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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Continuing the discussion from Being Chosheish for Other Shitos: Being Chosheish for Other Shitos Being Chosheish for Other Shitos Personally, I do something that preserves the current Ashkenazi 7-8-11-13 but [...]
Continuing the discussion from Being Chosheish for Other Shitos Being Chosheish for Other Shitos Being Chosheish for Other Shitos Personally, I do something that preserves the current Ashkenazi 7-8-11-13 but [...]
In earlier discussions about AI, the question came up about saying “please” and “thank you” to them. Most people said yes – good Middos practice. And I am similarly inclined. [...]
Continuing the discussion from An Arvei Nachal Chumera, replying to @Danny_Schoemann : FWIW, I don’t believe in #4. For well over a decade, perhaps closer to 2, my father went [...]
Nusach Ashkenaz question: On Simchas Torah it is common to start Mussaf After Minechah Gedolah. When that happens, which should you say - שים שלום or שלום רב? I recall [...]
The attached essay reassesses the commonly held view that Rav Yitzchak Isaac Halevi Rabinowitz (Doros HaRishonim) denied any substantive role for derashos in the formation of halachah. In it, we [...]
We recite “היום הרת עולם, היום יעמיד במשפט כל יצורי עולמים" following each time we blow the shofar during Musaf on Rosh Hashana. The recitation is commonly understood as meaning, [...]
In my running joke about a Chumera of the Month Club, here is one I made up that people since started actually doing. According to Sukkah 33b, “arvei nachal” is [...]
Play EpisodeDownload EpisodeSupport This EpisodeRischa D'Araisa Season 14 Episode 7:Flood and Faith:Emunah and Scientific Knowledgehttps://listen.jewishpodcasts.fm/yeshivaofnewark/124982 [...]
Moriah by Rabbi Dr Isaac Breuer - October 11VIEW RECORDING - 36 mins (No highlights)Meeting Purpose To explore Rabbi Breuer's concepts of history, meta-history, and the Jewish role. Key Takeaways [...]
Meeting Purpose Exploring the spiritual and inspirational lessons of Bereshit (Genesis). Key Takeaways Creation as a Spiritual Blueprint: Bereshit is an inspirational guide, not a scientific text. Rashi's view holds [...]
Play EpisodeDownload EpisodeSupport This EpisodeRischa D'Araisa Season 14 Episode 6:Storming the Cockpit of Israeli Politics:The Tzibbur HaCharedi Party- with Rabbi Yitzchok Adlersteinhttps://listen.jewishpodcasts.fm/yeshivaofnewark/123474orhttps://youtu.be/mN3HgN7zQgc [...]
Meeting Purpose To explore the Kabbalistic meaning of Simchat Torah dancing. Key Takeaways Two Lights: Kabbalah distinguishes between Or Pnimi (internalized light, like learned Torah) and Or Makif (enveloping, external [...]
Play EpisodeDownload EpisodeSupport This EpisodeRischa D'Araisa Season 14 Episode 5:The Naza Film and the Point of Free Choice(Collateral Damage and the Nekudas HaBechirah)https://listen.jewishpodcasts.fm/yeshivaofnewark/123152 [...]
Fathom Summary:Uganda Shiur - September 24Meeting Purpose To explore the spiritual significance and historical practices of Sukkot. Key Takeaways Simchat Beit HaShoeva: The Temple's water-drawing ceremony was a legendary celebration [...]
Uganda Shiur - September 17Meeting Purpose To review the Jewish concept of repentance (Teshuvah) and atonement for Yom Kippur. Key Takeaways Atonement is a process: It requires repentance (Teshuvah) and [...]
Shalom Aleichem (and Kabbalat Shabbat) when Shabbat and Rosh Hashanah (or another Yom Tov) Coincide.A recording for the BHP daily Halachic Whatsapp group https://chat.whatsapp.com/Gz8rrxqRcfy9rMOXRLG6GS [...]
Play EpisodeDownload EpisodeSupport This EpisodeRischa D'Araisa Season 14 Episode 4:להיזכר מעשים רבים והמון בריות לאין תכלית:Does the 25th Anniversary of 9/11 Figure Into Our Rosh HaShanah's Zichron Teru'ah?https://listen.jewishpodcasts.fm/yeshivaofnewark/122150 [...]
Uganda Shiur - September 07VIEW RECORDING - 29 mins (No highlights)Meeting Purpose To understand the Jewish concept of Gehenna and divine judgment. Key Takeaways Gehenna is spiritual shame, not physical [...]
Fathom Summary:Moriah by Rabbi Dr Isaac Breuer - September 06Meeting Purpose To introduce Rabbi Dr. Isaac Breuer's concept of Judaism as a national, not individual, mission. Key Takeaways Judaism is [...]
Uganda Shiur - September 03VIEW RECORDING - 23 mins (No highlights)Meeting Purpose To explore the Gemara's teachings on post-mortem judgment and atonement. Key Takeaways Atonement Tiers: Most sinners face a [...]
Play EpisodeDownload EpisodeSupport This EpisodeRischa D'Araisa Season 14 Episode 3: No "Strings" Attached!Insisting On Traditional Selichoshttps://listen.jewishpodcasts.fm/yeshivaofnewark/122001 [...]
Uganda Shiur - August 31Meeting Purpose To explain the Rosh Hashanah judgment and its implications for the coming year. Key Takeaways Rosh Hashanah Judgment: On Rosh Hashanah, all people are [...]
From Idea, to Identifying the Good, to Gratitude to its Provider Our last discussion of Birkhas Yotzeir Or was “Reflecting about the Flow from On High”, this is about “gratitude”. [...]
Many lists in davening come in sixes and sevens. A lot of my comments were based on seeing “6” as representing the six workdays, and “7” as the holy within [...]
The middle berakhah of the Amidah for Yom Tov begins: אַתָּה בְחַרְתָּנוּ מִכָּל הָעַמִּיםאָהַבְתָּ אותָנוּוְרָצִיתָ בָּנוּוְרומַמְתָּנוּ מִכָּל הַלְּשׁונותוְקִדַּשְׁתָּנוּ בְּמִצְותֶיךָוְקֵרַבְתָּנוּ מַלְכֵּנוּ לַעֲבודָתֶךָוְשִׁמְךָ הַגָּדול וְהַקָּדושׁ עָלֵינוּ קָרָאתָ You have Chosen us from [...]
Continuing with the extended Birkhas Qedushah of the Yamim Nora’im, moving on to the second “UVekhein”: וּבְכֵן צַדִּיקִים יִרְאוּ וְיִשְׂמָֽחוּ וִישָׁרִים יַעֲלֹֽזוּ וַחֲסִידִים בְּרִנָּה יָגִֽילוּ וְעוֹלָֽתָה תִּקְפָּץ פִּֽיהָ. וְכָל הָרִשְׁעָה [...]
The Birkhas Qedushah of the Yamim Nora’im continues differently from the version we recite during the rest of the year: וּבְכֵן תֵּן פַּחְדְּךָ ה׳ אֱלֹקֵֽינוּ עַל כָּל מַעֲשֶֽׂיךָוְאֵימָתְךָ עַל כָּל [...]
Sorry this is after Rosh haShanah. It’s my version of R’ Chaggai Raviv’s (my LOR’s) explanation of a thought by R’ YB Soloveitchik. I couldn’t share it before hearing his [...]
Rav Yisrael Meir haKohein, the Chafetz Chaim, asked why Rosh haShanah comes before Yom Kippur. After all, David haMelekh writes, “ס֣וּר מֵ֭רָע וַעֲשֵׂה־טֹ֑וב – turn away from evil and do [...]
So far we looked at the bookends of birkhas Yotzeir Or. By the rules for writing a berakhah, they establish the central theme. At this point it appears to be [...]
Personal note: Two weeks after finishing sheloshim for one son, we attended the wedding of another. If the last post sounded like someone still grappling with why Hashem made room [...]
How a message for Cyrus the Great has meaning for us Cyrus the Great (“Koreish”, in Hebrew) was important to Jewish History. He conquered Bavel, ended the Babylonian Exile, and [...]
Last post I said that I find Devarim shebiQdushah to consistently be prayers that speak of Hashem’s inherent Holiness, and trying to bring ourselves and our world to a place [...]
Pivoting from Shemoneh Esrei to Qaddish to Shema and its berakhos, I will start with Borkhu. The segue raises the question of something Qaddish and Borkhu have in common. Both [...]
I was going to post something about “the fours” and about how I relate to numbers as symbols altogether. But as I am still in sheloshim, here’s something more on [...]
This post original began with the words “Last week”. However, two weeks ago we lost our son, Yehoshua Asher, generally known as Shuby. A 27 year old man with a [...]
The Amidah for Shabbos and Yom Tov end the day-specific berachah with a paragraph that includes: קַדְּ֒שֵֽׁנוּ בְּמִצְוֹתֶֽיךָ וְתֵן חֶלְקֵֽנוּ בְּתוֹרָתֶֽךָ …שַׂבְּ֒עֵֽנוּ מִטּוּבֶֽךָ וְשַׂמְּחֵנוּ בִּישׁוּעָתֶֽךָ … וְטַהֵר לִבֵּֽנוּ לְעָבְדְּ֒ךָ בֶּאֱמֶת [...]
I left off back in March, so here is a reminder of where we were up to:We were looking at Shabbos Minchah, and noted that Atah Echad follows the same [...]
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 [...]
