- Shabbat and Holidays
- Cleaning and Hygiene
Shower on Shabbat
Question
Why are we forbidden to take a shower or bath on Shabbat?
Answer
Various types of baths and showers are not allowed as an out growth of "Gezeirat Merchatz" the ban on public baths where the proprieters were suspected of heating water on Shabbat. One should learn these halachot carefully to know what kind of washing up is allowed.

Sponge on Shabbat and Yom Tov
Rabbi Elchanan Lewis | 8 Kislev 5767

Washing dishes on shabbos
Rabbi David Sperling | Tevet 16, 5772

Shower on Shabbat
Rabbi Eliezer S. Weisz | 4 Tammuz 5764

Cleaning floor on Shabbat
Rabbi Chaim Tabasky | 19 Tishrei 5767

Rabbi Chaim Tabasky
Rabbi Chaim Tabasky teaches a shiur in gemarah at the Beit Midrash program of the Machon Hagavoah l'Torah at Bar Ilan University. He is also a certified examiner of STa"M (Sifrei Torah, Tefillin and Mezuzot) and a narrative therapist.

Civil Divorce
12 Sivan 5764

Keeping Bread Kosher
29 Iyyar 5764

Plants Grown Out of Earth
5 Tammuz 5764

Avoda Zara
5 Tammuz 5764

Mezzuzah for Non Jew
Rabbi David Sperling | Iyyar 18, 5773
Genesis 24: 2-9 – Put your hand under my thigh
Rabbi Moshe Leib Halberstadt | Tevet 26, 5770
Genesis 24: 2-9 – Put your hand under my thigh
Rabbi Moshe Leib Halberstadt | Tevet 26, 5770

Listening to Secular Music
Rabbi David Sperling | Elul 5, 5773

Rabbanut of Copenhagen
Rabbi Ari Shvat | Sivan 5, 5783
