Shiurim
Rabbi Jachter's Audio Shiurim
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
Wed, June 7 2023
18 Sivan 5783
Today's Calendar
| Shaharit : 6:05am |
| Minha/Arvit : 8:05pm |
This week's Torah portion is Parashat Beha'alotecha
| Shabbat, Jun 10 |
Candle Lighting
| Friday, Jun 9, 8:09pm |
Havdala
| Motzei Shabbat, Jun 10, 9:04pm |
Shabbat Mevarchim
| Shabbat, Jun 17 |