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  Rav Ovadia Disagrees with Rav Chaim Kanievsky's Disapproval of Men Wearing Watches

  • Speaker: Rabbi Chaim Jachter  
  • Date: Dec 22, 2025
  • Venue:

    Shaarei Orah (Teaneck, NJ) 
    Series:

    Five Minute Halacha 
    Halacha:

    Beged Ish and Beged Isha,
    Personalities:

    Rav Ovadia Yosef,
  • Duration: 5 min

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  New Milk Is it Pareve? A First Look

  • Speaker: Rabbi Chaim Jachter  
  • Date: Dec 22, 2025
  • Venue:

    Shaarei Orah (Teaneck, NJ) 
    Series:

    Five Minute Halacha 
    Halacha:

    Kashrut,

    Contemporary Issues,
  • Duration: 4 min

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  How Important is it for Sephardic Jews to Dip Bread in Salt?

  • Speaker: Rabbi Chaim Jachter  
  • Date: Dec 08, 2025
  • Venue:

    Shaarei Orah (Teaneck, NJ) 
    Series:

    Five Minute Halacha 
    Halacha:

    Challah,
  • Duration: 3 min

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  A Surprising Ramification of Washing a Pareve Knife in a Meat Dishwasher

  • Speaker: Rabbi Chaim Jachter  
  • Date: Dec 08, 2025
  • Venue:

    Shaarei Orah (Teaneck, NJ) 
    Series:

    Five Minute Halacha 
    Halacha:

    Kashrut,
  • Duration: 3 min

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  Strong Criticism of Kashrut Certification of CBD Products

  • Speaker: Rabbi Chaim Jachter  
  • Date: Dec 01, 2025
  • Venue:

    Shaarei Orah (Teaneck, NJ) 
    Series:

    Five Minute Halacha 
    Halacha:

    Kashrut,
  • Duration: 8 min

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  Do Not Light Candles in Hotel Designated Shabbat Candlelighting Rooms

  • Speaker: Rabbi Chaim Jachter  
  • Date: Oct 27, 2025
  • Venue:

    Shaarei Orah (Teaneck, NJ) 
    Series:

    Five Minute Halacha 
  • Duration: 2 min

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  Smart Homes and Shabbat

  • Speaker: Rabbi Chaim Jachter  
  • Date: Jul 28, 2021
  • Venue:

    Shaarei Orah (Teaneck, NJ) 
    Series:

    Five Minute Halacha 
  • Duration: 6 min

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  Standards For Home Fruit and Vegetable Inspection for Insects

  • Speaker: Rabbi Chaim Jachter  
  • Date: May 04, 2020
  • Venue:

    Shaarei Orah (Teaneck, NJ) 
    Series:

    Five Minute Halacha 
    Halacha:

    Kashrut,
  • Duration: 7 min

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  Kol Torah Parashat Tetzaveh 2018

  • Speaker: Rabbi Chaim Jachter  
  • Date: Feb 22, 2018
  • Halacha:

    Kashrut,
    Holidays:

    Adar,
    Parsha:

    Tetzaveh,
  • Duration:

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  Shaving on Chol Hamoed

  • Speaker: Rabbi Chaim Jachter  
  • Date: Apr 15, 2000
  • Venue:

    TABC 
    Series:

    TABC 
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  Air Travel on a Fast Day - Part 1

  • Speaker: Rabbi Chaim Jachter  
  • Date: Sep 16, 2006
  • Venue:

    TABC 
    Series:

    TABC 
    Holidays:

    Taaniot (fasts),
  • Duration:

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  Cooking Milk and Meat in One Oven

  • Speaker: Rabbi Chaim Jachter  
  • Date: Jun 09, 2000
  • Venue:

    TABC 
    Series:

    TABC 
    Halacha:

    Basar Bechalav,
  • Duration:

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  Three Basic Rules to Help Keep Pesah Preparation Reasonable

  • Speaker: Rabbi Chaim Jachter  
  • Date: Mar 19, 2022
  • Venue:

    Shaarei Orah (Teaneck, NJ) 
    Series:

    Five Minute Halacha 
  • Duration: 4 min

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  Why the Shulchan Aruch Has Such Authority in Sephardic Communities

  • Speaker: Rabbi Chaim Jachter  
  • Date: Feb 13, 2022
  • Venue:

    Shaarei Orah (Teaneck, NJ) 
    Series:

    Five Minute Halacha 
    Halacha:

    Sephardi Halacha,
    Machshava:

    Rabbinic Authority,
  • Duration: 9 min

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  The Case of the Dropped Slurpee

  • Speaker: Rabbi Chaim Jachter  
  • Date: Dec 06, 2021
  • Venue:

    Shaarei Orah (Teaneck, NJ) 
    Series:

    Five Minute Halacha 
    Gemara:

    Bava Metzia,
    Halacha:

    Business,
    Machshava:

    Business Ethics,
  • Duration: 6 min

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  Incorporating Non-Jewish Tunes In Our Tefila

  • Speaker: Rabbi Chaim Jachter  
  • Date: Oct 10, 2021
  • Venue:

    Shaarei Orah (Teaneck, NJ) 
    Series:

    Five Minute Halacha 
    Halacha:

    Tefillah,
  • Duration: 6 min

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  Smart Homes and Shabbat

  • Speaker: Rabbi Chaim Jachter  
  • Date: Jul 28, 2021
  • Venue:

    Shaarei Orah (Teaneck, NJ) 
    Series:

    Five Minute Halacha 
  • Duration: 6 min

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  OU Handling of Kashrut During Pandemic

  • Speaker: Rabbi Chaim Jachter  
  • Date: Jun 21, 2021
  • Venue:

    Shaarei Orah (Teaneck, NJ) 
    Series:

    Five Minute Halacha 
    Halacha:

    Kashrut,
  • Duration: 9 min

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  The Special Otzar Bet Din for the Shmitta Year

  • Speaker: Rabbi Chaim Jachter  
  • Date: Jun 01, 2021
  • Venue:

    Shaarei Orah (Teaneck, NJ) 
    Series:

    Five Minute Halacha 
    Halacha:

    Shemittah,
  • Duration: 7 min

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  Flowers in the Bet Keneset on Shavuot

  • Speaker: Rabbi Chaim Jachter  
  • Date: May 11, 2021
  • Venue:

    Shaarei Orah (Teaneck, NJ) 
    Series:

    Five Minute Halacha 
  • Duration: 10 min

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  Teaching Emuna

  • Speaker: Rabbi Chaim Jachter  
  • Date: Jan 29, 2021
  • Machshava:

    Emunah,
  • Duration: 1 h 17 min

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  Which Comes First, Leshev Ba'Suka or Hamotzi

  • Speaker: Rabbi Chaim Jachter  
  • Date: Sep 29, 2020
  • Venue:

    Shaarei Orah (Teaneck, NJ) 
    Series:

    Five Minute Halacha 
    Halacha:

    Brachot,
  • Duration: 6 min

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  Inspecting Tefilin and Mezuzot in Elul

  • Speaker: Rabbi Chaim Jachter  
  • Date: Aug 18, 2020
  • Venue:

    Shaarei Orah (Teaneck, NJ) 
    Series:

    Five Minute Halacha 
    Halacha:

    Mezuzah,
  • Duration: 5 min

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  Standards For Home Fruit and Vegetable Inspection for Insects

  • Speaker: Rabbi Chaim Jachter  
  • Date: May 04, 2020
  • Venue:

    Shaarei Orah (Teaneck, NJ) 
    Series:

    Five Minute Halacha 
    Halacha:

    Kashrut,
  • Duration: 7 min

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  Which Nosah to pray for a mixed Minyan of Sepharadim, Ashkenazim and Temonim

  • Speaker: Rabbi Chaim Jachter  
  • Date: Jul 16, 2019
  • Halacha:

    Tefillah,
  • Duration: 3 min

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  Tanach Kollel - Sefer Daniel Pt 1

  • Speaker: Rabbi Chaim Jachter  
  • Date: Jun 15, 2016
  • Venue:

    TABC 
    Nach:

    Daniel,
  • Duration: 15 min

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  Air Travel on a Fast Day - Part 1

  • Speaker: Rabbi Chaim Jachter  
  • Date: Sep 16, 2006
  • Venue:

    TABC 
    Series:

    TABC 
    Holidays:

    Taaniot (fasts),
  • Duration:

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  Restaurants Serving Meat During the Nine Days

  • Speaker: Rabbi Chaim Jachter  
  • Date: Jun 01, 2002
  • Venue:

    TABC 
    Series:

    TABC 
    Holidays:

    Nine Days,
  • Duration:

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