History:

18th Century CE,  19th Century CE,  20th Century CE 

Collections: R' Schachter Jewish Heritage Tour of Germany

Description

Shiur given on a bus in Frankfurt. What were some of the charamim of Rabinu Gershom? Is divorcing one's wife of thirty years to marry one's young secretary biblically prohibited? What is the nature of the rule - ein shaliach l'dvar aveira? Can one appoint a shaliach to sell a Israeli field to a gentile? For how long was R Gershom's cherem to not marry two wives? Should one assume that what one's friend tells him, is in confidence? Should one publish a sefer without a haskama from a talmid chacham? To whom did the Chasam Sofer refer to as Acher? Is sturgeon kosher? On which laws did the first reform rabbis pick on? Is telling a gentile to perform a gezeira on shabbos a shvus deshvus? Did the Chasam Sofer change his mind regarding the eruv?