Watch: Rav Yisroel Brog Pesach Series: Avdus
Rav Yisroel Brog is the rosh yeshiva of Yeshivas Tiferes Avigdor in Cleveland, Ohio. The following is a Pesach shiur on the topic of "Avdus."
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Audio: Why Do We Have a Second Day of Shavuos?
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...
Halacha Berurah: Shavous – Halachos When Staying Up All Night
By Rabbi Elli Bohm
Reviewed by Harav Yisroel Belsky
Staying Awake to Learn on Shavuos Night
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Eretz Yisroel and Children
By Rabbi Berach Steinfeld
In Bereishis, Perek Chof Heh, posuk chof it says that Yitzchok was forty years old when he married Rivkah. In posuk chof vov it says that Yitzchok was sixty when Yaakov and Esav were born. The Gemara in Yevamos, daf...
Business Halacha: Problem With the Contractor
Q: The contractor who renovated our house finished working and asked for payment of the final installment. However, we are dissatisfied with one...
Mitzvos Bnei Noach
By Rabbi Berach Steinfeld
We see in Sandhedrin 46a that we learn about all of the zayin mitzvos bnei Noach from a posuk in Bereishis 2:15 tes vov that Hashem commanded Adam saying… These are the mitzvos bnei Noach. One...
Yoma 58: Turning Right
Rabbi Mordechai Koster is presently a member of the kollel at Bais Medresh Govoha in Lakewood, NJ, where he received semichah. He has...
The Halachos of Chol Hamoed
The Torah uses the term "מקראי קודש" to describe both the regular days of Yom Tov, and the intermediary days of Yom Tov, which...
Audio: Rav Shurkin On Opening Packages and Bottles on Shabbos
The following shiur was delivered at Bais Medrash Kol Yehuda-Brook HillAshkenaz Shul in Lakewood, NJ, and is posted exclusively here on Matzav.com.
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Are Kohanim Allowed To Visit Kivrei Tzadikim?
By Rabbi Avi Zakutinsky, Matzav.com
Anyone touching the corpse of a human soul shall become unclean for seven days. (Chukas 19:11)
We are all aware...
Davening for Mizbeiach
By Rabbi Berach Steinfeld
During the Musaf Shemoneh Esrei of Rosh Chodesh we include a special Tefillah for the mizbeach. We say “Mizbeach hachadash b’Tzion tachin.” (A new mizbeach should be prepared in Tzion.)
The question arises; why don’t...
Business Halacha: Dry Cleaners and Prepaid Discounts
Q: A dry cleaners has the following price arrangement: $1 per shirt if prepaid; $1.50 if paid at pickup. Is there a violation of...
Adding Water to a Vaporizer On Shabbos
It is permitted to add water on Shabbos to a cold-water vaporizer on Shabbos. Causing the water to vaporize in this manner does not...
Important Halacha Regarding Arba Minim
Some years ago, an unofficial poll taken in Far Rockaway, New York, revealed a startling and alarming fact. Over 90% of women polled were unaware of...
Halacha Berurah: The Halachos of Matanos L’evyonim and Mishloach Manos
By: Rabbi Elli Bohm
Reviewed by: Harav Yisroel Belsky
Matanos L'evyonim
The Rambam writes: It is better to give more gifts to the poor than to...
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...
Watch: Let’s Talk Kashrus – When In Rome…
Rabbi Nochum Rabinowitz, Senior Rabbinic Coordinator at OU Kosher, takes us on a world tour of kashrus overseas.
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View it in its entirety at https://www.kashrusawareness.com/post/when-in-rome
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Hadlokas Nairos – Why 18 minutes?
A new weekly column by Yosef Brecher
The common מנהג in America is to light Shabbos candles 18 minutes before שקיעה. The source for this...
