BTYA Weekly Newsletter

Shabbos Bulletin Parshas Yisro 5775 Tefilla Halacha When the sheli'ach tzibbur finishes chazarat hashatz, Shulchan Aruch rules that he need not step back 3 [...]

Shabbos Bulletin Parshas Beshalach 5775 Tefilla Halacha The Rama in Yoreh De'ah 246:26 states that a seudah made in honor a siyum is a [...]

Shabbos Bulletin Parshas Bo 5775 Tefilla Halacha When a boy becomes bar-mitzvah, the father publicly makes a berachah “baruch shep'tarani...” The common custom is [...]

Shabbos Bulletin Parshas Va'eira 5775 Tefilla Halacha Why do we stand while saying (or singing) mizmor 29 (...havu laShem b'nei ailim) during kabbalas Shabbos? [...]

Shabbos Bulletin Parshas Shemos 5775 Tefilla Halacha In Kaddish, we say “Let Your great Name be sanctified…” b'alma dee v'ra (in the world that [...]

Shabbos Bulletin Parshas Vayechi 5775 Tefilla Halacha Shulchan Aruch rules (O.C. 62:5) that the chazzan should say the possuk “Shema Yisrael...” out loud, so [...]

Shabbos Bulletin Parshas Vayigash 5775 Tefilla Halacha There are some who, when they are the chazzan, call out the words of birkas kohanim to [...]

Shabbos Bulletin Parshas Vayigash 5775 Tefilla Halacha There are some who, when they are the chazzan, call out the words of birkas kohanim to [...]

Shabbos Bulletin Parshas Mikeitz 5775 Tefilla Halacha On Motzei Shabbos, some have the custom (as BTYA does) to daven Ma'ariv earlier than usual, to [...]

Shabbos Bulletin Parshas Vayeishev 5775 Tefilla Halacha Calling the question a riddle, I now realize , prompted people to submit answers. Thank you all! [...]

Shabbos Bulletin Parshas Vayishlach 5775 Tefilla Halacha With apologies to Shlomo Epshteyn, this week we will ask a riddle, and next week present an [...]

Shabbos Bulletin Parshas Vayeitzei 5775 Tefilla Halacha Chazal instituted to recite what we call kaddish derabonon following the public study of Torah – primarily [...]