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Sephardic Daily Halachah — 462 episodes · page 1 of 5
10/22: Learning Halakhot Relating to Keeping Mitzvot During War - עמו אנכי בצרה - Praying for rain - barech aleinu - in Israel starting today; Halachot for visitors in both directions
10/13: Learning Halakhot Relating to Keeping Mitzvot During War - עמו אנכי בצרה - Carrying weapons on Shabbat during a war and relying on lenient opinion
10/12: Learning Halakhot Relating to Keeping Mitzvot During War - עמו אנכי בצרה - What to do when air raid sirens go off in the middle of the Amidah
10/06: Review of Four Halachot When Receiving an Aliyah (Preparing for Simcha Torah)
09/29: Not preparing from one day of Yom Tov for the next; Arvit on the second night of Yom Tov; Kiddush on the second night of Sukkot
09/29: Kiddush on the first night of Sukkot and what to do if it is raining
6/29: HaGomel for an Illness and Travel Together; HaGomel During Shiv'ah
06/28: Which Illnesses Require HaGomel?; Injuries That Prevent Walking; Heart Attacks and Internal Injuries
06/22: No HaGomel After Surviving a Car Accident, Drowning Accident, or Making it Home Safely from War
06/19: HaGomel After Minor Surgery; After Fainting; After an Illness that a Person Because of Their Own Negligence
06/16: HaGomel after Eye Diseases; Treating Eye Problems on Shabbat
06/15: HaGomel After What Type of Sickness / Illness?
06/12: HaGomel After Plane Travel; Skydiving
06/09: Birkat HaGomel When Travelling Frequently; Travelling on Dangerous Roads; Reciting at the Destination and Again Upon Return Home
06/08: Tefilat HaDerech When Travelling Outside a City for More Than 72 Minutes
06/06: How Much Travel Requires HaGomel?
06/02: HaGomel with a Minyan; When the Maftir Recites HaGomel; How Long After the Event to Recite HaGomel
06/01: HaGomel on Behalf of Another Person; Requiring a Minyan
05/31: Women are Obligated in HaGomel; Reciting After Birth; Husband Cannot Say it on His Wife's Behalf
05/30: Introduction to Birkat HaGomel: Children and HaGomel; One Person with Multiple Reasons to Recite HaGomel
05/24: Bracha on Seeing a Place Where a "Miracle" Happened
05/23: No Bracha on Smoking (It's Dangerous and Forbidden Anyway); Perfumes and Sprays
05/19: Smelling Orlah Fruits; Hadassim; Smelling an Etrog on Sukkot
05/17: Bracha on Sweet Smelling Fruits; Fruits to Both Eat and Smell; Lemons
05/16: Examples of Atzei and Isvei Besamim; Birchot Besamim to Reach 100 Brachot on Shabbat and Yom Tov
05/12: What If You Don't Know if Something Smells Nice?; Different Brachot For Different Spices
05/11: Brachot in Other Languages; Beginning Birchot HaRei'ach
05/10: Situations in Which One May Not Recite a Bracha
Lag BaOmer: Sefirat HaOmer Restrictions End Tomorrow Morning (34th Day of the Omer)
05/09: Teaching a Child to Recite Brachot
05/08: Saying Shem Hashem in Pesukim While Learning
05/05: Applying the Rules of Bracha LeVatala; Bracha on Ice Cream After Eating Meat
05/04: Reciting a Bracha Without a Head Covering; Understanding Bracha Le-Vatala
05/03: Answering Amen After a Child's Bracha
05/02: Responding Baruch Hu U-Varuch Shemo
05/01: Knowing Somebody Recited a Bracha But Not Hearing Which; Answering a Bracha Heard Over the Phone or on the Radio
04/28: Answering Amen to Somebody Else's Bracha
04/27: Covering Your Head with Your Hand; Amen After a Series of Brachot
04/26: Covering One's Head for Brachot and More Generally When in Public
04/25: My Bracha Can Work For You Only for a Mitzvah; Omitting Shem Hashem in a Bracha
04/24: What To Do If I Am Not Sure If I Already Recited a Bracha?
04/21: Is Hearing A Bracha From Another Person Exactly As If I Said It Myself? Why Should It Matter?
04/20: One person reciting a bracha for another
Chewing gum, couscous, porridge, noodles
Falafel and fruit leather
Coffee - bracha and bishul Akum
Erev Shabbat Hannukah, Motza'ei Shabbat Hannukah, Rosh Hodesh Tevet - Hannukah Shabbat shalom and Hannukah Sameah!
When to light neirot Hannukah on Erev Shabbat?
When to light the Menorah? For how long?
How many sets of Hannukah candles per household? What's the story behind it?
Vitamins, forced to eat food
Sucking on a candy to remove a bad taste, kashrut of liquid medications
Water, when thirsty, before a fast, to swallow medication
Wine, grape juice, and watered down wine
Sugar coated almonds, chocolate covered apples, "American" peanuts
Coconut milk, chocolate
Mushrooms, hydroponically grown vegetables
Schnitzel and breaded chicken
Tomatoes, non-fruit bearing trees, meat/cheese/milk
Toasted sesame candies, chalvah
Popcorn, eggplant, Bamba
Strawberries, bananas, papayas
Sabras (cactus fruit), boxer, and lemons
Fruit leather and other crushed produce
Crushed dates and mashed potatoes
Olive oil and other harmful foods; sugar cane
Grape juice from concentrate; 'light' grape juice
Pasteurized wine and grape juice; Yayin mevushal
Mashed fruits, applesauce, and mashed potatoes
Berachah on juices
Watermelon and sunflower seeds; fruit peels boiled in honey or sugar
Status of unripe grapes
Foods with certain and questionable berakhot, when one may exempt the other
Non-Jews Working in a Jewish Home on Shabbat; Doing Dishes; Turning on Lights for Their Own Benefit
Bringing Identifiable Clothing to a Laundromat or Dry Cleaner Before Shabbat; Work on a Home in a Jewish Neighborhood on Shabbat
Ordering Building Materials That Were Manufactured on Shabbat
Feeding Cows on Shabbat; Non-Jewish Mechanic on Shabbat
A Business in Partnership with a Non-Jew Over Shabbat
A Jewish Owned Factory on Shabbat
Non-Jewish Contractors Working on a Home on Shabbat; Hourly vs. Contracted Work
A Non-Jewish Tailor Making a Suit for a Jew on Shabbat
Kavod Shabbat = Preparations Done Beforehand: Bathing, Cleaning; Laundry on Thursday and Friday
Eating Fish at Shabbat Meals; Part of Oneg Shabbat; Cleaning Hands and Mouth Between Fish and Meat
Kavod and Oneg of Shabbat; Minimizing Weekday Spending to Maximize Oneg Shabbat
Birkat HaMapil Before Keriat Shema Al HaMitah (Before Bed)
What to Learn at Night
Importance of Learning Torah Each Night
Women's Obligation (or lack thereof) in Keriat Shema; Women Who Want to Pray Arvit; Being Extra Careful About Learning Torah at Night
Arvit as Different than Shaharit and Minhah; No Repetition; No Viduy; Started Amidah and Remembered that I Already Said Arvit Earlier
Coming Late to Arvit and Trying to Catch Up; Accidentally Started Amidah Before Finishing Birkot Keriat Shema
He'arot on Hearing the Megilah; Megilah Requires an Amud (pole/stick) at One End; Hearing at Least 51% from a Kosher Megilah
Answering Amen to My Own Berakhah of Hashkiveinu; Answering Other Berakhot After I've Said Hashkiveinu
No Interruptions During Birkot KS; Hashem Elokeichem Emet
Repeating Keriat Shema After Tzeit HaKochavim; The Beginning of Arvit; No Interruptions After Barechu
Arvit After Alot HaShachar; Reciting Early Arvit and Hearing Kedushah from Minhah
Earliest and Latest Times for Keriat Shema; Repeating Keriat Shema if Reciting Arvit Earlier
Reciting Mincha and Arvit in the Time Between Plag HaMincha and Shekiah; Waiting Until the Zeman Rabbenu Tam to Repeat Keriat Shema
Reciting Mincha and Arvit in the Time Between Plag HaMincha and Shekiah; Waiting Until the Zeman Rabbenu Tam to Repeat Keriat Shema
Missing Minhah and Reciting Arvit Twice; Timing for Arvit and Keriat Shema; Repeating Keriat Shema after Tzeit HaKochavim
Sitting with Kavanah vs. Standing with Less Kavanah for Amidah; Sections of Tefilah Before Ashrei; Versions of Aleinu