Taking a Shower On Shabbos

By Rabbi Dovid Ostroff Is one permitted to take a hot shower on Shabbos? When discussing the issue of taking hot showers on Shabbos, two...

Rav Brazil On Parshas Terumah

By Rav Shmuel Brazil One of the components of the Mishkan was the Techashim, as Rashi writes it was an undomesticated animal brought into existence...

Be’er Moshe: Baby Looking in Mirror, Walking Over Children, and Red Strings – Old...

Rav Moshe Stern zt"l (Be'er Moshe 8:36) was asked regarding the validity of three minhagim pertaining to children. 1. Not to let a baby...

Parshas Terumah: Support System

By Rabbi Mordechai Kamenetzky The Aron Kodesh in the Mishkan, the Tabernacle, contained the most precious spiritual gift that was transmitted by Omnipotent to mortal...

“Eim” Lamikra – Sanhedrin Daf 4

By: Rabbi Avrohom Adler Subscribe to the Daily Daf Yomi Summary Rav Yitzchak bar Yosef said in the name of Rabbi Yochanan: Rebbe, Rabbi Yehudah ben...

IS IT NATURAL FOR AN OX TO GORE? Sanhedrin Daf 3

By: Rabbi Avrohom Adler Subscribe to the Daily Daf Yomi Summary http://www.daf-yomi.org The Gemora cited a dispute regarding the half damages that one is required to...

Monetary Cases are Judged by a Beis Din of Three – Sanhedrin 2

Subscribe to the Daily Daf Yomi Summary http://www.daf-yomi.org By: Meoros HaDaf HaYomi Should a get be delivered only before a beis din? This week the Daf HaYomi...

Audio: Rav Mintz On Parshas Mishpatim-Shekalim

Each week, Rav Chaim Mintz, Mashgiach of the Yeshiva of Staten Island and founder and head of Oorah Kiruv Rechokim, offers, via telephone,...

Rav Brazil On Parshas Mishpatim

By Rav Shmuel Brazil The parsha of Mishpatim begins with the mitzvah of eved ivri. The mefarshim ask why was this chosen to begin the...

Hilchos Purim: Carrying the Megillah On Shabbos

One may not carry a Megillah to shul on Shabbos Erev Purim (this year 27 Feb) even in a place with a proper Eruv...

Parshas Mishpatim: Na’aseh Venishmah

By Rav Zev Leff R' Sima'i taught: At the moment the Jewish People answered "Na'aseh ve'nishmah - We will fulfill and learn the Torah," 600,000...

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...

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...

Parshas Mishpatim: Facing the Enemy

By Rabbi Mordechai Kamenetzky Receiving the Ten Commandments may have been the pinnacle of the Jewish experience, but by no means did Judaism end...

Knives for Milchigs and Fleishigs

Knives and other sharp utensils used to cut or grate, which are designated for meat or dairy, should L'Chatchilah not be used to cut...

Audio: Rav Reisman On Parshas Yisro

The following is a shiur delivered by Harav Yisroel Reisman, maggid shiur in Yeshiva Torah Vodaas and mara d’asra of Agudath Israel of Madison. The shiur, on Parshas...

Saying Shema Too Early

If one recited Shema too early, before the zman (i.e. after dawn, but before Mi'Sheyakir) even if one was not an 'Oness" (i.e. one...

Rav Brazil On Parshas Yisro

By Rav Shmuel Brazil The Apple Computer Company just recently released a new technology called the I Pad. Up until this point they brought us the...

Who Pays for the Clock? – Bava Basra 167

By: Meoros HaDaf HaYomi The Forgers’ Scheme A person who wants to show a specimen of his signature to a Beis Din should not sign at...

Minimum Number of Coins of Different Denominations – Bava Basra 166

brought to you by: Kollel Iyun Hadaf of Har Nof [email protected] Minimum Number of Coins of Different Denominations The braisa teaches that when a shtar mentions that a...

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