Calendar Conundrums: Halachic Insights into Adar Alef and Bet
Which is the real Adar? This affects when to celebrate Purim, when to observe a yahrtzeit, and when a child becomes bar/bat mitzvah. Why is Adar always the added month? Do...
Tu B’Shevat: The Seeds of the Final Redemption and...
If the world was created in Nisan (beginning with 25 Adar) like R’ Eliezer and the machshava to create the world was 40 days before, then Hashem decided to create the...
Hands-on Terumot and Maasrot Workshop
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Analyzing the Words of Yaaleh V’Yavo
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Praises of Eretz Yisrael in Tanach
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What are We Celebrating on Tu B’Shevat?
In both the list of four new years and the four times a year when the world is judged trees feature prominently. The Torah prohibits cutting down fruit trees because man...
Asara B’tevet: “On That Very Day….”
When it comes to the day the walls were breached we commemorate only the date for the second Beit HaMikdash (17 Tammuz). When it comes to the siege, why do we...
Three Days of Darkness: The Eighth, Ninth, and Tenth...
Ptolemy ordered the sages to translate the Torah into Greek. The day it was translated is considered by a Chazal to be a dark day. Why? Chazal say some fast on...
Analyzing the Words of Birchat HaChodesh
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Why Fast for Events of the Past: A Halacha-Based...
When commemorating loss, we use the halachic system of aveilut, mourning. Fasting is not part of that system, yet when it comes to the four days associated with the loss of...
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- Asarah B'Tevet
- Birchat HaChama
- Chanukah
- Elul
- Fast of Esther
- Fast of Shiva Asar B'Tammuz
- Fast of Tisha B'Av
- Four Shabbatot
- Hoshanah Rabbah
- Lag BaOmer
- Months
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- Pesach Sheini
- Purim
- Rosh Hashanah
- Sefirat HaOmer
- Shabbat
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- Shemini Atzeret
- Shushan Purim
- Simchat Torah
- Sukkot
- The Three Weeks
- Tu B'Av
- Tu B'Shevat
- Tzom Gedaliah
- Yom HaAtzmaut
- Yom HaShoah
- Yom Hazikaron
- Yom Kippur
- Yom Yerushalayim
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