Megillah 16: The Quiet Birchas Kohanim
Rabbi Mordechai Koster is presently a member of the kollel at Bais Medrash Govoha in Lakewood, NJ, where he receivedsemichah. He has written several seforim...
Yuma 37: When Is Netz Hachamah?
Rabbi Mordechai Koster is presently a member of the kollel at Bais Medresh Govoha in Lakewood, NJ, where he received semichah. He has...
Audio: Eidus for Kiddush Hachodesh
The following shiur was delivered on Sunday morning at Bais Medrash Kol Yehuda-Brook HillAshkenaz Shul in Lakewood, NJ, and is posted exclusively here on...
Yevamos 22: The Bitter Bachelor
Rabbi Mordechai Koster is presently a member of the kollel at Bais Medrash Govoha in Lakewood, NJ, where he receivedsemichah. He has written several seforim...
WATCH: Let’s Talk Kashrus, When Domestic Help Creates a Mess – Part 1
Kashrus Concerns With Domestic Help - Part 1
Rav Moshe Heinemann, Rabbinic Administrator of the Star-K and Rov of Agudas Yisroel of Baltimore joins Rabbi...
Why Is There No Question at the Seder About the Extra Wine?
By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for the Five Towns Jewish Times
We know the four questions of Pesach. But why is there no question asked about...
Business Halacha: Dry Cleaners and Prepaid Discounts
Q: A dry cleaners has the following price arrangement: $1 per shirt if prepaid; $1.50 if paid at pickup. Is there a violation of...
Does the Gentile Who Buys the Chometz Need to be Bar-Mitzvahed?
By Rabbi Yair Hoffman
Do gentiles have mitzvos?
Of course. Indeed, most of us are familiar with the concept of the sheva mitzvos B'nei Noach-the seven...
Do “Yissocher-Zevulun” Partnerships Actually Work?
By Rabbi Eliezer Cohen, Rosh Kollel Ner Mizrach, Atlanta GA
Introduction
Most people do not have sufficient time and financial resources to learn Torah as a...
Business Halacha: Opening Another Pizza Store in Town
Question: There is a kosher pizza store in town. Can the owner restrain me from opening a competing store?
Answer: This issue, commonly known...
Making a Bracha On a Hot Drink
When one sips a hot drink such as tea or coffee, or a sharp drink, such as whiskey, where a Revi'is is usually not...
“Vesein Tal Umatar” Begins in Eretz Yisroel
At Maariv tonight, 7 Cheshvan, in Eretz Yisroel, we begin to say Vesein Tal Umatar during the Shemonah Esrei in the bracha of Boreich...
Business Halacha: Payment of Wages
Q: I asked an appliance repairman down the block to check my faulty refrigerator. He immediately ascertained that the outlet was defective and simply...
Minimum Wage in Halacha
By Rav Yitzchak Grossman
Dayan at Bais HaVaad and Senior Lecturer at Greater Washington Community Kollel
The Democratic platform draft committee recently voted to adopt language...
Microwave, Kashering Back and Forth
Q. Is it permissible to use a microwave oven for both milchigs (dairy) and fleishigs (meat), if one kashers it back and forth?
A. The...
Listen: Rav Feiner On “Torah UTefillah – The Interrelationship of Our Learning and Davening”
The following is a shiur was delivered by Rav Eytan Feiner, the brilliant and dynamic rov of the White Shul, Cong. Knesseth Israel in...
Haircut During Omer
By Rabbi Berach Steinfeld
The Torah tells us that a “mitztaer” (a person in pain) is exempt from the mitzvah of Sukkah. One may say...
Listen: Rabbi Avrohom Asher Makovsky’s “Daily Dose of Chesed” Podcast on Matzav.com – The...
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Aveilus During Sefirah
There are two minhagim of Aveilus during Sefirah. One minhag keeps Aveilus from after Pesach until Lag Ba'omer, and one minhag keeps Aveilus from...
