Rabbi Avrohom Baruch Zachariash teaches the halachas of PURIM with the Mishnah Berurah, skipping around to various differing Simanim, focusing this week on the reading of the megillah. Who is obligated? When does the obligation start and end? Fasting on the Fast of Esther through the end of the reading of the megillah. And [...]
[BS"D] Welcome to the 20th Perek of Maseches Shabbos! Topics: Using a wine-filter on Shabbos; Building a temporary roof on Shabbos.
[BS"D] A tale of two babies. A case in the Mishnah: A mohel is invited to perform a Bris on one of two babies. It's Shabbos, and only one baby is eight days old. The other baby is either 7 or 9 days old (the Mishnah presents two different cases), and is not supposed [...]
[BS"D] Stillborn baby in Halacha, infant mortality in Halacha. Questions that rise are: Yibum, Sitting Shiva over a baby, etc. ; The third gender in Halacha- When a baby has both male and female organs, what is his/her halachic status?
Rabbi Avrohom Baruch Zachariash teaches the halachas of PURIM with the Mishnah Berurah (O.C. 695 and 688), focusing on sending Mishloach Manos, and also how the mitzvos of Purim are divided up when Shushan Purim falls on Shabbos, as it does this year (5785).
[BS"D] The (halachic) common denominator between a premature baby and a premature baby animal. Topics discussed: Beris Milah to a premature baby boy, Kashrus status of a premature animal.
[BS"D] I was born that (Jewish) way. What do you do if your baby was born naturally circumcised?
[BS"D] A bigender baby: Does s/he have to have a halachic circumcision? Does a baby born late Friday afternoon get his milah done on the following Shabbos? Does a premature baby (with little or no chances of survival) get his milah on Shabbos?