Where Do You Live?
Some people have mentioned to me that, of late, my articles are rather “heavy.” My response to that is, “Baruch Hashem!” Were it otherwise, [...]
Rosh Hashona Bulletin and Teffilas Rosh Hashona Halachos
Rosh Hashana & Haazinu Bulletin in PDF format Print this page and put it in your machzor! Some Halachos Of RH Davening: Some have [...]
Rosh Hashanah – Yom Kippur: Times of Fear and Awe and Love – Part 4
We have seen the essentiality of yiras Hashem (fear of G-d), the sheer fundamentality of that crucial middah (part one). We have seen how [...]
Nitzavim/Vayeilach – Shabbos Bulletin and Tefilla Halacha
Shabbos Bulletin - Netzavim Vayeilach A person entering a Shul or a Beis Medrash for a personal matter,must stop and say a possuk , [...]
Ki Savo – Shabbos Bulletin and Tefilla Halacha
Ki Savo Bulletin in PDF format When davening at kivrei Tzadikim (say, for example,Me'oras HaMachpeila) one must take care not to daven TO those [...]
Elul: Time of Fear and Awe – Part 3
As we creep closer and closer to Rosh Hashana... over the halfway mark... we are looking, searching, for some formula which will pull us [...]
Elul: Time of Fear and Awe – Part 2
We have seen that fear of G-d, yiras Hashem, seems to be a most pervasive and ubiquitous quality throughout Torah. Fear of G-d is [...]
Ki Seitzei – Shabbos Bulletin and Tefilla Halacha
Ki Seitzei Newsletter in PDF format If a person is in the middle of Elokaiy , netzor...,and he is called up to the Torah [...]
Shofetim – Shabbos Bulletin and Tefilla Halacha
BTYA Bulletin - Parshas Shofetim According to the MB (122:5,6), it is better to cut short "elokaiy, netzor leshoni..." or even skip it, and [...]
Elul: Time of Fear and Awe
I am writing these lines as the hours dwindle down to the month of Elul. And you are reading them in these first days [...]
Reiey-Shabbos Bulletin and Tefilla Halacha
Reiey final (PDF Format) During "Elokai,netzor....", one may answer as if in the middle of shema or its berachos--answering barchu; kadosh..and baruch (of kedusha [...]
Eikev – Shabbos Bulletin and Tefilla Halacha
One should NOT stop in the middle of shemoneh esrei to listen to an ongoing keri'as haTorah. And of course if one was accidentally [...]