Rav Peretz Mocharsh our esteemed posek and Meishiv on the Ask Revach page is making a special trip to the...read full story
A Healing Whisper Rav Avraham Trop, z'tl, who was the Rosh Yeshivah of Karlin in the United States, used to relate to others about the time he became...read full story
Until the day of his death a person should torture himself. Not with fasting and physical pain only with putting a muzzle on his mouth and his desires. This is all the fruit of Olam Haba. - Igeres HaGra -
The Klausenberger Rebbe zt”l tells a story about two people come to Shamayim after 120, a Talmid Chochom and an Am HaAretz. They are Dan the Am HaAretz L’Kaf Zechus and send...read more
Many people are Makpid to daven Mincha before Shkia. Chasidim often daven Mincha after Shkia. What should you do if you always daven before Shkia and the only Minyan where you are, is...read more
A person is only Chayav Misas Chenek (death penalty, strangulation) for hitting a parent if the parent is “Oseh Maaseh Amcha”, if they act in the Jewish way. If the parent is a...read more
You need to know the enemy before you can conquer him. Hilchos Lashon Hara is complex and a simple policy of not talking gossip will lead you straight into the outstretched arms of the...read more
In Mishneh Halachos (6:223) Rav Menashe Klein is asked about shaking hands with a woman who offers her hand and it would be embarrassing to her if rebuffed. He says that the...read more
If a person inflicts a wound on one of his parents that causes blood he is Chayav Chenek (death by strangulation). If someone is a doctor and the parent needs a procedure done, although the...read more
The Haflaah and the Sefer HaMakneh are hallmarks of every litvishe and chasidishe Bais Medrash. Not only that but Rav Pinchos Horowitz a talmid of the Magid of Mezeritch was Rav for over 30...read more
There is no such thing as I already failed, says Rav Tzvi Mayer. Even if you are middle of an aveira you have no excuse to “finish up”. Stop yourself right there and then...read more
The Shulchan Aruch (OC 225:8) says that if you see an elephant or money you say the bracha "Boruch Ata Hashem...Mishaneh HaBriyos" who makes different creatures. Rav Shlomo Zalman...read more
When the donkey opened its mouth to complaim to Bilam about the rough treatment, it says, “why did you hit me three Regalim” meaning three times. Rashi says that the donkey used the...read more
