The existence of the State of Israel has created new issues for modern Rabbis to grapple with. Here are audio shiurim about just a few of them:

1. The Israeli Flag

2. Leaving Eretz Yisrael

3. Shemita Part 1 – Foundations

4. Shemita Part 2 – Historical Background

5. Shemita Part 3 – Heter Mechira

6. Shemita Part 4 – Otzer Beit Din

7. Shemita Part 5 – Shemita in the Kitchen

8. Shemita Part 6 – Zman Bi’ur

9. Using Electricity on Shabbat in Israel

10. Tearing Kriya in Yehuda and Yerushalayim

11. Kedushat Ha’Aretz

12. Land for Peace (2021) – Part 2

13. Land for Peace (2021) – Part 1

14. Israel, Zionism and Redemption – Part 3: Zionism without Geula in the thought of Rav Soloveitchik

15. Israel, Zionism and Redemption – Part 2: Teshuva and Geula

16. Israel, Zionism and Redemption – Part 1: Kibbutz Galuyot – The Ingathering of the Exiles

17. Women in the IDF – Part 2

18. Women in the IDF – Part 1

19. Medinat Yisrael – Redemption, Confusion and Mashiach Ben Yosef

20. Is There a Mitzva to Live in Eretz Yisrael?

21. The Historical Controversies of Shmita

22. Terumot and Maaserot

23. Land For Peace (2015)

24. Going Up To Temple Mount – single shiur:

    – abridged source sheet:

25. Going Up to Temple Mount – extended 2-part shiur:

    Part 1: Part 2:

26. Going Onto Har HaBayit – Updated 2022 2-part shiur:

    Part 1: Part 2:

27. Yerushalayim – A Tale of Two Cities

The longer version of this shiur was given at the OU Center in May 2017, in anticipation of the 50th Anniversary of the Reunification of Jerusalem.

This shorter shiur was given to the Emunah Women of Jerusalem in anticipation of Yom Yerushalyim 2012, to mark the 45th Anniversary of the Reunification of Jerusalem.