Daily Halacha

Daily halacha is given after Shacharit every morning by R’ Yisraeli (Usually around 7:40 AM)

Recorded Classes:

• 2019 Halachot Tefilah
• 2019 Halachot Pesach Shiur
• when to correct the reader of the megilah
• Going to an Ashkenazi minyan for parshat zachor
• davening in the middle of the seudah
• whether you need to make a beracha on food after kdei ichul (time to digest)
• extra beracha for guests
• hefesk between beracha
• Purim katan and Adar aleph
• whether one needs to say a new beracha after going somewhere and coming back
• bracha on ice cream and desserts after the meal
• drinking wine during the meal
• does bracha of hamotzi covers drinks?
• the power of a broken heart opens the gates of tefila
• davening in a bet knesset
• burning left over wick and oil from Hanukkah
• Hilchot Chanukah prohibition before lighting
• Hilchot Chanukah, when is the proper time to light the candles
• halacha of working with Talmud Torah
• Talmud Torah after shacharit
• proper pronunciation of shema
• having a set time for Torah learning
• The halacha of eating a proper breakfast
• davening in a “prayer” room in various airports or hospitals
• converting a former house of worship to a bet knesset
• what to do with book covers and Torah covers that get old
• whether Isha nidda can come to bet knesset
• mesilat yesharim Oct 18 2018
• wearing shoes in kenisa
• shaving in the bet knesset
• whether potato flakes need to be bishul Yisrael
• bringing weapons to shul
• minhag of kapparot
• The process of teshuvah
• the uniqueness of the 10 days of teshuvah
• Fasting and selichot on erev Rosh Hashanah
• how to build the women’s section of the bet knesset
• whether you need a mezuzah on the bet knesset
• building a house that is taller than the bet knesset
• structure of selichot
• halachot of selichot
• The king in the field – talking advantage of the king in the field
• messilat yesharim Aug 14 2018
• saying bircat Torah before starting selichot
• adding berachot to the Torah reading
• The laws of when one may leave kenisa while the sefer Torah is out of the Aron Kodesh
• Orchot tzadikim, shaare sinat. August 8, 2018
• most important mitzvah of kriyat sefer Torah
• mesilat yesharim 3rd chapter. August 4, 2018
• halachot kriya sefer Torah
• halachot kriya sefer Torah
• the requirement to have three people near the bima when reading Torah
• tu b’av
• the takanah of having Torah reading on Monday, Thursday and shabbat mincha
• Orchot tzadikim July 24 2018
• special greetings for Tisha b av and exceptions to sitting in the ground
• the prohibition of wearing leather shoes on Tisha b av
• 5 things one should not do on Tisha b av
• pushing off certain activities until after 9 b’ av
• Orchot tzadikim shaare ahvah July 10 2018
• what to do if you are in a Sephardic shul but you are an Ashkenazi or vice versa during the three weeks
• Exceptions to the rule of not listening to music or saying shechiaynu during the three weeks
• Sephardic customs of the three weeks (listening to music and saying shechiaynu)
• whether a shliach tzibbur can say kaddish when they still have their parents.
• no obligation to say tachanun When having a brit
• Orchot tzadikim 6.12.18
• Can kohanim be surgeons?
• Orchot tzadikim shaar ahava 6.7.18
• when a Kohen is invalidated to duchan
• Different minhagim for Kohen to position hands during bircat kohanim
• bircat kohanim, a conduit for bracha
• the mitzvah of listening to bircat kohanim
• how to answer when there are no Cohanim in the shul.
• orchot tzadikim being in awe of hashem
• kashering the countertop for Passover
• orchot tzadikim 4/13/18 shaare simcha
• getting utensils and vessels kosher for Passover
• the importance of saying kadish vs. doing other mitzvot
• Agaalat kelim for pesach
• reason for mishloach manot
• taking 3 steps back after the amidah
• is there a problem of meat and milk when someone is in a hospital and is being injected or has a feeding tube.
• is it ok to partner with a person who will be selling a mixture of meat and cheese
• orchot tzadikim shaare anavah 1.15.18
• What to do when you add something that wasn’t required to tefilah?
• using knives with sharp tasting objects.
• the intricacies of tefilah tashlumim
• Why it’s important but not necessary to have 3 knifes for a kosher kitchen
• rambam hilchot dehot 3
• asarah b tevet
• under what circumstances are you permitted to Daven again if you missed a tefilah
• What happens when you use a meat spoon in a hot milk cup.
• hilchot tefilah tashlumim
• Women are not obligated for tefilah musaf
• baking something parve in meat or milk oven
• using a milchich knife on a meat dish
• saying barchi nafshi before arvit during Rosh chodesh
• Whether you have fulfilled your obligation to light Chanukah candles if the lights go out before 30 minutes
• Whether one should be lighting Hanukkah candles with or without a beracha at weddings and large gatherings.
• Can you heat up suvganiot on Shabbat
• whether you need a separate sponge or not when cleaning milk and meat utensils pots and pans
• What to do if you don’t remember whether or not you said an addition to the amidah that is needed?
• Switching to barech alenu on night of December 4th
• hilchot of training children how to daven
• when a woman forgets to add a necessary part of a tefilah
• eating milk and fish, an error or is it also dangerous?
• Is tefilah a time bound mitzvah from the Torah and how often do ladies have to daven?
• What to do if someone says kadish or kedusha while you are in the middle of amidah
• what to do in between eating fish and meat?
• Waiting before davening two amidahs back to back.
• the prohibition of eating fish and meat together
• things that you can pause or interrupt tefilah for
• what to do if your kid is crying in between amidah?
• What happens when milk food touches meat foods.
• stepping out of the amidah
• exception to rule of walking in front of a person who is davening. When there is a wall in between
• can a person be paid to deliver things that are forbidden from benefit.
• using separate dishes and utensils for meat and milk
• exception to rule of waiting 6 hours between meat and milk
• Being careful where you walk when someone around you is praying
• saying amidah in a different language
• whether one should be able to hear himself when praying amidah
• hugging and kissing your young children in a synagogue
• When is it considered the end of the seudah for counting the six hours.
• picking up fallen sefraim or getting a different siddur during the middle of tefilah
• holding something in your hand while davening
• eating a parve dish cooked in dairy pots
• proper position for davening, taking 3 steps back and forward during amida
• Proper way to stand for davening
• Audio/ Whether one needs to wait 6 hours after eating a parve dish from a meat pot.
• Audio/ having a milk bottle on a table with meat / waiting 6 hours between eating meat and then milk
• what size object needs to separate the table when two people are sharing a table and one is eating milk whole the other is having meat.
• not starting tefilah if you are in a situation where you may not have kavanah
• what to do if you forget to make eruv tavshelin. Making sure to enter the chag hungry. And the biblical mitzvah of eating bread in the sukkah
• Eruv Tavshelin for the three day Yom tov
• guarding your eyes during the festival’s of Sukkot and pessah
• stringencies of the ten days of repentance- pat akum
• why the Torah is also called a shira.
• fasting on erev Rosh ha Shanna
• how and when to do hatarat nedarim
• additional laws of mourning on the tenth of av
• guarding your eyes – the incident with midianites in the desert.
• when is OK to say shehechiyanu during the three weeks
• saying shechianu during the three weeks.
• not being careful in guarding your eyes could be as bad as many of the worst things.
• the importance of not testing yourself in guarding your eyes.
• if pregnant women or women who are nursing are supposed to fast during the minor fasts
• guarding your eyes during prayer.
• The importance of gaurding your eyes
• When a person should not leave a minyan.
• Praying at the same time as the tzibbur if you cannot make it to synagogue
• whether davening in a synagogue has benefits outside a minyan.
• Guarding your eyes part 4
• Audio guard you eyes
• laws of shmirat ehnaim
• whether you can count omer for someone else, or does everyone have to say it for themselves
• halachot of chol ha moed
• the fast of the first born on erev pessach
• what type of wine is required for Passover?
• using cosmetics, deodorants and the like that contain alcohol on pessah.
• can chametz be nullified in a mixture of less than 1/60th
• if a person may change their minhag for Passover.
• using a pot that had rice cooked in it on Pessach to serve Ashkenazim guests
• details of the blessings on the trees in the month of Nissan
• the laws of blessings on the trees.
• when to go to synagogue with talit and tefilin already on you
• the effects of traveling on praying with a minyan
• whether one needs to interrupt learning for prayer
• having a set location when praying
• the reward of being one of the first ten to synagogue.
• Audio?/ the special mitzvah of walking to shul
• whether one can start amida prior to the tzibbur
• whether it is tefila b’tzibur when you daven one prayer and the minyan is davening another
• When can you start and still be considered as part of the tzibbur?
• when you need 10 people to have tefila b’zibur
• The reasons why praying with a minyan is preferred method of prayer and is actually a requirement
• if you can’t make it to the minyan, better to either pray at the same time or in the Kenisa at a different time.
• one needs at least 6 people who start amidah together to be considered praying with a minyan.
• another reason why one should pray on theground level and why some still do.
• whether one may pray on a relatively high place.
• Taking a bath or showering before prayer inthe morning.
• taking care of other needs before prayer inthe morning
• the historic and spiritual background of thefast of 10th of tevet
• at what time does the prohibition to eat ordrink before praying start
• whether the prohibition to eat or drink beforepraying applies to women as well
• whether you can take care of your own needsbefore praying in the morning
• what oil is best to use to light the Hanukkah menorah.
• what to do if you missed the proper time for prayer.
• whether one needs to start his prayers beforethe end of the time or whether he needs to finish his prayers before the endof the time to do so.
• the obligation to daven
• proper times to say the morning prayers
• Taking a shower instead of going to mikvah to satisfy tevilah Ezra
• laws of speaking Torah in a bath house
• whether we can say holy words in today’s modern bathrooms and bathhouses
• keeping clear of uncleanliness when saying holy words in public areas and outdoors
• saying the shema in a place of cleanliness
• Seeing unclean things when saying the Shema.
• saying and doing mitzvot when around unclean things
• being careful about what you look at when saying the shema
• when should one sit and sleep in a sukkah
• Using bamboo mats as sechach for the sukkah
• how to build a kosher sukkah
• Audio/ eating on erev yom kippur
• being more careful with what you eat during the 10 days of repentance
• Audio/ what to do if you forget certain inserts of tefilah during assert yemay teshuva
• story of eliyahu on har Carmel
• Audio/ history of tzom gedaliah
• whether it is permitted to fast on Rosh Hashanah
• Praying Amida out loud yom kippur or rosh hashanah.
• Wheter women should say sheheciyanu when lighting candles on Yom tov
• when to say the beracha when lighting yom tov candles
• whether one must go to the mikvah before the high holidays
• hiring somebody else to lead services
• hiring a Baal tokeach for high holidays
• the qualities of the shliach tzibur for rosh hashanah and yom kippur
• whether one can say the 13 attributes of mercy without a minyan during selichot.
• saying bircot ha Torah before selichot
• buying new things during the three weeks
• what to do about diffences in signs of mourning during 3 weeks.
• the obligation to remember the leaving of Egypt twice a day.
• whether you go back to beracha of kriyat shema in a case of doubt v2
• Why we go back to saying berachot of kriyat shema in a case of doubt
• if you have doubts on whether you said brachot of shema
• better to skip and daven with the minyan or to connect tefilah to geulah
• pausing between hashem elohikem and emet in the shema and pausing between ga’al Yisrael and Amida.
• answering amen to beracha of ga’al Yisrael and Amida
• answering amen or talking between goel Yisrael and amida
• getting an aliyah when you are in the middle of the shema
• when not to interrupt the shema to say amen
• interrupting the shema to say amen
• making a mistake in the order or words of shema
• things you cannot do while saying shema
• saying shema while driving
• whether one can say kiryat shema while walking around
• what are improper positions to say shema in.
• laws of respecting kohanim and Levi
• laws of eating matzah during the year not on Passover
• leaving hair uncut until Shavuot
• getting haircuts during the omer
• listening to music during the omer
• saying shechiyanu during the omer and whether it’s OK to buy new clothes during the omer
• When do the minhagei of aveliut start for sefirat omer.
• when does the day end for counting omer purposes
• when to count sefirah, and whether women should also count
• whether one may still say a beracha for counting the omer after mentioning what night it is.
• laws of eruv tavshelim
• laws of sefirat ha omer
• the din of chol ha moed
• reciting Hallel on Passover
• using machine made matzah
• using shmura matzah and whether one can wet matzah.
• fast of the first born before Passover
• cleaning the kitchen utensils and counter for Pesach
• Eating rice on pessach
• leniencies in bedikah hametz
• selling of chametz gamur
• laws of sale of hametz
• introduction to bedikah and biur chametz
• maot chitim, tzedaka boxes with pesukim on them, and whether a designated tzedaka box must be sent to the designated charity
• when is the earliest time to say beracha ha’illianot
• understanding the words you are saying when saying the shema
• Saying shema out loud
• kavanah for kriyat shema.
• the laws of mishloach manot
• Giving the zecher mahazit ha shekel
• whether you can touch a magilla with your bare hands
• Audio/ laws of accepting tzedaka
• listening to megilla in a large group and on the microphone
• giving to a poor person according to his need
• when to listen to megilla and who should be reading
• hilchot taanit Esther
• proper times to give tzedaka
• who is exempt from fast of Esther
• whether women need to hear parshat zachor
• the obligation of the mitzvah of listening to parashat zachor
• special parshiot in adar
• do you need kavanah that reading shema is a mitzvah?
• answering amen to beracha of kriyat shema when both you and hazan are saying it together
• whether one can say the Nakdisha of shema or u’bah without a minyan.
• what if you said the wrong blessings before shema
• whether to repeat shema when you forgot to say it.
• saying shema twice on condition that only one of them counts
• how to compute proper halachic times when you are in an airplane
• other opinions on the proper time for kriyat shema
• latest time for kriyat shema
• earliest time and ideal time for saying shema
• whether kiryat shema is d’orita
• saying kiryat shema as soon as possible
• how much of mitzvah kriyat shema is d’orita
• should one say anything instead of barechu when davening yachidi
• bowing and standing during barechu.
• whether one needs to actually hear the person saying kadish in order to respond
• answering kadish until itbarach and bowing during kadish.
• to respond after amen yehe shemeh
• whether a Sephardi should stand or say the Ashkenazi nusach in an Ashkenazi minyan
• whether to stand for kadish
• the importance of not speaking during kadish
• When to say kadish after divrei Torah and for those who have passed
• the basics of kadish
• how a shliach tzibur is able to connect two rooms for a minyan
• whether men standing in a hallway or other side of a mechitzah are considered part of the minyan.
• Whether all 10 people from the minyan need to be awake or answering.
• whether a child or mechalel Shabbat can count toward a minyan
• into to devarim shel kedusha
• having concentration when saying Ashrei, and when to stand and sit during pesukei d zimrah.
• stopping in pesukei d zimrah to say beracha of talit and tefilin
• When you can interrupt pesukei d’zimra
• the importance of pesukei d zimrah
• exceptions to rule of not saying passages of tanach by heart
• the issur of saying written words of tanach by heart without reading it from a text
• special considerations for the middot of a schliach tzibur
• whether you can pay a shliach tzibur a salary
• What intention a shliach tzibur who has a good voice should have, and when to tarof the honor.
• proper pronunciation for the shliach tzibur
• whether a shaliach sibur must cover his arms.
• Whether Women are obligated in Birchat ha’Torah
• when it’s there a hefsek in birchat ha Torah
• what can you learn before saying bircat ha Torah
• what to do if you are not sure if you said bircat Torah.
• history of the tenth of tevet
• history of 10th of tevet
• obligations to say 100 berachot a day.
• until when can you say birchot ha schachar
• Audio/ halachot of bircot ha schachar
• what to do with unused oil and wicks of hanukkah candles
• can you skip yaaleh v’yavoh or al hanissim to say nakdisha
• what to do if the light from the Chanukah candles does not last 30 minutes
• obligation to recite hallel on Chanukah
• until when can you light Chanukah candles
• when to light Chanukah candles
• obligation to light chanukkiah when one is not home
• using an electric channukiah
• borrowing money for oil and where to light Hanukkah candles
• Hanukkah candles, lighting and obligations of women
• when does the bracha of Asher yatzar take precedence.
• how long do you have to say Asher yatzar
• explaining ruach raah and washing
• do or modern day restrooms have the same laws as bet kiseh shel parsaim
• how to wash netilat when you touch something unclean or are in an area with ruach raah
• netilat yadim after a shower
• Ben ish chai’s reason for netilat yadim in the morning
• netilat raglim and yadim and netilat for children
• when to say netilat yadim with a beracha
• Earliest time for tefilin, Order of taking off tefilin, learning with tefilin, and when avelim wear tefilin
• When a second beracha is needed on the Tefilin of the head.
• Which arm does an ambidextrous person put tefilin on?
• Proper Location on the Body For Tefilin
• Halachot of Tefilin – No Bracha on Rabbenu Tam.
• Who should wear both Rabbenu Tam and Rashi Tefilin and Proper Sizes and times to wear them
• Hilchot Tefilin – Speaking in between tefilin shel yad and tefilin shel rosh; Saying Bracha after taking Tefilin off to go to the restroom
• Halachot Tefilin (Wearing tefilin before coming to shul and saying the bracha standing or sitting)
• Halachot Tefilin – wear before kriat shema
• intro to halachot of tefilin
• why we don talit before tefilin
• time to wear tzitzit
• when a bracha should be said standing
• garments that require tzitzit and the obligation of techelet
• tzitzit bracha and checking
• seudah of rosh Chodesh
• Bugs / Worms in Water and in Fish
• tachanun during end of nissan
• saying hoshana on Shabbat of sukkot
• etrog cases
• etrogs from israel during shmitah
• eating on erev Kippur and anulling vows
• kapparot during erev Kippur
• changes to kaddish during a.y.t
• what is tzom gedalya and why oseh ha shalom
• mikvah and visiting kevarim on erev Rosh Hashanah
• basics of hatarat nedarim
• selichot and fasting erev rosh ha shanna
• shemitah and prozbul
• Shmita year & Zichronot
• items eaten raw or not important are not subject to bishul akum
• what foods are subject to bishul akum
• Intro to Bishul Akum
• pat yisrael leniency
• what makes it pat akum?
• when pat yisrael is not readily available
• pat akum during elul
• Which animals are included in the prohibition of meat and milk
• What counts as cooking meat and milk
• Washing hands between meals
• Utensils that get used for both Meat and Milk
• Hot meat or milk foods that fall in the kitchen
• Basics of Meat and Milk prohibition
• saying vayavor alone
• selichot before chatzot
• heter for selichot before Shacharit
• If a non-kosher item gets mixed in group of others
• saying bircot hashachar before selichot
• cutting spicy foods
• Audio/ using the wrong knife (meat and dairy)
• mistaken use of milk or meat utensils and dishes
• Meat and milk products on the same table, using separate dishes, using glass dishes
• Meat and milk continued
• Meat and milk mistaken beracha
• hannukat ha bayit
• listening to music after the churban
• zecher l’churban square and breaking a glass at a wedding to remember the bet ha mikdash
• sleep on tisha b’av, and havdalah
• the five restrictions of tisha b’ av
• Erev Tisha b’av
• Review of eating meat and taking showers during 9 days
• laundry on week of tisha b’ av
• work and dangerous activities during the nine days
• Meat restaurants during the nine days
• seudah mitzvah and minhagim to eat meat during the nine days
• weddings and eating meat during the three weeks
• New things during the weeks
• music and haircut during the weeks
• taking pills on taanit, required number of fasting people to say annenu
• meat and milk on same table, reminders
• meat and milk on the same table
• Fake Meat or Milk products
• cooking Meat and milk for others. Using microwave for both meat and milk.
• meat and milk 3
• Fish and meat/milk
• milk and meat leniency
• Meat and Milk Kashrut
• kashrut of visible bugs.
• Kashrut of Tolaeem
• Kashrut of Basar ha’adam
• Kashrut of Products of Non-Kosher Animals
• kashrut of Daam part 3
• kashrut of daam part 2
• kashrut of daam 1
• Rosh chodesh haircuts and tefilah tashlumim
• Rosh Chodesh Hallel and Tefilin – R’ Israeli