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Letters For Our Time

Shaul Wertheimer

Timeless messages in the correspondence of the Lubavitcher Rebbe; with Shaul Wertheimer.

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00:41:50

Halacha: Eating Before Davening (cntd.)

Letters For Our Time ·

2025/07/04

What did the Rebbe write to the venerable Chassid who didn’t want to eat before davening, despite doctors orders? Sources: Igros Kodesh, Shulchan Aruch, Shulchan Aruch HaRav, Pri Chodosh as quoted in Machatzis HaShekel, Taz on YD 117. This shiur was an unplanned continuation of the April 24 shiur.

00:18:42

Entebbe at 49 years; what did the Rebbe say about it?

Letters For Our Time ·

2025/07/04

What did the Rebbe say about the daring 1976 rescue in Entebbe? Explore a letter in Igros Kodesh and excerpts from the 12 & 13 Tammuz Farbrengens just a week after the events.

00:34:44

Halacha: Borrowing a Tallis etc. pt.2/2

Letters For Our Time ·

2025/06/26

Continuing last week’s class. Sources: Aruch hashulchan, alter rebbe, Mishnah Berurah, sefer Chassidim, Lubavitcher Rebbe.

00:33:01

A letter from the Rebbe about davening at the grave...

Letters For Our Time ·

2025/06/26

1950 letter

00:27:44

Parshas Shelach Chassidus: Why do Tzitzis need a...

Letters For Our Time ·

2025/06/19

Likkutei Sichos vol.2

00:29:57

Halacha: Borrowing a Tallis etc. pt.1

Letters For Our Time ·

2025/06/19

Is it permissible to borrow someone’s Tallis without their permission? What about tefillin or a sefer? Explore the sources! Part 1 of 2. Tur, Bach, Beis Yosef, Shulchan Aruch and more.

00:32:19

Chassidus: Lema’an Da’as pt.7/7

Letters For Our Time ·

2025/06/13

Wrapping up the 1929 maamer from the Frierdiker Rebbe.

00:38:32

Halacha: Wait— did I bentch?

Letters For Our Time ·

2025/06/13

What do you do if you can’t remember if you said birkas hamazon? Trace the halacha from the Talmud Yerushalmi, Rambam, Shulchan Aruch and more. Bonus: what did the Mitteler Rebbe write about R. Akiva Eiger?

00:33:12

Halacha: Moving a Sefer Torah

Letters For Our Time ·

2025/06/05

Is it permissible to move a sefer Torah to read it in a new location? Is it true that you have to read it 3 times if you do so? Sources: Mishna Yoma, Talmud Yerushalmi, Mordechai, Beis Yosef, Shulchan Aruch, Magen Avraham, Maharam Padwa, Aruch HaShulchan.

00:27:22

Chassidus: Lema’an Da’as pt.6

Letters For Our Time ·

2025/06/05

Why did the Baal Shem Tov point out someone eating?

00:26:04

Chassidus: Lema’an Da’as pt.5

Letters For Our Time ·

2025/06/01

Geshmak maamer

00:32:15

Laundry & Trash Before Davening? (Halacha)

Letters For Our Time ·

2025/05/26

Explore the sources; come away with the practical halacha.

00:20:35

Chassidus: Lema’an Da’as pt.4

Letters For Our Time ·

2025/05/26

1929 maamer from the Previous Rebbe.

00:35:15

Lag BaOmer in halacha & beyond

Letters For Our Time ·

2025/05/16

Explore Lag BaOmer in Halacha and beyond.

00:14:36

Chassidus: Lemaan Da’as pt.3

Letters For Our Time ·

2025/05/16

1929 maamer by Previous Rebbe

00:28:54

Chassidus: Lemaan Da’as pt.2

Letters For Our Time ·

2025/05/08

Continuing the 1929 maamer from the Frierdiker Rebbe.

00:32:29

Guns in Shul (Halacha)

Letters For Our Time ·

2025/05/08

May one bring a gun into a shul? Sources: Tashbatz, Beis Yosef, Shulchan Aruch, Magen Avraham, Taz, Piskei Teshuvos

00:43:18

Parshas Kedoshim: Is there anyone I can hate?

Letters For Our Time ·

2025/05/07

Love your neighbor as yourself. But isn’t there anyone I can hate?? Maybe just one guy? Sources: Rambam Hilchos De’os 6:5; Pesachim 113a; Magen Avraham to O.C. 157; Tanya ch.32. Amazing story about Rabbi Shalom Lipskier, who passed away last Shabbos.

00:41:11

Birthright Israel: Why Did Moshe Want to Enter the...

Letters For Our Time ·

2025/04/30

Based on a statement of Rav Simlai in Sotah 14a. Teachings from the Tur, Bach, Alshich.

00:23:41

Chassidus: Lema’an Da’as pt.1

Letters For Our Time ·

2025/04/24

This maamer was delivered by the Previous Rebbe in Shemini Atzeres 1929, during a visit to New York. This maamer will give you a kick in the rear!

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