“The Shulchan Aruch HaRav (OC 158:17) says that the best method of drying your hands after Netilas Yadayim is to rub it with a towel. The Debriciner Rav (Kuntras Electric 48) was asked if an electric heat dryer that is generally found in public places is acceptable for drying.He answers that it is perfectly acceptable […]
“On the tenth of Teves Nevuchadnetzar besieged Jerusalem. A siege is not as tragic an event as that for which any of the other public fast days were instituted. During the siege the city itself remained intact; the Beis HaMikdosh continued to function; and even the sacrifices continued as usual. In contrast, on the seventeenth […]
ter many months of anticipation, the first volume of the Kleinman edition of the Kitzur Shulchan Aruch was released just this week. Originally compiled in 1864 by Harav Shlomo Ganzfried, “the Kitzur” is a digest of the essential laws of Jewish living distilled from the massive, authoritative Code of Law. […]
