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5772 | Rabbi Daniel Mann
Why Can’t Women Blow the Shofar for Men?
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5770 | Rabbi Yirmiyohu Kaganoff
How Does a Heter Iska Work?
What is the prohibition of "Ribbit"? who does it apply on? How does the "Heter Iska" bypass the prohibition? and more...
Basics of Financial Laws
Rabbi Yisrael Wende
Kashrut in a nutshell What is Kosher?
Several factors can cause food to be non-kosher, here a short explanation about four main factors: non-kosher ingredients, mixing of meat and milk, food cooked by a Gentile, and a set time when a food is forbidden.
Kashrut
tamoz 5761 | Rabbi Eliezer Melamed
The Minor Fasts and Their Laws
Did Jews fast over the destruction of the First Temple when the Second Temple stood? Must pregnant and nursing women abstain from eating and drinking on minor fasts? Rabbi Eliezer Melamed addresses these and other important questions.
The 17th of Tamuz Various Subjects
5774 | Rabbi Daniel Mann
Making a Shabbat Tallit Into a Weekday One
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Beit Midrash Shabbat and Holidays The Three Weeks

The Laws of Three Weeks

Tamuz 26 5779 | Rabbi Daniel Mann
Trips during the Nine Days
I run a camp for children under bar mitzva during a period that includes the Nine Days. We usually take them on trips off campus once a week. Is it permitted to do so during the Nine Days?
Bemare Habazak - Rabbis Questions The Laws of Three Weeks
Tamuz 22 5779 | Rabbi Yirmiyohu Kaganoff
May I Attend a Wedding During the Three Weeks?
I live in a predominantly Ashkenazic community where the “Three Weeks” are observed with no music, and certainly no celebrations or weddings. A Sefardic family in the neighborhood has scheduled a wedding during the Three Weeks.
The Laws of Three Weeks
Tamuz 18 5779 | Rabbi Daniel Mann
Engagement Parties during the Three Weeks
Is it permitted to make an engagement party during the Three Weeks (i.e., before Rosh Chodesh Av)?
Bemare Habazak - Rabbis Questions The Laws of Three Weeks
Av 4 5776 | Rabbi Yirmiyohu Kaganoff
Do the Clothes Make the Man? Not if They are Washed During the Nine Days!
The Laws of Three Weeks
Av 1 5775 | Rabbi Eliezer Melamed
When Av Arrives, We Curtail Our Joy - but How?
A careful elucidation of the various expressions of ‘curtailing our joy’ - what is allowed and what is not.
Revivim The Laws of Three Weeks
Av 1 5775 | Rabbi Stewart Weiss
Nine Days In Av
The Laws of Three Weeks
3 Av 5768 | Rabbi Yirmiyohu Kaganoff
Where’s the Beef? - Eating Meat During the Nine Days
Halachot regarding the Nine days: marriage and Seudat Mitzva, eating meat and drinking wine, Shabbat leftovers, Havdala wine And the reward for observing the Nine days.
The Laws of Three Weeks
Av 2 5768 | Rabbi Yirmiyohu Kaganoff
Explaining the Other Laws of the Three Weeks
Halachot that apply during the three weeks: marriage, dancing, playing and listening to music, singing and reciting the Shehechiyanu Bracha.
The Laws of Three Weeks
Sivan 5768 | Rabbi Eliezer Melamed
Customs of the Three Weeks
The three weeks that begin on the night of the Seventeenth of Tammuz and continue until the Ninth of Av are days of national woefulness. The sages therefore advise being especially careful during this period, for it is a time designated for calamity.
The Laws of Three Weeks
5768 | Rabbi Yirmiyohu Kaganoff
Shaving and Haircuts during the Three Weeks
When during the three weeks can I shave and have a haircut? What are the laws of mourning with regard to shaving?
The Laws of Three Weeks Various Subjects
Rosh Chodesh Av | Rabbi Shlomo Fischer
The Significance of the Three Weeks
Mourning the Temple's destruction must be internal. A person cannot simply jump into the Ninth of Av. One must enter it gradually in order that his mourning be earnest. Therefore, the intensity of our mourning over the Temple's ruin grows gradually.
The Laws of Three Weeks
Rabbi Eliezer Melamed
Remembering the Temple's Destruction
The sages ruled that when a person builds a house for himself and arrives at its final stage, the whitewashing of the walls, he must remember that the Holy Temple still lies in ruins. He must therefore leave a square cubit of wall without whitewash.
The Laws of Three Weeks Jerusalem and The Holy Temple
Rabbi Mordechai Eliyahu Zt"l
Laws Relating to the Three Weeks
If, during the Three Weeks, a person accidentally blessed "boreh pri ha'etz" over a new fruit, some authorities hold that the fruit should not be eaten. Others hold that pronouncing God's name in vain is a greater offense than eating the new fruit.
The Laws of Three Weeks
23 Tamuz 5765 | Rabbi Yossef Carmel
Parashat Matot The Words of Yirmeyahu
Matot The Laws of Three Weeks
5754 | Rabbi Yechezkel Frenkel
On Memory and Disengagement
One disengagement leads to another, and those who disengage themselves from the past cannot bring us to our true future. Perhaps they can bring us to a Swedish or Luxembourgian version of the future, but not to the real destiny of the Jewish people.
The Laws of Three Weeks Coping with Difficulties
5765 | Rabbi Aryeh Hendler
The Lugubrious Bed
The Chozeh of Lublin senses that the bed which has been prepared for him by the carpenter is not a rejuvenating bed but a bed of lugubriousness and anxiety. From such a bed it is impossible to rise invigorated with a thirst for renewed creativity.
Chassidish Stories The Laws of Three Weeks
5764 | Rabbi Gideon Weitzman
The Three Weeks Rebuilding the Temple
The Three Weeks between the 17th of Tamuz and the 9th of Av are a time of sadness and danger. Rav Kook shows that they are also a time during which we can rebuild the Temple if we learn the secret of Causeless Love.
The Laws of Three Weeks The Holy Temple - Beit Hamikdash
Av, 5960 | Rabbi Shimon Klein
The Meaning of the Three Weeks
: In mourning over the Temple, we refuse to come to terms with the destruction. We begin with a life in which the Temple plays no role, and, in stages, return to the feeling of "one's dead lying before him."
The Laws of Three Weeks
tamuz 5761 | Rabbi Eliezer Melamed
The Four Fasts of the Destruction
After the First Temple was destroyed, the Prophets instituted fasts marking the tragic events surrounding the Destruction and the ensuing exile of the Jewish People. This step was taken in order to prompt the nation to grieve and mourn over the Destruction and Exile.
Lessons for the 10th of Tevet The Laws of Three Weeks
tamuz 5755 | Rabbi Chaim Katz
"And Zion said, 'God Has Abandoned Me!'"
It is forbidden to use arrogance in a contemptuous manner, placing oneself above others, yet there are certain situations in which one has to be bold, not reserved, and to know one's self-worth. Our sages teach that in the generation of the messiah chutzpah will abound.
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