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Rabbi Daniel Mann Eretz Hemdah

Rabbi Mann is a dayan for Eretz Hemdah and a staff member of Yeshiva University’s Gruss Kollel in Israel. He is a senior member of the Eretz Hemdah responder staff, editor of Hemdat Yamim and the author of “Living the Halachic Process Volumes 1 and 2” and “A Glimpse of Greatness.”

Articles by Rabbi Daniel Mann Eretz Hemdah

‘Cooked’ and Sweetened Wine for Kiddush

 לעילוי נשמת יואל אפרים בן אברהם עוזיאל זלצמן ז”ל Question: Some reputable kosher wines claim to be kosher for Kiddush because they are not mevushal

Switching Mantels Back on Shabbat

לעילוי נשמת יואל אפרים בן אברהם עוזיאל זלצמן ז”ל Question: In my shul (I am the rabbi), on the Shabbat after Simchat Torah, the gabbai

Wrong Bracha on Tefillin Shel Yad

לעילוי נשמת יואל אפרים בן אברהם עוזיאל זלצמן ז”ל Question: I (an Ashkenazi) accidentally said the bracha of Al Mitzvat Tefillin on my tefillin shel

Loaf Status of Pull-Apart Challot

לעילוי נשמת יואל אפרים בן אברהם עוזיאל זלצמן ז”ל Question: I like to make “pull-apart challot” (baked from unbraided balls of dough that stick together

Not Hearing Morning Kiddush

לעילוי נשמת יואל אפרים בן אברהם עוזיאל זלצמן ז”ל Question: At a shul kiddush, I wasn’t able to hear the bracha but answered “amen” when

An Avel Attending a Seudat Hodaya

לעילוי נשמת יואל אפרים בן אברהם עוזיאל זלצמן ז”ל Question: I was saved from a dangerous situation and was advised to make a seudat hodaya.

Kiddush and Havdalah in Shul

לעילוי נשמת יואל אפרים בן אברהם עוזיאל זלצמן ז”ל Question: In America, I remember that the shuls made Kiddush on Friday night and Havdalah. In

How to Acquire Borrowed Arba Minim?

לעילוי נשמת יואל אפרים בן אברהם עוזיאל זלצמן ז”ל Question: I know that to share a set of lulav and etrog, one has to give

Crying in Rosh Hashanah Davening

לעילוי נשמת יואל אפרים בן אברהם עוזיאל זלצמן ז”ל Question: One of our chazanim and a minority of our congregants cry/encourage crying during our tefillot