"Ayin Tachas Ayin Kasher Yitein Moom BaAdam Kein Yinasein Bo; An eye for an eye when you maim your friend the same should be done to you." (Emor 24:20) The Halacha L'Moshe...read more
A Kohen may become Tamei to his close relatives. A Nazir may not. Why? The Shem MiShmuel says in the name of his father the Avnei Nezer that the Kedushas Kohen is inherited. ...read more
The Shulchan Aruch (OC 580:2) says that the day a Tzaddik was niftar is a fast day such as Adar 7 for Moshe Rabbeinu. Yet Lag BaOmer, the yahrtzeit of Rebbi Shimon Bar Yochai is a day of...read more
Although they are technically not related or considered family, Rav Moshe Shternbuch says (3:374) that if an adopted child grew up with his step parents and considered them to be his parents he...read more
In addition to the women a Kohen may not marry, a Kohen Gadol may not even marry a widow. Why not? The Meforshim say we learn from here a mind boggling lesson about the weakness of...read more
The Pasuk (VaYikra 18:3) says “K’Maaseh Eretz K’Naan Asher Ani Meivi Es’chem Shama Lo Sa’asu, U’ViChukoseihem Lo Seileichu”, do not follow the ways of the...read more
Moshe told Aharon after the deaths of Nadav and Avihu that he now knows that they were greater than himself and Aharon. That is why Hashem chose them to make a Kiddush Hashem during the...read more
At the end of Parshas Acharei Mos the Torah warns us about Arayos,incestual relationships. Right in the middle between all the Arayost he Torah tells us about the issur of Molech, according to...read more
The Mishna in Pirkei Avos says that Torah is acquire with 48 ways, consisting of Middos, Yiras Shamayim, and teaching methods, including things like humility, happiness, learning with others and...read more
The halacha is that only a Kohen can declare a Nega to be Tamei. A Talmid Chochom who knows the halacha can give his opinion, but the tumah starts and ends with the declaration of the Kohen....read more
The Gemara (Sanhedrin 97) says that Moshiach will come when every government in the world turns to Apikursus. Rava says, "We see it from the pasuk (Tazria 13:13) 'Kulo Hafach Lavan...read more
The Shulchan Aruch says (YD 179:1) that you may not ask about the future in stars or in lots (Goral). It seems from here, says Rav Moshe Shternbuch (1:856), that if you are undecided in a...read more
