Response to a reader regarding Kabbala and the Zohar
Shalom Rav There are points on which we agree. Briefly: We are in agreement regarding the period of time the Second Miqdash stood. You...
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Kiddush Levana Customs
Question: When should one recite Qidush L'vana this month? Is there an Inyan of saying it with a Minyan? Answer: One should always recite...
Teaching and Learning Kabbala Today
Question: What do you think of the modern practice of teaching Kabbalah to the masses through Hassidut? Doesn't the Mishna forbid this?...
Will We Follow Beit Shammai in the Future?
Question: There is an idea quoted in the name of the Ar"i (it was actually first written already generations after him) that in the...
Tashlich on Rosh HaShana
Question: Should one do Tashlich on Rosh HaShana? Answer: No, one should not. As the Vilna Gaon (haGra) points out, this is an unseemly...
Spilling Drops of Wine From One’s Cup During the Seder
Question: I am aware of some, but very likely not all, of the reasons for the minhag of spilling drops of wine from one’s cup during the...
Bar Kochba and Sefirat haOmer
Rav Bar Hayim uncovers earlier manuscripts of the gemara that challenge the minhagim of sefirat haOmer. Part 1 Part 2
How did the student of Rebbi Akiva die?
Part 1: If it strikes you as unreasonable that 24,000 Tora scholars should have died in a plague because they did not treat each...
Bavli, Shabbat, 27a
What is ruach ra'a?
How the Galut Influenced Kabbala
What influence did galut have over Jewish mysticism?
Washing thrice in the morning?
Must we wash each hand three times in the morning netilat yadayim?
Lag B’Omer - A Holiday With No Reason
Part 1: There is no source that Rabbi Shimon Bar Yohai died on Lag B’Omer (Ben Ish Hai). How the myth developed. The Hatam Sofer actually...
Blessing the New Moon
When should you bless the new moon? Rav Bar Hayyim dissects the arguments. Here, the Shulhan Aruch does not follow his own method for...
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