Ask the Rebbetzin!

Rebbetzin Chana Bracha offers to answer your Torah questions and issues on any topic. The questions and answers will then be posted anonymously on her blog. Please email your questions to director@berotbatayin.org with the subject line Ask the Rebbetzin!


The Book of Bereshit
Parashat Bereshit: Why is Eve Created from Adam?
Parashat Noach: Who Was Noach’s Wife?

Parashat Lech Lecha: Why is only Sarah Judged for Laughing?

Parashat Vayera: Do Women Need to Serve Their Husbands?

Parashat Chayei Sarah: Is Any Kind of Meditation Associated with Idol Worship?

Parashat Toldot: Is Antoninus a True Convert?

Parashat Vayetze: How Could Ya’acov Marry Two Sisters?

Parashat Vayishlach: Did Dinah Fall in Love with the Prince of Shechem?

Parashat Vayeshev: Why Did Ya’acov Give Yosef a Special Coat and What Kind of Coat was It?

Parashat Miketz: Can You Help Me Understand My Dream?

Parashat Vayigash: How can I Forgive My Sisters?

Parashat Vayechi: Why Do We Bless Our Sons to be Like Ephraim and Menashe?

The Book of Shemot
Parashat Shemot: Why is Our Greatest Prophet Called Moshe?
Parashat Va'era: Why is Listening so Important in the Torah?
Parashat Bo: Why Do We Need a Mezuzah?
Parashat Beshalach: Can a Woman Play Music with Men?
Parashat Yitro: Why Do Jews Claim to be the Chosen People?
Parashat Mishpatim: Is it Permitted to Gaze at the Moon?
Parashat Terumah: Why do we Need to Know all these Details of the Mishkan (Tabernacle)?
Parashat Tetzaveh: Hilchot Purim and Parashat Tetzave - What is the Role of Garments in the Torah?
Parashat Ki Tisa: Why are only Males Commanded to Appear at the Temple During the Three Pilgrim Holidays?
Parashat Vayakhel: How can I Help Restore Peace when Dementia Pulls the Family Sanctuary Apart?
Parashat Pekudei:


The Book of Vayikra
Parashat Vayikra: What will Give me Strength to Deal with all my Hardships?
Parashat Tzav: Why Do We Need All These Animal Sacrifices?
Parashat Shemini: How Can I Keep Family Purity When the Closest Mikvah is 2000km Away?
Parashat Tazria-Metzora: Our Speech Builds Heaven and Earth
Parashat Acharei Mot: 
Parashat Kedoshim: Honoring Parents
Parashat Emor: Why Can’t I Marry a Kohen?

Parashat Behar: How do I Deal with Reminders of My Non-Jewish Past?
Parashat Bechukotai: 

Shabbat Pesach: Why Does Preparing for Pesach have to be such Agonizing Slavery?

Parashat Bechukotai
Parsha Meditation: Walking Upright with G-d
Haftorah: Hashem's Miracles in Our Time
Nature in the Parsha: The Desolate Land from Desert to Bloom 
Lessons from the Rebbetzin’s Heart: In Which World Do We Receive Our Ultimate Reward?


The Book of Bamidbar
Parashat Bamidbar: How can I Celebrate Shabbat Camping out in the Wilderness?
Parashat Naso: Where does the Torah Mention the Obligation of Hair-Covering for Married Women?
Parashat Beha’alotcha: Is Judaism Racist?
Parashat Shlach L’chah: Is it Dangerous to Live in Israel?
Parashat Korach: Why Can I not Be Free and Let My Hair Loose?
Parashat Chukat: Why did My Brother Have to Die so Young?
Parashat Balak: Should I be Afraid of Ayin Hara (The Evil Eye)?
Parashat Pinchas: Is it Possible to Receive Prophecy Today?
Parashat Matot (Matot-Masai): Why can the Father and Husband Nullify her Word?
Parashat Masai:

The Book of Devarim
Parashat Devarim: Why is the Torah Filled with War?
Parashat Va’etchanan: Does the Torah Allow Smoking?
Parashat Eikev: Why are Single Women Undervalued in the Torah?
Parashat Re’eh: Can a Woman Wear Talit and Tefillin?
Parashat Shoftim: How Can the Torah Issue the Death Penalty?
Parashat Ki Tetze: I Need Deep Torah about the Mitzvah of Making a Fence!
Parashat Ki Tavo: Which Kind of Fertility Treatment is Permitted in the Torah?
Parashat Nitzavim-Vayelech: How can I Make Up for having Spoken Lashon Hara (Evil Speech)?
Parashat Ha'azinu: How can you Justify Living in Occupied Palestinian Territory?
Parashat V’Zot Ha’Bracha: What is the Difference Between the Urim & Tumim and the Ouija Board?