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» 5785 -The Rarest Year of Them All Part I

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5785	5785 -The Rarest Year of Them All Part I
5784	5784 - The Year of the Rare Haftarah Part III 5784 - The Year of the Rare Haftarah Part II Seder Insights: Comprehending Karpas Salting With Sugar?! The Seudas Shlishis - Rosh Chodesh Quandary More Common Kiddush Questions: Leaving Learning For Levayos? Fasting on Friday 5784 - The Year of the Rare Haftarah Thanksgiving: Wholesome Holiday or Chukos HaGoyim? When Rosh Hashana Falls Out on Shabbos...
5783	Which Week Is Which? The Unknown Days of the Jewish Calendar Facts and Formulae For the Forgetful The Complicated Case of Shemitta Wine on Pesach Mishloach Manos with Shemitta Produce Making Havdalah with Shemitta Wine Lighting the Menorah with Kedushas Sheviis Oil? Shemitta Sheilos: Using Arbah Minim of Sheviis
5782	Shemittas Kesafim and the Prozbol Parashas Ki Seitzei: The Double-Header Haftarah Parashas Eikev: All About Tachanun How to Make Havdalah when Motza’ei Shabbos is Tisha B’Av 5782/2022 Adorning the Shul with Greenery on Shavuos: Minhag Yisrael or Chukos HaGoyim? Parashas Behar: Shemittah Sheilos: The Perplexing Puzzle of the Possibly Purloined Peppers The Parasha Dual Dichotomy 5782/2022 Which Week Is Which? Acharei Mos & Kedoshim: The Curious Case of the Missing Haftarah 5782/2022 Seder Insights: Understanding Urchatz, Comprehending Karpas To Drink or Not to Drink? A Halachic Analysis of Getting Drunk on Purim Mishloach Manos with Shemitta Produce Snowballs on Shabbos? 5782 - The Rarities Continue ... Lighting the Menorah with Shemitta Oil? Of Thrift Shops, Extra Simcha Food, and Agunos by Rabbi Yair Hoffman
5781	How to Make Havdalah when Motza’ei Shabbos is Tisha B’Av Of Haftaros and Havdalah: Shabbos Rosh Chodesh Av 5781 When Do 'The Three Weeks' Start? Forgotten Fast Days: Zos Chukas HaTorah The Unknown Days: BeHa”B vs. Pesach Sheini? Pesach - The Quinoa Conundrum Erev Pesach Shechal B'Shabbos: A Halachic Guide Configuring Parashas Zachor and Purim Meshulash – 5781 Purim: To Drink or Not To Drink? Fasting on Friday? Bar Mitzvah-ed on a Different Day? Geshem or Gashem?! - updated 2020 5781 - An Exceptional Year - Part II 5781 - An Exceptional Year - Part I New Beginnings for Shabbat Bereishet
5780	Parasha Permutations 5780/2020 Weighty Waiting Options Kedushas Sheviis Produce Shemitta Basics - Part 2 Havdalah During the Nine Days Understanding Urchatz The Halachic Adventures of the Potato Kiddush Levana During the Megillah?! Understanding Shnayim Mikra V'Echad Targum Chanuka: A Bochur's Perennial Predicament The Odd Account of the Overnight Onion Sukka on Shmini Atzeres? Pie Crusts, Pas Paltur and the Aseres Yemei Teshuva
5779	The Rosh Hashanah Meat Mystery Tachanun in Yerushalayim Smoking and Halacha A Historical Perspective How to Make Havdalah During the Nine Days 5779 / 2019 Updated 5779 / 2019 Switching Sefirahs? Understanding Your Minhag and its Ramifications The Parshah Dual Dichotomy 5779 The "Unknown Days" of the Jewish Calendar Updated 5779 / 2019 The Tattoo Taboo and Permanent Make-Up Too Updated 5779 / 2019 The Quinoa - Kitniyos Conundrum Updated 5779 / 2019 Buffalo Burgers and the Zebu Controversy Megillah Mysteries: The Eitz Chaim Enigma Megillah Mysteries: Situations of Spacing Configuring the "Arba Parshiyos" Puzzle A Tale of Two Adars Computations and Complications The Dating / Davening Dilemma Common Kiddush Questions The Curious Case of the Karpef Breaking the Yom Kippur Fast Before Havdalah?
5778	The Double-Header Haftara in 2018 Parashah Permutations 5778 The Great Cholent Challenge The Chanuka Candle - Havdalah Hullabaloo Of Elul, L'David, and Golems
5777	Showering During the Nine Days?! Hygiene in Halachah Meat on Rosh Chodesh Av? Adorning the Shul with Greenery on Shavuos: Part 2 Minhag Yisraelor Chukos HaGoyim? Adorning the Shul with Greenery on Shavuos: Part 1 Minhag Yisraelor Chukos HaGoyim? Facts and Formulae For the Forgetful The Coca-Cola Kashrus Controversy Thanksgiving: Harmless Holiday or Chukos HaGoyim? Mayim Acharonim, Chova? One Day or Two? What is a Chutznik in Eretz Yisrael to Do?
5776	The Rosh Hashana ‘Dug’ Dilemma The Double-Header Haftarah How to Make Havdalah During the Nine Days 5776 A Dairy Dilemma: Of Hard Cheese Complexities and Pizza Perplexities Do We Really Have To Wait After Eating Certain Milchigs? The Case of the Missing Haftarah 5776 / 2016 The Complicated Case of Shemitta Wine on Pesach 31 Days Before the Bar Mitzvah A Primer on Mitzvah Observance in a Double Adar Shemitta/Purim Sheilos Mishloach Manos with Shemitta Produce The Halachic Discourse of Louis Pasteur The Many Facets of Asarah B'Teves More Mitzvah Use: Chanukah Oil Shemitta Basics The Gid Hanasheh Incongruity The Parameters of Pas Paltur Shemitta Sheilos: Using Arbah Minim of Sheviis - Part 2 Shemitta Basics Part VIb Shemitta Sheilos: Using Arbah Minim of Sheviis Shemitta Basics Part VIa
5775	The Performing Kiddush Prior to Tekiyas Shofar Puzzle The Double-Header Haftara The Halachic Challenges of the Cheesecake Shemitta Sheilos: The Case of The Contraband Carrots Shemitta Basics Part V Parsha Permutations The Paradox of Purging Plastic Products Is Plastic Kasherable? More Mitzvah Use: Of Chanuka Oil and Mishloach Manos Shemitta Basics Part IV To Drink or Not to Drink? A Halachic Analysis of Getting Drunk on Purim Fruit Use and Fruit Juice Shemitta Basics Part III More Common Kiddush Questions Kiddush B�makom Seudah Ma�aseh Avos = Halacha L�Ma�aseh
5774	(Not) To Eat Meat On Rosh Hashana Halachic Insights into Genetically Engineered Meat Birkas Kohanim and You The Case of the Missing Haftara Birchas Chacham HaRazim A Rare Bracha and a Unique Opportunity Fasting on Friday? Thanksgiving On Chanuka? All About Honor in Halacha Bar Mitzvah-ed Before His Time? Rosh Hashana: The Universal Two-Day Yom Tov (and Why Yom Kippur is not) (Not) To Eat Fish On Rosh Hashana?
5773	A Halachic Analysis of the Recent Meat Scandal Ruling The Colored Water Caper The Chicken Bone 'N' Cholent Commotion The Essence of Vidui
5772	The Dishwasher Debate - Part II The Dishwasher Debate - Part 1 To Bentch or Not to Bentch (between milk and meat)? That is the Question... The Ins and Outs of "Shnei Keilim Shenagu" The Lettuce for Maror Pickle Kashering Teeth?! Kashering New Pots For Pesach?! The Coffee Dipping Conundrum Margarine, Misconceptions, and Maris Ayin The Halachic Power of a Diyuk Photogrey Glasses on Shabbos Leeuwenhoek's Halachic Legacy Bubby Didn't Eat Bugs! Chodosh in Chutz La�aretz - Part 3 Chodosh in Chutz La'aretz - Part 2 Chodosh in Chutz La'aretz - Part 1 The Miracle(s) of Chanukah Fish with Legs?! New Beginnings - Words of Chizuk for Shabbat Bereishit
5771	The Lox and Cream Cheese Dilemma - Part 2 Milk and Fish The Lox and Cream Cheese Dilemma - Part 1 Meat and Fish Meat for Breakfast?! When Do "The Three Weeks" Start?

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