Rabbi Dr. Aaron Rakeffet-Rothkoff Search for all shiurim More info Shiurim & Articles (1833) General Featured Series Venues Categories Collections Favorites Filter Type: AllAudioVideoText Duration: AllUp to 5 mins5-15 mins15 mins + Date uploaded: AllTodayThis weekThis month Language: AllEnglishHebrew * Filters do not affect the collections tab Recently Added Volozhin Yeshiva. Haskalah Publications. Not all Volozhin Students Were on the Same Level. Bialik in the Yeshiva. How He Lived in Two Worlds. Bialik's Oneg Shabbat & Poetry. Shutting Down Roads is Not Acceptable. The Rav on Matan Torah. Speaker: Rabbi Dr. Aaron Rakeffet-Rothkoff Date: Jun 10, 2024 Venue: YU Israel History: 19th Century CE, Duration: 1 h 51 min Download Play Later Play Now Volozhin Yeshiva. Haskalah Publications. Not all Volozhin Students Were on the Same Level. Bialik in the Yeshiva. How He Lived in Two Worlds. Bialik's Oneg Shabbat & Poetry. Shutting Down Roads is Not Acceptable. The Rav on Matan Torah. Speaker: Rabbi Dr. Aaron Rakeffet-Rothkoff Date: Jun 09, 2024 Venue: YU Israel Halacha: Kibud Av v'Aim, Mekorot / Responsa Literature, Duration: 1 h 37 min Download Play Later Play Now Volozhin Yeshiva. A Moving Description of the More Emotional Aspects of the Members of the Yeshiva Discussed Along With a Description of Bialik in the Yeshiva. Camaraderie and Kinship But Also Machloket and Romance. Abba Blusher's Memoir as a Source. Speaker: Rabbi Dr. Aaron Rakeffet-Rothkoff Date: Jun 03, 2024 Venue: YU Israel History: 19th Century CE, Duration: 1 h 46 min Download Play Later Play Now R' Menashe Klein: Mishneh Halakhot 13:150-153: How to Bring Russian Jews in Moscow Closer to Torah and Mitzvot. The Danger of Relying on Emotion in Making Decisions. An Evaluation of Conversion-גרות. The Greater Importance of Chukim over Mishpatim. Speaker: Rabbi Dr. Aaron Rakeffet-Rothkoff Date: Jun 02, 2024 Venue: YU Israel Halacha: Kibud Av v'Aim, Mekorot / Responsa Literature, Duration: 1 h 38 min Download Play Later Play Now The 30th Day Memorial for Menachem Nussbaum, a Dear Friend of Rav Aaron Rakeffet for Over 80 Years. (Hebrew) — אזכרה לרגל שלושים של מנחם נוסבאום, חברו היקר של הרב אהרון רקפת למעלה מ-80 שנה. (בעִברִית) Speaker: Rabbi Dr. Aaron Rakeffet-Rothkoff Date: May 29, 2024 Personalities: Hespedim, Duration: 38 min Download Play Later Play Now Volozhin Yeshiva. R' Chaim Soloveitchik. Descriptions of the Various Ways R' Chaim Was so Unique. Other Gedolim in His Time. R' Chaim's Attraction to Chassidut. Speaker: Rabbi Dr. Aaron Rakeffet-Rothkoff Date: May 27, 2024 Venue: YU Israel History: 19th Century CE, Duration: 1 h 31 min Download Play Later Play Now More Top Lectures R' Menashe Klein: Mishneh Halachot: Modern Parents Order Their Daughter Not to Marry a Young Talmid Chacham Who is Not "Modern." Speaker: Rabbi Dr. Aaron Rakeffet-Rothkoff Date: Feb 04, 2024 Venue: YU Israel Halacha: Family & Ishut, Kibud Av v'Aim, Mekorot / Responsa Literature, Machshava: Mussar, Duration: 1 h 37 min Download Play Later Play Now Washington Demonstration: March for Israel: R' Aharon Feldman's Response. Pidyon Shvuyim Applied to the Gaza Hostages. Mishneh Halachot 16:58 R' Menashe Klein on Whether a Medical Practitioner Should Report a Battered Child to the Police Speaker: Rabbi Dr. Aaron Rakeffet-Rothkoff Date: Nov 26, 2023 Venue: YU Israel Halacha: Mekorot / Responsa Literature, Duration: 1 h 55 min Download Play Later Play Now How To Deal With The Contemporary War In Israel (Simchat Torah 2023) - Audio Only Speaker: Rabbi Dr. Aaron Rakeffet-Rothkoff Date: Oct 11, 2023 Venue: YU Israel Machshava: Israel, Duration: 22 min Download Play Later Play Now Rav Hershel Schachter's Unique Opinions. Chachmei Lublin Yeshiva After R' Meir Shapiro, After the War, and After the Fall of Communism. Some of the Yeshiva's Survivors. Advice to Prime Minister Netanyahu Speaker: Rabbi Dr. Aaron Rakeffet-Rothkoff Date: Sep 11, 2023 History: 20th Century CE, Duration: 1 h 36 min Download Play Later Play Now Chachmei Lublin Yeshiva After R' Meir Shapiro: Individuals Who Were Considered as Possible Successors to Rav Shapiro and Rav Shapiro's Actual Successors. Comments on Israel: Jewish State or State of Jews? Speaker: Rabbi Dr. Aaron Rakeffet-Rothkoff Date: Sep 04, 2023 Venue: YU Israel History: 20th Century CE, Duration: 1 h 43 min Download Play Later Play Now Chachmei Lublin Yeshiva After R' Meir Shapiro. An Analysis of the Political Conflict in Israel Today Speaker: Rabbi Dr. Aaron Rakeffet-Rothkoff Date: Aug 28, 2023 Venue: YU Israel History: 20th Century CE, Duration: 1 h 55 min Download Play Later Play Now More The Creation of Daf Yomi and its Success Speaker: Rabbi Dr. Aaron Rakeffet-Rothkoff Date: Apr 17, 2023 Venue: YU Israel History: 20th Century CE, Duration: 1 h 43 min Download Play Later Play Now Sparks of History: Rabbi Aharon Kotler and Rabbi Yosef Dov Soloveitchik Speaker: Rabbi Dr. Aaron Rakeffet-Rothkoff Date: Sep 02, 2022 History: 20th Century CE, Personalities: Rav Yosef Dov Soloveitchik, Duration: 36 min Download Play Later Play Now Yerushalyim - Coming Home to Kedushah and Gevurah Speaker: Rabbi Dr. Aaron Rakeffet-Rothkoff Date: Jul 26, 2020 Venue: Yeshivat Hakotel Holidays: Tisha Bav, Duration: 28 min Download Play Later Play Now Giving the Torah Within Human Reality: The One Time That Rav Moshe Soloveitchik Expounded on Homiletics Speaker: Rabbi Dr. Aaron Rakeffet-Rothkoff Date: May 27, 2020 Duration: 48 min Download Play Later Play Now Revisiting the History of Yeshiva University Speaker: Rabbi Dr. Aaron Rakeffet-Rothkoff Date: Jul 21, 2019 Venue: Cong. Shaaray Tefila (Lawrence, NY) History: 20th Century CE, Duration: 52 min Download Play Later Play Now SPECIAL SHIUR - Zach Baumel, ז'ל - History and Halakhah Speaker: Rabbi Dr. Aaron Rakeffet-Rothkoff Date: Apr 07, 2019 Venue: YU Israel History: 20th Century CE, 21st Century CE, Halacha: War, Death and Burial, Duration: 1 h 33 min Download Play Later Play Now Special Lecture - "The Rav in Berlin: Influences that lasted a lifetime" Speaker: Rabbi Dr. Aaron Rakeffet-Rothkoff Date: Oct 29, 2018 Venue: YU Israel History: 20th Century CE, Personalities: Rav Yosef Dov Soloveitchik, Duration: 1 h 47 min Download Play Later Play Now The History of Yeshiva University Revisited Speaker: Rabbi Dr. Aaron Rakeffet-Rothkoff Date: Jul 29, 2018 Venue: Cong. Beth Abraham (Bergenfield, NJ) History: 20th Century CE, Duration: 1 h 26 min Download Play Later Play Now The Soloveichik Family and Yeshiva University Speaker: Rabbi Dr. Aaron Rakeffet-Rothkoff Date: Mar 07, 2018 Personalities: Rav Yosef Dov Soloveitchik, Duration: 1 h 13 min Download Play Later Play Now Is the YU / Dati Leumi Jew a Dying Breed? Speaker: Rabbi Dr. Aaron Rakeffet-Rothkoff Date: Jan 07, 2018 Venue: North Miami Beach, FL Machshava: Modern Orthodoxy, Duration: 1 h 8 min Download Play Later Play Now Rav Ovadia Yosef on Heter Mamzerut Speaker: Rabbi Dr. Aaron Rakeffet-Rothkoff Date: Dec 30, 2017 Venue: Young Israel of Hollywood-Ft. Lauderdale Halacha: Even Haezer, Duration: 1 h Download Play Later Play Now The Halachik Implication of a Hold-up Speaker: Rabbi Dr. Aaron Rakeffet-Rothkoff Date: Oct 22, 2017 Venue: YU Israel Halacha: Mekorot / Responsa Literature, Duration: 1 h 37 min Download Play Later Play Now Shiur in Moscow - The Living Tradition of Torah Speaker: Rabbi Dr. Aaron Rakeffet-Rothkoff Date: Jul 04, 2017 Duration: 1 h 4 min Download Play Later Play Now The Message of Jerusalem Speaker: Rabbi Dr. Aaron Rakeffet-Rothkoff Date: May 07, 2017 Venue: YU Israel Machshava: Israel, History, Zionism, Geulah, Duration: 1 h 9 min Download Play Later Play Now The Roaring Twenties: The Seeds That Blossom Into Yeshiva University Speaker: Rabbi Dr. Aaron Rakeffet-Rothkoff Date: Jan 23, 2017 Venue: YU Israel History: 20th Century CE, Machshava: History, Duration: 1 h 35 min Download Play Later Play Now A Synthesis Between Yeshiva University's Gruss Kollel and Kiev Speaker: Rabbi Dr. Aaron Rakeffet-Rothkoff Date: Nov 01, 2016 Venue: YU Israel Halacha: Family & Ishut, Mekorot / Responsa Literature, Rabbinic Laws, Agunah, Duration: 1 h 5 min Download Play Later Play Now What we can learn from movies Speaker: Rabbi Dr. Aaron Rakeffet-Rothkoff Date: Jun 08, 2016 Duration: 1 h 14 min Download Play Later Play Now My Life as a Mossad Agent Speaker: Rabbi Dr. Aaron Rakeffet-Rothkoff Date: Jan 13, 2016 Venue: Young Israel of Bal Harbour (Florida) History: 20th Century CE, Duration: 1 h 19 min Download Play Later Play Now Pluralism in Hashkafa Speaker: Rabbi Dr. Aaron Rakeffet-Rothkoff Date: Jul 19, 2015 Venue: Cong. Shaaray Tefila (Lawrence, NY) Machshava: Pluralism, Duration: 55 min Download Play Later Play Now The Internet & New Technology Speaker: Rabbi Dr. Aaron Rakeffet-Rothkoff Date: May 31, 2015 Machshava: Science & Medicine, Duration: 24 min Download Play Later Play Now Whom can you Trust Speaker: Rabbi Dr. Aaron Rakeffet-Rothkoff Date: Jan 08, 2015 Machshava: Leadership, Duration: 1 h 11 min Download Play Later Play Now The Chain Has Been Compromised - Torah Life Before Holocaust And Afterwards Speaker: Rabbi Dr. Aaron Rakeffet-Rothkoff Date: Oct 19, 2014 Venue: OU Israel Center History: 20th Century CE, Duration: 1 h 29 min Download Play Later Play Now The Link is Broken Eastern Europe and the Contemporary Torah Civilization Speaker: Rabbi Dr. Aaron Rakeffet-Rothkoff Date: Jul 27, 2014 History: 20th Century CE, Duration: 49 min Download Play Later Play Now Bernard Revel: Builder of American Orthodoxy Speaker: Rabbi Dr. Aaron Rakeffet-Rothkoff Date: May 04, 2014 Series: Kollel Yom Rishon History: 20th Century CE, Personalities: Rabbi Dov Revel, Duration: 1 h 11 min Download Play Later Play Now Dialectic Tension as Torah Thrives in Israel Speaker: Rabbi Dr. Aaron Rakeffet-Rothkoff Date: Jul 14, 2013 Machshava: Israel, Duration: 1 h 7 min Download Play Later Play Now 31-12-2012 Locked in the Freezer on Friday Night Speaker: Rabbi Dr. Aaron Rakeffet-Rothkoff Date: Dec 31, 2012 Venue: YU Israel Series: Gruss Kollel Duration: 1 h 36 min Download Play Later Play Now The Long Hand of the Mossad: The Revival of Russian Jewry Speaker: Rabbi Dr. Aaron Rakeffet-Rothkoff Date: Nov 17, 2012 History: 20th Century CE, Duration: 1 h Download Play Later Play Now 29-10-12 Contemporary Hashkafa - Woman's Aliyot and the Jewish Family Speaker: Rabbi Dr. Aaron Rakeffet-Rothkoff Date: Oct 29, 2012 Venue: YU Israel Series: Gruss Kollel Duration: 1 h 41 min Download Play Later Play Now 2012-3-9 Intro to History of Torah in America Speaker: Rabbi Dr. Aaron Rakeffet-Rothkoff Date: Sep 03, 2012 Venue: YU Israel Series: Gruss Kollel History: 19th Century CE, 20th Century CE, Duration: 1 h 37 min Download Play Later Play Now The Tal Law Speaker: Rabbi Dr. Aaron Rakeffet-Rothkoff Date: Aug 07, 2012 History: 21st Century CE, Machshava: Israel, Duration: 1 h 32 min Download Play Later Play Now BCBM (2) Daily Shiur (34) Kollel Yom Rishon (4) BAYT (Toronto, ON) (2) Beit Midrash Torani Leumi (Beit Shemesh) (1) Boca Raton Synagogue (1) Cong. 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