Question: What does it mean when it says that certain words in the Torah come from foreign languages? For example, in Vaeschanan, Rashi on the word Totafos. Answer: The words… Read more »
Posts By: Rabbonim of the Beis Hora'a
What should be done with a kosher utensil that falls in a non-kosher sink?
Question: I hope all is well by you. Due to where I live, at times I have to wash kosher utensils of mine in a sink that is also used… Read more »
I warmed up macaroni and cheese in my fleishig microwave by mistake.
Question: The macaroni and cheese I made was pretty dry and was not liquidy. I heated it in a plastic reusable bowl. The microwave was not clean and had dried… Read more »
Locking a car door ? Yichud?
Question: Shalom HaRav If a couple are dating is it considered Yichud in the following scenarios 1) while driving on the road , locking the doors of the car for… Read more »
Kashering oven
Question: I have a gas oven that often gets switched between meat and milk. I was planning on making dairy food in the oven for shabbos. I came home tonight… Read more »
Releasing a son/daughter from Shiva and all other mourning dinim
Question: A parent has been ignored by his children without explanation for almost 10 years. The parent has a non-lethal thus far cancer, but nevertheless a very serious illness.No visiting,… Read more »
Removing garbage bag from garbage can on shabbos
Question: My understanding is that a garbage can is muktzah on shabbos, although the cover of the garbage can is not muktzah. If so, if it is necessary for someone… Read more »
Glass bottles like Snapple(Coke), They need Tevilah?
Question: BS”D Shalom dear Rabbi. Question: I recently saw that you have a machloket about the drinks, Snapple, if one should transfer the contents to another kli, and to do… Read more »
What is the halacha for a obese women to have a non jewish male personal trainor/physical trainor for weight loss in a gym?
Question: What is the halacha for a obese women to have a non Jewish male personal trainor/physical trainor for weight loss in a gym? Is that ok? Answer: It is… Read more »
May one use maaser money for animal rescue?
Question: If one knows that 100% of it will go to rescuing and care of the wildlife in the Australian bushfires? Millions of animals there, large and small, need rescuing… Read more »
Holding a child while davening
Question: If one is davening and needs to hold a child at the same time, what are the parts of davening in which this is permissible and what are the… Read more »
I found a new $5,000 gift card in the street of borough park, can I keep and use it?
Question: I found a new $5,000 gift card in the street of borough park, can I keep and use it? Answer: Thank you for your question. A gift card of… Read more »
Transferring Ta’am via a Container
Question: Scenario A: If someone cooked vegetable soup in a Parve pot and poured it, while hot, into a plastic ben-yomo meat container, and then poured that soup into a… Read more »
Chicken baked in dairy glassware
Question: If accidentally chicken was baked in a clean dairy glassware that had not been used for more than 24 hours. Do I have to throw out the chicken and… Read more »
What does mosif hevel mean?
Question: Regarding hatmana we know there are items that are mosif hevel. However it can’t be that these items actually give off heat, because simply placing them next to cold… Read more »
Kiddush donation for a yahrzeit
Question: The yahrzeit Of my mother a”h is Tévet 26th. What is the better minhag : to donate the breakfast at the synagogue on the yahrzeit day so brachot could… Read more »
Hypnotism
Question: Are we permitted to see hypnotists for fear of flying in planes? Answer: According to a number of poskim, if it is done for a specific need, and not… Read more »
How to kasher a new rice cooker given by a non-Jew
Question: I took the inner pot to the mikveh and immersed it. However, a friend told me that I could not use it because it was given to me by… Read more »
Cooking fleishig food on a stovetop with milchig residue
Question: Lets say one has wants to cook fleishig food in a fleishig pot on top of a gas stove top. The gas stove top was recently used to cook… Read more »
Written source for the wearing of Magen David nacklace ?
Question: Thank you for your question Answer: I am not aware of any source for wearing a Magen David necklace. People do it, most probably because it now became a… Read more »
Antipathy for Goyim
Question: Dear Rabbi, I was talking about the Australian wildfires with a guy from my Yeshivah and he asked me whether there were any yidden affected and he doesn’t care… Read more »
Standing on a table
Question: What is the halacha regarding dancing/standing on a table? I see there are communities that do it at weddings and Hasidic places Answer: It is commonly said that a… Read more »
follow up re money for pants
Question: Someone gave me money to purchase pants. After purchasing one pair of pants, may I keep the remainder of the money for myself? Answer: All of the money was… Read more »
Starting to give maaser
Question: A person who did not previously gave maaser kesafim and is starting now, should he go back and give maaser on his prior income (if he can somehow remember… Read more »
Melamdim on respective fast days?
Question: Are there leniency or even exemptions for melamdim (for example, people who teach Torah to young children) on respective fast days? If so, what are the parameters? Thank you… Read more »
Building mikvehs for men
Question: Dear Rabbi, Why does the jewish community have a selective yet natural health to welcome of course a mikveh but yet not often in smaller cities. I had read… Read more »
Overnight onions mixed with other food
Question: Hi, If an Israeli salad was made with onions and mixed and left overnight but no lemon or salt was added (only a tiny bit of oil was poured… Read more »
Credit Cards, Ribbis, and Parents
Question: My (non-observant) dad let me run a charge through my credit card to meet a spending bonus. We do this from time to time and he pays the bill… Read more »
leaving someone in yichud
Question: I work in an office where the boss is a frei man (a psychologist). There was a lady that came to see him. I don’t know if she is… Read more »
Gemara/ Daf Yomi for women?
Question: Is is permissible for a woman to learn Gemara? And more specifically subscribe to the 8-Minute Daf Yomi videos? Answer: Thank you for your question. It is nice… Read more »
Siyum
Question: 1.When finishing a mesechta is it okay to leave the siyum for another occasion like yutzeit, simcha? Or the siyum should be made right away? Does a seuda have… Read more »
Learning for Ba’alei Batim
Question: There is an interesting Q&A posted on din.org.il (link below) regarding Chacham Ovadia’s psak on how Ba’alei Batim should allot their free time for learning. It is entirely in… Read more »
Time of Kirat Shema
Question: Dear Rabbi. On shabbos morning if someone will miss the time of gra to say shema with brachos and is relying on the time of magan avraham, should one… Read more »
Bracha on tikun after davening
Question: Before davening Shacharis in shul, I made a shehakol on a cup of water. After Shacharis, they brought out tikkun (vodka) because it was the yartzeit of the rav’s… Read more »
Havdalha
Question: I have ocd and sometimes after going to the bathroom some urine drips down my leg, and sometimes it may just be ocd, I may have had urine on… Read more »
Extramarital relations
Question: If a Jewish woman, married to a Jewish man, has an affair with a gentle, is she permitted to her husband? Answer: Without knowing any specifics, on a theoretical… Read more »
KIDDUSH LAVANAH ON FRIDAY NIGHT
Question: Sometimes in the winter the last day of KIDDUSH LEVANNAH can come out on FRIDAY NIGHT. If Friday is the last day, can it be said or should it… Read more »
CARRYING SAFETY PINS
Question: If a person used a safety pin or a number of safety pins before Shabbos on a garment to attached 2 garments or to mend a garment for TEMPORARY… Read more »
Passing in front of someone who is davening
Question: Hi. I am learning Orach Chaim siman 102 which states that one must not pass in front of someone who is davening. I have an issue that often comes… Read more »
New Years international change how to be comprehended?
Question: The Jewish people are known to only celebrate the Jewish new year. In addition, we also have an international new year for all states – 2020. Regardless, if the… Read more »
Standing for parents
Question: My wife and I are baalei teshuva. Our parents are traditional. We have never observed the practice of standing up when our parents enter the room. Do we need… Read more »
Food cooked in meat pot on dairy tablecloth
Question: Lets say one is eating food cooked in a pot usually used for hot meat, but the pot happened to be clean of any meat when the food was… Read more »
A sofer’s obligation
Question: A sofer was hired to write a Torah. Due to health issues (various bad pains) he had to stop part way through. Another sofer was hired. The original sofer… Read more »
Hashem is Perfect and He created everything with perfection: Why couldn’t He create us without having to experience suffering?
Question: Hashkafah teaches us that Hashem created a system that involves us, His creations, working for our reward. The reason given is to combat Na’amna d’chsufah (sp?) lit., Bread of… Read more »
Telling people that you are ill?
Question: I want people to daven for me if I have a serious illness but I also know that some people feel that אין הברכה מצויה אלא בדבר הסמוי מן… Read more »
clean fleishig utensil used in hot milechig food
Question: We mistakenly used a clean fleishig utensil, that hasn’t been used in a while to serve hot cheesy food. What is the status of the utensil? and what is… Read more »
Talking while eating
Question: Is there a strict halacha that one may not talk while he is eating (specifically in the process of chewing)? This would seem to be difficult during meals with… Read more »
Learning while entering a shul or beis medrash for other purposes
Question: I know that there is a halacha that if one wants to enter a shul or beis medrash to pass through, or wants to enter not for the purposes… Read more »
Killing a Dangerous Animal
Question: BS”D Quesrion: I have a farm and in it I create oxen and chickens, but a wild animal is killing my oxen and cow, can I kill him? If… Read more »
SAFETY pins on SHABBOS
Question: Can someone use SAFETY pins on SHABBOS? To attach 2 garments, attaching pairs of socks together? Undue a safety pin that is holding socks together? FIX A garment that… Read more »