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...
Audio: Rav Reisman On Parshas Vayigash from LaGuardia Airport
The following is a shiur delivered by Harav Yisroel Reisman, maggid shiur in Yeshiva Torah Vodaas and mara d’asra of Agudath Israel of...
Audio: Rav Mintz On Parshas Vayigash
Each week, Rav Chaim Mintz, Mashgiach of the Yeshiva of Staten Island and founder and head of Oorah Kiruv Rechokim, offers, via telephone,...
Peninim On the Parsha: Parshas Vayigash
By Rabbi A. Leib Scheinbaum
I am Yosef. Does my father still live? (45:3)
The very first words that Yosef uttered after revealing his true identity...
Tzitz Eliezer: Can A Parent Force A Child To Go To The Doctor?
What happens if a child refuses to go to the dentist, can a parent force them? The Tzitz Eliezer (20:47) says that the obligation...
Parshas Vayigash: Right and Wrong
By Rabbi Berel Wein
There is no fight as bitter as a family fight. The bitterness and scars remain long after the incident that may have...
Rav Wosner: A New Kind Of Buffalo, Can You Eat It?
Rav Shmuel Halevi Wosner was asked (Shevet HaLevi 10:114:1) about an animal eaten in America that seems to be from the Buffalo family and...
Tzitz Eliezer: A Blind Man At The Kosel
The Shulchan Aruch paskens (OC 561:1) that when a person sees the Kosel he must tear Kria. What about a blind person, must he...
Parshas Vayigash: The Wagons of Assimilation
By Rabbi Zev Leff
. . . and he saw the wagons that Yosef had sent to transport him, then the spirit of their...
Shevet Hakehosi: Can You Erase Hashem’s Name If It Is Written As A Single...
The Rema paskens (YD 276:10) in the name of the Terumas HaDeshen that one can only erase Shem Hashem written (usually in Siddurim) as...
Parshas Vayigash: Age Old Questions
By Rabbi Mordechai Kamenetzky
It was the ultimate encounter. Yaakov, the consummate theologian, meets Pharoh, the king of the powerful land of Egypt. What could...
Interfering with Business Deals in Halacha
In light of our earlier story here regarding the Twin Rivers Yeshiva, we present this brief halachic discussion by Rabbi Yehonoson Dovid Hool:
Question:...
Audio: Rav Mintz On Shabbos Chanukah II
Each week, Rav Chaim Mintz, Mashgiach of the Yeshiva of Staten Island and founder and head of Oorah Kiruv Rechokim, offers, via telephone,...
Rav Shlomo Zalman Auerbach: When The Chosson & Kallah Make An Unexpected Detour During...
A person is supposed to light Neiros Chanuka in his home. What should a Chosson do on the night of his chasuna? Before the...
Video: The Shmuz On Chanukah
Rav Bentzion Shafier has impacted thousands of people with his talks and lectures, and especially with his innovative "Shmuz," a mussar shmuess that...
Video: Rav Avrohom Schorr On Chanukah
The following video was taken at a mesibas Chanukah last night where Rav Avrohom Schorr, rov of Khal Tiferes Yaakov of Flatbush, shared...
Debriciner Rov: Walking to Get a Siddur from Al Hanissim in Middle of Shemoneh...
If a person is in middle of Shemoneh Esrei and needs a siddur to say Yaaleh Veyavo, which he doesn't know by heart, the...
Chanukah – 5770: A Special Light
By Rabbi Mordechai Kamenetzky
One of the most joyous moments of the Chanukah experience, at least for this writer, is not only the actual lighting of...
