Sukkah 27: Ladies Sleeping in the Sukkah
Rabbi Mordechai Koster is presently a member of the kollel at Bais Medresh Govoha in Lakewood, NJ, where he received semichah. He has...
Eating Milchigs On Shavuos
Many have the minhag to eat a milchige meal (and milk and honey) on Shavuos. Some eat milchig at night and fleishig...
Chelkas Yaakov: Amira L’Akum Across Different Time Zones
If a Non-Jew calls you from a time zone where it is already Shabbos but in your location Shabbos has not yet arrived, may...
Rav Yehonoson Eibshitz: Respecting Your Older Sister
Rashi in Yaakov's Mussar to Shimon and Levi (Vayichi 49:5) says that it could have only been Shimon and Levi who said let's kill...
WATCH: Let’s Talk Kashrus – Full Steam Ahead
Let’s listen in to a roundtable discussion on the Dos & Don'ts of Kashering with steam, between R’ Aaron Mendelson of Kosher Services, R’...
Audio: Rav Shurkin On “Zechiras Yetzias Mitrayim Al Yedei Amiras Az Yashir”
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...
A Comprehensive Guide to the Prohibitions of Tishah B’av
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By Rabbi Doniel Neustadt
The ninth day of Av, the day on which both Batei Mikdash were destroyed, not only commemorates...
Malkus and Teshuvah
By Rabbi Berach Steinfeld
In Vayikra 5:23 the passuk teaches us that if one sins and wants to do Teshuva he should return the object that he stole. The Gemara in Chullin 141a says that...
Yevamos 58: Willful Indifference
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...
What Is The Halachic View Of Banning Immigrants from Entering a Country?
By Rav Yosef Greenwald
Introduction
If we look at the current political climate in the United States, it seems that there is a large divide between the...
Meat and Diary: A Kosher Consumer’s Handbook
Rabbi Dovid Heber, Star-K Kashrus Administrator
One of the best known halachos of kashrus is that one may not eat meat and milk together. One...
Lack of Hesped for Rochel
By Rabbi Berach Steinfeld
In Bereishis 35:19 it says that Rachel was nifteres and was buried on the road leading to Efras, Bethlehem. Why do we not find in the...
Matzav.com Chanukah Safety Tips
First and foremost, teach your children that fire is dangerous. It can maim and ...
Adar and the Daled Parshiyos
1) The Gemara (Taanis 29a-b) tells us "Mishenichnas Adar Marbim B'Simcha- when the month of Adar arrives we increase our joy" as it says...
Rav Moshe Feinstein: The Status Of The Night Of 17 Tammuz – Shaving, Wedding
On Shiva Asar B'Tammuz we don't fast until the morning. Does that mean that the night before is not part of the Taanis and...
Audio: Rav Shurkin: Are the Shevarim Straight or Tu-U-Tus?
The following shiur was delivered at Bais Medrash Kol Yehuda-Brook HillAshkenaz Shul in Lakewood, NJ, and is posted exclusively here on Matzav.com.
The shiur was given...
Hilchos Chanukah: Waiting for Your Wife
If one will not be home to light at the proper time, but plans to return at night...
Minhagim of Pesach Sheini
This Wednesday, the 14th of Iyar is Pesach Sheni. According to many opinions one does not fast on this day, make Hespedim, or a...
Star-K Certification Updated Yoshon Guide Now Available Online
By Rabbi Sholom Tendler, Star-K Kashrus Administrator
We are a few months into Yoshon season. Many people get confused about what the terms Yoshon and...
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...
