Rav Yehudah Hachassid and His Shidduchin II

Ask the Rabbi: Shalom Zachar without the Baby and Parents

Rav Yehudah Hachassid and His Shidduchin

A Kosher Bakery

Passing the Taste Test

For Love of the Holy Tongue

Sheva Berachos

The time between the Three Weeks and the Yamim Noraim is a popular time to schedule weddings

May Panim Chadashot Leave Sheva Berachot Early?

Do Panim Chadashot have to stay until Birkat Hamazon?

Does an Elevator Require a Mezuzah?

Differences of a Second Marriage

At a second marriage for both chatan and kalla, what is different from at a regular wedding?

Mezuza for a Storage Room

I am moving into an apartment and want to know whether the storage room (in the building’s basement) requires a mezuza.

True Modesty

There is a heated debate about physical or financial modesty. But it overshadows a more important discussion—what is modesty?

Where is the Limit to Permissible Abortions?

Do you believe that these abortions are moral in terms of a woman's sacred right over her body? And what would you say about a woman who takes the life of her fetus because she wants to complete a degree, buy a car or travel abroad? Where is the boundary?

The Milky Way or Does Chalav Yisrael Apply Today?

I do not understand why some people keep chalav Yisrael today. Do they really think that someone is adding pig's milk? My friend quoted his rav that it is more important to keep chalav Yisrael today than it ever was before. How could this be?

G-d's Waiting Room

With its abundance of retirement homes for the elderly, Miami Beach is often called, with macabre humor, “God’s waiting room”. Retirement isn’t as notorious as heart disease or cancer but it’s still a major killer.

Cutting Corners

What does my style of haircut have to do with idolatry? Are women included in the prohibition of shaving? May I tweeze out my facial hairs? Where are my head’s corners? My head is round!

Prepared to DeLIVER

In many places, the Torah forbids the consumption of blood. In the parsha of Acharei Mot, this prohibition of blood is mentioned. In Kedoshim there are nine references to blood, in the context of different prohibitions. This makes it appropriate to discuss the laws of preparing livers according to halacha.

An Unusual Circumcision

One Shabbat, a mohel came to Rabbi Eliyahu with a question. He was supposed to be performing a brit that day, but just an hour earlier, the father of the baby told him that his son had been born by Caesarian section and so the bris should be on Sunday. What was Rabbi Eliyahu's solution?

Sheva Berachot Every Day of Sheva Berachot?

Is it necessary, proper, or at least recommended to have a sheva berachot celebration every day of the week of Sheva Berachot?

Stories from the Mikveh

Translated by Hillel Fendel

Two small stories on how keeping the family purity Halachos come with devotion.