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Jewish law. Specifically, the legal process beginning with the written Torah and continuing through the Mishna, Talmud, and the legal codes (e.g., Rambam, Tur, Shulchan Aruch). // NOTE: Like Wikipedia, this site makes no guarantee of validity, and does not offer professional (particularly rabbinic) advice. Treat information from this site like it came from a crowd of your friends.
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Does there have to be a poor needy intended recipient at the time of the donation in order t...
I was reading this excellent post about tzedakah and it seems that after a person is mafrish (designates monies as) tzedakah and the recipient disappears, he can give it to someone else. That made me …
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Cannibalism, Jew or Gentile?
I am not sure if Havarka meant this and if he did then I'll remove my answer, but I think there is a simple way to solve this.
There is a Mitzvah Min Hatorah to bury a Meis Mitzvah which only applies …
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What criteria determine what is or isn't Uvdin Dechol
I am struggling to understand the concept of Uvdin Dechol, where it originates from and how far it extends to.
We famously dont ride bikes / electric trams on Shabbos partly due to Uvdin Dechol, but …
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Self-defense (in a case of one's capital, not a capital case)
The gemara in Sanhedrin 72 says that if a person digs into your house to steal from you, you may kill him. The Rishonim explain that this is because the thief knows that no one lets his money be stole …
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Can I make a condition that any money I think to donate to Tzedakah is an invalid donation u...
Is it possible to make a Tenai [condition] that any money I think to donate to Tzedakah is an invalid donation until I actually give it? I would want to do this because a Meshulach [collector] may com …
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Are a father and son allowed to learn martial arts together?
The Gemara in Sanhedrin 84b relates that several Amaroim did not let their sons to let their blood (a common cure in those days) even for the benefit of the father because if the Issur of making a fat …
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May one park in a Church across the road which charges a daily parking fee?
Is it permitted to park in a church which charges a daily fee for use of its parking lot?
Possible concerns might be:
Someone who knows the owner's car may think he has gone in to worship.
The mone …
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Why isn't covering the place where hair meets the head good enough for a Sheitel?
See Can a Sheitel be made out of one's own hair? where the question wonders whether a woman is allowed to wear her own detached hair as a Sheitel.
In Fred's answer, he quotes the Shiltei Giborim (Sha …
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What is the source that forbids indecent dress by women?
I have been hardpressed finding a source for something that would seem to be such a well known Halacha. … Is it simply common sense but it was too obvious to be recorded in Halacha? If so, where do the Shiurim of x amount of inches come from? …
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Mitzvos on Mount Sinai?
Although I have no source, it would seem that since that at the time of Mount Sinai the Torah had not yet been given, the Torah was kept still being kept voluntary like by Avrohom, Yitzchak and Yaacov …
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Is a person endangering others always* a Rodef?
There is no Halacha that if he only has a 25% chance of killing his victim he is not a Roidef, so we see there is no need of certainty of fatality to the victim. …
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What foods are considered Mitztamek Veyafe lo?
Every Rov I have ever spoken to has used Cholent as the ideal example of a Mitztamek veYafe lo.
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Extent of matrilineal descent
You would still be a Jew. The lineage of a Jew never breaks, regardless of a person's apparent conversion to another religion. The lineage is through one's mother and that is unbreakable. There exists …
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Blackout restoration on Shabbath - and your food
Reb Moshe Feinstein (O.C. 4 Siman 74 Dinei Bishul 38) and Reb Shlomo Zalman Auerbach (Shmiras Shabbos Kehilchasa 1:69) say that returning to a different blech is Muttar (not in a case of powercut). Th …
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Does halacha require me to install ad-blocker software?
The Halacha is (can someone source please? …
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