Rabbi Yaron Reuven answers a question about Jewish banking, usury, and laws of lending money. Rabbi Reuven explains that the laws of the Torah are laws of God. HaShem forbids Jews lending money with interest to other Jews, but it's allowed to lend to gentiles with interest. While this law mentioned in numerous places in the Five Books of Moses gives no limits to the interest rate for lending to gentiles, the Talmud and later authorities explain that Jews are forbidden to char

A viewer asks Rabbi Reuven, since the Avot like Avraham Avinu kept the entire Torah, how were their Tefillin kosher and how did they have the correct passages from the Torah before they were given? Rabbi Reuven gives a deep reply that resolves the question and also answers many other questions about the Written and Oral Torah. There are over 1000 Halachot of Tefillin which were all given to Moshe Rabbeinu at Mount Sinai, but the Oral Torah existed since the time of Adam HaRis

Rabbi Yaron Reuven brings insights on Moshe Rabbeinu's subtle rebuke in Parashat Devarim. A list of places after the Exodus of Egypt, some of which the Sages comment aren't found in the Torah, reveal that Moshe was rebuking the people for all the times they sinned against HaShem. These rebukes apply to us even more today than they did to the Generation of Knowledge. "These are the words which Moshe spoke to all Israel on the other side of the Jordan, in the Wilderness, over a