Rephael Cattan

We are continuing in siman 5, where we learned the idea that if the community accepts Shabbos early, it is binding on all individuals in that community. We also learned Rav Moshe’s caveat that it only applies if the community accepted Shabbos early for the purpose of the mitzvah, and not just for convenience. The […]

  We are beginning siman 4. The Chayei Adam writes that if one davens maariv early on Friday night, they accept Shabbos through their davening. They can not do melacha, even if they explicitly stipulate that they do not want to accept Shabbos through their davening. The Chayei Adam is pointing out that the act

We are about to begin siman 4, where the Chayei Adam will discuss the different levels of accepting Shabbos. We will begin with an introduction to understand the basis for the Chayei Adam, and how we derive there could be different levels of acceptance.    There is a seeming contradiction in the Shulchan Aruch. In

We are continuing in siman 2. We will not read the remainder of the siman inside, but essentially the Chayei Adam strongly admonishes people who continue to do melacha until late on erev Shabbos. He continues his admonishment in siman 3 as well.   We need to clarify a question. We learned that one can

We are beginning siman 2, where the Chayei Adam discusses what a person needs to do in order to accept Shabbos. We learned that according to the Chayei Adam, the minimal amount of tosefes Shabbos is accepted automatically. The Chayei Adam writes that this amount of time is 30 minutes. Today, we will clarify how

  We are beginning siman 2, where the Chayei Adam discusses what a person needs to do in order to accept Shabbos. The question will depend on whether tosefes Shabbos is automatically added to Shabbos, or whether one must intentionally add it on. Within the possibility that one must intentionally accept tosefes Shabbos, we will

We are continuing in siman 1. We left off with the Chayei Adam writing that one should minimally accept Shabbos 30 minutes before nightfall, because the combination of bein hashmashos, tosefes Shabbos, and the impercision time equal to about 30 minutes. In the Piskei Mishnah Berurah, in number 3, they bring that the Mishnah Berurah

We are continuing in siman 1. The Chayei Adam writes that there is a mitzvah of tosefes Shabbos both on erev Shabbos and motzei Shabbos.  The Chayei Adam follows the majority opinion of the rishonim that tosefes Shabbos is deoraysa. He writes that the source is the pasuk regarding Yom Kippur which states be’tisha lachodesh

We are continuing in siman 1. We left off with a contradiction in the Chayei Adam: on the one hand, he writes that the earliest one can accept Shabbos is plag (1 ¼ hours before nightfall); on the other hand, he praises one who accepts Shabbos two hours before nightfall.    One way to resolve

 We are beginning Klal 5, siman 1. The Chayei Adam writes that one should be careful to accept Shabbos early. One can accept Shabbos from plag hamincha, which is 1 1/4th hour before nighttime. The Chayei Adam is following the opinion that plag is calculated based on nightfall. It is the approach of the Shulchan

 We will be starting the Halachos of hadlakas neiros this week, and it will take approximately 35-40 shiurim. Sponsorship is available for the whole series or individual shiurim. All sponsorships benefit Kollel Zichron Amram. We are continuing in siman 4, discussing sechiras reshus on a boat. We learned that when a sole owner of a

 We are beginning siman 3 (we will skip siman 2). Until now, we have discussed embarking on a voyage earlier in the week when it means remaining on a boat over Shabbos. We also learned that embarking on Friday is muttar if it is for the purpose of a mitzvah (S0102). Today, we will discuss

 We are continuing in siman 1, and left off discussing the modern equivalents for the shiurim given for the 2000 amos of the techum. We learned that there are three primary opinions as to how to calculate an amah. The opinion of Rav Avraham Chaim Naeh ztl is that an amah is rounded to 18

 We are continuing in siman 1, discussing the ideas introduced by the Chayei Adam regarding techum. The third point we mentioned is that techum does not apply on a Torah level when traveling on a river. The fourth point was that there is a safeik whether techum applies 10 tefachim above ground, and that we

  We are continuing in siman 1. We will not learn this part of the siman inside, but will touch on the points introduced by the Chayei Adam and clarify them. The main idea behind learning this Klal is that some of the ideas introduced have relevance beyond the Klal itself, so we will go

  We are beginning Klal 4, which discusses the issue of a person boarding a boat when they will end up on the boat over Shabbos. Although the practical contemporary applications of these halachos are uncommon, since the rishonim give multiple explanations of these halachos, it has many practical applications.   In Maseches Shabbos, 19a,

  We have finished siman 26, and have been discussing the use of machinery on Shabbos. We left off discussing a case of a millstone and the placement of grain into the hopper (the feeder to the millstone) on Shabbos. Today, we will discuss the issur for a Jew to place grain into the hopper,