YUTorah Online

Kaddish #4: What is the origin of Kaddish and why is it recited in Aramaic?

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:

Is the holiday of Chanuka eight days long because of the miracles or because of our commitment?
- Speaker: Rabbi Jonathan Muskat
- Date: Dec 16, 2025
- Venue: Young Israel of Oceanside
  
  Machshava:
  
  Chanukah
- Duration: 13 min
Vayeishev 5786: Thinking Fast and Slow: Reason, Passion, and the Torah’s Model of Leadership
- Speaker: Rabbi Jonathan Muskat
- Date: Dec 14, 2025
- Venue: Young Israel of Oceanside
  
  Parsha:
  
  Vayeishev
- Duration: 8 min
Did Yosef intend to have an affair with the wife of Potiphar?
- Speaker: Rabbi Jonathan Muskat
- Date: Dec 12, 2025
- Venue: Young Israel of Oceanside
  
  Parsha:
  
  Vayeishev
- Duration: 25 min

106a-b: Death of Bilaam
- Speaker: Rabbi Jonathan Muskat
- Date: Dec 12, 2025
- Venue: Young Israel of Oceanside
  
  Gemara:
  
  Aggadeta, Sanhedrin
- Duration: 15 min
If you are away for Shabbat Chanuka and are returning home Saturday night, where should you light the menorah?
- Speaker: Rabbi Jonathan Muskat
- Date: Dec 11, 2025
- Series: Five Minute Halacha
  Venue: Young Israel of Oceanside
  
  Halacha:
  
  Chanukah
- Duration: 9 min
5786 Vayishlach: Wrestling with Angels, Walking with a Limp
- Speaker: Rabbi Jonathan Muskat
- Date: Dec 7, 2025
- Venue: Young Israel of Oceanside
  
  Parsha:
  
  Vayishlach
- Duration: 7 min

Can You Tithe Your Time? Volunteering and Pro Bono Work as Maaser
- Speaker: Rabbi Aryeh Roberts
- Date: Dec 18, 2025
- Venue: Cong. Agudath Sholom (Stamford, CT)
  
  Gemara:
  
  Berachot
  
  Halacha:
  
  Tefillah
  
  Machshava:
  
  Tefillah
- Duration: 48 min
Not By Numbers But By Conviction: The Chanukah Model of Influence
- Speaker: Rabbi Shay Schachter
- Date: Dec 18, 2025
- Venue: Yeshivah of Flatbush Joel Braverman High School
  
  Halacha:
  
  Chanukah, Kiddush Hashem
  
  Machshava:
  
  Chanukah, Hashem, Tefillah
  
  Parsha:
  
  Re'eh, Shemot
- Duration: 29 min
The Zohar and Mrs. Cooperman
- Speaker: Rabbi Mordechai Torczyner
- Date: Dec 18, 2025
- Venue: Eitz Chaim of Dogwood Park
  
  Machshava:
  
  Chanukah, Tefillah
- Duration: 6 min

Viduy and beyond: Practical guidance on escorting patients/families through the last moments of life and immediately after death
- Speaker: Rabbi Dr. Jason Weiner
- Date: Dec 17, 2025
- Halacha:
  
  Death and Burial, Medicine, Teshuvah
  
  Machshava:
  
  Tefillah, Teshuva
  
  Parsha:
  
  Balak, Naso, Shelach
- Duration: 1 hr 13 min
Hallel HaMiztri: What is its Theme? Why it is the Paradigm of Praise for all Holidays?
- Speaker: Rabbi Jonathan Ziring
- Date: Dec 17, 2025
- Venue: Yeshivat Migdal HaTorah
  
  Machshava:
  
  Tefillah
  
  Nach:
  
  Tehillim
- Duration: 48 min
My Tefilah
- Speaker: Rabbi Moshe Aberman
- Date: Dec 17, 2025
- Venue: Efrat Kollel
  
  Machshava:
  
  Tefillah
- Duration: 28 min

Comments
0 comments Leave a Comment