D'var Halacha

  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 15. The Chayei Adam writes that if one is presented with a kos shel bracha, they must drink from it in a significant way. The Chayei

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 14, where the Chayei Adam will discuss a person who made kiddush and spoke before drinking. The Chayei Adam writes that if a person made kiddush and

  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 continuing in siman 13, where the Chayei Adam now discusses the halachos of covering the bread. The Chayei Adam writes that one must cover the bread, both during

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 continuing in siman 13, and the Chayei Adam will discuss the halachos of the kos for birchas hamazon. These halachos are brought in Shulchan Aruch, in siman 183, and are

  The current series, which will cover Maariv on Friday night and Kiddush, is available for sponsorship. Please contact Rabbi Reingold for more information.   We have finished siman 13, where the Chayei Adam discusses the halachos of the kos. Today, we will discuss the permissibility of using plastic cups for kiddush.    Rav Moshe

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 continuing in siman 13, where we have learned the halachos regarding the kos. Today, we will discuss the recitation of kiddush.   The Chayei Adam writes that one may

  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 13. The Chayei Adam begins with some of the halachos of the kos itself. The Gemara says that the kos should be washed inside and outside.

  The current series, which will cover Maariv on Friday night and Kiddush, is available for sponsorship. Please contact Rabbi Reingold for more information.   We have finished siman 12, where the Chayei Adam writes that he holds that everyone at the seudah should wash before kiddush, besides for the person making kiddush. We learned

  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 12, where the Chayei Adam discusses the proper order of kiddush. The Chayei Adam writes that kiddush should be b’makom seudah, as close as possible both

  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 10. The Chayei Adam writes that if a person is so poor that if they spend money on wine, they will not have any more money

  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 continuing in siman 9, discussing the concept of chamer medina. The Shulchan Aruch, in siman 272:9, brings down an opinion that one cannot use chamer medina for kiddush.

 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 continuing in siman 7, where the Chayei Adam discusses the halachos of gilui. The Chayei Adam wrote that one should be makpid not to use wine for kiddush which has

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 7. The Chayei Adam writes that Chazal enacted that the mitzvah of kiddush should be fulfilled through wine. Next, he writes that raisin wine is considered wine. Although

  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 continuing in siman 6, discussing the idea that while one can normally be motzi others, it does not apply to birchas hanehenin. That being said, it does apply

 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 6. Yesterday, we learned that when one person is being motzi someone else, both individuals must have the same level of chiyuv towards that mitzvah. The way one

  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 continuing in siman 5. We learned that women are chayav in kiddush mideoraysa, and that a katan cannot be motzi an adult woman (nor man). We left off

  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 5. The Chayei Adam writes that women are chayav in kiddush mideoraysa, just like men. This is a chiddush, because kiddush is a mitzvas asei shehazman