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  Avodah Zarah 9

  • Speaker: Rabbi Shaya Katz  
  • Date: Jun 27, 2025
  • Venue:

    Young Israel of Oak Park 
    Series:

    Daf Yomi 
    Gemara:

    Avoda Zara,
  • Duration: 33 min

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  Peshischa on the Parsha: Living Up to Our Predecessors

  • Speaker: Rabbi Shaya Katz  
  • Date: Jun 26, 2025
  • Venue:

    Young Israel of Oak Park 
    Parsha:

    Korach,
  • Duration: 17 min

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  Avodah Zarah 8

  • Speaker: Rabbi Shaya Katz  
  • Date: Jun 26, 2025
  • Venue:

    Young Israel of Oak Park 
    Series:

    Daf Yomi 
    Gemara:

    Avoda Zara,
  • Duration: 36 min

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  Turning Away Tzedakah IV

  • Speaker: Rabbi Shaya Katz  
  • Date: Jun 25, 2025
  • Venue:

    Young Israel of Oak Park 
    Halacha:

    Tzedakah,
  • Duration: 48 min

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  Avodah Zarah 7

  • Speaker: Rabbi Shaya Katz  
  • Date: Jun 25, 2025
  • Venue:

    Young Israel of Oak Park 
    Series:

    Daf Yomi 
    Gemara:

    Avoda Zara,
  • Duration: 35 min

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  Enjoying the Argument More than the Resolution

  • Speaker: Rabbi Shaya Katz  
  • Date: Jun 24, 2025
  • Venue:

    Young Israel of Oak Park 
    Parsha:

    Korach,
  • Duration: 51 min

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  The 1880 Rabbi Who Shot at His Shul President over a Siddur Change

  • Speaker: Rabbi Shaya Katz  
  • Date: Jan 01, 2024
  • Venue:

    Young Israel of Oak Park 
    History:

    19th Century CE,
  • Duration: 55 min

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  Bava Kamma 8

  • Speaker: Rabbi Shaya Katz  
  • Date: Nov 11, 2023
  • Venue:

    Young Israel of Oak Park 
    Series:

    Daf Yomi 
    Gemara:

    Bava Kamma,
  • Duration: 33 min

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  Nolad 3

  • Speaker: Rabbi Shaya Katz  
  • Date: Jun 22, 2023
  • Venue:

    Young Israel of Oak Park 
    Halacha:

    Muktza,
  • Duration: 34 min

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  Legends & Lessons: The Shelah Hakadosh

  • Speaker: Rabbi Shaya Katz  
  • Date: Mar 28, 2023
  • Venue:

    Young Israel of Oak Park 
    History:

    16th - 18th Centuries CE,
  • Duration: 48 min

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  Legends & Lessons: Rashi

  • Speaker: Rabbi Shaya Katz  
  • Date: Jun 23, 2020
  • Venue:

    Young Israel of Oak Park 
    History:

    10 - 15th Centuries CE,
    Personalities:

    Rashi,
  • Duration: 46 min

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  Legends & Lessons: The Taz & The Shach

  • Speaker: Rabbi Shaya Katz  
  • Date: Jan 27, 2020
  • History:

    16th - 18th Centuries CE,
  • Duration: 46 min

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  Warder Cresson: the 1800’s Quaker turned Convert who set Precedent in Secular & Jewish Law

  • Speaker: Rabbi Shaya Katz  
  • Date: May 26, 2025
  • Venue:

    Young Israel of Oak Park 
    History:

    19th Century CE,
  • Duration: 56 min

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  The 1849 Architect of the largest Shul in America who “changed” the Aseres Hadibros

  • Speaker: Rabbi Shaya Katz  
  • Date: Dec 25, 2024
  • Venue:

    Young Israel of Oak Park 
    History:

    19th Century CE,
  • Duration: 54 min

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  Tzedakah to Ones Children

  • Speaker: Rabbi Shaya Katz  
  • Date: Dec 18, 2024
  • Venue:

    Young Israel of Oak Park 
    Halacha:

    Tzedakah,
  • Duration: 41 min

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  Charleston’s 1840 “Organ Case” which Created “Reform” & “Orthodox” in America

  • Speaker: Rabbi Shaya Katz  
  • Date: Jul 04, 2024
  • Venue:

    Young Israel of Oak Park 
    History:

    19th Century CE,
  • Duration: 1 h

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  Legends & Lessons: The Imrei Emes

  • Speaker: Rabbi Shaya Katz  
  • Date: Jun 10, 2024
  • Venue:

    Young Israel of Oak Park 
    History:

    19th Century CE,

    20th Century CE,
  • Duration: 55 min

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  The 1880 Rabbi Who Shot at His Shul President over a Siddur Change

  • Speaker: Rabbi Shaya Katz  
  • Date: Jan 01, 2024
  • Venue:

    Young Israel of Oak Park 
    History:

    19th Century CE,
  • Duration: 55 min

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  NYC's First Breakaway Shul and the Tallis Controversy Of 1825

  • Speaker: Rabbi Shaya Katz  
  • Date: May 29, 2023
  • Venue:

    Young Israel of Oak Park 
    History:

    19th Century CE,
  • Duration: 1 h 1 min

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  Legal Holiday Shiur: The Rosh Hashanah Of Brawl

  • Speaker: Rabbi Shaya Katz  
  • Date: Dec 25, 2022
  • Venue:

    Young Israel of Oak Park 
    History:

    19th Century CE,
  • Duration: 56 min

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  How "Marcheshvan" Brings The Holidays With Us

  • Speaker: Rabbi Shaya Katz  
  • Date: Oct 25, 2022
  • Venue:

    Young Israel of Oak Park 
    Holidays:

    Marcheshvan,
  • Duration: 57 min

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  Legal Holiday Learning: Rabbi Bernard Illowy's Response To Gas-powered Menorah's In 1863

  • Speaker: Rabbi Shaya Katz  
  • Date: Jul 04, 2022
  • Venue:

    Young Israel of Oak Park 
    History:

    19th Century CE,
  • Duration: 55 min

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  Legal Holiday Learning: The 1863 NYC Shul Who Wanted To Face Southwest

  • Speaker: Rabbi Shaya Katz  
  • Date: May 30, 2022
  • Venue:

    Young Israel of Oak Park 
    History:

    19th Century CE,
  • Duration: 54 min

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  Legal Holiday Learning: Getting a Minyan in Charleston during the Civil War

  • Speaker: Rabbi Shaya Katz  
  • Date: May 31, 2021
  • Venue:

    Young Israel of Oak Park 
    History:

    19th Century CE,
  • Duration: 56 min

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  Legal Holiday Shiur: Early American Jews in Sports- Growing through Antisemitism

  • Speaker: Rabbi Shaya Katz  
  • Date: Dec 25, 2020
  • Venue:

    Young Israel of Oak Park 
    History:

    19th Century CE,
  • Duration: 58 min

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  Legends & Lessons: Rashi

  • Speaker: Rabbi Shaya Katz  
  • Date: Jun 23, 2020
  • Venue:

    Young Israel of Oak Park 
    History:

    10 - 15th Centuries CE,
    Personalities:

    Rashi,
  • Duration: 46 min

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