Beis Vaad L'Chachamim

 I say a Halacha shiur now. After forty years of saying "This is a Gemara shiur, not a halacha shiur," the refrain is "This i...

We've talked in the past about how Chazal often use the term Chacham where we expect to see the term Tzadik or Chasid.  One of the inte...

A דבר בעתו for Erev Pesach. The Gaon ( Maaseh Rav 185 ) says that eating Matza is a mitzva the whole yomtov of Pesach.  On the first nig...

My father zatzal used to tell stories about Reb Aizekel (Eizel) Charif.  In one of the stories, Reb Aizikel woke his rebbetzin up in middle ...