YUTorah Online

Benching Rosh Chodesh: Shabbos Mevorchim

00:00 / 00:00

1.0x

speed

Update Required To play the media you will need to either update your browser to a recent version or update your Flash plugin.

20 Minute Halacha - Why do we bench Rosh Chodesh? Is there a reason why we hold a Sefer Torah while reciting the tefillah?

More from this:

The Fast Days of the Eighth , Ninth and Tenth of Teves
- Speaker: Rabbi Shay Schachter
- Date: Dec 25, 2025
- Venue: Young Israel of Woodmere
  
  Halacha:
  
  Assara B'Tevet, Beit Hamikdash
  
  Machshava:
  
  Assara B'Tevet
  
  Holidays:
  
  Yom Yerushalayim
  
  Nach:
  
  Ezra & Nechemia, Yirmiyahu
- Duration: 30 min
Post Chanukah - Anchored Souls in a Turbulent World: Standing Firm in a World of Shifting Values
- Speaker: Rabbi Shay Schachter
- Date: Dec 23, 2025
- Venue: Stern College
  
  Halacha:
  
  Kiddush Hashem, War
  
  Machshava:
  
  Ahavat Hashem, Anti-Semitism, Emunah, Galut, Hashem, Israel, Pesach, Purim, Yirat Hashem
- Duration: 55 min
Allowing Ourselves to Step Out of the Illusion of Life: Lior Morgenstern's Recounts Her Miraculous Survival of the Bondi Beach Terror Attack
- Speaker: Rabbi Shay Schachter
- Date: Dec 23, 2025
- Venue: Young Israel of Woodmere
  
  Halacha:
  
  War
  
  Machshava:
  
  Emunah, Israel
- Duration: 46 min

The Halacha of the Extraordinary: From Supernatural Oil, To Miraculous People and Lab Cultivated Meat
- Speaker: Rabbi Shay Schachter
- Date: Dec 19, 2025
- Venue: Stern College
  
  Gemara:
  
  Kiddushin, Shabbat, Yoma
  
  Halacha:
  
  Basar Bechalav, Chanukah, Kashrut, Marit Ayin, Science & Medicine, Shabbat, Technology
  
  Parsha:
  
  Mikeitz, Vayeira, Vayeishev, Vayigash
- Duration: 44 min
Not By Numbers But By Conviction: The Chanukah Model of Influence
- Speaker: Rabbi Shay Schachter
- Date: Dec 18, 2025
- Venue: Yeshivah of Flatbush Joel Braverman High School
  
  Halacha:
  
  Chanukah, Kiddush Hashem
  
  Machshava:
  
  Chanukah, Hashem, Tefillah
  
  Parsha:
  
  Re'eh, Shemot
- Duration: 29 min
Chanukah Candles on Erev Shabbos and Motzei Shabbos and Extinguishing the Candles to Attend a Family Gathering
- Speaker: Rabbi Shay Schachter
- Date: Dec 18, 2025
- Venue: Young Israel of Woodmere
  
  Halacha:
  
  Chanukah, Kiddush and Havdala, Shabbat, Tefillah
  
  Machshava:
  
  Chanukah
- Duration: 28 min

Pre Seder Run Down
- Speaker: Rabbi Ryan Levian
- Date: Apr 16, 2024
- Series: Twenty Minute Halacha
  Venue: UMJCA Sephardic Bet Midrash (Great Neck, NY)
  
  Halacha:
  
  Sephardi Halacha
- Duration: 55 min
Halachot of Tefilah | Learning Torah at night | 2
- Speaker: Rabbi Ryan Levian
- Date: Mar 19, 2024
- Series: Twenty Minute Halacha
  Venue: UMJCA Sephardic Bet Midrash (Great Neck, NY)
  
  Halacha:
  
  Sephardi Halacha
- Duration: 53 min
Halachot of Tefilah | Modeh Ani | 1
- Speaker: Rabbi Ryan Levian
- Date: Mar 12, 2024
- Series: Twenty Minute Halacha
  Venue: UMJCA Sephardic Bet Midrash (Great Neck, NY)
  
  Halacha:
  
  Sephardi Halacha
- Duration: 58 min

The Essence of Trusting in God | Principal 3 | Exclusive Trust | Chapter 3
- Speaker: Rabbi Ryan Levian
- Date: Nov 28, 2023
- Series: Twenty Minute Halacha
  Venue: UMJCA Sephardic Bet Midrash (Great Neck, NY)
  
  Halacha:
  
  Sephardi Halacha
- Duration: 7 min
The Shamash Candle
- Speaker: Rabbi Ryan Levian
- Date: Nov 28, 2023
- Series: Twenty Minute Halacha
  Venue: UMJCA Sephardic Bet Midrash (Great Neck, NY)
  
  Halacha:
  
  Sephardi Halacha
- Duration: 2 min
The Essence of Trusting in God | Principal 2 | He Knows Everything | Chapter 3
- Speaker: Rabbi Ryan Levian
- Date: Nov 24, 2023
- Series: Twenty Minute Halacha
  Venue: UMJCA Sephardic Bet Midrash (Great Neck, NY)
  
  Halacha:
  
  Sephardi Halacha
- Duration: 8 min

How SALTY must the Challa be?
- Speaker: Rabbi Yehoshua Grunstein
- Date: Jan 2, 2026
- Gemara:
  
  Berachot, Shabbat
  
  Halacha:
  
  Korbanot, Shabbat
- Duration: 9 min
Is Fasting on Asara BeTevet 2025 STILL an obligation?
- Speaker: Rabbi Yehoshua Grunstein
- Date: Dec 29, 2025
- Gemara:
  
  Rosh Hashana
  
  Halacha:
  
  Contemporary Issues
  
  Holidays:
  
  Taaniot (fasts)
- Duration: 9 min
Does the HONOR of the Congragation OVERIDE the Honor of the ARK?
- Speaker: Rabbi Yehoshua Grunstein
- Date: Dec 28, 2025
- Halacha:
  
  Shabbat, Tefillah
- Duration: 8 min

Taking Medicine on Shabbos
- Speaker: Rabbi Ezra Schwartz
- Date: Dec 25, 2025
- Series: Daily Shiur
  Venue: GPATS
  
  Halacha:
  
  Shabbat
- Duration: 1 hr 3 min
Hilchos Shabbos: Halachos of Kiddush Part 1 (Tzurba Shiur #8)
- Speaker: Rabbi Shmuel Lesher
- Date: Dec 25, 2025
- Series: Contemporary Halacha
  Venue: BAYT (Toronto, ON)
  
  Halacha:
  
  Shabbat
- Duration: 26 min
Roots and Ripples: The Avoda of Asara be-Teves
- Speaker: Rabbi Tanchum Cohen
- Date: Dec 25, 2025
- Series: Five Minute Mussar
  Venue: YU High School for Boys
  
  Gemara:
  
  Aggadeta, Bava Batra, Rosh Hashana, Sotah
  
  Machshava:
  
  Assara B'Tevet, Rambam, Spirituality, Teshuva
  
  Nach:
  
  Esther, Ezra & Nechemia, Yechezkel, Yirmiyahu, Zecharia
- Duration: 4 min

Comments
0 comments Leave a Comment