A shiur series on one section of Shulchan Aruch
This is not a general speaker page but a focused shiur series: Rabbi Eli Markowitz teaching Yoreh Deah, one of the four sections of the Shulchan Aruch. Yoreh Deah is where much of the practical machinery of a frum home lives — the laws of kashrus and the separation of meat and milk, issur v'heter, the details of the kitchen, and beyond it the halachos of niddah, of aveilus and mourning, and more. The series already runs to some forty shiurim, a real body of learning rather than a sampler.
A series built around a single section of Shulchan Aruch has a distinct advantage: it moves in the order of the halacha itself. A learner is not jumping between unrelated topics but following the structure the poskim laid down, which means each shiur tends to build on the ground cleared by the one before. For someone who wants to actually know Yoreh Deah rather than collect stray facts about it, that sequence is the point.
Halacha you can live by
Yoreh Deah is famously practical, and that is much of the appeal here. These are the areas a person meets in the ordinary week — a question in the kitchen, a shailah about kashering, the halachos that govern a house of mourning. A shiur series that works through them in depth gives a learner more than an answer; it gives the reasoning behind the answer, so that the next question is a little less strange and a great deal less frightening.
Learning halacha this way, from a teacher moving carefully through the text, also builds the judgment to know when to ask. Yoreh Deah is exactly the kind of material where a small detail changes the ruling, and a good shiur trains the ear to hear those details. The recorded format helps: a difficult sugya can be paused and replayed until it settles, which is how practical halacha is meant to be learned.
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Key takeaways
- This is a focused shiur series on Yoreh Deah, one of the four sections of the Shulchan Aruch, taught by Rabbi Eli Markowitz.
- Yoreh Deah covers kashrus and issur v'heter, and reaches into niddah, aveilus and more — the practical halacha of a frum home.
- The series runs to some forty shiurim and moves in the order of the halacha itself, so each class builds on the last.
- The recorded format lets a hard sugya be paused and replayed until it settles — the way practical halacha is meant to be learned.
- Search FilteredTube for kosher, approved Torah video — the catalog grows every day.