Rabbi Moshe Chefetz (or Hefes) 1663-1711
Rabbi Moshe ben Gershom (1663-1711) known as Rabbi Moshe Chefetz (of Hefes) was a rabbinic scholar from Italy. Born in Trieste, raised in Venice,...
ROSH CHODESH CHESHVAN
√ Rosh Chodesh -the beginning of the Hebrew month- is a semi festive day. The hierarchal order of the Jewish festive days is: Shabbat,...
Kapparot, with chicken or with Tsedaqa?
In many communities, there is a Minhag of doing Kapparot. What is the best way to do it: with chicken or with money for...
Teshuba and blame displacement
In Maimonides' opinion Teshuba consists of three steps:
1. hakarat hachet, or admission of our personal responsibility .
2. viduy, or confession with sincere remorse for...
HILKHOT TESHUBA 2:10: Unilateral forgiveness
Yesterday we explained that when somebody apologizes for an offense or for a wrong thing he or she did to us, we should be...
HILKHOT TESHUBA 2:1. Credibility and repentance
What is considered a perfect repentance? When one is faced with the same opportunity to repeat the original transgression, but now he does not...
HILKHOT TESHUBA: 1:1. The ultimate regret
In his monumental book, Mishne Tora, Maimonides dedicates ten chapters to the subject of Teshuba (repentance). In those chapters he describes and explains the...
SHABBAT: Using an elevator on Shabbat
Using a common elevator in Shabbat is not permitted, because the activation of any electrical device is considered a melakha (a Biblical Shabbat prohibition)...
PRINCIPLE 11: God is just
The eleventh principle asserts our belief that God is just. He rewards those who keep His commandments and he punishes those who transgress them.
The...
