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The significance of paying a parking ticket in the Holy city of Yerushalayim. Why paying taxes in Eretz Yisrael counts as tzedakah (A quote from Rav Avraham Yitzchak HaKohen Kook in...

The Rashba asks: Why don’t we recite Birchat HaTorah when we finish learning as we do when receiving an aliyah to the Torah? Because we don’t make a bracha when mitzvot...

Why did the 24,000 students of Rebbi Akiva specifically stop dying on Lag BaOmer? Why do we recite Tehillim 67 after counting the Omer? Why is the verse “יודוך עמים אלקים...

Belzer Rebbe: Hillel’s source for eating the Korban Pesach in a sandwich (Korech) is not from the Parsha of Korban Pesach (Shemot 12), it’s from the Parsha of Pesach Sheni! Regarding...

The Tur writes that we celebrate Lag BaOmer because that is the day the students of Rebbe Akiva stopped dying. Why is that a reason to celebrate – they stopped dying...

Why, in Shemoneh Esrei, does the bracha of Kibbutz Galuyot immediately follow Barech Aleinu? Because as the Gemara says, there is no surer sign that Moshiach is coming than the land...

What is the thematic connection between Rosh Chodesh, David HaMelech, and the Davidic dynasty? Why do we read this haftarah just because it begins with the phrase “Machar Chodesh”? An answer...

Is Yom Haatzmaut a Halachic holiday? Are we allowed to add holidays to the calendar? The Ramban writes that Yeravam commited a sin by adding a holiday to the Jewish Calendar....

If someone forgets יעלה ויבא in bentching on Rosh Chodesh one doesn’t repeat bentching, the Yerushalmi rules he has to repeat bentching (because it holds having a seudah is obligatory on...

In the story told in the Haggadah about the Seder in Bnei Brak Rebbe Elazar ben Azarya says he was never able to prevail over the chachamim regarding the requirement to...