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Tfilat Haderech & Benching HaGomel
articles on Tfilat Haderech & Benching HaGomel
Brachat HaGomel
I can’t believe that saying thanks to G-d would only be "allowed" during a time frame.
Mezonot Bagel
How can bagels possibly be considered mezonot?
Bracha on Desserts & Fruits
How does one differentiate between desserts that are considered a separate course and those that are eaten as part of the meal
Blessing on Sushi
what is the proper blessing to be made on Sushi?
Lessons on Tfilat Haderech & Benching HaGomel
More on Birchas HaGomeil
"Was birchas hagomeil instituted only for the four specific dangers mentioned in Tehillim? If someone survived a different type of danger, such as an accident or armed robbery, does he recite birchas hagomeil?" "Did the Chashmonayim recite birchas hagomeil upon winning their war?"
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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
