The Q & A with Rabbi Breitowitz Podcast
Religion & Spirituality:Judaism
Q&A- Psychedelic Drugs, Woman Ordination & Palestinians
00:00 Rav addresses asking controversial questions
00:39 What is Ramban's view on premarital sex?
04:42 How can Shlomo HaMelech send sheidim? Isn’t that kishuf?
11:20 Why was Torah given so late if that was purpose of the world?
18:50 Did Yitzchak Avinu die during sacrifice or after?
22:30 How do we regard a figure like David Weiss HaLivni (who recently died) and the Union for Traditional Judaism in general?
27:10 What is the significance of Hashem's name “Shakai"?
32:40 What is the Rav’s view on psychedelic drugs?
36:25 What was religion of people of Haran?
44:20 Why was Shlomo able to build multiple extra kruvim?
48:30 How did Baer Miriam make it to the kinneret?
50:45 What is the issur of woman ordination?
56:15 How do we address skeptics of Flood of Noach?
59:18 How do we understand when Chazal say that Rabbi Akiva was greater than Moshe Rabbenu?
1:01:30 What’s the minimum you have to say of the pesukim for Krias Shema Al Ha Mitah?
1:02:10 Are there any proofs in Torah that prove its validity?
1:04:38 What is the origin of making a wish on a wish bone and is it avoda zara?
1:07:40 Does reading Zohar itself purify someone?
1:09:00 What does it mean the Pinchas is Eliyahu? What are practical implications?
1:14:10 Is there a fourth individual that lived eternally? Eliyahu, Chanoch, and Sarach Bat Asher are known. What is the commonality amongst them?
1:16:50 How can Iyov be listed as a non-Jewish prophet if we know it’s only a minority opinion that he was a goy?
1:20:20 Do Jews who have only a Jewish mother have inheritance? Also will there status change at time of Messiah?
1:22:35 Why is the word Bar mitzvah in Aramaic and Bat Mitzvah in Hebrew?
1:24:07 Why do some halachos depend on looking at a Goyish majority?
1:27:42 What are the views on talking in the bathroom?
1:29:08 Should we respond to Palestinian treatment of Jews in a similar way as we did with the Soviets?
1:34:52 Is it morally wrong for a Cohen to be grateful for Chet HaEgel which gave him his kehunna?
1:36:50 When would shaking a hand with a woman be permissible?
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