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Don't Try this at Home

Don't Try this at Home

Rav Kook innovatively explains some difficulties in two Talmudic stories via relating to the issue of questioning G-d, and the difference between the great Torah scholars and the masses. This issue comes up often in the context of the Shoah and offers much food for thought.

What Do These "Shovavim" Days Mean to Us?

What Do These "Shovavim" Days Mean to Us?

The initial letters of the weekly Torah portions that we read publicly over the course of the next few weeks, starting with Shmot, spell out the Hebrew word "Shovavim." Thus, the coming weeks are the "Days of Shovavim," widely regarded as days of fasting and atonement.

The Challenge of Jewish Leadership

The Challenge of Jewish Leadership

I used to say, only half in jest, that the proof that Moses was greatest of the prophets was that when God asked him to lead the Jewish people, he refused four times: Who am I to lead? They will not believe in me. I am not a man of words. Please send someone else

Eyes and Heart in the Service of Israel

Eyes and Heart in the Service of Israel

The beginning of the exile in Egypt was marked by the blockage of the eyes and hearts of the Israelites, and the beginning of the redemption therefrom was the opening of the eyes and heart of Moshe Rabbeinu - and it was this that brought about G-d's seeing and attention to redeem Israel.

Can one say "Happy New Year" to a non-Jew

Can one say "Happy New Year" to a non-Jew

"I wish you a happy new year" or "I wish you a happy new year" or "the next year shall be a good year for you" or (in Romanian) "a multi ani" , meaning "you shall have many more years to come"

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Daily Times in Jerusalem

18 Tevet 5786 | 7/1/2026

Daily Times | more times

06:39 Sunrise
8:36 Kriyat Shma MGA
9:12 Kriyat Shma GRA
11:45 Chatzot (Midday)
16:56 Sunset
17:15 Tzet Hakochavim

Shabbat Shmot

21 Tevet 5786

Shabbat Times | Parashat Hashavua

16:17 Candle lighting
17:33 End of Shabbat
18:11 Rabeinu Tam

Interesting articles

Hand Washing Requirements

Hand Washing Requirements

When do you need to wash hands 3 times and with a vessel?

Way of elohim

How can I know if this desire comes from God or is mine alone? What signs should I look for to discern His will?

Moshiach

I was told that the Moshiach is here but is waiting to show himself. Is this true? If so, why am I not reading about this all over the religious sites?

Songs and soundtracks.

Songs and soundtracks.

I pay for something that makes soundtracks, it removes the vocals from the song and I am left with the song. Is it halachically permitted for me to make soundtracks for people that ask and sell it for 10 dollars? If not, can I only sell the songs that dont have a soundtrack?

Various Rabbis

Blessings over the Torah

Rabbi Daniel Kirsch

Birkat Ha’Ilanot on Shabbat

Rabbi Baruch Finkelstein

Lemon

Rabbi David Sperling

Can one say "Happy New Year" to a non-Jew

Rabbi David Sperling

milk spoon in meat cup mistake

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Daily Halacha

Rabbi Gideon Weitzman

Question

If a man is clinically sterile, do the prohibitions of "Shichvat Zerah Levatalah" still apply?

Answer

Shalom U'veracha, If a man has no sperm then he does waste seed by ejaculating. Still he is prohibited from masturbating as this is a separate prohibition of "niuf byad" Kol Tuv

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Parashat Hashavua

The Less Understandable Request

The Less Understandable Request

It is hard to understand the way Moshe and Aharon presented their demands of Paroh, demands which resulted in the freeing of Bnei Yisrael from bondage and their exodus from Egypt.

View From Above

View From Above

A Shiur by Rabbi Zalman Baruch Melamed for the weekly Torah reading of "Shemot".

Women as Leaders

Women as Leaders

A Shiur by Rabbi Jonathan Sacks for the weekly Torah reading of "Shemot".

View From Above

View From Above

A Shiur by Rabby Zalman Baruch Melamed for the weekly portion "Shemot".

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Lessons Series

“Giants and Limpers”

Rav Kook on the Advantages of Various Physiques Among Rabbis"

Rabbi Ari Shvat | Cheshvan 5786

"Don't Try this at Home!

Questioning G-d by the Great & by the Masses

Rabbi Ari Shvat | Cheshvan 5786

Choosing a Chevruta (Study Partner)

Rav Kook's Guide for every Torah Teacher- How to Pair the Students!

Rabbi Ari Shvat | Cheshvan 5786

Whose Torah? When to do Shlichut?

Rabbi Ari Shvat | Cheshvan 5786

P'ninat Mishpat (805)

P'ninat Mishpat: Problematic Lights?

based on appeal of ruling 84085 of the Eretz Hemdah-Gazit Rabbinical Courts

Beit Din Eretz Hemda - Gazit | Cheshvan 5786

P'ninat Mishpat: A Seller with Questionable Rights to the Property – part I

based on ruling 84062 of the Eretz Hemdah-Gazit Rabbinical Courts

Beit Din Eretz Hemda - Gazit | Cheshvan 5786

P'ninat Mishpat: A Seller with Questionable Rights to the Property – part II

based on ruling 84062 of the Eretz Hemdah-Gazit Rabbinical Courts

Beit Din Eretz Hemda - Gazit | Cheshvan 5786

P'ninat Mishpat: Did Any Furniture Go to the Buyer? – part I

based on ruling 84093 of the Eretz Hemdah-Gazit Rabbinical Courts

Beit Din Eretz Hemda - Gazit | Kislev 5786

P'ninat Mishpat (805)

Bemare Habazak - Rabbis Questions (630)

Ask the Rabbi: Kohen Who Has Trouble Standing

Rabbi Daniel Mann | Cheshvan 5786

Ask the Rabbi: Rubbing Cream on Someone who Accepted Shabbat

Rabbi Daniel Mann | Cheshvan 5786

Ask the Rabbi: Drawer with Aluminum Foil Roll

Rabbi Daniel Mann | Cheshvan 5786

Ask the Rabbi: Giving a Tallit on a Sefer Torah to a Visitor

Rabbi Daniel Mann | Cheshvan 5786

Bemare Habazak - Rabbis Questions (630)

Moreshet Shaul (24)

Moreshet Shaul: Inability to Pass on Abandoned Tradition – part II

Based on Siach Shaul, Pirkei Machshava V’Hadracha p. 733 (1937)

Various Rabbis | Cheshvan 5786

Moreshet Shaul: Members of the Nation Who Are in The Fields

Based on Siach Shaul, Pirkei Machshava V’Hadracha p. 95 (from 1942)

Various Rabbis | Cheshvan 5786

Moreshet Shaul: Connection between Talmid Chacham and Am Ha’aretz

Based on Siach Shaul, Pirkei Machshava V’Hadracha p. 665

Various Rabbis | Cheshvan 5786

Moreshet Shaul: Connection between Talmid Chacham and Am Ha’aretz

Based on Siach Shaul, Pirkei Machshava V’Hadracha p. 665

Various Rabbis | Kislev 5786

Moreshet Shaul (24)

Igrot Hare’aya (200)

Reassuring His Parents – #314 – part II

Date and Place: 23 Sivan 5670 (1910), Yafo

Beit Din Eretz Hemda - Gazit | Iyar 5785

Efforts to Buy Land – #315

Date and Place: 28 Sivan 5670 (1910), Yafo

Beit Din Eretz Hemda - Gazit | Iyar 5785

Excitement over a Friend’s New Newspaper – #319

Date and Place: 4 Menachem Av 5670 (1910), Rechovot

Beit Din Eretz Hemda - Gazit | Iyar 5785

Language of Instruction for Rav Kook’s Yeshiva – #325

Date and Place: 4 Elul 5670 (1910), Yafo

Beit Din Eretz Hemda - Gazit | Sivan 5785

Igrot Hare’aya (200)

Rosh Hashana - Expressing the Acceptance of G-d's Kingdom

Rabbi Eliezer Melamed | Elul 26 5775

Yom Kippur - A Day of Liberty

Rabbi Eliezer Melamed | Tishrei 5 5776

Together in the Sukkah

Rabbi Eliezer Melamed | Tishrei 12 5776

The Meaning of Shmini Atzeret

Rabbi Eliezer Melamed | Tishrei 16 5776

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