The Jewish Worker

As many of you may have figured out, I am not blogging on Pesach. I am too busy spending time with my family and enjoying the Yom Tov. I wil...

I thought this was kind of cute What Kind of American English Do You Speak? Here are my results. Your Linguistic Profile: 60% General Ameri...

These days, there is a wealth of shiurim available for free, online, in mp3 format. For those of us who drive a lot (like me) it would be gr...

The Beis Halevi explains the רשע's question as follows. He says that the רשע is asking why do we need to do the mitzvos nowadays . Who w...

I. Introduction The Mishna in Moed katan says that a person is not allowed to take a haircut/shave on Chol hamoed. The reason given is so th...

I should have been more careful with what I wrote about this yesterday. The שו"ע in סימן רי"ג brings down this din, that you shoul...

This is a prevalent minhag in camps and other places. After eating mezonos, one person gets up and says על המחיה and everyone else is יוצא b...

According to the gemara (yesterdays daf Berachos 43b) you should be. The gemara states the following: מלמד שכל אחד ואחד יפה לו הקב"ה או...

Lately I have seen in a number of pizza stores a sign stating that the bracha on the pizza is mezonos. I would like to explain the issues in...

R' J.J. Shachter has an article about history which illustrates how the Charedi world delegitimizes any viewpoint that it doesn't cu...

Religious law has been breached on the Mount This is the author's conclusion "The breach of the rabbinical decision that forbids en...

I started this blog a little over a month ago and I didn't really know what to expect. I am very gratified that in a little over a month...

The gemara in Berachos 38 states that berachos have to be said in the past tense. the gemara then asks what should the language of the berac...

The gemara in Bava Basra 73-74 has some bizarre stories about Rabba bar Bar Chanah. The Gra understood these as parables teaching us importa...

Todays daf (Berachos 38b) states explicitly that you can eat gebruchts on Pesach. The gemara says "יוצאים ברקיק השרוי" says Rashi ...

The group Revava was planning on having 10000 Jews go up to the הר הבית on this Sunday R' Chodesh Nisan, see here . The police have deci...

I would like to clarify/explain R' Shachter's remarks about the godol hador because I think people have misunderstood what he meant....

Is R' Elyashiv the posek hador? RHS said he thinks not. The reason is very simple. Even in the Haredi world in Israel R' Elyashiv is...

The main focus of the shiur on halacha changing was that if the facts change the halacha changes in response. As RHS put it, sif alef used t...

R' Shachter has a very interesting shiur on how halacha changes here . He clearly states that we need to believe in science. He also has...