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It it permitted to ask a car sales man his price on a certain car, when your intention is to get someone else who you wanna give the business to lower their price. and only if they’re not willing to lower their price will you buy it from the first sales man? Answer: It is […]

Wife’s Property after Passing

My friends wife just recently passed away from a long illness. My friend and his wife owned a house together with both of their names on the title and the mortgage as is common place. There are 3 grown children who unfortunately are not on good terms with the father (my friend). The children mentioned […]

Fish for Seder Plate

Question: There is an opinion in Gemorah Pesachim 114b – Chezkiyah says for the Seder plate one could use fish. My wife is vegetarion and so we only have milchiks at home. Getting meat for the seder plate is always difficult as we do not have any meat keilim to prepare the meat. Also our […]

Igniting Stove on Yom Tov

There are some stoves that are ignited by pushing down a button to make a spark and turning another knob to put on the gas. Others work with a single knob that is turned and together makes the spark and puts on the gas. What is the din in regards to using this on yom […]

Joining for Zimmun after Planning to Leave

If someone goes to a simcha (wedding for example) with in mind not to join together and therefore will not by chiyuv in a zimmun what if the person ends up staying until the end and now he is needed in order to make the zimmun may he join together (even though his das to […]

Using Left-Behind Items

When we moved in to out new place, the people who lived here before had left behind a bunch of things. We contacted them and asked if they wanted them. They said yes and then never came for them. Just before sukkos we called again and he said if he has not used it in […]

Tropicana Fish Drink in Meat Meal

Tropicana makes an orange juice that has fish in it. Can one drink that at a fish meal? Thank You Answer: I understand the question refers to a meat meal. The Taz (Yoreh De’ah 95:3) explains that the prohibition of eating a mixture of meat and fish applies only to eating actual meat and fish […]

Zimun With Someone who Doesn’t Know How

May a zimun be made with 3 men when one of them is unable to respond properly to the zimmun (because he can’t read hebrew or doesn’t understand how to make it, etc.) Someone could theoretically help the person along however the shailo as it is with the person that can’t respond what would be […]

Timing for Beginning Prayer for Rain for Israelis/non-Israelis

In Eretz Yisrael we start saying V’Sain Tal U’Matar on Zion Cheshvan. If someone from Eretz Yisrael will be in America on Zion Cheshvan and will be flying back to Eretz Yisrael a few days after that what is the halacha in regards to when they should start saying V’Sain Tal U’Matar? So to in […]

Issues for Eating in non-Observant Home

I wanted to know what all the Halachik issues are regarding Kashrut when I get invited out to my non religious relatives for a meal but claim to keep a Kosher kitchen. Here is a list of things I can think of, please clarify if these are problems and perhaps suggest other issues I am […]

Lubricating Gel on Shabbos

Re mitzvas onah: Is it permitted to use lubricating gel or oil on Shabbos? Answer: Yes, this is fine. The use of gel does not involve any act of smoothing, or any other potential melachah, and it is therefore fine to do so. Best wishes.

Cup for Washing after Bathroom and Before Davening

when one leaves a bathroom and before davening, one needs to wash. i see many people using a cup, while in mishnah brurah it seemed that the times we need to use a cup are limited to other events. am i missing something? Answer: There is a difference between washing after the bathroom, and washing […]

Davening in Front of a Chair

In the mishnah brura there is a clear hakpodah not to have anything between a mispalel and the wall during shmoneh esray, unless its something thats kovuah. Why is it that many people davening shmoneh esray go out of their way to place a chair in front of them, in clear violation of above halachah? […]

Status of Others when Mevarech Interrupted Before Eating

If someone is being motzai someone else in Hamotzee at the shabbos table, and the mivorech talks before he eats challah, is the listener still yotzai as long as he himself doesnt talk or does he have to make a new bracha? Thanks Answer: Many poskim rule that even if the person reciting the blessing […]

Tehillim for the Sick

I am part of a group who have been reciting several perakim of Tehillim every day for the last few months for someone whose life was in danger but Baruch Hashem is no longer. She is still physically limited and needs treatment but she is no longer in hospital and her life is no longer […]

Yoledes Going Out After Birth

B’rishus Harav, can you explain the procedure regarding a yeledes after the birth, in regards to her going outside. I have various minhagim and am really unsure about them. Does the new mother have to go to d’var mitzvah, i.e. shul to hear kadish/borchu? Can she go to any other mitzvah? Must there be a […]

Kohanim Standing on Rugs

Why by some minyanim do the Kohanim stand on a carpet/rug by Bircas Kohanim? Answer: The reason for this is that in principle, the Kohanim should be raised on a platform (the duchan), from where they bless the people. Where there is no platform, the rug helps to raise them a little, which is better […]

Sukkah Knocked Over and Damaged

Someone built a sukkah on the street (in a way that it was muter for him to build it in that place.) Before Sukkos the Sukkah was knocked over by the wind and broke a car window. Is the person chiyuv to pay? Would it make a difference if the wind was a “ruach hamatzui” […]

Daf Hayomi – Berachot 64

Rabbi Shalom Rosner – berachot 64 View the Daf – ברכות דף סד

Daf Hayomi – Berachot 63

Rabbi Shalom Rosner – berachot 63 View the Daf – ברכות דף סג

Daf Hayomi – Berachot 62

Rabbi Shalom Rosner – berachot 62 View the Daf – ברכות דף סב

Daf Hayomi – Berachot 61

Rabbi Shalom Rosner – berachot 61 View the Daf – ברכות דף סא

Daf Hayomi – Berachot 60

Rabbi Shalom Rosner – berachot 60 View the Daf – ברכות דף ס

Showing Letter in Sefer Torah to non-Jewish Child

When there is a question in a Torah and we ask a child, can it be a girl? What about an Arab that knows alef bais but cannot yet read words? Answer: The question refers to doubts over the shape of a letter in the Sefer Torah, where Gemara (Menachos 29b) prescribes showing the letter […]

Same Oven for Dairy and Meaty

If one has only one oven, is it permissible to use that oven for merely warming food of either meat or dairy or parve and not have to kasher the oven if the oven is only used for warming (meaing a lower temperature) and not for actual cooking (which would necessitate a higher temperature)? Please […]

Maaser While Struggling with Income

If a Jew is struggling with basic necessities and also in debt and in the process of paying off the debts, and an extra sum of money comes in that will really help catch up but yet not pay of his total debts should the Jew give a maaser from that extra sum? Also if […]