Beit Midrash Shabbat and Holidays

Jewish Holidays

Av 7 5779 | Rabbi Stewart Weiss
The Other Side of the Coin
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 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 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 Three weeks
Sivan 1 5779 | Rabbi Yirmiyohu Kaganoff
Would You Like One Day or Two?
Yom Tov
Iyar 26 5779 | Rabbi Yirmiyohu Kaganoff
Rus, David, and the Prohibition of Marrying Moavites
Articles about Shavuot
Iyar 4 5779 | Rabbi Yossef Carmel
Jew – Speak Hebrew!
We will continue to explain the great obligation to thank Hashem for the miracles we have seen, as Hashem and Am Yisrael have returned to Zion and we have merited the establishment of State of Israel, the beginning of the growth of our liberation.
Parashat Hashavua
Iyar 3 5779 | Rabbi Yossef Carmel
Yom Ha'atzma'ut
47 min
Rabbi Yirmiyohu Kaganoff
What Are the Guidelines for Aveilus Observed During the Sefirah Weeks? The Mourning Period of Sefirah
Nisan 13 5779 | Rabbi Stewart Weiss
IN EVERY GENERATION
Nisan 13 5779 | Rabbi Yirmiyohu Kaganoff
How Fast Must I Eat?
Nisan 13 5779 | Rabbi Shaul Yisraeli zt"l
Part II The Content of Slavery and the Content of Kingdom
The soul of a Jew is connected to the idea of malchut, of not being in need.
Parashat Hashavua
Nisan 13 5779 | Rabbi Daniel Mann
The Way to Make Charoset
Are there halachot of how to make charoset, or is the (approximate) final product the important thing?
Bemare Habazak - Rabbis Questions
Nisan 6 5779 | Rabbi Stewart Weiss
THIS IS BIG, FOLKS!
Shabbat Hagadol
Nisan 6 5779 | Rabbi Yirmiyohu Kaganoff
What Is the Brocha?
Nisan 6 5779 | Rabbi Shaul Yisraeli zt"l
part I The Content of Slavery and the Content of Kingdom
The Seder night is accompanied by songs of freedom, greatness, and malchut, which form a contrast to the situation we could have sunk into had we remained in Egypt, as permanent slaves in the “house of slaves.” We set an atmosphere of “All Jews are the sons of kings” (Shabbat 67a) and “are fit to be kings” (Horiyot 13a).
Parashat Hashavua
Nisan 6 5779 | Rabbi Daniel Mann
The Logic Behind the Unusual Fast of the Firstborn
What type of fast is ta’anit bechorot on Erev Pesach? If it is a real fast, why do people use a loophole (taking part in a siyum) to get out of it?
Bemare Habazak - Rabbis Questions
Adar II 28 5779 | Rabbi Daniel Mann
In Search of the Place of Matza
The preparations for Pesach intensify with Rosh Chodesh falling out on Shabbat and the reading of Parashat Hachodesh. Parashat Hachodesh is the first mention in the Torah of eating matza in connection to Pesach. Matza is presented as a food that is eaten along with the Korban Pesach and that is eaten throughout the duration of the seven-day festival. We also find that one must remove chametz on the “first day” because it is forbidden to eat chametz all seven days (Shemot 12:15).
Parashat Hashavua
Adar II 28 5779 | Rabbi Yirmiyohu Kaganoff
Indigestible Matzos, or Performing Mitzvos When Suffering from Food Allergies
Adar II 13 5779 | Rabbi Yossef Carmel
Confident of his Predictions or Not?
Shiurim about Purim