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I have never asked a posek, but I have done so since I do not specify a need for it to be picked up on Shabbos, and Sunday works just as well. The post office chooses their own time to pick up the ma …

If you either put a blech or threw raw meat in just before shabbos, the only problem will be that your beans may not get cooked.

We can condense this into three questions: When do we take the cover off of the challos? There are 3 reasons for covering the challos. The first is to teach us sensitivity (interpretation of the Y …

The issue applies only where the chachamim were specifically concened. One area of concern is performing acts which require seeing something well, like reading (Shulcha Aruch O.C. 275), where the cha …

Anyone who has made a fire in their fireplace, especially Erev Shabbos for Leil Shabbos, can appreciate the issue of shema yechate b'gechalim as the fuel dies down (and their supper was not yet cooked …

The halachos that you are quoting are based on the sefer Hadras Ponim - Zokon chapter 9. His main argument, or that of his sources, is that depilatory paste would violate both giluach (shaving) and …

To answer your question as asked, based on the mechaber in 261:4 you may not keep food with a shehiya issue on the "fire" from the time you accept Shabbos. Consider the following instead: The minhag …

This is because the sun doesn't use a timex, it has its own path which is not as "precise" as our timepieces. The Earth doesn't go in a nice circle around the sun, it travels in an ellipse (Kepler's …

On Shabbos, a container of water spilled on my carpet. Conventional wisdom is to throw baking soda on the wet area to soak up the liquid to protect the carpet from odors (I don't know if it actually …

This is an edit of my original answer. There are two reasons for not reading "menus". First, so you don't find a mistake and correct it. Secondly, so you won't come to read Shtaros. So, although n …

It seems that the issur is to read it out loud. Only by actual shtaros is it assur to look at (that seems to be the reading of the mechaber).

Another way of getting out of the problem of atu shtarei chovos is to write it in Hebrew. (Aruch Hashulchan 307:10)

Does anyone know good sources that talk about this issue? Perhaps we can divide this into 3 categories: Is snow generally muktza since it has no practical use (as opposed to rainwater which has use …

Regardless of snows muktza status on shabbos, is there an issue in shoveling snow from a paved walk? At worst: If snow is muktza, you are doing tiltul min hatzad letzurach davr mutar since you need …

Playing Bananagrams isn't a borer issue since you choose pieces for immediate usage. This is within the category of Derech Achila- normal consumption/usage. Even at the beginning of the game when th …