Today: The Fast of Shiva Assar B’Tammuz
On the 17th day in the month of Tammuz, Jews the world over fast and lament to commemorate the many...
Eretz Yisroel and Children
By Rabbi Berach Steinfeld
In Bereishis, Perek Chof Heh, posuk chof it says that Yitzchok was forty years old when he married Rivkah. In posuk chof vov it says that Yitzchok was sixty when Yaakov and Esav were born. The Gemara in Yevamos, daf...
Hilchos Chanukah: Dreidel With Money
It is a Minhag Yisroel to play draidel (with money) on Chanukah, to commemorate the draidel game played by Jews who, despite the decree...
Audio: Rav Shurkin B’inyan Mitzvas Mechiyas Amaleik Ub’inyan Parshas Zachor V’inyonei Purim
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...
Chanukah – Getting Our Hearts Back in It
Based on a shiur by Rav Yitzchak Sorotzkin, Rosh Yeshivas Telz and Mesivta of Lakewood
By Rabbi Eli Glaser, CNWC, CWMC
Director, Soveya
The commentator Bach, in...
Rav Wosner: Are Woman Obligated To Say Hallel On Chanuka?
Even though it is a Mitzvas Aseh SheHaZman Grama, the gemara (Shabbos 23a) says that women are obligated in the Mitzva of Ner Chanuka...
Business Halacha: A Misplaced Item
Question: A shomer chinam (unpaid guardian) is not liable for theft and loss. Does that mean that if I misplaced an entrusted item, I...
Human Rights or Animal Rights
By Rabbi Berach Steinfeld
When Yaakov is invited to accompany Esav and he declines Yaakov says, “My master, you know that my children are young and I have lots of animals...
Audio: Rav Shurkin on Hamekadesh Be’eid Echad and Techilasoi Bepsul
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...
Listen: Rav Feiner On Chodesh Elul
The following is a shiur was delivered this week by Rav Eytan Feiner, the brilliant and dynamic rov of the White Shul, Cong. Knesseth...
Yevamos 26: Quality vs. Quantity
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...
Business Halacha: Ribbis and My Loan to My Cousin
Q: A cousin asked me to grant him a $25,000 loan, which required withdrawing money from my savings account. Can I charge him the...
Machine Matzos: Timing is Everything
Rabbi Tzvi Rosen, Star-K Kashrus Administrator; Editor, Kashrus Kurrents
Meticulous, scrupulous and passionate are terms that describe the fervor, zeal and seriousness displayed by the...
Audio: Rabbi Yitzchok Fingerer On Pesach
The following is Rabbi Yitzchok Fingerer's enlightening Pesach shiur, which was originally featured on the radio at 97.5 on the FM dial.
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Parshas Pinchas: Semichah in the Talmud and Today
By Avi Zakutinsky
He laid his hands upon him and commanded him, in accordance with what G-d had spoken to Moshe. (Pinchas 27:23)
In this...
Audio: Rav Shurkin: On The Last Night of Sheva Brachos That Ends Late, May...
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...
Reminder: Make an Eruv Tavshilin
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By Rabbi Tzvi Rosen
A fundamental difference between Yom Tov observance and Shabbos observance is the allowance of ochel nefesh, food preparation on Yom Tov....
Hilchos Chanukah: Waiting for Your Wife
If one will not be home to light at the proper time, but plans to return at night while members of the household are...
Payment of Wages Without Stipulation
Q: If someone did a job and the wages were not stipulated beforehand, how much is owed?
A: We mentioned last week that it advisable...
