Rabbi Israel Cohen
Answers questions at Rav Amram Fried's Beit Horaah
Smicha "Yoreh-Yoreh" (2012), Rav Amram Fried's Beit Horaah
Answers the site's questions within Rav Amram Fried's Beit Ora'ah. How we answer and review answers
Rabbi Israel Cohen received rabbinical smicha "Yoreh-Yoreh" in 2012 in Modiin Illit from Rav Asher Weisfish and Rav Yitzchak Luxenberg. He studied at Yeshivat Be'er HaTorah in Jerusalem, and later continued at Kollel Ahavat Shalom in Modiin Illit. He also completed the program of the Beit Midrash Gavoha LeHoraah "Keter Aram Tzova" in Rishon LeZion, which trains rabbis for practical halachic rulings. He answers halachic questions at the Beit Horaah of the Neot Simcha community and at Beit Horaah Chanichei HaYeshivot in the Achuzat Brachfeld neighborhood, both in Modiin Illit, as well as at Rav Amram Fried's Beit Horaah in Bnei Brak. He specializes in the Orach Chaim (laws of daily life, Shabbat and holidays) and Yoreh Deah (kashrut, laws of family purity and other topics) sections of the Shulchan Aruch. On sheilot.com, Rabbi Cohen is one of the main answering rabbis: he reviews incoming questions and answers users based on the rulings of Rav Amram Fried.
- Smicha
- Yoreh-Yoreh · Rav Asher Weisfish; Rav Yitzchak Luxenberg · Modiin Illit · 2012
- Education
- Yeshivat Be'er HaTorah · Jerusalem
- Kollel Ahavat Shalom · Modiin Illit
- Beit Midrash Gavoha LeHoraah "Keter Aram Tzova" · Rishon LeZion
- Positions
- Beit Horaah Neot Simcha · Modiin Illit
- Beit Horaah Chanichei HaYeshivot, Achuzat Brachfeld · Modiin Illit
- Rav Amram Fried's Beit Horaah · Bnei Brak
- Areas
- Orach Chaim, Yoreh Deah
- Languages
- Hebrew
Rabbi's answers
By topic
Death anniversary (yahrtzeit)
Aliyah for One Who Has a Yahrtzeit on Shabbat
Kashering utensils
Baking trays that got mixed up
Hagomel
HaGomel After a Car Accident
Selichos
An Ashkenazi Participating in Sephardic Selichot
The introduction of a torah scroll
Canceling a Torah class for a Hachnasat Sefer Torah
Meals and sybmolic foods during Rosh ha-Shanah
Eating Olives on Rosh Hashanah
Smoking products
Mint-flavored cigarette
Shma in an unclean place
Reciting Tehillim in the Middle of Nursing
Cancelling transactions
Returning Products from Transactions
Tznius
A Girl’s Modesty When She Is Alone
Benefitting from forbidden activities on Shabbos
Operating a Business on Shabbat
Hagalah
A Pot That Became Non-Kosher — Uncertainty About Teflon
Infestation of foods
Cake with black specks
Cooking setting
Heating Challah on a Hotplate
Vessels and appliances
Fish That Was Roasted on a Meat Grill and Placed on a Dairy Plate