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JLIC TLV Co-Director Rabbi Joe Wolfson offers guidance for young adults on preparing for the transition from campus life to independent adulthood With the new academic year underway, college students ...

From the book series Laws of the Holidays by Rabbi Yonatan Nacson; used with permission.

Which foods and what quantities of those foods require Sukkah? Bread or Mezonos, foods in the quantity of a more than a Kibeitzah (around the size of a medium slice of challah, 6 crackers, 2.5 ...

From the book series Laws of the Holidays by Rabbi Yonatan Nacson; used with permission. A boy who turns thirteen after the first day of Sukkot does not recite a Shehecheyanu when sitting in the ...

From the book series Laws of the Holidays by Rabbi Yonatan Nacson; used with permission. A person should begin to build his sukkah on motzaei Yom Kippur since one should begin another mitzvah when ...

On Yom Kippur, one should try to cry while praying. If one cannot bring himself to cry, he should try to pray with a tone of crying and anguish.[12] ...

Pregnant and nursing women must fast on Yom Kippur.[56] If one has a doubt whether a woman or her fetus can be in danger by fasting, a doctor and a rabbi must be consulted before the fast for ...

What is Shemini Atzeres (or Shemini Atzeret), you ask? Well, Pesach (Passover) has days of yom tov (Festivals, with Sabbath-like restrictions on labor) at both the beginning and the end. Technically ...

The Rambam, Teshuvah 3:4, says: “Even though the sounding of the shofar on Rosh Hashanah is a decree, it contains an allusion. It is as if the shofar’s call is saying: Wake up you sleepy ones from ...

Skip אם אפס רובע הקן and then begin at זכרון לפניך בשחק. Skip בזכרי על משכבי and למתודה חטאתיו and אליך ה’ נשאתי עיני. One is permitted to get married during the month of Elul, even with ...

אחינו בית ישראל שמעו, כי בעוונותינו אנחנו מונים לחורבן בית מקדשינו ולשריפת היכלנו, ולגלות שכינת עוזנו, ולנפילת עטרת ראשינו, היום כך וכך ...