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
Cooking setting
Hatmana (insulation) on Shabbat
Haircuts and shaving
Beard trimming – Wedding during the days of the Omer
Caring for body and soul
Cutting a fingernail with one’s teeth; a nail that fell from a pocket
Grace after meal (birkas hamazon)
Measures of a kezayit and a kebeitza
Tzedakah and Maaser
He spoke about his charity — does this cancel the donation?
Mourning
Is a tombstone considered a gollel?
Kashering utensils
Kashering an ice cream machine and a granita machine
Disposing of holy texts and objects
Genizah of a book that contains a sacred quotation
Medicine
Kashrut of Gaviscon for heartburn
Before meal
Songs after Lag BaOmer, peeling skin on Shabbat, netilat yadayim for food dipped in liquid
Purity laws for Kohanim
Impurity from the dead on an airplane
What is forbidden to cook
Definition of cooking on Shabbat versus cooking by a non‑Jew
Blessings on pleasures
Drinking soda water without being thirsty
Kitchen
Study Day – Food Without Kashrut
Primary and secondary foods
A “secondary” food that arrives in the middle of the meal