Hadlokas Nairos Part 4 – Basic Procedure
By Yosef Brecher
What is the basic procedure for lighting the Shabbos candles each week?
The Mishna Berura (O.C. 262:11) writes that a woman should preferably...
Beitzah 28: Shoveling Snow on Shabbos
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...
Animal Rites
By Rabbi Berach Steinfeld
The posuk in Parshas Noach, Perek Vov, posuk chof alef says that Hashem commanded Noach to take all kinds of food into the ark for “you and the animals...
Life Insurance and Loshon Hora
By Mordechai Lewis
Have you ever wondered why at the end of Shemonah Esrei we first ask Hashem, “Guard my tongue from evil… and then...
Close, But No Cigar: The Rights Of The Second Hand Smoker
Halachic perspectives on second-hand smoke
By: Rav Yosef Greenwald1
Introduction
There has been much discussion on the topic of smoking in halacha over the course of the...
Business Halacha: When I Dispute the Bill
Q: I hired someone to paint four rooms. He gave me a bill for $1,200, but I remember the estimate as being $1,000. What...
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...
Listen: Rabbi Krakowski On Shavuos
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Tchum of a Bris
By Rabbi Berach Steinfeld
Since we are hopefully going to make a bris for our grandson, I figured we will try to write about Bris.
In Vayikra...
The Pesach Seder
By Rabbi Mordechai Frankel, Director, Institute of Halacha
The following contains halachic guidance concerning some of the common issues that arise when conducting a seder....
Hilchos Chanukah: How Long Must They Burn?
One should put enough oil in the menorah so that the lights will burn until at least one half hour after night (Tzes Hakochavim...
Rabbi Shabtai: There is No Proven Transmission from a Mohel to Baby
The following is an insightful shiur delivered by Rabbi Dr. David Shabtai on the topic of metzitzah b'peh at Mt. Sinai Jewish Center....
Watch: Let’s Talk Kashrus – Starbucks: Just A Black Coffee
What can be wrong with a plain black coffee? Apparently it isn’t that simple. R’ Sholem Fishbane, Director of Kashrus for the Chicago Rabbinical...
Olive Oil: The Contemporary Industry of Antiquity
By Rabbi Tzvi Rosen, Star-K Kashrus Administrator; Editor, Kashrus Kurrents
Olive oil, the liquid gold of the ancients was touted for its nutritional, medicinal, and...
Sukkah 56: Blaming the Parents
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...
Taanis 7: The Az Ponim in Halacha
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...
Rav Shurkin: Bris Milah of a Yasom
The following shiur was delivered on Sunday morning at Bais Medrash Kol Yehuda-Brook HillAshkenaz Shul in Lakewood, NJ, and is posted exclusively here on...
A Kohain and the Daughter of a Jewish Mother
By Rabbi Yair Hoffman
In the United States, the spiraling and out-of control assimilation rate in the past few decades has yielded a number of...
May Light Grape Juice Be Used for Kiddush?
Q. In a previous Halachah Yomis you wrote that at home one should add only a minimal amount of water to grape juice that...
