Covering Orakh Chaim, the parts of Yoreh Deah relevant at home, and selected topics from Eveh haEzer and Choshein Mishpat…. The halakhos of daily life from waking up in the morning to going to bed, from kashrus in the kitchen to honoring one’s parents to taharas hamishpachah to aveilus.
With the Arukh haShulchan’s analysis of how the halakhah came to be what it is.
Join us for the Second Cycle Starting Tuesday February 11th 2025 – 13 Shevat 5785
Exciting Arukh HaShulchan Development!!!
When we begin the second cycle of the Arukh HaShulchan Yomi, we will b’ezras Hashem also begin the first supplemental cycle of the rest of the Arukh HaShulchan!
We took the material not covered in the AhSY cycle and divided it into pieces to fit during the next two cycles. Two unrelated pieces to learn each day, but the daily material of the supplemental cycle will be less than half tbe text per day of the regular cycle.
At the end of the third cycle, you could be making a siyum on the entire Aruch HaShulchan!*
(* Original edition. Not including Nedarim nor Arukh HaShulchan He’Asid.)
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Is lev bet din matneh a nice way of saying it?s ?impractical? to apply the letter of the law in a particular situation (so chazal, HKBH?) must?ve had this situational [...]
On Tue, Nov 11, 2025 at 11:20 Micha Berger wrote: > On Mon, Nov 10, 2025 at 11:31:33AM +0200, Marty Bluke via Avodah wrote: > > Interestingly enough Rav Soloveitchik [...]
On Sun, Oct 26, 2025 at 06:07:13AM +0200, Joel Rich via Avodah wrote: > Does anybody know historically when mugmar was used to perfume clothes, was > it a one [...]
On Mon, Nov 10, 2025 at 11:31:33AM +0200, Marty Bluke via Avodah wrote: > Interestingly enough Rav Soloveitchik never said shalom Rav at all he only > said sim shalom [...]
On Wed, Oct 29, 2025 at 05:49:20AM +0200, Joel Rich via Avodah wrote: > The rama in o"c 149:1 says it's a mitzvah to accompany the sefer torah back > [...]
On Wed, Oct 29, 2025 at 08:22:54PM -0400, Akiva Miller via Avodah wrote: > > Why do you consider his contemporary generation a more important > > audience than later [...]
Interestingly enough Rav Soloveitchik never said shalom Rav at all he only said sim shalom because shalom Rav doesn?t appear in the Rambams siddur and was a later geonic invention [...]
On Wed, Oct 22, 2025 at 09:16:29AM -0400, Akiva Miller via Avodah wrote: > R' Joel Rich asked: >> S"A O"C 131:4 states "nahagu shelo lipol al pneichem... bbeit >> [...]
Rischa D'Araisa Season 12 Episode 11:כלי קודש וכלי שרת וכלי כסף וכלי חרסShould we be offering steep discounts for Rabbe'im?https://listen.jewishpodcasts.fm/yeshivaofnewark/110746Play EpisodeDownload EpisodeSupport This Episode [...]
My brother, HaRav Yochanan Meir shlita,is our special guest to reminisce about the niftar zt"l.https://listen.jewishpodcasts.fm/yeshivaofnewark/110529 [...]
אשה אחת שאלה אותי אם אני מוכן להעביר את הזוהר היומי בעברית. אמרתי לה שאם יהיו אנשים מעוניינים בזה אנסה. האם יש כאן או ידוע למישהו כאן על מי שיהיה [...]
Orot HaTechiyah 9 This is the most explicit explication of Rav Kook's novel perspective on Secular Zionism as a holy movement. I have connected it to the "tzitzit bli kippa" [...]
Rischa D'Araisa Season 12 Episode 9:'עָצֹ֤ר עָצַר֙ הֹThe Million Man March in Yerushalayimhttps://listen.jewishpodcasts.fm/yeshivaofnewark/110054Play EpisodeDownload EpisodeSupport This Episode [...]
Motzo'ei Shabbos Parashas Lech Lecha, Nov. 1, 2025.Young Israel of Oak Park, with the Shul's Rav, Rabbi Shaya Katz.Q&A on Chinuch Issues at a scholar-in-residence Shabbos. [...]
כיצד התמודד ראש ראשי הישיבות עם נכדתו, חברת הכנסת השמאלניתהרב יחיאל פליסקיןכאשר גדולי ישראל התמודדו בעצמם עם צאצאים שנטו מדרך התורה, הם סיפקו לנו דוגמא חיה ומשכנעת של כבוד, אהבה [...]
https://listen.jewishpodcasts.fm/yeshivaofnewark/108565Rischa D'Araisa Season 12 Episode 8:Rav Moshe Hauer Z"L:To Understand and Work with The Other:Encouraging Curiosity and Engagement with The Broader WorldPicture of Rabbi Hauer taken at NIRC back in the early 80's when we were [...]
A BHP Productions video on the Parasha. Parashas Bereishis (but works for Kedoshim and Ki Teitzei too!).https://chat.whatsapp.com/I4CFQwInPXNATfQSMNOeRV [...]
The Biur HaGra to Yoreh De'ah 63.1, pertaining to the Yerushalmi Shekalim (Vilna-Bavli pagination) 19b (Artscroll edition 53a), on theRambamon בשר שנתעלם מן העין, who seems to go like the Yerushalmi [...]
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Nephesh Hachaim 1:13 1. T The things we say can also link celestial worlds, rectify this one, and interconnect with the upper worlds, as we’ll now see. After all, we’re [...]
Da’at Tevunot 3:7 (¶ 118 [middle]) 1. We’d do well to take something into consideration, Ramchal adds here. It’s that just because something or someone is imperfect doesn’t mean [...]
The Way of G-d 2:6:4 1. G-d allowed for a prosecutor in His court, famously known as satan 1. His role is to argue against the accused, which them enables [...]
Nephesh Hachaim 1:12 1. R. Chaim already spoke 1 of the fact that we could only link celestial worlds, rectify this one, and interconnect with those upper worlds after we’d [...]
Da’at Tevunot 3:6 (¶ 118 [beginning]) 1. Ramchal reiterates here 1 that wrong is a created entity 2 that was only designed to last for as long as G-d wanted [...]
The Way of G-d 2:6:3 1. Given the above, the fact is that G-d doesn’t judge the world according to His foreknowledge but rather according to the way He wants [...]
Nephesh Hachaim 1:11 1. Following up on the thought offered in the last chapter that despite our being connected to physicality we’re nevertheless superior to angels, R’ Chaim now [...]
Da’at Tevunot 3:5 (¶s 116 [end] – 117) 1. Ramchal says that he’s going to expand upon things he’d said above 1 and reveal things that are “deep” about [...]
Nephesh Hachaim 1:10 1. Given all of the above concerning our makeup and capacities, it’s reasonable to wonder whether angels are loftier than we are or we’re loftier than they. [...]
Da’at Tevunot 3:4 (¶ 116 [beg.]) 1. Ramchal is about to offer something that will serve as a prelude to what’s to follow 1. It’s that even though G-d [...]
Derech Hashem 2:6:1 In the course of His interactions with the world 1, G-d arranged it so that phenomena that affect both the things that humankind brings about 2 and [...]
Nephesh Hachaim 1:9 1. Following through on the discussion of the previous chapter, R’ Chaim contrasts the situation of the generation that dwelt in the Sinai Desert 1 with that [...]
Da’at Tevunot 3:3 (¶’s 103- 115) 1. It seems logical, doesn’t it, that goodness would be a product of something that emanates goodness while wrongfulness would be a product of [...]
Da’atTevunot 3:2 (# 98 – 102) 1. Ramchal starts to explain the role of wrong and injustice in the world with a proposition derived from Rambam1. It’s that when G-d [...]
Nephesh Hachaim 1:8 1. R’ Chaim offers a rather complex discussion here about the positioning of the Cherubs in the Tabernacle and Holy Temple in order to illustrate his point [...]
The website 18FORTY has a fantastic and thoughtful multimedia post on OTD that is worth watching, reading, and listening to. If you are reading this then you know I don’t [...]
Spoiler, there isn’t much substance to I what have to say. Also, I am spoiling the end of the Skywalker saga. After reading an excellent essay by Rabbi Harry Maryles [...]
I checked my recent writing history today and the last legit post of mine was really 3.5 years ago. For some that’s a long chunk of time. In that time [...]
My wife’s comment on Simchas Torah pretty much summed it up, “I feel like this is the biggest tease for you.” You see, my mom a”h was niftar right before [...]
When today comes around I usually think about things my father missed since he has been gone. I decided that this year I’ll attempt to list a number of things [...]
Walking out of shul, the morning after Yom Kippur, a follow early Sunday morning riser casually said to me, “Back to normal, right?” I was taken off guard (and also [...]
I want to share something that Rav Efraim Twerski said at his Shabbos HaGadol drasha. After starting off with 10 questions Rav Twerski said over an amazing Torah from Rav [...]
So, tonight’s the 6th yahrtzeit for my dad, Avraham ben Zorach a”h (Al, of blessed memory). Like everyone else that has lost a parent I lit my 24 hour yahrzeit [...]
“WARMED BY THE FIRE OF THE AISH KODESH– Torah from the Hilulas of Reb Kalonymus Kalman Shapira of Piaseczna” by Rav Moshe Weinberger and adapted by Binyomin Wolf is more [...]
