A shiur series on Chassidishe psak
This listing is not an individual speaker but a shiur series built around a theme: Chassidishe psak, the way halachic rulings carry a distinctly Chassidic sensibility as they pass from one gadol to the next. Its title names the arc it follows — from the Alter Rebbe and the Haflaah in earlier generations down to the Shevet HaLevi in our own. The subject is the thread of psak itself, traced through the poskim who shaped it.
Learning halachah this way — as a living chain rather than a fixed list of rules — is illuminating. A ruling does not appear from nowhere; it grows out of earlier authorities, is refined by later ones, and carries the imprint of the outlook that shaped it. A series that follows that development helps a listener understand not only what the halachah is, but how it came to be and why.
The Alter Rebbe and the Haflaah
At the head of the line stands the Alter Rebbe, Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liadi, the founder of Chabad Chassidus and author of the Shulchan Aruch HaRav — a restatement of halachah remarkable for weaving the reasoning directly into the ruling. Alongside him the series places the Haflaah, Rabbi Pinchas HaLevi Horowitz, the great rav of Frankfurt and a talmid of the Maggid of Mezritch, whose sharp Torah bridged the world of lomdus and the world of Chassidus.
Setting these two figures at the source is telling. Both were giants of halachah who were also steeped in the teachings of the Baal Shem Tov's talmidim, and both show how a Chassidic inner life and rigorous psak belong together rather than in separate compartments. The series uses them to establish the sensibility it will then follow forward through the generations.
Down to the Shevet HaLevi
The line reaches into our own time with the Shevet HaLevi — Rabbi Shmuel HaLevi Wosner zt"l of Bnei Brak, one of the foremost poskim of the last century, whose volumes of teshuvos bearing that name are consulted the world over. Tracing the path from the Alter Rebbe and the Haflaah down to the Shevet HaLevi lets a learner see a coherent approach to psak carried across centuries and continents.
That long view is the real gift of the series. Watching how a shaila is handled by successive poskim — each building on those before him — teaches something about halachah that no single teshuvah can: that the mesorah of psak is continuous, deliberate, and alive. For a serious learner, it is a rewarding way to deepen both knowledge and appreciation of how Klal Yisrael's halachah is transmitted.
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Key takeaways
- This is a shiur series on Chassidishe psak, not an individual speaker.
- It traces a line of halachic ruling from the Alter Rebbe and the Haflaah to the Shevet HaLevi.
- The Alter Rebbe authored the Shulchan Aruch HaRav; the Haflaah was Rav Pinchas Horowitz of Frankfurt.
- The Shevet HaLevi is Rav Shmuel Wosner zt"l of Bnei Brak, a leading posek of the last century.
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