Lessons on Jewish Laws and Customs

articles on Jewish Laws and Customs

How May We Use a Dishwasher?

Can it be used for milk and meat (seperately of course)?

Changing the Law to be What They Want it to be

The Attorney General should be fired for attempting to render meaningless the Law against Fraud in kashrut.

Dishes, Detergent and Malachos

is washing the dishes on Shabbos prohibited? and what about washing clothes?

Tevilla of a bottle lid

Does a bottle lid needs a Tevilla?

series on Jewish Laws and Customs

Lessons Series

Sefer Torah & Hashem's Names (1)

Using Hashem’s Name

Rabbi Yirmiyohu Kaganoff | Kislev 19 5782

Sefer Torah & Hashem's Names (1)

לדפדוף מהיר בסדרה

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5 min

History of a Calendrical Dispute – and its Resolution

Rabbi Shlomo Hecht | 2 Shvat 5785

Kashering

Rabbi Stewart Weiss | 3 Tammuz 5784

Ask the Rabbi: Barchu Later than the Normal End of Tefilla

Rabbi Daniel Mann | 1 Tammuz 5784

Ask the rabbi: what is the connection between jews and almonds?

Rabbi Stewart Weiss | 27 Sivan 5784

Ask the rabbi: are there different brachot for smelling?

Rabbi Stewart Weiss | 20 Sivan 5784

When Must I Check for Shatnez?

Rabbi Yirmiyohu Kaganoff | 20 Sivan 5784

Temurah‏

Rabbi Yirmiyohu Kaganoff | 18 Sivan 5784

Geneivas Da’as

Rabbi Yirmiyohu Kaganoff | 1 Iyar 5784

283 Lessons on Jewish Laws and Customs

Rabbi Zalman Baruch Melamed
Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu
Rabbi David Chai Hacohen
Rabbi Uri Sharki
Rabbi Chaim Steiner
Rabbi Berel Wein
Rabbi Ya'akov Katz
Rabbi Benny Elon
Rabbi Ovadia Yosef Shilt"a
Rabbi Hershel Schachter

Shmini

Lessons of Parshas Shemini

“I work as a leather tanner. Should I train for a different parnasah, so that I can make a living after Moshiach comes?” “What is the difference between a toad and a frog?” What does either of the previous two questions have to do with this week’s parshah?

Rabbi Yirmiyohu Kaganoff | Nissan 24 5781

Bemare Habazak - Rabbis Questions

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?

Rabbi Daniel Mann | Tamuz 26 5779

Prayer

The Kavanah in the prayer

Chapter one- part three

What should I do if I can't concentrate at the prayer?

Rabbi Eliezer Melamed

Bemare Habazak - Rabbis Questions

Shehecheyanu, Clothes, and Renovations During Sefira

Rabbi Daniel Mann

Laws of Shabbat

Carrying Nitroglycerin on Shabbos

Can a person suffering from angina or other heart disease carry his medication on Shabbos through a public thoroughfare? In case of a sudden attack, there would indeed be a life threatening need that permits procurement of such medication through any ecessary means. However, there is no medical reason that compels the patient to leave his home where his medicine is kept.

Rabbi Yirmiyohu Kaganoff | 5772

Basics of Financial Laws

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...

Rabbi Yirmiyohu Kaganoff | 5770

Brachot on Food and on Smell

Pizza, Pretzels and Pastry

When is the Bracha Hamotzi and when is it a Mezonot?

Rabbi Yirmiyohu Kaganoff

D'varim

Who Asked and for What Purpose?

Rabbi Moshe Erenreich | 5769

The Laws of Three Weeks

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?

Rabbi Yirmiyohu Kaganoff | 5768

The 17th of Tamuz

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.

Rabbi Eliezer Melamed | tamoz 5761

The 17th of Tamuz

The Weak Point of the Seventeenth of Tammuz

There is a tendency, on fast days, for people to concentrate upon the calamities of the past and on the stages that led up to the destruction of the Temple. People reflect on the distant past when they aught - says the Rambam - consider the present.

Rabbi Eliyahu Brin | Tamuz 5758

The 17th of Tamuz

The Breaking of the Tablets on the Seventeenth of Tammuz

The Tree of Knowledge contained a mixture of elements - both good and evil. This, then, was Adam's sin: He ate from the tree, and this caused existence to fall to a level whereupon there existed a mixture of both good and evil.

articles on Jewish Laws and Customs

How May We Use a Dishwasher?

Can it be used for milk and meat (seperately of course)?

Changing the Law to be What They Want it to be

The Attorney General should be fired for attempting to render meaningless the Law against Fraud in kashrut.

Dishes, Detergent and Malachos

is washing the dishes on Shabbos prohibited? and what about washing clothes?

Tevilla of a bottle lid

Does a bottle lid needs a Tevilla?

series on Jewish Laws and Customs

Using Hashem’s Name

Rabbi Yirmiyohu Kaganoff | Kislev 19 5782

History of a Calendrical Dispute – and its Resolution

Rabbi Shlomo Hecht | 2 Shvat 5785

Kashering

Rabbi Stewart Weiss | 3 Tammuz 5784

Ask the Rabbi: Barchu Later than the Normal End of Tefilla

Rabbi Daniel Mann | 1 Tammuz 5784

Ask the rabbi: what is the connection between jews and almonds?

Rabbi Stewart Weiss | 27 Sivan 5784

Ask the rabbi: are there different brachot for smelling?

Rabbi Stewart Weiss | 20 Sivan 5784

When Must I Check for Shatnez?

Rabbi Yirmiyohu Kaganoff | 20 Sivan 5784

Temurah‏

Rabbi Yirmiyohu Kaganoff | 18 Sivan 5784

Geneivas Da’as

Rabbi Yirmiyohu Kaganoff | 1 Iyar 5784

Lessons of Parshas Shemini

“I work as a leather tanner. Should I train for a different parnasah, so that I can make a living after Moshiach comes?” “What is the difference between a toad and a frog?” What does either of the previous two questions have to do with this week’s parshah?

Rabbi Yirmiyohu Kaganoff | Nissan 24 5781

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?

Rabbi Daniel Mann | Tamuz 26 5779

The Kavanah in the prayer

Chapter one- part three

What should I do if I can't concentrate at the prayer?

Rabbi Eliezer Melamed

Shehecheyanu, Clothes, and Renovations During Sefira

Rabbi Daniel Mann

Carrying Nitroglycerin on Shabbos

Rabbi Yirmiyohu Kaganoff | 5772

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...

Rabbi Yirmiyohu Kaganoff | 5770

Pizza, Pretzels and Pastry

When is the Bracha Hamotzi and when is it a Mezonot?

Rabbi Yirmiyohu Kaganoff

Who Asked and for What Purpose?

Rabbi Moshe Erenreich | 5769

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?

Rabbi Yirmiyohu Kaganoff | 5768

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.

Rabbi Eliezer Melamed | tamoz 5761

The Weak Point of the Seventeenth of Tammuz

There is a tendency, on fast days, for people to concentrate upon the calamities of the past and on the stages that led up to the destruction of the Temple. People reflect on the distant past when they aught - says the Rambam - consider the present.

Rabbi Eliyahu Brin | Tamuz 5758

The Breaking of the Tablets on the Seventeenth of Tammuz

The Tree of Knowledge contained a mixture of elements - both good and evil. This, then, was Adam's sin: He ate from the tree, and this caused existence to fall to a level whereupon there existed a mixture of both good and evil.

Rabbi Zalman Baruch Melamed | Tamuz, 1561