Halacha clearly forbids speaking after reciting the Beracha over Tefillin Shel Yad, until one has completed placing the Tefillin Shel Rosh on his head. In fact, while putting on Tefillin one may not even answer "Amen" to a Beracha or to Kaddish. Rav Haim Palachi, in his work Kaf Ha’haim, rules that
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
A tiny Israeli company has developed a product that can create clean green electricity, do so inexpensively, and that can be used by any country that
Is it permissible to rinse one’s mouth out with water on a fast day? Although it is forbidden to rinse one’s mouth on Yom Kippur and Tisha B’Av, one
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
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
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
