Rabbi Heschel Greenberg has launched a new series of classes on the Rambam’s Mishneh Torah in response to the Rebbe’s call to learn at least one halacha in depth.
The Rebbe initiated a major effort to unite all Jews with the study of the entire encyclopedic work, Mishneh Torah, by learning three chapters a day and completing the entire work in less than a year. Alternatively, one can learn one chapter and complete the entire Mishneh Torah in close to three years. The Rebbe also gave a third option to study Maimonides’ companion work, Sefer Hamitzvos that parallel the Mishneh Torah.
In addition, the Rebbe requested that we learn one halacha in depth.
We recently began the 46nd cycle of Mishneh Torah which inspired Rabbi Greenberg to record brief classes on selected passages of the Mishneh Torah.
Rabbi Heschel Greenberg is a shliach of the Rebbe in Buffalo NY and the Director of the Jewish Discovery Center, and, for over 50 years, has taught thousands of classes on all aspects of Jewish knowledge.
Rabbi Greenberg has also authored dozens of works on diverse subjects including several volumes of commentary on the Mishneh Torah.
Many of Rabbi Greenberg’s classes can be accessed on his website rabbigreenberg.com.
Imagine discovering that one seemingly simple halacha about weddings on Chol Hamoed actually rests on two completely independent sources — one rooted in the very nature of simcha itself, the other in the unique geder of Yom Tov — and that the Rambam intentionally placed it in two different sections of his Mishneh Torah to teach us both. In this 6-minute Rambam In-Depth shiur, we unpack Hilchos Ishus 10:11 and Hilchos Yom Tov 7:17, explore the pre-Matan Torah pasuk from Bereishis 29 that Lavan told Yaakov (“M’lei sh’vuah zos”), confront the classic question of deriving halacha from events before Sinai, and discover the Rebbe’s profound Likutei Sichos resolution that this is a svara (logical reasoning) where the pasuk reveals which of two contradictory svaros prevails. We’ll see why “ain ma’arvin simcha b’simcha” applies to nisuin on its own merits — not just because you might forget the Yom Tov simcha — and what practical nafka minas this creates in halacha. Whether you’re a student of Rambam, a baal simcha planning a wedding, or someone seeking to understand how the Rambam’s precise wording encodes multiple layers of Torah thought, this video will sharpen your appreciation of systematic halachic reasoning and its relevance to Jewish life today.
