Jewish Law
While halachah employs ha’aramot in limited circumstances, our general orientation toward Torah observance should be to seize every mitzvah as…
Rabbi Hershel Schachter’s Collected Writings, I; 1.8 Million Minutes and Counting: Celebrating & Contemplating My First 40 Years in Jewish…
With the rebound of travel in the post-Covid-19 world, an Orthodox Jew may find him- or herself facing halachic quandaries.…
Nowadays, no one who keeps kosher would ever consider buying meat without certification. No one would say, ‘well, this looks…
Dangerous onions, "kosher" gelatin, and more!
Misconception: It is a time-honored custom to eat a milchig (dairy) meal on Shavuot.
These are among the most complex questions in modern times, and Rabbi Rakeffet explores and explains them with remarkable clarity.
Misconception: If a ba'al korei (person publicly reading the Torah) makes an error that alters the meaning of the text…
Readers familiar with rabbinic Hebrew and Talmudic concepts will delight in the many essays that analyze debates across the tractate…
Misconception: In order to temporarily relocate a sefer Torah, such as to a shivah house, halachah requires that it be…
Misconception: Due to the lack of a properly anointed king and the absence of the urim v’tumim, the defensive wars…
