INGREDIENTS: 2 to 3 pounds of ground meat 4-5 cloves of freshly chopped garlic One bunch of chopped fresh parsley 2 teaspoons of Baharat spice Cinnamon sticks DIRECTIONS: These are so easy to make; they only use a couple of ingredients...
Shabbos Nachamu An ancient sefer (written by an Italian gadol) called Sefer Minhag Tov, writes, “It is a good custom not to take a haircut before erev Shabbos Nachamu, and when erev Shabbos Nachamu arrives, one is obligated to take...
Sherry Casks: Can you please explain? Sherry is a type of wine. Wine is a very sensitive ingredient when it comes to Kashrus. There are some scotches, particularly single malt scotches, that are aged in sherry casks. If the...
The Torah in Parashat Vaet’hanan (4:2) introduces the prohibitions known as “Bal Tosif” and “Bal Tigra” – adding onto the Torah’s laws and detracting from the Torah’s laws. Rashi explains that this refers to adding onto or detracting...
Last week, wildfire smoke took over the skies in the US Northeast. It was eerie. The sun turn apocalyptic red. What was a vibrant blue sky, with puffs of white clouds, became a milky-white...
Yosef Vs. Moshe “G-d became angry with me because of you, and He did not listen to me,” Moshe states in the beginning of this week’s parsha (Vaeschanan). “G-d said to me, ‘It is too much for you! Do...
After rising for many years, the divorce rate in the United States today is lower than it was a decade ago. But before you celebrate, the reason is not because of a sudden increase in blissful marriages; it’s...
I. Secession and Authority On July 28, 1876 — 150 years ago — the Prussian parliament passed a law allowing secession from a Jewish community without formally renouncing affiliation with Judaism. Rav Samson Raphael Hirsch had lobbied heavily for this...
One of the prohibitions that apply on Tishah B’Av is that we do not wear normal shoes. In the olden days, people would walk about barefoot on Tishah B’Av, whereas nowadays we have non-leather shoes or slippers...
Once, as I was giving a class about the halachot of Tishah B’Av, I mentioned the law regarding work on this day – that Halachah permits working on Tishah B’Av, but the Rabbis teach that one who...