Beis Vaad L'Chachamim

אם־בחקתי תלכו ואת־מצותי תשמרו ועשיתם אתם Rashi: אם בחקתי תלכו. יָכוֹל זֶה קִיּוּם הַמִּצְווֹת, כְּשֶׁהוּא אוֹמֵר וְאֶת מִצְוֹתַי תִּ...

Original version posted in 2011. This is slightly edited. This relates closely with my other post on "Torah Values, a Drasha for a Bar ...

Reb Chaim B brings a fantastic Prashas Derachim, Drush 22 . ....ומ"מ נ"ל דהרשב"א ומהרי"ק פליגי אהדדי שהרי כתב הרשב&...

Divrei Bracha at the Bar Mitzva of Avraham Jofen, 5/14/15 I am not the Chasan Haneshef,  or his father, or the zekan hamishpacha, so there...

The law of Erchin is that a person can obligate himself to give his "Erech" to Hekdesh.  An Erech is a specific sum of money that ...

A version of this post originally appeared in 2011.  This has been updated with an addition at the end. A dear friend, Harav Shmuel Yesha...

When a person orally obligates himself to donate to Hekdesh or to any charity his own or another person's "value", the court h...

No, this is NOT about Rav Yechiel of Paris or the Aruch Laner and Rav Kalisher and the Chasam Sofer and Reb Akiva Eiger or the Netziv about...

Synopsis: Although generally we are told what we must and what we must not do, there are some concepts and attitudes that the Torah expects...

First of all: the dvar Torah is late this week because beside the usual crises and It's strange, how life works.  Just as I had writte...

This was originally posted here in May 2009.  In June 2013 we posted on three closely related topics:   When one should name a daughter ; Th...