If you cooked a Parve food together with meat or dairy, that Parve food becomes the same status as the food that was cooked...

Last week we discussed the issue of Kavana, consciousness, and a level of a deeper understanding, beyond the words’ translation, which helps the...

7th of Shebat, 5770 Officially, Shabbat starts at sunset (Shekia). Sunset or sundown is when the sun disappears from the horizon. It wasn't easy to...

3rd of Shebat, 5770It is forbidden for a borrower to spend the borrowed money recklessly (unnecessarily) in a way that the lender will not...

29th of Tebet, 5770 The Mitzvah of lighting the Shabbat candles is one of the special Mitzvot of a Jewish woman. Our Rabbis instituted this...

26th of Tebet, 5770 The Amida is the most important prayer. It is said every day, three times a day, morning, afternoon,...

25th of Tebet, 5770One of the 613 Mitzvot is lending money, without interest, to a fellow Jew who needs it. Helping a needy person...

15th of Tebet, 5770 A Mezuzah must be examined at least twice every seven years. Temperature and weather changes, as well as age,...

14th of Tebet 5770Before reciting the blessing, the case with the Mezuzah enclosed should be held against the doorpost -- ready to turn the...

13th of Tebet, 5770 The custom today is to put a Mezuzah on virtually every door of the house. Therefore, a Jewish home...

12th of Tebet, 5770 The Mezuzah is a handwritten scroll, written on genuine parchment, prepared from the skin of a kosher animal, that...

8th of Tebet, 5770 This coming Sunday, Dec 27, is Asara beTebet (10th of Tebet) a fast day, which commemorates several tragedies that happened to...

7th of Tebet, 5770 Approximately in the year 300 BCE, on the 8th of TebetKing Ptolemy of Egypt forced 70 Jewish scholars to translate the...

6th of Tebet, 5770When you are renting a house or an apartment, you have 30 days to put your Mezuzot. Why? Because...

Tuesday Tebet 5, 5770Let me share with you what the Book chobot halebabot says about the first Pasuk of the Shema Israel. SHEMA ISRAEL...

4th of Tebet, 5770Most people think that the Mezuzah cover is really the Mezuzah and the inside, just a parchment. Well, actually, the inside...

Setting the date for the wedding In setting the date for the wedding there are many factors you should be considering: most of them are...

After the Chatan and Kallah arrive to the Chupa the Rabbi or Cantor sings מִי אַדיִר עַל הַכֹּל. מִי בָּרוּךְ עַל הַכֹּל. מִי גּדָוֹל עַל...

This is the basic ketubah text. Some important changes might be made in the Ketubah depending on various factors — chiefly among them the...

The SHEVA BERACHOT are recited by the Rabbis or by the guests. :בָּרוּךְ אַתָּה ה‘ אֱלֹקינוּ מֶלךְֶ הָעוֹלםָ. בּוֹראֵ פְּריִ הַגּפֶָן בָּרוּךְ אַתָּה ה‘ אֱלֹקינוּ מֶלךְֶ...