Question: Can I listen to rap if it has Jewish words, but it’s based on a real goyish tune? Answer: You are asking an important question. Music has a profound… Read more »
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A Jewish quote
Question: Hello rabbi, where does this quote come from? Is it from the Passover Haggadah or Purim? “In each and every generation they rise up against us to destroy us…. Read more »
Holes in socks
Question: Someone told me to throw out any socks with holes in them. Is this a superstition or halacha? Answer: This is something that I have never heard of. Additionally,… Read more »
bread
Question: Is it acceptable to microwave bread? Answer: Yes there is no issue with microwaeing bread, it is not disrespectful to it. Best wishes
Length of a person’s life
Question: Can the Rav please clarify whether people have a set amount of years they are decreed to live, decreed when they are born, or does a persons amount of… Read more »
Follow up about Hashem emotionally supporting Dor HaMidbar
Question: Wow how beautiful!!! I didn’t know that about the Ananei HaKavod and it warms my heart to think of it as a constant ongoing hug from Hashem. And also,… Read more »
nazir medication
Question: grüezi, is it true that a nazir should take medication-pills only in life-threatening situations because they contain alcohol – how is it when he is from a physician’s mispoche?… Read more »
Gezeira
Question: I’ve heard that there is a gezeira not to spend the night in York. Is this true? What’s the reason? Answer: This is the accepted tradition and practice handed down for… Read more »
Signing a paper with rules that may not be completely kept
Question: What is the proper response when a school requires its students to sign a paper attesting to the student keeping to certain behaviors, when the student and the parent… Read more »
Yeharog V’al Ya’avor
Question: Dear Rabbi, I was learning pesachim 25a-25b in the סוגיא of מאי חזית and my ראש חבורה said that it’s משמע from רש״י that יהרג ואל יעבור doesn’t apply… Read more »
Using protektzia
Question: Is there anything wrong with using protektzia or connections to get something otherwise difficult or impossible to get? Would it make a difference if it would help you “cut… Read more »
Changing the name of someone who is ill
Question: In Shul the rabbi changed the name of someone who was ill to somehow avert an evil decree. This seems to be a Kabbalistic custom. On a simple level,… Read more »
Keeping records of births
Question: This is probably more of a Minhag question, than Halacha, Where / How have Yidden kept records of their children births dates. For instance for boys its crucial to… Read more »
Timeline (maybe ever as a poster)
Question: Dear rav, Do you have a way to locate a Jewish timeline, which might help me? Best regards, Answer: Thank you for your question. There are such cards available…. Read more »
Is it appropriate to spank a child for chutzpa or defiance?
Question: Is it appropriate to spank a child for chutzpa or defiance? Answer: Thank you for your question. In the topic of chinuch, the cardinal rule is as the posuk… Read more »
Can a gentile keep mitzvot
Question: If a gentile wishes to sincerely serve God can they keep mitzvot like wearing Tallit or taffilin Answer: A gentile may put on tefillin or tzitzit however he may… Read more »
Exemptions from Mitzvahs
Question: Hello, I was wondering if there are any examples of a case where one’s circumstances make it exceedingly difficult to perform a mitzvah and therefore the torah exempts them… Read more »
Where does the Gemara discuss the sin offering of Rosh Chodesh and the chagim?
Question: What was the purpose of the sin offering brought on Rosh Chodesh and the chagim and where in the Gemara is this issue addressed? Answer: This issue is discussed… Read more »
blessing for our new trucking company
Question: Who can I call to have blessings done over the phone for our new trucking business? Answer: If you would like I can give you a blessing over the internet…. Read more »
Photos of Rabbis at home
Question: Shalom, can a jew we have pictures on the wall of the home, on one Rabbi of the city he lives in, or of a gadol rabbi of our… Read more »
Sefer to look up vort for bar mitzva
Question: Shalom Harav I’m looking for some divrai torah for my son bar mitzvah that he can say it over on Shabbat & his bar mitzvah party would you know… Read more »
Intrusive Thoughts
Question: Hi Cvod Harav, I struggle a lot with intrusive thoughts, especially about regretting mitzvot. It makes me very worried I can lose them. What does the Rav suggest that… Read more »
Selling a property in Israel to a non-jew.
Question: Thank you for the informative article on this topic. I found that article because I am being faced with exactly this shailah. We live in a mostly secular /… Read more »
Lashes from besdin
Question: Where does bais din get the power to give lashes on dini derbanan from? Answer: Thank you for your question. During the time when Klal Yisroel was governed by… Read more »
Ultraorthodox view of law
Question: What is the difference between how orthodox jews and ultraotrthodox jews view the origin of halacha? Answer: Thank you for your question. Before answering your question it is important… Read more »
Times of Divine Judgement and Mercy
Question: I’m having some trouble comprehending the Kabbalistic concept of HaShem’s different attributes at different times of day. Supposedly HaShem’s Divine Mercy occurs after midnight (hence why there is the… Read more »
Hagra on sukkot
Question: shalom. On sukkot there’s maybe something with yahrzeit of elijahu ben salomo zalman. Apart from that, do you know – or can you redirect to – any source of… Read more »
Black Hebrew Israelites
Question: There have been many Black people believing they are the real Jews because there have been certain spiritual leaders claiming that Jews come from all kinds of people and… Read more »
Building a library with kadosh and not kadosh books
Question: BS”D Shalom, I would like to know if I can write a brachar or a phrase for wisdom in Hebrew on the wall of a library I am building,… Read more »
Igeret hagra
Question: Shalom Aleichem Rabbi, iggeret hagra is important for us Litvishe Mitnagdim. The original is – I suppose – in Yiddish. Can you find out if the Yiddish ~original text… Read more »
Soncino press
Question: Is it okay to use Soncino press? Are they considered heretics? Some of their books have Christian commentaries? Answer: I can not comment on all of the books as… Read more »
Brias Ha’olam Questions
Question: Hello, If plants were created on the third day but sea life only came about on day five, what day was sea algae created on? Algae is a shehakol…. Read more »
People in shul who refuse to wear a mask
Question: I daven in a certain shul in Yerushalayim and I have asked people to please put on a mask. There is a sign in the shul that the mask… Read more »
Wearing a mask
Question: Hi, Am I required to wear a mask? I am young and healthy. Additionally, I see many respected people (like rabbonim) not wearing a mask in shul. Answer: I… Read more »
Alcohol
Question: Dear Rabbi, Alcohol is not allowed to consume. not good for health, in Vedas, in the highest scriptures of Sanatana Dharma ( misnomer as Hinduism these days)? Is it… Read more »
Paying a Community Rabbi
Question: Is there a halakha that a rabbi must have a salary in a community? Answer: There is no halacha that the Rabbi must be paid. In certain ways it… Read more »
Source
Question: There is a Gemara somewhere that says there were 3 sages that went out to sea. Their boat broke apart.Thankfully there was an island nearby. They went to that… Read more »
לא תעמוד על דם רעך
Question: האם איכא איסורא דלא תעמוד על דם רעך למי שמגיע לכולל או ישיבה מבלי מסכה Answer: .לכאורה כן כיון שהוא מסכן את הציבור Sources:
Chabad, Rebbe, Moshiach
Question: Believing that Rebbe is Moshiach Are decompressing some halakha? Answer: This is a very controversial question, and it is not for discussion in this forum. However I can give… Read more »
Halacha of ancient enemy commerce
Question: Dear Rabbi, If Greece has been an ancient enemy of the holy land and has invaded too many times, why is the color of our modern Israeli flag blue… Read more »
sons and daughters
Question: B”H Shalom, a couple who have problems having children due to medical complications, this couple adopting a son and a daughter will be fulfilling the mitzvah of having 2… Read more »
Nazir nowadays
Question: Do the laws of nazir still exist today without the Beis Hamikdash? Answer: Technically they do, however one should not attempt to make himself a nazir nowadays because we… Read more »
Couple bnei noakh and divorce
Question: And If a woman and a goy man get married and then no longer live together, but do not want to give the divorce to each other, and are… Read more »
Moving oven
Question: Regarding what it says in the will of Rebbe Yehuda HaChassid that one is not to move an oven from its place, goyim were painting in my house and… Read more »
plague, wedding
Question: When there was a plague on the Jewish people is it true that a marriage was performed between orphans and the plague stopped,is this a minhag, halakha? Answer: It… Read more »
Refusing to Lein in a youth minyan
Question: Shalom HaRav I was until recently involved in a youth minyan in my area, I helped to organize the kiddush , I was chazzan many times , and I… Read more »
moser
Question: Is it lashon hara to discuss which souls are still open at this time and which people are going there? May one report them? Answer: Discussing shuls that are… Read more »
corona – saving someone who puts themselves in danger
Question: What is the halacha regarding someone whose life is at risk because they didn’t follow protocol to prevent infection form covid 19? Is there a halachic obligation to save… Read more »
Naming a baby without minyan
Question: Hi, If we can’t get a minyan for the foreseeable future, can the father name the baby on his own? And possibly make the kiddush later on? Thank you… Read more »
When does free will count by the torah?
Question: G-d gives each and every single person the ability to have free will. The choice to choose btw right to wrong. When is a person held accountable for their… Read more »
