Скачать или смотреть Jewish Religious Sources on Laws of War -8- Rambam Mishneh Torah and More-with Rav Dov Fischer

A series of shiurim (Torah classes) looking at Jewish religious attitudes toward war, starting with Rambam's Hilkhot M'lakhim p'rakim (chapters) 3-4 and then delving more deeply from p'rakim (chapter) 5-7. We look at Rambam's sources in the Torah and Talmud, such as Mesekhet (Tractate) Sanhedrin, Mishnah Chapter 2 and Gemara 20a-b, and then move on to other halakhic authorities. And we pray for the success of Tzahal (the IDF) in their effort to cleanse R'tzu'at 'Aza (the Gaza Strip), itself part of Eretz Yisrael, from the toxicity above and below its terrain.

This shiur was taught March 06, 2024. We focused within Chapter 5 of Rambam's Laws of Kings and Wars on the centrality of the Land of Israel in Judaism and on the prohibition to withdraw from even an inch of the Land of Israel, even as part of a "peace deal" that supposedly would "save lives." We elaborated in some detail on the various rabbinic / halakhic viewpoints as to whether and under what conditions there ever could be an exception to the rule. We further learned Rambam's codification on laws forbidding ever leaving Israel to relocate elsewhere, and on the discrete exceptions to that rule. Along the way, we also learned the laws forbidding ever living in Egypt and, of course, the exceptions.

Rabbi Dov Fischer of Young Israel of Orange County teaches Tanakh (Bible) every Tuesday night on Zoom at 7:00-8:00 pm Pacific Time . . . and Rambam's Mishneh Torah every Thursday night on Zoom at 6:30-7:30 pm Pacific Time. His style is exceptionally unique, mixing text, Midrashim, Classic Rabbinic Commentaries, Movie clips, Music, Maps, and unique insights born of 40+ years as a rav, a highly effective litigation attorney, a law professor, and an opinion columnist and senior contributing editor at two major daily online publications, The American Spectator and Arutz Sheva/Israel National News.

Rav Fischer was ordained at Yeshiva University's Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary (RIETS), receiving smikha from Rav Yosef Ber Soloveitchik and Rav Norman Lamm in 1981. He received his law degree from UCLA School of Law in 1993 and clerked in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit for the Hon. Judge Danny J. Boggs, then practiced law 10 years at three of America's most prominent law firms: Jones Day, Akin Gump, and Baker and Hostetler. Simultaneously, he was a law professor for 16 years, primarily at University of California at Irvine and at Loyola Law School of Los Angeles. He brings all of that -- plus a Catskills sense of humor -- into his Torah teaching.