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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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Holy Boycotts - Permitted, recommended, obligated or forbidden?
Strong Immoral Conduct
"It is forbidden to buy a stolen article from a thief. This is a severe sin, for it reinforces a transgressor and motivates him to steal in the future" (Rambam, Theft 5:1)
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Skipping Kabbalat Shabbat
Since Kabalat Shabbat is just a custom, this would depend on a bigger argument about stopping to do one's customs or a community/Shul stopping to do a custom.
Generally once cannot change his own cust …
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Shomer Negia in Case of Danger
"Do not be overly righteous" (Ecclesiastes 7:16). If there is a woman drowning in a river and you have the means to save her, do not say, "I will let her drown because how can I go and see her nakedn …
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Define pas for pas yisroel
The star k certifies Israeli cheerios as pas yisrael, seemingly someone there holds it should/must be.
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Is live video considered “witnessing” in Halacha
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Video surveillance is not a substitute for testimony by two kosher witnesses, so therefore even though there are video cameras under the chupah you still need two human witnesses! Never t …
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Said Nacheim on Tisha B'Av maariv or shachris
As the Rama states its only the custom, implying that one can do all 3 prayers according to halacha (as many s'fardim do), he also doesn't specify in the "sister bracha" Rachem in Birkat Hamazon to just …
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Why is the book of Job permitted to be studied on Tisha B'Av?
Rav Avidor Kohen Tzedek writes (somewhere in the first 2 chapters on Eichah, that's all I did yesterday) that the Jews didn't know why Hashem destroyed the Bet Hamikdash (see Bava Metzia 85b). Therefo …
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Do i have a responsibility to report users breaking the rules?
I have asked Rav Tzvi Berkowitz about using someone else's Costco card.
He said that it depends if the rules are attempted to be enforced or not. With costco where they check your card so you cannot u …
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Heter for "saying tehilim"
Tehillim should be said as a merit for whatever is being prayed for. The reason why it is picked over anything else is because reading it without understanding is considered beneficial (as opposed to …
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Different shitos in halachah
It would depend if you hold you are doing basic halacha or a stringency. If you hold it's completely assur to do something then you cannot tell another Jew to do it because it's lifnei iver. …
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