Shiurim
Rabbi Jachter's Audio Shiurim
Traditions of Placing Halla in Burning Hot Soup: Sephardim and Ashkenazim
Women's Teshuva: Watching July 4th Fireworks on Shabbat
Justifying Reading Jewish Newspapers on Shabbat
Women's Teshuva: The Bracha on Seeing Oceans and the Mediterranean Sea
Basketballs, Baseballs etc are all Muktzeh On Shabbat by Sephardic Standards
Women's Teshuva: What to do with a pen left out on Shabbat?
Enthusiastic Sephardic Amen Responses!
Women's Teshuva:The Sharp Contrast between Torah Law and the Dred Scott Decision
Following Hacham Baruch's Psak about 18-19 year old Students in Israel Keeping Two Days of Yom Tov
Women's Teshuva: Lessons from Hacham Baruch's Opposition to an Eruv in Flatbush and Deal
The Hashkafa Behind the Melacha of Borer
Women's Teshuva: When do Women Mourners who are not Participating in Kevura Begin Shiva?
Hacham David Yosef's Five Situations Sephardim Should Recite Hamotzi on Matza
Women's Teshuva: Do we make a Separate Bracha on an Ice Cream Cone (in addition to the Ice Cream)?
Reciting the Incorrect Number for Sefirat HaOmer
Women's Teshuva: The Importance of Medical Procedures as Recommended by Physician
The Timing of this Year's Burning and Selling Hametz
What Components of Birkat Hamazon are From the Torah?
Women's Teshuva: Until When Can You Recite a Bracha Aharona?
When are Humrot (Stringencies) Recommended and When is it Better to Refrain?
Women's Teshuva: Accumulating and Not Depleting Zechut Avot
The Astonishing Opinion of Rashbi and his Son Regarding Rodef
Women's Teshuva:Do Mothers Recite a Bracha When their Child Becomes Bar or Bat Mitzva?
One Should Not Board an Airplane on Yom Tov Sheini!
Women's Teshuva: Nochri Doctors in the Current Environment
Why We Sit for Havdala at Shaarei Orah
Women's Teshuva: Are Sephardic Women Obligated to Hear Havdala
Applications of Rabi Akiva's Principle Kelutah K'mi Shehunecha to American Football and Soccer
Women's Teshuva: Moshe Rabbeinu’s Fascinating Humash Editing of Parashat HaMan
Womens Teshuva:Two Remarkable Stories about Rav Elazar Meyer Teitz z'tl
Hashem Gives Am Yisrael More Attention
Women's Teshuva: The Beauty of Sara Imeinu
The Self-Confidence of Gedolim
Women's Teshuva: Holding Candles While Walking Children to the Huppah
Special Halachot Regarding a Bracha on Wine
Women's Teshuva: When to Recite HaTov VeHameitiv on Wine
Carrying a Smartphone on Shabbat During Wartime
Women's Teshuva: Reciting a Shehehiyanu When a Girl is Born
Printing Presses in Italy - Yad Hashem to Unify Our People!
Women's Teshuva: Does Breaking Water Render Tumah?
Real Life Experience is Necessary to Issue Proper Halachic Rulings
Women's Teshuva: Where Should Yeshiva Students Light Ner Hanuka?
The Perils of Last Minute Death Bed Gifts
Women's Teshuva - Planning for Divorce before Marriage?
Should We Say Vayechulu With at Least Two People?
Women's Teshuva: Coffee Prepared by a Non-Jew on Shabbat
One Who Prays Mussaf of Shabbat Instead of Rosh Hodesh
Women's Teshuva: Sometimes the Choice is Between Bad and Worse
May One Publicize his Donating of a Kidney?
Women's Teshuva - A Clever Strategy for Opening Food Packets on Shabbat
May a Jewish Doctor Participate in Notzri Last Rights?
Women's Teshuva: Time to Give up Fantasy Football!
When to Recite a Bracha on Dessert
Women's Teshuva: The Bracha on Pizza for Sephardim
Taking a Cruise Where Jews will Operate the Ship on Shabbat
Women's Teshuva: Mashiach's Multi-Colored Donkey!
Drawing Halachic Conclusions from Archaeological Evidence
Women's Teshuva: Difficult to Understand Aggadot
Interesting Minhagim for Hodesh Elul
Women's Teshuva: Eloka D'Meir Anenu
Leading by Example: Great Story From a Recent Daf Yomi
Women's Teshuva: Why Sephardic Jews Don't Place Ashes on the Chatan's Head at a Wedding
Tearing Keriyah Upon Seeing Arab Controlled Bet Lehem
Women's Teshuva: Laundering During Shavu'a Shehal bo Tisha B’Av to Wear After Tisha B’Av
October 7th Kinnah with Footnotes
Women's Teshuva: Until When Can We Recite Birkat Hamazon, Asher Yatzar and the Bracha on Thunder
Disabled Using Special Motorized Scooters on Shabbat
Women's Teshuva: Lemons Cut with a Meat Knife on a Dairy Plate
Rare American Eruvin that Satisfy the Rambam - Lido Beach and Atlantic Beach
Women's Teshuva: Sephardim and the Bracha of Malbish Arumim
Are Two Men Needed to Say Vayechulu on Friday Night?
Women's Teshuva: Women's Teshuva What Materials Require Tevilat Keylim?
Why Does Bava Batra 11a Describe a Mishnaic Teaching as Something Hashem Said?
WomensTeshuva: Reflections on Couples not Even Hugging During Niddah Time
Justifying the Ashkenazic Minhag Not to Wear a Tallit Until Marriage
Women's Teshuva: Health Care Proxies, DNR and DNI Orders
Saying the Sephardic Kaddish in an Ashkenazic Bet Kenesset
Women's Teshuva - Can We be Yotzei with a Reconstructionist Kiddush?
Is a Child Allowed to Carry in an Eruv for Adults who Do Not Rely on it?
Women's Teshuva: Keeping Halacha Straightforward and Clear
The Chumash Leaves the Gemara to Present the Full Picture
Women's Teshuva: Do We Wait 6 hours After Eating Semi-Sharp Cheese before Eating Meat?
Continued Discussion on Thirty Non-Kosher Schnitzel Mixed with Sixty Kosher Schnitzel
Women's Teshuva: Thirty Non-Kosher Schnitzel Mixed with Sixty Kosher Schnitzel
Reinforcing the Prohibition Against Marijuana Use Based on Opinions of Orthodox Health Practitioners
Women's Teshuva - May One ask a Non-Jew to Reactivate a Faucet Shut by Sensor on Shabbat
An Example of Rav Raphael Ankawa's Masterful Resolution of Monetary Disputes
Women's Teshuva: A Sephardic Approach to the Temperature of Yad Soledet Bo
Women's Teshuva: Asking a Non-Jew to Drive Home a Hospital Patient
Women's Teshuva: Raw and Unprocessed Meat, Poultry, and Fish that are not Certified for Pesah
Reflections on the Passing of Senator Joseph Lieberman
Women's Teshuva: Smoothie from Fresh Raspberries
It is Essential to Join the May 15th NORPAC Mission to DC
Women's Teshuva: Brown Eggs with Brown Spots
Should a Hatan and Kallah Fast on Taanit Esther within their week of Sheva Berachot?
Women's Teshuva: Opening a Special Ice Pack for a Post-Partum Mother
Why Nissim Douek's Hamin/Cholent Tasted Especially Good on Shabbat Parashat Vayakhel.
Women's Teshuva: Informing Someone that they are Dating a Get Refuser
A Pregnant Wife of a Kohen Visiting a Hospital
Women's Teshuva: Why Women are Obligated to Recite Birchot Hatorah
Remembering that you Forgot to Pray Minha while Praying Arvit
Women's Teshuva - Don't Observe a Humra if it will Lead to Hurt Feelings
An Updated Review of Current Status of Yayin Mevushal
Women's Teshuva: Sephardic Approach to Tevilat Keilim in the Snow
Elevator vs. Stairway in a Hotel on Shabbat
Women's Teshuva: Tevilat Kelim on Can Openers and Nutcrackers
Summarizing the Controversy Surrounding Brain Stem Death
Women's Teshuva: Why it is Essential to Appoint a Health Care Proxy
Jet Skiing and Jetting on a Friday
Women's Teshuva: Responding on Friday to a Note from a Child's Army Commander in Gaza.
Women's Teshuva: Bracha on Tasting Food plus on Which Fruit do we Recite Ha'etz
Asking a Non-Jew to Use an Electric Card Key on Shabbat
Women's Teshuva: Interrupting Amida to Respond to an Elderly Parent's Call
Children's Medicine with Good Tasting Non-Kosher Ingredients
Women's Teshuva: Brachot on Medicine
Does Bishul Akum Apply to Sake?
Women's Teshuva: A Revised Ruling Regarding Flour Needed to Recite Bracha on Hafrashat Halla
Children Administrating Medical Care for Parents
Women's Teshuva: Making a Sign Between those Eating Meat and those Eating Dairy
The YU Student Who Used a Plastic Hanukiya
Women's Teshuva: Peeled Eggs, Onions and Garlic
Why it is Essential to be Joyous on this Hanuka
Women's Teshuva: When to Inspect for Shatnez
May Sephardim Eat Glatt Kosher Meat Not Labeled Halak Bet Yosef
Women's Teshuva: Reaffirming the Acceptability of Triple Washed Produce
Is it Required to Order the Special Kosher Meal when Flying El Al
Women's Teshuva: An Unbelievable Medical Halacha Miracle
May Kohanim Visit Kivrei Tzadikim
Women's Teshuva - A Dairy Spoon Run in a Dishwasher Full of Meat Utensils
Leaving the Mezuzot when Moving
Guidance for Hadash Yashan Observance
The Importance of Separating Tzitzit Strings
Women's Teshuva - Why Men are Typically the ones Making Mistakes with Milk and Meat
Should Sephardic Men Make an Effort to Wear Woolen Tzitzit?
Women's Teshuva - Are the Haftarot Set in Stone?
Justifying Sephardim Performing Kapparot Despite the Shulhan Aruch's Strong Objection
Women's Teshuva - Family Matters on Yom Kippour
When it's Proper to Study Kabala
Women's Teshuva - Paying Group Leaders for Working on Shabbat and Yom Tov.
How We Know that Torah SheBe'al Peh is Authentic
Women's Teshuva - Why Calling In-Law Parents by their First Names is a Horrible Idea
Zecher and Zeicher - why Sepharadim Should Not follow the Ashkenazic Practice
Women's Teshuva - What are Sephardic Women Obligated to Pray
Why we at Shaarei Orah extend an Aliya to a man who is not yet Shomer Shabbat
Women's Teshuva - A Child Reciting Birkat HaGomel
Is Long Hair a Chatzitza for Tefillin?
Women's Teshuva - The Case of the Lost Chicken!
Women's Teshuva - Hashem Expects and Rewards us for Maximum Effort
A Mezuza Controversy in Camp Morasha in the Early 1980's
Women's Teshuva - When to Muster the Courage to be Different
Rabbi Jacht'er's Shiur on Hilchot Avelut - Tisha B'Av 2023
What We May and May Not Learn on Tisha B'Av
Women's Teshuva - Nursing Women this Year on Tisha B’Av
Womens Teshuva - Must a New Convert do Tevilat Keylim on Utensils after Conversion
A Possible Breakthrough Regarding the Bracha on Crispix
Women's Teshuva - Paying Cash to Avoid Tax Payment
Women's Teshuva - The Power of a Jewish Woman's Influence and Vision
Should We Say the Bracha on Thunder with Shem Umalchut
Women's Teshuva - Forgetting to Separate Halla on Dough with 3 pounds of Flour
Women's Teshuva - Women Reciting Birkat HaGomel
Omitting the Hazara at Minha if Only Ten Men are Present
Women's Teshuv - Are Women Obligated to say Pesukei D'zimra
Rav Ovadia’s Forceful Condemnation of Mixed Gender Swimming and Beaches
Women's Teshuva - Sephardic Women Must Wash Mayim Aharonim
Is it Permissible to Apply Perfume or Cologne on Shabbat or Yom Tov?
Womens Teshuva - Should Women Light Candles Before Yom Tov Begins?
When to Begin Reciting Kaddish for an Azkara
Women's Teshuva - Pat Akum Observance for Sephardim
Bringing a Weapon into a Bet Knesset
Women's Teshuva - The Debate on Saying V'al Ziknehem in the Bracha of Al Hatzadikim
Writing B'H on Ordinary Documents
Women's Teshuva - Standing for a Learned Woman or a Woman Over Seventy
Update on Tevilat Keylim for Electric Devices
Recorded Music Between Pesah and Lag B'Omer
Women's Teshuva: Familiar Products Not Certified Kosher in Europe and Beer Not Certified Kosher
Using Machine Matza Shemura Given High Prices of Hand Shemura
The Special Haftara for Shabbat HaGadol
Women's Teshuva - How to Kosher a Frying Pan for Pesah
Why it Matters How Much or Little Carried in an Eruv
Women's Teshuva - Making Coffee on Shabbat
Ashkenazic and Sephardic Approaches to Paying the Rav for Mechirat Hametz
Women's Teshuva - Why Five Hours Should Suffice to Prepare Your Home for Pesah
The Halachic Propriety of Selling Organs Such as a Kidney
Women's Teshuva - A Newlywed Couple's First Kashrut Mistake
Questionable Soy Sauce Leftovers Placed in a Dishwashers
Women's Teshuva - Inviting Conversion Candidates for a Yom Tov Meal
Shabbat vs. Tefillin:Resolving a Dilemma Regarding a Semi-Observant Jew
Women's Teshuva - The Six Constant Mitzvot
A Beautiful Explanation for the Way Sephardic Jews Recite Tehillim Mizmor 136 Shabbat Morning
Women's Teshuva - Recharging Hearing Aid Battery on Shabbat and Yom Tov
Chillul Shabbat for Israel Public Relations
Women's Teshuva - Peeled Onions, Garlic, and Eggs Left Overnight
Practices for Tzitzit and Tefillin During Tefila
Women's Teshuva - Using a Phone on Shabbat During a Severe Panic Attack
A Meat Spoon Found in the Milk Silverware Drawer
Women's Teshuva - Clementines Labeled as Moroccan but Checked Out as lsraeli
Dusting off a Suit or a Hat on Shabbat
Drying Meat and Fruit in the Same Food Dehydrator
Women's Teshuva - Do Fake Cheese and Fake Meat Create a Problem of Marit Ayin
The Oleh's Bracha Prior to Rolling the Torah - Contrasting Sephardic and Ashkenazic Approaches
The Current Halachic Debate Surrounding Lab Grown Meat
Women's Teshuva - Using an Air Fryer for Meat and Milk
Women's Teshuva - Sous Vide for Both Milk and Meat
Hanuka Lighting Instructions for Sephardic Yeshiva or University Students Away From Home
Women's Teshuva - Custom of Women Refraining from Work Thirty Minutes after Lighting Nerot Hanuka
Defending the Shaarei Orah Practice of Gifting a Siddur to a Bar or Bat Mitzva on Shabbat
Women's Teshuva - Why Many Sephardic Communities Have the Custom to Laugh During Havdala
Storing the Sefer Haftarot in the Aron Kodesh
Women's Teshuva - Shabbat Times, Wife Follows Rabbeinu Tam and Husband Does Not
When Does the Torah Prohibit Demanding Payment of a Loan
Women's Teshuva - Rav Shmuel Khoshkerman Summary of Rulings from Visit to Shaarei Orah
Shaarei Orah Practice of Responding Amen to Each Section of the Tefila for Tzahal
Women's Teshuva - Meaning of Eating Covered Foods on Shabbat such as Kibbeh, Sambousek, Cigars
Travelers to Israel: Recitation of Baruch Alenu
Women's Teshuva - If a Woman is Uncertain That She Recited Birkat Hamazon
Women's Teshuva - Dairy French Toast from Leftover Challah Special Sephardic Angle
Wearing a Tallit on the Night of Kippour
Women's Teshuva - Justifying Shaarei Orah Reciting Kol Nidrei at Night
Hol Hamoed Trips to a Place Where There is No Sukah
Cutting Down Fruit Tree Branches for use in Sukkah
Generating Extra Berachot for the Purpose of a Mitzva
Women's Teshuva - Are Women Obligated to Recite 100 Berachot Each Day?
Even Sephardic Jews Should Not Ride a Bicycle on Shabbat!
Women's Teshuva - A Meat Boureka Mixed with Neutral/Pareve Bourekas
When to Recite Pirkei Avot? The Wide Variety of Minhagim
Women's Teshuva - Are Sephardic Women Permitted to Pray Musaf? Rav Ovadia's Changing Opinions
Removing a Parochet if it Makes the Aron Kodesh Hechal More Beautiful
Women's Teshuva - Taping and Opening a Baby’s Diaper on Shabbat
The Case of the Dropped Slurpees
Women's Teshuva - Using Sprays on Shabbat
Kohen Who Can't Fast for Health Reasons But Did Not Drink Alcohol - Can He Do Birkat Kohanim
Women's Teshuva - Eating Leftover Meat from Shabbat During the Nine Days
Women's Teshuva - Playing Professional Baseball on Shabbat
Rav Shmuel Kamenetzky on Length of Pe'ot HaRosh
Women's Teshuva - The Power of Positive Self Affirmation and Bitahon in Hashem
A Dramatic Lesson on Employees Giving Their All for their Employers
Are Nursing Women Obligated to Fast on a Postponed Tisha B'av (like this year)
Omitting the Hazara - The Practice at the Philadelphia Yeshiva and Why Rav Ovadia Yosef Disagrees
Women's Teshuva - Special Middot tovot of Rav Shmuel Kamenetzky
Preparing Salad on Shabbat and Yom Tov
Women's Teshuva - Tapping to Music on Shabbat and Yom Tov
Ashkenazic and Sephardic Cooking - Meat and Dairy Questions
Women's Teshuva Turning Music on Shabbat and Yom Tov for a Woman in Labor
Women's Teshuva - The Proper Time for Yom Tov Candlelighting
Two Provocative Lifnei Iveir Questions
Women's Teshuva - Two Stories - Rav Soloveitchik on Special Clothes for Shabbat
Taking a COVID Vaccine on a Friday
Women's Teshuva - Correct Peyot
Ophthalmologist Reporting a Visually Impaired Patient
Women's Teshuva - Selling the Hametz on Behalf of a Non-Observant Jew
Ashkenazi Eating at the Home of Sephardic Jews on Pesah
Women's Teshuva - The Special Postpartum Halacha Regarding Taharat Hamishpaha
Serving as a Plumber for a Makom Avoda Zara
Women's Teshuva - Three Basic Rules to Help Keep Pesah Preparation Reasonable
Reciting a Bracha on the Megillah When Reading for Sephardic Women
Sephardic Practices Regarding Standing or Sitting for Brachot Before Megila
Women's Teshuva - Ask Halachic Authority before Assuming Something is Forbidden
Eating at Israeli Homes that rely on Rabbanut Regilah Kashrut Supervision
Women's Teshuva - Koshering Liver
Teaching the First Dafim of the Second Perek of Masechet Hagiga to a Wide Audience - is it Permitted
Women's Teshuva - Bracha on Megila
Women's Teshuva_Tearing Keriah at Har HaBayit
Why the Shulchan Aruch Has Such Authority in Sephardic Communities
A Sephardic Young Man Who Wants to Wear the New Techelet
New - Women's Sephardic Teshuva of the Week, Dairy Ceramic in a Meat Dishwasher
Reading Kriat Shema During Korbanot Without Tefillin
Minhagim Regarding Calling Men to the Torah - With or Without Names
Responding to a Shaarei Orah Congregant's Question about Uncovered Wine
May a Sephardic or Ashkenazic Jew ask a Yemenite Jew to Reheat Soup on Shabbat Day
Torah Reflections on the Premature Death of Demaryius Thomas
The Case of the Dropped Slurpee
Why Do Sephardic Jews Recite a Bracha on Lighting Nerot Hanuka in the Beit K'neset
How Long Must Nerot Hanuka Burn Each Night
Monetary Dispute, Company Sold Blood Donated by Patients Who Recovered from Covid19
Are Men Permitted to Take a Haircut in the Afternoon and Evening
Is Double-Knotting Child's Shoelaces on Shabbat Allowed
Setting a 3D Printer on Erev Shabbat to Run Through Shabbat
Incorporating Non-Jewish Tunes In Our Tefila
Using Israel’s Electricity Produced in Violation of Shabbat
Shaarei Orah Minhag to Recite Birkat Halevana on Motzaei Kippour
Ring Security Cameras and Shabbat
Entering Stairwells with Light Sensors on Shabbat
Shofar for People with Hearing Aids
Smart Homes and Shabbat - English
A Practical Primer on the Mitzvah of Halitza - English
Women Reciting Havdala for Their Husbands this Motzei Shabbat - English
Mourning the Destruction of the Bet Hamikdash at Weddings - Hebrew
Why Sephardic and Hassidic Jews Say L'Shem Yichud and Non Hassidic Ashkenazi Jews Do Not - English
Why Sephardic and Hassidic Jews Say L'Shem Yichud and Non Hassidic Ashkenazi Jews Do Not - Hebrew
OU Handling of Kashrut During Pandemic - English
Submitting Work to a Non-Observant Employee an Hour Before Shabbat - English
Submitting Work to a Non-Observant Employee an Hour Before Shabbat - Hebrew
An Evaluation of Rav Ovadia's Approach to Gelatin from Anonymous Kosher Source - English
An Evaluation of Rav Ovadia's Approach to Gelatin from Anonymous Kosher Source - Hebrew
The Special Otzar Bet Din for the Shemitta Year - English
The Special Otzar Bet Din for the Shemitta Year - Hebrew
Eating at Other People's Homes During the Shemitta Year - English
Eating at Other People's Homes During the Shemitta Year - Hebrew
Flowers in the Bet Keneset on Shavuot - English
Flowers in the Bet Keneset on Shavuot - Hebrew
May a Sephardic Jew Rely on the Heter Mechira - English
May a Sephardic Jew Rely on the Heter Mechira - Hebrew
When to Follow and When to Not Follow Parental Directives Regarding Marriage - English
When to Follow and When to Not Follow Parental Directives Regarding Marriage - Hebrew
When to Correct the Baal Korei - English
When to Correct the Baal Korei - Hebrew
May We Use Grape Juice for the Arba Kosot - English
May We Use Grape Juice for the Arba Kosot - Hebrew
Forgetting Haseba During the Seder - English
Forgetting Haseba During the Seder - Hebrew
The Earliest Time to Begin the Seder - English
The Earliest Time to Begin the Seder - Hebrew
Brachot on Megilla When Reading for Women_Sephardic and Ashkenazic Practice - English
Brachot on Megilla When Reading for Women_Sephardic and Ashkenazic practice - Hebrew
Benefitting from Melacha by Mistake on Shabbat - Sephardic Perspective - English
Benefitting from Melacha by Mistake on Shabbat - Sephardic Perspective - Hebrew
One Who Takes a Long Time to Recite the Silent Shemonah Esrei - English
One Who Takes a Long Time to Recite the Silent Shemonah Esrei - Hebrew
Non Jew Recording Friday Night Shabbat Meal - English
Non Jew Recording Friday Night Shabbat Meal - Hebrew
Timing of Minha, Arvit and Keriat Shema - English
Timing of Minha, Arvit and Keriat Shema - Hebrew
Women Reciting Borei Meorei Ha'esh at Havdala - English
Women Reciting Borei Meorei Ha'esh at Havdala - Hebrew
Glass Utensils Made in a Glassblowing Store and Tevilat Kelim - English
Glass Utensils Made in a Glassblowing Store and Tevilat Kelim - Hebrew
Placing Water in Urn on Erev Shabbat During a Blackout to Boil on Shabbat - English
Placing Water in Urn on Erev Shabbat During a Blackout to Boil on Shabbat - Hebrew
Food Cooked Before Shabbat Brought to Soldiers in Violation of Shabbat - English
Food Cooked Before Shabbat Brought to Soldiers in Violation of Shabbat - Hebrew
Making a Video Recording on Shabbat Authorizing Emergency Plumbing Work -English
Making a Video Recording on Shabbat Authorizing Emergency Plumbing Work -Hebrew
The Delayed Hanuka Lights - English
The Delayed Hanuka Lights - Hebrew
Minha Before Hanuka Lights - English
Minha Before Hanuka Lights - Hebrew
Al HaNissim or Kedusha - English
Al HaNissim or Kedusha - Hebrew
Drinking The Wine at a Brit Mila, Before or After Naming - English
Drinking The Wine at a Brit Mila, Before or After Naming - Hebrew
Is Dairy Permitted if Not Sure that Six Hours Have Passed - English
Is Dairy Permitted if Not Sure that Six Hours Have Passed - Hebrew
Safek If One Said Retzeh on Shabbat - Rav Ovadia Takes on the Mishna Berura - English
Safek If One Said Retzeh on Shabbat - Rav Ovadia Takes on the Mishna Berura - Hebrew
The Latest Time for Minha - English
The Latest Time for Minha - Hebrew
The Oleh Must Read Along with the Baal Koreh - English
The Oleh Must Read Along with the Baal Koreh - Hebrew
Serving as a Sandak More than Once - English
Serving as a Sandak More than Once - Hebrew
Use of Chemical Heating Bags on Shabbat - English
Use of Chemical Heating Bags on Shabbat - Hebrew
A Sephardic Jew who Forgot Ya'aleh Veyavo in Birkat Hamazon on Yom Tov - English
A Sephardic Jew who Forgot Ya'aleh Veyavo in Birkat Hamazon on Yom Tov - Hebrew
Which Comes First, Leshev Ba'Suka or Hamotzi - English
Which Comes First, Leshev Ba'Suka or Hamotzi - Hebrew
The Special Requirement for Ner Sheshavat for Motzei Kippour - English
The Special Requirement for Ner Sheshavat for Motzei Kippour - Hebrew
Quietly Saying the Hazara along with the Hazan - English
Quietly Saying the Hazara along with the Hazan - Hebrew
Blowing Shofar in the Silent Amida - English
Blowing Shofar in the Silent Amida - Hebrew
Paying Hazanim for their Work on the Yamim Nora'im - English
Paying Hazanim for their Work on the Yamim Nora'im - Hebrew
Security Cameras and Shabbat - English
Security Cameras and Shabbat - Hebrew
Inspecting Tefilin and Mezuzot in Elul - English
Inspecting Tefilin and Mezuzot in Elul - Hebrew
May We Recite the 13 Middot Without a Minyan - English
May We Recite the 13 Middot Without a Minyan - Hebrew
Selihot before Minha - English
Must One Who is Permitted to Eat on Tisha B'Av Limit Eating to Shiurim, Tiny Amounts - English
Must One Who is Permitted to Eat on Tisha B'Av Limit Eating to Shiurim, Tiny Amounts - Hebrew
Refraining From Eating Meat in the 9 Days - English
Refraining From Eating Meat in the 9 Days - Hebrew
Different Halachic practices in one Yeshiva or one Beit Knesset - English
Different Halachic practices in one Yeshiva or one Beit Knesset - Hebrew
Shehehiyanu from 17 Tamuz to 9 Av - English
Shehehiyanu from 17 Tamuz to 9 Av - Hebrew
Admitting a child from a not yet Shomer Shabbat family into the Yeshiva - English
Admitting a child from a not yet Shomer Shabbat family into the Yeshiva - Hebrew
Baby Wipes on Shabbat - English
Baby Wipes on Shabbat - Hebrew
May a Sephardic Jew Use Keilim an Ashkenazic Jew Immersed in a River - English
May a Sephardic Jew Use Keilim an Ashkenazic Jew Immersed in a River - Hebrew
Birchot HaTorah For Those Who Stayed Up All Night Shavuot - English
Birchot HaTorah For Those Who Stayed Up All Night Shavuot - Hebrew
Honoring an Older Sibling - English
Honoring an Older Sibling - Hebrew
Standards For Home Fruit and Vegetable Inspection For Insects - English
Standards For Home Fruit and Vegetable Inspection For Insects - Hebrew
Birkat HaGomel May Be Recited on Zoom - English
Birkat HaGomel May Be Recited On Zoom - Hebrew
Why Halacha Permits Ordering Hametz Online for Post-Pesah Delivery
When to Say Zecher L'Mikdash K'Hillel English
When to Say Zecher L'Mikdash K'Hillel Hebrew
Electricity on Yom Tov ENGLISH
Omitting Tahanun on Yom HaAtzmaut and Yom YerushalayimENGLISH
Omitting Tahanun on Yom HaAtzmaut and Yom YerushalayimHEBREW
Must the listener read along to Parashat Zachor ENGLISH
Must the listener read along to Parashat Zachor HEBREW
Calculating the Value of the Zecher L'Mahatzit HaShekel for This Year - $5.50 per person ENGLISH
Calculating the Value of the Zecher L'Mahatzit HaShekel for This Year - $5.50 per personHEBREW
Brachot when reciting Megillah for Women ENGLISH
Brachot when reciting Megillah for Women HEBREW
Adjusting the Time on a Non-Electronic Watch on Shabbat - ENGLISH
Adjusting the Time on a Non-Electronic Watch on Shabbat - HEBREW
An Avel Wearing Tefillin on the First Day of Avelut - ENGLISH
An Avel Wearing Tefillin on the First Day of Avelut - HEBREW
Are Women Obligated To Hear Parashat Zachor?
Ashkenazim Relying on Sephardic Approach to Glass on Pesah-ENGLISH
Ashkenazim Relying on Sephardic Approach to Glass on Pesah-HEBREW
Bracha Ahat Meiein Sheva this Friday Night-ENGLISH
Bracha Ahat Meiein Sheva this Friday Night-HEBREW
Bracha on Yom Tov Candle Lighting - ENGLISH
Bracha on Yom Tov Candle Lighting - HEBREW
Do We Mention the Hag in the Brachot of the Haftara of Shabbat Hol HaMoed - ENGLISH
Do We Mention the Hag in the Brachot of the Haftara of Shabbat Hol HaMoed - HEBREW
Eating Outside the Sukkah at Work - ENGLISH
Eating Outside the Sukkah at Work - HEBREW
Earliest Time to Pray Arvit Except Shabbat According to Sephardic Standards - ENGLISH
Earliest Time to Pray Arvit Except Shabbat According to Sephardic Standards - HEBREW
Earliest time for Tallit and Tefillin this week - ENGLISH
Earliest time for Tallit and Tefillin this week - HEBREW
Halachic Aspects of the Wedding of Steven and Shana Nunez - ENGLISH
Halachic Aspects of the Wedding of Steven and Shana Nunez - HEBREW
Halak Bet Yosef in Both Israel and the United States - ENGLISH
Halak Bet Yosef in Both Israel and the United States - HEBREW
Megila Reading Over a Microphone-ENGLISH
Megila Reading Over a Microphone-HEBREW
Mezuzot Included in the Sale of a House - ENGLISH
Mezuzot Included in the Sale of a House - HEBREW
Moving a Smartphone on Shabbat - Completing Micro-Circuits on Shabbat - ENGLISH
Moving a Smartphone on Shabbat - Completing Micro-Circuits on Shabbat - HEBREW
Opening Bottle Caps on Shabbat
Pregnant and Nursing Women Fasting on Tisha B'av this year - ENGLISH
Pregnant and Nursing Women Fasting on Tisha B'av - HEBREW
Rav Ovadia on Kol Isha - ENGLISH
Rav Ovadia on Kol Isha - HEBREW
Rav Ovadia on Listening to Doctor's Orders on Yom Kippur - ENGLISH
Rav Ovadia on Listening to Doctor's Orders on Yom Kippur - HEBREW
Respecting the Kedusha of the Beit Knesset-ENGLISH
Respecting the Kedusha of the Beit Knesset-HEBREW
Response to Deir Yassin - ENGLISH
Response to Deir Yassin - HEBREW
Richard Schulz Careful Torah Reading - ENGLISH
Richard Schulz Careful Torah Reading - HEBREW
Sephardic Eruv Building Standards-ENGLISH
Sephardic Eruv Building Standards-HEBREW
Sephardic Jews Practicing Omer Avelut from Rosh Hodesh Iyar to 3 Sivan-ENGLISH
Sephardic Jews Practicing Omer Avelut from Rosh Hodesh Iyar to 3 Sivan-HEBREW
Sephardic Stance Regarding Techelet - ENGLISH
Sephardic Stance Regarding Techelet - HEBREW
Sephardic View on the Great UGGS Shaatnez Controversy
Shiur and Tefillah Without a Kippah - ENGLISH
Shiur and Tefillah Without a Kippah - HEBREW
Synagogue Conformity - Must Uniform Behavior be Practiced at a Sephardic Bet Kenesset? - ENGLISH
Synagogue Conformity - Must Uniform Behavior be Practiced at a Sephardic Bet Kenesset? - HEBREW
The Debated Addition of the word "UMtatzliah" to Sheva Brachot - ENGLISH
The Debated Addition of the word "UMtatzliah" to Sheva Brachot - HEBREW
The Important Mitzvah of Tosefet Shabbat and Yom Tov - ENGLISH
The Important Mitzva of Tosefet Shabbat and Yom Tov - HEBREW
Torah and Haftara reading this coming Shabbat - Shabbat Hanuka - ENGLISH
Torah and Haftara reading this coming Shabbat - Shabbat Hanuka - HEBREW
Tu B'Av and Shaarei Orah - ENGLISH
Tu B'Av and Shaarei Orah - HEBREW
Which Nosah to pray for a mixed Minyan of Sepharadim, Ashkenazim and Temonim-ENGLISH
Which Nosah to pray for a mixed Minyan of Sepharadim, Ashkenazim and Temonim-HEBREW
Why We Skipped the Pre-Neilah Drasha This Year-ENGLISH
Why We Skipped the Pre-Neilah Drasha This Year - HEBREW
Fri, July 11 2025
15 Tamuz 5785
Today's Calendar
| Shaharit : 6:05am |
| Shaharit 2 (Hodu) : 7:45am |
| Shir HaShirim : 6:50pm |
| Minha : 7:00pm |
| Candle Lighting : 8:11pm |
This week's Torah portion is Parashat Balak
| Shabbat, Jul 12 |
Candle Lighting
| Friday, Jul 11, 8:11pm |
Havdala
| Motzei Shabbat, Jul 12, 9:08pm |
Fast of Tamuz
| Sunday, Jul 13 |
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