by Rabbi Joshua Maroof | Apr 2, 2012 | Uncategorized
In addition to forbidding the consumption of hametz (leavened products) on Passover, the Torah emphatically prohibits us from owning any hametz during the holiday as well. Indeed, the Torah commands us to rid ourselves of hametz on the eve of Passover, which is done...
by Rabbi Joshua Maroof | Mar 12, 2012 | Uncategorized
Essential Laws of Pesah by Rabbi Joshua Maroof איסור החמץ -The Prohibition of Hametz 1. On Pesah we are not permitted to eat or to possess any hametz. This includes any food product that contains one of the five grains (wheat, barley, oats, rye or spelt) or one of...
by Rabbi Joshua Maroof | Jan 13, 2012 | Uncategorized
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by Rabbi Joshua Maroof | Sep 28, 2011 | Uncategorized
Three questions about the confessions of sin we recite on Yom Kippur – included in all five of the prayers of the day – had been bothering me for years until a conversation with my wife Elana last year opened my mind up to a totally new perspective...
by Rabbi Joshua Maroof | Sep 9, 2011 | Uncategorized
The Open Orthodox movement is taking leave of any semblance of halakhic legitimacy at an alarming pace. Debating the acceptability of reciting a blessing ordained by the Sages of the Talmud was merely a strategy for testing the proverbial waters, an attempt to see...
by Rabbi Joshua Maroof | Aug 16, 2011 | Uncategorized
In a post earlier this week, I took issue with an author on the “Morethodoxy” website, Open Orthodox Rabbi Yosef Kanefsky. R’ Kanefsky has been promoting the view that the blessing שלא עשני אשה , despite its basis in the Talmud and its unanimous...
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