Q&A: Chareidi Hashkafa, Mashiach & Petting Dogs

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Q&A Timestamps 19 March

00:00 - What is the argument for the Neturei Karta position?

03:27 - Could you make the case for why the Hareidi hashkafa is superior to all other Orthodox hashkafas?

05:21 - Is there a good way to take the best parts of all the different haskafas?

11:38 - How does one choose who to take as a Rebbe?

17:47 - How do we know Hashem didn’t make the offer to replace the Jewish people to prophets other than

Moshe?

23:55 - How could we arrive at the same questions that the great genius rabbis of the generations asked?

28:00 - Where does the custom to learn Pirkei Avos between Pesach and Shavuos come from?

30:44 - How does an Ashkenazi know when he can use a Sefardi Halachah?

34:25 - Could the Oral Torah exist without the Written Torah?

37:00 - How can one deal with other people being more successful than him?

47:00 - Was the pin test really practiced and what are other similar feats of memory?

54:30 - Which nation is the final one before Machiach?

01:02:10 - Could the Rav elaborate on the discrepancy between the Jewish history time-line and Secular history

time-line.

01:12:20 - Why haven’t Klal Yisrael recreated real Smicha as according to the Rambam?

01:17:50 - Should one always accept humiliation without retaliation?

01:24:20 - How should one react to others when they treat him badly?

01:27:55 - Can an Ashkenazi eat in a Sephardi restaurant?

01:31:55 - What din of reshut is a large man-made canal?

01:32:51 - Why doesn’t the Torah go in chronological order?

01:33:45 - Why do we have an Oral Torah?

01:34:50 - What is the authority of Chazal to uproot a Torah mitzvah?

01:37:00 - When someone davens for a shidduch should he have a list of desirable qualities in mind?

01:37:55 - What is the Jewish view of astrology?

01:40:24 - Can one pet an dog on Shabbos

01:43:00 - Should I put on a black hat?

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