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Shulchan Aruch

Chapter 28 – Moving Things From One Domain to Another on the Sabbath A region at least four by four handsbreadths in horizontal size and at least ten handsbreadths high (see 345:18) that is surrounded by partitions or adjacent regions having a combined height difference (from it) of at least ten handsbreadths (see 345:16;362:2;363:36) is…

Educating Children Regarding the Mitzvah of Prayer

Question: Is there a halachic requirement for children to pray three times a day, namely, Shacharit, Mincha, and Arvit? Similarly, is it correct to bring children to the synagogue during the High Holidays? Answer: The Mishnah (Berachot 20b) tells us: “Women, slaves, and children are obligated to pray.” Rashi explains that since the purpose…

Real Clear Daf Latest Shiurim

The following Daf Yomi audio shiurim were just uploaded to realcleardaf.com: Sunday, September 14, 2014: Chagigah 6 image of daf Shabbos, September 13, 2014: Chagigah 5 image of daf Friday, September 12, 2014: Chagigah 4 image of daf Thursday, September 11, 2014: Chagigah 3 image of daf

Daf Notes Chagigah Daf 3

Daf Notes is currently being dedicated to the neshamah of Tzvi Gershon Ben Yoel (Harvey Felsen) o”h May the studying of the Daf Notes be a zechus for his neshamah and may his soul find peace in Gan Eden and be bound up in the Bond of life. The Gemora above inferred from a…

KI TAVO THIRD READING

Deuteronomy 26: 16-19 Moses encourages the Jewish people to uphold their covenant with G-d that was forged at the Giving of the Torah on Mount Sinai. In return for keeping the covenant, G-d would hold them especially dear, above His love for all other people. What it means to be “set apart”…

Well Clarified In 70 languages

Hashem has Moshe make an unusual demand of the people: “2 It shall be on the day that you cross the Jordan to the Land that Hashem, your G-d, gives you, you shall set up great stones and you shall cover them with plaster. 3 You shall write on them all the words of this…

Why uphold Torah?

OJB Devarim 27 |26| Arur be he that confirmeth not divrei haTorah hazot by doing them. And kol HaAm shall say, Omein. This last curse, which condemns any and every transgression of the divine Law, shows that the individual cases mentioned in the preceding curses are only examples, and for the most part such as…

Chagigah 2a

Chagigah 2a 1 Mishnah: All are obligated in “the appearing” [i.e. making a pilgrimage on the major holidays to the Temple], except a deaf man, a fool, and a child, and one of doubtful sex, and one of double sex, and women, and slaves who are not freed, the lame man, and the blind man,…

Daf Notes Chagigah Daf 2

“For You Remember All That Is Forgotten”

Excerpts From the Teachings of Maran Rabbeinu zt”l During the Month of Elul During the Mussaf prayer of Rosh Hashanah we recite, “For You remember all that is forgotten.” The sages of the Mussar Movement explain that this refers to one an individual who has sinned and remembers his sin all of his life…

Times for Torah Study

Establishing Times for Torah Study During the Days of Selichot We have already mentioned in previous Halachot the words of the great Acharonim as well as Maran Rabbeinu Ovadia Yosef zt”l that the main goal for us during the month of Elul and the Ten Days of Repentance in our generation is to repent for…

Sfas Emes – Parshas Ki Savo

Parshas Ki Savo By Nosson Chaim Leff Ki Savo, 5631 The Sfas Emes takes as his initial text the following pasuk (Devarim, 26:16): “Ha’yom ha’zeh HaShem Eloke’cha metza’vecha la’asos es ha’chukim ha’eileh …” (“Today, HaShem, your G-d, commands you to do these decrees …”). This pasuk leads the Sfas Emes to draw our attention to…