Thursday, March 12, 2026

learning hilchos ha'chag -- a din in talmud torah or a din on Y"T?

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The gemara (Pesachim 6a) has a din that one is supposed to start to learn hilchos pesach 30 days before the chag שואלין ודורשין בהלכות הפסח ...
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Thursday, March 05, 2026

a relationship that can endure stress

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1) R' Moshe Wolfson suggests that the reason we read parshas parah before ha'chodesh is because parshas hachodesh represents the his...
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Monday, March 02, 2026

act like a winner and you will be a winner

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  t the end of the megillah Esther begs Achashveirosh to rescind the decree against Bnei Yisrael (8:5): יִכָּתֵ֞ב לְהָשִׁ֣יב אֶת־הַסְּפָרִ֗י...

the zechus Achashveirosh had that gave him a queen like Esther

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The gemara (Meg 12b) explains why it was that Vashti was ordered to appear nude at the party of Achashveirosh . Chazal say that there wa...
Friday, February 27, 2026

was Trump the one who asked this shayla to R' Dov Lando?

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Question: is an aku"m allowed to kill another aku"m who is an Amaleiki?  
Thursday, February 26, 2026

bigdei kehunah - kedushas damim or kedushas ha'guf; the price for enjoyment of an aveira

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The gemara (Meg 12) tells us that Achashveirosh threw the grand party described at the opening of the megillah because he thought the 70 yea...
Thursday, February 19, 2026

making the aron

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The gemara (Yoma 3b) presents a stira in pesukim with regards to who was supposed to make the aron: אַבָּא חָנָן אָמַר מִשּׁוּם רַבִּי אֶלְ...
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Thursday, February 12, 2026

Adar, Binyamin, and v'na'hapoch hu

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The Shabbos, Shabbos mevorchim chodesh Adar, is the yahrzeit for my father a"h. The Tur writes in hil rosh chodesh that each one of th...