Venue: Spain Spain

Halacha:

Dateline,  Geirut,  Israel,  Non-Jews,  Taharos 

Machshava:

Ikkarei Emunah,  Kuzari 

Collections: Rabbi Schachter: Jewish Heritage Tour of Spain

Description

Lecture given on a bus, and at dinner. Bus-Rabbi Schachter speaks about the Kuzari-Rabbi Yehuda HaLevi. The Russian government is suppressing evidence that it was the Russian government that converted to Judaism. Why is Judaism more believable than the other religions? We paskin like the Kuzari in several laws. The international date line is determined with Jerusalem in the center of one hemisphere. Why do tameh people today not go to mikvah, while women (nidah) go to mikvah? Why does the torah use the term, tameh, by a sotah? Who authored the Sefer HaChinuch? Dinner- the centrality of eretz yisrael to the fulfillment of mitzvos. Do gentiles contain a Tzelem Elokim? What are the four categories present in the world?Is there a fifth category