Covering Orakh Chaim, the parts of Yoreh Deah relevant at home, and selected topics from Eveh haEzer and Choshein Mishpat…. The halakhos of daily life from waking up in the morning to going to bed, from kashrus in the kitchen to honoring one’s parents to taharas hamishpachah to aveilus.
With the Arukh haShulchan’s analysis of how the halakhah came to be what it is.
Join us for the Second Cycle Starting Tuesday February 11th 2025 – 13 Shevat 5785
Exciting Arukh HaShulchan Development!!!
When we begin the second cycle of the Arukh HaShulchan Yomi, we will b’ezras Hashem also begin the first supplemental cycle of the rest of the Arukh HaShulchan!
We took the material not covered in the AhSY cycle and divided it into pieces to fit during the next two cycles. Two unrelated pieces to learn each day, but the daily material of the supplemental cycle will be less than half tbe text per day of the regular cycle.
At the end of the third cycle, you could be making a siyum on the entire Aruch HaShulchan!*
(* Original edition. Not including Nedarim nor Arukh HaShulchan He’Asid.)
The Arukh haShulchan Yomi is also included on our Luach page. (That Luach also offers halachic times for any location in a novel month-calendar format, as well Daf (Bavli) and Daf Yerushalmi Yomi. The Arukh haShulchan Yomi is provided as a link to a copy of the day’s text.
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Some time back the following was posted The Rambam writes in 3 places in the Perush Hamishnayos (Sanhedrin 10,3; Sotah 3,3; Shavuos 4,1) and in the Sefer Hamitzvos lo taaseh [...]
> > >> the commandment is for us to admonish our fellow Jew, not to bring > about his or her repentance This is an important statement, but is it [...]
The old shuls in Passaic were built before WWII and sold well before the Yeshiva Gedolah and the revival of Jewish life in Passaic Park. When they were built, Passaic [...]
The RaMBaM seems to rule that we not humiliate sinners but only when we begin He writes Techilah and in Teshuvah he writes that the sinner requires to be embarrassed [...]
On Tue, Sep 02, 2025 at 08:44:13PM -0400, Joel Rich wrote: > From hakira: >> In your experience, does emunah require more than pure rationality? > > R. Schachter: Yes. [...]
>From hakira: In your experience, does emunah require more than pure rationality? R. Schachter: Yes. just as rationality is enough for the fact that George Washington was the president of [...]
Rischa D'araisa Season 12 Episode 3:"Torah Only" in Eretz Yisroel?The Trap of Perfectionismhttps://listen.jewishpodcasts.fm/yeshivaofnewark/107082Play EpisodeDownload EpisodeSupport This Episode [...]
First, see our post from some ten years ago on the pouring of lead: Blei Gissen.https://rygb.blogspot.com/2015/01/finally-soure-for-blei-gissen.htmlA person who is involved in these lead procedures explained their perspective to me (in [...]
My review article published inJournal of Modern Jewish Studies Volume 24, 2025 - Issue 2https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14725886.2025.2468231?scroll=top&needAccess=trueBuilding communities. A history of the eruv in Americaby Adam Mintz, Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2023, 187pp., $26.95, [...]
https://listen.jewishpodcasts.fm/yeshivaofnewark/106909Play EpisodeDownload EpisodeSupport This EpisodeRischa D'Araisa Season 12 Episode 2: Crossing the Red Line Into Cancellation:The Bais HaVaadRav KookProf. Shaul LiebermanRav Yosef Blau [...]
New Series! The Medieval Cherem including Cherem d'Rabbeinu Gershom Part 1: Rabbeinu Tam's CharamimThe Medieval Institution of Cherem, including Cherem d'Rabbeinu Gershom: Local, Regional and Global enactments (takkanos) from the times of [...]
What if You Made a Beracha Without a Kippa? and,Do Married Women Have to Cover their Heads to Make a Beracha? A recording for the BHP daily Halachic Whatsapp group https://chat.whatsapp.com/Gz8rrxqRcfy9rMOXRLG6GSA [...]
From Sefaria, some the of the creatures from the aggadata of Rabba bar ChanaDecoding the Aggadah: Literal vs. Metaphorical Interpretations #shorts - YouTubehttps://youtube.com/shorts/d-GnVbhiRQ0?feature=shareThis clip captures in brief a basic approach [...]
Dear Yeshivat Sha’alvim Alumni (1970–1985), We are excited to share a meaningful project undertaken by fellow alumnus Rav Yosef Gavriel Bechhofer shlit”a. Rav Bechhofer has digitized and made available 43 rare [...]
In a weltanschauung of limited Bechirah, how do we regard Sins, and how do we understand Repentance? Teshuva in the world of Izhbitz and LublinWith some novel insights into Tzaddik [...]
Iggeres D'Rav Sherira Gaon, part 38:Iggeres 2 part 2, Iggeres 3 part 1:More Amazing Stuff on Honorifics!➧ Rabba and Rava, the two different Abbas!➧ The abbreviations that were contracted into [...]
A second, less famous, but no less basic and fascinating letter of Rav Sherira Gaon to Kairouan.Lots of fundamental stuff on who's called by his name, who is called Rabban, [...]
https://listen.jewishpodcasts.fm/yeshivaofnewark/105753Rischa D'Araisa on the Humanitarian Crisis in GazaThe humanitarian crises in Gaza are a result of the terrorist attack on Israel by Hamas on October 7, 2023. Hamas’s continued behavior [...]
Tisha B'Av and Viktor Frankl(and some Rav Dessler too!) Introductions to Selected KinnosFrom the Kinnos of Tisha B'Av 5785 at Cong. Ohaiv Yisroel of Blueberry Hill, under the auspices of [...]
לבי לבי על חלליהםמעי מעי על חלליהםYosef Gavriel Bechhofer is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.Tisha B'Av Divrei HisorerusTime: Aug 3, 2025 05:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)Join Zoom [...]
In the previous post, I reduced the list of 13 requests in the weekday Shemoneh Esrei to four sets of three (plus the one added later into the third set): [...]
(This thought was started by something from Rav Samson Rafael Hirsch, but over the decades has drifted quite a bit from the original.) The request section in the middle of [...]
I started the Tefillah Meanings series with the Shemoneh Esrei because it is the central tefillah. And in particular, to fulfill the mitzvah of tefillah, you have to think about [...]
Listening to the leining last week, parashas Shofetim, two observations about the language struck me. First, there is a q’ri ukesiv (a word that is written one way, but read [...]
I noticed that the next berakhah of Shemoneh Esrei has three clauses describing sanctity: אַתָּה קָדוֹשׁ – You are Holy וְשִׁמְךָ קָדוֹשׁ – and Your name (reputation, how people perceive [...]
This thought it more along the lines of “The One Who Brings the Go’el (continued)” – “which I know is not the authors’ original intent, but it speaks to me [...]
Continuing on in Shemoneh Esrei… The second berakhah is Birkhas Gevuros. We already suggested one way to view the word Gevurah. As we said in Birkhas Avos, we receive from [...]
I have a rebbe who prefers to call himself a “chavrusa” who wrote me a critique of this series. It made me realize that the idea I was intending for [...]
Praising Hashem is a dangerous thing. Once you start, any time you stop you haven’t exhausted His praise, and faint praise is tantamount to insult! Moshe praises Hashem as “HaKeil [...]
(This post makes it a chazaqah of sharing these “Tefillah Thoughts”, thoughts that have become central parts of my own davening. Shorter in format than other posts have been. Not [...]
(I am trying to make a habit of sharing these “Tefillah Thoughts”, thoughts that have become central parts of my own davening. Shorter in format than other posts have been. [...]
(I am trying to make a habit of sharing these “Tefillah Thoughts”, thoughts that have become central parts of my own davening. Shorter in format than other posts have been. [...]
(I am hoping to make a habit of sharing these “Tefillah Thoughts”, thoughts that have become central parts of my own davening. Shorter in format than other posts have been. [...]
There is a general sense that there is something much more muted in our response to the miraculous quick turn-around in this recent Twelve Day War than there was after [...]
I noticed that parshanim explaining the chumash on the one hand, and shas and posqim showing how the pasuq is associated with halakhah on the other, often end up giving [...]
Nephesh Hachaim 1:13 1. T The things we say can also link celestial worlds, rectify this one, and interconnect with the upper worlds, as we’ll now see. After all, we’re [...]
Da’at Tevunot 3:7 (¶ 118 [middle]) 1. We’d do well to take something into consideration, Ramchal adds here. It’s that just because something or someone is imperfect doesn’t mean [...]
The Way of G-d 2:6:4 1. G-d allowed for a prosecutor in His court, famously known as satan 1. His role is to argue against the accused, which them enables [...]
Nephesh Hachaim 1:12 1. R. Chaim already spoke 1 of the fact that we could only link celestial worlds, rectify this one, and interconnect with those upper worlds after we’d [...]
Da’at Tevunot 3:6 (¶ 118 [beginning]) 1. Ramchal reiterates here 1 that wrong is a created entity 2 that was only designed to last for as long as G-d wanted [...]
The Way of G-d 2:6:3 1. Given the above, the fact is that G-d doesn’t judge the world according to His foreknowledge but rather according to the way He wants [...]
Nephesh Hachaim 1:11 1. Following up on the thought offered in the last chapter that despite our being connected to physicality we’re nevertheless superior to angels, R’ Chaim now [...]
Da’at Tevunot 3:5 (¶s 116 [end] – 117) 1. Ramchal says that he’s going to expand upon things he’d said above 1 and reveal things that are “deep” about [...]
Nephesh Hachaim 1:10 1. Given all of the above concerning our makeup and capacities, it’s reasonable to wonder whether angels are loftier than we are or we’re loftier than they. [...]
Da’at Tevunot 3:4 (¶ 116 [beg.]) 1. Ramchal is about to offer something that will serve as a prelude to what’s to follow 1. It’s that even though G-d [...]
Derech Hashem 2:6:1 In the course of His interactions with the world 1, G-d arranged it so that phenomena that affect both the things that humankind brings about 2 and [...]
Nephesh Hachaim 1:9 1. Following through on the discussion of the previous chapter, R’ Chaim contrasts the situation of the generation that dwelt in the Sinai Desert 1 with that [...]
Da’at Tevunot 3:3 (¶’s 103- 115) 1. It seems logical, doesn’t it, that goodness would be a product of something that emanates goodness while wrongfulness would be a product of [...]
Da’atTevunot 3:2 (# 98 – 102) 1. Ramchal starts to explain the role of wrong and injustice in the world with a proposition derived from Rambam1. It’s that when G-d [...]
Nephesh Hachaim 1:8 1. R’ Chaim offers a rather complex discussion here about the positioning of the Cherubs in the Tabernacle and Holy Temple in order to illustrate his point [...]
The website 18FORTY has a fantastic and thoughtful multimedia post on OTD that is worth watching, reading, and listening to. If you are reading this then you know I don’t [...]
Spoiler, there isn’t much substance to I what have to say. Also, I am spoiling the end of the Skywalker saga. After reading an excellent essay by Rabbi Harry Maryles [...]
I checked my recent writing history today and the last legit post of mine was really 3.5 years ago. For some that’s a long chunk of time. In that time [...]
My wife’s comment on Simchas Torah pretty much summed it up, “I feel like this is the biggest tease for you.” You see, my mom a”h was niftar right before [...]
When today comes around I usually think about things my father missed since he has been gone. I decided that this year I’ll attempt to list a number of things [...]
Walking out of shul, the morning after Yom Kippur, a follow early Sunday morning riser casually said to me, “Back to normal, right?” I was taken off guard (and also [...]
I want to share something that Rav Efraim Twerski said at his Shabbos HaGadol drasha. After starting off with 10 questions Rav Twerski said over an amazing Torah from Rav [...]
So, tonight’s the 6th yahrtzeit for my dad, Avraham ben Zorach a”h (Al, of blessed memory). Like everyone else that has lost a parent I lit my 24 hour yahrzeit [...]
“WARMED BY THE FIRE OF THE AISH KODESH– Torah from the Hilulas of Reb Kalonymus Kalman Shapira of Piaseczna” by Rav Moshe Weinberger and adapted by Binyomin Wolf is more [...]
