- Halacha
- Reading of Shema
Kriat Shema- why no bracha
Rabbi Ari Shvat
Nisan 14, 5772
Question
Shalom,
Why is there no birkat mitzvah on kriat shema?
Thanks!
Answer
Hashem Imach!
Many explain that Ahava Rabba/Ahavat Olam are the bracha before the mitzvah of Kriyat Shma.
With Love of Israel,
Rav Ari Shvat
Sh’ma - Minhagim
Various Rabbis | 20 Shevat 5767
Tzitzit in Shema
Rabbi Chaim Tabasky | 24 Tishrei 5767
Shema Blessings for women
Rabbi David Sperling | Shevat 21, 5780
Kel Melech Ne’eman
Various Rabbis | 6 Shevat 5764
Rabbi Ari Shvat
Lectures at various yeshivot, michlalot and midrashot. Has published many books & Torani articles and is in charge of Rav Kook’s archives.
Armies And Nations
Sivan 20, 5781
Josephus and Jewish Army Fighting On Shabbat
Sivan 3, 5781
Fighting with Non-religious Jews in the IDF
Sivan 29, 5781
Serving with Non-religious Jews
Sivan 2, 5781
Nonkosher Medicine
Rabbi Eliezer S. Weisz | 22 Adar 5764
Blessings for Refuah Shlema
Rabbi Elchanan Lewis | 9 Tammuz 5764
Genesis 24: 2-9 – Put your hand under my thigh
Rabbi Moshe Leib Halberstadt | Tevet 26, 5770
Pregnant at Funeral
Rabbi Elchanan Lewis | 20 Tammuz 5764
Smoking
Rabbi David Samson | 17 Cheshvan 5764
Proposing marriage
Rabbi Jonathan Blass | 10 Adar 5766
Implications of Speech
Rabbi Daniel Kirsch | Tammuz 4, 5781
Police and stopping cars on shabbat
Rabbi Ari Shvat | Tammuz 5, 5781
Igeret Teiman and non religious Jews
Rabbi David Sperling | Tammuz 3, 5781
Can the opinion of anti-Zionist rabbis be "wrong"?
Rabbi Ari Shvat | Tammuz 3, 5781
The Sanhedrin
Rabbi Yoel Lieberman | Tammuz 5, 5781
