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Israel's International Relations in the Bible
Rabbi Abraham Wasserman | 7 Adar 5784
7. Sick People Are Exempt from Fasting
Chapter 7: The Minor Fasts
The prophets and the Sages instituted the fasts for healthy people, not for sick people. anyone who is sick is exempt from fasting, even if his condition is not life-threatening.
Rabbi Eliezer Melamed | Cheshvan 12 5782
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.
Rabbi Yirmiyohu Kaganoff | Tamuz 22 5779
Engagement Parties during the Three Weeks
Is it permitted to make an engagement party during the Three Weeks (i.e., before Rosh Chodesh Av)?
Rabbi Daniel Mann | Tamuz 18 5779
Musaf or Hallel?
After davening Mincha on Rosh Chodesh, I (a woman) wanted to make up Hallel and Musaf that I did not have a chance to do in the morning. I saw that I did not have enough time before sunset to do both. Which one should I have done?
Rabbi Daniel Mann | Cheshvan 26 5777
Days on Which Tachanun Is Not Recited
Chapter Twenty One-Part Three
Chapter Twenty One-Part Three
Rabbi Eliezer Melamed | 5775
It’s About Time - The Bracha of Shehechiyanu
The laws of Birkat Shehechiyanu, which comes first Shehechiyanu or the blessing on the food? reciting the Shehechiyanu on house renovations and on similar fruits, reciting the Shehechiyanu on a Mitzva, the first time lighting candles.
Rabbi Yirmiyohu Kaganoff | 5770
Customs of the Three Weeks
The three weeks that begin on the night of the Seventeenth of Tammuz and continue until the Ninth of Av are days of national woefulness. The sages therefore advise being especially careful during this period, for it is a time designated for calamity.
Rabbi Eliezer Melamed | Sivan 5768
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
Josephus' Jewish Sambatyon
Josephus hints to his people that even during the period in which non-Jews succeeded in forcing the Jews of Syria to work on the Sabbath, thus concealing the physical Sabbath River, they did not succeed in concealing the spiritual Sabbath River.
Rabbi Mordechai Hochman | Av 5767
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
"And Zion said, 'God Has Abandoned Me!'"
It is forbidden to use arrogance in a contemptuous manner, placing oneself above others, yet there are certain situations in which one has to be bold, not reserved, and to know one's self-worth. Our sages teach that in the generation of the messiah chutzpah will abound.
Rabbi Chaim Katz | tamuz 5755
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