Yutorah: R' Dr. J. David Bleich -- Recent Shiurim

Disclosing Adultery (Even HaEzer 178) - Nov 17, 2025 - Discussing the famous Noda BeYehuda about the obligation to disclose.

The Adulterous Wife and Kofin Al Middas Sedom - Oct 23, 2025 - https://youtu.be/01TzrFmt01c Rav J David Bleich continues the discussion resolving the contradictory comments of Tosafot and of the Rambam regarding סתמן לגירושין and כופין על מידת סדום.

Ervas Davar (Even HaEzer 119) - Aug 28, 2025 - https://youtu.be/L9EbVQBUmLE Weekly kollel chaburah in the Kollel L'Hora'ah at RIETS. Rav Bleich discussed various issues with the rishonim in the sugya of Ervat Davar and came to a conclusion about Kefiah Legaresh bedaat haTosafot and HaRambam. In a sentence, for the latter, "I think that legerushin omedet is that there is something to do with the gerushin between the parties."

US Currency: Picheis Al HaMatbe'a & Inflation - May 13, 2025 - Inflation that could be tied to currency without backing is picheta hamatbea. https://youtu.be/M8vSm9vdXUI

Creation of Corporate Israel at Sinai: Corporations and Korban Pesach - Apr 1, 2025 -

Parents Helping Children with Mortgages and Credit Card Surcharges #1 - Feb 25, 2025 - See Beneseivos Hahalacha vol. 2 Video here: https://youtu.be/tSor4Z2wx-E

Neshech Exceptions - Karka and Pachot MiShaveh Perutah - Yoreh De'ah 161:1 - Jan 21, 2025 - https://youtu.be/D-XloObKeI8 Mekoros: Bava Metzia 61a, Rav Bleich's Benesivos Hahalacha vol. 2 pages 215-217

Corporations & Interest - Dec 2, 2024 - Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/2BDm0S0Dh4o | Discussing precedent for Rav Moshe Feinstein's chiddush (Iggerot Moshe vol. 2 Yoreh Deah 63) that corporations are not subject to Ribbis, as they are a sheibud nechasim without a sheibud haguf, and Rabbi Bleich's arguments against it. See Benesivos HaHalacha vol. 2 page 191 at length here: See also: Rav Bleich in the Sotheby Sale article https://www.sefaria.org/Contemporary_Halakhic_Problems%2C_Vol_III%2C_Part_II%2C_Chapter_XV_The_Sotheby_Sale.101? Halachipedia's summary of the machloket: https://halachipedia.com/index.php?title=Corporations_and_Partnerships_with_Respect_to_Ribbit#Corporations

Heter Iska in American and Israeli Courts - Nov 4, 2024 - See Contemporary Halachic Problems volumes 2 (+appendix), 4 (appendix), and 6 for more https://www.sefaria.org/Contemporary_Halakhic_Problems%2C_Vol_II%2C_Part_II%2C_Chapter_XIX_Hetter_Iska?lang=en https://www.sefaria.org/Contemporary_Halakhic_Problems%2C_Vol_IV%2C_Chapter_XV_Miscellaneous_Questions.20 https://www.sefaria.org/Contemporary_Halakhic_Problems%2C_Vol_VI%2C_Chapter_4_The_Hetter_Iska_and_American_Courts

Heter Iska - Dirty Trick or Legal Device? - Sep 10, 2024 - See Torah Temimah (Vayikra 25:192) and Contemporary Halachic Problems vol. 6 The Hetter Iska and American Courts 4 for more details: https://www.sefaria.org/Contemporary_Halakhic_Problems%2C_Vol_VI%2C_Chapter_4_The_Hetter_Iska_and_American_Courts.1