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Machshavah Lab

Rabbi Matt Schneeweiss

My name is Rabbi Matt Schneeweiss. My goal as a Torah educator is not merely to teach my students my OWN hashkafah. Rather, my goal is to equip them with the foundations, the methodological training, and the tools which will enable them to arrive at their OWN understanding of Judaism and cultivate their OWN relationship with Hashem and His Torah. This podcast is devoted to the shiurim I give which are geared specifically towards that end. As such, the range of topics covered here will be diverse

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87:17

Ralbag's Sixteen Toalos (Lessons) from Megilas Rus...

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2024/06/07

Have any questions, insights, or feedback? Send me a text!Length: 1 hour 23 minutesSynopsis: This morning (6/7/24), in our Friday morning Machshavah Lab shiurim for women, we decided to do a sequel to our Megilas Esther shiurim from earlier this year. As is his style, the Ralbag concludes sections of his Biblical commentaries with "toalos" (a.k.a. lessons) in halacha, middos, and philosophical ideas which he gleans from the text. He concludes Megilas Esther with 16 such lessons. Since this nu...

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60:23

She'eilas Shalom ba'Shem Greeting in the Name of God...

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2024/06/07

Have any questions, insights, or feedback? Send me a text!Length: 1 hourSynopsis: This morning (6/7/24) we continued our analysis of the sugya we started on Wednesday night. After reviewing the facts and questions, we set out to define - or at least, attempt to define - the two main disagreements: (1) What was the structure of the takanah? (2) Which name of Hashem was this in reference to? I shared the various approaches that my chavrusa and I developed, and although we didn't manage to defin...

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Avos 4:5 - Sforno and Rashbatz on the Permissibility...

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2024/06/07

Have any questions, insights, or feedback? Send me a text!Length: 1 hour 39 minutesSynopsis: Tonight (6/6/24), in our Thursday night Pirkei Avos shiur for women, we continued our analysis of the mishnah about deriving worldly benefit from words of Torah. After a VERY brief review of the Rambam, to which Parts 1 and 2 were devoted, we examined the opposition as formulated by two Rishonim. Sforno provided a clean, straightforward argument which demonstrated a completely different framework from...

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5:33

Rabbi Moskowitz Memory #7: Immortality in This World

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2024/06/06

Have any questions, insights, or feedback? Send me a text!In honor of the second yahrzeit of my rebbi, Rabbi Morton Moskowitz zt"l, I will be reposting all the "Rabbi Moskowitz Memory” Facebook posts that I wrote during the week of his passing.Rabbi Moskowitz Memory #7: Immortality in This WorldLength of article: 2 pagesLength of audio: 4 minutes 40 secondsSynopsis: This is the last of the Facebook posts I wrote during the period immediately following the death of my rebbi zt"l. Like the othe...

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Rabbi Moskowitz Memory #6: His True Memorial

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2024/06/06

Have any questions, insights, or feedback? Send me a text!In honor of the second yahrzeit of my rebbi, Rabbi Morton Moskowitz zt"l, I will be reposting all the "Rabbi Moskowitz Memory” Facebook posts that I wrote during the week of his passing. I’m not going to edit any of them unless I find a typo. I want to preserve the spontaneous writing I did during that intense period of grieving.Rabbi Moskowitz Memory #6: His True MemorialLength of article: 4 pagesLength of audio: 8 minutes 22 secondsS...

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66:42

She'eilas Shalom ba'Shem (Greeting in the Name of...

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2024/06/06

Have any questions, insights, or feedback? Send me a text!Length: 1 hour 6 minutesSynopsis: This evening (6/5/24), in lieu of our Wednesday night Tehilim/Tefilah shiur, we took up a halachic topic: the takanah (Rabbinic enactment) to greet one's fellow with the name of Hashem. This topic is so dense, intricate, and intertwined that we spent the entire time going through the facts and raising questions. We're going to TRY to do Part 2 on Friday morning (because if we don't, there's a VERY good...

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3:57

Rabbi Moskowitz Memory #05b: Addendum - Fat Guys in...

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2024/06/05

Have any questions, insights, or feedback? Send me a text!In honor of the second yahrzeit of my rebbi, Rabbi Morton Moskowitz zt"l, I will be reposting all the "Rabbi Moskowitz Memory” Facebook posts that I wrote during the week of his passing. I’m not going to edit any of them unless I find a typo. I want to preserve the spontaneous writing I did during that intense period of grieving.Rabbi Moskowitz Memory #05b: Addendum - Fat Guys in the WoodsLength of article: 2 pagesLength of audio: 3 mi...

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8:34

Rabbi Moskowitz Memory #05: Tishah b’Av - The Most...

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2024/06/05

Have any questions, insights, or feedback? Send me a text!In honor of the second yahrzeit of my rebbi, Rabbi Morton Moskowitz zt"l, I will be reposting all the "Rabbi Moskowitz Memory” Facebook posts that I wrote during the week of his passing. I’m not going to edit any of them unless I find a typo. I want to preserve the spontaneous writing I did during that intense period of grieving.Rabbi Moskowitz Memory #05: Tishah b’Av - The Most Enjoyable Day of the SummerLength of article: 3 pagesLeng...

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Rabbi Moskowitz Memory #04: The Hike

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2024/06/04

Have any questions, insights, or feedback? Send me a text!In honor of the second yahrzeit of my rebbi, Rabbi Morton Moskowitz zt"l, I will be reposting all the "Rabbi Moskowitz Memory” Facebook posts that I wrote during the week of his passing. I’m not going to edit any of them unless I find a typo. I want to preserve the spontaneous writing I did during that intense period of grieving.Rabbi Moskowitz Memory #04: The HikeLength of article: 4 pagesLength of audio: 6 minutes 50 secondsSynopsis:...

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Rabbi Moskowitz Memory #03: A Rebbi of Students He...

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2024/06/04

Have any questions, insights, or feedback? Send me a text!In honor of the second yahrzeit of my rebbi, Rabbi Morton Moskowitz zt"l, I will be reposting all the "Rabbi Moskowitz Memory” Facebook posts that I wrote during the week of his passing. I’m not going to edit any of them unless I find a typo. I want to preserve the spontaneous writing I did during that intense period of grieving.Rabbi Moskowitz Memory #03: A Rebbi of Students He Never MetLength of article: 3 pagesLength of audio: 7 min...

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Rabbi Moskowitz Memory #02: Burying My Rebbi Admit...

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2024/06/03

Have any questions, insights, or feedback? Send me a text!In honor of the second yahrzeit of my rebbi, Rabbi Morton Moskowitz zt"l, I will be reposting all the "Rabbi Moskowitz Memory” Facebook posts that I wrote during the week of his passing. I’m not going to edit any of them unless I find a typo. I want to preserve the spontaneous writing I did during that intense period of grieving.Rabbi Moskowitz Memory #02: Burying My Rebbi Admit Tears and Suppressed LaughterLength of article: 4 pagesLe...

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Rabbi Moskowitz Memory #01: Random Learning Session...

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2024/06/03

Have any questions, insights, or feedback? Send me a text!In honor of the second yahrzeit of my rebbi, Rabbi Morton Moskowitz zt"l, I will be reposting all the "Rabbi Moskowitz Memory” Facebook posts that I wrote during the week of his passing. I’m not going to edit any of them unless I find a typo. I want to preserve the spontaneous writing I did during that intense period of grieving.Rabbi Moskowitz Memory #01: Random Learning Session with Ben and Me and 2011Length of article: 2 pagesLength...

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56:11

Bechukosai: Rav Hirsch on the Eight Stages of Going...

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2024/05/31

Have any questions, insights, or feedback? Send me a text!Length: 55 minutesSynopsis: This morning (5/31/24), in the SECOND of our Friday morning Machshavah Lab shiurim for women, we learned Rav Hirsch's elucidation of Chazal's outline of the eight regressive stages of abandoning Torah. I initially planned to give a third shiur this morning on a strange midrash on the phrase "I shall cast your corpses onto the corpses of your idols" (Vayikra 26:30), but we discovered that the midrash was conn...

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Bechukosai: Ibn Kaspi on Why the Written Torah...

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2024/05/31

Have any questions, insights, or feedback? Send me a text!Length: 33 minutesSynopsis: This morning (5/31/24), in the FIRST of our Friday morning Machshavah Lab shiurim for women, we took up an old problem: Why is Olam ha'Ba only mentioned in Torah she'baal Peh but not Torah she'bi'Chsav. I wrote an article a few years ago in which I summarized seven views on this topic from the Rishonim along with one view of my own (see the show notes for a link to the article). I began this morning's shiur ...

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10:08

Behar: The Torah’s Double Standard for Slave Labor...

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2024/05/31

Have any questions, insights, or feedback? Send me a text!Length of the article: 2 pagesLength of the audio: 8 minutes 57 secondsSynopsis: This is the audio version of the 2-page article I published on rabbischneeweiss.substack.com/ on 5/31/24, entitled: Behar: The Torah’s Double Standard for Slave Labor (Part 4: Approach #3). This third and final approach to answering our question about why the Torah permits avodas parech of an eved Canaani is the most radical of them all.-----The Torah cont...

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Avos 4:5 - Rambam's Opposition to Taking Money for...

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2024/05/31

Have any questions, insights, or feedback? Send me a text!Length: 1 hour 33 minutesSynopsis: Tonight (5/30/24), in our Thursday night Pirkei Avos shiur for women, we continued our analysis of the mishnah through the eyes of the Rambam. We began with a VERY in-depth review of everything we covered last time (if you want to skip the review, start around 30 minutes into the shiur). We then read and discussed several additional sources in other works of the Rambam where he discusses this, focusin...

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8:57

Behar: The Torah’s Double Standard for Slave Labor...

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2024/05/29

Have any questions, insights, or feedback? Send me a text!Length of the article: 2 pagesLength of the audio: 7 minutes 46 secondsSynopsis: This is the audio version of the 2-page article I published on rabbischneeweiss.substack.com/ on 5/29/24, entitled: Behar: The Torah’s Double Standard for Slave Labor (Part 3: Approach #2). In this third installment, we examine a second approach to our question about the Torah's double-standard of avodas parech for non-Jewish slaves - one which is the oppo...

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10:36

Behar: The Torah’s Double Standard for Slave Labor...

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2024/05/27

Have any questions, insights, or feedback? Send me a text!Length of the article: 2 pagesLength of the audio: 9 minutes 26 secondsSynopsis: This is the audio version of the 2-page article I published on rabbischneeweiss.substack.com/ on 5/27/24, entitled: Behar: The Torah’s Double Standard for Slave Labor (Part 2: Approach #1). In Part 1 we raised the question of why the Torah only forbids us to work a Jewish slave with avodas parech but not a non-Jewish slave. Part 2 explores one of three app...

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Behar: The Torah’s Double Standard for Slave Labor...

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2024/05/24

Have any questions, insights, or feedback? Send me a text!Length of the article: 1 pageLength of the audio: 5 minutes 16 secondsSynopsis: This is the audio version of the 1-page article I published on rabbischneeweiss.substack.com/ on 5/24/24, entitled: Behar: The Torah’s Double Standard for Slave Labor (Part 1: Questions). The Egyptians oppressed us with a harsh form of labor called "avodas parech." We are prohibited from oppressing Jewish debt-slaves with such labor, but NOT non-Jewish slav...

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94:04

Avos 4:5 - Rambam's Opposition to Taking Money for...

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2024/05/24

Have any questions, insights, or feedback? Send me a text!Length: 1 hour 33 minutesSynopsis: Tonight (5/23/24), in our Thursday night Pirkei Avos shiur for women, we began learning the next mishnah, but our focus was on the Rambam's diatribe - and that really is the most accurate word - against those who take money for Torah. We set out clear objectives and non-objectives. Our main goal for this evening was to read and discuss the Rambam's commentary on this mishnah, trying to understand as m...

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