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Halacha Yomit — 507 episodes
Does a Blind Person Say Pokeiach Ivrim
Does a Convert Say Shelo Asani Goy
When to Repeat Birkat HaTorah
Forgetting Birkat HaTorah
When to Say Birkat HaTorah
Netilat Yadayim
Repeating Modeh Ani Twice and Saying it Without a Kippah
Can I Leave During Davening?
Defining Tefillah B'Tzibbur
Counting A Boy Under 13 For Minyan
The Sleepy Minyan
Haircuts on Erev Rosh Chodesh Iyyar
Is Minyan Required?
Coming to Shul Crowned With Tefillin
We Don't Like Night Owls
To Be Among the First Ten
Workouts and Conversations Before Davening
Working and Washing Up Before Davening
Eating or Drinking Before Davening
Learning Torah Before Davening
Greetings Before Davening
Minyan and Community in Tefillah
To Shuckle Or Not To Shuckle
Kavanot with Hashem's Names
Fundamentals of Kavana in Prayer
Mindlessness in Prayer is Like Being Drunk
Minimum of Kavana in Tefilla
Someone Who Has No Kavana
Davening By Heart
Davening in a Different Language
The Best Pronunciation in Davening
Davening in a Place of Different Nusach
Tashlumin for Shema?
Two Times for Shema
Korbanot in the Morning
The Zman of Birkot HaShachar
When Do You Wake Up For Davening?
Dirty Diapers and Furry Comrades
Where Should I Daven?
Davening Next to a Wall
Can One Change Their Makom Tefillah?
The Importance of Makom Tefillah
Absent Mindedness in Tefillah
When Am I Exempt From Prayer
When You Forget Shemoneh Esrei and Don't Have a Siddur
The Fundamental Foundation of Prayer
Menorah Lighting: Window vs. Doorway?
Communal Lighting Ceremonies
Lighting Candles in Shul Without a Minyan
Why We Light Menorah in Shul
Relighting the Shamash
Electric Menorahs - Part 2
Electric Menorahs - Part 1
Sephardim vs. Ashkenazim on Chanukah
Wegovy Injections on Shabbat
Taking Medication for a Headache on Shabbat
Doctors Carrying Phones on Shabbat
Doctors Driving to Shul on Shabbat
Being Discharged from the Hospital on Shabbat
Should One Minimize Shabbat Desecration for Saving a Life?
Who Can We Save on Shabbat?
What Is Considered Life Threatening
Breaking Shabbat To Save A Life
Websites on Shabbat
When Someone Asks for Directions on Shabbat
Ma'aseh Shabbat - Part 5
Ma'aseh Shabbat - Part 4
Ma'aseh Shabbat - Part 3
Ma'aseh Shabbat - Part 2
Ma'aseh Shabbat - Part 1
Stocks on Shabbat
Marat Ayin with Non-Jewish Workers on Shabbat
Post Office, Cleaners and Mechanics Before Shabbat
Non-Jewish Employees on Shabbat
Two Wrongs Make A Right and Amira L'Akum
Choleh, Suffering and Amira L'Akum
Can A Jew Ever Benefit From A Non-Jew on Shabbat?
Introduction to Amira L'Nachri
Bicycles and Scooters on Shabbat
Connection Between Status of Kids and Cholim
Leniencies for a Child to Violate Shabbat
Children on Shabbat
If One is Holding a Muktzeh Item
Moving Muktzeh
Is Something Broken or Garbage Muktzeh?
Kli SheMelachto L'Heter
Keilim With Permitted and Prohibited Uses
Kli SheMelachto L'Issur (Objects Used for Probited Reasons)
Muktzeh Machmat Gufo (Inherent Muktzeh)
Why Do We Have Muktzeh?
Giving a Gift on Shabbat
Running and Jumping on Shabbat
When Business is Allowed on Shabbat
Wheelchairs and Canes on Shabbat
Jewlery on Shabbat
Glasses, Bandages and Hearing Aids on Shabbat
Milking a Cow on Shabbat
Trapping an Insect on Shabbat
Feeding Animals on Shabbat
Flower Vases on Shabbat
Trees on Shabbat
Strollers and Wheelchairs on Shabbat
Sprinkler Systems on Shabbat
Choreish and Sandboxes
Shoes, Books and Writing on Hands on Shabbos
Puzzles and Scrabbles on Shabbos
Mixing Meat and Fish
Automatic Lights and Thermostats on Shabbat
Automatic Doors on Shabbat
Dishwashers on Shabbat
Refrigerator Light on Shabbat
Machine vs. Handmade Matzah
Shmura vs. Non-Shmura Matzah
Should I Only Eat Gebrokts?
The 10 Pieces of Bedikat Chametz
Can I Eat Egg Matzah?
Milk and Eggs on Pesach
Checking Books and Toys for Chametz
Searching for Chametz: Candle vs. Flashlight
Selling Stock in Chametz Companies
Non-Jews Bringing Chametz Into Your House
Is It A Mitzvah To Eat Your Chametz?
4 Mitzvot Related to Chametz
Cosmetics for Pesach
Kaparot: Money or Chickens?
The Seriousness of Vows Around the HH Season
Should I Do Tashlich?
A Sleepy Year
Simanim on RH
She'hecheyanu on Day 2 of RH
Why is RH 2 days?
The Balance of Rosh Hashana
RH as Yom HaZikaron
Fasting for 10 Days?
Selichot Without A Minyan
Parameters of Selichot We Recite
Is Elul the Only Time for Teshuva?
No Clean Clothes Left During 9 Days
When a Wicked Person Dies (201:4)
Suicide in Halacha (201:1-3)
Blood From a Terror Attack (196:9)
Getting a Person Ready for Burial (196:1-7)
The Onein (196:1-5)
The Goseis (194:1-4)
Unsightly Ailments and Davening for Non-Jews (193:10-12)
Visiting the Sick (193:1-3)
Laws of Healing Part 2 (192:4-10)
Laws of Healing (192:1-3)
Spade or Neuter Animals (191:5-6)
Torturing Animals (191:1)
Don't Be Wasteful (190:3)
Protecting Our Neighbors From Harm (190:1-2)
Laws of Lost and Found (187:1-3)
Workers Taking Advantage of Employees (185:6)
Paying Workers on Time (185:1-4)
Harming a Fellow Jew (184:1-6)
Snitches Wear Stitches (183:4)
Using Others Belongings Without Their Knowledge (182:12-13)
Robbers and Buying From a Bootlegger (182:6-8)
Stealing From Jews and Non-Jews (182:1-2)
Testifying and Swearing in Jewish Court (181:12,13,17)
Laws of Evasion (181:4-7)
The Prerequisite for a Judge (181:10-11)
Secular Court vs. Jewish Court (181:1-3)
Shmitat Kesafim (180)
More on Loans (179:7-14)
Loan Etiquette (179:2-6)
Is It A Mitzvah To Lend Someone Money (179:1)
Mourning Practices of Sefirat HaOmer (120:6)
Sefirat HaOmer in Doubt (120:2)
The Significance of Charoset (118:4)
Question Culture at the Seder
Egg Matzah (117:6)
Eggs and Milk on Pesach (117:1)
Covering Pantries and Refrigerators for Pesach (116:11)
Glass Dishes on Pesac (116)
Shaatnez in Modern Era (176)
Redeeming a Donkey (177)
Interbred Animals (175)
Tree Grafting and Planting Grapes
Orlah (173)
Should I Be Eating Yashan Only? (172)
Cross Dressing: Hair Dye and Makeup (171)
Peot and Beards (170)
Replicating the Beit Hamikdash (168:5)
Statues of People (168:2-4)
Drawing the Celestial Bodies (168:1)
Looking at Idols (167:2)
Modern Day Idol Worship (167:1)
Magicians (166:4-5)
Relying on Stipulations and Signs (166:2)
We Don't Believe in Superstition (166:1)
Disqualified Kohanim: Socks and Murderers (100:20-21)
Can I Look at the Kohanim?
Birkat Kohanim
Muktzeh on Yom Tov (99)
Cooking for Others on Yom Tov (99:35-36)
Firey Laws for Yom Tov (98:25-30)
Yom Tov vs. Shabbat (98:1)
Time Window for Kiddush Levana (97:10-13)
When To Do Kiddush Levana (97:7-9)
Welcoming the New Month (97:1)
Torch vs. Single Wick for Havdallah (96:9)
Melava Malka and Forgotten Havdallah (96:13-15)
Post Shabbat Experience (96:1-2)
Women and Havdallah (92)
Saving a Life on Shabbat (92)
Medication on Shabbat (92)
Illicit Thoughts on Shabbat (90:10)
Walking and Talking on Shabbat (90)
Basis L'Davar Assur (89)
Taking Out Garbage on Shabbat (88:7)
Moving Valuables on Shabbat (88:6)
Eggs and Ice on Shabbat (88:4-5)
Muktzeh (88:1-2)
Showering on Shabbat
Clapping, Dancing and Baby Rattles on Shabbat
Sweeping the House on Shabbat (80:73)
Shabbat Candles (75:1-4)
Opening Your Door on Shabbat (80:67)
Trees on Shabbat (80:60)
Tying Shoes and Ties on Shabbat (80:45)
Colored Drinks and Toilets on Shabbat (80:42)
Walking in the Rain on Shabbat (80:35)
Stains and Spills on Shabbat (80:32-34)
Eating Outside and Spitting on Shabbat (80:28-30)
Cleaning Dishes on Shabbat (80:2-6)
Ice in Drinks on Shabbat (80:14)
Nursing a Baby on Shabbat (80:13)
Fruit on Shabbat: Separating and Squeezing (80:11-12)
Insulating Food on Shabbat (80:5)
Dipping Challah in Soup on Shabbat (80:3)
Laws of Sukkot (135:4-13)
The Making of a Sukkah (134:1-4)
A Holy House vs. A Regular House (135:2)
End of Yom Kippur (133:28-30)
Your Best Behavior for Ten Days (130:1-2)
Floor Bowing on RH and YK (129:16)
Kiddush on Friday Night (76:4-8)
Kiddush Cups and Embarrased Challah (77:7-8)
The Source for Kiddush Club (77:13,16,17)
Kiddush: Standing vs. Sitting (77:2-4)
Late Start on Shabbat Davening (76:10,12,16)
Shabbat Candles (75:5-14)
Erev Shabbat Travel (74:1-4)
Non-Jews Working on Shabbat (73:1-5)
Shabbat Dress and Shnayim Mikra (72:11-16)
Preparing for Shabbat on Friday (72:6-10)
Shabbat: The Great Sign Between Us and Hashem (71:4-5)
Bedtime Shema and Birkat HaMapil (71:4-5)
Night in Halacha (71:1-3)
When to Make Tefilat HaDerech and Friday Travel (68:4,6,11)
Tefillat HaDerech (68:1-4)
Remember the Beit Hamikdash Always (127:2)
Don't Live in a Palace (126:1)
Emotional Response to Laws of 3 Weeks (127:3-4)
Misconceptions of 9 Av (124:6-14)
Some Lesser Known Laws of 9 Av (124:15-20)
Laws of Erev 9 Av (123)
Communal and Personal Mourning on 9 Av (124:1-5)
More on 9 Days
Laundry and Showering During the 9 Days (122:9-12)
Laws of 9 Days (122:7-8)
Laws of the 3 Weeks (122:1-4)
Consistency Creates A Vow (67:7-11)
To Vow or Not to Vow (67:1-4)
Heter Iska (66)
Can One Charge Interest Ever? (65:20-24)
Ribbit is Not Only About the Money (65:8-10)
Intro to Laws of Ribbit (65)
Deception and Geneivat Daat (64:2-5)
Speaking Honestly and Prioritizing in Sales (62:18-63:1)
Honesty in Business (62:1-17)
Prayers in Vain (61:6-7)
Bracha for Advil and Saying Gezundheit (61:4-5)
Berachot on Miracles and Weird Things (61:6-15)
Beracha of Thanksgiving (61:1-3)
Berachot on Friends and Natural Phenomena (59:19-21, 60:1-2)
Baffling Brachot Questions (57)
New Clothing (59:7-13)
When Not to Make a Bracha? (50:9-10)
She'heakol on Everything?
The Bracha for Hot Pretzels, Donuts and Deli Roll (48:1-2)
What Bracha Does One Make on Pizza? (48:1-2)
The Laws of Zimun
Bentching in Doubt (44:6-8,11)
Mayim Acharonim and Knives for Bentching (44:1-4)
Etiquette of Bread Part 2 (42:8-15)
Proper Behavior for Eating (42:1-5)
Etiquette of Bread Part 1 (41)
Exemptions from Washing and Washing for Vegetables (40:15, 17, 18)
Clean Hands Before Netilat Yadayim (40:11-13)
How To Wash Hands for Bread (40:1-4)
Jewish Milk (38:13)
Jewish Food (38:6-10)
Jewish Bread (38:1-5)
Tevilat Keilim Part 2
Tevilat Keilim
Salting (36)
Separating Challah (35)
The Seriousness of Selling Chametz (114:1-2)
Laws of Erev Pesach (112:6-113:5)
Chametz That is Prohibited (112:1-5)
The Morning After Bedikat Chametz
How Thorough Bedikat Chametz Needs to Be
When and How to Do Bedikat Chametz
Nissan and Matzah Shmura (107 and 108)
Important Rules for Reading the Megillah (141:7-12)
Taanit Esther and Machtzit HaShekel (141:1-5)
Giving and Not Taking (34:9-15)
Tzedaka Starts in the Home
Fighting the Urge Not to Give (34:5)
How Much Tzedaka Should I Give (34:2-4)
Intro to Laws of Tzedaka (34:1)
Additional Health Concerns From Our Rabbis (33:5-10)
Mixing Fish and Meat Together (33:1-4)
Knowing God in All Your Ways (31:1-3)
Don't Take Revenge or Bear a Grudge (30:7-9)
If You Don't Think it Should Be Said Then Don't Say It (30:4-6)
Talebearing and Lashon Hara (30:1-3)
Be Kind and Don't Accept Gifts (29:19-21)
Should You Ever Rebuke Someone Else (29:13-15)
Be A Good Person (29:8-12)
The Best and Worst Traits (29:4-7)
Doing What You Want With Jewish Books (28:5-12)
God Cares How We Act (29:1-2)
Honoring Our Jewish Books (28:1-4)
The Importance of Learning Torah Daily (27)
Concluding Davening (25:1-8)
Hagba and Returning the Torah
Reading an Aliyah Along with Baal Korei (23:12-17)
The Etiquette of an Aliyah to the Torah (23:1-11)
The Origins and Practices of Tachanun (22:1-4)
Just How Many Tefillot Can I Make Up (21:3-9)
What Happens When You Miss Davening 21:1-2
Being Next to Someone During Shemoneh Esrei (18:18-21)
The End of Shemoneh Esrei (18:13-17)
The Direction to Face During Shemoneh Esrei (18:9-10)
Be Mindful of What You See in Shemoneh Esrei (18:8-9)
The Great Ashkenaz Sephardic Debate (18:4-5)
Being Someich Geulah to Tefillah (18:1-2)
Additional Fun Facts on the Shema (18:8-10)
Intentionality in Shema (17:3-6)
Until When to Say Shema and How to Say It (17:1-3)
Rules of Answering Kaddish (15:5-10)
When and How to Count the Minyan (16)
Priorities in Pesukei D'Zimrah (15)
The Awesomeness of the Synagogue (13:1)
Where We Daven and How We Get There (12:10-15)
How Late Can I Light My Menorah (139:10b, 13-16)
Where to Light the Menorah (139:7-10a)
What to Light the Menorah With (139:4-6)
Why Do We Celebrate Chanukah (139:1-3)
The Obligation to Daven at Beth Sholom (12:7-9)
Preparing for Prayer (12:1-5)
The Significance of the Mezuzah on the Doorpost (11:17-25)
How Big Does a Room Have to Be to Have a Mezuzah (11:10-14)
Mezuzah: The Power of Compromise (11:5-6)
Mezuzah (10:11-11:4)
Men vs. Women in Tefillin 10:23-26
What to Do While You Wear Tefillin (10:16-22)
Mindfulness in Tefillin
Tefillin: Ashkenazim vs. Sephardim (10:4-7)
How To Wear Tefillin (10:2-3)
The Importance and Basics of Tefillin (10:1)
Tzitzis at Night and Properly Disposing of Them (9:19-21)
What Should Our Tzitzis Be Made of (9:11)
Why is the Rabbi Allowed to Give a Drasha (13:2-4)
How Do We Put On Tzitzis (9:7-10)
Why Do We Wear Tzitzis (9:1)
Greeting Someone Before Davening (8:5-6)
Eating Before Davening (8:1-3)
A Little More on Berachot (6:11-7:7)
Responding to Berachot (6:9-10)
Forgetting to Make a Bracha and 100 Blessings a Day (6:6-8)
The Right Way to Make a Bracha (6:1-5)
Can I Say God or Sholom in the Bathroom? (5:1-14)
Going to the Bathroom the Right Way (4)
Walking and Wearing a Kippa (3:6-8)
Washing Your Hands in the Morning (2:1)
Tikkun Chatzot (1:5-7)
The Four Animals to Emulate (1:3-4)
How and Why We Say Modeh Ani (1:2b)
God is Always With Us (1:1-2a)
Is Shemini Atzeret Part of Sukkot (138:3-7)
Shemini Atzeret (138:3-7)
The Aravah Service (138:2)
Hoshana Rabba as the Yom Hadin (138:1)
Is There a Reason We Walk Around in so Many Circles on Sukkot (137:11-12)
Eating, Smelling, and Watering the Lulav and Etrog (137:5-7)
Exempting Yourself From Sukkah
Do You Really Have to Own Your Lulav? (137:8-10)
Sleeping in the Sukkah (135:8)
Don't Let Your Decorations Invalidate Your Sukkah!
The First Night of Sukkot (135:3-5)
How Should We Live in the Sukkah (135:1-2)
Seeing the Stars Through the Schach (134:5-6)
Schach Mats and Zip Ties (134:3-4)
Can I Use a Canvas Sukkah (134:2b-3)
The Mitzvah to Build a Sukkah (134:1-2a)
How We Should Feel After Yom Kippur (133:28-31)
Bowing Down on Yom Kippur (133:23-26)
Can I Eat on Yom Kippur (133:14-20)
Wearing Crocs on Yom Kippur (133:8-13)
Some of the Leniencies on Yom Kippur (133:2-7)
Not Eating vs. Not Davening on Yom Kippur (133:1)
Prayer on Yom Kippur (132)
Erev Yom Kippur Part 4 (131:14-17)
Erev Yom Kippur Part 3 (131:9-12)
Erev Yom Kippur Part 2 (131:6b-8)
Erev Yom Kippur Part 1 (131:3-6a)
Kapparot (131:1)
The Ten Days of Repentance Part 2 (130:6)
The Ten Days of Repentance (130:1-5)
Is Rosh Hashana Two Days or One Long Day? (129:22-23)
Why We Should Do Tashlich (129:21b)
The First Day of RH and Tashlich Part 1 (129:20-21a)
Laws of Shofar Part 3 and Other Misc RH (129:16-20a)
Laws of Shofar Part 1 (129:10-13)
Laws of Shofar Part 2 (129:14-15)
The First Night of Rosh Hashana (129:6-9)
Insertions in Shemoneh Esrei Between RH and YK (129:3-5)
The Right Way to Daven Before Rosh Hashana (129:1-2)
The Day Before Rosh Hashana (128:14-16)
Visiting the Graves of Righteous Individuals (128:13b)
Guarding From Impurities and Fasting Before Rosh Hashana (128:11-13a)
Mourners and Selichot (128:7b-10)
Who Should Lead Selichot (128:6-7a)
Tefillin, Haftorahs and Selichot (128:3-5)
Shofar and L'Dovid in Elul (128:2)
The 4 Verses of Elul (128:1b)
Days of Elul as Yimei Ratzon (128:1a)
The Six Prohibitions of Ribis
Choosing Which Wine to Use for the Four Cups (118:1)
Karpas and Marror (118:2-3)
Schach: Shade vs. Stars
Bowing on Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur
When Not to Fast on Yom Kippur
Spreading Germs on Yom Kippur
The Importance of the Avodah on Yom Kippur
The Temporary Nature of the Sukkah
Put the Schach on Last
Decorating Your Sukkah
Sukkot are Muktzeh
Changing a Baby's Diaper in the Sukkah
The Importance of the First Nights of Sukkot
When to Make a Leisev BaSukkah
Tosefet Shabbat
How Long Shabbat Candles Should Be Lit For
Davening Mincha After Accepting Shabbat
Candle Lighting as a Guest or in a Communal Setting
Plastic Cups for Kiddush
How Much Grape Juice is Needed for Kiddush?
Embarrasing Challah
Eating Before Kiddush
Kiddush B'Makom Seudah Part 2
Kiddush B'Makom Seudah
Laws of Lechem Mishneh
Kiddush at Seudat Shlishit
Melaveh Malka
Making Havdallah More Than Once
Making Havdallah on Soda
Using a Torch or Single Candle for Havdallah
If You Forget to Say Havdallah
Eating Before Havdallah
Eating a Festive Meal on Chanukah
Dairy Food on Chanukah
Women Working on Chanukah
Are Women Obligated to Light the Menorah
Where to Light the Menorah
When Should One Light the Menorah
Going Away for Chanukah
When One Person in a Family Goes Away for Chanukah
Introduction to Boneh and Soteir
Playing with Sand on Shabbat
Hanging Pictures on the Wall or Refrigerator on Shabbat
Opening Doors and Windows on Shabbat
Building a Children's Fort on Shabbat
Opening Patio Umbrellas on Shabbat
Wearing Hats on Shabbat
Paper Airplanes and Fancy Napkins on Shabbat
Clogged Sinks and Toilets on Shabbat
Opening a Can on Shabbat
Opening Food Packages on Shabbat
Opening Bottles on Shabbat
Opening Soda Cans on Shabbat
Opening Yogurts and Sugar Packets on Shabbat
Reading by Lamplight on Shabbat
Opening a Window Next to Shabbat Candles
Electricity on Shabbat
Microphones vs. Hearing Aids on Shabbat
Shabbat Elevators
Timers on Shabbat
Electricity in Israel on Shabbat
Opening a Refrigerator on Shabbat
Opening an Oven on Shabbat
Home Heating and Cooling on Shabbat
Three Mitzvot on the Topic of Amalek
Three Types of Amalek to Kill
Women and Parshat Zachor
Can Amalek Convert?
Why Do We Fast on Taanit Esther
How Much to Give for Machatzit HaShekel
Multiple Minyanim on Purim
Costumes on Purim
Davening and Brachot While Drunk
The Ideal Time for the Purim Seudah