Venue: Young Israel of Forest Hills Young Israel of Forest Hills

Gemara:

Sotah 

Collections: Rabbi Schachter: YIFH Sotah

References: Sotah: 43a  

Description

The mashuach milchama tells people to return home and not fight. Does a dorm room shared with a gentile, require a mezuza? Drafting soldiers younger than 20. Can a kohen who killed an enemy soldier duchan? Why King David did not build the temple. Arlah and netah ravaih in chutz la'aretz. Who is a kuti and a nesin? Can a group of Jews lose their status of Jewishness? Does a Jew who worships an idol lose his Jewishness? What is the nature of grafting trees, grains, and vines? Which prohibition of grafting applies in chutz la'aretz? What is the nature of the prohibition of covetting? Chumash: Yisro- Bnei Yisrael said we will do and we will listen, yet Hashem placed a mountain on them? Rav Shimon Shkop and Rav Chaim answer the contradiction