While a well-known hallmark of the Shabbat table, delving deeper into covering the challah helps us optimally fulfill this mitzvah.   Three Reasons The Rishonim

Part II Last week, we began discussing lechem mishneh, the possibly Torah-level obligation to recite HaMotzi on two loaves of challah at each Shabbat meal.

Part I The Torah (Shemot 16:22 with Rashi) records that in the midbar, two portions of manna fell on Fridays. The Gemara (Shabbat 117b) writes

A Dangerous Request Esther’s demand for a three-day fast seems excessive and dangerous. Indeed, the Rama (Orach Chaim 624:5, citing the Ohr Zarua) objects to

Clinching Haman’s Fate Charvona—one of Achashverosh’s advisors—abruptly enters the scene at the end of the tension-filled seventh chapter of Megillat Esther. He shows the gigantic

The Danger of Thinking Everything Is Good It is fascinating that the word ra (evil) does not appear in the first six chapters of Megillat

Megillah Pesukim Read Aloud Hands down, this is my favorite Sephardic Purim practice. But first, a little background… As is well known, the Rama (Orach

Rav Daniel Osher Kleinman (Teshuvot Bigdei Chamudot Yoreh Deah 107:9), a great Talmid Chacham who resides in Brooklyn, asserts that when shaving using a trimmer,

A Bold Prediction In January 1990, I served as a scholar-in-residence at a shabbaton at the Young Israel of West Hempstead, held by the organization