Jewish Holidays

Must I Eat Dairy Foods on Shavuot, & Why?

A Real Jewish Princess

A magical parable about Shavuot.

Some of the Basics of Kashering

Many other articles germane to Pesach are available on the website RabbiKaganoff.com. You can find these articles using the search words: matzoh; chol hamoed; chometz; ga’al yisroel; hallel; omer; mei’ein sheva;

The Cheese Factory

It is a common custom to have special milchig meals in honor Shavuos; thus, I am sharing with you an article on the halachic issue of gevinas akum.

Lighting the Chanukah Candles

It is the act of lighting the Chanukah lamp that constitutes the precept. Therefore, even if the head of the household is sick and cannot get out of bed, we may not bring them to him to light by his bedside and then set them down in their proper place.

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.

Lean on Me

Pesach, for all its myriad symbols – the Exodus, the Splitting of the Sea, the Hagada – has one primary icon: the Matza.

Selected Halachos of the Days of Tisha B’Av

In this shiur we will explain some of the halachos of Shabbos Chazon, the Seudah HaMafsekes eaten Erev Tisha B’Av, Tisha B’Av itself, and the day after Tisha B’Av.