The Sunday Shiur By Rabbi Yoel Plutchok

By R Yoel Pluchok

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Exploring Halacha and Minhag through the lens of history

Episode Date
When Rabbonim Were Doctors: Is Being a Doctor a Mitzvah?
Jun 07, 2026
IS GOING TO A DOCTOR ASSUR?
Jun 02, 2026
Crisis in Leadership — To Stay or To Go?
May 31, 2026
Were the Early Rebbes Great Talmidei Chachamim?
May 27, 2026
From American Consul to Ger Tzedek — The Warder Cresson Saga
May 24, 2026
Why We Read Rus on Shavuos — The Hidden Story of Dovid HaMelech
May 19, 2026
Closing the Beis Medrash?! — The Pandemic Debate
May 17, 2026
Akdamos — The Story, the Halacha, and the Powerful Piyut
May 17, 2026
Daniel in the Lion’s Den — A Halacha L’maaseh Analysis
May 14, 2026
Bikkur Cholim — Inside Rabbi Akiva Eiger’s World
May 10, 2026
Living to Die — The Pursuit of Kiddush Hashem
May 06, 2026
A Powerful Lag BaOmer Niggun
May 05, 2026
Typhus Epidemic — A Shailah with No Easy Answer
May 03, 2026
Metzitza B’Peh — What Did the Chasam Sofer Really Hold?
Apr 26, 2026
The Talking Fish: Story, Hoax, or Miracle?
Apr 22, 2026
Who Controls Kosher Food? — The Shocking Boycott of 1902
Apr 19, 2026
If Tzaraas Exists Today—Who Has It?
Apr 12, 2026
Loopholes in Halacha? The Case of Mechiras Chometz
Mar 29, 2026
The Chumrah of Being Meikel — A Radical Approach to Unity
Mar 25, 2026
Gebrochtz Unpacked: The Great Pesach Debate
Mar 22, 2026
Brisker Matzos
Mar 18, 2026
The Besamin Rosh: Forgery, Controversy, and Halacha
Mar 15, 2026
Dangerous Shidduchim — R Yehudah HaChasid Part 2
Mar 14, 2026
The Scary Tzava’ah of Rabbi Yehudah HaChasid
Mar 12, 2026
Good Chutzpa
Mar 08, 2026
THE FORGERY EXPOSED — Yerushalmi Kodshim (Part 2)
Mar 07, 2026
An Epic Forgery — The Mystery of Yerushalmi Kodshim
Mar 05, 2026
Haman's Jewish Grandchildren?! The Shocking Twist of Purim History
Mar 01, 2026
Should Sephardim Be Bound by Rabbeinu Gershom?
Feb 22, 2026
The Astonishing Tale of Techiyas HaMeisim & a Purim Shailah
Feb 19, 2026
A Life-Altering Messy Divorce — Rabbeinu Gershom Part 2
Feb 15, 2026
Is Bribery Ever Allowed? A King, a Rabbi… and a Halachic Dilemma
Feb 14, 2026
Changing a Name: Who Can Do It—and When It Actually Helps
Feb 11, 2026
Keeping Secrets: The Cherem of Rabbeinu Gershom
Feb 08, 2026
From the Qumran Caves to Krias HaTorah: The Mysterious Role of Aseres HaDibros
Feb 08, 2026
The Maharsham and His Astonishing Memory
Feb 04, 2026
When Did Two Names Start?
Feb 01, 2026
Can a Name Be Dangerous?
Jan 31, 2026
History, Lashon Hara, and Where We Cross the Line
Jan 25, 2026
Bad Names, Bad Mazal?
Jan 24, 2026
The Steinsaltz Episode: Is History Necessary?
Jan 18, 2026
The Power of a Name: A Parent’s Nevuah
Jan 17, 2026
The Name Debate: Rav Moshe Feinstein and the Maharam Schick
Jan 13, 2026
The Rogatchover Gaon’s Haskamah — Or Did He?
Jan 11, 2026
The Gadol Who Didn’t Wear a Yarmulka?
Jan 10, 2026
Yarmulkas Explained: Why We Wear Yarmulkas
Jan 06, 2026
Reb Yisroel’s Idea — The ArtScroll Story Revisited
Jan 04, 2026
Heartbreaking Sacrifice and Steadfast Commitment: Jewish Soldiers
Jan 03, 2026
Publicly Jewish in Dangerous Times
Jan 01, 2026
Should Translations Be Assur? — The Forgotten Fasts of the Tzadikim
Dec 28, 2025
Draft Evasion: Devastating Consequences
Dec 27, 2025
THE TZANZER ROV'S BOLD SOLUTION TO A KRIAS SHEMA CRISIS
Dec 25, 2025
The Golden Menorah of the Mekubalim
Dec 14, 2025
Friendly Fire: A Halachic Analysis
Dec 13, 2025
Is Kaddish Worth Fighting Over? – Halacha, History
Dec 09, 2025
Did Yehudis Save All the Jews? – Heroic Women & Chanukah
Dec 07, 2025
A Jewish Army & Chilul Shabbos — The Halachic Battlefield
Dec 06, 2025
The Satmar Rebbetzin’s Hesped — Women at Levayos and Cemeteries
Nov 30, 2025
From the Sultan’s Courts to Today: A Mamzer, a Shifcha, and the Secret Halachic Solution.
Nov 29, 2025
Children at Risk: Is There Ever a Time Not to Have Children?
Nov 25, 2025
Women of the Wall – The Legacy of Rashi’s Daughters
Nov 23, 2025
Unmasking a Mamzer? The Halachic Blacklist
Nov 22, 2025
The Nusach Wars — Chasidim and Misnagdim Fight Over the Siddur
Nov 18, 2025
Are Bas Mitzvah Parties Catholic? The Halacha and the History
Nov 16, 2025
LIFE ON THE LINE
Nov 15, 2025
Did the Arizal Become the Rashash - Gilgul
Nov 12, 2025
The Mechitzah Battles A fraught machlokes: Rav Moshe & Satmar
Nov 09, 2025
Double Murder or Lifesaver? The Halachic Debate Behind Modern Heart Transplants
Nov 07, 2025
A Woman’s Role in Shul Kaddish, Participation, and the Mesorah of the Beis Knesses
Nov 03, 2025
Halachically Sanctioned Murder?” — The Siamese-Twins Case and R. Moshe Feinstein’s Ruling
Nov 01, 2025
Nusach Ari - Yiddish, Ladino, and the Kabbalistic Nusach
Oct 29, 2025
“Bais Yaakov+” — Limud Iyun for Women
Oct 26, 2025
The Arizal: His Radiant Light and Its Mark on the Siddur
Oct 25, 2025
Reb Moshe’s Stern Rebuke: Is Abortion Ever Mutter?
Oct 24, 2025
Are Beis Yaakovs Asur? — Feminism in Halacha, Part 1
Oct 19, 2025
The Tiny Siddur Tweak That Sparked a Storm
Oct 18, 2025
Are “Moroccan Esrogim” Really Esrogim?
Oct 09, 2025
Why Chabad Doesn't Sleep in the Sukkah
Oct 05, 2025
The Great Esrog Debates — Chavivas HaMitzvos
Oct 04, 2025
The Rivah’s Fast — Suicide?
Sep 29, 2025
The 1848 Plague and Rabbi Yisroel’s Extraordinary Psak
Sep 28, 2025
A Rosh Hashanah Bidding War
Sep 21, 2025
Exotic Shofars—Rhino, Kudu, and Other Horns
Sep 14, 2025
Explosive Disagreement, Unbreakable Respect
Sep 10, 2025
Kiddush Ban: Rav Heinken’s Uncompromising Stand
Sep 07, 2025
The Shofar of Mashiach and Its Confusing Effect
Aug 31, 2025
Hafganot: A Method to the Madness
Aug 10, 2025
Siyum During the Sadness
Jul 30, 2025
A World Transformed: The Hidden Light of Yemos HaMashiach
Jul 27, 2025
Where Are the Missing Soldiers? — Unlocking the Secrets of the גורל הגְר״א
Jul 20, 2025
A Glimpse into Ikvesa D’Meshicha – Part 1
Jul 19, 2025
Mashiach’s ETA: When Should We Expect His Arrival?
Jul 15, 2025
Standing Alone: The Unshakable Bravery of אליהו הנביא
Jul 13, 2025
Eliyahu’s Final Call: Heralding the Geulah
Jul 09, 2025
The Halachic Storm Over Autopsies
Jul 06, 2025
Beyond the Grave: Astonishing Stories of Life After Death
Jul 06, 2025
Shabtai Tzvi’s Minhag, and Other Duchening Anomalies
Jun 29, 2025
A Good Death & Why Does It Matter?
Jun 29, 2025
The Yeshivah On Fire
Jun 24, 2025
The Gr”a in prison - A Sign from heaven
Jun 22, 2025
Can A Tefilla Be inappropriate?
Jun 21, 2025
From Ferrara to Brisk: Unraveling a Birchas Kohanim Mystery
Jun 15, 2025
Are There Any Real Kohanim in Persia?
Jun 08, 2025
A Chosen Death: The Legacy of the Shach’s Mesirus Nefesh
Jun 01, 2025
A Match Made in Heaven: Shabbos and the Torah
May 27, 2025
Who Is Tikkun Leil Shavuos Really For?
May 25, 2025
Shmuel hanavi’s Yartzeit & קבר שמואל
May 25, 2025
Echoes of Tzfat’s Golden Era
May 20, 2025
When קבלה and הלכה clash?
May 18, 2025
Minhag Miron: A Deeper Look Unpacking the Halachic Debate Surrounding These Minhagim(Repost)
May 15, 2025
Were Rabbi Akiva’s Talmidim Soldiers? Lag BaOmer Revisited
May 13, 2025
The story of the זהר הקדוש
May 11, 2025
In Defense Of The Talmud
May 07, 2025
Why We Learn Pirkei Avos and Its Connection to Moshe Rabbeinu
May 04, 2025
The Beis Yosef and His Maggid: Unlocking the Power of Mishnayos
Apr 27, 2025
Can Mechiras Chametz Be Just a Halachic Loophole?
Apr 06, 2025
An Elusive Dream: Korbanos in Our Time (Repost)
Mar 30, 2025
Napoleon‘s Court and the attempts to thwart the minhag Of Kitniyos
Mar 23, 2025
Square or Rounded? The Debate Over the Luchot’s Shape
Mar 20, 2025
Partnering with evildoers?
Mar 18, 2025
The Final Parah Adumah: A harbinger of Mashiach?
Mar 16, 2025
Klapping during krias hamegillah: The minhag
Mar 11, 2025
Blood money - Can We Accept Reparations from Amalek?
Mar 09, 2025
Zayen Adar: A day of significance (Repost)
Mar 05, 2025
MEGILLAS HITLER and the hunt for Amalek
Mar 02, 2025
Geirus and Mamzerus: A Clash that Divided the Rabanut
Feb 16, 2025
Repost: Sabbatai Tzvi & Tu Beshvat: The fascinating b origin story of Tu Beshvat and its unique minhagim
Feb 11, 2025
Ben-Gurion's “Shailah”
Feb 09, 2025
Fiery protest & Evolving Psakim The Saga Of Ethiopian Jews להלכה Part 2
Jan 26, 2025
Hostage Deals In History & Halacha (Reposted for current events)
Jan 21, 2025
The Saga Of Ethiopian Jews להלכה
Jan 19, 2025
What does גילוי אליהו look like? Eliyahu Hanavi Part 2.
Jan 12, 2025
The Vilna Gaon’s מופת & Birchas Habanim
Jan 09, 2025
REPOST: Fasts of tzadikim: The 9th of Teves
Jan 08, 2025
A fascinating Cure for Mental Illness Eliyahu Hanavi: Part One
Jan 05, 2025
Healing Oil - The hidden capabilities of the oil
Dec 31, 2024
Repost: Megillas Antiochos: The story about the Megilla we used to lein on Channuka
Dec 30, 2024
Repost: The mysterious journey of the menorah and where it stands today
Dec 29, 2024
Repost: Nittel Nacht: A night of varying minhagim
Dec 24, 2024
A Great Machlokes and its Chanuka implications
Dec 22, 2024
Dreams & Halacha
Dec 18, 2024
Are Dreams Meaningful? Always, Never, or Sometimes
Dec 15, 2024
When Arrogance is needed
Dec 11, 2024
Freeing a Agunah through Ruach Hakodesh
Dec 08, 2024
Banned(ish) Seforim
Dec 04, 2024
Was the Ohr Hachaim written with Ruach Hakodesh
Dec 01, 2024
A Phenomenal Purchase Me’aras Hamachpelah & it’s significance
Nov 26, 2024
A Modern Day Navi
Nov 24, 2024
Reb Moshe’s Frightening Story & Jacob Frank
Nov 20, 2024
Dinosaur Bone Wars - Pride In Our Masorah Part. II
Nov 17, 2024
The Holy Winter Nights
Nov 12, 2024
Afraid of a lion - On animals and men
Nov 06, 2024
Darwin, evolution, and the Torah, Our pride in the Mesorah
Nov 03, 2024
Repost; The Wondrous World of Aggadata: Literal or Mystical
Oct 14, 2024
The Esrogim Are Too Expensive! Boycott time?
Oct 13, 2024
Avinu Malkeinu: The Origin, Evolution, and Modern Day Adaptations
Oct 06, 2024
HOW THE BAALEI TOSAFOS CHANGED ROSH HASHANAH
Sep 29, 2024
Repost: Rosh Hashanah in Yerushalaim 1905: The story of the movement to blow shofar on shabbos
Sep 25, 2024
A Heavyweight Battle. Shofar During Elul & Beyond
Sep 22, 2024
Everybody Needs Something. A Debate Postscript
Sep 17, 2024
A Debate: Rav Chaim Voloziner & The Alter Rebbe
Sep 15, 2024
Elul’s Peculiarities Part 1. L’Dovid Hashem Ori
Sep 08, 2024
The Shas Wars & Techiyas Hameisim
Aug 14, 2024
The Kosel & It’s Secrets
Aug 11, 2024
Reb Yochanan Ben Zakkai: The unlikely Nasi and his reverberating impact
Aug 04, 2024
Repost; Tzipisah leyeshuah - Part II: The 3 weeks, 9 days and year round
Jul 23, 2024
Shabbos in Radin - At the Chofetz chaims table
Jul 21, 2024
Repost: Tzipisah leyeshuah: The paradoxical hashkafa of waiting for Moshiach
Jul 17, 2024
Upsherens - The minhag the origin and the controversy
Jul 14, 2024
Repost; Vav Chukas: From the Paris trials thru Gush Katif
Jul 09, 2024
TWA flight 741. Hostages in Halacha continued
Jul 07, 2024
Securing The Hostages-How & When
Jul 04, 2024
Czar Nicholas & His Cruel Edicts- Part 2
Jul 03, 2024
Czar Nicholas & His Cruel Edicts- Part 1
Jun 30, 2024
Taking A Stand- Electricity & Hadlakos Neiros
Jun 26, 2024
A Shteller Worth Fighting For- Nezirus As A Weapon!
Jun 23, 2024
Prague 1693: The tragic story of Shimon Abelles
Jun 19, 2024
Was the The Rogatchover Gaon a nazir?
Jun 16, 2024
Rav meir shliach tziburs Shavuos gift
Jun 10, 2024
A fantastic literary fraud or a lucky find?
Jun 09, 2024
When A Song Has A History - Ka Ribon Part 2
Jun 05, 2024
Napoleon’s Jews & The Bitter Divide Over The Nodah B’Yehuda’s Psak
Jun 02, 2024
Ka Ribon Understood- The Song, The Composer, & The Controversy
May 29, 2024
The Mekubalim’s Dress Code - An Interesting Debate
May 26, 2024
A Yiddishe Mamma- The Lag B’Omer Connection
May 21, 2024
The "Jewish" look. Beards & Profit
May 19, 2024
Bonus episode; Lag b’omer: Should it be cancelled?
May 16, 2024
A Forgetters Punishment
May 15, 2024
Is Gehenim Forever? A Unique Rabbinic Dispute
May 12, 2024
Repost; The Magen Dovid symbol: An ancient secret or a modern invention?
May 08, 2024
The Bach’s Gehenim and the Sugya of Chodosh
May 05, 2024
REPOST; Maos chittim
Apr 21, 2024
The Chumrah - One size fits all
Apr 17, 2024
A Marranos Pesach- Mexico 1649
Apr 14, 2024
A Kosher Evolution- Coca-Cola’s Story
Apr 11, 2024
Can a woman become a Posek?
Apr 09, 2024
A Korban In Our Times- A Unfulfilled Dream
Apr 07, 2024
Shir Hashirim- What Makes it Unique
Apr 02, 2024
Korban Pesach- Who’s Bringing and Who’s Waiting
Mar 31, 2024
REPOST; Matzoh Wars - Machine matzoh part 2.
Mar 27, 2024
REPOST; Matzoh Wars - Machine matzoh part 1.
Mar 25, 2024
A Scandalous Purim- The Trial That Shook Jerusalem
Mar 21, 2024
A Kabbalistic Prayer For All
Mar 19, 2024
A “Masking” dispute - Are Purim costumes ok?
Mar 17, 2024
The Greatest Song Ever Composed
Mar 13, 2024
Cigarettes Seforim, and other Mishloach Manos alternatives.
Mar 10, 2024
The Golem’s Impact on Prague’s Minhag.
Mar 06, 2024
Holocaust Remembrance- a Surprising Controversy. Continuing the sugyah of modern calendar additions.
Mar 03, 2024
Glasses. Halacha, Mofsim & more
Feb 28, 2024
REPOST. The Noam Elimelech: His life and works
Feb 27, 2024
The Miraculous Survival of Teveria
Feb 25, 2024
The Satan's cloak: Biggdei Shabbos Part 1.
Feb 21, 2024
The Tragic Tale of the Tosfos Yom Tov's Imprisonment!! Charting the Many “Purim’s” of the Jewish Calendar. Part 1.
Feb 18, 2024
The IDF and frum woman: The rift that never really healed!
Feb 14, 2024
The controversial kvittel that divided Galician poskim!!
Feb 11, 2024
The "Chasid's" Warning: Erev Shabbos Rosh Chodesh
Feb 07, 2024
The Kvitel: The mystery and the magic
Feb 04, 2024
The Ropshitzer's secret! : Nail cutting in Halacha & Kabbalah
Jan 31, 2024
The Violent Acts of the "Bris Hakanayim" : Civil Disobedience in the Eyes of the Torah
Jan 28, 2024
The  Chofetz Chaim’s Promise
Jan 23, 2024
Shabbos and Hafganos: The gift worth fighting for
Jan 17, 2024
Cheftzei tzaddikim Part II: The tumultuous journey of the Great Chabad Library
Jan 14, 2024
Cheftzei tzaddikim: Ascribing value to the memorabilia of gedolim
Jan 07, 2024
REPOST: Shovavim! When did it start and what does it mean
Jan 03, 2024
Exploring the world of Hechsherim - Part I: The opinionated chemist who founded OU Kosher
Dec 31, 2023
Shechita in America Part II: The life and history of Rav Yaakov Yosef
Dec 24, 2023
Shechita in America Part I: The tumultuous controversies of early America
Dec 17, 2023
The Black Shabbos of 2004: The zebu discovery that rocked Eretz Yisroel
Nov 26, 2023
Turkey: The great kashrus debate of the new world
Nov 23, 2023
The bold movement to ban chassidishe shechita
Nov 19, 2023
Shechita controversies Part II: The position of the Torah
Nov 12, 2023
Shechita Controversies Part I: The Intriguing Story of the Sridei Aish
Nov 05, 2023
The Mediterranean Sea Lizard: The History of the Skinkus Marinus
Oct 29, 2023
Sterlit Cavier: The Hungarian fish controversy
Oct 22, 2023
Watch what you eat: The history and psakim of Timtum Halev
Oct 15, 2023
Beis Din in the Modern Era - Part III: Halacha L’maasah
Sep 10, 2023
Beis Din in the Modern Era - Part II: The Moser
Sep 03, 2023
Beis Din in the Modern Era - Part I: The Death Penalty
Aug 27, 2023
Shabbos in America - Part III: The Satmar Rebbe leaves his mark
Jul 09, 2023
Shabbos in America - Part II: The battles and psakim that helped shape Shabbos.
Jul 02, 2023
Shabbos in America - Part I: Background and Introduction
Jun 18, 2023
The “Shabbos Elevator” Controversy: Part 2
Jun 11, 2023
Shabbos Elevators :The “new”/old shailah
Jun 04, 2023
Reishis hagez
May 29, 2023
Ruach Rah and Shaidim l’halacha: The Ger Tzedek of Vilna
May 21, 2023
The Rama: Posek Of The Generations
May 14, 2023
Singing in shul: A beautifying edition, or an unnecessary distraction?
May 14, 2023
The World of Tehillim: Part III
May 14, 2023
The World of Tehillim: Part II
May 14, 2023
The World of Tehillim: Part I
May 14, 2023
Avodah Zara beshituf
May 14, 2023
East to West Between Sefard and Ashkenaz: Part III
May 14, 2023
East to West Between Sefard and Ashkenaz: Part II
May 14, 2023
East to West Between Sefard and Ashkenaz: Part I
May 14, 2023
Dikduk wars!
May 14, 2023
The Impossible Shailah: The Riots of York
May 14, 2023
The Teshuvah odyssey of a Meshumad
May 14, 2023
Reciting ”Leshem yichud” : A necessary preparation or a presumptuous declaration?
May 12, 2023