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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On Fri, Jul 04, 2025 at 09:59:17AM +1000, Rabbi Meir G. Rabi via Avodah wrote: >> Hil' Geneivas Daas from comparing that event to the end of Bereishis when >> [...]
R Micha suggested; We learn {WE, is that a reference to the Gemara or an Acharon?} Hil' Geneivas Daas from comparing that event to the end of Bereishis when the [...]
On Wed, Jul 02, 2025 at 05:35:25AM +0300, Joel Rich via Avodah wrote: > Dairy and fish. Do we try to understand alternative narratives of what R' > Karo was [...]
On Wed, Jul 02, 2025 at 05:32:54AM +0300, Joel Rich via Avodah wrote: > The whole topic of gzeira shava has been my Moby Dick. Looking at all the > [...]
On Mon, Jun 23, 2025 at 04:29:34PM +1000, Rabbi Meir G. Rabi via Avodah wrote: > The Torah discloses Miryam's indiscretion > but not that of Aharon HaCohen > [although [...]
The whole topic of gzeira shava has been my Moby Dick. Looking at all the seeming cases within the talmud and trying to come up with an overarching theory of [...]
Stet in the Beit Yosef: Fish and Milk, from Typographical Error to Typological Exemplar Stet in the Beit Yosef: Fish and Milk, from Typographical Error to Typological Exemplar Aton M. [...]
Rabbi Reisman ? Parshas Korach 5785 I would like to share with you a second thought. In 1933, Rav Schwab returned from Lita to Germany. He was born in Germany [...]
The Importance of a Makom Kavu'a -a specific place for Tefillah -and the ramifications of that importance.A recording for the BHP daily Halachic WhatsApp group https://chat.whatsapp.com/Gz8rrxqRcfy9rMOXRLG6GS[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8PP0mnAcDo?si=GwzOCTppNlQjb9D_] [...]
עירין קדישיןExplanations of the terms,whether they are one or two terms,their place in the systemand their role in it. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1v3I4lFuOM?si=Yl8BEJoOWIIF1PrJ] [...]
Rischa D'Araisa Season 11 Episode 9:A Modern "Austritt" and "Teilung"?Skver's separatist crusade to prevent Jewish families from residing near their village.https://listen.jewishpodcasts.fm/yeshivaofnewark/103230Check out the websites on the issue:https://withinthemile.comhttps://skvermile.com [...]
Rischa D'Araisa Season 11 Episode 8:?נִפְתַּ֛לְתִּי עִם־אֲחיי גַּם־יָכֹ֑לְתִּיWhat we can learn from the case of Naftuli Moster and the YAFFED organizationhttps://listen.jewishpodcasts.fm/yeshivaofnewark/102907 [...]
Rischa D'Araisa Season 11 Episode 6:Black Hats and Baseball Caps:Possible Futures and Instructive Historieshttps://listen.jewishpodcasts.fm/yeshivaofnewark/102188 [...]
You are invited to a shiuron the topic of Shavuos on Shavuos (Sunday) night,11:45pm-12:30am, at our home, 3 Zabriskie Terrace in Monsey.I am also giving a shiur on "The Great [...]
Rischa D'Araisa Season 11 Episode 5:The Brightest Aren't the Best:Why so many Gemara Talmidim remainill-served by their Rabbeimhttps://listen.jewishpodcasts.fm/yeshivaofnewark/101699 [...]
I don't know when the print version will be coming out, but this is the link to my latest article, a review of Rabbi Dr. Adam Mintz's Building Communities: A [...]
Subsequent episodes in the series will appear in the comments to this post.[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujjAlz_SVQU?si=lGhHoG7dMWr3uXy0] [...]
How Rav Ashi made the yeshiva at Masa Mechasya (Sura) permanent; his surpassing the Reishei Galusa in significance and dominance; and the history and legends of Bustenai.[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGVFTfj-TSc?si=QSL4ukQ8AWnZ8f6k]Subsequent episodes in the [...]
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 [...]
