Question: May one read a secular book containing the word “G-d” (fully written out) in the bathroom? Is this book consider at all a dvar be’kedusha? Thank you very much… Read more »
Category: Prayer in an unclean place
Saying Asher Yatzar
Question: Is there a concept that one can only make the blessing of Asher Yatzar if the toilet is flushed afterwards. Or can one say it even if he did… Read more »
Intrusive Thoughts
Question: What should one do about intrusive thoughts and how bad are they considered to be in Halacha? For example, if one is in the shower, or otherwise in a… Read more »
Desecration of Kedusha
Question: If one is wearing tight pants, and one senses a small amount of a sense of pleasure because of this during davening, or while learning etc…may one continue to… Read more »
Aliya while needing to use the restroom
Question: If one is a Kohen or a Levi, and the only one in the shul avaliable to receive an Aliya, but needs to use the restroom but is excessively… Read more »
bathroom during learning
Question: Hi! I was in the middle of learning with my chavrusa and needed the bathroom badly (gedolim, not ketanim). The bathroom in that beis medresh is tiny and was… Read more »
Can I use my phone for studying Torah, davening if it is dirty?
Question: My phone may be quite dirty and I’ve touched it at various points with dirty hands, am I still permitted to use it for Torah study/davening? Must I wash… Read more »
Learning in the street when there are immodestly dressed women there
Question: Hi, I would like to know if it’s permitted to learn, talking or just thinking, in the streets. I live in area where the goyim are dressed inappropriately. Thanks… Read more »
Saying pasukim Hashem’s name in inappropriate places
Question: Hello Rav, I have a few questions please: 1. Is it permissible to sing or hum pasukim or zemirot with and/or without Hashem’s name while in the bathroom? 2…. Read more »
OPEN BATHROOM DOOR
Question: CAN A person keep a clean bathroom with a shower door open to cause a breeze to flow through the home ? No smell at all. In terms of… Read more »
Cleaning oneself after bathroom
Question: 1) When wiping oneself of feces after using the bathroom, to what extent must one wipe themselves to remove all traces of feces? Often times, one can keep finding… Read more »
Music in shower
Question: Is it mutar to listen to music in the shower. I have heard differing opinions on this. Thank you very much Answer: It is true there are different opinions… Read more »
Listen to music or shiur while in shower
Question: Is it permissible to listen to Jewish music or to a shiur while taking a shower? Answer: To make things clear, you are asking regarding listening to pesukim or… Read more »
Bracha while in view of ervah
Question: If one makes a bracha while one can see an exposed body part of a woman that is an ervah (e.g. thigh)… 1. Is the bracha valid bedieved? 2…. 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 »
Words of Torah while changing child’s diaper or in bath
Question: My toddler like to talk about Parsha and sing songs of Torah and pesukim. I assume that I cannot sings/talk to him about these things while changing his diaper… Read more »
Brochos for someone incontinent
Question: I know someone who has a medical shaila about a person who wears diaper r”l because they don’t have any feeling when they have to use the bathroom (gedolim)…. Read more »
Making a brocha when there is a door open to a bathroom
Question: If I am in a bedroom/living room or any room that has an adjacent bathroom and the door the the bathroom is ajar, do I need to close it… Read more »
Checking self after passing gas
Question: Once in a while, upon passing gas, I find that I have soiled myself very slightly. do I have to be choshed every time I pass gas that I… Read more »
Urine on undergarments
Question: Many times after one relieves themselves there will small drops that fall on their undergarments afterwards. Does one need to be mevatel that urine found on their clothing with… Read more »
Davening in a hotel room with a Jacuzzi
Question: Is one allowed to daven and learn in a hotel room that has a Jacuzzi in it? There is a separate room with a toilet and shower but the… Read more »
Guf naki
Question: Hi, How much does someone need to be particular about having a guf naki for shmone esrei? I make sure to have an empty bladder before starting to daven,… Read more »
Wetness on body during tefilla
Question: Does a person have to make sure when going to the bathroom before davening and in general that the מקום המילה is clean and what about shabbos? Is it… Read more »
Davening when soiled
Question: If someone davens and discovers that while he was davening his under garments had a small amount of fecal matter, does he need to daven over? Furthermore, if one… Read more »
הסתכלות
Question: עבודה זרה דף סה. אזל אשכחיה דיתיב כו׳ וקיימן זונות ערומות קמיה כו׳ לכאורה צריך לומר שרבא ובר שישך יצאו מן המרחץ כדי לדבר,(אולם לא משמע כן מלשון הגמרא)… Read more »
Horrible smelling liquid sprayed at hafganos
Question: At Israeli hafganos, sometimes the police use a horrible smelling liquid to disperse the crowd. It smells absolutely putrid! The smell remains in the area for a long time…. Read more »
Parameters of kol isha
Question: I have looked online for the parameters of the halacha of kol Isha, but unfortunately have only found reform authored articles, and the like. I am therefore writing to… Read more »
Men’s undergarments
Question: A friend told me that halacha prefers briefs over boxers for men. Something to do with the contact that boxers allow which briefs do not. Is there truth to… Read more »
davening rabbit tzoah
Question: this shabboss lunch i will be eating by somebody that has a rabbit cage right near the dining room table…the cage will have atleast some droppings in it…is there… Read more »
tumah
Question: i had brought down alot of clothes to be washed and some of them had dried zera on them atleast im assuming it was all dried then the person… Read more »
How much tzoah is problematic.
Question: How much tzoah is a problem for davening? Is there a minimum? For example if it were a trace that you can’t smell because it is such a small… Read more »
Jewish music in shower
Question: Would one be allowed to listen to hebrew music in a shower if theres a toilet nearby but the shower has a door or curtain(like most do). Would it… Read more »
Tumah at night
Question: I’m a bochur I live at home I had a large pile of clothes and blankets from anytime that I chas v’shalom had a mikrah balaila that I was… Read more »
Praying /learning in front of non soiled commode
Question: I take care of an elderly person. In front of me is a “commode” used for toileting if need be by the bedside. The “commode” is clean. There is… Read more »
davening with a clean body
Question: If one davened and subsequently discovered that for some reason, his body was not clean (he had apparently not cleaned himself properly after the bathroom # 2), is it… Read more »
Davening after swimming
Question: Gross but serious question…… I read that there has been found traces of fecal matter in swimming pools from people not cleaning properly after going to the bathroom, assuming… Read more »
Urination on Pants, Maaser and Taxes
Question: 1 is if somebody gets a little bit of urine on pants is it enough to just dry clean them in order to daven wearing them? 2 … Read more »
