WATCH: Let’s Talk Kashrus – Breaking Bread
Breaking Bread: Croutons, Bagel & Pita Chips
In this final segment of our Brachos series Rabbi Dovid Heber - Kashrus Administrator at Star-K breaks down the...
Business Halacha: Shomer for My Neighbor
Question: A neighbor asked permission to leave a small desk in my driveway for the day. It suddenly began raining and the desk got...
Rav Moshe Feinstein: Blood For Money
There is an issur for a person to injure himself. Although it is a Machlokes in the Gemara, the Rishonim pasken that a person...
5 Reasons Why We Dip Apples In Honey
The minhag to eat special fruits in Rosh HaShanah is from the Gemara in Horiyos 12a....
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...
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...
Rav Shlomo Zalman Auerbach: Maaser On Gifts?
With regard to a gift of money, Rav Shlomo Zalman says one must give maaser. There is no difference between earning money from business...
Shevet Hakehosi: A Mezuza For Your Office Door?
The Shuchan Aruch (YD 286:22) says that if you rent or borrow an apartment you are obligated to put on a Mezuza after 30...
Audio: Rav Shurkin On the Inyan of Even Ivri
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...
Sukkah 15: Creative S’chach
Rabbi Mordechai Koster is presently a member of the kollel at Bais Medresh Govoha in Lakewood, NJ, where he received semichah. He has...
Hilchos Shabbos: Combing a Wig, Shechitah Knife and More
Is combing a wig permitted on Shabbos?
We must differentiate between "setting" a wig, and conventional combing. Setting a wig includes the initial setting and...
Erev Yom Kippur: Lots of Candy – How Many Brachos?
Generally, the halacha is that when a person makes a bracha on a food, the bracha ...
Erev Yom Kippur: Lots of Candy – How Many Brachos?
Generally, the halacha is that when a person makes a bracha on a food, the bracha is in effect so long as he does...
Who is Up First?
By Rabbi Berach Steinfeld
In Devarim 31:9 we see that Moshe wrote the Torah and gave it to the Kohanim the sons of Levi. The Gemara in Gittin 71b says that the...
Music at a Seudas Mitzvah During Sefirah
There is a machlokes H'Poskim as to whether one may have music and dancing at a Seudas Mitzvah (i.e. Sheva Brachos, Bris, Pidyon Haben,...
Yoma 66: Saving Those Who Can Save Themselves
Rabbi Mordechai Koster is presently a member of the kollel at Bais Medresh Govoha in Lakewood, NJ, where he received semichah. He has...
Beitzah 8: The Chicken Time Piece
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...
Yevamos 25: Marrying a Deceased Patient’s Wife
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...
Staying a Levi
By Rabbi Berach Steinfeld
The Gemara in Sota, daf yud alef, amud bais describes the reward that was received by the midwives in Mitzrayim for not killing the Jewish male babies....
