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iyar 4 5781 | Rabbi Yossef Carmel
To be a Free Nation in its Land
Parashat Tazria opens with the command to do a brit mila on a baby’s eighth day. It would seem that we thereby make a bodily sign of being like slaves of Hashem, which would indicate that we left the bondage of Egypt to be slaves to Hashem. So in what way did we become free men? We will investigate this matter as we go through, in the coming weeks, the holidays of spring (Pesach, Yom Hashoah, Yom Hazikaron, Yom Ha’atzmaut, Lag Ba’omer, Yom Yerushalayim, and Shavuot).
Tazria
Iyar 4 5781 | Baruch Gordon
A Skin Disorder...Only in Israel?!
Explaining why the fact that one can only get tzara'at - a biblical disease - in Israel is actually a good thing for Israelis!
Tazria
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Iyar 4 5781 | Rabbi Yirmiyohu Kaganoff
Believing is Seeing
May I be mekadeish levanah now, although I am indoors, and I am also obviously looking at the moon through a window? The brocha of borei me’orei ha’eish on an electric light - could one do this when a lightbulb must be encased in glass for it to burn? What do the above questions have to do with this week’s parsha?
Tazria Additional Lessons
Iyar 4 5781 | Rabbi Berel Wein
The Childrens Prosperity
. It has been statistically shown that as prosperity rises in certain sections of society, the birthrate in that section of society declines. For me, this was always counterintuitive.
Iyar 3 5781 | Rabbi Berel Wein
the Book of Complaints
My wife and I labored long and hard over the invitation list and over the seating arrangements for the wedding dinner. We invested a great deal of effort and energy in trying to make sure that, to the best of our ability, everyone would be satisfied, and no one would be unduly disappointed.
Wedding and Sheva Berachot

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Adar I 16 5776 | Rabbi Daniel Mann
Lighting Candles When One Needs to Leave the House
My husband and I were going away for Shabbat, walking to a different side of the neighborhood to eat with relatives and sleep at a neighbor’s empty home. We left late, so we knew we would not make it in time to light at our destination. What should we have done about Shabbat candles?
Bemare Habazak - Rabbis Questions Laws of Shabbat
Wednesday, 28 Tishrei 5768 | Rabbi Uzi Kalchaim zt"l
The Three Keys
"R' Yochanan said: Three keys the Holy One blessed be He has retained in His own hands and not entrusted to the hand of any messenger, namely, the Key of Rain, the Key of Childbirth, and the Key of the Revival of the Dead"
Rain in Israel Prayer
Rabbi Yirmiyohu Kaganoff
Writing on Shabbat
May I write my initials on a frosty window on Shabbos?, May I communicate with someone on Shabbos by making the motions of writing the letters?
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Rabbi Avraham (Abe) Abrahami
Abraham’s 10 tests and consequences
The parallelism between the ten trials of Avraham Avinu and other important tens.
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5769 | Rabbi Eliezer Melamed
“Hatov Vehametiv”
Wine is unique in that it not only satiates, it also gladdens the heart. Each type of wine has its own unique character, and when additional types of wine are consumed in company there is greater joy - and therefore a special blessing is recited.
Berachot - Blessings

Beit Midrash Shabbat and Holidays The Three Weeks

The Laws of Tisha B'Av

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Av 5 5780 | Rabbi Stewart Weiss
What Are the Special Laws of Tisha B'av?
The Laws of Tisha B'Av
Av 7 5775 | Rabbi Eliezer Melamed
Tisha B'Av on Motsaei Shabbat: A Primer
The transition from Shabbat to the Fast of Tisha B’Av * How to make havdalah when Tisha B'Av falls on Motzei Shabbat * The halakha for pregnant and nursing women when Tisha B'Av falls on Shabbat, and is postponed to Sunday
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Restrictions of Motzaei Tisha B’Av
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