Mayim Achronim Before Eating
One of the reasons brought down for washing Mayim Achronim before reciting birchas hamazon is that one should not bentch with dirty hands (Mishna...
How To Reach 100 Daily and When to Start?
The obligation to make 100 berachos daily begins at nightfall (Tzeis Hakochavim) and continues until nightfall the next day. (Shulchan Aruch w/Mishnah Brurah 46:3,...
Saying Shehechayanu During Sefirah
There is a discussion amongst the Poskim regarding if one may recite the Bracha of "SheHechiyanu V'Kiyimanu LaZman Hazeh" during Sefira, or is it...
Hilchos Zimun – Part III
By Rabbi Dovid Ostroff
The laws and customs of bentching with wine - Siman 182-183
When should one bentch with wine or grape juice?
We find...
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...
The Chiyuv of Mishloach Manos Themes
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Sukkah 38: Taking an Esrog from a Different Hemisphere
Rabbi Mordechai Koster is presently a member of the kollel at Bais Medresh Govoha in Lakewood, NJ, where he receivedsemichah. He has written several seforim...
Hilchos Chanukah: Dreidel With Money
It is a Minhag Yisroel to play draidel (with money) on Chanukah, to commemorate the draidel game played by Jews who, despite...
An Eruv Tavshilin Primer
By Rabbi Moshe Zywica, Executive Rabbinic Coordinator for OU Kosher
This year's holiday season is fast approaching and we will be given the opportunity to perform...
WATCH: Let’s Talk Kashrus – Spiritual Spirits
Can Alcohol Be Avodah Zara?
What’s the possible connection between alcohol and avodah zara? From Saké which plays an integral part in Japanese culture to...
More Halachos of Sefirah
-During the first week of sefirah, if it's after Sunset, and before you counted Sefirah, and someone asks you "What night of Sefirah is...
Chanukas Bayis Shlishi
By Rabbi Berach Steinfeld
In Vayikra 10:9 the Torah tells the Kohanim that they are not allowed to drink wine or alcoholic beverages upon entering the Ohel Moed.
In Meseches Taanis 17b the Gemara brings down shitas Chachamim that Kohanim are...
Business Halacha: Inherited Loans
Question: Do inheritors have a responsibility to pay their parents' loans with assets from the estate or with their own assets?
Answer: Inheritors are obligated...
Audio: Rav Shurkin On “Issur Lashuv L’eretz Mitzraim, B’inyan Sukkah Gezulah Umezuzah Sheulah, B’lav...
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...
Who Eats and Drinks First?
By Rabbi Berach Steinfeld
In Shmos 17:12 it says do not eat blood. Yerushalmi Yuma 8:3 says from here we see that drinking is part of eating as it says...
Haircuts On Lag Ba’omer
-It is permitted to cut hair on Lag Ba'omer regardless of which (of the two major) minhag of Aveilus one is keeping, unless one...
Hilchos Zimun – Part II
By Rabbi Dovid Ostroff
In the previous column, we discussed the major criteria needed to make a zimun. The issues mentioned were 1- eating together,...
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Hilchos Pesach – Bedikas Chometz
If one forgot, or was unable to make the Bedikah on Sunday night (28 March) one should make the Bedikah on Monday, as early...
