Rav Moshe Feinstein: Blood For Money

There is an issur for a person to injure himself. Although it is a Machlokes in the Gemara, the Rishonim pasken that a person...

Chakirah on Tzitzis 

By Rabb Berach Steinfeld The Achronim ask a chakira regarding tzitzis. Is the “begged” of the tzitzis considered part of the mitzvah or is it considered a hechsher mitzvah, as we find that a house is...

Rav Moshe Twersky Hy”d On Malchiyos and Shofros

By Rabbi Yehoshua Berman Malchiyos Zichronos & Shofaros: Integral Part of Mussaf or an Addendum? The last sugyah in maseches Rosh Ha’Shana is about if the...

Yoma 73: Are Shoes Muktzah On Yom Kippur?

Rabbi Mordechai Koster is presently a member of the kollel at Bais Medresh Govoha in Lakewood, NJ, where he received semichah. He has...

Beitzah 4: The Shabbos After Pesach

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...

Yoma 66: Saving Those Who Can Save Themselves

Rabbi Mordechai Koster is presently a member of the kollel at Bais Medresh Govoha in Lakewood, NJ, where he received semichah. He has...

Beitzah 8: The Chicken Time Piece

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...

Yevamos 25: Marrying a Deceased Patient’s Wife

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...

Sukkah 20: Choosing a Rov

Rabbi Mordechai Koster is presently a member of the kollel at Bais Medresh Govoha in Lakewood, NJ, where he received semichah. He has...

Yoma 79: Drinking Outside a Sukkah

Rabbi Mordechai Koster is presently a member of the kollel at Bais Medresh Govoha in Lakewood, NJ, where he received semichah. He has...

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 ...

Learning on Tisha B’Av

By Rabbi Berach Steinfeld The Gemara in Taanis, daf lamed, amud alef says that all mitzvos that apply to an “avel” (mourner) apply on Tisha...

Music and Haircutting 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...

Heat Precautions for the Taanis

Today, the fast of Shiva Assar B'Tammuz, marks the date on which  the walls of Yerushalayim were breached after many months of siege by Nevuchadnetzar...

Audio: Rav Shurkin On the Inyan of Even Ivri

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...

Megillah 6: Being Happy During Adar Rishon

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...

Sukkah 15: Creative 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...

Throw Him Out of Shul

The sin of speaking during Chazoras Hashatz (or Krias Hatorah) is so severe that the Shulchan Aruch states that one should scream at one...

Beitzah 9: Inside Information

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...

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