Parshas Bereishis-Summary of the Parsha

This article is an excerpt from our Sefer    Buy now on Amazon.com Parshas Bereishis Pesukim: 146 [Siman:אמציה] Haftorah: Yeshayahu 42:5-21[1]   Number of Mitzvos: There is a total of One Mitzvah in Parshas Bereishis; One positive command and Zero negative commands. The following are the commands in the order […]

Chatzitzas on vessels during immersion

Chatzitzas on vessels:[1] When immersing a vessel in a Mikveh one must remove all invalidating intervals from the inside and outside of the vessel in order for the immersion to be valid. If there was an invalidating interval on the vessel at the time of immersion, the immersion is Rabbinically[2] […]

Involvement in the baking process

What involvement of a gentile in the baking determines the bread to be pas akum:[1] The Sages only forbade gentile baked bread in the event that the baking process was completely done by the gentile. If however a Jew was involved in some part of the baking process then the […]

Pas Paltar-Commercial gentile bread

Listen here to audio Pas Palter-Must commercially baked bread be Pas Yisrael:[1] When the Sages initially enacted the decree against eating the bread of a gentile, the decree applied towards all bread baked by a gentile, whether it is bread baked within the private home of a gentile, or bread […]

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  Introduction: The Sages enacted two different forms of prohibitions against the foods of a gentile. One which relates to the bread of a gentile, and is called Pas Akum and the second which relates to the cooked foods of a gentile which is called Bishul Akum. The Halachic differences […]