Beis Vaad L'Chachamim

UPDATED TZOM GEDALIAH תשפ"א Everybody knows that Shofar on the second day, and the daled minim on all the days after the first, are der...

1. It's common knowledge that you can only use those lulav holders made out of palm leaves to hold the lulav. This almost universally ac...

I'm in the yeshiva in Staten Island for yomtov, and my nephew, Harav Gilan Grant, has a very nice sukkah for the children next to his. P...

Several current Israeli gedolei haposkim have said that if you make kiddush in the Sukkah, and walk out to wash netilas yadayim for hamotzi,...

Reb Meir Simcha's interesting addition to the Gaon's vort.  The Gaon, of course, answers the Tur's question about the timing of ...

I originally posted this in 2006.  I'm making minor changes and re-posting, because the original post only got one decent he'ara, a...

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 ...

This was originally posted in '12, but it has been updated.  And again, in 2015, with a great find. Today, when my mother shetichyeh r...

UPDATED OCTOBER 2020.  I realized that I was wrong and that Reb Moshe passels this schach no matter how you put it up.  See end of section I...

The Tur (OC 625) asks, if on Sukkos we re-enact our sojourn in the eponymous Sukkos in the desert, why does it occur in the Fall, when the e...