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 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

  We have finished the simanim of the Chayei Adam regarding kiddush, and we will now clarify  additional points not mentioned in the Chayei Adam.    The Chayei Adam does not clarify whether it is preferable to be yotzei kiddush through shomeah k’oneh or to make kiddush oneself.    The sefer Olas Shabbos, an early

 We are skipping siman 27, which discusses a person who does not have wine, bread or fruits for kiddush. Baruch Hashem, we do not have this challenge.  In siman 28, the Chayei Adam writes that the Gemara discusses making kiddush in shul. People traveling would often sleep and eat in the shul over Shabbos (or,

We are beginning siman 26, where the Chayei Adam discusses one who forgets to make kiddush. The Chayei Adam begins with a case of a person who forgot to make kiddush, washed, made the bracha for hamotzi, and then remembered they did not make kiddush–before they ate from the hamotzi. We know that a person

We are beginning siman 23. The Chayei Adam writes that if Shimon is in one house, and Reuvein is in another house, and Shimon hears Reuvein make kiddush, if Reuvein has in mind to be motzi Shimon, Reuvein is yotzei even though they will be eating separate meals. The Mishnah Berurah adds that even though

We are beginning siman 22, discussing the definition of “seudah” as it pertains to being yotzei kiddush b’mokom seudah. We mentioned the approach of Rav Moshe regarding people who eat by a kiddush on Pesach without eating mezonos or wine. Rav Moshe understands that there are two points relevant to kiddush b’mokom seudah. One is

  The current series, which will cover Maariv on Friday night and Kiddush, is available for sponsorship. Please contact Rabbi Reingold for more information.   We are beginning siman 22, where the Chayei Adam is discussing kiddush b’mokom seudah. Today, we will discuss the definition of a “seudah”.  The Gra holds that a meal means