Chabad.org: Mendel Kaplan
22 episodes
Join Rabbi Kaplan as he explores the daily lesson in Maimonides' Sefer HaMitzvos following the daily study cycle. You'll complete all 613 commandments in just under a year!
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A measured Torah lesson on being fruitful and multiplying, moving from halakhic detail to continuity and duty.
The lesson reads the mitzvah of being fruitful and multiplying through two lenses: the Rambam's legal framing and a wider reflection on continuity.
A mitzvah lesson that moves from legal reasoning into Jewish continuity and hope.
Rabbi Kaplan treats the Rambam's commandment to be fruitful and multiply as more than a legal duty, following why it binds and what obligation can mean.
Daily halacha, case by case.
Parsha questions carried into serious Torah argument.
Rabbi Kaplan teaches the 77th lesson of Sefer HaMitzvot, focusing on the positive commandment to be fruitful and multiply, explaining its universal significance and its place among the 613 mitzvot.
Rabbi Kaplan teaches the daily lesson on the 215th positive commandment from Maimonides' Sefer HaMitzvot, discussing the mitzvah to be fruitful and multiply.
Rabbi Kaplan teaches the daily lesson on negative mitzvah 262 from Maimonides' Sefer HaMitzvot, discussing the Hebrew maidservant and related halachic principles.
Rabbi Kaplan teaches Mitzvah number 262, the prohibition against abusing or oppressing one's wife, explaining its biblical basis and the obligations it entails.
Rabbi Kaplan teaches the 355th negative mitzvah about forbidden intimacy without marriage, discussing the ketubah's rabbinic origin.
Rabbi Kaplan continues a lesson on negative commandment 355, clarifying the prohibition of intimacy without proper marriage rites.
Rabbi Kaplan teaches the daily lesson on Maimonides' Sefer HaMitzvot, covering the laws of Hanukkah and transitioning to the next book on matrimony.
Rabbi Kaplan reviews the mitzvah of the half shekel and begins Hilchot Kiddush HaChiddush on sanctifying the month.
Rabbi Kaplan teaches the daily lesson on the 168th positive mitzvah of dwelling in the Sukkah, discussing exemptions and obligations.
Rabbi Kaplan teaches the daily lesson on Maimonides' Sefer HaMitzvot, focusing on the 157th positive commandment to tell the story of the Exodus.