The Rav encourages us to review the above source sheet regarding Torah Shev'al peh on Shabbath and Shavuoth. It will be the basis for a...

The minhag of staying up all night studying is only about 200 years old. The temple was the center of the holiday. The mishnah makes it...

Question: What is your opinion regarding one who forgets to count the Omer for an entire day? My wife just realized that she did not...

What torah reading should we recite on the chag of shavuot? Why does our practice not match that of the mishna?

Rav Bar Hayim uncovers earlier manuscripts of the gemara that challenge the minhagim of sefirat haOmer. Part 1 Part 2

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...

If you forget to make the bracha one day, you can say it on subsequent days. Learn why. Why we don’t say shehiaynu. The purpose of...

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...

The common practice today is to wait until after tzet hakochaim to begin the festival of Shavuot, but is this necessary (or even good??)...