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[BS"D] Deer oh deer! Laws of "Tzad" on Shabbos. Closing the door of a house behind a deer is considered as trapping it. Keeping it trapped there is not. And what about trapping insects?

[BS"D] Last page of Tractate Makkos. Why did Rabbi Akiva laugh when other Tannaim cried? What was the potential positive that he saw in the place of the Temple being deserted and desolate? At the end of this Maseches Rabbi Akiva teaches us all to never lose hope.

[BS"D] King David enumerates eleven moral concepts that you should live by, and that grant you your share in the world to come. What are they? And are they really sufficient? Don't we have to keep all 613 mitzvos?

[BS"D] Topics in Maseches Shabbos. Acronyms in the Torah; The mechanisms of weaving a fabric.

[BS"D] How can the Rabbis invent new commandments? Aren't we supposed to leave the Torah intact? Were there times in history in which G-d himself interfered in the procedures of Beis Din?

[BS"D] Writing on Shabbos is strictly forbidden. But with which substances? What size text? What about disappearing ink? Rewriting over written text?

Rabbi Avrohom Baruch Zachariash teaches the halachas of Yom Kippur with the Mishnah Berurah (O.C. 603). 0:40 603:1 Is a person expected to act the same while he is on "probation" as when he is finished with "probation"? 09:22 A yeshiva bochur gets all dressed up for a date - is he fooling himself [...]

[BS"D] When a corporal punishment is given (note: this doesn't practically apply nowadays), the Torah demands that the dignity of the punished party is persevered. Learn the details here.

[BS"D] Why did the Merciful One prescribe in His Torah the punishment of lashes for some sinners? Isn't jail a more humane system? How did they actually lash people in the times of the Temple and were there any mitigating factors in the process?

[BS"D] How many Torah prohibitions can one break in one action? The answer may surprise you...