In the Talmud Yebamot 63a the Rabbis gave many advices on the issue of shidukhim (=finding your spouse. See here).  One of them is:...

I received many questions from Halakha of the Day readers on the subject of Mashiach. Today I am going to address two of these...

Yesterday we explained that in the year 130 of the common era, 60 years after the destruction of the Second Bet haMiqdash, the terrible...

Sephardic Jews, the first Jews to arrive in America in the middle of the 17th century, first settled in New York, then known as...

Shebat is the eleventh month of the Hebrew year counting from Nisan. Rosh Chodeh Shebat consists always of one day, because the preceding month, Tebet,...

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...

Founded in 1989 in Israel, ZAKA was originally formed to respond to terror attacks and deal with the retrieval, identification and burial of the deceased. (Written...

  Rabbi Isaac Lampronti was born in Ferrara, Italy.  He studied Torah under the great Italian rabbis of his generation: Manoach Provençal and Isaac Chayim...

17th of Av, 5770The Torah says that fish or any creature that lives in the water must have both scales (kaskekset) and fins...