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 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

  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 3, where the Chayei Adam continues discussing davening maariv before tzeis hakochavim on Friday night. We have learned that people who normally daven maariv after tzeis

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 2, where the Chayei Adam is discussing davening maariv before tzeis hakochavim on Friday night. The Chayei Adam began by referencing Klal 34, which is the general

 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 1, where the Chayei Adam is discussing davening maariv before tzeis hakochavim on Friday night. Yesterday, we learned that although one is allowed to daven early (after

 Today’s shiur is sponsored l’ilui nishmas Menachem Yitzchak ben R’ Moshe Yehuda Leib, Manny Sadwin zl, who considered Friday night Kiddush extremely important and special, and was careful with all of its halachos. May the learning be an ilui for his neshama.   The current series, which will cover Maariv on Friday night and Kiddush,

We would like to thank our sponsor for this series, who sponsored a total of 41 shiurim on the topic of tosefes Shabbos and hadlakas neiros. May this zechus of limmud HaTorah and tzedakah help those who need shidduchim , and stand as a zechus for him for sponsoring!!  The next series, on the halachos

We would like to thank our sponsor for this series, who sponsored a total of 41 shiurim on the topic of tosefes Shabbos and hadlakas neiros. May this zechus of limmud HaTorah and tzedakah help those who need shidduchim , and stand as a zechus for him for sponsoring!!  The next series, on the halachos

We would like to thank our sponsor for this series, who sponsored a total of 41 shiurim on the topic of tosefes Shabbos and hadlakas neiros. May this zechus of limmud HaTorah and tzedakah help those who need shidduchim , and stand as a zechus for him for sponsoring!!  The next series, on the halachos

We are continuing in siman 21, where we learned that one needs to light the majority of the available wick. This is known as lighting rov hayotzei, the majority of the wick which protrudes above the oil. This halacha applies to Chanukah as well. When one lights the neiros on Chanukah, they should not move