Divrei Chaim

The Yerushalmi (pesachim 58 in vilna ed) cites the hekesh of matzah to chameitz to explain why women are obligated in the mitzvah of matzah....

There is an interesting discussion on volokh.com regarding a Canadian case where a Muslim man’s withholding a religious divorce from his wi...

Interesting tshuva in Even Israel (vol 8 #9) from R’ Yisrael Fisher, who was one of the dayanim of the Eidah haChareidis. He was asked his ...

To properly fulfill the requirement of lechem mishne on Shabbos requires two whole loaves, but a glance at your typical challah roll smushed...

Let’s say you wanted to teach a student about the history of music – clearly, a large # of dates, places, and names must be absorbed to have...

The more I read in bloggerland the more I am convinced that skeptics are most uncomfortable not with mitzvos per se but with the basic conce...

Just saw on the top of another website/blog an ad which reads “When people think Louis Armstrong was the first man to walk on the moon, the...

My son had a practical halachic question that stems undoubtably from his learning (by himself) mishnayos baba kamma. His class was playing ...

I recently did a series of posts on shome'a k'oneh , and just came another reference. The gemara says that one who listens to nivul...

The second point raised by the Turei Even, that bikurim are zman gerama because they are only brought between Shavuos and Chanukah, is easie...

The Mishna lists women among those who are m’vi’im v’ainam korin , obligated to bring bikurim, but exempt from reading the parsha of viduy b...

There are two different customs women follow when lighting Yom Tov candles. Many first say the bracha and then light, as opposed to on Sha...

I noticed a local shule has printed on its flier with its schedule of shiurim for tikun leil shavuos a quote from the Belzer Rebbe, R’ Shalo...

To return to the issue I left off with last week, Rashbam and Tosfos disagree whether the owner of bikurim can read the parsha of viduy biku...

The gemara B"B (81) quotes R’ Yosi bar Chanina who derives from the juxtaposition of "v’lakachta...v’haveisa" that the lekic...

I just finished reading and would highly recommend “ Right to Exist: A Moral Defense of Israel’s Wars ” by Yaakov Lozowick, an archivist at ...

Rambam (2:20) holds that someone who brings bikurim which then are lost/destroyed/became tamei is chayav in achrayus unless the bikurim arri...

Nu, so should we get back to the real stuff? In a previous post I mentioned the halacha of not reading viduy bikurim if you are bringing f...

Some more thoughts on some of the issues raised in the past post on rav kook and comments. I cannot write much on the hesder/dat-leumi world...

Weren't convinced by yesterday's post? Maybe this will do it...tzama lecha nafshi (Or course the classic clip is the Lubavitcher Reb...