Tuesday, January 4, 2022

FW: The Secular Calendar and Kiddush Levana





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From: YUTorah <office@yutorah.org>
Date: 1/4/22 11:03 AM (GMT-06:00)
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Subject: The Secular Calendar and Kiddush Levana

New on YUTorah this Week

Yeshiva University

Center for the Jewish Future

January 4-10 • Shevat 2-8

This learning on the site this week was sponsored:

by Ruth Peyser Kestenbaum and Miriam & Alan Goldberg to mark the ninth yahrtzeit of their father, Irwin Peyser, Harav Yisroel Chaim ben R' Dovid V' Fraidah Raizel Peyser

by Dr. Harris and Elisheva Teitz Goldstein l'zecher nishmos their parents, Rabbi Dr. Noah Goldstein, HaRav Noach ben Yitzchak David z'l, and Beverly Goldstein, Bayla bas Noach Ze'ev z'l, on their yahrzeits

by Neal Gittleman, MD and Associates, Pediatrics (and Family) for a zechus for a refuah shleimah for Binyomin ben Rochel Rivka

by Yossi and Saritte Wolkenstein and Family lilui nishmas Harav Zelig Yeshaya ben Kolonimus Kalman HaLevi Wolkenstein

by N Hirsch in honor of HaRav S.R. Hirsch, and his parents and daughter, to keep inspiring the world

in memory of Aviva Golda bas Yehuda

by Emily & Jonny Daniel l'ilui nishmas Daniel Noam ben Dovid

New This Week

 
Rabbi Mordechai Djavaheri

Wiretapping, Call Recordings, & Security Cameras as Evidence in Beit Din

Are you ever allowed to record a phone call? The permissibility and admissibility of call recordings and other form of digital evidence in Beit Din.

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Rabbi Noach Goldstein

From Galut to Geulah: An Introduction to the Methodology of the Ramban
Looking at where the Ramban came from and the main themes in his commentary on the Torah, using the beginning of Sefer Shemot as a guide.

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Rabbi Hershel Schachter

Shemitta in Our Time

An overview of the laws of Shemitta and how they apply nowadays.

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Rabbi Etan Schnall

Greeting Others with a Smile

The importance of the impact of our actions on others. Given as part of the practical avoda vaad at YU.

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Rabbi Baruch Simon

Laws in the Gemara Yerushalmi but not in the Bavli

A new series given for the YU Bein Hasemesterim program during the winter break.

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Rabbi Daniel Stein

One's Obligation to Pay Taxes and Follow the Laws of the Land

The end of the calendar year brings with it a flurry of last-minute transactions to end the tax year. A halachic and hashkafic approach to how halacha views this obligation.

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Featured This Week

 
Using the Secular Calendar

Is it permitted to use secular dates on documents and in our regular lives? Can a Jew celebrate New Years Day?

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The Laws of Kiddush Levana

Why do we dance after Kiddush Levana? Can you not do Kiddush Levana on Friday night? Are we allowed or supposed to face the moon? And many more common questions answered in the many shiurim available on YUTorah.

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Learn the Laws of Niddah

The weeks of Shovavim are a great time to review the laws of family purity, with many options to choose from on YUTorah.

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Kollel & Midreshet Yom Rishon @YUTORAH

Recordings from the program on Sunday, December 26

The Abraham Arbesfeld Kollel Yom Rishon for Men and Millie Arbesfeld Midreshet Yom Rishon for Women are programs of Yeshiva University's Center for the Jewish Future.

Daf Yomi @YUTORAH

Insights to the Daf with Shiurim for the week of Megillah 17-23

Rabbi Tanchum Cohen: Sirtut ha-Megilla and Why it Matters (19a) Birkas ha-Mitzvos: When and Why (21b)
Rabbi Chaim Eisenstein: Praying & Reading the Megillah in English (17a)

Rabbi Yonah Gross: Honoring the Name of Hashem and Sewing a Sefer Torah (19b) Having Good Manners When Asking A Shaila (21a) Who Counts Towards a Minyan and For What? (23b)

Rabbi Jesse Horn: The Importance of Learning to Listen (18a) Katan's obligation in reading the Megilla (19a) How the Brisker Rav understood Birchas HaTorah on Kreyas HaTorah (21b)
Rabbi Yoni Levin: The Obligation of Parshas Zachor (17a)

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