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On Tue, Aug 12, 2025 at 05:50:47PM -0400, Joel Rich via Avodah wrote: > May (one should) lchatchila build a below grade pump toilet knowing that it > will be [...]
May (one should) lchatchila build a below grade pump toilet knowing that it will be used on Shabbat? bsorot tovot Joel Rich [...]
Is there such a thing as psak in hashkafa? Fascinating https://www.yutorah.org/ reading/lecture.cfm/1144365 Rabbi Dovid Miller-Halacha and Morality: The View of the Rav (and R Dessler) Bsorot tovot Joel Rich [...]
? R Reuven Feinstein mentioned that the Maharam Mrutenberg did not visit his father because of the halachic question who would stand for whom. He did not answer his own [...]
R Reuven Feinstein mentioned that the Maharam Mrutenberg did not visit his father because of the halachic question who would stand for whom. He did not answer his own question [...]
On Sun, Jul 20, 2025 at 08:49:43AM -0400, Akiva Miller via Avodah wrote: > The devil is in the details. There's no way to answer your question without > knowing [...]
On Tue, Jul 15, 2025 at 02:26:32PM -0400, Akiva Miller via Avodah wrote: > When Torah is accused of cruelty to animals, I often see people respond > that shechita [...]
On Sun, Jun 29, 2025 at 05:07:03PM -0400, mcohen via Avodah wrote: > Rabbi Reisman -- Parshas Korach 5785 ... > Now this is not the setting to go through [...]
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- Yosef Gavriel Bechhofer
To See the Land of IsraelA BHP Productions video on the Parasha. Parashas Va'Eschanan. https://chat.whatsapp.com/I4CFQwInPXNATfQSMNOeRV[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXvVKb639mw?si=oCFCzVCDE40o5nCC] [...]
- Yosef Gavriel Bechhofer
Tisha B'Av and Viktor Frankl(and some Rav Dessler too!) [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3IUusHkfmcY?si=xdzI-ycCkI4xtk7u]Introductions to Selected KinnosFrom the Kinnos of Tisha B'Av 5785 at Cong. Ohaiv Yisroel of Blueberry Hill, under the auspices [...]
- Yosef Gavriel Bechhofer
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 [...]
- Yosef Gavriel Bechhofer
Rischa D'Araisa Season 11 Finale:For Your Tisha B'Av Listening:Reflecting on Vanished Kehillos:Ukraine●Germany●Provence●American Heartlandhttps://listen.jewishpodcasts.fm/yeshivaofnewark/104978Play EpisodeDownload EpisodeSupport This Episode [...]
- Yosef Gavriel Bechhofer
Professional Wrester "Gorgeous George" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfXjhXAa29o Rischa D'Araisa Season 11 Episode 13:"Gorgeous Gemara"Professional Wrestlingand the Entrenched Yeshiva Systemhttps://listen.jewishpodcasts.fm/yeshivaofnewark/104909Play EpisodeDownload EpisodeSupport This Episode [...]
- Yosef Gavriel Bechhofer
A mini-shiur onRabbi Shlomo Poltachek, the Meitcheter Illui zt"l'schiddush in the sugya of Ger Kattandelivered at a zoom session in commemoration of the Illui's yahrzeit in 5785.The pages from the [...]
- Yosef Gavriel Bechhofer
The Parameters of Havdalah and Cheimar Medinah During the Nine Days and on Tisha B'Av.A recording for the BHP daily Halachic Whatsapp group https://chat.whatsapp.com/Gz8rrxqRcfy9rMOXRLG6GS[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8zRYAEgowI?si=1tumBki4uh5viJOr] [...]
- Yosef Gavriel Bechhofer
Rischa D'Araisa Season 11 Episode 12:Rav Yitzchok Zilberstein shlita:Chulent on Thursday Night:Dogged Pursuit of a Posekhttps://listen.jewishpodcasts.fm/yeshivaofnewark/104303Play EpisodeDownload EpisodeSupport This Episode [...]
- Yosef Gavriel Bechhofer
It's nice to see our ancestral shul front and center as the basis of Halachic discourse.The article doesn't have the famous (well, maybe not so famous...) picture of the bima [...]
- Yosef Gavriel Bechhofer
Rischa D'Araisa Season 11 Episode 11:Books for your Carry-On-Summer Reading Suggestionshttps://listen.jewishpodcasts.fm/yeshivaofnewark/103999 [...]
- Yosef Gavriel Bechhofer
Rischa D'Araisa Season 11 Episode 10:רישא דלא אתידעWhy is Chabad-Lubavitch Marginalized by Both the Yeshivish and the Chassidish Worlds?https://listen.jewishpodcasts.fm/yeshivaofnewark/103648 [...]
- Yosef Gavriel Bechhofer
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_] [...]
- Yosef Gavriel Bechhofer
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] [...]
- Yosef Gavriel Bechhofer
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 [...]
- Yosef Gavriel Bechhofer
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yo-At2TpSi8?si=PW9OMIF9OyKq0KUv] [...]
- Yosef Gavriel Bechhofer
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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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The Way of G-d 2:6:2 1. G-d appears in each Sanhedrin and court, influences it, and sees to it that justice is served 1. Now, in some instances [...]
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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. [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
- Neil Harris
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 [...]
- Neil Harris
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 [...]
- Neil Harris
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 [...]
- Neil Harris
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 [...]
- Neil Harris
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 [...]
- Neil Harris
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 [...]
- Neil Harris
I have started this post about 2 dozen times over the past 3 years and I never seem to get more than about 300 words written about why I stopped [...]
- Neil Harris
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 [...]
- Neil Harris
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 [...]
- Neil Harris
“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 [...]