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Are 2 Half-Stories Better than 1? Exploring the Hashkafa Messages behind the Nissim of Chanukka

Speaker:: Rabbi Tanchum Cohen
Date:: December 17 2019

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Venue: YU High School for Boys YU High School for Boys

Gemara:

Shabbat

Machshava:

Chanukah, Maharal

References: Shabbat: 21b , Tanach: Tehillim 107 , Pnei Yeshoshua: Shabbas 21b

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A shiur shared with 11th-graders at MTA during the week preceding Chanukka.

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- Speaker: Rabbi Tanchum Cohen
- Date: Dec 2, 2025
- Venue: Cong. Beth Abraham (Bergenfield, NJ)
  
  Gemara:
  
  Shabbat
  
  Halacha:
  
  Brit Milah, Health, Jewish Calendar, Rabbinic Laws, Science & Medicine, Yoreh Deah
  
  Mishna:
  
  Shabbat, Terumot
- Duration: 46 min
כתובה ושובר, חצי־שיעור א׳ | Kesubos shiur #24
- Speaker: Rabbi Tanchum Cohen
- Date: Dec 2, 2025
- Series: Daily Shiur
  Venue: YU High School for Boys
  
  Gemara:
  
  Ketuvot
  
  Halacha:
  
  Beit Din, Business, Shtarot
- Duration: 15 min
White Shirts and a Tzahal Uniform: Bitachon and the Jewish Army, from Yaacov Avinu until Today
- Speaker: Rabbi Tanchum Cohen
- Date: Dec 1, 2025
- Series: Daily Shiur
  Venue: YU High School for Boys
  
  Halacha:
  
  Beit Din, War
  
  History:
  
  Roman Period
  
  Machshava:
  
  Bitachon, History, Israel, Ramban, Religious Zionism, Spirituality, The Avos
  
  Midrash:
  
  Midrash Rabbah - Megilot, Midrash Rabbah - Torah, Midrash Tanchuma
  
  Parsha:
  
  Vayishlach
- Duration: 31 min

מגו והפה שאסר, שיעור ח׳ [חקירה במיגו: מציאות פסיכ׳ היוצרת רוב, או הרחבת הנאמנות מהחפצא דהטענה לכללות הגברא - וט׳ נפק״מ] | Kesubos shiur #23 - sugya finale
- Speaker: Rabbi Tanchum Cohen
- Date: Nov 25, 2025
- Series: Daily Shiur
  Venue: YU High School for Boys
  
  Gemara:
  
  Bava Batra, Ketuvot, Kiddushin
  
  Halacha:
  
  Beit Din, Choshen Mishpat, Even Haezer, Family & Ishut, Kohanim
  
  History:
  
  10 - 15th Centuries CE
  
  Personalities:
  
  Rambam
- Duration: 1 hr 9 min
Liquefying Fatty Empanadas, Scooping Held Cholent, Basting Hot Roasts and Baking Inedible Ceramics: Loose Ends of Meleches Bishul | Hilchos Shabbas #9 (Orach Chaim 318:16,18-19)
- Speaker: Rabbi Tanchum Cohen
- Date: Nov 24, 2025
- Series: YU Undergrad Chabura
  Venue: YU Wilf Campus
  
  Gemara:
  
  Beitza, Shabbat
  
  Halacha:
  
  Bishul, Contemporary Issues, Orach Chaim, Science & Medicine, Shabbat, Technology
  
  Personalities:
  
  Rambam
- Duration: 1 hr 12 min
Personal Protection, National Permanence, Extraordinary Potential: Deeper Meanings of Yaacov's Ladder [Ramban on Vayeitzei]
- Speaker: Rabbi Tanchum Cohen
- Date: Nov 24, 2025
- Series: Daily Shiur
  Venue: YU High School for Boys
  
  Gemara:
  
  Aggadeta, Chullin
  
  Machshava:
  
  Galut, Geulah, History, Israel, Non-Jews, Prophecy, Ramban, Spirituality, The Avos
  
  Nach:
  
  Daniel, Tehillim, Zecharia
- Duration: 32 min

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- Speaker: Rabbi Yehoshua Grunstein
- Date: Dec 11, 2025
- Gemara:
  
  Bava Batra, Shabbat
  
  Halacha:
  
  Chanukah, Tefillah
- Duration: 9 min
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- Speaker: Rabbi Yehoshua Rubenstein
- Date: Today
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  Chanukah, Torah
  
  Parsha:
  
  Vayeitzei
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- Speaker: Rabbi Aryeh Cohen
- Date: Today
- Machshava:
  
  Chanukah, Israel, Shabbat, Torah
  
  Holidays:
  
  Kislev
  
  Parsha:
  
  Vayishlach
- Duration: 48 min

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- Date: Today
- Machshava:
  
  Chanukah, Ikkarei Emunah
- Duration: 33 min
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- Speaker: Ari Mirzoeff
- Date: Today
- Halacha:
  
  Chanukah
  
  Machshava:
  
  Chanukah, Tefillah, Torah
  
  Holidays:
  
  Kislev
  
  Parsha:
  
  Vayishlach
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- Speaker: Rabbi Yehoshua Grunstein
- Date: Today
- Gemara:
  
  Shabbat
  
  Halacha:
  
  Chanukah, Contemporary Issues, Tefillah
  
  Machshava:
  
  Chanukah
  
  Mishna:
  
  Bava Kamma
- Duration: 8 min

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