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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 forbiden to drive a car?
You are probably thinking of this question and answer. No one actually came up with a Rabbi there.
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How exactly can a get be forced
Here is a treatment of the subject. Basically it comes down to three views:
1) If the Torah requires the get, his real desire is to give it, and the coercing removes the Yetzer Hara's objection, whic …
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Holiness status of Yod-Yod
Just recently (22 Cheshvan, 5774) a letter from the Lubavitcher Rebbe discussing the Yud-Yud spelling was published in a leaflet - page 22. In that letter he mentions the opinion of Rabbi Yaakov Meir …
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Issues with opening a tea bag on Shabbos
I was in a Beis Medrash recently and they had a note that said that despite any heter to make tea, there is no practical way to open a tea bag on Shabbos, and thus tea essence should be used even acco …
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Issues with opening a tea bag on Shabbos
I asked the proprietor of the Beis Medresh in question, and he said the main issue is קריע - tearing.
It is a discussion in Achronim (see here) exactly what the nature of tearing is that is forbidden …
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Intended giving of Tzedaka when the cause disappears [duplicate]
Related to this question, what if after deciding to donate Tzedaka to a cause, but before actually getting to do it, the cause goes away. E.g. the poor person dies, the organization closes down, etc.
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A rebellious spouse in Beis Din today
The Rambam describes how to handle a case where a couple is divorcing and one spouse claims the other is rebellious (refusing marital relations) and the other is insisting that this is not the case (f …
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Volunteering for certain harm
During the Fukushima nuclear disaster elderly people volunteered to work in high radiation environments to fix the problem, because they felt less concerned about dying. Either they were more comforta …
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Is masturbation prohibited for those that aren't married?
Given how off this Teshuva is I'm not spending the time to verify that this claim is correct (this is a known opinion that is usually attributed to the Drisha and not regarded as the Halacha - you can …
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Statement about Cholov Yisroel following general expectations
In this article in Kosher Today speaking about the potential for the FDA to allow non-Kosher milk to be labeled as plain milk quotes an unnamed Kashrus Organization official as saying that milk as of …
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Do the stringencies for someone who is cremated apply if they didn’t specify/want to be crem...
It says in the Gesher HaChaim that is the source of the Halachapedia article that this applies when the cremation was על פי צואת המת בחייו - at the behest of the deceased while he was alive.
So no, i …
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Al Tarbeh Sicha Im Haisha- including Text Messaging?
Avos DeRabbi Nasan (7:3) defines the problem as bringing home gossip to your wife, how you were treated negatively, how you treated others in response, etc.
According to that, the medium of communica …
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If you don't give up your life, are you liable?
The Rambam writes (Yisodeh Hatorah 5:4):
וכל מי שנאמר בו יהרג ואל יעבור ועבר ולא נהרג הרי זה מחלל את השם. ואם היה בעשרה מישראל הרי זה חילל את השם ברבים ובטל מצות עשה שהיא קידוש השם ועבר על מצות לא תע …
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Two days, one day, and zero days of Purim?
The Mishna Brurah (688:12) says:
בן עיר שהלך לכרך אם היה דעתו בעת נסיעתו לחזור למקומו בזמן קריאה ר"ל בזמן קריתה של ט"ו דהיינו משהאיר היום לא יהיה שם כי יחזור משם קודם אור היום אף שלבסוף רואה שהוא …
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Selling chametz, and rotze b'kiyumo
The second question is discussed in a Teshuva here by Rabbi Yoel Brach. The question under discussion is a business that buys a bunch of Chametz inventory right before Pesach and then does the traditi …
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