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
Selichos
Blessing on Tallit before Selichot
Selichos
Reciting Selichot Alone
Yom Kippur prayers
Who can serve as a cantor?
Selichos
How many days of slichos
Praying in a minyan
Kaddish after slichos without a minyan
Selichos
Kaddish before slichot
The seventh year (Shemittah)
Pruzbul on Money in a Savings Program
The seventh year (Shemittah)
Pruzbul on a Bank Deposit
The seventh year (Shemittah)
Obligation of Prozbul for Children
Mezuzah
Do workers’ leaving quarters outside Eretz Yisroel need a mezuzah
Otzar beit din
Picking an Etrog in a Field of Otzar Beit Din
Meals and sybmolic foods during Rosh ha-Shanah
Apple or challah in honey
Blowing the Shofar
The number of shophar-blowings on Rosh Hashanah
Blowing the Shofar
Obligation of a Woman to Hear the Shofar Blowing
Blowing the Shofar
Length of the Shofar Blast on Rosh Hashanah