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The Minor Fasts' Halachot
articles on The Minor Fasts' Halachot
Special Days of Teves
Why do we fast on the 10th of Tevet?
The Spiritual Legacy of the Holocaust
Several stages of the continuing evolution
Maybe Things Will Change Again
The past situations may yet occur again
Is it permissible for one to brush teeth on a minor fast day without toothpaste?
View the answer of Rabbi Yoel Lieberman>>
Lessons on The Minor Fasts' Halachot
12. Birkat Kohanim at Minha
Chapter 7: The Minor Fasts
On ordinary fast days, when we do not pray Ne’ila, the law depends on when the congregants pray Minĥa. If a congregation that recites Birkat Kohanim prays Minĥa at the same time that Ne’ila would take place, i.e., shortly before shki’a, the Kohanim bless the people
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Various Events FOR WHOM NOT TO VOTE
Rav Zvi Yehuda Kook stressed that Israeli politics is G-dly, so I have no problem answering this common question on a Torani blog. Also, Free-Will is a G-d-given right and obligation, to "destine one's fate" (R. Soloveichik, Kol Dodi Dofek, 67), so I obviously don't tell others how to vote. But once not a few (especially young) have already asked, a couple of personal words from experience and thoughts from chazal & Rav Kook which may be of help to others, mainly for whom NOT to vote.
P'ninat Mishpat Fallout from Failure to Install Elevator – part II
based on ruling 85007 of the Eretz Hemdah-Gazit Rabbinical Courts
