Questions overheard on the Bais Hora’ah’s Halacha Hotline during the midnight hours: A Yid called, relating that he just awoke from a terrible nightmare and

An interesting episode, shared with the Kollel Chatzos Office My wife was not feeling up to herself, so we went to the doctor to make

May the words of Torah serve as a merit le’iluy nishmat Menachem Mendel Ben Harav Yoel David Balk, a”h.   Bava Metzia 66: Getting drunk

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Which ruling of Hacham Ovadia had the most impact? It would seem that his ruling in which he forcefully asserted that the Jews in Ethiopia

At the beginning of my career I was a rebbe in a yeshiva high school. I remember David approaching me at the morning break and

Parshat Vayetzei The final chapters of the Book of Hoshea, from which our haftarah is taken, reflect the basic theme of the entire book, that

I have decided to give you all a break from the difficult task of reading my transliterations of Hebrew words. I will do something easier

A little over four years ago, I was living a different life. I had grown up Modern Orthodox with a heavy emphasis on the modern

Part III of III The first two installments identified the subject, opinions of authors who had written about the subject earlier, technical subjects such as

Here I am sitting at another hockey game. To clarify, it is “Jew hockey,” not ice hockey. There has been much debate about if “Jew

I have a <kchugh-kchugh> sore throat. Yeah, I know. A lot of people, when they say they have a sore throat, feel the need to