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• History of the Geonim and the Rishonim
• History of the Rif
• Several Halachik instances where the Rif disagrees with most other opinions
• Is a jew allowed to ask a non jew to do a biblical prohibition on Shabbos if it's for a Mitzvah?
• How many Blessings do we make on Tefillin?
• Are the days of mourning Biblical or Rabbinic?
• Techum Shabbos
• How many times do the Rif and the Rambam disagree?
• In what case can a Beis Din blow Shofar on Shabbos?
• What does the Rif hold in a case of Teiku or a Cohen who grabbed?
• Why does the Shulchan Aruch pasken like Rabeinu Tam in Shkiah and not like the Rif and the Rambam?

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• History of the Ba'al Hama'or.
• Why don't we say Shehecheyanu on Sefiras Haomer?
• Why do we make a Bracha on Sefirah if we're still going to do another Seder?
• Why don't we count 2 nights every night due to Safek?
• Is Sefiras Haomer today biblical or rabbinic?
• Why don't we make a Shehecheyanu when we burn the Chametz?
• Why don't we make a Shehecheyanu on Matzah?
• How does the Ramban say that Sefirah is a Mitzvah that is not bound by time?

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• History of the Maharam
• Was the Maharam a Kabbalist?
• Was the money to redeem the Maharam actually raised?
• Can someone from a later generation argue with the Maharam?
• What did the Maharam say about Mesiras Nefesh?
• Why did the Maharam avoid his father?
• The Maharam said Mashuv Haruach 90x. What's the reasoning and does it work?
• Explaining the Machlokes of R Meir and R Yehudah

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• Who wrote the Hagaddah?
• Are there parts of the Hagaddah that are more important than others?
• Is it 2 separate Chiyuvim to remember Yetzias Mitzrayim by day and night or is it 1 Chiyuv together?
• Moshe and the 50th gate of wisdom.
• R Akiva and the sale of Yosef
• Who wrote Tana Dvei Eliyahu?
• In which era was the Hagaddah compiled?
• What is the source of the name "Hagaddah"?

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• History of R Elimelech of Lizhensk and his great Talmidim who became Rebbeim.
• Why do we follow Beis Hillel over Beis Shamai?
• Stories of R' Elimelechs humility
• R' Elimelech did Teshuva for sins as a youth and before.
• R' Elimelechs Sefer is all about Tzadikim
• Did the Alter Rebbe write a Sefer of Tzadikim? What happened to it?

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• Why did Esther show Haman favor in front of Achashverosh?
• How could Haman think that Esther wanted him and why would he covet the kings wife?
• How could a Malach frame Haman for a crime he didn't commit?
• What actually happened between Yael and Sisra?
• Why were Chevers family and the Keini friendly with Yavin and Sisra?
• Was Yael a Yid, ger or ger toshav?
• Is it greater to commit an Aveira Lishma or a Mitzvah not Lishma?
• Why was Yael greater than other great women?Who was Yaels Gilgul?
• Who was Sisras Gilgul?

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• The Chida's teachers.
• The night they sought to bring Mashiach.
• The consequences of forcing the redemption.
• The Rashash leaves Yerushalayim and passes on.
• Rav Chaim De La Roza receives 4 missos beis din.
• B'nei yissaschar accepts the Chida"s authority.
• Explanations of the Chida.
• Episode of the unfaithful woman in Livorno.
• Rav Ovodia challenges the Chida. Rav Yaakov Hillel defends.
• The Chida and the Chasidim.
• Chida's sadness after the untimely passing of his wife.
• The Rebbe publicizes the Chida's remedy for the redemption.