A 49-Hour Fast
By Rabbi Yaakov Asher Sinclair
Can you imagine what it must be like for Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, to last two days? For...
When Do the Three Weeks Restrictions End This Year?
Q. When do all the restrictions of the Three Weeks and the Nine Days end this year?
A. Normally, all restrictions of the Three Weeks...
Hilchos Zimun – Part I
By Rabbi Dovid Ostroff
Three people who have dined together are obligated to bentch with zimun. This obligation is biblically sourced in the possuk âãìå...
Yevamos 62: Paying a Non-Jewish Shadchan
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...
Judges and Tzedaka
By Rabbi Berach Steinfeld
In Devarim 17:18 the passuk tells us that there should be Judges in every city. In the end of Parshas Reeh the passuk says that one should give tzedakah like the Bracha that Hashem shared...
Six Count for a Minyan?
If one began saying Kaddish (or Kedusha, Chazoras Hashatz, Nesias Kapayim, Krias Hatorah, or Haftorah) with the requisite minyan of ten, and then one...
Hilchos Purim: Shabbos Erev Purim
If the Seudah Shlishis on Shabbos Erev Purim (this year 27 Feb) stretches until after nightfall, one does not say Al Hanisim in Birchas...
Sukkah 2: See-Through S’chach
Rabbi Mordechai Koster is presently a member of the kollel at Bais Medresh Govoha in Lakewood, NJ, where he received semichah. He has...
The Halacha: Defective Merchandise
From Matzav.com's Halacha Corner:
Question: I ordered a new bed set, and noticed at night that one of the mattresses was damaged. Can I sleep on...
Taanis 13: The Juvenile Mourner
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...
Chagigah 2: The Mother’s Obligation in Chinuch
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 to Do When Making an Early Shabbos
When making an early Shabbos one should remember the following;
1. It is most preferable to daven Mincha before "Plag Hamincha" and Maariv after the...
Chief Rabbis: Stealing Daled Minim is Forbidden
A number of neighborhood publications in Israel Yerushalayim and elsewhere recent republished a psak released three years ago by the Chief Rabbis of Israel,...
WATCH: Let’s Talk Kashrus – Wine, or Wine Not?
In this enlightening episode, Rabbi Nochum Rabinowitz, Senior Rabbinic coordinator at OU kosher clarifies for us the differences between Yayin Nesech and Stam Yeinam.
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Considered Your Child
By Rabbi Berach Steinfeld
In Bamidbar 3:1 it says that these are the children of Aharon and Moshe. Rashi quotes the Medrash and Gemara Sanhedrin 19b that says whoever teaches some else’s child Torah it is considered as...
Are Financial Decisions Made Out Of Anger Halachically Binding?
By Rabbi Yosef Grunwald
Occasionally, in the course of business dealings, people can get angry or upset and say or do things they regret later...
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...
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