Rabbi Shay Tahan

About Rabbi Shay Tahan

Rabbi Shay Tahan is a rav and posek on Lehallel — the filtered YouTube platform. 1872+ of his recordings can be watched here, with no ads and no comments.

Rabbi Shay Tahan answers the questions a Jewish home actually asks, one short shiur at a time. His channel is above all a library of halacha in plain words: do we say a bracha when taking medicine, and what about cough medicine; may one take pills on a fast; is playdough chametz; how to kasher pacifiers and baby bottles; how to wash strawberries and check dates and figs; how long to wait between cheese and meat; French fries made in meat oil; the bracha on cheesecake; may a phone be charged or coffee be made in a shul where you are not davening; opening a metal cap on Shabbos; may women eat before hearing the Megillah; and the controversy over anisakis worms.

He teaches the mitzvos of the body too - tefillin worn too low, the common problems with tefillin straps, Shehecheyanu on new tefillin, tallis and tzitzis - and a Kashrut Seminary that begins: every wife is a mashgiach in her own kitchen. Hataras nedarim has its own laws and tutorial, and the Yamim Tovim each have theirs, from the Pesach Seder to the shofar, the sukkah and the lulav, and a shiur for the Philly Kollel on whether the sukkah or the lulav comes first.

Every day he learns the Mishnah Berurah - for Chanukah, the laws of Havdalah when Chanukah falls on Motzaei Shabbos - and every week he goes through the parsha in Shnayim Yomi, aliyah by aliyah, from Rishon to Shishi, together with his weekly Chaburah on the parsha. His parsha talks carry a lesson in their names: "Chayei Sarah - four types of chesed", "Mikeitz - the way we feel about ourselves", "Vayechi - when to speak straightforward and when to be diplomatic".

In his series Torah Controversies and the talks beside it he takes up the questions people argue about - birthdays, the eruv, Chassidim and Misnagdim, a Chareidi yeshiva or a Hesder yeshiva - and in Mystical Creatures in the Torah he reads what the Torah and the Sages say about creatures that sound like legends. He teaches Pirkei Avos and the six constant mitzvos, the mystery of the moon covered on Rosh Hashanah, emunah and bitachon in a time of war, and the Yom HaKaddish HaKlali gathering with Rabbis Glatstein, Schwartz and Schonfeld. Each shiur opens on its own page, with no ads and no comments around it.

You can search inside the shiurim by what was said, play the whole catalog back to back, or follow Rabbi Shay Tahan to be told when something new comes in.