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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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Is it permitted to eat dirt?
Based on the verse (Lev. 11:43), אל תשקצו את נפשותיכם - "do not make yourselves detestable," there is indeed a halachah that one may not eat things that are disgusting to the average person. Shulchan …
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Ma'aseh Rav-the Rabbi did such and such
One part of it, I think, is that the Rav himself has to make sure that his actions will not be misconstrued by observers. We thus find, for example, cases where our Sages acted according to the strict …
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Half hour @ the Chanuka candles
Kitzur Shulchan Aruch (139:10) gives the rule about half an hour without any further specification, and then further (in the same paragraph) states that the earliest one may light is at plag haminchah …
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Snow in Halacha
That you're not allowed to break it up on Shabbos in order to use the melted water (Shulchan Aruch, Orach Chaim 320:9).
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Chopsticks On Shabbos
Wouldn't it be a clearcut case of "makeh b'patish" (putting the final touch on an object to make it usable)? The chopsticks clearly aren't usable for their intended purpose while they're attached toge …
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Reading a newspaper on Shabbat
There may be the issue of shtarei hedyotos - that you're not supposed to read secular material on Shabbos (see Shulchan Aruch, Orach Chaim 307:12ff).
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What is an Eruv?
Another point is to note that an eruv only allows us to circumvent a rabbinical safeguard, not the original Torah law.
The Torah prohibits carrying in a reshus harabbim (public domain); there are var …
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What potential issues may arise with serving jury duty on Tisha b'Av?
We find that even washing, which is one the actual prohibitions of Tisha B'Av, is permitted in certain cases of necessity (Shulchan Aruch, Orach Chaim 554:12-14); sitting on a chair, which is only a c …
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At what point is a child considered living
For most halachic purposes, life begins at birth - to be exact, at the emergence of either most of the head for a normal birth, or most of the body if it's a breech birth (Niddah 28a). For that reason …
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Sukka in a covered balcony
I'll start with the usual caveat: CYLOR. The more so since someone local will be more familiar with your specific situation.
It's pretty basic to the definition of a sukkah that it be under the sky. …
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Is there a requirement to stay around after lighting Chanuka candles?
Nitei Gavriel on Chanukah (30:1) cites Shev Yaakov and other sources that one should indeed do so.
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Giving over 20% to Tzedakkah
R. Shneur Zalman of Liadi writes (in Iggeres Hateshuvah 3 and Iggeres Hakodesh 10) that the 20% limit applies only to a person who hasn't sinned, or who has done so but then fasted the prescribed numb …
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Ceremony to take a woman as a concubine (pilegesh)?
Rambam (Hil. Melachim 4:4) states that a pilegesh (which, in his view, is permissible only to a king) enters into this status "without kesubah and without kiddushin; with yichud alone he acquires her …
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An accidental killer who needs to leave the city of refuge
Rambam (Hil. Rotze'ach 7:8) states categorically that the accidental murderer may not leave the Ir Miklat even to rescue lives, or "even if all of the Jewish People need him, like [King David's genera …
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Am I allowed to count people?
In the Torah (Ex. 30:11), Hashem commands Moshe to count the Jewish People via half-shekel donations, "so that there not be a plague when they are counted." Later, too, we find David conducting a dire …
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