Rephael Cattan

  The current series, which will cover seudos Shabbos and fasting on Shabbos, is available for sponsorship. Please contact Rabbi Reingold for more information.   We are continuing in siman 4, discussing fasting on Shabbos. We learned that the Chayei Adam writes that a person who is not affected or scared by their bad dream […]

  The current series, which will cover seudos Shabbos and fasting on Shabbos, is available for sponsorship. Please contact Rabbi Reingold for more information.   We are continuing in sman 4, discussing the halachos of a taanis chalom. We learned that if a person has a bad dream, and it did not involve something they

 The current series, which will cover seudos Shabbos and fasting on Shabbos, is available for sponsorship. Please contact Rabbi Reingold for more information  We are beginning siman 4. The Chayei Adam writes that a person is not allowed to fast on Shabbos. This applies in two ways, both to fasting for the entire day and

  The current series, which will cover seudos Shabbos and fasting on Shabbos, is available for sponsorship. Please contact Rabbi Reingold for more information.   We are continuing in siman 3, where the Chayei Adam is discussing the appropriate time for seudah shlishis. Today, we will clarify how shkia and bein hashmashos apply to seudah

The current series, which will cover seudos Shabbos and fasting on Shabbos, is available for sponsorship. Please contact Rabbi Reingold for more information. We are continuing in siman 3, where the Chayei Adam is discussing the halachos of seudah shlishis. The Chayei Adam writes that one who is unable to eat bread at seudah shlishis,

The current series, which will cover seudos Shabbos and fasting on Shabbos, is available for sponsorship. Please contact Rabbi Reingold for more information. We are continuing siman 3, discussing the halachos of seudah shlishis, the Chayei Adam writes that preferably, one should fulfill their chiyuv of seudah shlishis after mincha. We have learned that Chazal

The current series, which will cover seudos Shabbos and fasting on Shabbos, is available for sponsorship. Please contact Rabbi Reingold for more information. We are continuing siman 3, discussing the halachos of seudah shlishis, also commonly known as shalosh seudos. The Chayei Adam writes that the time for seudah shlishis is after chatzos, and if

 The current series, which will cover seudos Shabbos and fasting on Shabbos, is available for sponsorship. Please contact Rabbi Reingold for more information. We are beginning siman 3. The Chayei Adam writes that the definition of a seudah includes bread, and therefore one is chayav to eat bread at all three seudos. Although, possibly one

  The current series, which will cover seudos Shabbos and fasting on Shabbos, is available for sponsorship. Please contact Rabbi Reingold for more information.   We are continuing in siman 2, discussing the halachos of lechem mishneh. The Chayei Adam writes that when a person is about to be motzi others in a bracha, he

 The current series, which will cover seudos Shabbos and fasting on Shabbos, is available for sponsorship. Please contact Rabbi Reingold for more information.  We are continuing in siman 2, discussing the halachos of lechem mishneh. We learned about the concept of cutting through both challos at each seudah, to fulfill the Zohar’s requirement of 12

  The current series, which will cover seudos Shabbos and fasting on Shabbos, is available for sponsorship. Please contact Rabbi Reingold for more information. We have begun Klal 7, which discusses the seudos of Shabbos, and are beginning siman 2. The Chayei Adam writes that every time a person makes a seudah on Shabbos, they

The current series, which will cover seudos Shabbos and fasting on Shabbos, is available for sponsorship. Please contact Rabbi Reingold for more information.   We are beginning Klal 7, which discusses the seudos of Shabbos and when a person would be allowed to fast on Shabbos (such as a taanis chalom). These halachos are based

  The upcoming series, which will cover seudos Shabbos and fasting on Shabbos, is available for sponsorship. Please contact Rabbi Reingold for more information.   We have finished the simanim of the Chayei Adam regarding kiddush, and we are clarifying  additional points not mentioned in the Chayei Adam. We left off discussing the chiyuv chinuch

  We have finished the simanim of the Chayei Adam regarding kiddush, and we are clarifying  additional points not mentioned in the Chayei Adam.    If a person hears kiddush from someone who pronounces the words differently from them, such as an ashkenazi to a sephardi, chassidish to litvish, etc., multiple poskim hold they are

  The current series, which will cover seudos Shabbos and fasting on Shabbos, is available for sponsorship. Please contact Rabbi Reingold for more information.   We are beginning Klal 7, which discusses the seudos of Shabbos and when a person would be allowed to fast on Shabbos (such as a taanis chalom). These halachos are

  We have finished the simanim of the Chayei Adam regarding kiddush, and we are clarifying  additional points not mentioned in the Chayei Adam. Today, we will discuss whether there is a need to make a bracha achrona over the kiddush wine for someone who had a revi’is.    The minhag is to assume it

  We have finished the simanim of the Chayei Adam regarding kiddush, and we will now clarify  additional points not mentioned in the Chayei Adam. Today, we will discuss the pesukim added to kiddush.    The Mishnah Berurah raises the problem that we have a halacha that kol pasuk d’lo paskei moshe, anan lo paskinan,

  We have finished the simanim of the Chayei Adam regarding kiddush, and we will now clarify  additional points not mentioned in the Chayei Adam. Yesterday, we mentioned that a person can be yotzei kiddush even without having drunk anything themselves, as long as there was someone who drank a melo lugmav of the kos.

  We have finished the simanim of the Chayei Adam regarding kiddush, and we will now clarify  additional points not mentioned in the Chayei Adam. We began discussing a question which occurred over Sukkos, where a person made kiddush, said the bracha on the fire, forgot to recite the bracha of havdalah, and then recited

  We have finished the simanim of the Chayei Adam regarding kiddush, and we will now clarify  additional points not mentioned in the Chayei Adam. We learned yesterday about being yotzei through shomeah k’oneh, and left off discussing a situation in which a person is not able to be yotzei with the mekadeish, such as