Here's a list of our "Ask the Rabbi" videos.
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- Why do we Kiss a Siddur if it Falls on the Floor?
- Why Do We Sell Our Chamtetz Before Pesach?
- Why can't Ashkenazi Jews eat Kitniyot (Beans, Rice or Pulses) on Pesach?
- What is the Difference Between a Rabbi and a Dayan?
- Why Does the Jewish Calendar Sometimes Have an Extra Month Called Adar Sheni?
- What is The Best Thing To Say To a Mourner?
- Why do We Say Amen When Someone Says a Bracha?
- Why do we Not Speak Between Washing Our Hands and Eating Bread?
- What is the Most Important Verse in the Torah?
- What is the Significance of Having Two Challot on Shabbat?
- Why Can't Cohanim Go Near a Cemetery?
- What is written on a Mezuzah?
- Is it correct that on Chanukah we have a custom to eat diary foods?
- Why do We Dress the Sefer Torah?
- Why do Jewish men wear a Kippa and Tzitzit?
- Do we have 10 Commandments or 613 Commandments?
- Do I Keep the £10 note I found or give it to charity?
- Why do the Cohanim Take Off Their Shoes Before Reciting the Priestly Blessing?
- Why do we Wash Our Hands Before Eating Bread?
- How do we use a Luluv and Etrog?
- Why Are we Allowed to Carry on Yom Tov and Not Shabbat?
- Why can't we Eat Fish and Meat Together on the Same Plate?
- Should a Bat Mitzvah Young Girl Begin Lighting Shabbat Candles?
- Why is it That When Women Light Shabbat Candles They do Inward Waving Motions with Their Hands?
-Why do Some People Give a Tenth of Their Money To Tezdakah/Charity?
- Why do we Fast on Tisha B'av?
- Why do Jews Face East When they Pray?
- I am a Firstborn. Do I have any Special Privileges?
- Why Can I Drink All Whiskies But Not All Wines?
- Why are Jews Allowed Piercings but not Tattoos?
- Why do we Look at our Fingernails During the Havdalah Service?
- What's the Torahs view on exercise?
- I Like to Play Cards. Is Gambling Allowed in Jewish Law?
- Why Are We Instructed to have Dairy Products on the Festival of Shavuot?
- Why Do We Sit On Low Chairs During A Shiva And Why Does A Mourner Eat An Egg For His First Meal After The Funeral?
- What's Lag B'Omer All About?
- Why do we Bless Our Children on Friday Night?
- Why do Some Jews Wear Black Hats and Long Black Coats?
- What is the Difference Between Tallit and Tzitzit?
- Is it ok to Watch TV on Shabbat if it is on a Time Switch?
- Why is the Shema so Important?
- Why do we Make a Noise When we Read the Name of Haman During the Megillah?
- Why can't a Jewish Man Listen to a Woman Singing?
- Why do People Lift Their Finger up to the Torah on Shabbat When it is Held Up?
- What is Havdallah and Why is it Important?
- Why is the Basic Period of Mourning (the Shiva Week) 7 Days?
- Why do we Take Three Steps Back and Three Steps Forward at the Begining of the Amidah?
- What is the Significance of Wearing the Kippa?
- What is a Chuppah and What is its Significance?
- What is the Significance of the Magen David - Star of David - to Judaism?
- Why Do We Put Salt On Challah When We Eat It On Shabbat?
- Why do Some People Have the Custom of Waiting Until Their Boys are 3 to Have Their First Haircut?
- What is the significance of Brit Milah?
- What is the Eruv and Why Shoud I be Interested in it?
- What for me is the Key Theme of Chanukah?
- Why do we Light Shabbat Candles?
- Why do some Jews write the name of God as 'G-d' rather than God?
- Why is it that Some People Kiss the Mezuzah when Entering or Leaving their Home?
- What do People do at Yeshiva and Sem?
- Why do we Cover our Eyes When we say the First Verse of the Shema?
- Praying For Rain - Where and When?
- Simchat Torah vs Shavuot - What's the Difference?