Ben Ish Chai Halachos

Parshas Breishis: Hilchos Tzitzis – #1
Parshas Breishis: Hilchos Atifas Tallis – #2
Parshas Noach: The material used for Tziztis – #3
Parshas Noach: Linen and Four Corners – #4
Parshas Noach: How to make strings – #5
End of Noach: Strings and Parshas Lech Lecha: Wrapping the Tallis – #6
Parshas Lech Lecha: Borrowing and cutting strings (7)
Parshas Lech Lecha: Size and more (8)
Parshas Lech Lecha and Vayeira: Why we wear Tefillin (9)
Parshas Vayeira: Bracha on Tefillin and borrowing (10)
Parshas Vayeira: Tefillin – when and how (11)
Parshas Vayeira: Tefillin – parshios (12)
Parshas Vayeira and Chayei Sarah: Tefillin – how to put them on (13)
Parshas Chayei Sarah – where to put the tefillin (14)
Chayei Sarah: Nothing between the tefillin and you (15)
Parshas Chayei Sarah: Taking off the Tefillin (16)
Parshas Toldos: How to do netilas yadayim (17)
Netilas Yadayim – process (18)
Parshas Vayetze: Hakdama and bathroom issues (19)
Parshas Vayetze: Bathroom issues (20)
Vayetze: Touching hands before washing (21)
Vayishlach: Nighttime issues (22)
Vayishlach: Tikkun Chatzos (23)
Vayishlach and Vayeshev: Tikkun Chatzos and Elokai Neshama (24)
Elokai Neshama (25)
Birchos Hashachar (26)
100 Brachos and more! (27)
Brachos and Chanuka (28)
Kedushas Bais Heknesses (29)
Pesukei Dzimra (Vayigash – 30)
Pesukei Dzimra (Vayigash – 31)
Baruch Sheamara (Vayigash – 32)
Ashrei and more (Vayigash – 33)
Yishtabach and Kaddish (Vayigash – 34)
Kaddish (Vayechi – 35)
Kaddish (Vayechi – 36)
Yotzeir Ohr (Shemos – 37)
Birchos Krias Shema (38)
Birchos Krias Shema (39)
Shema (Shemos – 40)
Shema (Vaera – 41)
Shema (Vaera – 42)
Shema (Vaera – 43)
Shema (Vaera – 44)
Ervah and davening (Bo – 45)
Ervah and davening (Bo – 46)
Excrement and Davening (Bo – 47)
Animal excrement and more (Bo – 48)
More excrement! (Bo – 49)

Parshas Yisro

Many small divrei torah … Yisro – 5767

What did Yisro hear? and other divrei Torah … Yisro 5768

Our derech eretz and theirs …. PlayYisro 5769

Gershom, our job to learn, and trying to be like Shammai on Shabbos … PlayYisro 5770

Yisro saw what he had to do, and why he’s happy now … PlayYisro 5771

The process of Torah Shebe’al peh … PlayYisro 5772

Yisro’s shock, Moshe’s judging abilities, and the mitzvha of Hagbalah … PlayYisro5773

Carried on eagles’ wings … PlayYisro5774

The story of Gershom, son of Moshe … PlayYisro5775

Why Yisro wanted judges … PlayYisro5776

The great shofar blast at Har Sinai – PlayYisro5777

Why can’t I have what he’s having? – PlayYisro5778

We are the “treasured” nation – PlayYisro5779

The Bris Party – fixing Kayin’s mistakes – PlayYisro5780

Yisro 5781 – We Don’t Want to Die
Yisro 5782 – Lightning, Thunder, and a Massive Shofar Blast
Yisro 5783 – Love Parents, Live Longer
Yisro 5784 – Seeing is Believing!

Parshas Beshalach

The Pelishtim and 50 miracles of krias Yam Suf … Beshalach 5767

Pelishtim, women singing and the mann … Beshalach 5768

The Yam and its power, and kishuf … PlayBeshalach 5769

Dasan and Aviram … PlayBeshalach 5770

The Pelishtim and Baal Tzafon … PlayBeshalach 5771

Krias Yam Suf and all of the miracles … PlayBeshalach – Yamsuf

What happened with the Bnai Efraim … PlayBeshalach 5772

PlayBeshalach5773

Crazy stuff about Baal Tzefon … PlayBeshalach5774

Chamushim – armed or 1/5 of the Jews left … PlayBeshalach5775

The bitter waters of Marah sweetened – PlayBeshalach5777

Miryam starts a song – PlayBeshalach5778

The 12 and 70 – the point of the city Eilim – PlayBeshalach5779

The Wonders of the Manna – PlayBeshalach5780

Beshalach 5781 – A Private Crossing for Two
Beshalach 5782 – Yehoshua Man of War
Beshalach 5783 – Raising your arms to the Sky
Beshalach 5784 – Good Quail to Eat

Parshas Bo

Short divrei Torah … Bo – 5767

Short divrei Torah … Bo 5768

Many divrei Torah … PlayBo 5769

More divrei Torah … PlayBo 5770

“Coming to Paroh” and Tefillin … PlayBo-Skokie

 – 5770

Locusts and darkness and Moshe’s only fear … PlayBo 5771

4/5 of them died (what does that mean?) … PlayBo 5772

Lots of divrei torah put together … PlayBo5773

Who killed the first born – Hashem or the malach? … PlayBo5774

430 years in Egypt (How could they have been there so long?) … PlayBo5775

The crazy Locusts (how bad could that be?) … PlayBo5776

Darkness surrounded them – PlayBo5777

The Dogs would not Bark – PlayBo5778

The gods of Egypt – Ra and ??? – PlayBo5779

A Holiday to Remember – PlayBo5780

Bo 5781: Facing Your Enemy
Bo 5782: Midnight Express
Bo 5783: Erev Rav and the Nation
Bo 5784: Death of the First Born

Parshas Vaera

All the makkos … Vaeira – 5767

The “Avos” and names of Hashem … Vaera 5768

They cried out and the staff turning into a snake … PlayVaera 5769

“I am Hashem” and the hail PlayVaera 5770

The difference between the Names of Hashem … PlayVaera1 5771

 and PlayVaera2 5771

The sefarim they had and what happened to magic … PlayVaera 5772

The level of “koh” and hail again … PlayVaera5773

All about the Blood … PlayVaera5774

All about the Frogs … PlayVaera5775

All about the Lice … PlayVaera5776

The wild animals of Arov and the land they were on – PlayVaera5777

The “plague” to end all plagues – PlayVaera5778

Double Double Boil and Trouble – PlayVaera5779

Hail to the Chief Above! – PlayVaera5780

Vaera 5781 – Where did Moshe come from?
Vaera 5782 – Even an 80 year old can do it!
Vaera 5783 – Amram’s Long Life
Vaera 5784 – The Finger of Hashem

Parshas Shemos

Short divrei Torah … Shemos – 5767

Short divrei Torah … Shemos 5768

Moshe Rabbeinu being pulled out from the tumah of the world … Shemos 5769

The 49th level and feeling stuck; the staff/snake … PlayShemos 5770

Three midrashim about Moshe Rabbeinu and how to understand them … PlayShemos 5771

Moshe’s job to stay away from gashmiyus; Tzipporah’s only words in the Chumash … PlayShemos 5772

Lack of Hakaras Hatov by Paroh; Moshe being born three months early … PlayShemos5773

Taking his shoes off … PlayShemos5774

The burning bush … PlayShemos5775

Shifra and Puah … PlayShemos5776

How did Moshe get out of Egypt? And why did Paroh try to kill him? – PlayShemos5777

The Name that Kills – PlayShemos5778

Why would Moshe want a Snaky staff? – PlayShemos5779

Hiding in plain sight – Moshe’s little boat – PlayShemos5780

Shemos 5781 – Death an at Inn
Shemos 5781a – Divrei Torah in the Parsha
Shemos 5781b – A Geulah with Moshe and a Geulah without
Shemos 5782 – Talk Softly and Carry a Big Staff
Shemos 5783 – The Fight at the Well
Shemos5784: Walk like an Egyptian into the Palace

Parshas Vayechi

Short divrei Torah … Vayechi – 5767

Short divrei Torah… Vayechi 5768

Yaakov’s last words, the curses of the Pharaohs, Menashe and Efraim – Vayechi 5769

The Kisei Hakavod that Yaakov represented and his brachos – PlayVayechi 5770

Efraim before Menashe and Asher and his daughters – PlayVayechi 5771

The mummification process of Yaakov Avinu … PlayWasYaakovamummy

 (5772)

Yaakov died and their eyes closed; Shimon and Levi … PlayVayechi5773

Revealing the “end of times” to the shevatim … PlayVayechi5774

Yissachar is called a donkey … PlayVayechi5775

Reuven’s bracha … PlayVayechi5776

The anger of Shimon and Levi – PlayVayechi5777

Shimshon’s power – the real power of Dan – PlayVayechi5778

Burial in Israel – or what reason? – PlayVayechi5779

Vayechi 5780 – Who is afraid of the Big, Bad Wolf?
Vayechi 5781 – A Full Forgiveness
Vayechi 5782 – An Eye Popping Event
Vayechi 5783 – Bramble Barn
Vayechi 5784 – Portents of Badness

Parshas Vayigash

Short divrei Torah… Vayigash – 5767

Short divrei Torah… Vayigash 5768

Yehuda’s promise and why Yaakov listened, and why say Krias Shema now – Vayigash 5769

The kedusha of Yosef Hatzadik – PlayVayigash 5770

Yosef’s plan of building achdus and Serach bas Asher – PlayVayigash 5771

Rahav (malach of Egypt), the chains of Yaakov, Shema of Yaakov, and Yosef’s dreams – PlayVayigash 5772

The point of Yehuda’s speech;Yaakov thought Yosef went crazy; Crying on shoulders… PlayVayigash5773

Serach bas Asher and the 70 people that went down … PlayVayigash5774


PlayVayigash25774

Yosef’s gift of clothing to Binyomin … PlayVayigash5775

How old was Yaakov Avinu? … PlayVayigash5776

The crazy Midrashim at the beginning of the parsha – explained! – PlayVayigash5777

Why would Yehuda become the Rosh Hayeshiva?? – PlayVayigash5778

Yaakov got his ruach hakodesh back – PlayVayigash5779

Vayigash 5780 – Why is Yaakov still Alive?
Vayigash 5781 – Home Sweet Goshen
Vayigash 5781 – Addendum – Yaakov Lives On
Vayigash 5781 – Shaul ben HaCanaanis
Vayigas h5783 – It’s a Wonderful Language
Vayigash 5784 – Born between the Walls

Parshas Mikeitz

Short divrei Torah … Miketz – 5767

Short divrei Torah … Mikeitz 5768

Rav Shwab on Paroh’s dream and Yosef’s plan – Mikeitz 5769

Bitachon of Yosef, the Chartumim’s mistake, Binyomin replacing Yosef – PlayMikeitz 5770

Light in the darkness – Mikeitz and Chanuka – PlayMikeitz 5771

Paroh’s dreams and his trust in Yosef – PlayMikeitz 5772

The Butler and everything else there … PlayMikeitz5773

The Chartumim translate the dream … PlayMikeitz5774

Reuven wanted to kill his two kids … PlayMikeitz5775

Tzafnais Paneiach … PlayMikeitz5776

How did the shevatim not recognize Yosef? – PlayMikeitz5777

Menashe and Ephraim – why these names? Forgetting your past… – PlayMikeitz5778

A tragedy, the travelers, and the one in charge – PlayMikeitz5779

“I had a dream” says the Butler – PlayMikeitz5780

Mikeitz 5781 – Sitting All by Himself
Mikeitz 5782 – Do you Believe in Magical Cups?
Mikeitz 5783 – Egyptian Circumcision
Mikeitz 5784 – Goblets, Bags, and Plans

Parshas Vayeshev

Short Divrei Torah … Vayeshev – 5767

Short divrei Torah … Vayeshev 5768

The power of clothing and Aishes Potifar … Vayeshev 5769

How to stop taavah and the kedusha in your eye … PlayVayeshev 5770

Lashon Hara, Yehuda and Tamar, Aishes Potifar … PlayVayeshev 5771

Dreams of Yaakov and Yosef, and his tzidkus … PlayVayeishev 5772a

 and PlayVayeishev 5772b

Yosef’s leadership; Yibum in the days of Yehuda and Tamar … PlayVayeshev5773

The baker and the butler … PlayVayeshev5774

The Kesones Pasim … PlayVayeshev5775

The pit was empty, but there were snakes in it … PlayVayeshev5776

Chira, Shua, and his daughter the “Canaanis” – vayeshev5777

Why would you dip a shirt into blood? – PlayVayeshev577

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The Ring, the Shirt, and the Staff – PlayVayeshev5779

The Face of Yaakov – PlayVayeshev5780

Vayeshev 5781 – An Innocent Man
Vayeshev 5781 – additional
Vayeshev 5782 – Happy Birthday Paroh!
Vayeshev 5783 – A Burning for the Ages
Vayeshev 5784 – Killing Yosef, Wild Animals, and Dreams do Come True