Rabbi Asher Weiss

About Rabbi Asher Weiss

Rabbi Asher Weiss is a posek and rosh kollel on Lehallel — the filtered YouTube platform. 1983+ of his recordings can be watched here, with no ads and no comments.

Rav Asher Weiss takes up the questions of today in halacha, and his channel holds hundreds of his shiurim in Hebrew, English and Yiddish. At its heart are his shiurim in halacha, most of them his weekly shiur: the melachos of Shabbos that are like the work of the Mishkan, two melachos in one act, the measure of a mikveh, pas and bishul akum, the mitzvah of a fence around the roof, the time and place of lighting the Chanukah candles and hiddur in the Chanukah lights, kiddush levanah, sheva brachos, the strength of a chazakah for a bris, chukos hagoyim, an aveirah lishmah, and hiddur mitzvah.

For every week he gives a short thought on the parsha - Vayigash and Vayechi, Yisro and Terumah, Ki Sisa and Mishpatim, Balak, Vaeschanan on Shabbos Nachamu, Ki Savo and Nitzavim-Vayelech before Selichos - and for the times of the year: the Nine Days, Elul and the power of prayer, the days between Yom Kippur and Sukkos, Chanukah, Adar with "tov lev mishteh tamid", Shabbos HaGadol, the days of the Omer and bein hazmanim. Beside them the Yamim Tovim and the fasts are learned in halacha, from erev Pesach that falls on Shabbos and the Seder night to the Arba Minim, the second day of yom tov in the diaspora and Asarah B'Teves on Shabbos.

His shiurim in Choshen Mishpat take up the law of money and business: the foundation of the issur of ribbis, the essence of kinyanim and the kinyan of meshichah, a company with limited liability, a guarantor who signs after the money was given, damage from water between neighbours, a storekeeper's ledger, a daughter's share of an inheritance, the Yissachar-Zevulun agreement, and whether one may take tzedakah from a gentile. A series on Chuppah and Kiddushin, and the 48 ways the Torah is acquired - each kinyan a talk of its own, "Ohev Es HaMakom" among them - stand as their own rooms.

In hard times he gives chizuk: words for the war in Eretz Yisrael given in Teaneck, redeeming hostages in halacha, the questions of siege and of a commander who sends soldiers on a mission, and in the corona days achdus, minyanim and Parshas Zachor. He eulogizes those he loved - his mother Rebbetzin Pradel Weiss, Rav Chaim Kanievsky, Rav Baruch Mordechai Ezrachi - and gives a shiur on the hilula of the Chasam Sofer.

He speaks in his kollel for Americans, at Yeshivas Ohr Somayach, at the Agudah Yarchei Kallah, at the Yeshiva University siyum, in Brazil and in the Altneuschul in Prague, and answers in short what people ask: the bracha on pizza, paintball and golf, fresh strawberries, a train worked on on Shabbos. More than a hundred shiurim are in Yiddish. Every shiur opens on its own page, with no ads and no comments around it.

You can search inside the shiurim by what was said, play the whole catalog back to back, or follow Rabbi Asher Weiss to be told when something new comes in.