- Shabbat and Holidays
- General Questions
Shabbat a day of Union?
Question
Why is Shabbat the best time for man and woman to be together in a holy union when in fact it should be asure (prohibited) a child may in fact be concieved and that is the ultimate act of creation.
Answer
What is forbidden on Shabbat are the 39 labors involved in the building of the Tabernacle in the desert. The Tabernacle [=Mishkan] is seen by the Medrash as a miniature world; everything in the world has its parallel in the Mishkan. The building of the Mishkan through these 39 labors is paralle therefore to the creation of the world. Procreation is not one of these 39 labors.

Haircut or nailcut on Motzei shabbos
Rabbi Ari Shvat | Cheshvan 7, 5772

Collecting Taxes for Israel
Rabbi Ari Shvat | Tammuz 5, 5781

Beach on Shabbat
Rabbi Yirmiyohu Kaganoff | Tammuz 25, 5769

Shalom Aleichem and Eshet Chayil on Shabat Chol Hamoed
Rabbi Chaim Tabasky | 1 Iyyar 5766

Rabbi Jonathan Blass
Rabbi of Neve Tzuf and Rosh Kollel "Ratzon Yehuda".

Calling In-Laws Name
16 Tishrei 5763

Yom Tov Sheini vs. Work
14 Tishrei 5763

MUST a Cohen Duchin?
28 Tishrei 5763

Kosher Rice
5 Cheshvan 5763
Genesis 24: 2-9 – Put your hand under my thigh
Rabbi Moshe Leib Halberstadt | Tevet 26, 5770

Surfing Dreams
Rabbi David Sperling | Av 2, 5780

Mikvah for unmarried women
Rabbi Elchanan Lewis | 16 Tevet 5766

Shabbat and guard duty
Rabbi David Sperling | Elul 18, 5772
halachas
Rabbi Daniel Kirsch | Iyyar 21, 5782
the hand symbol
Rabbi Daniel Kirsch | Iyyar 21, 5782
