That the “Orthodox” community is more careful about kosher food than kosher money is…
Yitro: Yes and No
Vayedaber Hashem el Moshe lei'mor is the most commonly occurring verse of the Bible. While…
Chulin 42: Heavenly Truth
In the introduction to his responsa, Rav Moshe Feinstein writes that the Sages of each generation…
Chulin 17: I Would Love Some Pork
“And it will be, when the Lord, your G-d, brings you to the land He swore to your fathers, to…
Chulin 15: Please Be Quiet
In a beautiful teshuva (Orach Chaim 4 #89) written during Chanukah 1960, Rav Moshe Feinstein was…
Chulin 15: Shabbat Slaughter
“It is a sign between Me and the Jewish people that in ‘six days’ G-d created the…
Vaera: The Sons of Korach
The initial meeting between Moshe and Pharaoh did not go well. The workload placed on the poor…
Chulin 13: Family Traditions
That one must be Jewish to shecht an animal is not necessarily obvious. One might have…
Chulin 10: Watch the Water
When I mention to people that it is likely worse to smoke than to eat pork, I often get strange…
Chulin 9: Practical Rabbinics
There are few, if any, semicha programs that require their students to learn shechita or…
Chulin7: Pass the Pork
One of the questions I am often asked by those of my students who do not keep kosher, is have you…
Chulin 7: The Idolatrous Snake
Over and over again the Torah warns us not to allow avodah zara, idolatry, in the Land of Israel.…
Chulin 7: Time for Something New
"It was for this reason that man was first created as one person [Adam]…to teach that…
Chulin 5: The Stroke of a Pen
In the fall of 1860, Rav Yaakov Ettlinger penned what is likely the most revolutionary responsa of…
Chulin 3: Meet the Shochet
That the role of a modern rabbi in the Western World is far different than that of the rabbi of…
Chanukah: A Special Nation
One of the painful realities of Jewish life is that the Jewish people are often judged by a double…
An Introduction and Overview of Masechet Chulin
Masechet Chulin, a derivative of the word chol, translates as “The Secular Tractate…