I | Tefillin, Tefillah, and Kriat Hatorah | 1 |
1 | Procedures in Putting on the Tefillin | 3 |
2 | Using Borrowed Tefillin | 5 |
3 | Procedure for Donning the Tefillin Shel Yad | 7 |
4 | Removing Tefillin before Mussaf on Rosh Chodesh | 9 |
5 | Reciting One Hundred Berachot Daily | 11 |
6 | Amen Is a Required Response | 14 |
7 | Davening Together with the Shliach Tzibbur | 17 |
8 | Women and Mitzvat Tallit | 19 |
9 | Appointing a Woman as President of a Shul | 22 |
10 | The Prayer of Tachanun (Supplication) | 24 |
11 | Counting a Minor in a Minyan | 26 |
12 | Forgetting Yaaleh Veyavoh on Rosh Chodesh Morning | 29 |
13 | The Meaning of Yishtabach Shim'cha | 31 |
14 | Torah Reading on Monday and Thursday Afternoon | 33 |
15 | Standing or Sitting during the Torah Reading? | 36 |
16 | The Torah Reading: An Individual or Communal Requirement | 38 |
17 | Calling a Levi in the Absence of a Kohen for the Torah Reading | 41 |
18 | Facing the Torah Reader during Torah Reading | 43 |
19 | Procedure for Birkhat HaTorah | 45 |
20 | The Structure of Kriat HaTorah | 48 |
II | Issues Pertaining to Shabbat | 51 |
1 | Reading by Candlelight on Shabbat | 53 |
2 | Opening a Container on Shabbat | 55 |
3 | Opening Cans on Shabbat | 57 |
4 | Plastic Rain Hats on Shabbat | 60 |
5 | Electricity on Shabbat | 62 |
6 | Squeezing Lemons on Shabbat | 64 |
7 | Carrying a Child in a Public Domain on Shabbat | 67 |
8 | Halakhic Themes of Shabbat | 70 |
9 | A Spiritual Enhancement | 73 |
10 | Accepting Early Shabbat | 75 |
11 | Setting Out Food before Kiddush | 77 |
12 | Eating the Lechem Mishneh | 80 |
13 | Differences between Kiddush and Havdalah | 82 |
14 | Beverages for Havdalah | 85 |
15 | Shalom Aleichem in Kiddush L'vanah | 88 |
III | Issues Pertaining to a Chatan and Kiddushin | 91 |
1 | The Chatan Is Compared to a King | 93 |
2 | Aliya to the Torah for a Chatan | 95 |
3 | A Chatan on the Seventh Day of Yemei Hamishteh | 98 |
4 | Birkhat Kiddushin under the Chupah | 100 |
5 | A Chupah in a Synagogue | 103 |
IV | Issues Pertaining to Chanukah | 105 |
1 | Placement of Chanukah Candles | 107 |
2 | The Ideal Time to Light Chanukah Candles | 110 |
3 | Torah Reading on Chanukah | 112 |
V | Bread, Birkhat Hamazon, and Bishul Akum | 115 |
1 | Only Bake Pareve Bread | 117 |
2 | Beracha after Bread | 120 |
3 | Showing Gratitude | 123 |
4 | Bishul Akum-Canned Foods | 125 |
VI | Aveilut and Sefira | 127 |
1 | Aveilut: When Does It Begin? | 129 |
2 | Shaving during Sefira and the Three Weeks | 131 |
VII | Halakhic Decisions | 133 |
1 | Rendering Halakhic Decisions | 135 |
2 | Functions of the Bet Din Hagadol | 137 |
3 | The Difference between Monetary Rulings and Decrees: Why People React Differently | 140 |
VIII | Miscellaneous Issues | 143 |
1 | Chalav Yisrael | 145 |
2 | Yibbum (Levirate Marriage) in Our Days | 147 |
3 | Converting Adopted Infants | 150 |
4 | Is It Permissible to Live outside of Eretz Yisrael? | 152 |
5 | Tefillat Haderech in Automobiles | 155 |
6 | Righteousness of Tzedaka | 157 |
7 | Al Tifrosh Min Hatzibbur | 160 |
8 | A Jewish Nation | 163 |
9 | Metzitza for Brit Milah | 166 |
10 | A Jewish King Cannot Be a Levi | 168 |
11 | Semicha in Our Days | 170 |
12 | Do Not Despair | 173 |
13 | Teaching and Transmitting Torah | 175 |