

Rabbi Bachrach - Hilchos challah shiur18 - סימן שכט סעיף ט-י וסימן של.mp3 - What's the din of dough that was kneaded without any of the zayin mashin and never touched one of the zayin mashkin? The din of a dough of shutfim. Safek challah do we go lechumrah or lekulah? If dough won't be eaten is it chayav in challah?

Rabbi Bachrach - Hilchos challah shiur19 - What to do when you have a safek bracha - פתחי תשובה סימן שכח סעיף קטן א.mp3 - When a person has a safek bracha and we say he can't make the bracha because of safek brachos lehakel, is there any other way to be yotze the bracha? Can he say the psukim of vayevarech Dovid and end off with the bracha? Can you say the bracha in another language like brich rachmana in Aramaic? Can you think the bracha? Are there other suggestions? 

Rabbi Bachrach - Hilchos birchos hashachar shiur1 - making 100 brachos every day - סימן מו סעיף ג.mp3 - The halachos of making one hundred brachos every day: What is the mekor? Is it a real chiyuv?  How many brachos do you make every day during davening and eating, and what about shabbos, fast days, and yom kipppur? Does listening to the brachos of the olim to the torah count for your 100 brachos? What about listening to chazaras hashatz? Can you cause a bracha sheeina tzricha to get 100 brachos? Are women chayav in making 100 brachos each day? If a person makes early shabbos do the brachos of maariv count for shabbos or Friday? What if he davens maariv after plag during the week?

Rabbi Bachrach - Hilchos birchos hashachar shiur2 - סימן מו סעיף א-ב.mp3 - Birchos hashachar: What is a sechvi in the bracha of asher nosson l'sechvi bina?  Why don't we make all the birchos hashachar as we wake up like the gemarah says to do?  Do you have to stand or sit for birchos hashachar?  Should it be hanosen l'sechvi vina or asher nosson l'sechvi vina? Why is sheasi li kol tzorki in past tense? Is it hameichin mitzadei gaver or asher heichin mitzadei gaver?

Rabbi Bachrach - Hilchos birchos hashachar shiur3 - סימן מו סעיף א-ד.mp3 - Why do ozer yisrael bigvurah and oter yisrael bsifara mention klal yisrael and the other brachos don't? Different things done at the beginning of davening: Saying v'ani b'rov chasdecha and b'beis elokim nehalech b'ragesh. The machlokes if you should say ma tovu. Being mekabel v'ahavta l'reiacha kamocha before davening. Giving tzedakah before davening. Saying adon olam.  The brachos of shelo asani goy, eved, isha.  Does a ger say shelo asani goy?

Rabbi Bachrach - Hilchos birchos hashachar shiur4 - סימן מו סעיף ד-ז.mp3 - Who wrote yigdal and who says to say it or not to say it. The brachos of shelo asani, goy, eved and isha. Why are these brachos said in the negative (for not making me an isha) instead of in the positive (thank you for making me an ish)? Is the proper nusach shelo asani goy, or shelo asani nachri, or shelo asani akum, or sheasani yisrael?  Who holds women say sheasani kirtzono and who holds they don't? Do women change the nusach to shelo asani shifcha/goya? Is shelo asani isha offensive to women or is it misunderstood? If you say zokef kefufim before mattir asurim then you lose your chance to say matir asurim. Who says to say hanosen leyaef koach and who says not to? 

Rabbi Bachrach - Hilchos birchos hashachar shiur5 - סימן מו סעיף ח.mp3 - If you don't have the mechayev for one of the birchos hashachar do you still make the bracha? For example, if you don't hear a rooster do you still make hanosen l'sechvi bina? Does a blind person make pokeach ivrim? On tisha b'av and yom kippur do you make sheasa li kol tzorki? Which of the birchos hashachar do you not say when you stay up all night?

Rabbi Bachrach - Hilchos birchos hashachar shiur6 - סימן מו סעיף ח-ט.mp3 - Until when in the day can you say birchos hashachar? Can you say birchos hashachar after shachris? Are women chayav in birchos hashachar? Saying psukim before birkas hatorah - is it ever allowed? Is there a hetter if they are being said as tachanunim and not as limud hatorah? Can you answer kedusha or yud gimmel middos before birkas hatorah? 

Rabbi Bachrach - Hilchos birchos hashachar shiur7 - סימן מו סעיף ט.mp3 - more on saying psukim derech tachanunim before birkas hatorah. Saying shma earlier in davening before korbanos- why is it done and how much of shma should be said? Can you make a tenai that if I make the zman of krias shma then I want to be yotze later and if I don't make the zman then I want to be yotze now? The tefillah of leolam yehe adam. 

Rabbi Bachrach - Hilchos birchos hashachar shiur8 - birkas hatorah1 - סימן מז סעיף א.mp3 - Introduction to birkas hatorah: Why does the gemarah say your children won't be talmidei chachamim if you don't say birkas hatorah? Why does the gemarah say the beis hamikdash was destroyed because people weren't saying birkas hatorah? Is birkas hatorah a birkas hamitzvah or birkas hashevach or birkas hanehenin or a combination of them? Is birkas hatorah deoraisa or derabanan?

Rabbi Bachrach - Hilchos birchos hashachar shiur9 - birkas hatorah2 - סימן מז סעיף א-ב.mp3 - Is it assur to learn before birkas hatorah? Do you have to stand for birkas hatorah?  Which parts of talmud torah require birkas hatorah - gemarah? zohar? mussar sfarim? 

Rabbi Bachrach - Hilchos birchos hashachar shiur10 - birkas hatorah3 - סימן מז סעיף ב-ד.mp3 - Continuation of which parts of torah require birkas hatorah - gemarah? zohar? mussar sfarim? gedolim biographies? medrash rabba? learning dikduk? Can you make birkas hatorah if you don't understand what you're learning?  Does someone writing divrei torah need to say birkas hatorah? Does someone thinking divrei torah require birkas hatorah? Can you listen to divrei torah before birkas hatorah? 

Rabbi Bachrach - Hilchos birchos hashachar shiur11 - birkas hatorah4 - סימן מז סעיף ג-ו.mp3 - Can you do a mitzvah before birkas hatorah? Can you put on tallis and tefillin before birkas hatorah if you say psukim when you put them on? The nusach of birkas hatorah - is it laasok b'divrei torah or al divrei torah? Is it haarev na or v'haarev na? Is v'haarev na the start of a new bracha? Do you say amen after the words laasok bdivrei torah? 

Rabbi Bachrach - Hilchos birchos hashachar shiur12 - birkas hatorah5 - סימן מז סעיף ה-י.mp3 - Being yotze birkas hatorah with the bracha of ahava rabba/ahavas olam - how does it work? Is it lechatchilah? When being yotze with ahava rabba do you have to learn right after davening? Can saying shma count for your learning after ahava rabba? Do you have to learn right after making birkas hatorah? 

Rabbi Bachrach - Hilchos birchos hashachar shiur13 - birkas hatorah6 - סימן מז סעיף ט-יא.mp3 - Why is the din of hefsek by birkas hatorah different than other birkas hamitzvos (IE why don't you need a new birkas hatorah when you come home from work and start learning)? If you sleep during the day a sheinas keva do you need a new birkas hatorah? 

Rabbi Bachrach - Hilchos birchos hashachar shiur14 - birkas hatorah7 - סימן מז סעיף יא-יג.mp3 - When you stay up all night do you make birkas hatorah in the morning? Does the halacha change if you slept a sheinas keva the day before? When staying up all night can you keep learning after alos until you find someone to motzi you in birkas hatorah? If you stay up all night until alos and then say shma and go to sleep and daven shachris later, when do you say birkas hatorah? If you sleep twice in one night (either you got woken up by accident, or you prefer to wake up in the middle of the night to learn for a few hours and then go back to sleep), do you say birkas hatorah twice?  

Rabbi Bachrach - Hilchos birchos hashachar shiur15 - birkas hatorah8 - סימן מז סעיף יב-יד.mp3 - Are women able to make birkas hatorah? Are they chayav? Why or why not? Does a bar mitzvah boy on the night of his bar mitzvah need to repeat birkas hatorah since when he made birkas hatorah in the morning he was a katan? 

Rabbi Bachrach - Hilchos birchos hashachar shiur16 - korbanos shiur1 - סימן מח וסימן נ.mp3 - Why do we say the different  parts of korbanos in the morning? Do we add the psukim of mussaf on shabbos and rosh chodesh? Why do we say aizehu mekoman and the braisa of rebbe Yishmael? Which parts of korbanos are a chiyuv to say, and which are not? Can you say korbanos after davening? 

Rabbi Bachrach - Hilchos birchos hashachar shiur17 - korbanos shiur2 - סימן מח וסימן נ.mp3 - Which parts of korbanos are a chiyuv and which aren't? Which parts of korbanos are most important? Can you say korbanos after davening? Are there any parts of korbanos you would say even if it means skipping part of psukei dezimra? Do women have to say any korbanos? Do you have to stand when you say any parts of korbanos? Saying korbanos before alos. Saying korbanos in a beis avel. The minhag of shuckling: Why do people shuckle when they daven and learn? Who is against shuckling? 

Rabbi Bachrach - Hilchos birchos hashachar shiur18 - סימן מט.mp3 - The isusur of dvarim shebiksav ee atah rashay leomram baal peh (דברים שבכתב אי אתה רשאי לאומרם בעל פה) - when does it apply and when not? Can you be motzi people when saying psukim by heart? Can you quote psukim by heart in a shiur? Does it matter if its a common passuk like shma yisrael, birkas kohanim, or psukei dezimra? Can you learn shiras devorah baal peh? Can you say tehillim baal peh?

Rabbi Bachrach - Hilchos birchos hashachar shiur19- psukei dezimra1 - סימן נא סעיף א-ג.mp3 - Halachos of psukei dezimra: Why do we say psukei dezimra and what is its mekor in the gemarah? Which are the main parts of psukei dezimra? What is chashuv about ashrei being in aleph-beis order?  Why does saying ashrei make you a ben olam haba? Who made up baruch sheamar - or did appear as a note sent from shamayim. Do you ever say amen after your own bracha? 

Rabbi Bachrach - Hilchos birchos hashachar shiur20 - psukei dezimra2 - סימן נא סעיף א-ד.mp3 - In baruch sheamar why do some people say bfeh amo and some say bfi amo?  The beginning of the dinim of hefsek in psukei dezimra:  Can you mafsik between baruch sheamar and beginning psukei dezimra? Beginning of discussion of what things can you mafsik for in the middle of psukei dezimra.

Rabbi Bachrach - Hilchos birchos hashachar shiur21 - psukei dezimra3 - סימן נא סעיף ד-ה.mp3 - Can you greet someone today in the middle of psukei dezimra? Dinim of hefsek during psukei dezimra - saying amen, which parts of modim derabanan can you say, the machlokes if you say shma with the tzibbur and how much of it, can you say shma if the zman is about to end, which parts of kaddish can you answer, which parts of kedusha can you answer, saying asher yatzar,  can you say kaddish during psukei dezimra. If you are in the middle of psukei dezimra and hear a bracha do you have to answer or is it optional? What if you are davening or learning and hear kaddish or kedusha from another minyan, do you have to answer?  What are the dinim of hefsek during baruch sheamar itself? 

Rabbi Bachrach - Hilchos birchos hashachar shiur22- psukei dezimra4 - סימן נא סעיף ד-ז.mp3 - Saying extra tehillim during psukei dezimra, is it a hefsek? The reasons why some people put hodu after baruch sheamar and some put it before. The halacha that you have to mechaven when you say poseach es yadecha or you have to repeat it - how much do you have to repeat? What does poseach es yadecha umasbia lechol chay ratzon mean? 

Rabbi Bachrach - Hilchos birchos hashachar shiur23 - psukei dezimra5 - סימן נא סעיף ד-ז.mp3 - When davening in a shul that doesn't daven your nusach do you say their nusach or yours? Saying mizmor shir chanukas habayis before psukei dezimra- where does it come from?  Why do we start ashrei with the passuk of ashrei yoshvei beysecha and not with tehilla ledovid? Why do we end ashrei with the passuk va'anachnu nevarech ka? Standing for vayevarech dovid and az yashir. 

Rabbi Bachrach - Hilchos birchos hashachar shiur24 - psukei dezimra6 - סימן נא סעיף ז-ט.mp3 - What is special about mizmor lesodah? Should we sit or stand for mizmor lesodah? Why do we double Hashem yimloch at the end of az yashir? Do we say the passuk of ki ba sus paroh at the end of az yashir? Do we say uvesorascha kasuv laimor at the end of az yashir? 

Rabbi Bachrach - Hilchos birchos hashachar shiur25 - psukei dezimra7 - סוף סימן נא ותחילת סימן נב.mp3 - kol psuka dlo paskei Moshe anan lo paskinan lei - when are you allowed to say half-psukim? Coming late to davening: what do you skip in order to be able to daven with the tzibbur. What is considered tefillah betzibbur for this?  

Rabbi Bachrach - Hilchos birchos hashachar shiur26 - psukei dezimra8 - סימן נב סעיף א.mp3 - Coming late to davening - Why you shouldn't come late, what to say when you come late and what to skip. Does anyone hold you say everything and don't skip?  If you come late when do you need to go to the next minyan and when are you allowed to join this minyan and skip parts of psukei dezimra? The machlokes if you have to say at least baruch sheamar, ashrei, and yishtabach. Which of the birchos hashachar have to be said before davening even if it means missing tefillah betzibbur. 

Rabbi Bachrach - Hilchos birchos hashachar shiur27 - psukei dezimra9 - סימן נב סעיף א.mp3 - The order of priorities of which parts of psukei dezimra are most important on shabbos and weekdays. If you skip parts of psukei dezimra do you need to make them up after davening? 

Rabbi Bachrach - Hilchos birchos hashachar shiur28 - psukei dezimra10 - סוף סימן נב וסימן נג סעיף א.mp3 - More things that would allow you to skip parts of psukei dezimra (missing zman tefillah, davening with your minyan kavua). When you do you need a chazzan - from yishtabach or from baruch sheamar or from birchos hashachar? Do you have to stand for yishtabach?  

Rabbi Bachrach - Hilchos birchos hashachar shiur29 - psukei dezimra11 - סימן נג סעיף א-ג.mp3 - Saying the fifteen or thirteen shvachim in yishtabach in one breathe - is it recommended or not? What happens if you are almost finished with psukei dezimra and you realize you forgot baruch sheamar, can you go back and say it? If not, can you not say yishtabach?  What happens when you get tallis and tefillin in the middle of psukei dezimra, or if the earliest zman to wear them is at the end of psukei dezimra?

Rabbi Bachrach - Hilchos birchos hashachar shiur30 - who can be shaliach tzibbur1 - סימן נג סעיף ג-ה.mp3 - more about what to do if the earliest zman of tallis and tefillin is at the end of psukei dezimra. Who can be shaliach tzibbur - what qualities does he need?  What happens if a chazzan is an am haaretz but he has a nice voice? What aveiros disqualify someone from being a shaliach tzibbur?  What if he's traditional but doesn't keep shabbos?  What about a baal tshuva? 

Rabbi Bachrach - Hilchos birchos hashachar shiur31 - who can be shaliach tzibbur2 - סימן נג סעיף ג-ה וסעיף כה.mp3 - more about what to do if the earliest zman of tallis and tefillin is at the end of psukei dezimra.  Is it better to have a chazzan who is a tzaddik ben tzaddik or tzaddik ben rasha? Are we allowed to take a goyishe song and use the tune for davening? What if its an avoda zara song? Is one allowed to sing songs of a Jew who did aveiros? 

Rabbi Bachrach - Hilchos birchos hashachar shiur32 - who can be shaliach tzibbur3 - סימן נג סעיף ו-י.mp3 - If a person has a chazaka to be chazzan when can he lose the chazaka? How old do you have to be to be a shaliach tzibbur kavua, and how old do you have to be to daven for the amud without being kavua? Does a chazzan have to be married? A boy on the night of his bar mitzvah, does he have to wait for tzeis hakochavim to daven maariv? What if he wants to daven for the amud? 

Rabbi Bachrach - Hilchos birchos hashachar shiur33 - who can be shaliach tzibbur4 - סימן נג סעיף יא-יב.mp3 - The din that a chazzan shouldn't daven too slowly so he doesn't cause tircha detzibura. Does it apply to a rav also? What about a minyan with exactly 10 people, do you have to rush your davening so they don't have to wait for you? People who can't say the words correctly can they daven for the amud? If an Ashkenazi davens for the amud in a Sfardi shul or a Sfardi in an Ashkenazi shul should they use their own pronunciation or the pronunciation of the tzibbur? Whose pronunciation is more correct, Sfardim or Ashkenazim? Can an Ashkenazi switch to daven in a modern Hebrew?

Rabbi Bachrach - Hilchos birchos hashachar shiur34 - who can be shaliach tzibbur5 - סימן נג סעיף יג-יז.mp3 - Can you daven for the amud (or at all) in short sleeves or shorts? Can a blind person daven for the amud or get an aliyah? Can a person in a wheelchair or with other physical disabilities daven for the amud? The din of refusing to daven for the amud - why do you refuse, and in which situations? Does it apply today? 

Rabbi Bachrach - Hilchos birchos hashachar shiur35 - who can be shaliach tzibbur6 - סימן נג סעיף יח-כב .mp3 - Can a ger be chazzan lechatchilah? If one person doesn't like the chazzan can he stop him from being chazzan? If the shatz has in mind not to be motzi someone what happens? 

Rabbi Bachrach - Hilchos birchos hashachar shiur36 - who can be shaliach tzibbur7 - סימן רנג סעיף כג-כו וסימן רנד סעיף א.mp3 - How does the tzibbur pay for the salary of the chazzan, does everyone contribute equally or does it go by how rich you are? Is it more important to hire a rav or a chazzan? Can you use a siddur that was printed on shabbos? If you started yotzer ohr and forgot to say yishtabach, can you say yishtabach now bein haprakim of krias shma?

Rabbi Bachrach - Hilchos birchos hashachar shiur37 - hefsek after yishtabach1 - סימן רנד סעיף ב-ג.mp3 - In the phrase chay haolamim in yishtabach does chay have a pasach under it or a tzeiri.  What kind of hefsek can you make in the middle of the first part of yishtabach? What about the second part of yishtabach? What hefsek can you make after yishtabach before kaddish?  Can you learn then? If you missed part of psukei dezimra can you say it then? Can you mafsik between kaddish and barchu? Between barchu and yotzer ohr? 

Rabbi Bachrach - Hilchos birchos hashachar shiur38 - Kaddish and tziruf for minyan1 - סימן נה סעיף א-ג.mp3 - How do we know a minyan needs ten people? Is needing a minyan for davening deoraisa or derabanan? Beginning of discussion of what happens when you lose your minyan in the middle of davening, what are you still allowed to finish up to without a minyan? If you thought there were 10 people and in the middle you realized there were only 9, what's the the din? Can you say kaddish or barchu quietly in a way that there won't be 10 people that can hear?

Rabbi Bachrach - Hilchos birchos hashachar shiur39 - Kaddish and tziruf for minyan2 - סימן נה סעיף א-ד.mp3 - Continuation of discussion of what happens when you lose your minyan in the middle of davening, what are you allowed to finish up to without the minyan.  Using a katan for minyan, when is it allowed and what is considered a shas hadchak to allow it?

Rabbi Bachrach - Hilchos birchos hashachar shiur40 - Kaddish and tziruf for minyan3 - סימן נה סעיף א-ז.mp3 - What are the 7 kaddeishim that are a chiyuv to be said every day? Do you need 10 people for the tefillah that leads up to kaddish (IE Ashrei at mincha) or only for the kaddish itself? Kaddish derabanan after learning- do you need 10 people to learn, or 10 people to be in the room when the learning is happening even if they don't all learn, or even if there aren't 10 in the room can the 10th come just for kaddish? Can someone say kaddish after learning if he wasn't one of the people who learned? Or after aleinu if he didn't say aleinu? Using a katan for a minyan - when do we allow it, and what's considered shas hadchak? In a small minyan, can you start chazaras hashatz or kaddish if 10 people haven't finished shmone esrei? What is the minimum who need to have finished? 

Rabbi Bachrach - Hilchos birchos hashachar shiur41 - Kaddish and tziruf for minyan4 - סימן נה סעיף ו-ח.mp3 - continuation of discussion if you need ten people to have finished davening to start chazaras hashatz or kaddish.  Does a sleeping person count for a minyan? Does a cheresh (deaf-mute) count for a minyan? What is considered being able to speak to not be considered a cheresh? Who is a shote in halacha? 

   Rabbi Bachrach - Hilchos birchos hashachar shiur42 - Kaddish and tziruf for minyan5 - סימן נה סעיף ה וסעיף ט-י.mp3 - Halachos of counting people for a minyan - When is a person considered a bar mitzvah - is it age 13 or shtei saaros?  Does a kid have neemanus to say he is over bar mitzvah?  If one boy is born on 29th of Adar rishon and 2nd boy is born on first of adar sheni, whose bar mitzvah is first? Someone born in a shana pshuta and the bar mitzvah year is meuberes when is the bar mitzvah? Someone born in adar rishon in a shana meuberes and his bar mitzvah is in a shana meuberes when is the bar mitzvah? If he was born in 30th of adar rishon and bar mitzvah year there is no 30th day of adar, when is his bar mitzvah?  and other similar cases

Rabbi Bachrach - Hilchos birchos hashachar shiur43 - Kaddish and tziruf for minyan6 - סימן נה סעיף יא-יב.mp3 -   Someone who does aveiros does he count for a minyan? Someone who doesn't keep mitzvos at all does he count for a minyan? Who is a tinok shenishba? When you have 9 people and a 10th behind a mechitzah is it a minyan? 

Rabbi Bachrach - Hilchos birchos hashachar shiur44 - Kaddish and tziruf for minyan7 - סימן נה סעיף יא-יג.mp3 -    Can a drunk person count for a minyan? More on the definition of tinok shenishba and mumar, and the definition of mechalel shabbos b'farhesia. Can someone who isn't frum count for a minyan? Can an intermarried person count for a minyan? If 10 people are in one room but can't see each other is it a minyan? If people are davening outdoors is there any shiur how close enough they have to be to each other? 

   Rabbi Bachrach - Hilchos birchos hashachar shiur45 - Kaddish and tziruf for minyan8 - סימן נה סעיף יג-יט.mp3 -  Making a minyan in multiple rooms - if there are 9 people in one room and one person outside does he count for the minyan? What if he can see in? What if there are 10 people inside and one person outside, is it considered tefillah betzibbur for him?  Does a corona porch minyan count as a minyan? 

   Rabbi Bachrach - Hilchos birchos hashachar shiur46 - Kaddish and tziruf for minyan9 -סימן נה סעיף יג-כב.mp3 - summary of halachos of minyan in different rooms. If you hear kaddish or kedusha from a minyan you aren't part of do you have to answer?  The din of tinuf or akum being mafsik a minyan. The halacha when there is a small minyan and one person wants to leave for yamim noraim, does he need to pay for a replacement? If there are a few shuls and one is struggling for a minyan, how much responsibility do you have to make sure they have a minyan?

   Rabbi Bachrach - Hilchos birchos hashachar shiur47 - Kaddish and tziruf for minyan10 - סוף סימן נה ותחילת סימן נו.mp3 - Can you be yotze megilla or havdala or any other mitzvah with a microphone or over the telephone? Can you answer amen to a bracha that you heard over a microphone or telephone or radio or zoom? Introduction to importance of kaddish. 

   Rabbi Bachrach - Hilchos birchos hashachar shiur48 - Halachos of Kaddish1- marbe bkaddeishim and how many people say kaddish.mp3 - Some halachos of kaddish. The din of not being marbe bkaddeishim: Are you supposed to say as many kaddeishim as possible or a limited number? How is kaddish supposed to be said - does one person say kaddish at a time or do multiple people say it together? What are the benefits of each minhag? 

   Rabbi Bachrach - Hilchos birchos hashachar shiur49 - Halachos of kaddish2 - marbe bkaddeishim and סימן נו סעיף א.mp3 - More on the inyan of being memaet bkaddeishim. Rav Henkin's shitta of how many kaddeishim to say. More on only one person saying kaddish versus several saying kaddish at once.  What provides the greatest zechus for a meis - saying kaddish, davening for the amud, talmud torah, doing other mitzvos? Do you have to stand when answering kaddish?

Rabbi Bachrach - Hilchos Purim - Halachos of Mishloach Manos - סימן תרצה סעיף ד.mp3 - Halachos of Mishloach Manos - the reasons for the mitzvah (the Trumas Hadeshen and Manos Halevy),  the din if someone is mochel the shalach manos. Is there a din of shlichus to send the shalach manos through a shaliach and what are the reasons for shlichus being better? If the recipient doesn't know who sent the shalach manos are you yotze? Can you send shalach manos before purim that will arrive on purim? Do the two manos have to be two different foods, and if so, how do we define two different foods? Which foods are not chashuv enough to count as mishloach manos?   

Rabbi Rafael Bachrach - KAJ Thursday night shiur - Parshas Vayishlach.mp3 - Rabbi Rafael Bachrach - Thursday night KAJ parshah shiur - Parshas Vayishlach

Rabbi Rafael Bachrach - KAJ Thursday night parsha shiur - Parshas Trumah.mp3 - Rabbi Rafael Bachrach - Thursday night parshah shiur at KAJ - parshas trumah - about the role of nedivus lev in building the mishkan and giving tzedakah.

Rabbi Rafael Bachrach - KAJ Thursday night parsha shiur - Parshas Tazria-Metzora.mp3 - Rabbi Rafael Bachrach - Thursday night parshah shiur at KAJ - parshas Tazria-Metzora 

Rabbi Bachrach - Chabura hilchos shabbos - סימן רס סעיף ב.mp3 - Shiur from Rabbi Bachrach to the morning kollel of Khal Yotzei Ashkenaz of Lakewood on the topic of: Isartem, eravtem, hadliku es haner - do you really have to say these things to your wife every erev shabbos? 

Guest Speaker - R Avi Katzenstein - Is it better to eat seudah shlishis before or after minchah.mp3 - Our guest speaker, R Avi Katzenstein, founding member of Khal Yotze Ashkenaz of Lakewood, spoke on the topic of:  Eating seudah shlishis before minchah: mitzvah or aveirah?

Guest Speaker - Rabbi Avi Katzenstein - Does adding to a number ruin the number.mp3 - Guest speaker: Rabbi Avi Katzenstein, founding member of Khal Yotzei Ashkenaz of Lakewood. Topic: Does adding to a number ruin the number, and the potential nafka minas with regards to adding to an extra kos at the seder, lighting more than two shabbos candles, and more. 

Guest Speaker - R Avi Katzenstein - sabenu mituva or sabeinu mituvecha.mp3 - R Avi Katzenstein of Lakewood spoke to our night kollel about the two different nuschaos 'sabenu mituvecha' and 'sabenu mituva': what is the difference in meaning, who says to say each one, and which is more correct?