Q&A: Heter Mechira, Taxes & Hechsherim

The Q & A with Rabbi Breitowitz Podcast

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00:00 - Can I start Shabbos early?

03:30 - Why is the ger included as one who receives from leftovers of my field? (Leket, Shichechah and Peah)

06:54 - Should we hold by Heter Mechirah?

12:53 - What are the mitzvos that are stepped on in our day and age?

16:20 - Can one manage taxes by giving money to yeshivos?

27:25 - Can someone learn or develop a belief in God?

38:00 - Rambam says you can see God through nature. However, the Mishnah says one should not stop learning to look at nature.

41:50 - In the beginning on Derech Hashem it says one needs to know of the existence of Hashem. How can we know it with 100% certainty?

46:10 - Are the learning practices that the Rav recommends?

50:25 - What is controversial about the Ibn Ezra’s pshat on Chumash?

1:00:00 - How a Perush operates outside Chazal?

01:01:45 - How do shivim panim latorah and elu velu divre elokim hayim work? (How can there be 70 faces to the true and two contradictory ways of understanding the Torah both be true?)

01:09:00 - Should we unify the customs of the Jewish people?

01:14:00 - What should one consider when choosing where to live?

01:20:00 - What happened when a Rav was discovered to be a fraud for writing a false Yerushalmi?

01:26:30 - Has there been a shift in the way people learn in the lifetime of the Rav?

01:31:45 - What should one learn if he comes to Torah late in life

01:36:30 - What can help kavanah in Tefillah?

01:39:30 - Can one benefit from electricity on Shabbat in Israel

01:40:38 - What are the halachic implications of mesh/fish-net tzitzis?

01:43:43 - Can one eat a different hechsher when eating at someone else’s house?

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