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.)
The Arukh haShulchan Yomi is also included on our Luach page. (That Luach also offers halachic times for any location in a novel month-calendar format, as well Daf (Bavli) and Daf Yerushalmi Yomi. The Arukh haShulchan Yomi is provided as a link to a copy of the day’s text.
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------------------------------ Rabbi Gil Student (aka The Big Boss Man) introduced an interesting issue in his peace on AI and the golem. https://www.torahmusings.com/2025/04/ai-golem-and-not-so-silly-questions/ AI, Golem and Not-So-Silly Questions ?The more important [...]
One of my grandchildren asked me why we are not allowed to eat before Havdalah. My immediate response was that it was like not being able to eat before kiddush [...]
Is one allowed to tell LH to AI? Does the issur require that the bad impression of someone actually gets spread, or is any exercising of this bad middah assur? [...]
If a man says Shema on a day that requires Tefillin, when Tefillin are available, and you don't, Ulla says (Berakhos 14b) that he is "ke'ilu mei'id eidus sheqer be'atzmo". [...]
There are certain times when a partnership with a non-Jew affects halacha (eg pidyon bchor). Is there a minimum percentage ownership required? Bsorot Tovot Joel Rich [...]
What does the fact that eli mistook chana for a shikora (drunk) because she was praying with her lips moving but her voice not heard say about how most people [...]
On Wed, Apr 23, 2025 at 11:12:46AM +0300, Joel Rich via Avodah wrote: > Comment to blog discussing a girl?s elementary school?s gemara celebration And then no one in digest [...]
Sometimes, in life, we are faced with unanswerable questions. I recently experienced this myself, while I was reading Avodah Vol 43 Issue 26, and found myself confronted with the following [...]
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIOMgmq3EK4?si=s3ijCfmEuXH3XJ2Z]A recording for the BHP daily Halachic Whatsapp group https://chat.whatsapp.com/Gz8rrxqRcfy9rMOXRLG6GS [...]
Eitan | Growing from Their Strength, Building in Their Memory - GivechakThis drive is for Rabbi Eli Kaplan shlita's Mechina.Reb Eli is the grandson of Rabbi Avrohom Eliyahu Kaplan zt"l [...]
No, the line of succession in Britain is not discussed in the podcast. The image for illustrative purpose only! 😏Rischa D'Araisa Season 11 Episode 1:https://listen.jewishpodcasts.fm/riscahadaraaisa/100426Succession: Popes,Rebbes, and Roshei Yeshivah [...]
Rabbi Yosef Gavriel and Dr. Shani M. BechhoferScholar in Residence Programs, Lectures, Shiurim We both have a large and varied repertoire of topics and programs. We can also custom design programs. We [...]
Includes a new (and perhaps true!) insight on the unique language of being "yotzei" a mitzvah vs. being "mekayem" a mitzvah.[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9D6PCh77lmc?si=e2w9GQBu7e60tuay]A recording for the BHP daily Halachic WhatsApp group [...]
Rischa D'Araisa Season 10 Finale Episode 26:כי ישאלךResponding to Feedback:Five Minute Answers toSix of Your Questionshttps://listen.jewishpodcasts.fm/yeshivaofnewark/99892 [...]
Deep SimchaReb Tzadok HaKohenon the Renewed Emotionsthe Seder is Supposed toProvoke and Elicit[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pd7SA5qSktc?si=E-I7KW8Cv79CzGEZ]Sorry it got stopped in the middle of a sentence, Zoom does that randomly. I made the [...]
Yosef Gavriel Bechhofer is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.Topic: The Pri Tzaddik (Reb Tzadok HaKohen) on the Avodas Hashem of the Seder NightTime: Apr 8, 2025 10:00 PM Eastern Time (US and [...]
The Deeper Meaning and Purpose of Free Will.Connecting to Hashem with a Different Form of Dveykus.Spiritual and Conceptual Proximity.Digressions into Free Will of Angels and Aliens,and into Eis La'asos.[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYEyQI9AzII?si=Pu-_aVJahnePNjGK] [...]
The school runs an annual privilege auction.Students bid for privileges from the teachers. My privilege is always a shiur on the topic of your choice to the audience of your [...]
Rischa D'Araisa Season 10 Episode 25:Attacks from Without and Within:WZO's Eretz HaKodesh SlateandYU's Hareni Clubhttps://listen.jewishpodcasts.fm/yeshivaofnewark/99318 [...]
Occasionally I feel it is appropriate to showcase one of Zohar Al Pi Pshat segments. This is one of those.The Distinctions, Union & Symbiosis of Day & Night, Light & Darkness[youtube [...]
This past week I learned a piece in Or haTzafun (Shemos #30 “ההשתתפות שבין אדם לחבירו”) which focuses on the insidious nature of bribery, and from there, negi’os in general. [...]
Rav Dovid Lifshitz zt”l (whose 31st yahrzeit is today) often spoke about the connection between shaleim as wholeness, and that of another conjugation, “shalom“, peace. Shalom is not simply a cessation of violence. That [...]
Parashas Behar is a list of mitzvos. The first section is all about shemittah and yovel. A family’s ancestral land cannot be sold into perpetuity. Instead, if someone is forced [...]
This week I’d like to discuss three seemingly unrelated questions about the words of the tephillah: The focus of Shabbos Mussaf davening is the paragraph that begins “Tiqanta Shabbos…” What [...]
Here’s my theory about the origin of this minhag. My point here is not really about advocating for the minhag. I just feel a need to push back when people [...]
והיה רגיל להוכיח אותי על שראה שאינני משתתף בצערא דאחרינא. וכה היה דברו אלי תמיד שזה כל האדם. לא לעצמו נברא רק להועיל לאחריני ככל אשר ימצא בכחו לעשות. [My [...]
Micha’s note: The following was a post written to the Mesorah email list by Rabbi Dr. Seth Mandel zt”l, a rebbe-chaver of mine (more: a rebbe who insisted on treating [...]
(I put these thoughts together for a reply for my daughter Gavi, who pointed me to a medrash that “everyone in her neighborhood” were talking about, but I then was [...]
“Poteach et Yadekha“, oil on canvasHaim Masliach, 2021 A comment by Ilana Elzafun* brought this Seforno to my attention. This week’s parashah (Lekh Likha), Bereishis 16:13, describes Hagar’s prayer to [...]
Dear R Dr Broyde (Cc: Avodah), Over Shabbos, I read your article about getting ChatGPT to discuss whether a kohein in a same-sex marriage may go up to duchen. I [...]
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 [...]
