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Halachot of Rosh Hashana

HaRav Yishai Natan - Hilchot Rosh Hashanah Understanding … Read More

Nitzavim/VaYelech – Standing for Kaddish and Torah Reading

HaRav Yishai Natan - The pasuk says at the beginning of Parashat … Read More

Hilchot Hagba’ah

HaRav Yishai Natan - The Source for Hagba’ah The pasuk in … Read More

Business Halacha

Who Gets the Hot Poppers?

September 15, 2026 By rdgrossman@thehalachacenter.org

HaRav Yishai Natan - My tenth-grade classmates and I were sitting … Read More

Basement Tenant Bar Metzra

September 9, 2026 By rdgrossman@thehalachacenter.org

HaRav Yishai Natan - I rent a two-bedroom basement apartment in … Read More

EGGS WITH A SIDE OF RIBBIT

September 2, 2026 By rdgrossman@thehalachacenter.org

HaRav Yishai Natan - Back when we had the egg shortage, eggs were … Read More

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Q&A: Lip Service Mehillah

HaRav Yishai Natan - If I ask someone for mehillah, and he says he forgives me, but I know he is just saying it because he does not want to be embarrassed or look mean by not forgiving me, is that considered a … [Read More...]

Q&A: MEAL ON EREV SHABBAT AND YOM TOV

Question Are you allowed to eat a se’udah (meal) on erev Shabbat or erev Yom Tov? When is the right time to eat se’udah shlishit when Shabbat falls on the first day of Yom Tov? Answer The Gemara in Gittin … [Read More...]

Q&A – TASHLICH ON SHABBAT

Question Do we say Tashlich when the first day of Rosh Hashana falls out on Shabbat? Answer The Rema (Orach Haim 583:2) writes of the minhag of Tashlich is going to a river and reciting the pesukim of … [Read More...]

Q&A – Keriat Shema al HaMita, Should I say Shem Hashem in the beracha of Hamapil?

HaRav Netanel Levihim - The Gemara, Berachot 4b, establishes that reciting Keriat Shema al HaMita — the first paragraph of Shema upon going to bed — is a mitzvah. The Shulhan Aruch, OH 239:1, rules that one … [Read More...]

Our Hachamim

The “Sdei Hemed”: Ribbi Hayim Hizkiyahu MiDini

One of the most prominent addresses in rabbinic literature towards the end of the nineteenth century, was in the quaint, unassuming town of Karaso-Bazar (Bilohirsk) in the Crimean Peninsula. The postman of this … [Read More...]

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