Refusing Anti-Torah Military Orders

Let Us Be Strong, Worthy, and Aware in This War

General Rules of the Prohibition against Hametz

Chapter 2

Chapter 2

The Meaning of the Holiday

Chapter One

Chapter One

Some Laws Concerning the Holidays and Festivals

Chapter Twenty-Three

Chapter Twenty-Three

The Mitzva of Onah

The Yom Kippur Avoda

Yom Kippur- Other Afflictions

Yom Kippur- The Laws of the Fast

Laws of Yom Kippur

Chapter 6 – Yom Kippur

2. Selihot and Prayers

1. Days of Judgment

Judgment, Reward, and Punishment

Chapter 1

Chapter 1

Must I Honor My Parents if They Tell Me Not to Live In Judea/Samaria?

What if one's parents tell him not to live in Judea/Samaria? Is living there considered an extra important mitzvah, and therefore he should ignore his parents, or is it only a "beautification" of the existing mitzvah of living in the Land of Israel?

5. Purim Ha-meshulash

Chapter 17: Walled and Unwalled Cities

When the fifteenth falls out on Shabbat, Purim in that year is called Purim Ha-meshulash (“Triple Purim”), because its mitzvot are divided over three days.

4. Traveling between Walled and Unwalled Cities

Chapter 17: Walled and Unwalled Cities

Since Purim is celebrated in unwalled cities on the fourteenth and in walled cities on the fifteenth, many questions arise regarding one who travels from an unwalled city to Jerusalem, or vice versa.

3. Uncertain Places

Chapter 17: Walled and Unwalled Cities

Most uncertain places today rely on the lenient opinion and celebrate Purim exclusively on the fourteenth. Only in places where the likelihood that it was truly a walled city is greater, like in Tiberias and Hebron, do many people customarily read the Megilla on the fifteenth as well.

1. What Is a Walled City?

Chapter 17: Walled and Unwalled Cities

Most places celebrate on the fourteenth of Adar, whereas Shushan, along with cities that were surrounded by walls at the time of Yehoshua bin Nun, celebrate on the fifteenth of Adar.

2. Jerusalem and Its Environs

Chapter 17: Walled and Unwalled Cities

The Sages said: “A walled city and all that adjoins it and all that is visible with it are reckoned as a walled city” Therefore, not only do the residents of the Old City of Jerusalem celebrate Purim on the fifteenth of Adar, but so do the residents of all the neighborhoods adjacent to the Old City.