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Putting parents with mental issues in nursing homes
Ask your LOR if this is relevant but the Shulchan Aruch Yore Deah 240:10 says that if one can not deal with their elderly parents due to serious mental health defects he should have others do so:
מי ...
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Pidyon Peter chamor on c section born donkeys
While we have משניות that teach us that a יוצא דפן is excluded from בכור בהמה טהורה (see בכורות ב:ט) and בכור אדם (see בכורות ח:ב), this halacha is not mentioned explicitly when the mishna deals with ...
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Nazir benefiting from grapes/wine
A Nazir is allowed to benefit from wine, as the gemara (pesachim 21b-23a) says:
ופליגי דרבי אבהו דאמר רבי אבהו כל מקום שנאמר לא יאכל לא תאכל לא תאכלו אחד איסור אכילה ואחד איסור הנאה עד שיפרט לך הכתוב ...
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Running CCTV system with monitor over Shabbos
The Star-K have got a pretty definitive rundown here with sources.
It discusses whether or not pictures captured on a monitor come under the banner of the melocho of Kesiva - writing, and provides 5 ...
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Using a nail file on Shabbat
Refer to Rabbi Dovid Ribiat's The 39 Melochos, Vol. III p.680
Cutting or removing fingernails or toenails with an instrument (even a knife) is Gozez M'deoraisa. Similarly, filing one's nails is also ...
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Halachic aspects of relocating an established minyan
I like how you wrote up the question. It became quite relevant post-COVID when people had to decide whether to disband home/street minyanim and come back to synagogues.
A person in this situation ...
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Sources for Halachic opinions influenced by kabbalah
Olamot.net has a halachic write-up of the cross-section of Kabbalah and Halachah, discussing the various opinions on how to rule in case of conflict between Gemara and Kabballistic sources, on various ...
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Work and Talmud Torah
This question would be more of a question on rabbis than those who are learn in kollel. Those who are learning in kollel and are being supported are closer to making a Yissocher-Zevulan deal (an ...
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If Rome release the vessels from the Beit Hamikdash to Israel, what is the procedure?
Regarding the lose of holiness, see below:
According to the Shita Mekubetzes (Bava Metzia 24b), if the vessels were taken by force, they would lose their status of kedusha (holiness). If an army took ...
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Work and Talmud Torah
The Ramba"m, based on this mishna (Avos 4:5), paskened that learning without working, and relying on tzedaka is not allowed (Hilchos Talmud Torah 3:10):
כל המשים על ליבו שיעסוק בתורה ולא יעשה ...
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Sources for Halachic opinions influenced by kabbalah
Rav Asher Weiss has a long discussion about when to Pasken Halacha according to Kabbala here, which includes many examples from the Shulchan Aruch and elsewhere, especially from section 5 (בענייני ...
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Is betting on board games/chess gambling
It is very likely forbidden, even more so for Sedaradim but even according to many Ashkenazi decisors.
For background (adapted from R Moishe Dovid Lebovits here)
The Mishnah in Maseches Sanhedrin 24b ...
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Reusing cotton wool wicks during Hanukkah
You can learn from Shabbat candles where you singe the wicks to make them easier to light, they are pre-charred therefore better (in משנה ברורה תרעג:לא it indicates even if they are pre-used). Unless ...
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Cleaning clothes before Passover?
According to Shulchan Aruch Harav, you should check your pockets, especially if you sometimes put chametz in them:
Every person should be careful to check and shake out his gloves and
clothes-pockets,...
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Caution against a person belittling himself
The מהרש"א כתובות ח ע"ב in the חידושי אגדות (I can't find a link to it neither in Hebrew Books nor in Sefaria) writes:
לעולם אל יפתח אדם פיו כו' הוא מבואר שהדבור גם בדרך הדמיון מעורר את מדת ...
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Halachic aspects of relocating an established minyan
In my other answer, I addressed the specific issue of an individual praying in a home minyan rather than in a synagogue. You asked in comments to clarify the halacha for an entire community that would ...
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