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• Morning Routine
  • Going to Sleep
    • Halachot of Sleep
    • Waking up in the Middle of the Night
  • Waking Up
    • Waking Up
    • Netilat Yadayim upon Waking Up
    • Netilat Yadayim in Preparation for Davening (Negal Vasser)
    • Order of Getting Dressed
    • Modest Clothing
    • Going to the Bathroom
    • Birchat Asher Yatzar
    • Halachot of Brushing One's Teeth
  • Preparation for Davening
    • Kippah
    • Tzitzit
    • When Should One Make a New Bracha on Tzitzit?
  • Tefillin
    • Details About the Tefillin Boxes and Straps
    • Putting On and Removing Tefillin
    • Treating the Tefillin with Respect
    • Rabbenu Tam Tefillin
    • Who Is Obligated to Wear Tefillin?
    • When to Wear Tefillin
  • Breakfast and the Rest of the Day
    • Eating Breakfast
    • Order of the Day
    • Proper Outlook on Life and Religious Cognizance
    • Respect for a Shul
    • How a Person Should Conduct Himself
• Prayer
  • What One May Do before Davening
    • Greeting People before Davening
    • Eating before Davening
    • Netilat Yadayim in Preparation for Davening
    • Other Activities before Davening
    • Preparations for Davening
  • Davening Times
    • When Is the Earliest and Latest Time to Pray?
  • General Halachot of Davening
    • Answering Amen
    • Avoiding Davening After Drinking Intoxicating Beverages
    • Correcting a Bad Dream
    • Davening with a Minyan That Uses a Different Nusach
    • Dvarim SheBichtav
    • Kaddish
    • Kavanah necessary for Davening (Kavanah for Tefillah)
    • Mitzvah to Daven
    • Prayers for Certain Occasions
    • Shaliach Tzibbur
    • Fulfilling One's Obligation by Listening to a Bracha (Shomea KeOneh)
    • Someone who comes late to Davening
    • Turning to the Right and Left
    • What to do if one missed davening (Tashlumin)
  • Halachos of a Shul
    • Davening with a minyan
    • Respecting the sanctity of the Shul
    • Where Is It Permissible to Daven?
    • Acquiring Rights to a Mitzvah
    • Brov Am Hadrat Melech
  • Specific parts of Davening
    • Birchot HaShachar
    • Birchot HaTorah
    • Korbanot
    • Kaddish
    • Pesukei DeZimrah
    • Barchu
    • Birchot Kriyat Shema
    • Kriyat Shema
    • Shmoneh Esrei
      • Mashiv HaRuach UMorid HaGeshem
      • Atta Chonen
      • Atta Chonantanu
      • Hashivenu
      • Slach Lanu
      • Refaenu
      • Barech Aleinu (VeTen Tal UMatar Lebracha)
      • Yaaleh VeYavo (insertion for Rosh Chodesh)
      • Al Hanissim on Chanukah
      • Sim Shalom
      • Taking Three Steps Back
    • Chazarat HaShatz
      • Kedusha
      • Birkat Cohanim
    • Havinenu
    • Kriyat HaTorah
      • Hagbah and Gelila
    • Hallel
    • Tachanun, Ashrei, Aleinu, Shir Shel Yom
    • Special prayer for travelers (Tefillat HaDerech)
    • Mincha
    • Mariv/Arvit
    • Mussaf
    • Repeating Shema at night
    • Bedtime Shema
    • Tikkun Chatzot
• Brachot
  • Brachot on Food
    • A
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    • C
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    • F
    • G
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    • I- J
    • K
    • L
    • M
    • N
    • O - P
    • Q - R
    • S
    • T
    • U - Z
  • General Concepts
    • Having Kavana for Mitzvot
    • Delaying Mitzvot
    • Kavana During Brachot
    • Shomea KeOneh
    • Safek Brachot LeHaKel
    • Making one hundred Brachot daily
    • Shiur of K'zayis (Kazayis)
    • Interruptions to a Bracha (Hefsek)
    • Location Change (Shinui Makom)
    • Food that comes during a meal
    • Brachot on Food One Eats Before a Meal
    • Order of Brachot
    • Correcting a Mistaken Bracha
  • Making the Bracha Properly
    • Amen
    • Before the Bracha
    • Bracha Achrona
    • Bracha Rishona
    • Brachot Through a Microphone
    • Interruptions between the Bracha and Eating
    • Making the Beracha
    • Talking between the Beracha and eating
    • Respecting foods
    • Where Is It Permissible to Recite Brachot?
  • Brachot on Specific Foods
    • Bread (HaMotzei)
    • Breakfast Cereals
    • Grape Juice and Wine (HaGafen)
    • Ikar and Tofel (Combination of Ingredients)
    • Shehakol (drinks, candies)
    • Soups
  • Mezonot
    • Wheat and grain products (noodle, cake, pastry)
    • Rice and rice products (rice, rice cake, rice crispies)
    • Pas Haba Bikisnin (cookies, cakes, crackers)
    • Making a meal on Mezonot
  • HaEtz and HaAdama
    • Fruits and Vegetables
    • Processed fruits and vegetables (jelly, jam, peanut butter)
    • Corn and potato products (corn chip, mashed potato)
    • Raw or roasted grain (granola, puffed wheat)
  • Bracha Achrona
    • Al HaMichya
    • Boreh Nefashot
  • Birkat Hamazon
    • Netilat Yadayim for a meal
    • Proper Conduct of a Meal (Derech Eretz of a meal)
    • Mayim Achronim
    • Zimmun
    • Birkat HaMazon
    • Yaaleh VeYavo
  • Brachot on Mitzvot
    • Birchot Kriyat Shema
    • Bracha of Sukkah
    • Kiddish
    • Havdalah
  • Brachot of Praise
    • Birkat HaGomel
    • Birchot HaShachar
    • Birchas Asher Yasar
  • Brachot on Special Occasions
    • Shehecheyanu
    • Brachot on a nice smell
    • Brachot on Sights
    • Bracha For Seeing Natural Wonders
    • Oseh Maaseh Beresheet
    • Bracha for seeing a rainbow
    • Bracha for a miracle
    • Bracha for an unusual creature
    • Bracha for good or bad news
    • Birchat Ilanot
    • Birkat HaLevana
    • Birkat HaChamah (Bircas HaChammah)
• Learning Torah
  • Mitzvot of Talmud Torah
    • Laws of Learning Torah
    • Shenayim Mikrah (Reading The Weekly Torah Portion)
    • Special Tefilla to Say Before and After Learning
    • Where Is It Permissible to Learn Torah?
    • Bitul Torah (Not Wasting Time From Learning)
    • Breaking up Pesukim and Paragraphs of Torah
    • Mitzvah to Learn Torah
    • Writing a Sefer Torah
  • Kavod HaTorah (Respect for Torah)
    • Standing for a Talmid Chacham and for the elderly
    • Loving Torah Scholars (Talmidei Chachamim)
    • Respect for a Shul
    • Respecting Holy Books (Kedushat Sefarim)
    • Respecting a Sefer Torah
    • Geniza (Sheimos/Discarding Holy Material)
  • Klalim (Rules)
    • Klalei HaTalmud (Talmudic Methodology)
    • Klalei HaPoskim
    • Klalei HaPsak (Halachic Decision Making)
• Shabbat
  • Mitzvot of Shabbat
    • Blessing for new moon (Birkat HaLevana/Kiddush Levana)
    • Enjoying Shabbat (Oneg Shabbat)
    • Fourth meal of Shabbat (Melaveh Malka)
    • Havdalah (Sanctifying the conclusion of Shabbat)
    • Having a meal on Friday (Having a meal on Erev Shabbat)
    • Kiddush (Sanctifying Shabbat)
    • Lighting Shabbat candles
    • Making early Shabbat (Tosefet Shabbat)
    • Making one hundred Brachot on Shabbat
    • Preparing foods on Shabbat
    • Preparing for Shabbat (Erev Shabbat)
    • Reading the weekly Torah portion (Shenayim Mikrah)
    • Respecting Shabbat (Kavod Shabbat)
    • Shabbat prayers (Shabbos Davening)
    • The meals of Shabbat (Seudat Shabbat)
    • Third meal of Shabbat (Seudat Shelishit)
    • Two loaves of bread (Lechem Mishneh)
    • When does Shabbat end? (Motzei Shabbat)
    • When does Shabbat start?
  • Practical Laws of Shabbat
    • Allowing Carrying Using an Eruv Chatzerot
    • Animals on Shabbat
    • Asking a Jew to work on Shabbat
    • Asking a non-Jew to work on Shabbat (Amirah LeNochri)
    • Benefiting from a Violation of Shabbat (Maaseh Shabbat)
    • Books, notebooks, and papers
    • Brushing Teeth on Shabbat
    • Building a structure on Shabbat (Boneh)
    • Carrying on Shabbat
    • Cleaning the dishes
    • Cleaning and Folding Garments on Shabbat
    • Clearing the table
    • Cooking (Ofeh and Bishul)
    • Cosmetics on Shabbat
    • Dancing and clapping on Shabbat
    • Electricity on Shabbat
    • Games on Shabbat
    • Getting dressed on Shabbat
    • Giving birth on Shabbat
    • Grinding (Tochen)
    • Handling objects on Shabbat (Muktzeh)
    • Infants on Shabbat
    • Introduction to the Modern Eruv
    • Kneading (Lash)
    • Mail on Shabbat
    • Medicine on Shabbat (Refuah on Shabbat)
    • Melacha That Begins Before Shabbat
    • Opening bottles and containers (Boneh)
    • Plants on Shabbat (Zoreah)
    • Preparing for after Shabbat (Hachana)
    • Reading on Shabbat (Daber Davar)
    • Recreation on Shabbat
    • Separating mixtures (Borer)
    • Squeezing fruits (Sechita)
    • Speaking on Shabbat (Daber Davar)
    • Taking a cruise over Shabbat
    • Taking measurements on Shabbat
    • Transactions on Shabbat
    • Transportation on Shabbat
    • Wages on Shabbat (Sachar Shabbat)
    • Washing one’s body on Shabbat
  • Concepts of Melacha
    • Introduction to Melechet Machshevet
    • Marbeh Bshiurim
  • 39 Melachot
    • Order of making bread
      • Choresh (Plowing)
      • Zoreah (Planting)
      • Kotzer (Harvesting)
      • Me'amer (Gathering)
      • Dosh (Threshing)
      • Zoreh (Winnowing)
      • Borer (Separating)
      • Tochen(Grinding)
      • Merakaid (Sifting)
      • Lash (Kneading)
      • Ofeh and Bishul (Baking and Cooking)
    • Order of making garments
      • Gozez (Shearing)
      • Melabain (Laundering)
      • Menapaitz (Combing)
      • Tzoveya (Dyeing)
      • Toveh (Spinning)
      • Maisach (Mounting warp threads)
      • Oseh Shtei Batei Nirin (Making two loops)
      • Oraig (Weaving)
      • Potzeya (Unraveling fabric)
      • Koshair (Tying)
      • Matir (Untying)
      • Tofer (Gluing, taping, or stapling)
      • Koreah (Ripping)
    • Order of making hides
      • Tzad (Trapping)
      • Shochet (Slaughtering)
      • Mafshit (Skinning)
      • Maabaid (Tanning)
      • Memachaik (Smoothing)
      • Mesartait (Scoring)
      • Mechataich (Cutting precisely)
    • Order of Construction
      • Kotaiv (Writing)
      • Mochek (Erasing)
      • Boneh (Building)
      • Sosair (Demolishing)
      • Makeh BePatish (Completing a vessel)
      • Mechabeh (Extinguishing a flame)
      • Mavir (Kindling a fire)
      • Hotzah (Carrying)
• Holidays
  • Chodesh Elul
  • Rosh Hashana
  • Aseret Yimei Teshuva
  • Yom Kippur
  • Sukkot
  • Shemini Aseret
  • Simchat Torah
  • Chanukah
  • Tu BiShevat
  • Purim
  • Purim Katan
  • Pesach
  • Yom HaAtzmaut
  • Lag BaOmer
  • Sefirat HaOmer
  • Shavuot
  • Yom Tov
  • Chol HaMoed
  • Rosh Chodesh
  • Three Weeks
  • Nine Days
  • Fast Days
  • Tisha BeAv
• Lifecycles
  • Shalom Zachor
  • Brit Milah (Bris)
  • Pidyon HaBen
  • Chinuch
  • Bar Mitzvah
  • Bat Mitzvah
  • Marriage
  • Having Children
  • Raising Children
  • Adoption
  • Mourning
• Kashrut
  • General overview of Kashrut
  • Basar SheNitalem Min HaAyin
  • Bishul Akum
  • Checking for Bugs
  • Dairy Bread
  • Eating Dairy and Meat at the Same Table
  • Gelatin
  • Glatt Kosher Meat
  • Grape Juice and Wine
  • Items That Cannot Be Nullified
  • Kosher Cheese
  • Kosher Milk (Chalav Yisrael)
  • Koshering a Kitchen
  • Medications
  • Milk and Meat in the Kitchen
  • Non-Dairy Milk
  • Nullification (Bitul BeRov)
  • Pas Palter
  • Dipping vessels in the Mikveh (Tevilat Keilim)
  • Transferring Taste
  • Tzaar Baalei Chayim
  • Waiting between meat and dairy
  • Yashan
• Women
  • Mitzvot Performed by Women
    • Positive Time Bound Commandments (Mitzvot Aseh SheHazman Grama)
    • Challah
    • Shabbat Candles
    • Mitzvah to Learn Torah
    • Writing a Sefer Torah
  • Degrees of Separation Between Genders for Modesty
    • Listening to a woman's voice (Kol Isha)
    • Seclusion of men and women (Yichud)
    • Negiah
    • Modesty (Tzniut)
  • Niddah
    • How a Woman Becomes a Niddah
      • Attributing Blood to a Wound (Dam Macah)
      • Bedika Clothes (Maarot)
      • Hargasha
      • Ketamim (Finding a Stain)
      • Petichat Hamekor
      • Veset (Anticipating the Period)
    • When a Woman is a Niddah
      • Harchakot of Niddah (Separation while she's a Niddah)
    • How a Woman Becomes Pure
      • The Purification Process of Niddah (Hefsek Tahara and Shiva Nekiyim)
      • Preparing for the Mikveh
      • Going to the Mikveh
      • Chatzitza (Interpositions Between One's Body and the Mikveh)
    • Niddah Before and After the Wedding
      • Preparing for the Wedding (Dam Chimud)
      • The Night of the Wedding (Beilat Mitzvah)
      • Chupat Niddah (If a woman is Niddah at the time of the Wedding)
      • Bedikot after Marriage
    • Pregnancy and Giving Birth
      • Pregnancy and Labor
      • Giving Birth on Shabbat
      • A Woman who Gave Birth (Yoledet)
      • Halachot of Nursing
      • Modesty During Tashmish
      • Abortion
• Contemporary Issues
  • Abortion
  • Bracha on Coffee and Tea
  • Bracha on wheat puffs-smacks
  • Bracha on Granola Bars
  • Drawing or sculpting forbidden images
  • Is our Milk Kosher?
  • Listening to Music
  • Minhag
  • Techelet
  • Writing a secular date
  • Dina D'Malchusa Dina
  • Secular Court (Arkaos)
  • Intellectual & Digital Property
  • Homosexuality
  • Tattoos & Body Piercing
  • Internet, TV, Social Media
  • Medical Ethics
• Miscellaneous
  • Ritual Practices
    • Burying Religious Articles (Shaimos)
    • Conversion (Gerut)
    • Counting Jewish People (Issur LeSpor Yisrael)
    • Cutting One's Nails
    • Drawing or Sculpting Forbidden Images
    • Entering a Church
    • General Laws of Traveling
    • Not Cutting One's Sideburns (Payis)
    • Not Following the Ways of the Goyim (Chukot Akum)
    • Not Saying Hashem's Name in Vain (Lo Tisa)
    • Not wearing the other gender's clothing (Beged Ishah)
    • Sending away the Mother Bird (Shiluach HaKan)
    • Shatnez (Checking for Linen and Wool)
    • Shaving (Peot HaZaken)
    • Shichvat Zera Levatala
    • Standing for a Talmid Chacham and for the elderly
    • Sterilization (Sirus)
    • Vows and Oaths (Nedarim and Shevuot)
    • Zecher LeChurban (Practices to Remember the Destruction of the Temple)
  • Business Halacha
    • Laws of Monetary Interactions
  • Acquisition (Kinyanim)
  • Being Careful With Other People's Money (Gezel)
  • Deceitful Practices (Genivat Daat) (Onat Devarim)
  • Lending
  • Taking Interest (Ribbit)
  • Emuna & Business (Masa u'matan b'emuna)
  • Unfair Competition (Hasagat Gevul)
  • Overcharging (Onaat Mamon)
  • Subletting (Shechirut)
  • Beit Din and Dayanim (Jewish Court and Judges)
    • Halachos for Professionals
      • Halachos of Marketing
      • Halachos for Lawyers
      • Halachos of Insurance
      • Halachos for Accountants
      • Halachos for Real Estate Agents
      • Halachos for Brokers, Investors, and Hedge Fund Agents
      • Halachos for Bankers
      • Halachos for Chefs
      • Halachos for Educators
      • Halachos for Psychologists
    • General Laws for Professionals
      • Halachos of Interviews
      • Cheating Clients or Employees
      • Taking Breaks at Work
      • Explaining Orthodox Practice to Non-Jews
      • False Advertising and Disclaimers
      • Ribbis (Taking Interest)
      • Yichud (Seclusion of Men and Women)
      • Nivul Peh (Inappropriate Speech)
      • Parnasa
      • Bitachon and Hishtadlut
      • Unfair Competition (Hasagat Gevul)
      • Overcharging (Onaat Mamon)
      • Paying Workers on Time
  • Land of Israel
    • Challah
    • Going on Har Habayit
    • Living in Israel (Yishuv Eretz Yisrael)
    • Shemita
    • Shemitat Kesafim (Dissolving Loans during Shemittah)
    • Terumot and Maaserot
    • Yom HaAtzmaut
  • Between Man and His Fellow
    • Anger
    • Building a Fence Around One's Roof (Maakeh)
    • Charity (Tzedaka)
    • Comforting the Mourners (Nichum Aveilim)
    • Community Obligations
    • Embarrassing Others (Malbin Peni Chavero)
    • Honoring one's parents (Kibud Av V'Em)
    • How to Relate to Those Who Are Different than Oneself
    • Hurting Others' Feelings (Onaat Devarim)
    • Loving your friend (Ahavat Re'im)
    • Marriage
    • Mitzvah of Rebuke (Tochacha)
    • Not Speaking Negatively About One's Fellow (Lashon Hara)
    • Perfecting Middot (Positive Character Traits)
    • Prohibition to Lie (Sheker)
    • Returning Lost Objects (Hashavat Aviedah)
    • Revenge and Bearing a Grudge (Lo Tikom veLo Titor)
    • Using Clean Speech (Lashon Naki)
    • Visiting the Sick (Bikur Cholim)
    • Welcoming Guests (Hachnasat Orchim)
  • Between Man and Himself
    • Human Dignity (Kavod Habriyot)
    • Hygiene & Health
    • Mindset (De'ot)
    • Not Wasting (Baal Tashchit)
    • Parnasa
    • Suspicious actions (Marit Ayin)
    • Teshuva (Returning from sin)
    • Simcha (Happiness)
  • References
    • Biographical Dictionary of Rabbis (Shem HaGedolim)
    • Halachic Dictionary
    • Halachos of Lefties
    • Reference of Measurements in Halacha (Shiurim)
    • Text of Brachot
    • Which Mitzvot take precedence?
  • Safrut
    • Hak Tochot
    • Writing a Sefer Torah
• How to Edit Halachipedia

 

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