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Category: Orach Chaim

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Taking Pills to Ease the Fast

by Rabbi Zachary Truboff

cow in field , cow with flowers

Preserving the Cistern: Seeing the Earth as a Resource for All

by Rabbi Haggai Resnikoff

All your Mitzvahs in One Basket?

by Rabbi Haggai Resnikoff

Intention and Identity: Which Trees Produce a Kosher Lulav?

by Rabbi Haggai Resnikoff

“To Bow and to Bend We Won’t be Ashamed…” Two Understandings of the Yom Kippur Prostrations

by Rabbi Haggai Resnikoff

One for All and All for One? Individual and Communal Obligations of Shofar

by Rabbi Haggai Resnikoff

Go Easy on the Kids? Children and Tisha B’Av

by Rabbi Avram Schwartz

Does Torah Ever Take a Sleep Break?

by Rabbi Dov Linzer

Sefirat Ha’Omer: Whose Minhag Counts?

by Rabbi Dov Linzer

Matzah and Moderation

by Rabbi Avram Schwartz

Zakhor and Megillah For Those Under Quarantine

by Rabbi Dov Linzer

Matanot La’Evyonim: It’s Not Always About You.

by Rabbi Avram Schwartz

Sukkahs in the Wind

by Rabbi Dov Linzer

When to NOT Ask for Forgiveness

by Rabbi Avram Schwartz

A Striving Grounded in Reality

by Rabbi Avram Schwartz

Tisha B’Av – Aseh Lecha Rav

by Rabbi Avram Schwartz

Accepting the Mitzvot as a Convert: Does it Matter What You’re Really Thinking?

by Rabbi Dov Linzer

Accidentally Mentioning the Day of the Omer

by Rabbi Avram Schwartz

Establishing Halakhic Marriage Norms in the New State

by Rabbi Avram Schwartz

Don’t Talk While You’re Eating?

by Rabbi Avram Schwartz

Mishloah Manot, Cultivating Friendship, and the Absence of a Brakha

by Rabbi Avram Schwartz

Tu B’Shevat and Creative Destruction

by Rabbi Avram Schwartz

Lighting Hanukkah Candles with Electric Lights: A Teshuvah from Rav Yaakov Moshe Toledano

by Rabbi Avram Schwartz

How Soon Must I Build My Sukkah: A Teshuva by The Avnei Nezer

by Rabbi Avram Schwartz

May One Who Eats on Yom Kippur Due to Medical Needs Serve as a Shaliach Tzibbur? A Teshuvah from Rav Asher Weiss

by Rabbi Avram Schwartz

Hearing Shofar Over A Loudspeaker or on a Radio: A Teshuvah from Rav Ben-Zion Uziel

by Rabbi Avram Schwartz

Fasting for Pregnant and Nursing Women – a teshuvah by Rabbi Nahum Rabbinovitch

by Rabbi Dov Linzer

Rema’s Understanding of Reheating Liquid Foods on Shabbat

by Rabbi David Fried

Is There Anything I May Do on Shabbat to Prepare for Yom Tov?

by Rabbi Avram Schwartz

Midnight Approaches and I haven’t Eaten the Afikomen

by Rabbi Avram Schwartz

Reading the Megillah in English

by Rabbi Avram Schwartz

Urban Living: Where to Light Your Menorah

by Rabbi Avram Schwartz

Is There a Bracha for Sukkah Hopping?

by Rabbi Avram Schwartz

Not Wearing Shoes Doesn’t Mean Going Barefoot

by Rabbi Avram Schwartz

The Prayers of Small Gestures

by Rabbi Avram Schwartz

Women, Minyan and Tzibbur for Tefillah and Selihot

by Rabbi Ysoscher Katz

Women Leading Selihot- A Response to Rabbi Dov Linzer

by Rabbi Ysoscher Katz

Solar Eclipse: To Bless or Not to Bless

by Rabbi Dov Linzer

Being In A House With Hametz

by Rabbi Dov Linzer

Davening Mincha After Lighting Shabbat Candles

by Rabbi Ysoscher Katz

Is Swimming for Pleasure Permitted on Shabbat?

by Rabbi Dov Lerea

Composting Within An Eruv

by Rabbi Haggai Resnikoff

Women Leading Selichot: A Response to Rabbi Ysoscher Katz

by Rabbi Dov Linzer

May a Woman Lead Selichot and the Recital of God’s Thirteen Attributes of Mercy? (English)

by Rabbi Ysoscher Katz

May a Woman Lead Selichot and the Recital of God’s 13 Principles of Mercy? A Response to Rabbi Dov Linzer in Hebrew

by Rabbi Ysoscher Katz

Women and Kriyat HaTorah: A Response from Rabbi Aryeh Klapper

by Rabbi Aryeh Klapper

Further on Women and Kri’at HaTorah: A Response to Rabbi Aryeh Klapper

by Rabbi Ysoscher Katz

Women and Kri’at Hatorah: Response to Rav Yoni Rosensweig

by Rabbi Ysoscher Katz

Women and Kri’at HaTorah: A Response from Rav Yoni Rosensweig

by Yoni Rosensweig

Warming Tray on Shabbat

by Rabbi Dov Linzer

Saying Al Ha’Nissim on Yom Ha’atzmaut

by Rabbi Dov Linzer

Breastfeeding and Showing Affection in Shul

by Rabbi Ysoscher Katz

Partnership Minyanim: A Preliminary Response to R. Hershel Schachter

by Rabbi Ysoscher Katz

Snow on Shabbat

by Rabbi Dov Linzer

U’vda D’chol on Shabbat

by Rabbi Dov Linzer

May a Woman Lead Selichot?

by Rabbi Dov Linzer

May One Take Down a Sukkah on Chol HaMoed in Anticipation of Hurricane Joaquin?

by Rabbi Dov Linzer

Women and Kriyat HaTorah

by Rabbi Ysoscher Katz

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