Spring 2026

Boneh, the melacha of building, is not just for the lumberyard. It has many applications in the kitchen. Cheesemaking and churning butter are boneh.[1] Shaping egg salad and smoothing chopped liver can be boneh as well.

Spring 2026

The Torah forbids men to use a razor to shave the pei’as hazakein, which are the corners or edges of the beard. There are many opinions regarding the exact location of these corners, which are not delineated in the Gemara. Therefore, to fulfill all opinions, the Shulchan Aruch (Y.D. 181:11) states that a G-d-fearing person should not us...

Spring 2026

No one would argue that we are living in the Age of Information, one that has greatly benefited the kashrus world. Thirty years ago, we did not have access to the information highway known as the internet because the highway was still under construction. Ferreting fact from fiction was the mainstay of our research process, one that involved finding the r...