Lending money and paying back (Part 1)
25th of Tebet, 5770One of the 613 Mitzvot is lending money, without interest, to a fellow Jew who needs it. Helping a needy person...
Checking the Mezuzah
15th of Tebet, 5770 A Mezuzah must be examined at least twice every seven years. Temperature and weather changes, as well as age,...
Birkat haMezuza
14th of Tebet 5770Before reciting the blessing, the case with the Mezuzah enclosed should be held against the doorpost -- ready to turn the...
One Mezuzah in each room?
13th of Tebet, 5770 The custom today is to put a Mezuzah on virtually every door of the house. Therefore, a Jewish home...
Kosher Mezuzah
12th of Tebet, 5770 The Mezuzah is a handwritten scroll, written on genuine parchment, prepared from the skin of a kosher animal, that...
What do we commemorate on the 10th of Tebet?(2)
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...
What do we commemorate on the 10th of Tebet?(1)
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...
When should you place your home’s Mezuzah?
6th of Tebet, 5770When you are renting a house or an apartment, you have 30 days to put your Mezuzot. Why? Because...
Inside your Mezuza
Tuesday Tebet 5, 5770Let me share with you what the Book chobot halebabot says about the first Pasuk of the Shema Israel. SHEMA ISRAEL...
Inside/Outside the Mezuzah
4th of Tebet, 5770Most people think that the Mezuzah cover is really the Mezuzah and the inside, just a parchment. Well, actually, the inside...
