209 Lessons
Wedding and Sheva Berachot Sheva Berachos
The time between the Three Weeks and the Yamim Noraim is a popular time to schedule weddings
Marriage and Relationships May Panim Chadashot Leave Sheva Berachot Early?
Do Panim Chadashot have to stay until Birkat Hamazon?
Bemare Habazak - Rabbis Questions Differences of a Second Marriage
At a second marriage for both chatan and kalla, what is different from at a regular wedding?
Bemare Habazak - Rabbis Questions 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.
Modesty - Tznius True Modesty
There is a heated debate about physical or financial modesty. But it overshadows a more important discussion—what is modesty?
Pregnancy 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?
Kashrut 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?
Various Subjects 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.
Various Subjects 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!
Achrei Mot 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.
Rabbi Mordechai Eliyahu 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?
Bemare Habazak - Rabbis Questions 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?
The Marital Relationship Stories from the Mikveh
Translated by Hillel Fendel
Two small stories on how keeping the family purity Halachos come with devotion.