Only a plebeian sits in a sukkah in the rain

Shehekhiyanu on Rosh HaShana

Is there a mitzvah to rejoice on Rosh HaShana?

Part II: Is there an obligation to hear shofar in Elul?

Part I: Elul – Hearing the call, befuddling the Satan

Parshat Nitzavim-Vayelech: Mitzvat Hakhel

Parshat Ki Tavo: Mikra Bikkurim

Parshat Ki Tetzei: Grounds for divorce

Parshat Shoftim: “You shall not leave a living soul”

Parshat Re’eh: “The place that the Lord will choose”

Parshat Ekev: Converts or foreigners: Which geirim are we commanded to love?

Back to Basics: Mourning on Tisha B’Av

Bein haMetzarim: Are we avoiding celebration, pleasure or danger?

Why are certain activities prohibited during the Three Weeks and Nine Days?

Parshat Va’etchanan – Kriyat Shema

Parshat Devarim Provoke War or Call for Peace?

Parshat Matot-Masei: Flattery (khanifa) will get you destruction?

Parshat Pinchas: Are laws of inheritance inherent or changeable?

Parshat Balak: Human needs and animal cruelty

Parshat Chukat: “They took captives”

Parshat Korach: The halakhot of disputes

Parshat Shelah: Separating Challah, Designating Women

Parshat Behaalotcha – One who is occupied with a mitzvah

Special Shavuot – Ten Commandments: Standing Up for Faith

Parshat Nasso – What’s the connection between a sotah woman and Torah study?

How should we treat potential converts?

Parshat Bamidbar – Halakhic means to determine paternity

Can genetic testing override halakhic precedent and render someone a mamzer?

Parshat Behar-Bechukotai – Ona’a Financial and Verbal Exploitation

Parshat Emor: Blasphemy, halakhic detachment & rabbinic empathy

Acharei Mot-Kedoshim: Love your neighbor, even if they’re not like yourself

A halakhic approach to people who are LGBTQ+

Parshat Tazria-Metzora – Ritual purification

Parshat Shemini: One who teaches halakha before his teacher

From Parsha to Halakha: Shabbat Chol Hamoed Pesach

Aliyah l'regel: Between people and God

Parshat Tzav: Quality, quantity, intention

Why isn’t coffee included in the prohibition of kitniot?

Vayikra Korban Chatat: The relevance of halakhot that are halakhically irrelevant

Vayakhel-Pekudei – Transparency with communal funds

Parshat Ki Tisa – Figures, art, and sculpture

Can I send shmita produce for mishloach manot?

Parshat Tetzaveh: Priestly garments, atonement, and the mantle of responsibility

Parshat Terumah: Sanctuaries & Donations – Can I use tzedakah to pay shul dues?

Parshat Mishpatim: Torah law and secular courts

Parshat Yitro – Honoring parents: Great expectations, practical limitations

Parshat Beshalach: Which mitzvot must be beautiful?

Exporting Shemita Fruits

Parshat Bo – Korban Pesach Today: Can we? Should we?

Parshat Vaera – The place of prayer

Shemot – Adoption and identity

Burial rites

From Parsha to Halakha: Miketz, Chanukah, and Decrees of Separation

Vayeshev – Yibum or chalitza?

Women and Chanukah: A shield and a torch

Parshat Vayishlach – Is rape prohibited by the Torah?

Parshat Vayetze – Jewish marriage: An origin story

Parshat Toldot – Honesty is the best policy – or is it?

From Parsha to Halakha Chayei Sara – When Kibbud Horim hurts

Vayera – Imitatio Dei, Righteousness and Judgment – which “ways” of God should we imitate?

Parshat Lech Lecha – The mother and father’s role in Brit Mila

What is the source of the Seven Noahide Laws?

Parshat Bereishit “To work and to guard”: Where is the ecological halakhic responsa?

Recreational Trips and Hikes on Succot

How much does one have to sit in a Succah?

All of Israel are Responsible for One Another – how so? – Part II

All of Israel are Responsible for One Another – how so? – Part I

Connecting to the Mitzvah of Shofar

Fasts commemorating the Churban, and the authority to add laws

Ahavat Yisrael – A mitzvah to love all Jews?

The overturning of Roe vs Wade: A message to my daughters

The Tragic Symbolism of 17th of Tammuz

Halakhic Considerations Regarding the Repeal of Roe vs. Wade

Is there an obligation to live in Israel?

What does the Torah prohibition of writing on Shabbat include?

The Week After Shavuot

How Hannah Inspired Rabbinic Tefilla

Sefirat Haomer and other Mitzvot involving Counting

The Freedom to Express Freedom (the mitzvah of Haseiba at the Seder)

Looking at the Kohanim during Birkat Kohanim

“When one has matza and maror before them” – Halakhically mandated props

Issur Melacha (the prohibition to work) on Erev Pesach

What time is seudah? Shushan Purim on a Friday

Mishloach Manot, Social Expectations, and Rabbinic Tales

Reading Secular Literature on Shabbat

Separate Spices for Meat and Dairy

Removing a Tag from New Clothing on Shabbat

Between Sacred and Mundane; Between Sitting and Standing

The Tefillah Paradox: Standardized or Spontaneous?

Is a person who is blind obligated to light Chanukah candles? May this person fulfill the mitzvah on behalf of others?

Exercise and Dance to Eastern Music

The Chanukah Candle Light: Seeing Miracles But Only to Look at Them

Third Dose vs. Third World Countries: Halakhah Approaches COVID-19 Vaccine Allocation

Aleinu LeShabeach – A Prayer for the Generations

Shemittah in the Garden

Shemittah Ksafim- Cancelling Debts

Heter Mechira

Otzar Beit Din

Tisha b’Av and Yom Kippur

Sheva deNechemta

In the night His Song is with me: Messages of Tikun Leil Shavuot

Days and Weeks; the World and the Nation

What should I use for hamotzi on Shabbat erev Pesach? A condensed guide

FAQ for erev Pesach she’Chal b’Shabbat

Guide to erev Pesach she’chal b’Shabbat

Leil Haseder: night of questions and transformations

The Seder – Creating our Virtual Reality

Shayla is on Sefaria

Yarkhei Kallah – The Great Study Festival

A Year Like No Other

Mishloach Manot – Standing united!

Must Healthcare Workers Get the COVID-19 Vaccine?

The Seven Species Come First

What’s So Special About Shevat? Between Shemita and Ma’aser

Asarah Betevet – Cherish Truth and Peace

Fury and Optimism – The Hidden Fast

The post Chanukah voluntary fasts

The dynamics of Halakha

Have Mercy: Seeking closeness in a time of social distancing Selichot without a minyan

What to do with all the time we’re NOT going to be davening in shul these High Holidays

Where is the Love?

Corona and reciting Hagomel

Rabbanit Dr. Avigail Rock z”l

A Daily Torah Habit

Sefirat Haomer: Count Me In

Are women obligated to say Hallel on Yom Ha’atzmaut?

Corona and Korban Pesach?

Corona – giving Tzedakah where it hurts

The Rashba and Corona

תקנות הקהל - The power of community legislation for the common good

Be Happy?!?

By Karen Miller Jackson

Should women give Machatzit HaShekel?

By Rabbanit Debbie Zimmerman

Bal Tashchit: Waste Not Want Not

Gratitude for Torah

Daf Yomi Siyum Thoughts

על אופי החובה של האיש כלפי אשתו בספרות חז“ל

בין המשנה לגמרא

The Parental Relationship in the Talmud

טוב טעם ודעת

נשים ותלמוד תורה

Sense And Sensibilities

Women And Talmud Torah

Are women obligated to say Hallel on Chanukah?

Endometriosis

Chanukah and Women’s Work

The Blessing of Rain

Anger Management Through Hilchot Tefilla

Dinner Journal

Decorating the sukkah

VIDUI | The positives of a negative attitude

Tzedaka

Walking up the road

Selichot

Practicing for the Yamim Noraim

Menopausal Musings

Psychological aspects of menopause

Postcards from a perimenopausal vacation

Menopause

Universal BRCA Testing

Universal BRCA Testing

Ending the Current Measles Epidemic

Haredi Rabbis Get it Right

Intimacy and Breast Cancer

Cancer & my husband

Halakha Online

Shayla