KASHRUT: Meat and milk, the Minhaguim.
Today is the 5th day of Adar I, 5771Besides the prohibition of eating together meat and dairy, our Rabbis indicated that it is necessary...
KADDISH: The basics
Today is the 3rd day of Adar I, 5771
Although the Kaddish is recited during the first eleven months following the death of one's parent...
Candle Lighting
Today is the 30th day of Shebat (Rosh Chodesh Adar), 5771
The Mitzvah of lighting the Shabbat candles is one of the special Mitzvot for...
Meat and milk, the basics
Today is the 28th day of Shebat , 5771The Torah forbids consuming meat with milk.In the Book of Shemot (23, 19) the Torah says:...
Lending money and paying back
Today is the 26th day of Shebat , 5771As we have explained last week, one of the 613 Mitzvot of the Torah is lending...
At what point does Shabbat start?
Officially, Shabbat starts Friday at sunset (sheqi'a). Sunset or sundown occurs when the sun disappears from the horizon. For centuries, it wasn't easy to...
MONETARY LAWS: The eighth level of Tsedaka
Today is the 21th day of Shebat , 5771Tsedaka is usually translated as "charity" but in Hebrew, Tsedaka means "justice" or "the...
SHABBAT and plowing (Choresh)
Today is the 16th day of Shebat , 5771
Choresh, or plowing, is one of the thirty-nine melachot --works or activities-- prohibited on Shabbat.
Plowing is...
HONORING PARENTS and other relatives.
Today is the 12th day of Shebat , 5771The Mitzva of honoring parents extends to other relatives. The main difference between our parents and...
SHABBAT and watering plants and flowers (Zore’a)
Today is the 9th day of Shebat , 5771
There are 39 categories of Melakha (creative tasks) that are forbidden of Shabbat.
One of them is...
The middle of the road
Today is the 7th day of Shebat , 5771 Maimonides explains that when we detect in our personalities an inclination toward one extreme, we...
Balanced parenting
Today is the 5th day of Shebat , 5771Honoring parents is one of the most important Mitzvot of the Torah.Children are commanded to respect,...
SHABBAT plucking fruits or flowers (Kotzer)
Today is the 2nd day of Shebat , 5771
There are 39 categories of Melakha (creative tasks) that are forbidden of Shabbat. One of them...
Compulsive liars
Today is Rosh Chodesh Shebat , 5771The Torah forbids to lie.The Torah distinguishes between different levels of lying. In Shemot 23, 7 the...
Gardening and shaping habits
Today is the 29th day of Tebet, 5771Maimonides (Rambam) writes in Hilkhot De'ot Ch. 1, that we all have different habits and tendencies. ...
HONORING PARENTS After they pass away
Today is the 27th day of Tebet, 5771Honoring parents is a Mitzva that extends after our parents pass away. The Laws of Abelut (mourning)...
The inconveniet truth
Today is the 23rd day of Tebet, 5771The rabbis explained that we come closer to God to the extent that we are willing to...
Welcoming Shabbat
22nd of Tebet, 5771
Every day, my father in law, who lives in Ashdod, Israel, would go to the market and come home with some...
Maimonides on extremes
Today is the 22nd day of Tebet, 5771Maimonides (Rambam) writes in Hilkhot De'ot Ch. 1, that we all have different personalities and tendencies.To illustrate,...
Senile parents, a case study from the Talmud
The rabbis of the Talmud addressed the question of honoring one's parents when they are senile or mentally disabled.
They examine a case of a...
