Loss of Smell Excerpted and adapted from a shiur by HaRav Chaim Weg May 11, 2023 I will put your cities to ruin and I will make your sanctuaries desolate; I will not smell your satisfying aromas. Vayikra 26:31…
Count Your Blessings Excerpted and adapted from a shiur by Rav Boruch Penfil May 4, 2023 You shall count for yourselves—from the morrow of the rest day, from the day when you bring the omer of the waving—seven weeks,…
Sense of Direction Excerpted and adapted from a shiur by Rav Moshe Yitzchok Weg April 27, 2023 With this shall Aharon come into the Holy: with a bull, a young male of cattle, for a sin-offering, and a ram…
Half and Half Excerpted and adapted from a shiur by HaRav Yechiel Biberfeld April 20, 2023 On the eighth day, the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised. Vayikra 12:3 It happens sometimes that the father of a newborn…
Blood Type Excerpted and adapted from a shiur by Rav Moshe Zev Granek April 13, 2023 Do not make your souls abominable by means of any creeping thing; and you shall not make yourselves impure through them, lest you…
Travel Allowance Excerpted and adapted from a shiur by Dayan Yitzhak Grossman March 30, 2023 If he shall offer it for a thanksgiving-offering, with the sacrifice of the thanksgiving-offering shall he offer unleavened loaves mixed with oil, unleavened wafers…
No Bless Oblige Excerpted and adapted from a shiur by Dayan Yehoshua Grunwald March 23, 2023 When we recite the Hagadah, we fulfill the mitzvah de’Oreisa of sipur yetzias Mitzrayim (telling the story of leaving Egypt). Why don’t we…
Check Number Excerpted and adapted from a shiur by HaRav Chaim Weg March 16, 2023 This month shall be for you the beginning of the months, it shall be for you the first of the months of the year.…
Fish and Dips Excerpted and adapted from a shiur by HaRav Yechiel Biberfeld March 10, 2023 You shall not cook a tender young animal in its mother’s milk. Shmos 34:26 The Gemara (Pesachim 76b; see Shulchan Aruch Y.D. 116)…
Annual Remembership Excerpted and adapted from a shiur by Rav Baruch Penfil March 2, 2023 Remember what Amaleik did to you on the way, when you were leaving Mitzrayim. Dvarim 25:17 Chazal mandated the annual reading of Parshas Zachor…