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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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Giving charity to someone about whom the giver knows nothing?
Yoreh Deah 251:10:
Someone who came and said "Feed me!" — we don't check after him if he
is deceitful; rather, we feed him immediately. If he was naked and
said "Clothe me!" — we do check afte …
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Examples of admitting a mistake was made in halacha
The first instance is in the Torah itself (Leviticus 10:16):
טז וְאֵ֣ת ׀ שְׂעִ֣יר הַֽחַטָּ֗את דָּרֹ֥שׁ דָּרַ֛שׁ מֹשֶׁ֖ה וְהִנֵּ֣ה שֹׂרָ֑ף וַ֠יִּקְצֹף עַל־אֶלְעָזָ֤ר וְעַל־אִֽיתָמָר֙ בְּנֵ֣י אַֽהֲר …
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Is one allowed to pray if he is in a profound state of sadness?
A barayta (Berachot 31a) says (translations edited from link):
תנו רבנן אין עומדין להתפלל לא מתוך עצבות ולא מתוך עצלות ולא מתוך שחוק ולא מתוך שיחה ולא מתוך קלות ראש ולא מתוך דברים בטלים אלא מתוך ש …
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Honor parents who want you to violate halacha?
If his father told him to transgress one of the words of the Torah, whether a positive commandment or a negative commandment, or even something from the words of [Chazal], he can't listen to him. Yore …
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Is it permissible to despise hateful and wicked people?
Hatred of people is one of the things that removes a person from the world (Avot 2:11), although as far as I know no precise guidelines are given for when hatred of people in general is permitted or f …
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Did the rights of a Jewish slave owner include having sex with his female slaves?
The master of a female Hebrew slave has the option to marry her either to himself or to his son (with her consent). If he (or his son) does marry her, it is not his right, but in fact his obligation t …
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Permissibility of removing wisdom teeth
The Shulchan Aruch (Choshen Mishpat 420:31) rules that you don't have permission to hit yourself, but you are nevertheless patur. This is actually a machlokes rishonim: Tosafos (Shevuos 27a ד"ה אביא) …
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Making a Siyum on major sections of learning but not a codified unit
In this lecture, the speaker quotes R' Moshe Feinstein that anything that you do that you feel proud of accomplishing — even someone who learned one daf of gemara, if it was hard for him — you can mak …
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Nezikin for Annoyances?
A person who damages is obligated for five things: Tzaar (distress), ripui (healing), sheves (idleness), boshes (embarassment), and nezek (damage) (CM 420:3). However, we nowadays only obligate someon …
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Hierarchy in ברכות השחר?
To add to DoubleAA's answer:
The brachah of Ahavas Olam may exempt you from Birkas HaTorah. Therefore, you should say the latter first (47:7). The brachah of Mechayah HaMeisim may exempt you from Elo …
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The prohibition of Revenge vs the Mitzvah of emulating G-d
In Berachot 33a (translations modified from Sefaria), Rav Ami and Rabbi El'azar say that words sandwiched between two instances of the name of God are great. Rav Acha Karchina'a challenges this, based …
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Why does Ramban claim that Rambam does not prohibit the pilegesh for a commoner?
The Ramban, in his letter, directs us to his commentary on Sefer Hammitsvot (footnoted in the edition of this letter in Kitvey Haramban to root 5). However, in his commentary there, he argues against …
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Is it permitted to think about God / Hashem in the bathroom?
Chochmat Shelomo to Orach Chayyim 85:2 (text, pdf) concludes that you can think about God in the bathroom.
אפילו להרהר בד"ת וכו'. נ"ב נסתפקתי אם מותר להרהר בו ית' או לא. ולכאורה יש ללמוד ק"ו דאסור …
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Bird droppings invalidating location for prayer?
The prohibition to pray near feces is only for feces that either smells bad, even if it doesn't come from a species whose poop normally smells bad; or if it comes from a species whose poop normally sm …
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Upper limits of "kovea itim"
It is known from the gemara (Shabbos 31a and cited in maamar Toras HaBayis ch. 1, among other places) that when a person dies, he is asked if he had set times for learning. I know that these times can …
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