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We find 2 conflicting accounts of the process of din on Rosh Hashana 1. ראש השנה ט"ז: אמר רבי כרוספדאי, אמר רבי יוחנן: שלושה ספרים נפתח...

Someone go it for me and I started reading it. I read the original version a while back and this version doesn't strike me as being much...

This is meant to be a quick and not comprehensive post about the reasons (or non-reasons) for prohibiting electricity on Shabbos. Note, this...

I stayed in a hotel this Shabbos in a small Jewish community near the shul. These days it is a big problem to stay in a hotel for Shabbos be...

The shulchan aruch in siman 581 states that the minhag is to get up early in the morning before alos hashachar and say selichos. The acharon...

Mishpacha had an article last week (I think by a Baal Teshuva) about the problems that they encounter in the Charedi community. The main one...

Whatever the Israeli government would have done, the destruction of the shuls was a forgone conclusion after the disengagement. No one reall...

If you look at any mussar sefer the answer is no, as chazal say אפילו חרב חדה מונחת על ראשו אל ימנע עצמו מן הרחמים. Yet, the Rambam in Hilch...

גלי צה"ל this morning played on the radio an excerpt of a shiur that R' Ovadya Yosef gave last night where he blamed Hurricane Katr...

I may be traveling to Japan on business so this may be very relevant halacha lamaaseh to me. There are 3 major opinions on where the halachi...

In this past weeks parsha we had the dinim of עיר הנדחת. The Rambam in Hilchos Avoda Zara (4:6) writes a very difficult din. He writes that ...

53,500 learning in Kollel 41,000 learning in Yeshiva 23,000 learning in Yeshiva Ketana These numbers are amazing. Update The numbers are fro...

Unfortunately the Jewish religious world is not that far behind. The interview with Mary Fowler (and the subsequent comments) are eye openin...

The trip was great but the flight back is very tough. We are all exhausted. I hope to post something substantive tomorrow.

In Israel we live in a religious neighborhood. On Shabbos there are no cars in the street. This past Shabbos we were in NYC. Walking home fr...

The common minhag is for the whole congregation to stand up when the Aseres Hadibros are read in shul. However, the Rambam was very against ...

So much for Mr. Moderate Abbas. He continued, tomorrow, Jenin, the West Bank and Jerusalem. Does anyone still think this is going to bring p...

What about all those rabbinic pronouncements that it wasn't going to take place? A while back I wrote Putting your head in the sand abo...

The flight to America is interminable especially with a bunch of little kids. R' Shmuel Birnbaum (the Rosh Yeshiva of the Mir Brooklyn) ...

For the first time, I am having very mixed feelings going to America. I am happy to be going to see my family but at the same time am very s...