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How Do Modern Orthodox Women Typically Dress?

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What is the halakha for public displays of contrition / regret for sin?

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Are the eight nights of lighting Menorah one Mitzvah or eight?

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Why does the Torah end before fulfilling the promise of entering the Promised land?

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Looking for source of story about the Noda Beyehuda and the Baal Shem Tov

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Source of opinion that Talmud Yerushalmi was corrupted by Karaites

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What happened to the jars of oil without a seal?

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Good picture seforim (books) for nach

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What's the source that Yavan/Greece is keneged choshech?

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Why must animals be conscious when slaughtered?

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