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Source Sheets 

Rabbi Shuki Reich
If you have comments or questions please feel free to e-mail Rabbi Reich at: straus@ots.org.il

[Note: All files in Word (.doc) format]

Tzdaka
Tzdaka
Tzdaka & Chessed
Giving Tzdaka to Non-Jew
Receiving Tzdaka from Non-Jews
The Obligation to Give Tzdaka

 

HOLIDAYS

Shavuot
Shavuot -Moshe or Rabbi Akiva
The Pre Zadik on Chag Shavuot
 Trees in Shul on Shvuot

Sukkot
Sukkot in Israel
Sukkah, Tztitit & Mezzuza
 Sukkot and Chanukah
Hedur Mitzvah
 Nishuch Hamayim and Sukkot
Shmini Azeret

High Holidays
Elul and Torah SheBeal Peah
Fasting on Erev Rosh Hashana
 Rosh Hashana
Shofar - Hearing or Blowing
Shofar - Blowing when Rosh Hashana falls on Shabbat
Tekiah K'Tefila
Kol HaShofarot
Alu VAlu - Shofar and Mezuza
Symbolic Foods on Rosh Hashana
Tashlich
Rebuke
Rambam Teshuva - Chap. 3
Half a Shiur in Teshuva Part 1
Half a Shiur in Teshuva Part 2
Teshuva in the 10 Days of Teshuva
10 Days of Teshuva - The Sun and Moon
Eating on Erev Yom Kippur

Tisha B'Av and the Three Weeks
 Emet & Shalom
 Rabbi wanted to uproot Tisha B'Av
 Sinat Chinam - Hatred
 The Three Weeks
 The Three Weeks 2
 The Month of Av
 Tisha B'Av R' Yehuda Hanasi & Mashiach
 Tisha B'Av that Occurs on Sunday
 Torah on Tisha B'Av

Sefirat Haomer
 Rabbi_Akiva_&_Yom_HaAzmaut
 The_Land_of_Israel_The_State_of_Israel_&_the_Jewish_People
 Yom Miyoochas
 Sefirat Haomer

Pesach
 Sources for Hagadah & Eretz Yisrael new!!!
 Hagadah 1 new!!!
 Hagadah 2 new!!!
 Selling Chametz
 Bitul & Bedika
 Checking on the Light of the 14th of Nissan
 Kol Chamirah
 Kol Chamirah1
 Erev Pesach that Falls on Shabbat
 Haggadah of Pesach
 Haggadah of Pesach 2
 Text of the Pesach Haggada
 Halech Maanya
 Hallel Pesach Night
 Starting with Genoot
 Josef in Haggadah (PDF format)
 Yosef & the Haggadah [ listen to shiur]
 Yosef in the Haggadah
 Karpas
 Kitniyot
 Leaning to the Left [ listen to shiur ]
 Women Leaning to the Left on Seder Night
 Matza on Pesach
 Teaching about the Mitzva of Matza
 Mikraei Kodesh
 Detzach Adash BEchav
 Pesach & Bril Milah
 The Haggadah and Eretz Yisrael
 The Haggadah and Eretz Yisrael 2
 The Superstition of Zugot
 Various Customs on Pesach
 The Haftorah of Shabbat Chol Hamoed Pesach [ listen to shiur]
 Nissan - Birchat Ilanot
 Nissan - Birchat Ilanot 2

Purim
 Purim & Chanukah -Ask_Your_Father
 Women & Meggilah Reading  (html format)
 Traveling on Purim between a Walled & Non-Walled City (html format)
 Shushan Habira (html format)
 Shekalim and the Half Shekel (html format)
 Purim & Pesach (html format)
 Purim 
 Pesach & Purim (html format)
 Parshat Shkalim (html format)
 Mishloach Manot (html format)
 Megilat Esther & the Land of Israel (html format)
 Kavod Hatzibur (html format)
 Is Reading the Meggilah a Torah Obligation (html format)
 Is Meggilah Reading Like Hallel (html format)
 Getting Married on Purim (html format)
 Drinking on Purim (html format)
 Dividing up the Days of Purim (html format)
 Dates When the Meggilah is Read (html format)
 Amalek 1 (html format) |  2 (html format) | 3 (html format)

Fast Days 
 10th of Tevet (html format)

Chanukah
 Why do we light for 8 days
 Zman to Light Chanukah Candles
 Chanukiya Outside
 Chanukah
 Halacha like Beit Shamei
 Lighting Chanukah candles in Shul
 Ner Chanukah in reshut harabim
 Nusach of ner Chanukah
 Shal Avicha   

Parsha 
 Parshat Bamidbar - Intro
 Parshat Bamidbar
 Parshat Beshalach (html format)
 Compensation to the Egyptians (html format)
 Parshat Vaera (html format)
 Parshat Vayigash
 Parshat Vayigash
 Parshat Vayigash

Israel
 Agada &  Eretz Yisrael
 Burial in Eretz Yisrael
 Jerusalem
 Jerusalem (.wbk)
 Leaving Israel & Going to Chutz L'Aretz
 Mitzvot Hatlyot BaAretz
 Negev
 Rabbi Akiva & Yom HaAzmaut
 RAkiva & Yom HaAzmaut
 Security
 The Temple Mount

Minhagim
 Minhagim
 Chatam Sofer and Minhagim

Conversion
 Conversion
 Conversion 3
 Conversion of a Minor
 Converting Others
 Conversion Without Accepting Torah & Mitzvot
 Avraham's Conversion
 Amelek & Conversion

Medicine and Halacha
 Kedushin 82a - Tov SheBaRofim
 Medicine and Halacha

Education
 Chinuch
 Chinuch: Rav and Talmid

Weddings
 Nissuin
 Civil Marriage
 Birchat Erusin
 Cherem of Rabbanu Gershon Part1, Part 2
 Head Covering for a Divorced Woman
 A Kohen Marrying a Divorcee

Women 
 Talmud Torah for Women
 Women Serving as Witnesses
 A Minyan for Women
 Bat Mitzvah
 Beit Halevi Torah for Women

Laws of Mourning
 Mourning
 Kriya
 Onen
 Mourning for a Minor
 The Year of Mourning
 Talmud Torah for a Mourner
 Halacha in Avulut is LKoola
 Tumat Kohen

 

The Kashrut of Wine
 Stam Yenam
 Wine Touched by a Non-Shomer Shabbat Jew
 Yayin Mevushal

Miscellaneous 
 Interest & Heter Iska (html format)
 Ideas of Beginning (html format)
 Humanism in War (html format)
 Environmentalism (html format)
 Family Planning (html format)
 Locusts
 Minhagim in Rav Kook and Chatam Sofer
 Kabbalah and Halacha
 Reason vs. Tradition
 Repeating Words During Davening
 Relationship Between Religious and Non-Religious
 Prophacy and Wisdom
 King David's Sin
 Halacha of Faith
 Halacha without a Reason
 Can You Pay a Mashgiach a Witness?
 Can Amorim argue on Tannim?
 Birth and Brit Mila on Shabbat
 Belief or Experience
 Adam ki Yakriv
 7 Mitzvot of Noach
 The Holocaust and Rebuilding

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