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Is sky-diving forbidden because of the risk to one's life?
This question is related to and emerged from a comment by the OP on whether plastic surgery was allowed. I think the question of which parameters allow us to engage in action/dangerous sports has ...
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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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Are you allowed to play basketball on Shabbos? Can a boy under 13?
R Yehoshua Neuwirth in Shmirat Shabbat KeHilchata (vol. 1, p. 189 in the 2002 edition) allows basketball if
played on a hard surface such as asphalt or concrete (but not on earth or grass)
in an area ...
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Is it permitted to play softball on Tisha b'Av?
The Three Weeks by Rabbi Cohen pg 145-146
"One should try not to divert one's mind from mourning on Tishah B'Av. Therefore it is proper to refrain from all pleasurable activities, such as taking a ...
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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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Is sparring in boxing kosher?
In a somewhat related question (Is sky-diving forbidden because of the risk to one's life?), I showed that normal risky activities (as defined by whether other members of society accept them as ...
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Is it Asur to watch violent sports?
From a responsum of R. Yitzchok Abadi (Ohr Yitzchok vol. 1 YD §26) it would seem to be prohibited on the basis of an opinion in the Talmud with regards to images forbidden to gaze upon (Meg. 28a). ...
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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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Exercise before Shacharis
I found
1 Torah Musings says
Minor activities are not considered to be work, nor a fulfillment of
one’s own desires, and they are therefore permissible before prayer.
For example, a person ...
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Using a sled on Shabbos
According to Rabbi Elchanan Lewis on yeshiva.co there is no problem in sledding on shabbos as long as there's an eruv.
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Is it permitted to play softball on Tisha b'Av?
From what Rabbi Jaeger and Rabbi Barclay write in their sefer "Guidelines: over 400 commonly asked questions about the Three Weeks," it appears that there is an outright prohibition on playing ...
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Going to a stadium, to watch a game, during Sefirah
In a Shi'ur I attended many years ago, Rav Binyamin Tabory of Yeshivat Har Etzion once expressed his opinion that the custom is to refrain from activities that are public experiences that enhance joy. ...
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Is Exercise on Shabbos Allowed?
R Yehoshua Neuwirth in Shemirath Shabbath Kehilchata (vol. 1, p. 158) is strict
One should not, as a rule, perform physical exercises on Shabbat or
Yom Tov, whether with or without the use of an ...
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Ball Playing on Shabbbos
The Midrash (Eichah Rabbah 2:4) says that this is why Tur Shimon was destroyed:
טור שמעון הוה מפיק תלת מאה גרבין ולמה חרב אי תימא מן הזנות והלא לא היתה אלא ריבה אחת והוציאוה משם אמר רב הונא משום ...
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Is paintballing alowed
I recently asked Rav Hershel Schachter this question. The Rosh Yeshiva responded to me with a long detailed discussion on this topic. In conclusion he held that it prohibited under the issur of ...
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Fitness Tracker On Shabbat
I've asked R. Ari Hart (Hebrew Institude of Riverdale) for guidance in this matter, so I will share here what he told me in the hopes it helps you answer your question.
Devices like these measure the ...
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Exercise-friendly head covering
http://www.5tjt.com/the-ultimate-sports-yarmulke/ I don't think this actually exists because they didn't get funding for it. But you can crib the idea and use a sweatband to trap the kippah in place, ...
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How angel's strength is determined?
There is a passage in Berachot 4b which might be taken as a comparison of the strength of different angels, which would apparently presume that different angels have different levels of strengths.
R. ...
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Exercise-friendly head covering
Kippa Klipz stick onto the underside of your yarmulke, and you just clip them onto your hair. Unlike regular clips, these work with much less hair to clip onto, solely because of the angle. Just be ...
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Is Exercise on Shabbos Allowed?
It seems there is a lack of clarity on the clear aproach to this question.
Let's begin with the Mishna.
Shabbat 22:6, סכין וממשמשין בבני מעים אבל לא מתעלמין, you can administer oils to the body and ...
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Tzitzis while exercising?
R. Yitzchak Abadi addresses this in Ohr Yitzchak 1:8
איני יודע מקום הספק בזה דממה נפשך אם חם או שזה מפריע לו באמת באיזה אופן שהוא או שהוא מתעמל ומפריע לו או שמפריע לו למלאכתו באיזה אופן וכיוצא בזה ...
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