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Shabbat Chazon

Shabbat Chazon / שבת חזון Shabbat Chazon (“Sabbath [of] vision” שבת חזון) takes its name from the Haftarah that is read on the Shabbat immediately prior to the mournful fast of Tisha B’Av, from the words of rebuke and doom coming from Isaiah in the Book of Isaiah 1:1-27. It is also referred to as…

Daf Notes

The Mishna had stated: This is the general rule: A mitzvah that must be performed during the night may be performed the entire night. The Gemora asks: What is the Mishna coming to include? The Gemora answers: The rule is adding the mitzvah of eating the korban Pesach and it is not following the opinion…

Daf Notes

Everyone is eligible to read the Megillah (on Purim), except for a deaf person, a deranged person and a minor. Rabbi Yehudah maintains that a minor is eligible to read the Megillah. The Gemora assumes that one who hears the Megillah from a deaf person does not fulfill his obligation at all – even…

Ramchal

Ch. 4: “Mans Standing in This World, and The Specific Ways Available to Him” Paragraph 3 As to our surroundings and circumstances, they and everything that goes on in them is physical and murky, too. Yet were forced by our makeup to partake in all that; after all, we have to eat and drink, earn…

Tishah B’Av Reading

Weekly Download: Tishah B’Av Reading POSTED ON JULY 31, 2014 BY MIRIAMP / Artscroll Blog With Tishah B’Av approaching, we want to help our readers prepare to have a meaningful fast. This week we are sharing two free downloads that will make your Tishah B’Av more meaningful. First, a portion of the Kinnos: The destruction of the…

To the Jew 1st

And for this reason Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach is the Metavekh of a Brit Chadasha in order that those who are HaKeru’im (the Called ones) may receive the nachalat olam (eternal inheritance) of the Havtachah (Promise), because a mavet, a kapparat hapeysha’im has taken place that gives them pedut (ransom for redemption, Geulah) from peysha’im (transgressions,…

Lashon Hara

Lashon Hara I would like to bring attention to the issue of our speech. It seems there are cases where we openly attack other believers in the Messiah. Be they called Christians, Messianic Jews, Messianic Believers, Believers, we should not make disparaging comments about what they are called, we should not take pot shots as…

Pirkei Avos

The World’s Fallen State By Rabbi Dovid Rosenfeld As I mentioned two weeks ago, much of Chapter 5 of Pirkei Avos contains lists. Mishna 1 discussed the Ten Utterances with which G-d created the universe. This mishna continues with the earliest generations of man. We know very little of the people of the antediluvian era….

Maimonides on Life

The Power of the Human Eye, Part II Maimonides, Laws of De’os – Chapter 2, Law 7(b) “…Neither should a person be overly greedy (lit., ‘one of a wide soul’), obsessed with the pursuit of riches, nor one lazy and neglectful of work. Rather he should be one with a good eye, [of] little work…

Laws Pertaining to Tisha Be’av

There are five categories of abstinence which must be observed on Tisha Be’av: Eating and drinking, washing one’s self, rubbing one’s body with oils or lotions, wearing leather shoes, and marital relations. Our Sages also prohibited learning Torah on Tisha Be’av, for the words of Torah gladden the heart. The only portions of Torah that…

Daf Yomi Digest

Megilla 20 Megilla 21 Megilla 22 Daf Yomi Digest is compiled by members of the Ruben Shas Kollel, edited by Rabbi Ben-Zion Rand. Halachah Highlights is not intended to be relied upon for halacha l’maase. It is intended for interest and information. For actual psak consult your local rav.

Daf Yomi audio shiurim

The following Daf Yomi audio shiurim were just uploaded to realcleardaf.com: Sunday, August 3, 2014: Megillah 23 Shabbos, August 2, 2014: Megillah 22 image of daf Friday, August 1, 2014: Megillah 21 image of daf Thursday, July 31, 2014: Megillah 20 image of daf