Rabbi Dr. Eliezer Brodt

0:00 1:35 Hesped on R' Meir Simcha & relationship with the Rogatchover 13:25 More on R' Meir Simcha 15:23 Meshech Chochmah & its publishing history 21:00 The first attempt at publishing 22:00 Who discouraged him? 24:14 Publishing seforim young 27:19 Dating the work 35:10 The Gra school 36:20 Meshech Chochmah & Malbim 42:30 Forged Malbims

0:00 Introduction and Recap 3:08 Hesped from Rav Menachem Krakowski 5:15 Hesped from His Talmid, Rav Yoseph Rebbe 10:30 Why He Chose to Write on the Rambam 12:25 His Love for the Rambam 14:00 Locating Sources for the Rambam 17:30 The Yerushalmi as a Source for the Rambam 19:17 His Fascination With the Yerushalmi 20:49 The Yerushalmi Kodshim Forgery 21:30 Tosefta, Tanach, Midrash Halacha and Aggadah 23:15 The Rambam's Other Works, Including the Moreh Nevuchim 25:15 The Moreh Nevuchim in Lita, Such as Rav Yehuda Edel 27:28 The Rogatchover 28:55 His Sources: Geonim and Rishonim 29:22 The Rambam and the Ri Migash 30:15 Use of Newly Printed Rishonim 32:30 Rav Mordechai Rabinowitz 34:20 His Uncle 35:30 His Knowledge of Philosophy 36:18 Oneg Yom Tov 38:12 His Daughter and Mental Illness

0:00 Intro 2:15 Geonim — What Is That Time Period? 3:21 R' Saadyah Gaon : His Background & Importance (Brief) 4:10 Acharonim Who Used Rasag 6:02 Siddur Rasag 6:27 Binyamin Moshe Levine and Geonim 7:32 What Do We Know About Rasag? 10:29 Discovery of the Cairo Genizah 16:42 Gaon What Does It Mean? & Recent Literature on Rasag 22:07 Tafsir of Rasag 23:35 Rasag on Chumash 26:52 Mechon Aleh Zayis & Rasag 27:50 Creating a Team to Work on Rasag 30:12 How to Create This Work? 30:34 Friedberg Project 32:15 AI Discoveries & This Project 32:49 Did Rabbenu Chananel Write a Work on Chumash? 34:29 Translating the Material from Arabic 34:50 Description & Method of Producing This New Edition

0:00 Introduction: The challenge of making the Menorah 4:20 Bibliography on the Menorah 6:04 Gemara & Beraisa D'Meleches HaMishkan 8:27 Piyutei Yannai & the Menorah 9:37 Visual depictions in early printed seforim 12:02 Did Rashi & the Rambam draw pictures? 19:00 R' Avigdor Nebenzahl on the Rambam's image 19:25 The Arch of Titus 21:54 Feet of the Menorah & Midrash Tadshe 27:12 Was there a step before the Menorah? — Shiltei HaGiborim 27:50 Making a mock model of the Mishkan — Shulchan Aruch, Maharik 30:20 Schach — Shu"t R' Chaim Kohen, Chida 34:56 Menorah on the shaar of seforim 35:41 Menorah as decoration in shuls 36:03 Segulah of the Menorah & the Maharshal 38:33 Shiviti luach 40:44 Reason behind the Menorah — Moreh & R' Shmuel Ibn Tibbon 42:34 Toras HaOlah of the Rama 45:00 The expression "Kaftor VaFerach" 45:50 Where is the Menorah today?

1:33 Recap 6:37 Shibolei HaLeket 14:30 Rav Hai Gaon and shofar 17:45 Two ways to wear tefillin 22:33 R Aviad Sar Sholom and kabbalah 26:33 Rambam Migdal Oz Chachmei Lunel 32:46 Maharil 34:49 Kever Yechezkel 35:37 Shoel UMeishiv 37:20 Besamim Rosh 39:05 Two Eshkols Shimusha Rabbah 40:08 Arizal 42:10 Rama MiPano 45:30 R Shmuel Shar Aryeh 47:28 Yosef Ometz 49:34 Wearing Rashi and Rabbeinu Tam together 52:20 R Nosson Adler controversy 53:18 Chassidim and Misnagdim 54:20 R Efraim Zalman Margolios controversy 55:50 Gra and Rabbeinu Tam tefillin 57:10 R Shlomo Zalman Auerbach and R Dovid Baran 57:45 R Chaim Berlin and R Shlomo Dubnov 58:38 Keren Orah and Aderes

1:35 Introduction 2:36 Sefer HaYashar and R’ Avraham ben HaGra 7:02 The Ramban on Sefer HaYashar 9:20 Torah Shelemah of R’ Menachem Kasher and R’ Chaim 11:00 R’ Shlomo Buber 11:56 Why This Topic Matters 13:07 Names According to R’ Chaim 16:20 R’ Moshe Feinstein’s Haskamah on Works About Names 17:47 Tzavaas R’ Yehudah HaChassid 27:50 The Name Noach 29:14 Naming After a Rasha 33:26 Quoting from Problematic Seforim 37:20 Naming After Figures Mentioned Before Avraham Avinu in the Chumash 39:50 Naming a Man After a Woman and Vice Versa 44:07 Pronunciation of the Name Yissachar 46:20 Naming After One’s Father and Bar Kappara