Is a Tzadik’s Tefilos Considered Pikuach Nefesh? – The Sar Shalom of Belz &...
May one be mi'Chalel Shabbos for the purpose of having a Tzadik daven for a mortally ill person?
A number of years ago is a...
Parshas Shemos: Avodas Perach – The Importance of Purpose
By Rabbi Zev Leff
The Egyptians started to make the Israelites do labor designated to break their bodies (Shemos 113).
In order to keep Bnei Yisrael...
Popcorn, Potato Chips, Corn Chips and Pringles: What Bracha?
Rabbi Pinchos Bodner, in his sefer on Brachos, writes (based on the Shulchan Aruch (202)) that in order to make a hoadama on a...
Parshas Shemos: Burning Interests
In Jewish history, there is a hardly an object more expounded upon than the burning bush. Its symbolism is analyzed, its significance expounded upon,...
Knocking On Doors On Shabbos
The Gemara Eiruvin (104a) says that it is Assur to be Molid Kol or create sounds on Shabbos. There is a Machlokes in the...
Audio: Rav Reisman On Parshas Vayechi
The following is a shiur delivered by Harav Yisroel Reisman, maggid shiur in Yeshiva Torah Vodaas and mara d’asra of Agudath Israel of...
Video: The Shmuz on Parshas Vayechi
Rav Bentzion Shafier has impacted thousands of people with his talks and lectures, and especially with his innovative "Shmuz," a mussar shmuess that...
Parshas Vayechi: Breaking the Code of Geulah
By Rav Shmuel Brazil
In Parshas Shemos the passuk says that Hashem tells Moshe that he should gather the elders of Yisrael and say to...
Rav Yehonoson Eibshitz: Respecting Your Older Sister
Rashi in Yaakov's Mussar to Shimon and Levi (Vayichi 49:5) says that it could have only been Shimon and Levi who said let's kill...
Inheritor or Guardian? Bava Basra Daf 131
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The Gemora rules: It is obvious that if he designated all of his property to his adult...
Mayim Achronim Before Eating
One of the reasons brought down for washing Mayim Achronim before reciting birchas hamazon is that one should not bentch with dirty hands (Mishna...
The Shmuz On Parshas Vayechi: The Greatness Of Man
By Rabbi Ben Tzion Shafier
And Yisrael came close to the day of his death, and he called to his son, to Yosef, and he...
Rav Shlomo Zalman Auerbach: When A Patient Would Rather Die
If a Choleh is told that he needs a limb amputated or else he will die, may he refuse to go through with the...
Peninim On The Torah: Parshas Vayechi
By Rabbi A. Leib Scheinbaum
G-d who shepherds me from my inception until this day... May the angel who redeems me from all evil bless...
Rav Menashe Klein: Wearing Tefillin On A Toupee
If someone wears a toupee, must he take it off when putting on Tefilin Shel Rosh? The Tshuvas HaRashba (1:30), which is not in...
Parshas Vayechi: Yosef’s “Sweet Revenge”
By Rav Zev Leff
... And they said, "Perhaps Yosef will nurse hatred against us . . ." (Bereishis 50 15).
Upon returning from burying...
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...
Parshas Vayechi: Squeeze Play
By Rabbi Mordechai Kamenetzky
Yaakov had passed from this world. His twelve sons were left alone in a foreign world, and it was time...
Chelkas Yaakov – Lechem Mishnah On Matzah Or Challah Missing A Small Piece
If your matzos are broken a little bit around the sides, they are still regarded as sheleiemim for lechem mishnah, according to the Chelkas Yaakov...
