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Some Contemporary Bishul Akum Curiosities

A Kosher Bakery

The Great Cottage Cheese Controversy

A Sweet Change of Pace

Passing the Taste Test

Some Contemporary Bishul Akum Curiosities

Rabbi Yirmiyohu Kaganoff | Tamuz 29 5780

A Kosher Bakery

Rabbi Yirmiyohu Kaganoff | 27 Nissan 5784

The Great Cottage Cheese Controversy

Rabbi Yirmiyohu Kaganoff | 5772

A Sweet Change of Pace

What beracha does one recite over chocolate-covered raisins?

Rabbi Yirmiyohu Kaganoff | Tevet 2 5781

Rabbi Moshe Vaya

Updated 5770

Shevat 5770

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Updated 5779

Shvat 2 5779

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Updated 5779

Shvat 2 5779

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Updated 5783

5771

Days on Which Tachanun Is Not Recited

Chapter Twenty One-Part Three

Rabbi Eliezer Melamed | 5775

The Laws of Fast Days

Rabbi Mordechai Eliyahu Zt"l | 5765

The Spiritual Legacy of the Holocaust

Rabbi Eliyahu Brin | 5770

Who Can Be Counted in a Minyan?

Chapter Two-part three

Rabbi Eliezer Melamed

Moreshet Shaul: Introduction to Midrash Rabba – part II

Based on Siach Shaul, Pirkei Machshava V’Hadracha p. 121-124

Various Rabbis | Tevet 5786

Parashat Hashavua: More on Weddings and Mending Family Fractures

Rabbi Yossef Carmel | Tevet 5786

Positive Chutzpah= Part of Redemption- Nothing to Fear but Fear Itself!

Rabbi Ari Shvat | Tevet 5786

P'ninat Mishpat: Multiple Agreements and Parties – part IV

based on final ruling of 80082 of the Eretz Hemdah-Gazit Rabbinical Courts

Beit Din Eretz Hemda - Gazit | Tevet 5786

The Claim Against Rav Kook of Antinomianism- Belittling Religious Details

Ein Aya Shabbat 5, 10

Some professors have accused Rav Kook of tendencies of antinomianism- and belittling the details of Jewish law, for the sake of unbridled and free spirituality. This class deals with Rav Kook's own answer and explanation, towards the end of his life, to such accusations.

Rabbi Ari Shvat | Kislev 5783

7. Sick People Are Exempt from Fasting

Chapter 7: The Minor Fasts

The prophets and the Sages instituted the fasts for healthy people, not for sick people. anyone who is sick is exempt from fasting, even if his condition is not life-threatening.

Rabbi Eliezer Melamed | Cheshvan 12 5782

Family, Faith and Freedom

Rabbi Jonathan Sacks | Tevet 8 5780

The History of the Heter Mechira

The heter mechira came about in the first shmitta year, 5649 (1888), after thousands of years in exile. Some opposing poskim changed their positions when they saw how urgent the situation was. Anti-Zionism caused more opposition.

Rabbi Eliezer Melamed | Tamuz 1 5775

Daf Yomi - Baba Metzia 108

Rabbi Ephraim Schreibman | Av 21 5769

Daf Yomi - Baba Metzia 83

Rabbi Ephraim Schreibman | Tamuz 25 5769

The Seamstress, the Chazzan and the Mashgiach

From the halachic literature

Can You be Paid for What You Did Not Do? Some interesting financial laws.

Rabbi Yirmiyohu Kaganoff | 25 shvat 5769

Daf Yomi - Baba Kama(40)

Rabbi Ephraim Schreibman | 12 shvat 5769

Youth Counselor or Student?

Our mid-teen son is busy with many activities: counseling in the youth movement, assisting handicapped children, etc. We feel as if these activities detract from his studies, and we have spoken to him about this, but he continues. What should we do?

Rabbi Elyakim Levanon | 5766

The Laws of Fast Days

One should not use fast days for leisure or for field trips. One should even refrain from performing permissible acts such as showering or cutting one's hair. If a person spends the fast indifferently, he has not properly fulfilled his obligation.

Rabbi Mordechai Eliyahu Zt"l | 5765

The Tenth of Tevet - A Compendium of Laws

After the destruction of the First Temple, the Prophets and the Sages of Israel legislated fasting on the Tenth of Tevet, for it was on that day that Nebuchadnezzar, the King of Babylon, and his legions placed Jerusalem under siege.

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