Kashering

Ask the rabbi: what is the connection between jews and almonds?

Ask the rabbi: are there different brachot for smelling?

May a kohen who kills a terrorist do birkat kohanim?

Which of The 7 Species Are Used in Measurement?

What Is The Significance Of The "Sheva Minim" - The 7 Species?

What Does Classical Or Contemporary “Semicha” Consist Of?

When is it permissible to eat “Non-Kosher” foods?

What Do We Do When No Kohen Is Present for Torah Reading?

Are “lefties” Left Out? Halachot for Left-handed People.

Is Wearing a Kipa Halachically Required?

Rabbi Strangelove, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Lockdown

I have a certain nostalgia for the lockdowns we experienced. At first, I admit, it was indeed frightening and oh so constraining. But slowly, as we moved our center of balance inwards, we discovered a whole new world that had been all but forgotten.

Do We Need to Make a Bracha on Chewing Gum?

What Is Judaism’s View Of Dogs As Pets?

Is the Birkat Kohanim Our Oldest Relic?

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When Was Our Calendar Eternally Fixed?

In our Sedra, Nisan – in deference to it being the month of our liberation from Egypt and our start as a nation - is declared by Hashem to be the first month in the Hebrew year.

Changing a Name

How many shofar blasts must we hear on Rosh Hashana?

Confronting Corona – a Halachic Proposal to Consider