Disaster Strikes What a disaster! Many years ago, on an early Friday morning of Shavuot, one of my three daughters mistakenly ate the eruv tavshilin.

Back in November 2019, Shaarei Orah hosted a special Shabbaton for Sephardic Yeshiva University students. In preparation for this special event, Shaarei Orah’s Jack Varon

Off The Charts! “Off the charts” is the way Shaarei Orah member Jack Varon refers to the explanation the ta’amei hamikra offer for the pasuk

Rav Ovadia on Electric Shavers Many of Shaarei Orah’s male congregants are concerned about Rav Ovadia Yosef’s ruling (Yabia Omer 9 Yoreh De’ah 10:15) regarding

A Neglected Mitzvah It is the easiest mitzvah to perform, and yet it is one of the most overlooked. The Torah (as recorded in this

Many people have voiced concern about the availability of matzah shmura for this year’s seders due to the current challenging situation. Rav Hershel Schachter recently

Many have recently asked whether we can immerse our keilim in a river. While this might be an option for Ashkenazic Jews in an extreme

An Issue Raised in 1990 and 2020 Many halachic issues have been raised during the current crisis. In one highly sensitive situation that faced our

It is one of the most beautiful scenes described in the entire Shas. Rabi Yehoshua (as told in Chagiga 14b) teaches the deepest secrets of

I steer clear of politics. I studiously avoid political discussion both in my role as rabbi of Congregation Shaarei Orah and rebbe at TABC. There

A Joint Bar Mitzvah and Shabbat Chatan Hashem blessed Shaarei Orah with an extraordinarily beautiful Shabbat last week. We experienced a joint simcha of the