Eliezer Posner

The sukkah covering must provide enough cover so that when the sun is shining overhead there is more shade than sun in the sukkah...

Question: I know that the Torah prohibits the consumption of blood. Does this apply to my own blood as well? Answer: When the Torah tells us that we are allowed to eat the meat of kosher animals, we are warned that "…you shall not eat the blood…." ...

Question: Why don't Ashkenazi Jews name their children after a living parent or grandparent? I know Sefardi Jews do have this custom and do it often. What's with Ashkenazim? Answer: Perhaps there are more, but I have found two reasons for this custom: 1. ...

Question: In addition to the daily prayers, I find that reading Psalms helps me feel close to G‑d, and I want to start saying them every day. Is there a custom as to which Psalms I should say when? Response: Psalms is certainly a powerful book. The ...

A couple can get married on the three days in between Yom Kippur and Sukkot. Holding a wedding on the day immediately before Sukkot is technically permitted, however Rabbi Abraham Gombiner (17th century Poland) writes that since the meal can easily ...

There are different customs as to how many times the shofar is blown on Rosh Hashanah. In most communities, the shofar is blown one hundred times . . .

Question: What blessings should I say before and after eating rice? Answer: There are different opinions as to which is the blessing to be recited before eating rice: Some halachic authorities say it is mezonot; others say it is ha'adamah; yet others ...

Question: Why do some of the Hebrew letters have dots in them, and why do the same letters, in the same words, sometimes appear with dots and sometimes without? Answer: A prime example of this phenomenon is the name of the Egyptian king, Pharaoh, פרעה. ...

Why are there two Talmuds? And why is the "Babylonian Talmud" concidered more authoritative than the "Jerusalem Talmud"?

Question: Is it a mitzvah for a divorced couple to remarry one another? Answer: Yes. The Jerusalem TalmudTractate Ketubot 11:3 learns this from Isaiah 58:7, where the prophet exhorts the Jew not to "hide from your flesh," i.e. to look out for our ...