Halacha with Rabbi Bressman
By Rabbi Dovid Nissan Bressman
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Episodes: 178
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Halacha classes ranging between 5 -10 minutes.
We cover halachik topics on the four sections of the Shulchan Aruch.
Clear and sourced with a summary.
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How late can one light the menorah with a bracha?
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Dec 12, 2025 |
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What is the novelty of Chassidus ?
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Dec 10, 2025 |
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May non Jews do certain Jewish mitzvohs ?
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Dec 05, 2025 |
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Which arm does an ambidextrous person put Tefillin on ?
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Nov 28, 2025 |
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Are you wearing your tefillin in the correct place?
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Nov 21, 2025 |
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Lechayim shidduch vort How does it work ? Why do they specifically break an earthenware plate and not a glass plate like by the chuppah? How does one deal with a broken shiduch Chas vshalom ?
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Nov 14, 2025 |
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Visiting the sick
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Nov 07, 2025 |
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May one carry a mezuzah for protection?
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Oct 31, 2025 |
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Alternative medicine halachic considerations
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Oct 24, 2025 |
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Saying vayechulu on Friday night without a minyan
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Oct 17, 2025 |
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Reciting half kaddish when reading from more than one Sefer Torah
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Oct 13, 2025 |
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Trees overlapping on the sukkah
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Oct 06, 2025 |
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Guidelines for a doubtful choleh on Yom Kippur
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Oct 01, 2025 |
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Leaving wine for kiddush revealed unattended
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Sep 26, 2025 |
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Hataras Nedarim on Erev Rosh Hashana
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Sep 19, 2025 |
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Halachos and ethics of killing bugs and pests
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Sep 12, 2025 |
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May one put to sleep a sick pet ?
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Sep 05, 2025 |
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How strong does the mezuah need to be affixed to the doorpost?
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Aug 29, 2025 |
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Non-Jew moved the non mevushal wine bottle, can we still drink it?
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Aug 22, 2025 |
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The Tefillin retzuah blackness chatzitza problem
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Aug 15, 2025 |
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Does one need mezuzos up while the mezuzos are being checked?
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Aug 08, 2025 |
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Troubling dreams and hatavas chalomos
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Aug 01, 2025 |
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May the Chassan and Kallah have the same name ?
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Jul 25, 2025 |
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Ayin Hara - evil eye in Halacha
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Jul 18, 2025 |
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Tzava’ah of R. Yehuda HaChassid - shiduch with same name of Chassan and father in law?
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Jul 11, 2025 |
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What blemishes may one hide or not hide from a shiduch?
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Jul 04, 2025 |
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Halachic considerations in finding a shiduch
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Jun 27, 2025 |
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Reciting a blessing of being saved in a miraculous way
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Jun 20, 2025 |
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Backwards nunim in the Sefer Torah - secret to our victory in war
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Jun 13, 2025 |
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Will AI ever be able to assist in mezuah checking ?
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Jun 06, 2025 |
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The halachic opportunities and challenges of AI
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May 30, 2025 |
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May one make a siyum Sefer Torah during the sefirah?
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May 23, 2025 |
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Dina D’malchusa Dina - the law of the land is the law
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May 16, 2025 |
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Following the fathers customs
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May 08, 2025 |
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Bris Milah questions, hatafas dam Bris and clamps
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May 02, 2025 |
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Tznius in summer camps and on vacation
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Apr 25, 2025 |
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May one rely on a hechsher that they are not too familiar with?
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Apr 18, 2025 |
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May one brush or floss on Shabbos ?
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Apr 04, 2025 |
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May a yeshiva or day school expel a challenging student?
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Mar 27, 2025 |
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Fulfilling Matanos laevyonim properly
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Mar 13, 2025 |
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How to fulfill the mitzvah of tzedakah properly
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Mar 07, 2025 |
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Reciting a bracha correctly part 1
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Feb 27, 2025 |
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Does one need to purchase from Jewish stores even when it is more expensive?
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Feb 19, 2025 |
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Is selling above the fair price allowed?
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Feb 14, 2025 |
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Buisness competition and taking away workers from the competition
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Feb 06, 2025 |
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When it is appropriate and inappropriate to act stringent?
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Jan 30, 2025 |
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Is there an allowance to have one’s dog neutered?
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Jan 24, 2025 |
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Does one recite a blessing of seeing a king upon seeing the President of the United States?
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Jan 15, 2025 |
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Can one say Kaddish over someone who chose to be cremated?
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Jan 09, 2025 |
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Electric keycards for hotels on Shabbos?
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Dec 31, 2024 |
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May a non-Jew study the Written Torah?
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Dec 18, 2024 |
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Is it allowed to change a jewish name?
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Dec 12, 2024 |
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Accurately calling someone’s Jewish name
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Dec 05, 2024 |
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Proper and improper alcohol consumption
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Nov 28, 2024 |
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May one make a neder in an effort to overcome an addiction?
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Nov 19, 2024 |
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Teshuva and mitzvah performances for a Jew who accepted another religion
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Nov 14, 2024 |
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May one try to take an established customer or congregant?
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Nov 07, 2024 |
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Unethical Competition
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Oct 30, 2024 |
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Helping someone who missed the night kiddush
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Oct 23, 2024 |
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Sukkah: kosher check list
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Oct 16, 2024 |
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Kol Nidrei - nullifying our future vows
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Oct 11, 2024 |
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New fruit on Rosh Hashana
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Oct 02, 2024 |
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Hataras Nedarim on Erev Rosh Hashana
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Sep 26, 2024 |
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Mezuzah checking questions and answers
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Sep 19, 2024 |
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Caution with gittin and advising someone to get divorced
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Sep 12, 2024 |
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May one use a lawyer or a toain rabbani in a din Torah?
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Sep 05, 2024 |
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May one use Ma’aser for tuition payments?
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Aug 29, 2024 |
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No talking during Davening
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Aug 23, 2024 |
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May a woman hand a quill to the sofer to write a letter for her in the Sefer Torah?
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Aug 15, 2024 |
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When can one eat meat during the nine days?
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Aug 07, 2024 |
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A shoteh’s obligation and ability to perform mitzvohs?
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Aug 01, 2024 |
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Inheritance and wills for daughters
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Jul 25, 2024 |
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Your new building construction is bothering me
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Jul 18, 2024 |
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When is one allowed to lie ?
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Jul 11, 2024 |
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The lost or misplaced kesubah
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Jul 04, 2024 |
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Saving a Jew from danger
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Jun 28, 2024 |
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Humility in Halacha
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Jun 20, 2024 |
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Contemporary Sotah questions
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Jun 14, 2024 |
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Wife and husband have different customs, what should they do?
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Jun 06, 2024 |
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Hair covering with a Shaitel or tichel
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May 31, 2024 |
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Hair covering for a married or once married woman
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May 24, 2024 |
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Torah view on recreational drugs
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May 17, 2024 |
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Shiduchim information and lashon hara
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May 10, 2024 |
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Lashon hara for a benefit.
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May 02, 2024 |
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What to do if you find chametz on Pesach?
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Apr 26, 2024 |
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Pesach stringencies and hataras Nedarim
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Apr 19, 2024 |
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Non Shabbos observant Jew touching wine
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Apr 11, 2024 |
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Non religious individuals as witnesses
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Apr 05, 2024 |
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The questionable kiddushin ring
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Mar 29, 2024 |
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Problematic Purim costumes; mishalach manos doubtful kiddushin
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Mar 22, 2024 |
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Birchas kohanim dilemmas
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Mar 15, 2024 |
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Factors that will invalidate a megillah
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Mar 07, 2024 |
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Geirus Shailos
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Mar 01, 2024 |
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Beis din fit to perform geirus
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Feb 23, 2024 |
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Mihu Yehudi- Giyur kehalacha
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Feb 14, 2024 |
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Severance for Jewish workers
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Feb 05, 2024 |
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Practical Tevilas keilim topics
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Jan 28, 2024 |
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Mikveh is never too late
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Jan 22, 2024 |
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Importance of halachik maintenance of a Mikveh
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Jan 18, 2024 |
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Making a blessing on tevilas keilim
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Jan 14, 2024 |
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Using a river as a Mikveh
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Jan 10, 2024 |
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Community Mikveh halachik considerations
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Jan 08, 2024 |
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Sofer or shochet who later became non observant
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Jan 04, 2024 |
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Tefillin and mezuzos from unknown sources
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Jan 02, 2024 |
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A Jew who accepted a different religion
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Dec 28, 2023 |
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Dealing with the rampant problem of assimilation
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Dec 26, 2023 |
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Ribbis, before, during or after the loan
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Dec 24, 2023 |
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Can one Pasken from a dream?
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Dec 20, 2023 |
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Dreams that can have halachik bearing
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Dec 17, 2023 |
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Do bad dreams mean anything nowadays?
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Dec 13, 2023 |
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Traveling on a plane during Chanukah
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Dec 05, 2023 |
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A Halacha, Eisav hates Yaakov
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Dec 01, 2023 |
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Passing in front of a security camera on Shabbos
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Nov 27, 2023 |
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Ribbis 101 - part 1
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Nov 24, 2023 |
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Saving someone spiritually, halachik considerations
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Nov 22, 2023 |
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Lubavitch Rebbe’s view on serving in the IDF
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Nov 15, 2023 |
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Eiruv chatzeiros
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Nov 12, 2023 |
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Safety first: keep a distance from pro hamas/palastinian protestors
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Nov 07, 2023 |
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Bein Hashmashos on Shabbos
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Nov 03, 2023 |
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Jewish identity in face of hostile anti-semitism
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Nov 01, 2023 |
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War in Halacha
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Oct 29, 2023 |
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Unripped toilet paper on Shabbos
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Oct 25, 2023 |
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The prohibition and danger of a ‘two state solution’
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Oct 22, 2023 |
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Pidyon Shvuyim part 2 - can one exchange terrorists for hostages?
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Oct 16, 2023 |
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Pidyon Shvuyim - redeeming captives part 1
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Oct 15, 2023 |
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Should one be worry free from the war on Shabbos ?
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Oct 13, 2023 |
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Security solutions for Eretz Yisroel from the Lubavitcher Rebbe
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Oct 11, 2023 |
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What we can do during the war in Eretz Yisroel
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Oct 09, 2023 |
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Putting a fire out on Shabbos . Hilchos Shabbos siman 334
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Oct 06, 2023 |
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May one make a sukkah on one’s sunroof of one’s car ?
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Oct 02, 2023 |
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Sukkos 5784: Fabric sukkah walls; how to check an esrog; the Aravos problem
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Sep 28, 2023 |
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Listening to a doctor when it could be for violating prohibitions
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Sep 24, 2023 |
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Helping a sick patient on Shabbos or Yom Kippur to prevent a state of madness
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Sep 22, 2023 |
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May one return home from the hospital after being treated?
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Sep 21, 2023 |
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Siman 328: summary of the 5 levels of sickness and Shabbos treatment.
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Sep 21, 2023 |
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Siman 328: A sick person on Shabbos - treating a person who we are in doubt if they are in medical danger on Shabbos
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Sep 19, 2023 |
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Siman 325: Amazon order arriving on Shabbos - May I use it ? לזכות יוסף בן רחמים שיחי׳
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Sep 18, 2023 |
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Siman 325: having a non Jew bring food on Shabbos in a place without an eiruv
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Sep 18, 2023 |
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Cooking on Shabbos siman 318 part 3. Spices in a second vessel.
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Sep 18, 2023 |
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Cooking on Shabbos siman 318 part 2. Dipping challah in hot soup. Preparing tea
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Sep 18, 2023 |
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Cooking on Shabbos siman 318. Temperature one needs to avoid reheating liquids. The debate if one can heat up a meat which the fat will ooze into a liquid.
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Sep 18, 2023 |
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Tying knots on Shabbos siman 317. Tying a garbage bag; inserting a new shoe lace on Shabbos
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Sep 18, 2023 |
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Trapping on Shabbos. Siman 316. Trapping summer insects, and pets that ran away.
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Sep 18, 2023 |
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Ohel tents on Shabbos part 2#. Children making tents; covering very large vessels on Shabbos.
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Sep 18, 2023 |
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Ohel tents on Shabbos. Baby carriage sun protectors, umbrellas
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Sep 18, 2023 |
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1st day of Rosh Hashana that falls out on Shabbos. Why can’t we blow the shofar on Shabbos ? The debate of Rav Shlezinger and Rav Sonnenfeld in 1905 in Jerusalem
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Sep 15, 2023 |
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Creams, deodorant and toothpaste on Shabbos
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Jul 14, 2023 |
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Opening cans and soda cans on Shabbos
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Jul 09, 2023 |
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Building vessels on Shabbos: legos, glasses
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Jun 30, 2023 |
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Muktzeh 101 summary
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Jun 22, 2023 |
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Moving Muktzeh off the table after a meal. Chapters 308 & 279.
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Jun 12, 2023 |
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Muktzeh introduction: Shabbos chapter 308 &311.
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Jun 05, 2023 |
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Documents that are forbidden to read on Shabbos and Yom tov. Shabbos chapter 307
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May 25, 2023 |
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Forbidden speech on Shabbos. Shabbos chapter 307
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May 21, 2023 |
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Crockpot usage on Shabbos
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May 12, 2023 |
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Shabbos Siman 253: 7 conditions needed for returning hot foods on the blech on Shabbos.
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May 05, 2023 |
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Shabbos 296: laws of havdalah on wine
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Apr 28, 2023 |
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Shabbos chapter 273: Making kiddush in the place of one’s meal.
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Apr 21, 2023 |
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Making havdalah and day kiddush on Chamar Medina “ wine of the country” (substitute beverages to wine)
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Apr 11, 2023 |
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The measurement of a revi’is and how it relates to the size of kiddush cup for Shabbos and the 4 cups of Pesach
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Apr 04, 2023 |
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Some halachos of wine: white wine or red wine/ mevushal wine/ grape juice - is it good for kiddush?
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Mar 31, 2023 |
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Shabbos laws chapter 271: making kiddush for someone who did not daven yet; weighing the mitzvohs.
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Mar 28, 2023 |
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Shabbos chapter 276: may one benefit from work that a goi did on behalf of a Jew?
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Mar 23, 2023 |
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Hilchos Shabbos: 3 reasons a non Jew cannot do work for a Jew on Shabbos. Introduction to selling a business to a non Jew for Shabbos.
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Mar 23, 2023 |
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Purim reminders
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Mar 06, 2023 |
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Secular will and the document of assumption of obligation for non halachik heirs
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Feb 28, 2023 |
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Sharing an inheritance to non halachik heirs for the sake of peace
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Feb 28, 2023 |
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The 5 major differences between inheritance according to the Torah and according to secular law
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Feb 21, 2023 |
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Can one rely on a live video for testimony, cholov Yisroel, kiddish levanah?
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Jan 29, 2023 |
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Paying a debt out of doubt 2#/ Dispute that erupted over counterfeit money
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Jan 19, 2023 |
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When one can back out of one’s admittance/ Witnesses hearing without seeing
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Jan 13, 2023 |
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Paying a debt out of doubt
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Jan 13, 2023 |
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Laws of claims and counter claims
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Jan 10, 2023 |
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Swearing in a Beis din
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Jan 03, 2023 |
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Oaths and promises
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Jan 03, 2023 |
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Lighting the menorah on erev&motzei shabbos
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Dec 23, 2022 |
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Voting in halacha
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Nov 08, 2022 |
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Halachos of lighting Shabbos Candles
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Oct 21, 2022 |