Hear why a fictitious sale - in which you don't really mean to sell your chametz - doesn't work. Learn why you shouldn't buy chametz that has been "sold" during Pesah or why you should not sell your chametz.

According to the Ben Ish Hai there is no source that Rabbi Shimon Bar Yohai died on Lag B'Omer. Learn how this myth developed. Hear why the Hatam Sofer actually opposed celebrating Lab B'Omer. Learn that in fact, this day was a day of mourning and fasting and understand the real reason that the students of Rabbi Akiva died.

According to the Ben Ish Hai there is no source that Rabbi Shimon Bar Yohai died on Lag B'Omer. Learn how this myth developed. Hear why the Hatam Sofer actually opposed celebrating Lab B'Omer. Learn that in fact, this day was a day of mourning and fasting and understand the real reason that the students of Rabbi Akiva died.

Read the halakhic ruling on qitniyoth (kitniyot) from the Beth Din of Machon Shilo. Available only in Hebrew.

Hear the argument for not eating rice on Pesah and discover the real reason for the minhag of not eating qitniyoth (kitniyot). Hint: it's not that people confused it with rice. The qitniyoth minhag really is Karaite. Why some eschew hummus on Pesah.

Understand the real reason Jews stopped eating peanuts on Pesah. Now that you know qitniyoth  (kitniyot) is a fallacious minhag, can you eat them if everyone else is abstaining? Learn why the minhag is not binding in Erets Yisrael.

Learn why the Rambam holds that it is a mitsvah today to bring a Pesah sacrifice on Har Habayit. Hear how the Hatam Sofer debunks the most common myths and obstacles. Understand how to renew smicha. korban

Source sheet for the shiur: Is the Qorban (Korban) Pesah Halakhically Feasible?

The original shiur that started the rebellion. Hear what some commentators say about the minhag of Askenazi Jews refraining from qitniyoth (kitniyot) on Pesah. Learn that the Tur calls this minhag "unnecessary" and why Rabbeinu Yoruham calls it "foolish, idiotic". Learn the real halakhic basis for a minhag and when it is binding.

Source sheet for the shiur, The Road Map from Qitniyoth (Kitniyot) to Qorban (Korban) Pesah.

Understand who's arguing and what are they are arguing about. Learn the difference between haggadoth in Israel versus haggadoth of the Exile. Hear how did they began the Haggadah in Israel--surprisingly with  idolatory first--and why many Haggadoth don't finish the drasha of arami ovad avi.

Source sheet for the qitniyoth (kitniyot) shiur.

Learn what to do if you forget to make the bracha one day. Understand why we don’t say shehiaynu.  Hear why the purpose of counting the Omer is to remember The Misswah of Sefirath HaOmer:  If You Skip a Day, Do You Make a Bracha? (uploaded)the Temple.  Learn what to say after counting the Omer.

 

Hear why some historians suggest that Lag B’Omer commemorates the revolt against Rome and not the death of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yohai.