Question: Is one required to have separate toothbrushes for milk and meat? For example, if someone brushes their teeth after eating pizza can they use the same brush after eating a pastrami sandwich? Thank you very much. Answer: The Torah prohibition of cooking a mixture of milky and meaty foodstuffs is interpreted by our […]
Author Archives: Rav Y Wiener
blood after hefsek
Question: My wife did a hefsek Friday afternoon. That night during the meal she felt a discharge and checked and saw clear liquid with three drops of blood. What is the proper thing to do? Answer: According to Torah law a woman is not considered a Niddah unless she experienced a sensation (הרגשה). There are […]
Lo Tachmod – Taking over someone elses old furniture.
Question: So I live with some other guys in an apartment. I have a friend (who was in college this year) who lives in another apartment. This friend is moving out of town, so I asked him if he is getting rid of his furniture, so we could use. I think I told him at […]
mechilah
Question: i was in shul this past shabbos and the rov mentioned that the zohar says that during the week of hod in sefira,”taarin psichin.” i am going through a difficult period in my life and was feeling depressed,and a few minutes later i thought about what the rov said and made a derogatory comment […]
ASAP shabbos halacha
Question: what do you do if you are driving in a rural area and you know that you will only arrive after shabbos begins? Answer: If the problem is that stopping in a desolate area is dangerous, because of פיקוח נפש one can continue, Sources: O”C – 248:4
Blood during seven clean day
Question: My wife did a hefsek Friday afternoon. That night during the meal she felt a discharge and checked and saw clear liquid with three drops of blood. What is the proper thing to do? Answer: According to Torah law a woman is not considered a Niddah unless she experienced a sensation (הרגשה). There are […]
Injected Medications and Shabbos
Question: I administer an injected medication to my five-year-old child every other day. The medication’s purpose is to stimulate my child’s immune system, preventing serious opportunistic bacterial infections. The medication is supposed to be injected at the same time, or about the same time, each scheduled day. Currently, I administer the injection around 8:30-9:00 AM. […]
Permission required to take video?
Question: Does one require another person’s permission to get that person on video and show that video to a third person, with the caveat that there is no malicious or bad intentions or ramifications in doing so? Answer: There is a dispute amongst contemporary poskim if a person has the right to object to a picture taken […]
Seperate toothbrushes for milk/meat
Question: Is one required to have separate toothbrushes for milk and meat? For example, if someone brushes their teeth after eating pizza can they use the same brush after eating a pastrami sandwich? Thank you very much. Answer: The Torah prohibition of cooking a mixture of milky and meaty foodstuffs is interpreted by our sages […]
האשה בטל התאי עקרי של נשיון על כן הבעל תבע מיקח טעות.
Question: בס”ד, למען שמו שאלה לכבוד הרב, זוג הנמצא בהליכים בבית דין והאשה על דעת עצמה פנתה לבית משפט (ערכאות). הבעל טען שכל הקשר המשפחתי שהזוג יצרו ביניהם היה “על דעת בדת משה וישראל” על כן כל הדין חייב ליאות בבית דין. הבית משפט נתנו להאשה 10 יום ליוגב. אם האשה לא רצה לחזר לבית […]
Why did not God provent his believer from being raped?
Question: I read a story about a woman named Kayla Mueller, who was an American humanitarian aid worker, captured by ISIS and forced to be a sex slave to the ISIS leader for about one and a half year. She was dead in a bomb explosion finally. She believed in God very faithfully. I don’t […]