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Rambam: Letters and Introductions

R Dr. Yitzchak Breitowitz · OUTorah · 49 episodes

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A Biographical Overview of the Rambam (Part 1)

2025-02-21 · 0:53:13 · OUTorah ↗ · Audio ↗ · TorahApp ↗

The Rambam's Introductions to the Mishnah

2025-02-28 · 0:55:57 · OUTorah ↗ · Audio ↗ · TorahApp ↗

Rambam Letters and Introductions: Sefer HaMitzvot

2025-03-12 · 0:51:20 · OUTorah ↗ · Audio ↗ · TorahApp ↗

The Rambam's Introductions (Part 4)

2025-03-12 · 0:51:09 · OUTorah ↗ · Audio ↗ · TorahApp ↗

The Structure and Purpose of the Mishna Torah

2025-03-20 · 0:59:37 · OUTorah ↗ · Audio ↗ · TorahApp ↗

Final Comments on Mishna Torah and Introduction to the Moreh Nevuchim

2025-03-27 · 0:54:21 · OUTorah ↗ · Audio ↗ · TorahApp ↗

Introduction to the Moreh Nevuchim: Why the Book is so Challenging

2025-04-03 · 0:57:02 · OUTorah ↗ · Audio ↗ · TorahApp ↗

Ma'amar Kiddush Hashem: Seeing Klal Yisrael Favorably 

2025-05-07 · 0:55:19 · OUTorah ↗ · Audio ↗ · TorahApp ↗

Maamar Kiddush Hashem (cont'd)

2025-05-15 · 0:56:23 · OUTorah ↗ · Audio ↗ · TorahApp ↗

Maamar Kiddush Hashem (cont'd)

2025-05-23 · 0:55:12 · OUTorah ↗ · Audio ↗ · TorahApp ↗

Maamar Kiddush Hashem: Mitzvot Are not Forfeited by Aveirot

2025-05-29 · 0:59:45 · OUTorah ↗ · Audio ↗ · TorahApp ↗

Maamar Kiddush Hashem 4

2025-06-06 · 0:52:10 · OUTorah ↗ · Audio ↗ · TorahApp ↗

Maamar Kiddush Hashem: Conclusion and Summary

2025-06-16 · 0:44:50 · OUTorah ↗ · Audio ↗ · TorahApp ↗

2025-06-23 · 0:55:28 · OUTorah ↗ · Audio ↗ · TorahApp ↗

Igeret Teiman (Part 2)

2025-06-30 · 0:56:25 · OUTorah ↗ · Audio ↗ · TorahApp ↗

Iggeret Teiman: Calculating the End of Days

2025-07-09 · 0:55:27 · OUTorah ↗ · Audio ↗ · TorahApp ↗

Igeret Teiman: The Role of Astrology

2025-07-16 · 0:44:25 · OUTorah ↗ · Audio ↗ · TorahApp ↗

Iggeret Teiman: Gog Umagog and Mashiach Ben Yosef

2025-07-23 · 0:45:15 · OUTorah ↗ · Audio ↗ · TorahApp ↗

Are Yemot HaMashiach Miraculous? (Igeret Teiman: Conclusion)

2025-07-30 · 0:51:46 · OUTorah ↗ · Audio ↗ · TorahApp ↗

Rambam and the Techiat Hameitim Controversy

2025-09-08 · 0:56:55 · OUTorah ↗ · Audio ↗ · TorahApp ↗

Maamar Techiat Hameitim: Nachmanides' View of Resurrection

2025-09-26 · 0:57:12 · OUTorah ↗ · Audio ↗ · TorahApp ↗

Maamar Techiat Hameitim: Maimonides' View of Resurrection

2025-10-06 · 0:52:53 · OUTorah ↗ · Audio ↗ · TorahApp ↗

Review and Summary of the Rambam's Major Public Letters

2025-10-28 · 0:54:44 · OUTorah ↗ · Audio ↗ · TorahApp ↗

Entry to Temple Mount and Letter to Ovadiah HaGer

2025-11-04 · 0:45:33 · OUTorah ↗ · Audio ↗ · TorahApp ↗

The Letter to Ovadiah the Ger and the Halachic Status of Islam

2025-11-11 · 0:52:51 · OUTorah ↗ · Audio ↗ · TorahApp ↗

Chizuk to a Struggling Jew: Letter to Yosef Ibn Jabar

2025-12-01 · 0:59:02 · OUTorah ↗ · Audio ↗ · TorahApp ↗

Chizuk to a Struggling Jew: Letter to Yosef Ibn Jabar (Part 2)

2025-12-08 · 1:01:54 · OUTorah ↗ · Audio ↗ · TorahApp ↗

Yosef Ibn Jabar, Yosef Ben Yehuda, and the Rambam's Response to Critics

2025-12-15 · 0:57:16 · OUTorah ↗ · Audio ↗ · TorahApp ↗

Letters to Yosef Ben Yehuda

2025-12-24 · 0:59:19 · OUTorah ↗ · Audio ↗ · TorahApp ↗

Letters to Yosef Ben Yehuda (Part 2)

2025-12-30 · 0:58:57 · OUTorah ↗ · Audio ↗ · TorahApp ↗

The Problem of Free Will

2026-01-22 · 0:56:32 · OUTorah ↗ · Audio ↗ · TorahApp ↗

Free Will and Quantum Mechanics

2026-02-02 · 0:52:46 · OUTorah ↗ · Audio ↗ · TorahApp ↗

Free Will and Pharoah's Heart

2026-02-10 · 0:54:37 · OUTorah ↗ · Audio ↗ · TorahApp ↗

The Rambam's View on Astrology

2026-02-17 · 0:56:28 · OUTorah ↗ · Audio ↗ · TorahApp ↗

Rambam's Letter to Rav Pinchas HaDayan

2026-02-23 · 0:55:19 · OUTorah ↗ · Audio ↗ · TorahApp ↗

Rambam’s Letter to Shmuel Ibn Tibbon

2026-03-02 · 0:58:54 · OUTorah ↗ · Audio ↗ · TorahApp ↗

Letter to Shmuel Ibn Tibbon (cont'd): A Taste of the Rambam's Schedule

2026-03-09 · 0:59:46 · OUTorah ↗ · Audio ↗ · TorahApp ↗

The Rambam and Rav Pinchas HaDayan: A Difficult Friendship

2026-05-18 · 0:53:14 · OUTorah ↗ · Audio ↗ · TorahApp ↗

Letter to Rav Pinchas HaDayan: Conditions in a Get

2026-06-03 · 0:54:44 · OUTorah ↗ · Audio ↗ · TorahApp ↗

The Science of Counting Mitzvot

2026-06-16 · 0:39:21 · OUTorah ↗ · Audio ↗ · TorahApp ↗

The Science of Counting Mitzvot (Part 2)

2026-06-24 · 0:52:31 · OUTorah ↗ · Audio ↗ · TorahApp ↗

Which Types of Marriage Are D'Oraita?

2026-06-30 · 0:55:15 · OUTorah ↗ · Audio ↗ · TorahApp ↗

The Rambam's Innovation for Chazarat HaShatz

2026-07-08 · 0:57:42 · OUTorah ↗ · Audio ↗ · TorahApp ↗

The Rambam and Various Minhagim of Torah Reading 

2026-07-15 · 0:52:51 · OUTorah ↗ · Audio ↗ · TorahApp ↗

The 13 Middot of Rachamim and the Unusual Birkat Betulim

2026-07-21 · 0:49:46 · OUTorah ↗ · Audio ↗ · TorahApp ↗

The Rambam and Liturgical Innovation

2026-08-10 · 0:56:27 · OUTorah ↗ · Audio ↗ · TorahApp ↗

Piyutm and other Liturgical Changes

2026-10-12 · 0:55:20 · OUTorah ↗ · Audio ↗ · TorahApp ↗

An Introduction to the Rambam’s Introductions

2026-10-19 · 0:57:01 · OUTorah ↗ · Audio ↗ · TorahApp ↗

The Rambam's Introduction to the Oral Law

2026-10-26 · 1:03:04 · OUTorah ↗ · Audio ↗ · TorahApp ↗