A Basic Understanding Of The Tekios

By Rabbi Doniel Neustadt One of the most important mitzvos of Rosh Hashanah is the Biblical command to blow the shofar. Although the significance of...

Yevamos 31: Turning Yourself In

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...

Listen: Rav Feiner On the Leil HaSeder

The following is a shiur was delivered by Rav Eytan Feiner, the brilliant and dynamic rov of the White Shul, Cong. Knesseth Israel in...

Taanis 7: The Az Ponim in Halacha

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...

Burying a Rasha with a Tzaddik

By Rabbi Berach Steinfeld In Bereishis 50:13 the passuk says; the brothers carried Yaakov to eretz Knaan and buried him in the Me’Aras Hamachpeila. The Gemara in Sotah 13a says that during the time of burying Yaakov,...

Hilchos Chanukah: How to Light On Erev Shabbos

On Erev Shabbos, if a woman is running late to light Shabbos candles on time, she is permitted to light the Shabbos candles immediately,...

Hilchos Chodesh Nissan – Birkas Ha’illanos

Rosh Chodesh Nissan (tomorrow, Tuesday, March 16) marks the beginning of the season for Birkas Ha'Ilanos - the blessing we recite once a year...

Rosh Hashanah 15: Hakeil Hakadosh During the Year

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...

Understanding What We Are Missing 

By Rabbi Berach Steinfeld The well known posuk in Tehillim says, “Im eshkacheich... tishkach yemini.” We need to understand what this posuk is telling us.  The nature of a person is that “hergel,”...

Olive Oil: The Contemporary Industry of Antiquity

By Rabbi Tzvi Rosen, Star-K Kashrus Administrator; Editor, Kashrus Kurrents Olive oil, the liquid gold of the ancients was touted for its nutritional, medicinal, and...

Beitzah 28: Shoveling Snow on Shabbos

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...

P’sak: 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 former Chief Rabbis of...

But What Could Be the Problem With…

By Rabbi Tzvi Rosen, Star-K Kashrus Administrator; Editor, Kashrus Kurrents As Pesach nears, the grocery bills mount and the bank account dwindles,...

Taanis 29: Eating Left-Over Shabbos Meat During The Nine Days

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...

Earliest Shema

If one regularly davens K'vasikin (i.e. reciting Shema just before sunrise and beginning Shmona Esrei at sunrise) and wishes to give up the practice...

Chag Sameiach from Matzav.com, 3,325th Anniversary of Matan Torah

Matzav.com would like to wish its readers all over the globe a chag sameiach. As we celebrate our 3,325th anniversary since receiving the Torah...

Erev Yom Kippur: Lots of Candy – How Many Brachos?

Generally, the halacha is that when a person makes a bracha on a food, the bracha is in effect so long as...

Taanis 4: Eating with Your Mouth Full

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...

Hilchos Meah (100) Brachos

-Men, and boys who have reached the age of Chinuch (and according to a minority opinion, Women and girls) are obligated to make a...

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