Covering Orakh Chaim, the parts of Yoreh Deah relevant at home, and selected topics from Eveh haEzer and Choshein Mishpat…. The halakhos of daily life from waking up in the morning to going to bed, from kashrus in the kitchen to honoring one’s parents to taharas hamishpachah to aveilus.
With the Arukh haShulchan’s analysis of how the halakhah came to be what it is.
Join us for the Second Cycle Starting Tuesday February 11th 2025 – 13 Shevat 5785
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I?ve been looking into the statement Rav Tanna Upalig. One place where it's an issue is beitza 9a. Lots of questions in general, but the one specific one I?d be [...]
R Micha posted - if you need to lie mipenei darkei shalom, it is better to avoid lying overtly and rather communicate obliquely which 'allows' the other person to reach [...]
Worthwhile reading ? Jewish customs by R Dr Zvi Ron. Deeply researched in both halachic and secular scholarship, my general take is that one needs both in order to understand [...]
. In the few years that I've been learning Chumash with Onkelos, I've become fascinated with his translation style, and I have many conjectures which would be a lot easier [...]
On Wed, Nov 20, 2024 at 06:35:06AM +0200, Joel Rich via Avodah wrote: > R H Schacter and R A Weiss speak of pikuach nefesh as including > non-immediate threats [...]
On Tue, Nov 26, 2024 at 06:37:41AM +0200, Joel Rich via Avodah wrote: > 2 According to chizkia a shuddering animal after shechita is no longer > living but not [...]
On Wed, Dec 04, 2024 at 07:28:24PM -0500, Akiva Miller via Avodah wrote: > Sometimes, a person will defend himself by saying, "No, I didn't lie; I > just left [...]
On Sat, Dec 07, 2024 at 07:42:06PM +0200, Joel Rich via Avodah wrote: > Anyone know of any sources which discuss why certain zmirot are associated > friday night while [...]
Anyone interested in getting together in the greater NY area for an event in honor of the culmination of the first cycle of Arukh HaShulchan Yomi, please contact me ASAP. [...]
Rischa D'Araisa Season 10 Episode 13:Sheva Brochos Standoff:The Ba'al Mussar vs. The Halachist:Panim Chadashosaccording to Rav Isaac Scher zt"l vs. The Chazon Ish zt"lhttps://listen.jewishpodcasts.fm/yeshivaofnewark/94873 [...]
Eating and Drinking Before Lighting the Menorah,Including At Chanukah Parties[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Rr73tMZeB8?si=XgvUxw-88N3ej3-G]A recording for the BHP daily Halachic Whatsapp group https://chat.whatsapp.com/Gz8rrxqRcfy9rMOXRLG6GS [...]
I added shorts to my YouTube channel:https://www.youtube.com/@YosefGavrielBechhofer/shortsYou can also find them on my Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/yosefgavriel/and some of them on my Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/bigdei.shesh/reels/ [...]
Rischa D'Araisa Season 10 Episode 12:"Barber"ous Outrage,"UnFair"Lawn Vilification:The Dangers of Selective Explanatory Narrativeshttps://listen.jewishpodcasts.fm/yeshivaofnewark/92310Please click on this link to contribute whatever you can to keep this podcast on the air: https://thechesedfund.com/yeshivaofnewarkpodcast/keeping-the-ark-afloat With downloads approaching the [...]
Rischa D'Araisa Season 10 Episode 11:? עוד יותר טובAn Ode to Breslover Bitachon: What the Controversy over the Rav Shalom Arush Megahit Revealshttps://jewishpodcasts.fm/yeshivaofnewark/91882Please click on this link to contribute whatever you can [...]
Where Does a Chatan (or Chosson 😁) Light Chanukah Candles On the Night of His Wedding?[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2lo_I68vY4?si=DpbeLKbdsjpodeXw]A recording for the BHP daily Halachic Whatsapp group https://chat.whatsapp.com/Gz8rrxqRcfy9rMOXRLG6GS [...]
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/400366Rabbi Meyer Fendel zt"lMy friend Barry Jacobson has written movingly about Rabbi Fendel zt"l, whose levayah will be today:A very great man. Rabbi Fendel ran a top-notch school, as HANC excelled in both Limudei Kodesh and [...]
One of Reb Avrohom Elya's most famous pieces, concluded. Why Zionism and not, on the one hand, some universal ideal, nor, on the other hand, simply Torah and Mitzvos?Text below.Podcast version [...]
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNE36eAxOs4?si=sWuENIk1Zlc8MuYt]A Talk on Emunah and the Holocaust to the girls of the 8th grade at YBH at the conclusion of their "Names Not Numbers" Holocaust program this year. For [...]
One of Reb Avrohom Elya's most famous pieces. We end part 1 with a cliffhanger: Yes, we learned and grew much from and through Herzl. But what about Zionism itself?Podcast version at https://jewishpodcasts.fm/yeshivaofnewark/91750Text below.[youtube [...]
A guest speech I gave in honor of Rabbi YCD Cohen's Shiur in Yerushalmi's Siyum on Meseches Bikkurim and Seder Zerai'mRead about Rabbi YCD Cohen's Yerushalmi Shiur in Manchester at [...]
Rischa D'Araisa Season 10 Episode 10:Can Thanksgiving help heal the divisions among us?(My answer: No)https://jewishpodcasts.fm/yeshivaofnewark/91467 [...]
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdZYqg8kd-M?si=phNRWelWwaEh_0wo]A recording for the BHP daily Halachic Whatsapp group https://chat.whatsapp.com/Gz8rrxqRcfy9rMOXRLG6GS [...]
Q&A relating to Talmid Yerushalmi, in connection with Daf Yomi Yerushalmi.I am sitting at a Siyum on Zera'im Yerushalmi and was asked to start such a group. 🤷♂️ Doesn't hurt. Follow [...]
Rischa D'Araisa Season 10 Episode 9:Yeshiva System Failures:A Three-Pronged Responseto Two Epistleshttps://jewishpodcasts.fm/yeshivaofnewark/91240Please click on this link to contribute whatever you can to keep this podcast on the air: https://thechesedfund.com/yeshivaofnewarkpodcast/keeping-the-ark-afloat With downloads approaching the [...]
Rav Dovid Lifshitz zt”l (whose 31st yahrzeit is today) often spoke about the connection between shaleim as wholeness, and that of another conjugation, “shalom“, peace. Shalom is not simply a cessation of violence. That [...]
Parashas Behar is a list of mitzvos. The first section is all about shemittah and yovel. A family’s ancestral land cannot be sold into perpetuity. Instead, if someone is forced [...]
This week I’d like to discuss three seemingly unrelated questions about the words of the tephillah: The focus of Shabbos Mussaf davening is the paragraph that begins “Tiqanta Shabbos…” What [...]
Here’s my theory about the origin of this minhag. My point here is not really about advocating for the minhag. I just feel a need to push back when people [...]
והיה רגיל להוכיח אותי על שראה שאינני משתתף בצערא דאחרינא. וכה היה דברו אלי תמיד שזה כל האדם. לא לעצמו נברא רק להועיל לאחריני ככל אשר ימצא בכחו לעשות. [My [...]
Micha’s note: The following was a post written to the Mesorah email list by Rabbi Dr. Seth Mandel zt”l, a rebbe-chaver of mine (more: a rebbe who insisted on treating [...]
(I put these thoughts together for a reply for my daughter Gavi, who pointed me to a medrash that “everyone in her neighborhood” were talking about, but I then was [...]
“Poteach et Yadekha“, oil on canvasHaim Masliach, 2021 A comment by Ilana Elzafun* brought this Seforno to my attention. This week’s parashah (Lekh Likha), Bereishis 16:13, describes Hagar’s prayer to [...]
Dear R Dr Broyde (Cc: Avodah), Over Shabbos, I read your article about getting ChatGPT to discuss whether a kohein in a same-sex marriage may go up to duchen. I [...]
I am only trying to start a conversation about whether this definition of who I am is one we should really promote. As for who “I” am, that’s a matter [...]
Nephesh Hachaim 1:13 1. T The things we say can also link celestial worlds, rectify this one, and interconnect with the upper worlds, as we’ll now see. After all, we’re [...]
Da’at Tevunot 3:7 (¶ 118 [middle]) 1. We’d do well to take something into consideration, Ramchal adds here. It’s that just because something or someone is imperfect doesn’t mean [...]
The Way of G-d 2:6:4 1. G-d allowed for a prosecutor in His court, famously known as satan 1. His role is to argue against the accused, which them enables [...]
Nephesh Hachaim 1:12 1. R. Chaim already spoke 1 of the fact that we could only link celestial worlds, rectify this one, and interconnect with those upper worlds after we’d [...]
Da’at Tevunot 3:6 (¶ 118 [beginning]) 1. Ramchal reiterates here 1 that wrong is a created entity 2 that was only designed to last for as long as G-d wanted [...]
The Way of G-d 2:6:3 1. Given the above, the fact is that G-d doesn’t judge the world according to His foreknowledge but rather according to the way He wants [...]
Nephesh Hachaim 1:11 1. Following up on the thought offered in the last chapter that despite our being connected to physicality we’re nevertheless superior to angels, R’ Chaim now [...]
Da’at Tevunot 3:5 (¶s 116 [end] – 117) 1. Ramchal says that he’s going to expand upon things he’d said above 1 and reveal things that are “deep” about [...]
Nephesh Hachaim 1:10 1. Given all of the above concerning our makeup and capacities, it’s reasonable to wonder whether angels are loftier than we are or we’re loftier than they. [...]
Da’at Tevunot 3:4 (¶ 116 [beg.]) 1. Ramchal is about to offer something that will serve as a prelude to what’s to follow 1. It’s that even though G-d [...]
Derech Hashem 2:6:1 In the course of His interactions with the world 1, G-d arranged it so that phenomena that affect both the things that humankind brings about 2 and [...]
Nephesh Hachaim 1:9 1. Following through on the discussion of the previous chapter, R’ Chaim contrasts the situation of the generation that dwelt in the Sinai Desert 1 with that [...]
Da’at Tevunot 3:3 (¶’s 103- 115) 1. It seems logical, doesn’t it, that goodness would be a product of something that emanates goodness while wrongfulness would be a product of [...]
Da’atTevunot 3:2 (# 98 – 102) 1. Ramchal starts to explain the role of wrong and injustice in the world with a proposition derived from Rambam1. It’s that when G-d [...]
Nephesh Hachaim 1:8 1. R’ Chaim offers a rather complex discussion here about the positioning of the Cherubs in the Tabernacle and Holy Temple in order to illustrate his point [...]
The website 18FORTY has a fantastic and thoughtful multimedia post on OTD that is worth watching, reading, and listening to. If you are reading this then you know I don’t [...]
Spoiler, there isn’t much substance to I what have to say. Also, I am spoiling the end of the Skywalker saga. After reading an excellent essay by Rabbi Harry Maryles [...]
I checked my recent writing history today and the last legit post of mine was really 3.5 years ago. For some that’s a long chunk of time. In that time [...]
My wife’s comment on Simchas Torah pretty much summed it up, “I feel like this is the biggest tease for you.” You see, my mom a”h was niftar right before [...]
When today comes around I usually think about things my father missed since he has been gone. I decided that this year I’ll attempt to list a number of things [...]
Walking out of shul, the morning after Yom Kippur, a follow early Sunday morning riser casually said to me, “Back to normal, right?” I was taken off guard (and also [...]
I want to share something that Rav Efraim Twerski said at his Shabbos HaGadol drasha. After starting off with 10 questions Rav Twerski said over an amazing Torah from Rav [...]
So, tonight’s the 6th yahrtzeit for my dad, Avraham ben Zorach a”h (Al, of blessed memory). Like everyone else that has lost a parent I lit my 24 hour yahrzeit [...]
“WARMED BY THE FIRE OF THE AISH KODESH– Torah from the Hilulas of Reb Kalonymus Kalman Shapira of Piaseczna” by Rav Moshe Weinberger and adapted by Binyomin Wolf is more [...]
