- Shabbat and Holidays
- Yom Ha'atzmaut - Independance Day
Inventing a Holiday
Question
How can rabbis today make a new holiday with special holiday prayers like Hallel on Israel’s Independence Day?
Answer
This question has been addressed at length by many halachic authorities, such as Rabbi Shlomo Goren, Rabbi Yehuda Gershoni, Rabbi Moshe Tzvi Neriah, Rabbi Meshulem Roth, and others. Their responses are compiled in the book, "Laws of Independence Day and Jerusalem Day," by Professor Nachum Rackover.
Rabbi Meshulem Roth wrote: "Behold, there is no doubt that this day which was established by the State and the members of the Knesset, who were chosen by the majority of the congregation, and by the majority of the great rabbis, to celebrate it in the entire Land in memory of the miracle of our salvation and freedom – it is a mitzvah to commemorate it by making it a joyous day with the recital of Hallel."
Rabbi Menachem Kasher stated: "That everyone who says Hallel on this day in accordance with the great rabbis is certainly doing a great thing."
As we say at the end of the Yom Ha'azmaut prayers, "Just as we merited the beginning of the redemption, so may we merit the completion of this redemptive process," speedily, in our day .

Is Wearing a Flag obligated in Tzitzit?
Rabbi Ari Shvat | Iyyar 25, 5772

Tachnun on 5 Iyar
Various Rabbis | Iyyar 8, 5775

Bracha on Hallel
Various Rabbis | 22 Nisan 5764

Israel Independence Day and The Holiness Of The State
Rabbi David Samson | 14 Elul 5762

Rabbi David Samson
Teaches in the Jerusalem Yeshiva for youth, gave Shiurim at the Beit El Yeshiva.

Israel’s War Against Arab Terror
14 Elul 5762

Should Children Fight Back?
14 Elul 5762

There goes the neighborhood!
18 Elul 5762

The Danger of Living in Israel
14 Elul 5762

Giving Tzdaka with Right Hand
Rabbi David Sperling | Tammuz 28, 5772
Genesis 24: 2-9 – Put your hand under my thigh
Rabbi Moshe Leib Halberstadt | Tevet 26, 5770

Krill Oil
Rabbi David Sperling | Tammuz 20, 5775

Mezzuzah for Non Jew
Rabbi David Sperling | Iyyar 18, 5773

Talmud
Rabbi Ari Shvat | Shevat 4, 5783

Using Father's or Mother's Name in Judaism
Rabbi Ari Shvat | Shevat 4, 5783

Organization
Various Rabbis | Shevat 10, 5783
