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