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articles on The General Rules of the Melachot

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?

Jews on Cruise: Can One Sail on Shabbat?

Rabbi Stewart Weiss | Adar II 20 5782

Moving a Tzedaka Box on Shabbat

A gabbai, found on Shabbat morning that the tzedaka box was on the bima, where it would get in the way and/or get knocked off during laining. Is it permitted to move the tzedaka box in that situation?

Rabbi Daniel Mann | Elul 2 5781

Homeopathic Remedies on Shabbat

Is it permitted to ingest homeopathic remedies on Shabbat?

Rabbi Daniel Mann | Av 11 5781

Of Umbrellas and Eruvs

Rabbi Yirmiyohu Kaganoff | Tamuz 19 5775

Daf Yomi Zevachim Daf 80

R' Eli Stefansky | 13 Kislev 5786

Kiddush Levanah

Can I be mekadeish the levanah when there is just a slight cloud cover? Am I permitted to be mekadeish the levanah either before it gets fully dark or during the post-dawn, pre-sunrise morning hours? Did the Rif not write on this topic? Why not?

Rabbi Yirmiyohu Kaganoff | Sivan 10 5782

How to Time Vatikin?

When minyanim closed, I started davening vatikin (starting Shemoneh Esrei (=SE) at hanetz hachama (sunrise=netz)). If I do not know precisely when netz is, is it better to err on the side of starting SE before or after netz?

Rabbi Daniel Mann | Iyar 10 5780

?How we should dress for Prayer

Chapter five-part two

Chapter five-part two

Rabbi Eliezer Melamed | 5775

Bamidbar

Rabbi Berel Wein zt"l | 5770

Subject Matter for the Complete and the Incomplete

Various Rabbis | 3 Iyar 5770

Relationships during the Time of Engagement

Rabbi Elyakim Levanon | 5770

Where Is Ein Rogel?

Rabbi Yossef Carmel | 20 Cheshvan 5770

The “Fall” of Eretz Yisrael

Rabbi Moshe Erenreich | 5769

Daf Yomi - Baba Kama(99)

Rabbi Ephraim Schreibman | 12 nissan 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

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