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articles on Laws of Shabbat

Woman doing Kiddush for husband

My wife has expressed the desire to do Kiddush every Friday night for the family. What is the halakha in a situation like this?

Shabat As Value

Shabbat is the Jewish affirmation that we live in a universe created and sustained by Divine Will.

Shabbat Chol Hamoed Sukkot

What is Simcha? Is it merely the emotion of happiness and joy?

Hafrashat Challa on Shabbat

On Shabbat, the ba’al habayit separated some challa to be burnt after Shabbat. is this okay?

Ask the Rabbi: “Cooked” and Sweetened Wine for Kiddush

Rabbi Daniel Mann | Tevet 5785

Kiddush – Why Some Sit, Why Some Stand

Rabbi Ari N Enkin | 29 Tammuz 5784

Wanted Dead or Alive

Rabbi Yirmiyohu Kaganoff | 22 Adar II 5784

Moral Culpability for Unintentional Actions on Shabbat

Rabbi Daniel Mann | 22 Adar II 5784

Carrying on Shabbos

Rabbi Yirmiyohu Kaganoff | 12 Shvat 5784

Unicycles on Shabbat

Rabbi Daniel Mann | 5784 11 Shvat

Eiruv Chatzeirot at a Hospital

Rabbi Daniel Mann | 5 Shvat 5784

May we make the Kiddush before Kri’at Hatorah?

Rabbi Daniel Mann | Sivan 5783

A Tale of Four Islands

Rabbi Yirmiyohu Kaganoff | Tamuz 6 5778

Poetic Controversies

Rabbi Yirmiyohu Kaganoff | Av 1 5777

Days on Which Tachanun Is Not Recited

Chapter Twenty One-Part Three

Chapter Twenty One-Part Three

Rabbi Eliezer Melamed | 5775

May I Daven in English?

People, who cannot read Hebrew at all, have no choice but to pray in the language that they can read and understand. However, anyone who can should accept the challenge of studying the prayers a bit at a time, gradually thereby developing both fluency and comprehension

Rabbi Yirmiyohu Kaganoff

The Blessing for Rain for those travelling to the Land of Israel

Praying for a Rainy Day When Traveling to or from Eretz Yisroel in November

Rabbi Yirmiyohu Kaganoff | 5771

The Mitzvah of “Duchening” - Birchas Kohanim

The basic Halachot of Duchening, taking off shoes and washing hands, Why Is This Mitzvah Called Duchening? The connection between Duchening and dreams...

Rabbi Yirmiyohu Kaganoff | 5769

The Halacha and History of the Gid Hanosheh

The mitzvah of gid hanosheh forbids us from eating the sciatic nerve, a sinew that runs from the lower back over the top of the hip and down the leg. Another Mitzvah is not eating the Cheylev, some fats in an animal.

Rabbi Yirmiyohu Kaganoff | kislev 5769

Are We Permitted to Enjoy this World?

I recline in an armchair in the lobby of the hotel and look over the menu. After the crazy day I've had, I deserve to relax and enjoy a good meal. Suddenly, I am menaced by a disturbing thought: Am I really permitted to enjoy myself in this world?

Various Rabbis | 13 Shvat 5768

Flying High - A Traveler’s Guide to Channukah

What does one do about Channukah candles in a hotel, while traveling and in other complicated circumstances?

Rabbi Yirmiyohu Kaganoff | Kislev 5768

Study House of Shem & Ever in a world of Lavan

Rabbi Berel Wein zt"l | Kislev 5768

The Absolute and the Conditional

Although Mishpatim follows Yitro, the two parshiyot are very different in nature.

Rabbi Yossef Carmel | Shvat 5767

The Laws Relating to Converts

The laws relating to Jewish converts are most astounding. Despite the criticism directed at the Jewish people on the grounds that Judaism is racist, the Torah teaches us that any non-Jew who earnestly seeks to join the Jewish people may do so.

Rabbi Eliezer Melamed