From the Ravs Desk: Latest articles and Q&A [Sunday 11th Shevat 5785]

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Recent Q&A

You may drink it if you choose, so long as snakes are not common in your home. I recommend that you check the water to make sure it is free of ants or other insects.

Mayim Shenisgalu-May one drink liquids that were left uncovered overnight

 

It is best to discard it. However, one who is lenient has upon whom to rely.

What is the law of food or drink that was touched prior to washing hands in the morning after awakening – Shulchanaruchharav.com

 

Yes, amongst some communities. See below

May a daughter of the deceased recite Kaddish Yasom?

Yes

See Sefer Haminhagim p. 36; Glosses of Rebbe to Sefer Hamamarim 1949 p. 74 and 1950 p. 6; Igros Kodesh 11:33 [published in Shulchan Menachem 5:301]

After Mincha.

See Sefer Haminhagim p. 36; Glosses of Rebbe to Sefer Hamamarim 1949 p. 74 and 1950 p. 6; Igros Kodesh 11:33 [published in Shulchan Menachem 5:301]

Yes.

See Toras Menachem 19:31 [brought in Shulchan Menachem 5:322]

 

This is not true.

See Igros Kodesh 112:167; 388

 

Chassidus Articles

The unity of G-d expressed in Shema versus Baruch Sheim and the reason why the people of Jericho would skip it

 

Why the Jewish people are compared to the moon

 

Avraham’s main Avoda was to draw G-dliness into upper worlds

 

The fire of Torah protects one from the flames of purgatory

 

Halacha Articles

6. Blessings –Birchas Hamazon and other blessings:

6. Chinuch of children – Birchas Hamazon and other blessings

 

Guests repeating blessings by a host

 

Repeating a blessing on another food – Full article

 

Must a blessing be repeated upon eating a subsequent food that was not on the table or in ones mind

 

Must the blessing be repeated upon eating a second helping, such as a second apple

 

A blessing over a food covers all of the food on the table of that same blessing

 

May a daughter of the deceased recite Kaddish Yasom?

About The Author

Rabbi Yaakov Goldstein is a 6th generation descendent of the famous Chief Rabbi of Izhmir, Rav Yehoshua Avraham Krispin, who authored a number of Sefarim, and was a colleague of Rav Chaim Falagi, and father in-law of the Pesach Hadvir. He currently lives with his wife Shayna, and twelve children K”H, in Tzfas, Israel. Rabbi Goldstein received Semicha from Rabbi Schneur Zalman Labkowski of the Tomchei Temimim headquarters in 2005 and served as a chaplain in the Lotar/Kalatz and K9 unit of the IDF from years 2005-2008. He is also a certified Shochet, and has performed Hashgacha work in slaughterhouses. Rabbi Goldstein is the director of Shulchanaruchharav.com, the world’s leading web-based Halacha database, and is the director of the Home Study Semicha Program, a self-study web-based Semicha program. He is a prolific author of over 50 Sefarim studied by a wide range of readers throughout the world, which is used regularly in Semicha programs around the globe. He is a world renowned Posek, answering questions to a web-based market, and serves as a local Posek, Rav, and Lecturer, in the Tzemach Tzedek community Shul in Tzefas, Israel. His many classes can be heard both from his website, Vimeo and YouTube channel. Students can join live to classes given in the Tzemach Tzedek Shul, through the “בית חבד צפת Chabad Tsfat” YouTube channel.

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