A synagogue was selling Aliyot before the Torah reading on Yom Tov, and two people mistakenly purchased Aliyot for the same person. There was a Rabbi in attendance whom two different people wished to honor with an Aliya, and so one purchased Shelishi (the third Aliya), and the other, not realizing
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The Louis Farrakhan Problem
Louis Farrakhan is an anti-Semite. He’s called Jews “termites” and “Satan” and Hitler a “very great man.” He says, “the Jewish media has normalized
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A young boy once went to the circus and was astonished when he saw that there was a giant elephant tethered to the ground by a thin rope. Curious, he
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According to Sephardic custom, a food that is ground into a jelly or paste retains its original Bracha. Even though the resulting food does not
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Fast Days – Rinsing One’s Mouth with Water, Chewing Gum and Taking Pills
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Is One Allowed To Talk After Reciting Baruch She’amar?
The Shulhan Aruch writes that it is forbidden to make any verbal interruptions during the prayer service, from Baruch She’amar – at the beginning of