Law/Halachah

Rabba, Maharat, Rabbanit, Rebbetzin: Women with Leadership Authority According to Halachah examines in detail the legitimacy for feminine leadership in Jewish law. Exploring the various manifestations of female leadership, whether as women clergy or other forms of female halachic adjudication, Rabba, Maharat, Rabbanit, Rebbetzin responds to the standard criticisms leveled at the recent phenomenon of female authority within the Orthodox community. In this groundbreaking book, Rabbi Professor Daniel Sperber argues the halachic, political, and sociological levels of female leadership in Judaism.

What Does Shemittah Have To Do With You? A Lot More Than You Think!

You’re not a farmer. You may not live in Eretz Yisrael. Yet the lessons of Shemittah -- lessons of emunah and bitachon -- can profoundly affect you. And the power of Shemittah -- the power, among other blessings, to hurry the Geulah -- belongs to all of us, as we study the halachos and incorporate the messages of Shemittah into our lives.

This Shemittah year, join Rav Chaim Kanievsky shlita to connect with this once-in-7-years mitzvah.

Rav Chaim Kanievsky on Shemittah includes:
- The hashkafah, reasons, and the lessons to be learned from the mitzvah of Shemittah, including finding the proper balance between emunah and hishtadlus
- Inspiring stories of Shemittah observance
- Selected halachos of Shemittah based on the piskei halachah of the Chazon Ish and Rav Chaim
- Special feature: The 9 mitzvos of Shemittah, from The Schottenstein Edition Sefer HaChinuch, The Book of Mitzvos

Binding: Hardcover
Size: 6" x 9"
Pages: 244
Publisher: ArtScroll Mesorah Publications
Release Date: 08/11/2021
ISBN-10: 1422629783
ISBN #: 9781422629789

Rav Chaim Kanievsky on Shemittah [Hardcover]
Comments, stories, and perspectives on Shemittah
By: Rabbi Avraham Yeshayahu Shteinman

This book, intended for the entire family, features an array of blessings, dedications, prayers, and hymns for the Sabbath and holidays. The book is divided into separate sections, from the Sabbath to every holiday. Each section includes answers to integral questions of every type. The traditional text is accompanied by fascinating and beautiful illustrations, pictures, and works of art. Using unique techniques, we added metal embossing and imprinting between the very leaves of the book, along with a wealth of gold print and lacquer finishing.(Hebrew, English )

A clear and user-friendly reference guide for the entire Dirshu Mishnah Berurah set.

Following the success of the Dirshu Mishnah Berurah over the past decade, Dirshu is proud to announce the release of the Mafte'ach, a breakthrough in the world of limud halachah. Welcomed with enthusiasm by noted poskim and dayanim, the Mafte'ach features a comprehensive index, enabling one to find any halachah on any topic along with sources, teshuvos, explanations, commentary, and modern psakim, in the Dirshu Mishnah Berurah.

A fascinating and comprehensive look at the important but little-discussed mitzvah of Shiluach Hakan . In this compelling sefer, every detail of the halachos of the mitzvah are conveyed in an organized and user-friendly fashion, complete with diagrams and photographs, and full Hebrew and English footnotes. This work brings the special mitzvah of Shiluach Hakan , which many regard as obscure, within the reach of every Jew. Shiluach Hakan is well-known as a mitzvah whose reward - long life - is explicitly stated. In this book, the author quotes gedolei hador who expound on the mitzvah's special rewards as including fertility miracles, shidduchim, and other salvations. This well-researched and much acclaimed volume is worthy and enriching.

Rabbi Professor Avraham Steinberg is a pediatric neurologist, a rabbi, and an ethicist. He is currently the director of the Medical Ethics Unit and the chairman of the IRB at Shaare Zedek Medical Center. He is also the head of the Editorial Board of the Talmudic Encyclopedia.

Steinberg is the author of the Encyclopedia of Jewish Medical Ethics (in Hebrew and English) and Ha'refuah K'halachah (in Hebrew). He is the laureate of the prestigious Israel Prize and the Worthy Citizen of Jerusalem award (Yakir Yerushalayim). Involved with many public committees and legislations in Israel concerning medical ethics, Steinberg has discussed many modern issues in medicine with the Gedolim, including Rav Shlomo Zalman Auerbach, zt''l, Rav Yosef Shalom Eliashiv, zt''l, Rav Eliezer Yehuda Waldenberg, zt''l, Rav Ovadia Yosef, zt''l, and many others. He has published many of their halachic rulings on these issues.

Ari Judah Ciment, son of Larry and Helen Ciment, is board certified in internal medicine and pulmonary and critical care medicine. He has been practicing in Miami Beach, Florida, since 2008. In addition to many medical field achievements, he has been an invited grand rounds lecturer for several hospitals and universities. As a medical ICU attending in a residency teaching program, he regularly teaches classes on a variety of topics, including pulmonary embolism, sepsis, ARDS, and now COVID novel therapies.

Dr. Ciment is currently president of the medical staff with the Mount Sinai Medical Center and is on the board of the Hebrew Academy of Miami Beach, serving on their medical committee. In addition, he served as adjunct professor on Jewish medical ethics at Touro College and has arranged several medical ethics symposiums, most notably, with the renowned ethicist Rabbi Avraham Steinberg as well as BU ethicist Michael Grodin.

Dr. Ciment is the author of Pirkei Dr. Ari (Mosaica Press, 2019), which blends the weekly parashah with an ethic from Pirkei Avos. His hobbies include basketball, tennis, guitar, and studying Talmud. He lives with his wife, Elissa, and their three children, Tehila, Jack, and Sam,in Miami Beach, Florida.

Much confusion persists regarding the laws of pe'ot and electric shavers. Unanswered questions abound regarding these two areas of halachah . The product of thorough halachic and technological research, The Halachic Haircutting Handbook sets out to present what constitutes baseline halachah with respect to these issues.

Included in this volume:

• How far the pe'ot ha'rosh must extend
• How short one may trim pe'ot ha'rosh
• Shaving in halachah
• The permissibility of electric shavers
• Breakdown of the types of electric shavers
• New evidence from Philips Norelco

“The art of blowing the shofar is a knowledge-based skill.”

(Siddur Rav Hertz Sheliach Tzibbur)

With the publication of this sefer, the halachos, hanhagos, eitzos, and mesorah related to tekias shofar are now available to the English-speaking readership. Fully annotated, The Shofar is the product of consultations with many baalei tekiah, poskei Gedolei Yisrael, responsa, and sifrei halachah. An enormous contribution to Torah literature, this volume includes:

• Minhagim from communities and kehillos around the world
• An analysis of each kol, its acceptable length, and possible complications
• Customs that are practiced prior to, during, and after tekias shofar
• Important but little-known issues regarding the shofar itself
• What to look out for when buying a shofar

“A literal encyclopedic compendium of laws, customs, and practices of shofar blowing...The work is spiced with anecdotes, stories, and rulings of contemporary halachic poskim.”

Rav Zev Leff, Moshav Matityahu

“Anyone who reads this will obtain a ‘Panim Chadashot’ regarding the mitzvah.”

Dayan Eleizer Dunner, Bnei Brak

“The author unfurls the tapestry of customs belonging to kehillos world over.”

Novominsker Rebbe, Lakewood

Rabbi Bentzion Ettlinger is a product of the Yeshiva Rabbi Samson Raphael institutions and learned in its Bais Hamedrash Jeshurun during the ten-year tenure of Rav Yaakov Perlow, the Novominsker Rebbe, zt”l, who was its rosh hayeshiva. During that time, he became a close talmid.

He enjoyed a filial relationship with Rav Shimon Schwab, zt”l, and had the unique zechus to be meshamesh him for twenty-three years, and later Rav Zechariah Gelley, zt”l, as well as Rav Shach’s son-in-law, ybl”t, Rav Meir Tzvi Bergman of B’nei Brak, during Rav Bergman’s annual stays in Washington Heights.

He is a member of the editorial board of L’dor Va’dor, a bi-annual Torah journal, a mentor in Mesivta R.S.R.H., and has been a baal tokeia in K’hal Adath Jeshurun for more than thirty-five years.

His penchant for tekias shofar has enabled him to traverse far and wide to bring to light the myriad of rich minhagei Yisrael from multitudes of beautiful communities within Klal Yisrael. His eye-opening feature articles that have appeared in the magazine section of Hamodia have generated wide interest.

He uses his very extensive collection of horns, shofaros, shofar stories, and shofar manufacturing slides for presentations on all levels, from pre-schools, elementary schools, and mesivtos to seniors, Daf Yomi shiurim, and kollelim. He lives in Washington Heights with his wife, Debbie. Their many children and grandchildren live in Lakewood, NJ; Chestnut Ridge, NY; Monsey, NY; and Yerushalayim Ir Hakodesh.

Halakha is the all-encompassing source of normative Jewish conduct, and values and ethics are among Judaism's most important and fundamental aims. In this volume, Rabbi Aharon Lichtenstein masterfully plots the interplay of law and ethics. Drawing on his vast knowledge of classic Jewish sources, the analytic depth of the Brisker tradition, and his wide grasp of Western scholarship and thought, Rabbi Lichtenstein charts how values are intertwined with the details of Halakha and inform its general worldview. Exploring such topics as the relationship between individual and community, the extent to which Halakha encourages or demands altruism, and the role of humanistic concerns in practical halakhic determination, Rabbi Lichtenstein analyzes rulings of halakhic giants in context of the relevant source material. The result is a first-of-its kind study that offers a lucid yet extensive presentation of detailed halakhic points that combine to form a broad tapestry of the most basic questions of values in Halakha.

What if... a child born during the Holocaust is given one name by his parents at his bris, and another by Jews who hid him and saved his life. When his parents return to take him back at the end of the war, which name should he use?

What if.... a thief feels sorry for his victim, a widow about to marry off her daughter, and he returns the money he was going to steal and even adds more of his own funds. May the victim use money that was probably stolen from someone else?

What if... a rich man offers a donation for every student enrolled in a kiruv school. If a boy enrolls, but leaves after just a few weeks, does he still have to make that donation?

The What If? series has become a beloved part of the Shabbos table for tens of thousands of families. Based on the popular Hebrew-language series Chashukei Chemed, written by noted rav and posek, Rav Yitzchok Zilberstein shlita, and translated and arranged in the order of the weekly parashah by Rabbi Moshe Sherrow, the What If? books include hundreds of real-life halachic questions, each accompanied by a brief, practical scenario to illustrate the case, and an analysis that is understandable and easy to follow.

What If? reaches people of all ages and backgrounds. The questions, stories, and halachic explanations are clear and simple, so that even youngsters can discuss them. At the same time these fascinating halachic queries and responses hold the interest of those well-versed in Torah scholarship.

What if... you want the conversation at your Shabbos table to be even more animated? More meaningful? And, yes, more fun for family and guests? Just open up What If? volume 4, and let the Torah conversation begin!

This book is based on the Shiurim given in the Second Seder Kollel, and now they take on the form of a written work, by his close talmid, RABBI AVRAHAM CHAIM SLANSKY.

In this work, the extensive and at times complicated laws of Yayin Nesech, wine affected by a non-Jew, are explained; from the original sources, to the practical rulings in real-life cases. Wine is integral to many functions of Jewish life, and inevitable results in a myriad of questions.

 

• After the waiter poured me a cup of wine, I realized the bottle I ordered was non mevushal.
• The 'cleaning help' moved the wine, now what?
• I'm hosting a Kiruv event, what if a participant pours himself a glass of wine?
• What is the story with Scotch in Sherry Casks ?!

 

These are just some of the issues addressed, in regard to a topic that both its stringencies and its leniencies are widely unknown. This book is reminiscent of the Shiurim themselves, enjoyable to 'listen to' and relevant to daily life. Its ease of use, with original sources quoted, and most importantly in utmost clarity, brings refreshing understanding to even difficult concepts. This combination makes this work accessible to the layman, as well as a decisive work for the accomplished scholar.

The book includes an innovative separate section detailing the potential issues of Scotch Whiskey matured in Sherry Casks. It features alphabetical listing of over two hundred and fifty Scotch Whiskies and their Halachic rulings, with color pictures for easy reference - a first of its kind!