This article is an excerpt from our Sefer Buy Here or on Amazon.com Using a Tallis or Tefillin straps to cover the face during Tachanun:[1] The custom is to cover the face with a garment upon reciting Tachanun.[2] It does not suffice to cover one’s face using his bare arm.[3] […]
What is one to do if the wrong Sefer Torah was removed from the Aron:
What is one to do if the wrong Sefer Torah was removed from the Aron: If the wrong Sefer Torah was removed from the Aron [i.e. not rolled to the right Parsha], some Poskim[1] rule that it is not to be replaced.[2] This applies even if one desires to remove […]
The shape of the Challahs
Shape of the Challahs: It is customary to form the Challahs for Shabbos as a long straight dough. This is opposed to round or square. The reason for this is because the Challahs represent the letter Vav of the Tetragrammaton.[1] Alternatively the two Challahs in the shape of a Vav […]
Buying and wearing new clothing during the three weeks and nine days
Buying and wearing new clothing during the Three Weeks and Nine Days: Buying new clothing: Between the 17th of Tammuz and Rosh Chodesh Av:[1] It is good[2] to beware not to recite Shehechiyanu over new clothing during the three weeks.[3] Accordingly, it is forbidden to buy or wear new clothing […]
What is one to do if the wrong Sefer Torah was removed from the Aron:
What is one to do if the wrong Sefer Torah was removed from the Aron: If the wrong Sefer Torah was removed from the Aron [i.e. not rolled to the right Parsha], some Poskim[1] rule that it is not to be replaced.[2] This applies even if one desires to remove […]
Buying and wearing new clothing during the three weeks and nine days
Buying and wearing new clothing during the Three Weeks and Nine Days: Buying new clothing: Between the 17th of Tammuz and Rosh Chodesh Av:[1] It is good[2] to beware not to recite Shehechiyanu over new clothing during the three weeks.[3] Accordingly, it is forbidden to buy or wear new clothing […]
Baking Challahs for Shabbos
Baking Challahs for Shabbos:[1] It is customary for every household to bake Challahs for Shabbos which are used for Lechem Mishneh and not to buy them at the bakery as is done during the week. This matter of baking one’s own Challah is included in the honoring of Shabbos and […]
How to hold the Sefer Torah-Right hand versus left hand
How to hold the Sefer Torah:[1] The Sefer Torah is to be held by one’s right side. This applies both to the Chazan, and to the person who removes the Torah from the ark to hand it to the Chazan. [Even one who is left-handed is to hold the Sefer […]
The importance and effects of a sanctified marital intimacy
Buy Now! The importance and effects of a sanctified marital intimacy: The Shlah Hakadosh writes as follows:[1] “One must guard and fulfill all the words of the Tur in O.C. 240 and E.H. 25. Do not ignore anything that is mentioned there. One must know by heart every word that […]
Understanding the lust involved in intimacy and self control
Buy Now! The lust involved in intimacy: A. The History-The inception of the lust for marital relations:[1] In the times of Adam Harishon, prior to the sin, there was no lust involved in intimacy, and the act of intercourse between man and woman was similar to any other Mitzvah, such […]
