YUTorah Online

What Hanukkah is...and What Hanukkah Isn't

00:00 / 00:00

1.0x

speed

Update Required To play the media you will need to either update your browser to a recent version or update your Flash plugin.

More from this:

Torah and General Culture: When the Torah Met Greek Philosophy (Part 2)
- Speaker: Rabbi Dr. Jeffrey Woolf
- Date: Jan 6, 2026
- Venue: Yeshivat Eretz HaTzvi
  
  Machshava:
  
  History, Modern Orthodoxy, Philosophy of Halacha, Secular Studies, Torah U'Madda
  
  Personalities:
  
  Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks, Rav Yosef Dov Soloveitchik
- Duration: 1 hr 4 min
When the Torah Met Philosophy (Part I)
- Speaker: Rabbi Dr. Jeffrey Woolf
- Date: Dec 9, 2025
- Venue: Yeshivat Eretz HaTzvi
  
  Halacha:
  
  Jewish Calendar
  
  Machshava:
  
  Chassidut, Tefillah, Torah, Torah U'Madda
  
  Personalities:
  
  Rav Yosef Dov Soloveitchik
- Duration: 53 min
Defining the Question: The Limits of Torah Study and the Clash of Torah and Science
- Speaker: Rabbi Dr. Jeffrey Woolf
- Date: Nov 25, 2025
- Venue: Yeshivat Eretz HaTzvi
  
  Halacha:
  
  Jewish Calendar, Shema, Talmud
  
  Machshava:
  
  History, Non-Jews, Torah U'Madda
- Duration: 1 hr 1 min

Defining the Question: Torah, General Culture, Parnassah
- Speaker: Rabbi Dr. Jeffrey Woolf
- Date: Nov 18, 2025
- Venue: Yeshivat Eretz HaTzvi
  
  Halacha:
  
  Birchot HaTorah, Shema, Torah
  
  Machshava:
  
  Parnasah, Torah U'Madda
  
  Midrash:
  
  Midrash Tehillim, Sifri
  
  Personalities:
  
  Rav Yosef Dov Soloveitchik
- Duration: 1 hr 7 min
All the World Will be in Love with Night: Nightime, Time and Talmud Torah
- Speaker: Rabbi Dr. Jeffrey Woolf
- Date: May 16, 2022
- Machshava:
  
  History, Torah
  
  Mishna:
  
  Avot
- Duration: 30 min
How Torah Transforms the Conversation (and Dinner)
- Speaker: Rabbi Dr. Jeffrey Woolf
- Date: May 2, 2022
- Machshava:
  
  Ethics
  
  Mishna:
  
  Avot
  
  Personalities:
  
  Rav Yosef Dov Soloveitchik
- Duration: 28 min

The History & Meaning Of Popular Shabbos Zemiros
- Speaker: Rabbi Dovi Fischer
- Date: Feb 2, 2026
- Venue: Jerusalem
  
  Gemara:
  
  General, Shabbat
  
  Halacha:
  
  Shabbat, Talmud
  
  Machshava:
  
  History
- Duration: 24 min
Translating the Talmud: Part 2 - The Soncino Translation And The Question of Sharing Torah With Non-Jews
- Speaker: Rabbi Isaac Rice
- Date: Feb 1, 2026
- Venue: Cong. Anshei Chesed (Hewlett, NY)
  
  Halacha:
  
  Talmud, Torah
  
  Machshava:
  
  History, Torah
- Duration: 34 min
Kesuvos Shiur #46 - Zecher L'Nes, Addition of Kitvei HaKodesh, Shevuas Modeh B'Mikstas (18b)
- Speaker: Rabbi Hershel Schachter
- Date: Jan 29, 2026
- Series: Daily Shiur
  Venue: YU Wilf Campus
  
  Gemara:
  
  Ketuvot
  
  Halacha:
  
  Beit Din, Chanukah, Kiddush and Havdala, Purim, Shabbat, Shvuot and Nedarim, Tfillin
  
  Parsha:
  
  Beshalach
- Duration: 1 hr 31 min

Comments
0 comments Leave a Comment