Rav Lachem Shevet

So we had previously discussed the question of why the Gemara in Sanhedrin considers Theft and Damages(גזילות וחבלות) to be a separate cat...

The second half of Rav M's shiur on the mitzva of writing a Sefer Torah , focused on the rationale behind the mitzva. The main chakira r...

OK, let's do this! The latest shiur I attended on Sanhedrin: Two Mitzvot to Write By the Rambam's count(סה"מ יז, יח) th...

Well, I haven't been to Sanhedrin shiur recently due to career-related sinks on my time, so instead I began reading this great series o...

So, I attended another class, delving deeper into the concept of אין אדם משים עצמו רשע: The Rambam(like Rashi) explains the principle of ...

Our recent post about אין אדם משים עצמו רשע left a question open: how does Rashi's understanding jive with the principal of עדות שבטלה ...

This one is actually from a class that I missed, but got the source sheet for. I also heard a brief oral synopsis of the class. Debate ...

The gemara ( סנהדרין ו ב) gives four opinions on whether and, if so, when a court should suggest litigants do פשרה/ביצוע : ר"א ב...

Last Thursday's class started the topic of פשרה or settlement . Basically, the idea is that, rather than going through the formal proces...

So we discussed two types of permission a sage requires to do his job in Rav M's class today. The first is permission to act as a Judge ...

The gemara (סנהדרין ג ב) decides after some discussion that all rulings follow the majority opinion among the judges. מאי טעמא דרבי י...

So, in a recent post we discussed the similarity between the distinction between גזילות וחבלות and הודעות והלוות in Halacha and the distinc...

Here's the summary of the first part of the third and final shiur on the first sugia of Sanhedrin. The Two Sides of the Debate S...

Well, with Winter beginning, I started attending Rav M 's excellent gemara shiur at Yeshiva Ruach Tzfonit once again, so I'll be p...