Rabbi Asher Meir is the author of the book Meaning in Mitzvot, distributed by Feldheim. The book provides insights into the inner meaning of our daily practices, following the order of the 221 chapters of the Kitzur Shulchan Arukh.

The material below appears in Torah Tidbits and was serialized on the VBM.

• Abdominal Fat
• Adjoining Geula to T'fila
• Agency "Shelichut"
• Aleinu
• Amida Order
• Aninut (proccupation with burial)
• Asher Yatzar
• Asking Forgiveness from our Fellow Man
• Assessing a Potential Spouse
• Audacity in G-d's Service
• Avoiding the Appearance of Idolatry in Prayer
• Avoiding Celebration for a Mourner
• Avoiding Litigation during AV
• Bal Tashchit - "wanton destruction"
• Bathing on Shabbat
• Bathing on Shabbat II
• Beating the Aravot
• Benefit from the Chanukah Light
• Bircat Kohanim
• Birkhat Kohanim Without Shoes
• Blessing on the Birth of a Baby
• Blessing on Additional Courses
• Blessing on Fire at Havdala
• Blessings of Prayer and other Blessings
• The Blessing "HaGomel"
• Blessing on the Seven Species I
• Blessing on the Seven Species II
• Blessing on Smell
• Blessing the Sons
• Blessing on Trees
• The Blessing on Wine Exempts Other Drinks
• Blessings & Curses
• Blessings of Prayer and other Blessings
• Blessing the New Month
• Borei Nefashot
• Borrowing & Hiring
• Bow and Arrow on Lag BaOmer
• Braiding Hair
• Breaking Bad News
• Bribery
• Bringing Disputes to Din Torah
• Bringing Joy to the Bride and Groom
• Brit Milah
• Brit Milah II
• Burial Shrouds
• Business with a Torah Scholar
• Business with a Fellow Jew
• Eating on Erev Pesach
• Elevation of the Soul after Death
• Eliyahu & Brit Milah
• Erev Tisha B'Av on Shabbat
• Burial
• Canopy of Peace on Jerusalem
• Careful Speech and Favorable Judgment
• Carrying between Private and Public Domains
• Carrying between Private and Public Domains II
• Carrying on Shabbat
• "CHADASH", Prohibition on Eating New Grain Crop
• Challah and the Land of Israel
• The "Missing Yom Tov" of Chanukah
• Chanukah
• Chanuka Lights and the Sukka
• Checking Pockets
• Children - The Mitzvah to have Children
• Choosing a Spouse
• Cholent
• A Clean Body for Tefillin
• Commemoration of the Destruction
• Commemoration of the Destruction and Commemoration of the Mikdash
• Commandment to Give Loans
• Confusing the Accuser - Part I
• Confusing the Accuser - Part II
• Consideration Towards Widows
• Cooking on Yom Tov
• Counting Jews
• Counting the Omer
• Covering the Blood
• Damage to People
• Danger During the Three Weeks
• "Danger" of Tzedaka
• Delaying Marriage
• Disinheriting
• Divination
• A Dream-Fast
• Dressing up on Purim
• Drinking Wine
• Dwelling in Eretz Yisrael
• Eating Fish On Shabbat
• Eating Meat
• Education of Children
• Eiruv Chatzerot
• The Essence of Life
• Estate of a Convert
• The Eulogy
• Fast of the Wedding Day
• Final Meal before the Tish'a b'Av Fast
• Finalizing a Purchase
• First Blessing of the Amida
• Fish & Meat
• Four Cups at the Seder - Four Stages of Redemption
• Four Types of Bailors
• Games on Shabbat
• Gehinom on Shabbat
• Giving Charity
• Grace over a Cup of Wine
• The Great Shofar
• Greeting Strangers
• Grieving
• Guaranteeing Loans
• Habits which Lead to Forgetfulness
• "Hagbah" - Raising the Torah Scroll
• HaGomel
• Hair Covering for Women
• Halakhic Commemoration of Chanukah
• A Hasty Stride
• Hatov Vehametiv in Birkat Hamazon
• Havdala and Eliyahu HaNavi
• Hierarchy of Blessings
• Honoring the Departed in their Presence
• Honoring Parents
• Idolatry and Artistry
• Intercalation
• Intermarriage
• Interruptions in Kriat Shema
• Investing Money Wisely
• Judging According to Torah Law
• Judging in a Torah Court
• The Ketubah
• Kosher Slaughter of Fowl
• Lag BaOmer
• Laws of Acquisitions (part 1)HAGBAHA (lifting)
• Laws of Acquisitions (part 2) Kinyan Devarim
• Laws of Acquisitions (part 3) - Buying with Money
• Laws of Acquisitions (part 4) - Acquiring Land
• Laws of Damages
• Laws of Gifts
• Laws of Gifts 2
• Leap-Month of Adar
• Learning Torah on Tish’a b’Av
• Leaving a Cemetery
• Lighting the Chanukiya in Shul
• Likeness of Chameitz to Notar (leftover sacrifices)
• Local Custom
• The Lulav
• Lulav on Shabbat
• Maariv
• Making Meat Permissible
• Making a Zimun before the Afikoman
• Matzah
• Meaning in Marriage
• Meat and Milk
• Melave Malka
• Mezuza
• Milk Foods
• Milk Foods on Shavuot
• Modesty during a Funeral Procession
• Money
• Money Worries
• Mourning - Customs of
• Moving to Israel
• Muktze
• Music During Sefira
• Ner Chanuka; Ner Havdala
• Not to Dun the Destitute Borrower
• Nullification of Chametz
• Nullification of Chametz
• Oaths & Vows I
• Oaths and Vows II
• Oneg Shabbat
• Order of Blessings
• Order of Putting on Tefillin
• Orientation in Prayer
• Orla
• Overcharging
• The Rainbow
• Reading the Torah Portion with Targum
• Rectification of a Dream
• Redemption of the Firstborn Donkey
• Reproof
• Remembering the Temple during Times of Joy
• Removing Shoes
• Respect for the Worker
• Returning Lost Objects
• Returning Lost Objects II
• Rosh Chodesh
• Paying Workers on Time - part 1
• Paying Workers on Time - part 2
• Pidyon Haben (Redemption of the First Born)
• Placement of the Chanukah Menorah
• Placement of the Head T'filin
• Plowing in the Land of Israel
• Praying in a Minyan
• Praying for Rain on the Seventh of Cheshvan
• Preparation for Birkat HaMazon
• Prohibition to Benefit from Chanukah Lights
• Prohibition on Coveting
• Prohibition on Hoarding
• Prohibition on Self-Mutilation
• Prohibition on Shaving
• Protection of Workers
• Prozbol
• Publishing Torah Books
• Purim of Walled Cities
• Purging Vessels
• Purity of the Land of Israel
• Sale of Chametz
• Salting Meat
• Saving a Life on Shabbat
• Searching for Chametz by Candlelight
• Self-Sufficiency
• Self-Sufficiency
• Shabbat Boundaries
• Shabbat Chatan a.k.a. Aufruf
• Shabbat Enjoyment and the Limitations of Social Justice
• Shalom Zakhar
• Shavuot
• Shavuot as the Day of the Giving of the Torah
• Shining the Groom's Shoes
• Shofar in Elul
• S'lichot Prior to Rosh Hashanah - Part I
• S'lichot Prior to Rosh Hashanah - Part II
• Sleep on Purim
• Song of the Day
• Spaying animals
• Spices at Havdala
• Stealing
• Symbolic Foods at the Pesach Seder
• Symbolism of the Shofar Blasts
• Tachanun in Yerushalayim
• Taking Terumah/Challah
• Tearing the Hair in Mourning
• Tefillat Ha-Derekh
• Tefillin on Chol HaMoed
• Teshuvah
• Testimony of a Professional Gambler
• Tevila – Immersion in a Mikveh
• Thanksgiving for a Miracle
• Thirty-Nine Melachot I
• The 39 Forbidden Melakhot II
• Torah Study at Night
• Torah Study Shavuot Night
• Trumah & Maaser
• Translation of the Torah
• TU b’Av
• TU BiShvat & Shabbat Shira
• Tum'a of a Kohen
• Two Days of Purim
• Two Dishes for the Shabbat Meal
• Two Types of Blessing
• Tzaar Baalei Chayim - Avoiding cruelty to animals
• Tzitzit
• Tzitzit of Tekhelet
• Universal Principles of Justice
• Urging Vows
• Visiting the Sick
• Visiting the Sick
• Washing Hands
• Washing for Bread in a Military Camp
• “The Ways of the Emorite”
• Weapons on Shabbat
• Wearing & Tying Shoes
• - Tying Shoes part two
• Wicks and Oil for Chanukah
• White Lies
• "Who has made me according to His will"
• Windows in Shul
• Windows in Shul, Number of
• Wise in the Hidden
• "Wise One of Secrets" on a Torah Scholar
• Wisdom of Secrets III
• Work Done by a Non-Jew on Shabbat
• Writing the Ketuba
• Yaaleh v'Yavo
• Yibum (Levirate Marriage)
• Zot Chanuka

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