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Shiurim on Kashrus

Rabbi Dovid Cohen
Administrative Rabbinic Coordinator of the cRc


 

 

Shiurim on Ha'galas Keilim
Shiurim on Pas Yisroel
Shiurim on Bishul Yisroel
Shiurim on Hilchos Tola'im
Shiurim on Hilchos Pesach
Miscellaneous Shiurim

 

 

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Shiur Date

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Hag'alas Keilim

2007-April 20 Siman 451 Sif 1a
  • Chametz Keilim on Pesach
  • Cheress and plastic
  • New pots
  • Pre-seasoned cast-iron
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2007-April 27 Siman 451 Sif 1b
    Continuation of 451:1a
  • Kashering where you're afraid to break the utensil
  • Libun gamur for cheress
  • Three hag'alos for cheress
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2007-May 4 Siman 451 Sif 2
  • Kashering from the side of the b'liah
  • Heat Exchanger with regeneration
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2007- May 11 Siman 451 Sif 3a
  • Hag'alah instead of ne'itzah
  • Kashering from meat to dairy (part 1)
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2007-May 18 Siman 451 Sif 3b
  • Kashering from meat to dairy (part 2)
  • Kli rishon which is off the fire
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2007-June 1 Siman 451 Sif 3c
  • Kashering at 190 F
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2007-June 8 Siman 451 Sif 3d
  • Rust
  • Polymerized oil (and chiddush to always kasher)
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2007-June 15 Siman 451 Sif 4a
  • Hetairah balah
  • Dairy or meat (or chalav stam) blios
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2007-June 22 Siman 451 Sif 4b
  • Criteria to require libun gamur
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2007-June 29 Siman 451 Sif 4c
  • Spray Dryers
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2007-July 13 Siman 451 Sif 4d
  • Libun gamur
  • Libun kal as libun
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2007-July 20 Siman 451 Sif 5
  • Levels of hag'alah
  • Piston filler
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2007-July 27 Siman 451 Sif 6a
  • Rov tashmisho
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2007-August 3 Siman 451 Sif 6b
  • Rov Tashmisho with hetairah balah
  • Impossible to kasher based on miut tashmisho
  • Ovens
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2007-August 10 Siman 451 Sif 6c
  • Kashering a glass stove top
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2007-August 31 Siman 451
Sif 7&8
  • Hag'alah when there's a fear of breaking the kli
  • Klei Adamah
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2007-October 26 Siman 451 Sif 9
  • Length of hag'alah
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2007-November 2 Siman 451 Sif 10
  • Kovush of salt & brine
  • General rules of kovush
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2007-November 9 Siman 451 Sif 11a
  • Machvas
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2007-November 16 Siman 451 Sif 11b
  • Libun kal replacing hag'alah (source)
  • Frying pans
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2007-November 20 Siman 451 Sif 12
  • Only part of the kli touched issur
  • How far does ta'am travel
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2007-December 7 Siman 451 Sif 13a
  • Libun kal as hag'alah
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2007-December 28 Siman 451 Sif 13b
  • Welds
  • Trucking
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2008-January 4 Siman 451 Sif 14
  • Zei'ah, hevel and reichah
  • Hood or cover over oven or kettle
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2008-January 18 Siman 451 Sif 15
  • Cover on baking tin
  • Carbon dioxide from chametz
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2008-January 25 Siman 451 Sif 16
  • Even m'lubenes
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2008-February 1 Siman 451 Sif 17
  • Less than a kezayis of chametz
  • Examples of this at factories
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2008-February 8 Siman 451 Sif 18a
  • How clean is clean
  • Microwaves & Dishwashers
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2008-February 22 Siman 451 Sif 18b
  • Fabric
  • Bag House
  • Dental appliances
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2008-February 29 Siman 451
Sif 19 & 20
  • Rachas
  • Tables and counters
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2008-March 7 Siman 451 Sif 21
  • Kashering after kovush
  • Wine barrels
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2008-March 14 Siman 451 Sif 22
  • Beis se'or
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2008-April 11 Siman 451 Sif 23
  • Porcelain enamel
  • Koji Fermentation
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2008-May 2 Siman 451
Sif 24 & 25
  • Varnished wood
  • Cups used occasionally for hot
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2008-May 9 Siman 451 Sif 26
  • Glass
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2008-May 16 Siman 451 Sif 27
  • Glass (continued)
  • Chozer v'niur
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2008-May 23 Siman 452 Sif 1a
  • Return of blios after kashering
  • Nat bar Nat
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2008-June 13 Siman 452 Sif 1b
  • Waiting 12 months
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2008-June 27 Siman 452 Sif 2a
  • Must be aino ben yomo
  • Kashering after stam yayin
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2008-July 11 Siman 452 Sif 2b
  • Calculating aino ben yomo
  • Pegimah
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2008-July 18 Siman 452
Sif 3 & 4 a
  • Keilim which touch
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2008-July 25 Siman 452
Sif 3 & 4b
  • Distillation Columns
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2008-August 1 Siman 452 Sif 5a
  • Chamei Teveriah
  • Steam
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2008-August 8 Siman 452 Sif 5b
  • Sha'ar Mashkim
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2008-August 15 Siman 452
Sif 6 & 7
  • Large pots
  • Rinse after hag'alah
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Pas Yisroel

2008-October 31 Siman 112 Sif 1
  • Irreligious Jews
  • - Introduction
    - Chasnus
    - Mumar
    - Related Issues
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2008-November 7 Siman 112 Sif 2a
  • Pas Paltar
    - Hetiru Pas
    - Times to be machmir
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2008-November 21 Siman 112
Sif 2b &3
  • Jewish-owned Pas Paltar
  • -Two reasons
    - Iggeros Moshe
  • Definition of a Paltar
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2008-December 12 Siman 112
Sif 4 & 5
  • Pas Yisroel is temporarily available
  • Pas Paltar is more desirable
  • - Better or different
    - Cheaper or more convenient
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2008-December 26 Siman 112 Sif 6a
  • Egg on Bread
  • - In vs. On
    - Knishes
    - Egg on bread
    - French toast
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2009-January 2 Siman 112 Sif 6b
  • Pas Haba'ah B'kisnin
  • -The halacha
    - Wraps
    - Breakfast cereal
    - Pretzels & doughnuts
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2009-January 9 Siman 112 Sif 7
  • Changes in Status
  • - Pas bal habayis from a paltar
    - Edible raw & oleh al shulchan melachim
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2009-January 23 Siman 112 Sif 8
  • Pas Bal HaBayis
  • Bishul Paltar
  • - Maharit Tzahalon
    - Rav Moshe's Opinion
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2009-February 6 Siman 112 Sif 9a
  • Light bulb & glow plug
  • - Gemara
    - Hashlachas Kisem
    - Light bulb & glow plug
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2009-February 13 Siman 112 Sif 9b
  • Boilers
  • - Koach Gavra
    - No cooking in the boiler
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2009-March 13 Siman 112 Sif 10
  • Residual heat
  • - Like hashlachas kisem
    - Mechaber/Rema
    - How long can it last?
    - Convection (and regular) ovens
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2009-March 20 Siman 112 Sif 11
  • Lifnei Iver
  • - Issur D'oraisah
    - Issur D'rabannan
    - Other Considerations
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2009-April 24 Siman 112 Sif 12
  • Late participation in the baking
  • - Karmu P'nei Hapas
    - After ma'achal ben drusai
    - Is chitui helpful
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2009-May 1 Siman 112
Sif 13 & 14
  • Guests who eat pas paltar
  • Bitul B'rov
  • - Avidah lit'amah & ma'amid
    - D'mai and Pas/bishul Akum
    - Kitnios
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2009-May 22 Siman 112 Sif 15a
  • B'lios of Pas Akum
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2009-June 5 Siman 112 Sif 15b
  • Aivah
  • - When it applies
    - Issurim d'rabannan
    - Issurim d'oraisah
    - Bnei L'viyah
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2009-June 19 Siman 112 Sif 16
  • Waiting for Pas Yisroel
  • - Four mil or one mil?
    - Measuring a mil
  • Mechaber's opinion
  • - 112:8 and 112:16
    - Aseres yimei teshuvah
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Bishul Yisroel

2009-July 10 Siman 113 Sif 1a
  • Parperes
  • The food is oleh if prepared differently
    - Three applications
    - Proofs
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2009-August 7 Siman 113 Sif 1b
  • Shulchan Melachim
  • - Chazon Ish
    - Explanation
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2009-October 16 Siman 113
Sif 2a & 3
  • Mixtures of different foods
  • - Soup and Salad
    - Beer
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2009-October 23 Siman 113 Sif 2b
  • Food is oleh as a tafel
  • Stam Keilim
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2009-November 13 Siman 113 Sif 4
  • Cooking in a Jew's house
  • - Pre-Shulchan Aruch
    - Shulchan Aruch and afterwards
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2009-December 4 Siman 113 Sif 5
  • Kavanah
  • - Boilers
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2010-January 22 Siman 113 Sif 6
  • Jew Started the Cooking
  • - Gemara
    - Rema
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2010-February 12 Siman 113 Sif 7a
  • Pas Yisroel leniencies for bishul Yisroel
  • - Ran
    - Rashba
    - Terumas HaDeshen
    - Shulchan Aruch
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2010-February 26 Siman 113 Sif 7b
  • Pilot Light
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2010-April 30 Siman 113 Sif 8
  • Shiur of Ma'achal Ben Drusai
  • Non-Jew Removed Food From Fire
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2010-June 11 Siman 113 Sif 9a
  • Jew Participated in End of Cooking - Part 1
  • - Background of the machlokes
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2010-July 9 Siman 113 Sif 9b
  • Jew Participated in End of Cooking - Part 2
  • - Mitztamek V'yafeh Lo
    - Hashlachas kisem
    - Practical applications
    - Cooking was undone
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2010-July 16 Siman 113
Sif 10 & 11
  • References to Earlier Discussions
  • Safek Bishul Akum
  • Basis for Commercial Hashgachah
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2010-July 30 Siman 113 Sif 12
  • Fish Which is Salted and then Cooked
  • - Small Fish
    - Passably Edible
    - Hot Smoked Salmon
  • Edible Raw Together With Other Foods
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2010-October 22 Siman 113 Sif 13a
  • Methods of Food Preparation - Part 1
  • - Brining, Pickling, and Smoking
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2010-November 5 Siman 113 Sif 13b
  • Methods of Food Preparation - Part 2
  • - Smoking, and steam
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2010-November 19 Siman 113 Sif 13c
  • Methods of Food Preparation - Part 3
  • - Microwave, Induction cooktop
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2010-December 24 Siman 113 Sif 14
  • Eggs
  • - Edible Raw
    - Oleh al Shulchan Melachim
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2011-January 14 Siman 113 Sif 15
  • Defining Edible Raw
  • - Dates and Salted Fish
    - Hard Agasin
    - Sweet Corn
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2011-March 11 Siman 113 Sif 16
  • Kashering after bishul akum
  • - Is kashering required
    - Choleh
    - Shefah
    - Ger
    - What type of kashering
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Hilchos Tola'im

2011-June 3 Siman 84 Sif 1
  • Permitted Insects
    - Introduction
    - Water-based insects
    - Bal Tishaktzu
  • Assur Mitichlas Briyaso
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2011-June 10 Siman 84 Sif 2
  • Copepods in New York City Water- Part 1
  • - Background
    - Moschim and nov'im
    - Three opinions
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2011-June 17 Siman 84 Sif 3a
  • Aino miskaven
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2011-June 24 Siman 84 Sif 3b
  • Pour water into another container
  • Choosing a filter
  • Incomplete insect (ever she'ain hanishamah teluyah bo, dissolved during cooking)
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2011-July 1 Siman 84 Sif 4a
  • Raisins
  • Insect eggs
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2011-July 8 Siman 84 Sif 4b
  • Definition of Pirash
  • - Sfekos of the Gemara
    - Im timzah lomar
    -Pirash meis
    - Teiku b'drabannan
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2011-July 15 Siman 84 Sif 5a
  • Flour
  • - Milbin
    - Two questions
    - How is it possible
    - Why think it happened
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2011-July 22 Siman 84 Sif 5b
  • Takalah
    - Business with forbidden foods
    - When some hold it is mutar
    - Practical applications
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2011-July 29 Siman 84 Sif 6a
  • Attached to the ground but didn't crawl
  • Citrus Scale
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2011-August 5 Siman 84 Sif 6b
  • Atzis she'aino nakuv
    - Mushrooms
    - Modern mushroom growing methods
  • Hydroponically grown vegetables
    - Safek issur
    - Leaf miners
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2011-November 11 Siman 84 Sif 6c
  • Size of forbidden insects (part 1) - Questions
    - Whose vision?
    - Visible or iIdentifiable?
    - Mutar or ones?
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2011-December 2 Siman 84 Sif 6d
  • Size of forbidden insects (part 2)-Direct proofs
    - Five grades of insect sizes
    - Poskim's descriptions of insect sizes
    - Nekudah shechorah
    - Citrus scale
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2011-December 16 Siman 84 SIf 6e
  • Size of forbidden insects (part 3)-Indirect proofs)-
    - Lo nitna torah l’malachai hashareis
    - Further details on the lenient opinion
    - Summary
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2011-December 16 Siman 84 Sif 7
  • Where did the infestation occur
  • Why not follow chazaka
  • Calimyrna figs
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2011-December 23 SIman 84 Sif 8a
  • Source for a chiyuv bedikah
  • Checking vegetables on Shabbos (borer, muktzeh, killing the insect)
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2011-December 30 Siman 84 Sif 8b
  • Checking Methods
  • Sampling instead of checking (part 1)
    - Examples
    - Rav Shlomo Kluger
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2012-January 6 Siman 84 Sif 8c
  • Sampling instead of checking (Part 2)
    - Nishmas Adam
    - Support in the Poskim
    - Practical Applications
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2012-January 13 Siman 84 Sif 9a
  • Miut Hamatsui
    - Teraifos
    - Insects
    - Defining miut hamatzui
    - Questions
    - Practical (copepods)
    - Other considerations

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2012- January 20 Siman 84 SIf 9b
  • Arlah
  • Shatnez
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2012- February 3 Siman 84 Sif 9c
  • Safek arlah
    - Introduction
    - Principles
    - Kol d'parish and miut hamatzui
    - Safek kavuah
    - Other reasons to be machmir
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2012-May 4 Siman 84 Sif 9d
  • Raspberries & Blackberries
    - Frozen vs. fresh
    - Finding insects
    - Chiyuv bedikah on frozen berries

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Pesach

2005-April Belgian Endives for Marror audio file
2008-March Coffee and Tea for Pesach audio file
2009-March Matzah for Celiacs audio file
2009-March Allergies on Pesach audio file
2012-March 9 Kitnios Shenishtaneh audio file
2012-March 16 Grape Juice at the Seder- Part I audio file
2012-March 21 Grape Juice at the Seder - Part II audio file
2012-March 23 Choosing a Machine Matzah audio file

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Miscellaneous Shiurim

2007-May Whiskey audio file
2008-July Steam audio file
2009-January Turkey, White Leghorn Chicken, and Zebu audio file
2009-January Bishul Akum audio file
2009-March Matzah for Celiacs audio file
2009-May Medicine audio file
2009-June Whiskey - Part 1 audio file
2009-June Whiskey - Part 2 audio file
2009-June Insects audio file
2009-December Shabbos Catering audio file
2010-January Chalav Yisroel audio file
2010-February Bishul Akum audio file
2010-May Worms in Fish audio file
2010-November Creating Bishul Yisroel audio file
2011-November The High Cost of Jewish Living (Rabbi Sholem Fishbane) audio file
2011-December

Size of Forbidden Insects

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2012-January Joulies audio file
2012-February Vitamins & Medicine: Do They Need To Be Kosher?
-Given at the Midwest Agudah Convention
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2012-February Keeping Kosher Properly When On The Road
-Given at the Midwest Agudah Convention by Rabbi Sholem Fishbane
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2012-May

Nosein Ta'am Lifgam (part 1): Dishwashers, pegimah of a steam system

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2012-May Nosein Ta'am Lifgam (part2): Nutramigen, Denatured Alcohol, Toiletries audio file

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