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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

0:00 Introduction 2:45 Gra and the word Get in Gittin 15:00 Midrash Rabah and R' Chaim’s notes 17:52 Sefer HaYashar on Chumash 18:25 LeMechseh Ateik 25:35 Ben Sira 26:15 Sources for his Midrash knowledge and the value of learning Midrash 27:23 Yalkut Shimoni 28:28 R' Menachem de Lonzano 29:30 R' Avraham ben HaGra 33:10 Aharon Yellnick 33:35 R' Shlomo Buber 36:26 R' Eliezer Grenhaus 36:55 R' Shlomo Wertheimer 37:20 R' Menachem Kasher 37:55 Otzar Midrashim of R' Eisenstein 41:07 R' Yehudah Leib ben David and using problematic Midrashim 44:38 Ben Sira 48:19 Sefer HaYashar on Chumash

0:00 – Introduction 4:26 – Ta'ama D'Kra 10:13 – Feedback on the sefer 13:27 – Deeper dive into the sefer 18:18 – The Steipler on Chumash 19:24 – Chumash and the Haskalah 21:02 – R’ Shlomo Kluger learning Tanach 21:35 – R’ Yaakov Kamenetsky 23:43 – Simchas HaNefesh on Tanach 24:20 – Pri Megadim 25:05 – Menucha Kedosha on Tanach 27:54 – Chafetz Chaim & Chumash 28:39 – The Gra and Chumash in his Beis Medrash 33:00 – Targumim 34:49 – Chasser / Malei and Mesorah

We’re sharing this conversation now after finishing Pirkei Avos with Mishnah Yomi, and with summer being the time many people focus on learning Avos. Dr. Steven Weiss, as you'll hear, has an incredible passion for all things Avos. He has collected thousands of seforim and meticulously documented nearly every work on the subject up until 2015. His vast knowledge is a treasure for anyone interested in Pirkei Avos. You can purchase a copy of his book or ask questions by reaching out to Dr. Weiss directly at avotmaven@gmail.com. Introduction 1:55 - Pirkei Avos verse, Maseches Avos 2:41 - Background: How did you get into Maseches Avos? 5:35 - How many works have you documented in your book? 6:58 - Nachlas Tzvi 9:02 - Was there a time that there was an "explosion" of works on Avos? 12:28 - When did it become a custom to learn it in the Summer? 15:50 - Any Gedolim famous only for their works on Avos? (Medrash Shmuel) 16:45 - Lechem Yehudah 24:21 - Burning of the Shas and Maharam MePaduah 27:53 - Controversial Seforim on Avos? 28:10 - Rashi on Avos—who is it? 30:36 - Yaein Levonon (R' Naftali Wessley) 39:20 - Five interesting works on Avos 45:03 - Judaica items related to Avos 50:12 - Some translations of Avos

0:00 Introduction – Recap 3:23 Maharil 5:00 Tashbetz Koton 9:52 Hanhagos of the Arizal 11:34 Context of this Genre of Seforim 14:46 Magen Avraham and Arizal 16:30 Reliability 19:26 Shimush Talmidei Chachomim & Reading Gedolim Books 20:23 Toldos Adam 22:01 Chafetz Chaim’s Sons’ Work 24:00 Importance of Live Shimush Talmidei Chachomim 31:20 R’ Meir Greinman’s Work 32:55 R’ Chaim Kanievsky’s Comments on this Work 34:02 R’ Kalman Kahana 36:00 Samples from Kuntres HaZichronos

0:00 General Introduction 1:40 – Introduction: Oral Traditions and Pesakim of the Chazon Ish 6:52 – Hanhagos of the Chazon Ish (based on his sister, R’ Chaim’s mother) 7:55 – Minhagim of the Lederman Shul 10:41 – R’ Chaim’s Notes on Maaseh Ish volumes 13:10 – R’ Chaim’s Notes on Rav Steinman material 19:45 – Notes from Rav Bramberger and R’ Chaim 21:58 – Rav Tieger’s Derech Ish 22:56 – Introduction to Kuntres HaZichronos 33:27 – R’ Zorach Schapira 36:00 – R’ Chaim’s style in Kuntres HaZichronos 38:09 – Similarities between this work and the Maharil0:00 General Introduction 1:40 – Introduction: Oral Traditions and Pesakim of the Chazon Ish 6:52 – Hanhagos of the Chazon Ish (based on his sister, R’ Chaim’s mother) 7:55 – Minhagim of the Lederman Shul 10:41 – R’ Chaim’s Notes on Maaseh Ish volumes 13:10 – R’ Chaim’s Notes on Rav Steinman material 19:45 – Notes from Rav Bramberger and R’ Chaim 21:58 – Rav Tieger’s Derech Ish 22:56 – Introduction to Kuntres HaZichronos 33:27 – R’ Zorach Schapira 36:00 – R’ Chaim’s style in Kuntres HaZichronos 38:09 – Similarities between this work and the Maharil

0:00 Introduction 1:20 About the sefer & why he wrote it 11:03 Sources 12:00 Bitul Torah 15:40 Zerizus 18:06 Mikvah 21:20 Overspending 23:20 Beards & shaving 32:10 Success comes from learning a lot 33:28 R’ Yehoshua Heller 35:30 Chinuch: when & how 38:05 Hitting children 44:20 Tefilah 45:30 Mitzvos b’simcha & doing more 46:40 Kavod of a talmid chacham 48:57 Ruach Hakodesh

1:53 – Intro 3:40 – Key sources 5:40 – Yichus 6:56 – Connection to R' Meshulam Igra 9:27 – Rav of Lissa 13:53 – Financial status 15:30 – Ties to Gedolim 18:40 – Chayei Adam on him 20:24 – Why he became so popular 23:40 – Nesivos & relationship with Ketzos 31:23 – Chavas Daas on Yoreh Deah 34:10 – Mekor Chaim 36:16 – Beis Yaakov on Kesubos 36:56 – Toras Gittin 37:44 – Derech Chaim 38:28 – Ethical will & practical halacha 43:18 – R’ Akiva Eiger & Derech Chaim 52:00 – Commentary on Megillos 52:24 – Haggadah Shel Pesach 53:15 – Other works 53:52 – Teshuvos 55:24 – More on ethical will

0:00 Introduction 1:04 – Censorship in Margoliyos HaYam 3:15 – Intro: Visit to the Rambam Library 5:12 – Early Life 6:47 – His Seforim Store & Publishing Torah Works 9:17 – Prolific Writer of Torah 10:03 – Relationship with R' Meir Arik 12:10 – Beginning of His Writing Career 15:02 – Earliest Published Work on the Maharsha 16:56 – Work on the Or HaChaim HaKadosh 19:04 – Sefer Chassidim & R' Yehudah HaChassid 20:17 – Shut Min HaShamayim 21:20 – Nefesh Chayah 22:45 – Other Works on the Rishonim 23:27 – Works on Shas 23:37 – Shem Olam 25:00 – His Work Related to the Zohar 27:00 – Works on History & Yesod HaMishnah Ve’Aruchah 29:14 – Work on Lemberg 30:18 – Margoliyos HaYam 31:09 – Librarian 32:08 – His Work on Kabbalah & the Zohar 33:04 – Meeting Rav Kook 36:05 – Work Related to Names

1:24 introduction 2:04 Beraisa D’Meleches HaMishkan and its printing history 5:40 R’ Emanuel Chai Riki 7:08 R’ Avrohom Ben hagra 8:00 R’ Efraim Zalman Margolis 9:11 Malbim 9:45 R’ Chaim Kanievsky on this work 11:32 R’ Chaim’s Introduction 21:59 Menorah Branches 26:30 Learning with visual aid 33:25 R’ Chaim and Teshuvos on Mishkan 35:30 Aron 37:12 R’ Azariah Min HaAdomim 38:29 Shiltei Geborim 40:24 R’ Shachar's Bigdei Kehuna 42:30 Avnei HaChoshen 43:30 Additional works

0:00 Introduction 1:50 Shach 6:20 Shach Manuscript Discovery 10:18 Knesses HaGedolah 12:15 Machane Efraim 15:45 Tumim 21:48 Ketzos HaChoshen 22:59 Nesivos HaMishpat 26:00 Ketzos & Olam HaYeshivos 28:07 Letters of R' Tzvi Pesach Frank To Son 36:54 Bi'ur HaGra 37:52 Oruch HaShulchan To listen to Musings of a Book Collector: https://alldaf.org/series/9440 Listen to full episodes of Musings of a Book Collector: https://eliezerbrodt.com/

1:22 Choshen Mishpat - Introduction 9:06 Tur 9:50 Sefer HaTerumot 12:58 R' Yosef Karo's Introduction & Methods 31:58 Rama 35:05 Darchei Moshe 38:43 Rama's Introduction 45:10 Maharshal & His Methods

0:00 Introduction 2:53 Rama 5:30 Maaglei Tzedek & Early Sources 9:55 Sleep Night of RH 12:50 Bach and R' Yeshua Ibn Shueib 16:48 Gedolim That Slept 18:17 Did Arizal Sleep? 18:37 Arizal In His Sleep 22:20 Magen Avraham 25:10 Deeper Insight into the Day Of Rosh Hashanah Contradictions of the day, is it a day of Din or of Simcha? 33:58 R' Yeshua Ibn Shueib Rosh Hashanah Drasha 41:05 The Lost Yerushalmi 4:53 Torah Temimah's Theory 47:15 Getting Up Early - Source of Yerushalmi 48:30 Sleeping Second day 49:24 Lo Tenachashu 49:55 Additional reasons For Minhag 50:30 New Discovery of Early Source

0:14 Moshe Schwed Intro 1:54 Eliezer Brodt Intro 3:50 R' Uri's background 5:45 Developing relationship with R' Chaim 9:24 R' Chaim's special room 12:30 Which seforim did you edit? 13:40 Videos with R' Chaim? 15:50 R' Chaim paid for the work? 16:50 Reprinting of the Shoneh Halochos 19:00 Nezer Hachaim 21:55 L'Dofkei B'Teshuva 25:00 Over 2000 comments from R' Chaim 29:00 Derech Ish on the Chazon Ish 35:00 Closing questions

0:00 General Introduction 4:22 General Sources On Agadah 7:30 Who was Rabbah Bar Bar Chana 8:19 Attacks on Agadah Gemarah throughout history 11:00 Did they actually happen? 15:50 Nevuah or Dream 17:50 Comic Relief; Wake Up The Audience. 18:40 Derech Guzmah and Not Literal 20:15 Kuzari's Approach 20:40 Ramban In His Famous Debate 21:51 Shelah; Deeper Meaning to Agadah 25:40 Rambam; Planned Work on Agadah 27:33 Rashba's Approach 29:35 R' Shlomo Zalman Auerbach's Approach 34:05 Literature devoted to Rabbah Bar Bar Chana 37:49 Darchei Noam 39:50 R' Boskovitz 42:34 Gra's work 46;00 R' Eliyahu Gutmacher's

1:41 Kuntres Zichronos of R' Chaim about the Chazon Ish 2:55 What did R' Chaim do? 5:03 Mishna Berurah in the name of the Arizal 5:50 Shulchan Oruch Harav 7:35 What are the origins? 9:03 Rambam 11:02 Knesset HaGedolah and Olas Tamid 12:28 Magen Avrohom and Arizal 14:00 Source of the Magen Avhrhom in the name of Arizal 16:55 Achronim on Magen Avrohom in שמ'ג, Gemarah in Menchos 19:45 R' Yaakov Emden 20;26 Chida and Derech Chaim 27:20 Rashi In Shabbos 29:00 Every Minute that a Mezuzah is a Mitzvah 33:00 Thinking about 6 Mitzvos Temedios in the Bathroom? 34:30 Dovid Hamelech and sleeping when learning 35:40 A Melech Sleeping with a Sefer Torah and the Rambam 40:50 The Aderes and time of story of Dovid Hamelech in the bathhouse 42:40 Chazon Ish wearing a Talis for Maariv 43:16 Kabbalah and wearing a Talis Gadol at night

1:55 Mezzuzah Hanging; Straight or Slanted 3:56 Gra Opinion 5:20 Chazon Ish Opinion 6:10 Minhag of R' Chaim 7:15 Minhag in Worms 10:33 Checking Tefilin & Mezuzahs; How Often? 11:38 Mezuzahs and Magic 13:12 Checking Tefilin and Mezuzah 20:53 Chazon Ish Opinion 21:49 Minhag of Checking in Elul 22:30 Derush Sefer Shar Hamelech 24:18 Limud Zechus for those not checking 31:20 Techeiles 37:33 R' Chaim Kuntrus about Lefties 40:27 Wearing Rabbenu Tam Tefilin 43:15 Wearing Tefilin All Day 44:12 R' Chaim & Artzos Hachaim of Malbim

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0:00 Introducing Season 3 - R' Chaim and the 7 Masechtos 5:50 What are these Masechtas? 7:02 Maseches Gerim in Print 9:02 Why was't it published in 1714? 10:14 Chida & Maseches Gerim 11:30 Chida publishes Maseches Gerim 11:40 First Peirush Nachlas Yaakov 12;28 R' Avrohom Ben HaGra 13:13 Chida publishes second time with more material 13:55 First serious work on with these Masechtos 14:50 Are there other similar Masechtos? The Chida 18:14 -R' Avrohom ben HaGra and Gra about 7 Masechtos 21:10 First complete edition of 7 Masechthos 22:40 Vilna Shas publishes 7 Masechtos 23:18 Other works on 7 Masechtos 24:10 Hieger edition of 7 Masechtos 24:43 Mechon Talmud Yisraeli edition 26:25 Rishonim who had these works 27:17 Did Rambam have these works? How early are these works?

2:00 Letters between R' Chaim and R' Neventzal & their relationship 10:00 Letter related to Kabbalah 12:55 Saying not like Rishonim 16:50 Letters between R' Chaim and R' Simcha Waldenberg 18:05 Learning with a lamp on Shabbas 20:10 Longer Letters of R' Chaim 21:20 Teshuvos of R' Chaim: Daas Noteh 24:20 Contradictions in Letters of R' Chaim 26:20 Goals of Daas Noteh project 29:00 R' Tiger and his letters with R' Chaim 30:40 A Rav giving reasons for his Pesak 32:20 Benefits of writing briefly 34:00 Contradiction between R' Chaim Seforim and his Teshuvos 38:00 R' Chaim and Teshuvos of the Rogatchover Gaon An ALL TORAH original podcast. email: eliezerbrodt@gmail.com | schwedm@ou.org

00:00 Introduction 5:22 Doing Chessed vs Writing Seforim 13:52 Marbitz Torah vs sacrificing your own Torah learning 15:00 Rebbe gaining from Talmid - Hafla'ah 15:55 R' Zilberberg's letter 18:20 Why Rabbanim answer questions from people not part of their Kehilah? 19:27 What is a Rav? - Minsker Gadol 20:38 Responding to letters in all areas was the Chazarah for R' Chaim 26:00 Lengthy Teshuvas - "speaking in learning" 27:32 Correspondence between R' Dov Landau and R' Chaim [over 100 letters] 38:35 Davening Vaskin 39:38 Aveilus and R' Yechiel Michel Tukitchinsky 41:50 Purim related letter 46:49 New sefer An ALL TORAH original podcast email: eliezerbrodt@gmail.com

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00:00 Introduction 2:55 - Clarifications and Additions to Likut Seforim episode 9:20 - Letters of R' Chaim 15:12 - Samples of Letters of R Chaim; Using Works of Saul Leiberman and R' Kehati 17:59 - Why does R' Chaim spend so much time answering questions? 22:20 - Serving the Tzibur at the expense of writing Seforim 25:00 - Rav's obligations to answering questions 30:00 - What the Aderet did when his Kehila was behind on paying him 33:38 - R' Chaim Volozhiner's Legacy: The Nefesh Hachaim 37:00 R Mordechai Gimpel Yafeh's Mesorah from Volozhin 45:20 New Sefer An ALL TORAH original podcast email: eliezerbrodt@gmail.com

0:00 Introduction 2: 57 - Steipler as a Posek 5:15 - Agunah cases; Paskening along with others 7:02 - Adnei Paz - Rabbonim who said not to rely on their own Seforim 7:38 - Pri Megadim 8:47 - Hafla'ah 9:19 - Nesivos 9:32 - R' Akiva Eiger 10:27 - Shach 10:55 - R' Moshe Feinstein 12:52 - R' Shimon Sofer Hisorerus Teshuvah 17:02 - The Maharsham's work 19:08 - Steipler & Maharsham 23:55 - Maharsham's first sefer The following Rabbonim & Maharsham 24:48 - Tchebiner Rav 28:15 - Darchei Teshuvah 29:30 - R' Isser Zalman Meltzer 29:44 - Chofetz Chaim 30:17 - Aderes 31:42 - R' Chaim Berlin 32:30 - R' Kook 35:44 - R' Elyashiv 38:54 - R' Herzog 41:47 - One Above has other plans 45:02 - New Sefer