2 Minute Daily Halacha

By Rabbi Betzalel M. Mendel Bassman

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Exploring General Halachic Sugyos from the primary sources to practical application in two minute daily posts 


Episode Date
Do airpockets make you full?
May 13, 2026
Have eggs shrunk?
May 12, 2026
What came first, the egg or the olive?
May 11, 2026
Moshe Rabbeinus invention
May 08, 2026
Do Americans know when they are full?
May 06, 2026
4 levels of appetite
May 05, 2026
How much cheesecake can you eat?
May 04, 2026
Eating matzo on Erev Shabbos
May 01, 2026
The controversial cracker
Apr 28, 2026
The Sephardi bagel
Apr 24, 2026
Is this really a debate?
Apr 15, 2026
Is snacky a word?
Apr 14, 2026
New topic: What is mezonos, what is hamotzi? - part 1
Apr 13, 2026
Forgetfulness
Mar 18, 2026
Cleanliness and G-dliness
Mar 11, 2026
New topic - The cleaning before the checking
Mar 09, 2026
Can women join in a minyan?
Feb 20, 2026
New Topic - Can one read the megila without a minyan?
Feb 18, 2026
Contrasting the publicity of Chanukah and Purim
Feb 18, 2026
A Jewish minhag is Torah!
Feb 11, 2026
Lice check
Feb 10, 2026
Petting zoo
Feb 09, 2026
Gloves
Jan 23, 2026
Can one consume the sweat of the brow?
Jan 20, 2026
Thinking Torah during a haircut
Jan 19, 2026
Thanking about Hashem in the lavatory
Jan 16, 2026
The kabbalists vs the Talmudists
Jan 14, 2026
Slip ons
Jan 13, 2026
My shoes from Zappo
Jan 12, 2026
The bad biting nail habit
Jan 09, 2026
Cutting nails
Dec 25, 2025
Eating a bagel before negel vasser
Dec 24, 2025
Fixing a pipe in the mikva
Dec 23, 2025
Washing hands before menorah lighting
Dec 22, 2025
Does culture effect halacha?
Dec 02, 2025
New topic: Lighting menorah where eat or sleep?
Dec 01, 2025
Looking at bugs
Nov 24, 2025
Can one think two thoughts at the same time?
Nov 20, 2025
Sticking ones hand into a bathroom
Nov 19, 2025
Definition of bathroom
Nov 18, 2025
Porta Potties
Nov 11, 2025
Persian bathrooms
Nov 10, 2025
Walking into a bathroom
Nov 05, 2025
Tried napping unsuccessfully
Nov 04, 2025
Can I wash my hands with milk?
Oct 29, 2025
Torah study prior to washing hands?
Oct 28, 2025
3 x after the bathroom?
Oct 27, 2025
Dirty or impure?
Oct 24, 2025
The Kabbalah of these washings
Oct 23, 2025
New topic - 14 other times one needs to wash their hands
Oct 22, 2025
Psychoanalysis of an ice cream vow
Oct 21, 2025
Was my pledge $5 or $5M?
Oct 03, 2025
Farstreached commitments
Oct 01, 2025
Indian giver
Sep 30, 2025
Mental commitment?
Sep 29, 2025
The pledge that turns into a vow
Sep 19, 2025
Rabbonim debate unique language of Alter Rebbe's hatoras nedarim
Sep 18, 2025
Don't delay paying your pledges
Sep 18, 2025
Is making a vow a good thing?
Sep 15, 2025
A vow in one's dream
Sep 09, 2025
Running late...
Sep 08, 2025
Why hatoras nedarim twice?
Sep 05, 2025
Don't delay past midday
Sep 05, 2025
New topic - Vows - part 1
Sep 03, 2025
The first teshuva of Reb Moshe Feinstein
Sep 02, 2025
Does the Talmud mention wearing a yarmulka?
Aug 28, 2025
Purim costumes during davening?
Aug 27, 2025
Fancy pajamas
Aug 26, 2025
Can those living in the East daven barefoot?
Aug 25, 2025
Did the Rebbe wear a gartel for morning berochos?
Aug 22, 2025
The source of the custom not to wear a gartel until after the wedding bf
Aug 15, 2025
The Rebbe speculates on why we don't wear a gartel before the wedding
Aug 15, 2025
The Munkatcher does not want you to wear a gartel all day
Aug 08, 2025
Definition of a belt
Aug 07, 2025
Did the Mishna Berurah wear a gartel?
Aug 06, 2025
Shirtless
Aug 05, 2025
The spot cleaning debate
Aug 01, 2025
Is doing laundry fun?
Jul 30, 2025
Dropping clothes on floor for 2 seconds?
Jul 29, 2025
Shabbos pajamas
Jul 28, 2025
Minhag invented by women
Jul 25, 2025
Holes in your socks?
Jul 25, 2025
The warp and the woof
Jul 23, 2025
Being Proactive in shidduchim
Jul 18, 2025
Unboxing
Jul 17, 2025
A new Lamborghini
Jul 16, 2025
New sheitel
Jul 15, 2025
Difference between sefira and the three weeks
Jul 14, 2025
How bad is it to steal to tease someone?
Jul 11, 2025
Permissible stealing
Jul 10, 2025
Can I steal my best friends suit?
Jul 09, 2025
Stealing from the dead
Jul 09, 2025
16th century business advice
Jun 25, 2025
The unsolved robbery
Jun 23, 2025
Your Black Label is spilling!
Jun 20, 2025
Can I steal your gun to protect myself?
Jun 19, 2025
New topic: A bite from your muffin
Jun 18, 2025
Jumping back into the mikva
Jun 09, 2025
How important are supporters
May 30, 2025
More on mugs
May 30, 2025
Mugs part 1
May 28, 2025
What if my vessels fell into the mikva by accident?
May 27, 2025
Can you trust a child to toivel keilim?
May 26, 2025
Toiveling dentures
May 23, 2025
Bar-b-q
May 16, 2025
The cookie cutter
May 15, 2025
Peeler for potatoes
May 14, 2025
Matza rollers
May 13, 2025
Grills
May 12, 2025
Nescafe
May 09, 2025
Pumpkins or Aluminum pans?
May 08, 2025
How many rabbis does it take to open up a tuna can?
May 07, 2025
The linenicy that becomes a stringieny
May 06, 2025
Did American's invent disposable vessels?
May 05, 2025
Common misconception
May 02, 2025
The G-d fearing chemist
Apr 30, 2025
Does stainless steel need tevila?
Apr 30, 2025
The science of tevilas keilim
Apr 25, 2025
Does one need to kasher vessels before toivling?
Apr 24, 2025
NEW TOPIC-Steel city
Apr 23, 2025
Sugar cube controversy
Apr 22, 2025
Making the Mishna Beruah and your wife happy
Mar 27, 2025
$40 sourbread
Mar 26, 2025
A dirty tam tam
Mar 26, 2025
Checking seforim
Mar 26, 2025
New broom?
Mar 26, 2025
More then spring cleaning
Mar 18, 2025
The final טוחן loophole
Mar 04, 2025
Separating the men from the boys - Hot peppers
Mar 03, 2025
Should we cut out the cutting board?
Feb 21, 2025
Double deviation?
Feb 20, 2025
Extra strange
Feb 19, 2025
Reb Akiva Eigers muddy question?
Feb 14, 2025
Can one crush salt on Shabbos?
Feb 13, 2025
What about an old man that doesn't have teeth?
Feb 12, 2025
What about very hard cheese?
Feb 12, 2025
More on the mandolin
Feb 12, 2025
Exploring the mandolin cutter - part 1
Feb 07, 2025
Can one use an egg slicer on Shabbos?
Feb 04, 2025
Is not Shabbosdik a halacha?
Feb 03, 2025
Berocha for a president
Jan 23, 2025
Crash course on hydroponics
Jan 22, 2025
Do mushrooms grow from the ground?
Jan 22, 2025
Do animals grow from the ground?
Jan 20, 2025
In hilchos Shabbos we take a stricter approach
Jan 14, 2025
Reb Moshe and the Chazon Ish debate bananas
Jan 13, 2025
The Tzemach Tzedek on making sushi
Jan 10, 2025
Did you chew 32 times?
Jan 09, 2025
How small is small?
Jan 09, 2025
Beating up the beets
Jan 07, 2025
If a rov doesn't teach these halachos in his community....
Jan 06, 2025
Should I add extra oil?
Jan 01, 2025
Putting out the candles
Dec 31, 2024
Practicaly speaking
Dec 27, 2024
The different types of שהחיינו
Dec 26, 2024
Should hallel be skipped in a bais avel?
Dec 25, 2024
The height of the menorah in the shul
Dec 24, 2024
Outstanding
Dec 23, 2024
More defense for the minhag to use candles in the shul menorah
Dec 19, 2024
Why did they use candles to light the menorah in770?
Dec 18, 2024
Gas propane, what is fire?
Dec 17, 2024
The hardline approach
Dec 16, 2024
Rav Solveitchik on public menorah lighting
Dec 12, 2024
Can guests sleeping a house adjacent to shul fulfill their menorah lighting with the shul lighting?
Dec 12, 2024
Who invented the minhag to light a menorah in a shul?
Dec 10, 2024
Is the chart in the back of the Kehot siddur the last word?
Nov 22, 2024
The Rebbe adds clarity to the Alter Rebbe's retraction
Nov 21, 2024
The big exception
Nov 18, 2024
Oh my are these tefilin holy!
Nov 15, 2024
The covering of the hand tefilin controversy
Nov 14, 2024
Winking
Nov 13, 2024
The unknown הלכה למשה מסיני
Nov 11, 2024
Walk and chew gum
Nov 08, 2024
Can I kiss my tefilin?
Nov 07, 2024
Are you allowed to kiss your tefilin?
Nov 06, 2024
Don't blink
Nov 05, 2024
Not one word?
Nov 04, 2024
Can I talk between shel yad and Rosh of Rabbeinu Tam?
Oct 30, 2024
Can I say thank G-d?
Oct 29, 2024
Court marshaled for talking
Oct 28, 2024
The old ovens were better for Yom Tov
Oct 16, 2024
Can one keep an urn plugged in over Yom Tov?
Oct 11, 2024
Is it minhag Chabad to light a yizkor candle?
Oct 10, 2024
How important is a yartzeit candle?
Oct 08, 2024
If not cooking should one make an eruv tavshilin?
Oct 07, 2024
Don't melt the wax on the bottom of the candle
Sep 20, 2024
The Taz assumes the Jew is not engaged in complete vanity
Sep 19, 2024
Smoking on Yom Tov?
Sep 17, 2024
Burning challah
Sep 16, 2024
How far we can go to honor a shul
Sep 13, 2024
Can we wash our hands with hot water on Yom Tov when Moshiach comes?
Sep 12, 2024
Does refrigeration change everything?
Sep 11, 2024
Baked apples
Sep 06, 2024
Cliff notes on the laws of borer on Yom Tov
Sep 05, 2024
Making tea on Yom Tov
Sep 04, 2024
Dust off your talmudic caps
Sep 03, 2024
The rabbis getting schooled on electricity
Sep 02, 2024
Oops I accidentally lit the flame?
Aug 30, 2024
If I'm running late can I ignite a flame on Yom Tov?
Aug 29, 2024
I'd there a scientist in the house?
Aug 28, 2024
What does the Chumash say about lighting a fire on Yom Tov?
Aug 27, 2024
Lighting a flame on Yom Tov
Aug 26, 2024
Can I go to a symphony?
Aug 16, 2024
Hold your trumpets
Aug 15, 2024
Are we too happy?
Aug 08, 2024
Do people actually put ashes on the choson's head?
Aug 07, 2024
Core of anti semitism as explained by the Kli Yakar
Aug 06, 2024
Diminishing in jewelry
Aug 05, 2024
Different theories as to why the practice has waned
Aug 04, 2024
Skipping fishsticks?
Aug 02, 2024
Don't forget your right side
Aug 01, 2024
What is I forget to leave the empty space?
Jul 31, 2024
They don't build them like they used to
Jul 29, 2024
All doorways
Jul 26, 2024
Yartzeit of Reb Chaim Naeh today
Jul 26, 2024
No plaster
Jul 24, 2024
Is mourning a good thing?
Jul 22, 2024
Balance in mourning
Jul 19, 2024
Hefsek mid tefila
Jul 18, 2024
Siren in the middle of tefila
Jul 17, 2024
Traveling to the ohel before daveing
Jul 08, 2024
Do people get offended nowadays?
Jul 05, 2024
Asking the Rabbi a question in middle of shmone esre
Jul 04, 2024
Pesukei dezimra and hilchos shechita
Jul 03, 2024
Shul announcements
Jul 02, 2024
Pause your tehilim and start with the minyan
Jul 01, 2024
Saying kadish in middle of pesukei dezimra
Jun 28, 2024
Lubavitcher Rabbonim debate the meaning of the Rebbe's letter
Jun 26, 2024
A song within a song
Jun 25, 2024
Fire drill in middle of shmone esrei
Jun 24, 2024
Called for an aliya
Jun 21, 2024
Waiting for a minyan at yishtabach
Jun 20, 2024
Bathroom breaks
Jun 19, 2024
Better to skip then to read quick
Jun 18, 2024
Two reasons for pesukei dezimra
Jun 17, 2024
Inviting the King
May 09, 2024
Halacha required singing
May 08, 2024
Together with the chazan
May 07, 2024
Forgot to make a berocha rishona do I bentch after?
May 06, 2024
Beginning and end
May 02, 2024
Rubbing oils
Apr 19, 2024
Creams
Apr 18, 2024
1/60
Apr 17, 2024
FDA
Apr 16, 2024
Bedridden
Apr 15, 2024
Pills
Apr 12, 2024
Poisonous bagel
Apr 05, 2024
Reb Moshe knew all the tricks
Apr 04, 2024
Why the dog?
Apr 03, 2024
Spoiled yeast
Apr 02, 2024
Is yeast edible?
Mar 29, 2024
Grasshoppers
Mar 28, 2024
Egg matza
Mar 27, 2024
Nuksha
Mar 26, 2024
Cash Mishloach manos?
Mar 22, 2024
Are there years I can't give my sons teacher Mishloach Manos?
Mar 20, 2024
When in doubt - do
Mar 19, 2024
Double gifts?
Mar 13, 2024
Feminist might want to skip this one
Mar 11, 2024
Does איש mean man?
Mar 08, 2024
Is mishlach manos only for friends?
Mar 06, 2024
Anonymous Mishloach Manos?
Mar 05, 2024
Are the jewish people in unity?
Mar 04, 2024
Can one give dancing shoes as a mishloach manos
Feb 29, 2024
Introduction to the mishloach manos debate
Feb 28, 2024
Can we compare putting on tefilin to giving a bris?
Feb 27, 2024
Should one wash their hands after putting on tefilin?
Feb 26, 2024
The non separation separation
Feb 23, 2024
More wraps
Feb 21, 2024
Holiness of the boxes
Feb 20, 2024
It's important for Poskim to give a bottom line
Feb 19, 2024
Dispute about what the Arizal did
Feb 15, 2024
Rubberbands?
Feb 14, 2024
Diving deeper into the way the Rebbe Rayatz wrapped his tefilin
Feb 13, 2024
Tip from the Zohar pleasure in olom haba
Feb 05, 2024
Knotty issue
Feb 02, 2024
Old Chabad Controversy
Feb 01, 2024
Lopsided yud by the lefties
Jan 30, 2024
Beautiful and proper
Jan 26, 2024
Armpit or shoulder?
Jan 25, 2024
Heart is off
Jan 24, 2024
Careful with large tefilin on hand
Jan 19, 2024
A little Yiddish lesson
Jan 18, 2024
The "kestel"
Jan 17, 2024
Interesting custom mention in the סידור עם דא"ח
Jan 15, 2024
Sales pitch for smaller batim
Jan 12, 2024
Covering the cast?
Jan 10, 2024
Cast problems
Jan 09, 2024
Cast
Jan 05, 2024
Become a righty to serve in the bais hamildash?
Jan 04, 2024
Transitioning in the Poskim
Jan 03, 2024
Two types of Paralyzed arms
Jan 02, 2024
Are fingers part of the arm?
Dec 29, 2023
A practical halacha from the שאגת אריה
Dec 28, 2023
Sales pitch for the Lubavitcher knot on tefilin
Dec 22, 2023
Should a leftie become a rightie?
Dec 21, 2023
The Rebbe opines?
Dec 18, 2023
More doorway discussion - cliffnotes
Dec 15, 2023
Double talmudic cap today
Dec 14, 2023
Is right, right?
Dec 12, 2023
Where should I start?
Dec 11, 2023
Can we paskin from a mammer?
Dec 08, 2023
What if there is no mezuzah?
Dec 07, 2023
No public mammer
Dec 06, 2023
Should one close their windows at night?
Dec 05, 2023
Location of tefilin - Part 1
Nov 21, 2023
Extra protection - part 2
Nov 21, 2023
Extra protection - part 3
Nov 21, 2023
Location of tefilin - Part 1
Nov 21, 2023
Location of tefilin - Part 2
Nov 21, 2023
Location of tefilin - Part 3
Nov 21, 2023
Hilchos Tefilin Extra protection - part 3
Nov 15, 2023
Hilchos Tefilin - Extra protection - part 1
Nov 06, 2023
Standing part 2
Oct 27, 2023
Standing part 3
Oct 27, 2023
The Rebbe was offered a candy - part 1
Oct 27, 2023
The Rebbe was offered a candy - part 2
Oct 27, 2023
Should one wait until the seat belt sign goes off to say tefilas haderech?
Oct 27, 2023
Multi day journey - part 1
Oct 27, 2023
Multi day journey - part 2
Oct 27, 2023
Multi day journey - part 3
Oct 27, 2023
Standing part 1
Oct 17, 2023
Suburbs and counties
Oct 13, 2023
Does an onen say tefilas haderech and hamapil?
Oct 13, 2023
Do the angels study chassidus?
Oct 10, 2023
Can one wash less than 50% of the body?
Sep 29, 2023
Gerama part 2
Sep 28, 2023
Saving our boiler system
Sep 27, 2023
Gerama part 1
Sep 27, 2023
Are we overshowering in our society?
Sep 14, 2023
Polll: Do you shower daily?
Sep 13, 2023
Washing hands on Yom Tov
Sep 12, 2023
Did the Rogatchover Goan ever fly on an airplane?
Aug 24, 2023
New York Drivers
Aug 21, 2023
3.840 Kilometers
Aug 18, 2023
The flying camel
Aug 16, 2023
Sephardim vs. Ashkenazim on measuring distance
Aug 04, 2023
Defining dangerous
Aug 03, 2023
The long Persian mile
Aug 02, 2023
Did the say tefilas haderech in Egypt?
Aug 01, 2023
Asking Hashem permission to leave town
Jul 31, 2023
Can one hire a gentile to do work during the 9 days?
Jul 17, 2023
Can I bring my violin to a wine party during year?
Jul 13, 2023
Can one build new bunkhouses during the 9 days?
Jul 12, 2023
Can I fix the woodwork in a shul during the 9 days?
Jul 11, 2023
Can I invest in real estate during the three weeks?
Jul 10, 2023
Dispute between the Bavli and Yerushalmi?
Jul 05, 2023
Can one work on 17 Tammuz
Jul 04, 2023
Controversy if one says a berocha when a child is born nowadays
Jul 03, 2023
Saying a shechiyanu by a siyum seder Torah
Jun 30, 2023
Shechiyanu for baby girl during 3 weeks
Jun 29, 2023
Hatov vehameitiv during 3 weeks
Jun 28, 2023
Days to diminish in commerce - part 1
Jun 27, 2023