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5785
5785 - The Rarest Year of Them All Part II
Bar Mitzvah-ed on a Different Day?
5785 - The Rarest Year of Them All Part II
5785 -The Rarest Year of Them All Part I
5784
5784 - The Year of the Rare Haftarah Part III
5784 - The Year of the Rare Haftarah Part II
Seder Insights: Comprehending Karpas
Salting With Sugar?!
The Seudas Shlishis - Rosh Chodesh Quandary
More Common Kiddush Questions:
Leaving Learning For Levayos?
Fasting on Friday
5784 - The Year of the Rare Haftarah
Thanksgiving: Wholesome Holiday or Chukos HaGoyim?
When Rosh Hashana Falls Out on Shabbos...
5783
Which Week Is Which?
The Unknown Days of the Jewish Calendar
Facts and Formulae For the Forgetful
The Complicated Case of Shemitta Wine on Pesach
Mishloach Manos with Shemitta Produce
Making Havdalah with Shemitta Wine
Lighting the Menorah with Kedushas Sheviis Oil?
Shemitta Sheilos: Using Arbah Minim of Sheviis
5782
Shemittas Kesafim and the Prozbol
Parashas Ki Seitzei: The Double-Header Haftarah
Parashas Eikev: All About Tachanun
How to Make Havdalah when Motza’ei Shabbos is Tisha B’Av 5782/2022
Adorning the Shul with Greenery on Shavuos: Minhag Yisrael or Chukos HaGoyim?
Parashas Behar: Shemittah Sheilos: The Perplexing Puzzle of the Possibly Purloined Peppers
The Parasha Dual Dichotomy 5782/2022 Which Week Is Which?
Acharei Mos & Kedoshim: The Curious Case of the Missing Haftarah 5782/2022
Seder Insights: Understanding Urchatz, Comprehending Karpas
To Drink or Not to Drink? A Halachic Analysis of Getting Drunk on Purim
Mishloach Manos with Shemitta Produce
Snowballs on Shabbos?
5782 - The Rarities Continue ...
Lighting the Menorah with Shemitta Oil?
Of Thrift Shops, Extra Simcha Food, and Agunos by Rabbi Yair Hoffman
5781
How to Make Havdalah when Motza’ei Shabbos is Tisha B’Av
Of Haftaros and Havdalah: Shabbos Rosh Chodesh Av 5781
When Do 'The Three Weeks' Start?
Forgotten Fast Days: Zos Chukas HaTorah
The Unknown Days: BeHa”B vs. Pesach Sheini?
Pesach - The Quinoa Conundrum
Erev Pesach Shechal B'Shabbos: A Halachic Guide
Configuring Parashas Zachor and Purim Meshulash – 5781
Purim: To Drink or Not To Drink?
Fasting on Friday?
Geshem or Gashem?! - updated 2020
5781 - An Exceptional Year - Part II
5781 - An Exceptional Year - Part I
New Beginnings for Shabbat Bereishet
5780
Parasha Permutations 5780/2020
Weighty Waiting Options
Kedushas Sheviis Produce
Shemitta Basics - Part 2
Havdalah During the Nine Days
Understanding Urchatz
The Halachic Adventures of the Potato
Kiddush Levana During the Megillah?!
Understanding Shnayim Mikra V'Echad Targum
Chanuka: A Bochur's Perennial Predicament
The Odd Account of the Overnight Onion
Sukka on Shmini Atzeres?
Pie Crusts, Pas Paltur and the Aseres Yemei Teshuva
5779
The Rosh Hashanah Meat Mystery
Tachanun in Yerushalayim
Smoking and Halacha
A Historical Perspective
How to Make Havdalah During the Nine Days 5779 / 2019
Updated 5779 / 2019
Switching Sefirahs?
Understanding Your Minhag and its Ramifications
The Parshah Dual Dichotomy 5779
The "Unknown Days" of the Jewish Calendar
Updated 5779 / 2019
The Tattoo Taboo and Permanent Make-Up Too
Updated 5779 / 2019
The Quinoa - Kitniyos Conundrum
Updated 5779 / 2019
Buffalo Burgers and the Zebu Controversy
Megillah Mysteries: The Eitz Chaim Enigma
Megillah Mysteries: Situations of Spacing
Configuring the "Arba Parshiyos" Puzzle
A Tale of Two Adars
Computations and Complications
The Dating / Davening Dilemma
Common Kiddush Questions
The Curious Case of the Karpef
Breaking the Yom Kippur Fast Before Havdalah?
5778
The Double-Header Haftara in 2018
Parashah Permutations 5778
The Great Cholent Challenge
The Chanuka Candle - Havdalah Hullabaloo
Of Elul, L'David, and Golems
5777
Showering During the Nine Days?!
Hygiene in Halachah
Meat on Rosh Chodesh Av?
Adorning the Shul with Greenery on Shavuos: Part 2
Minhag Yisraelor Chukos HaGoyim?
Adorning the Shul with Greenery on Shavuos: Part 1
Minhag Yisraelor Chukos HaGoyim?
Facts and Formulae For the Forgetful
The Coca-Cola Kashrus Controversy
Thanksgiving: Harmless Holiday or Chukos HaGoyim?
Mayim Acharonim, Chova?
One Day or Two?
What is a Chutznik in Eretz Yisrael to Do?
5776
The Rosh Hashana ‘Dug’ Dilemma
The Double-Header Haftarah
How to Make Havdalah During the Nine Days 5776
A Dairy Dilemma: Of Hard Cheese Complexities and Pizza Perplexities
Do We Really Have To Wait After Eating Certain Milchigs?
The Case of the Missing Haftarah 5776 / 2016
The Complicated Case of Shemitta Wine on Pesach
31 Days Before the Bar Mitzvah
A Primer on Mitzvah Observance in a Double Adar
Shemitta/Purim Sheilos
Mishloach Manos with Shemitta Produce
The Halachic Discourse of Louis Pasteur
The Many Facets of Asarah B'Teves
More Mitzvah Use: Chanukah Oil
Shemitta Basics
The Gid Hanasheh Incongruity
The Parameters of Pas Paltur
Shemitta Sheilos: Using Arbah Minim of Sheviis - Part 2
Shemitta Basics Part VIb
Shemitta Sheilos: Using Arbah Minim of Sheviis
Shemitta Basics Part VIa
5775
The Performing Kiddush Prior to Tekiyas Shofar Puzzle
The Double-Header Haftara
The Halachic Challenges of the Cheesecake
Shemitta Sheilos: The Case of The Contraband Carrots
Shemitta Basics Part V
Parsha Permutations
The Paradox of Purging Plastic Products
Is Plastic Kasherable?
More Mitzvah Use: Of Chanuka Oil and Mishloach Manos
Shemitta Basics Part IV
To Drink or Not to Drink?
A Halachic Analysis of Getting Drunk on Purim
Fruit Use and Fruit Juice
Shemitta Basics Part III
More Common Kiddush Questions
Kiddush B�makom Seudah
Ma�aseh Avos = Halacha L�Ma�aseh
5774
(Not) To Eat Meat On Rosh Hashana
Halachic Insights into Genetically Engineered Meat
Birkas Kohanim and You
The Case of the Missing Haftara
Birchas Chacham HaRazim
A Rare Bracha and a Unique Opportunity
Fasting on Friday?
Thanksgiving On Chanuka?
All About Honor in Halacha
Bar Mitzvah-ed Before His Time?
Rosh Hashana: The Universal Two-Day Yom Tov
(and Why Yom Kippur is not)
(Not) To Eat Fish On Rosh Hashana?
5773
A Halachic Analysis of the Recent Meat Scandal Ruling
The Colored Water Caper
The Chicken Bone 'N' Cholent Commotion
The Essence of Vidui
5772
The Dishwasher Debate - Part II
The Dishwasher Debate - Part 1
To Bentch or Not to Bentch (between milk and meat)?
That is the Question...
The Ins and Outs of "Shnei Keilim Shenagu"
The Lettuce for Maror Pickle
Kashering Teeth?!
Kashering New Pots For Pesach?!
The Coffee Dipping Conundrum
Margarine, Misconceptions, and Maris Ayin
The Halachic Power of a Diyuk
Photogrey Glasses on Shabbos
Leeuwenhoek's Halachic Legacy
Bubby Didn't Eat Bugs!
Chodosh in Chutz La�aretz - Part 3
Chodosh in Chutz La'aretz - Part 2
Chodosh in Chutz La'aretz - Part 1
The Miracle(s) of Chanukah
Fish with Legs?!
New Beginnings - Words of Chizuk for Shabbat Bereishit
5771
The Lox and Cream Cheese Dilemma - Part 2
Milk and Fish
The Lox and Cream Cheese Dilemma - Part 1
Meat and Fish
Meat for Breakfast?!
When Do "The Three Weeks" Start?
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