Given: January 02, 2016 YouTube Video Link: M4a - Zip Download Link: (Please download and unzip the file to play the m4a audio file)- Click here to download: Excerpts: It’s astounding to think that there are 613 commandments that are all connected to three or four fundamental ideas: ownership, activity, and the relationship to two types of entities: G-D and tumah. In the end, the most important thing is that Shas is a jigsaw puzzle, halachos that are all over the place. If so

Given: 8/29/2021 Introduction: The Timing Rava says that mashiach will come motzei shmita—after the sabbatical year, this coming year. What is interesting is that we know that shmita begins this September but, after seven of these (49 years), is the yovel—Jubilee. For Rava, the “proclaiming of liberty throughout the land” when many things return to original ownership is, conceptually, that all returns to G-d. Since G-d has given away everything so that everyone can take--whe