88 Lessons

Express Fast
If you fly on a fast day, you’ll skip over a few time zones, and you’ll end the fast about six hours earlier than you would if you were to stay in your place. So you’ll get to break your fast before you get too hungry! is that OK?
Rabbi Daniel Kirsch | Tammuz 19 5781

Baffled Raffle
Yossi Swapped his raffle ticket with Shimmy's and Shimmy won the first prize. who owns that prize?
Rabbi Daniel Kirsch | Sivan 26 5781

Piece of Cake
We’re going to be cutting up the cake with a picture of Mommy and Daddy, and then everyone will be eating their picture. Isn’t that a little odd? is it even allowed?
Rabbi Daniel Kirsch | Sivan 16 5781

Pray Day
Sasha glanced at his watch. A small delay wouldn’t set him back too much. If the man only needed “a tzenter” – a tenth man – for the minyan, that meant that davening would start as soon as Sasha joined.
Rabbi Daniel Kirsch | Iyar 10 5781

Tooth Sensitivity
With great passion, the rabbi waved his hands for emphasis as he spoke, and… knocked his dentures out of his mouth! Did the people in attendance commit a sin by laughing, or was it considered oness (a forced act)?
Rabbi Daniel Kirsch | Adar 21 5781

Rewards Program
What did the Chafetz Chaim demand from the person who asked to join him in heaven? did he agree?
Rabbi Daniel Kirsch | Adar 16 5781

The Kipa Caper
A boy got hit by a car next to Rav Moshe Fienstien's house. What was Rav Moshe's surprising response...
Rabbi Daniel Kirsch | Adar 7 5781

Bottled Up
Yair give Avi Champagne by mistake on Purim. Does Avi have to compensate Yair for the bottle of champagne?
Rabbi Daniel Kirsch | Adar 2 5781

Bless You
One of the prayers was greeted with the Aliyah of the admonishment and a hassle broke out. David, one of the prayers, gave a solution, but was he right?
Rabbi Daniel Kirsch

Ink(not)well
Rabbi Alpert was once visiting Rabbi Feinstein. He accidently knocked over the inkwell, spilling the contents on the Rambam and the new gemara!
Rabbi Daniel Kirsch | Shvat 16 5781

Praypal
Should the person who organized the minyan lead the prayers, or does the other man take precedence, because he is observing a yahrtzeit?
Rabbi Daniel Kirsch | Shvat 8 5781

Change of Policy
Do we have to allow beggers from out of the city to come and collect donations in our city? r\Rav Neventzal answers with a story from the Gr"a.
Rabbi Daniel Kirsch | Shvat 4 5781

Wired
Rabbi Daniel Kirsch | Tevet 24 5781

Lifted Spirits
At the Shabbat Table
Rabbi Daniel Kirsch | Tevet 19 5781

Raising Doubts
At the Shabbat Table
Rabbi Daniel Kirsch | Tevet 12 5781

Accident by Design
At the Shabbat Table
Rabbi Daniel Kirsch | Tevet 3 5780

Carpet Diem
Rabbi Daniel Kirsch | Tevet 2 5781

Burning Passion
At the Shabbat Table
How did Yisrael Cohen light the menorah during the holocaust in Auschwitz?
Rabbi Daniel Kirsch | Kislev 20 5781

Rescued from the Ashes
At the Shabbat Table
Rabbi Daniel Kirsch | Kislev 13 5781
