How to "bensch" with the etrog and lulav?                                        Click here to find out.

How to put on Tefillin?                                                                       Click here to find out. There are several variations as to where the "shin" is placed and on wrapping around the fingers.  This is only one but is shown because it is very detailed.

What work is forbidden on Shabbat?                                                   Click here to find out.

Where you can find Rashi's Torah commentary online?                      Click here to find out.

Where you can find another great Rashi site online?                           Click here to find out.

Why do we take three steps back after the Kaddish?                           Click here to find out.

Why we are prohibited from wearing a mixture of linen and wool?     Click here to find out.

Where you can find the very basic rules of Kashruth?                         Click here to find out

Why do we take off the tefillin before starting Musaf on Rosh Chodesh?  Click here to find out.

How can we have a minyan present during the entire Torah Service but when the Kaddish Shalem (Full Kaddish which is recited just before returning the Torah to the Ark during the weekday Shacharit Service) is to be recited,  it is not said?                                                                                           Click here to find out.

Harvesting on Shabbat is prohibited.  There is one situation whereby it was not only permitted but was mandatory and overrode the Shabbat.  What was it?                                               Click here to find out.

Why is the Maftir a repeat of a part of the Aliyah before it?               Click here to find out.

Who wrote Psalms 90-100?                                                                  Click here to find out.

Psalm 92 "Mizmor Shir L'Yom HaShabbat" is a psalm and a song for the Sabbath day,  yet it does not contain any direct reference to Shabbat.  Why is it then a psalm and a song for Shabbat?                                                                                                 Click here to find out.

What is the meaning of "Amen" and why is it important that we say it?  Click here to find out?    

What are Maimonides Thirteen Principles of Faith?                              Click here to find out.                                                       

How to pray when there is no day?                                                        Click here to find out?

What is the only holiday for which the Torah does not give  a specific calendar date, has no special Mitzvot for the holiday (eating specific food does not count), is only one day (in Israel) - while the other Shalosh Regalim (Pilgrimage Festivals) are seven days each and is the only holiday that does not have a tractate in the Talmud named after it?                                                                                                    Click here to find out.
 

What the various opinions are regarding wearing Tefillin on Chol Hamoed?    Click here to find out.

What are the four instances when one is obligated to say the gomayl blessing (blessing of thanksgiving on deliverance from danger)?                                     Click here to find out.

Why don't we say Tachnun the first 12 days of the month of Sivan?                 Click here to find out.

Two men are in Oxnard on the 36th day of the counting the Omer.  That night one man counts the 37th day and the other man counts the 38th day.  Both men are correct.  How can this be?                                                                                                                          Click here to find out.

Some headstones in Jewish cemeteries contain the Hebrew letters tav, nun, tzadee, bet, hey underneath the inscription  What do these letters stand for?                                                        Click here to find out.

Who was King David's great-grandmother?  Who was his great- grandfather?  What was his mother's name?  Where is her name mentioned? Who was Goliath's great-grandmother?                       Click here to find out.

What is the significance of the number 40 and where is it found in the Bible and other Jewish writings?                                                                                                                 Click here to find out.

Why don't we blow the Shofar on Shabbat?                                                            Click here to find out.   

What Hebrew month contains no holidays in it with the exception of Rosh Chodesh?                                                                                                                      Click here to find out.

What are the Four Holy Cities of Israel and what is their connection to earth, wind, fire, and water?                                                                                                              Click here to find out. 

Moses is called Moshe Rabbeinu, Abraham is called Avraham Avinu, what is Joseph called?                                                                                                                                  Click here to find out.                      

1.  Who were the five Maccabee brothers and what were their names?
2.  Which one did not die in the Hasmonean revolt?
3.  How many years into the revolt did the miracle of the lights occur?
4.  How did Elazar die?                                                                            Click here to find out.                      

1.  What was Esther's relationship to Mordechai?
2.  What do King David and King Saul have to do with Purim and what do we learn from this?
3.  What is unique about the Book of Esther?
4.  What is the similarity between the Purim story and the giving of the Torah at Sinai?                                                                                                                                                            Click here to find out.   

Which Musaf Service is the longest of the year?            Click here to find out.  

 What Biblical holiday is celebrated in the Hebrew month of Iyar and what 4 post-Biblical events are commemorated in that same month?        Click here to find out.  

Why is there a hechsher (certificate of kashrut) needed, by Orthodox Jews, on fruits and vegetables grown in Israel but none needed on fruits and vegetables grown in the U.S.?                                                                               Click here to find out.  

According to the Gemara who were the seven prophetesses of Israel?     Click here to find out.  

According to the Code of Jewish Law (Shulchan Aruch) how are we supposed to put on and take off our shoes and what do we learn from this?                 Click here to find out.      

What does the Hebrew expression "I am to my beloved and my beloved is to me" have in connection with the Hebrew month  of Elul and what does it teach us?       Click here to find out.      

An Orthodox custom before writing your name in a book is to write the Hebrew letters Lamed, Hei, Vov, separated by quote marks and then you write your name.  What do these Hebrew letters represent?                        Click here to find out.

Why is the contract between Shylock and Antonio, in The Merchant of Venice, regarding a pound of flesh, an unenforceable contract according to Jewish Law?  The answer has nothing to do with the fact that Antonio is not Jewish.        Click here to find out.

1.  According to the Midrash, which Patriarch agreed to a change in the spelling of his name and caused the period of slavery in Egypt to be  210 years long instead of 400 years long?
2.  Where do we find the instance of this spelling change?
3.  How was the change in the number of years from 400 to 210 arrived at?     Click here to find out.

According to some of our Sages what Mitzvah is best done through an intermediary, however, you can do it yourself if no intermediary is available?  Click here to find out.           

What prohibition must we be mindful of in feeding pets during the entire year and what additional prohibition must we be mindful of during Passover?                 Click here to find out.  

Why is it forbidden on Shabbat to pick meat out of a thick stew, containing other foods, in order to put it into a refrigerator so it will not spoil and under what circumstances would this also not be permitted on a Yom Tov?                         Click here to find out.

Psalm 126 and Psalm 137 are recited before what prayer, under what circumstances, and why the difference?                                   Click here to find out.

Why are there two names of G-d (Hashem and Elokim; Elokeinu is a contraction of Elokim shelanu) in the first line of the Shema?           Click here to find out.
 

Which Psalms are read as the "Song Of The Day" for each day of the week?       Click here to find out.

It states in Deuteronomy 6:16 "You shall not test Hashem your G-d....".  It is explicitly written, however,  that in the case of one commandment we are to test Hashem.  What is the commandment and where in the Jewish Bible is this written?
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We don't say Avinu Malkeinu on Shabbat, yet during the Ne'ila Service on Yom Kippur, which in 2007was on a Shabbat, we did recite a short Avinu Malkeinu.  This was recited before Shabbat was over.  Why were we able to do this?   Why isn't Avinu Malkeinu recited on Shabbat?                        Click here to find out.

1. What is the position assumed in the synagogue when saying the section of the Siddur (found after the Amidah) beginning "To You, O Lord, I lift my soul."
2.  Why do we assume this position?
3.  When is this said?
4.  What position do we assume if this is said where there is no Aron Kodesh and why?               Click here to find out.

1.  In Parasha Vayishlach (Genesis 32:4-36:43) why did Jacob go back across the river to retrieve a few small jars?
2.  Who was the angel he wrestled?
3.  Why did the struggle take place at night and how does it relate to the history of the Jewish people?
4.  What do the letters on a dreidel (used outside of Israel) have to do with Moshiach?
5.  Where in Parasha Bereshit (Genesis 1:1-6:8) is there an allusion to Chanukah?
6.  Where in Parasha Vayigash (Genesis 44:18-47:27) is there an allusion to Chanukah?                        Click here to find out.  

One of the Ten Commandments is not to take G-d's name in vain.  This can inadvertently happen if one says a blessing over food, forget it was previously said and repeats the blessing again.  If we catch ourselves after saying Baruch Atta Hashem the second time we can get around the prohibition by completing a verse in Psalms.  Which psalm and verse is it?  (Hint, the psalm is referred to in the Talmud as t'maniah apin, the repetition of eight.)                                                 Click here to find out.  
    

 1.  What is the earliest time that we can daven Maariv and on Erev Shabbat  the earliest time that we can bring in Shabbat?                Click here to find out. 
 2.  What is the Kabbalistic significance of this time?         Click here to find out. 

Why do some Orthodox Jews not specifically invite guests to a Bris but instead just tell them when and where the Bris is to be held?                                                           Click here to find out. 

When Shabbat falls on a Festival why do some Orthodox Jews recite certain prayers only applicable to Shabbat (e.g. Shalom Aleichem, Eishet Chayil) in an undertone instead of aloud?     Click here to find out. 

When we are counting the Omer if we miss counting for a complete day we cannot say the blessing when we continue the count and, in fact, will not have fulfilled the mitzvah of counting seven complete weeks.  What happens in the following situations (i.e Is a blessing said each day, what day starts the count, what about the count for the previous days, and why)?  Would your answer be different if, in the case of A. and B. the count was started from the beginning of Sefira before they became obligated to count?
A.  A non-Jew is converted during Sefira (the period of counting the Omer).
B.  A boy becomes Bar Mitzvah during Sephira.
C.  A person, G-d forbid, is in a coma and awakes from the coma during Sefira.             Click here to find out. 

What two tractates of the Talmud are studied during Sefira and why?                Click here to find out. 

What is the "essence" of a Bar/Bat Mitzvah?   Click here to find out.

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