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Can a single-parent father be exempt from time-bound mitzvot?
As someone in this category, I would like to remind everyone that this is what psak is for. One cannot be exempted from commandments, a competent rabbi familiar with a single-parent father's ...
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Would it be considered disrespectful to wear an Islamic styled cap as a Kippah?
The goal is to cover the head. While it might be considered improper to wear a baseball hat in synagogue (though I have seen it) the religious obligation to cover the head would be fulfilled. In terms ...
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Is there a prohibition against long hair for an Orthodox Jewish man?
This is an argument amongst the achronim.
See Yoreh Deah siman 178. The Shulchan Aruch writes not to grow one's hair like the non Jews do and not to shave the sides while leaving the hair on top.
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Do any Gedolim forbid attending a sporting event?
Rav Moshe Feinstein in his Igros Moshe Chelek 8:4 YD :11 writes that going to theaters and stadiums do not fall into the prohibition of bechukoseihem lo tolechu. However, he writes that one is ...
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Men's Earth vs. Women's Bone
The Midrash (Bereishis Rabbah 17:8) makes a similar point, but regarding being appeased, rather than when they’re still in conflict.
מִפְּנֵי מָה הָאִישׁ נוֹחַ לְהִתְפַּתּוֹת וְאֵין הָאִשָּׁה ...
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May a man become a gynecologist?
R Abraham Abraham (Nishmat Avraham, vol. 2, p. 134) writes that "Rav (Shlomo Zalman) Auerbach told me that a man may learn a medical or paramedical profession, since they involve pikuach nefesh". He ...
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Tribal affiliation through the father
In the Talmud-GemaraTractate Bava Bathra 109b
משפחת אב קרויה משפחה אמשפחת אם אינה קרויה משפחה דכתיב (במדבר א, ב) למשפחותם לבית אבותם
The Family of the Father are family the family of the mother ...
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Walking between women
First of all, it's not so obvious that this is prohibited in the first place. Pesachim 111a says that a person is not allowed to walk between two woman or have a woman walk between you (a man) and a ...
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Is there a prohibition against long hair for an Orthodox Jewish man?
R. Heshie Billet records the following story in Mentor of Generations: Reflections on Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik
At YU this Boston boy was one of the organizers of a big protest. Flyers went up all ...
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Sleeping with feet uncovered for unmarried men
While there is no requirement in halacha of sleeping with one's feet uncovered, nevertheless some men do so, with the belief that it can help prevent them from becoming aroused and having a nocturnal ...
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What was the size of the כָּתְנוֹת עוֹר?
The Bartenura on that verse says that the כָּתְנוֹת עוֹר covered their entire body - I guess like a long robe.
He explains that this is the reason the fig leaves needed to be replaced, because they ...
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Dyeing Hair for Men
The Nishmat Avraham treats the topic of a man's dyeing once's hair at length (vol. 2 pp. 94-97). To summarize his key points
the key issue is not whether one uses a dying product for men or women, ...
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How to tactfully circumvent opposite-gender handshake
Why hasn't anybody, here, consulted a non-Jewish friend - or a Jewish person with a different belief system, at least - about how he or she would like to have their handshake declined? I would prefer ...
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Is there a minhag or halacha that states that men and women should be buried in separate cemetery plot areas?
From Chabad.org
The basic grave formation in most cemeteries is arranged according to families. There has been a custom in later centuries, observed by many memorial societies, of burying men and ...
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Mixed Gender Gyms
If we are talking about somebody who suspects that he may fall to temptation and have inappropriate thoughts about the immodestly attired women there, it is forbidden. There are numerous issurim ...
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Seven Sons equals Gan Eden?
Rav Ahron Leib Shteiman in Sifsei Aiyel pg.63 was once asked this question and he laughed and said there is no such thing and there is no source. He added in a joking fashion "go ask the minister of ...
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Mixed Gender Gyms
TL;DR: best to CYLOR
In an answer titled "Men and Mixed Gyms," dinonline.org writes:
There are two issues with a man going to a mixed gym. The first one is the same a going to a mixed beach- he ...
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Why don't men go to the mikveh after relations/ejaculation?
The Responsa Tiferes Tzvi, Yoreh De'ah Vol. 2 #27 writes that according to the Rambam, Tosefos, and the Rosh, a man who has an emission (ba'al keri) does not become completely tahor through immersion ...
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Why don't men go to the mikveh after relations/ejaculation?
A man who had a seminal emission is called a baal keri. At the time of the Beth Hamikdash he had to immerse in a mikve and would become tahor again on the evening following his immersion. Today he ...
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Walking between women
Netay Gabriel hilchus yichud chaper 57 (footnotes there bring sources)
From Paragraph 1: he brings opinion that indoors no problem.
From Paragraph 3: if they (the woman) are all staying or walking in ...
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Would it be considered disrespectful to wear an Islamic styled cap as a Kippah?
I don't see anything wrong with it, us Bukharian Jews always wore Islamic "kippahs" to cover our head, and we still do to this day. Bukharian kippahs are actually not Jewish at all, they were used by ...
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Men need to get married before 24?
The Talmud Kiddushin (29b-30a) discusses when a person should get married:
ת"ר: ללמוד תורה ולישא אשה - ילמוד תורה ואח"כ ישא אשה, ואם א"א לו בלא אשה - ישא אשה ואח"כ ילמוד תורה. אמר רב יהודה אמר ...
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Dyeing Hair for Men
The Talmud in Nazir 58B and 59A treat the subject. Let's try to answer the question. There are 3 consequences to the Law "Lo Ylbash gever Simlath Isha" (For this moment I will avoid to ...
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How to tactfully circumvent opposite-gender handshake
How about "For reasons of modesty I don't shake hands with the opposite gender- it's lovely to make your acquaintance / see you." It's the truth and it's to the point.
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Can a single-parent father be exempt from time-bound mitzvot?
Rabbi Ben Zion Abba Shaul wrote that women and men taking care of children are exempt from tefillah due to being engaged with another mitzvah (עוסק במצוה פטור מן המצוה). As he writes in Or L'Zion 2:7:...
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Men: how do you control your reactions to women in immodest dress if you can't avoid them?
i will try and be as honest as possible, in hopes that something may prove to be helpful for you.
It's a good idea to spend some time thinking about why are you looking in the first place? For example,...
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Is it permissible for a man to be seen without a shirt?
As I wrote elsewhere, R. Moshe Feinstein writes in Igrot Moshe Y.D. 3:68:4 that the only formal prohibition regarding uncovered male bodies is if the genitalia are exposed. Everything else is ...
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Implications of gradual gender change at age 12
From your link: "But some male babies are missing the enzyme 5-α-reductase which triggers the hormone surge, so they appear to be born female with no testes and what appears to be a vagina. It is not ...
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Is there a prohibition against long hair for an Orthodox Jewish man?
As other people have mentioned in the comments:
Nazirites had to have long hair as part of their vow. It's hard to conceive that the Biblical Category of Nazirites, given directly from the Torah by ...
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