These shiurim are being given on Thursday nights in Y.U. for the entire yeshiva. We hope to add each week’s shiur as the year progresses.
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| Track | Title | Length | Description |
| 1 | Ish Hahaacha: Teshuva Distinct from Kapara | 37:36 | – Teshuva is separate and distinct from kapara, and is defined by hafkoas shem rasha, and is NOT defined by achieving kapara. – Teshuva as an act of self-creation, because of the transformation it affects. You can’t change the facts of the past, but you can redefine the significance of the past. The future hasn’t arrived yet, but the destiny is already present, hence efficacy of kabbala l’habba. – Translates practically into the experience of teshuva as follows: teshuva is not this impossible task which is attempting to change the facts of the past but is this creative act of recreating oneself. |
| 2 | Perspectives on the Massacre: Kiddush Hashem | 21:05 | – Rambam Hilchos Melachim, Perek 7: what is contested in the war is yichud Hashem, chayal should have kavana for kiddush Hashem – Igeres Teiman: goyim are jealous of us, hatred towards us is a rebellion against HKB”H. – every Jew in Israel is moser nefesh to live there with a target on their back, and if they are killed, they died al kiddush Hashem. But this doesn’t diminish the grief, neither on the human level nor in terms of the terrible chilul Hashem (see Tehillim 79). – in terms of our reaction: we should try to have a heightened sensitivity to making a kiddush Hashem through our behavior, conduct, etc. |
| 3 | Not Becoming Desensitized to the Eis Tzara | 27:13 | – Eat on R”H not due to lack of eimas hadin, but despite it. Similarly, one can mostly go about his routine while identifying with the eis tzara in Israel, or r”l because he is becoming detached from it. – We must not slip into a mode in which we’ve acclimated to the eis tzara and our sense of it fades. If we feel ourselves becoming desensitized, we have to take concrete steps to reengage. We must sustain our level of concern as long as the eis tzara is ongoing. |
| 4 | Defining the Evil of Chamas and its Supporters | 8:49 | The antisemitic and anti-civilization cabals on college campuses are not interested in truth, but other people in society are, and we should provide them with the truth. |
| 5 | The Shattered One’s Closeness to Hashem | 35:45 | When an individual’s or community’s identity is shattered, they have “nothing left” but HKB”H, and come closer to Him. |
| 6 | Rallying for Israel: The Halachic Perspective | 8:55 | |
| 7 | Rallying for Israel, Part Two. | 22:16 | HKB”H put in place a two tiered system of nissim nistarim and natural hishtadlus, as described by the Ramban and Sefer Hachinuch. Can’t circumvent it. |