WATCH: Let’s Talk Kashrus – Quail Tales & Egg Fails

After last week's introduction to the mesorah of birds, let's dive right in to some practical halachic applications. R' Chaim Loike, Rabbinic Coordinator at OU...

WATCH: Let’s Talk Kashrus – Hechsher In A Haystack?

Hechsher In A Haystack? Not Anymore! Introducing a revolutionary new app! A game changer for the industry of kashrus. Have you ever seen an unfamiliar...

Shmitta

By Rabbi Berach Steinfeld In Vayikra 25:2, the Torah tells us that the land should rest in the seventh year as a Shabbos laHashem. In...

WATCH: Let’s Talk Kashrus – Be Like Leibel

Can you rely on a kosher symbol you see online? Sometimes you buy something online, but the product has a different packaging when it...

Celebrate

By Rabbi Berach Steinfeld In Parshas Emor the Torah discusses Shabbos and Yom Tov. The Gemara in Shabbos 118 and in Pesachim 112 say in the name of Rabi Akiva that a person should rather have a simple Shabbos, without any...

Listening to a Rasha

By Rabbi Berach Steinfeld In Vayikra 19:3 the Torah tells us one has to fear his mother and father. The Gemara Yevamos 5b says one might think that Kibbud Av and Kibbud Eim is docheh Shabbos,...

WATCH: Let’s Talk Kashrus – Shell-Shocked By Egg-flation: Is It Fowl Play?

Have you been noticing more blood spots lately? Let’s get the real scoop what’s going on lately with the eggs together with Rabbi Sholem...

Count Without a Bracha?

By Rabbi Berach Steinfeld If a person is worried that he won’t remember to count all the days of Sefirah, should he count with a...

WATCH: Let’s Talk Kashrus – Shelf Awareness: Post-Pesach Shopping

Where can I buy chometz? Where is it problematic? Rabbi Yakov Teichman - Rabbinic Coordinator at the OK, gives us the full scoop. WATCH: View it...

WATCH: Let’s Talk Kashrus – Don’t Toss That Sauce

Don’t Toss That Sauce Just Yet… Many people won't sell chometz gamur. Does that mean I need to throw out a closed bottle of ketchup? Rabbi...

Shehecheyanu for Korban Pesach

By Rabbi Berach Steinfeld In Shemos, Perek Yud Bais the Torah tells us that we have a mitzvah to bring a Korban Pesach on Erev Pesach. Was the bracha of shehecheyanu recited when they brought the Korban Pesach since it is a mitzvah that occurs...

Salting

By Rabbi Berach Steinfeld                 In Vayikra 2:13, the Torah commands us that on all Korbanos must be salted. We learn from the gemara in Menachos 21a that the salting must be done, even on Shabbos....

Avoda of Nissan

By Rabbi Berach Steinfeld Bnei Yisroel were redeemed from Mitzrayim on Pesach. The Ramban, in his psicha for Chumash Shemos, says that galus will not end until Bnei Yisroel return to their place and to the “maalos” of their avos (forefathers.)...

WATCH: Let’s Talk Kashrus – Wok Smarter, Not Harder

Wok Smarter, Not Harder: Labeled In China Part 2 of our travels to China with Rabbi Binyamin Berkowitz, Kashrus Administrator at the KOF-K, focuses on...

How Do We Conduct the Purim Seudah on Friday? | Ask the Rabbi Live...

How Do We Conduct the Purim Seudah on Friday? | Ask the Rabbi Live with Rabbi Chaim Mintz WATCH:

WATCH: Let’s Talk Kashrus – Made In China

Made In China: Soy Many Questions Today we travel to China with Rabbi Binyamin Berkowitz, Kashrus Administrator at the KOF-K. Come along as we explore the...

Rabbi Yaakov Yosef Reinman: Why We Drink On Purim

Did you ever wonder why there is a mitzva to drink on Purim and not Yom Tov where there is a חיוב of שמחה?...

WATCH: Let’s Talk Kashrus – Don’t Cry Over Cholov Stam Milk

Rav ’ Moshe Feinstein’s teshuva on Cholov Stam in America is by far one of the more famous of his. Yet, Rabbi Sholem Fishbane,...

WATCH: Let’s Talk Kashrus – Kosher Can, Treife Plan?

What can be wrong with canned corn? All the ingredients are kosher. Let's listen to Rabbi Mordechai Stareshefsky, a Rabbinic Coordinator at the OU,...

Mechiyas Amalek 

By Rabbi Berach Steinfeld In Shemos 17:16, the Torah says there should be a war of Hashem against Amalek from generation to generation. There are two places in the Torah that the war against Amalek is...

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