A weekly shiur by Dayan Levi Yitzchok Raskin, Rov of Anash in London, explores interesting Torah questions and halachic dilemmas. The following issues are discussed by Rabbi Raskin in this week’s episode: 1. Rebbi Akiva: A gilgul of Zimri and of Shimon ben Yaakov; and who was a gilgul of Read more…
A weekly shiur by Dayan Levi Yitzchok Raskin, Rov of Anash in London, explores interesting Torah questions and halachic dilemmas. The following issues are discussed by Rabbi Raskin in this week’s episode: 1. At the last Shiur, you suggested that bread-croutons are HaMotzi. But the packet asserts that the brocho Read more…
1) The brocho upon seeing blossoming trees, why only in the month of Nisan? 2) I was clearing out Grandma’s flat, and offered the old furniture for sale. A non-Jew put down £20 in cash for a sideboard, to be collected the following week. Meanwhile one of the grandchildren woke Read more…
1) The brocho upon seeing blossoming trees, why only in the month of Nisan? 2) I was clearing out Grandma’s flat, and offered the old furniture for sale. A non-Jew put down £20 in cash for a sideboard, to be collected the following week. Meanwhile one of the grandchildren woke Read more…
A weekly shiur by Dayan Levi Yitzchok Raskin, Rov of Anash in London, explores interesting Torah questions and halachic dilemmas. The following issues are discussed by Rabbi Raskin in this week’s episode: 1. May a peeler be used on Shabbos to peel an apple? [1] 2. What about Pesach, when Read more…
1) Answer to q. why the larger part of the middle matzo is used for Afikoman, not for the Mitzva min haTorah of eating Matzo: 2) Further on procedure when Sheva Brochos is held at Seuda Shlishis: 3) This year Lag b’Omer is on Friday. Is it acceptable to make Read more…
1) Answer to q. why the larger part of the middle matzo is used for Afikoman, not for the Mitzva min haTorah of eating Matzo: 2) Further on procedure when Sheva Brochos is held at Seuda Shlishis: 3) This year Lag b’Omer is on Friday. Is it acceptable to make Read more…
1) At Yachatz, the larger part is put aside for Afikoman, “because it’s an important mitzvah, for it is our substitute for the Korban Pesach” . But isn’t the primary mitzva of Matzo more important? 2) At Bedikas Chometz, should one switch off the electric lights? 3) We sell all Read more…
1) At Yachatz, the larger part is put aside for Afikoman, “because it’s an important mitzvah, for it is our substitute for the Korban Pesach” . But isn’t the primary mitzva of Matzo more important? 2) At Bedikas Chometz, should one switch off the electric lights? 3) We sell all Read more…
1) To recite עלינו with the Minyan that is ahead of oneself: 2) May one lay Tefilin with visitors to a cemetery, at a distance from the graves? 3) On Shabbos, a non-Jew asks to borrow my jump-start equipment. May I show him where the appliance is, and may I Read more…