Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Clothing and Appearance

Cross Dressing

Shaving

Is My Electric Shaver Kosher? (short version)

Electric Shavers – Which Ones are Kosher?

Tzeniut

Tzniut, Halakha, and the Male Gaze

Tzniut, Halakha and the Male Gaze: Lecture and Sources

Public Displays of Affection

Tzniut: Whose Obligation?

Disabilities

All Disabilities Posts

Tefilah and Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

Marriage for People with Down Syndrome

Halakhic Status of a Deaf Person Who Cannot Speak Intelligibly: Part 2 – Poskim

Halakhic Status of a Deaf Person who Cannot Speak: Part 1 – Gemara and Rishonim

Can a Person Who Is Blind Receive an Aliyah?: A Teshuva of Maseit Binyamin

Family

Birth Control

Fertility

Kibbud Av Ve'eim

Honoring an Abusive Parent?

Saying Kaddish for a non-Jewish Parent

Marriage and Family

Starting Seder Earlier

Does a Chuppah Needs Poles?

Being Mesadeir Kiddushin for Saturday Night Wedding for a Non-Shomeir Shabbat Couple

Megillah Reading between Shekiah and Tzeit HaKokhavim

Sefirat Ha’Omer: Whose Minhag Counts?

Accepting the Mitzvot as a Convert: Does it Matter What You’re Really Thinking?

Abortion in Halakha: A Study Guide

Should a Father Personally Circumcise His Son? – The Mitzvot of Bris and Milah

May a Husband Give His Wife Supportive Touch During Childbirth? – Part 2

May a Husband Give His Wife Supportive Touch During Childbirth? – Part 1

Marriage for People with Down Syndrome

May a Woman Recite Birkat Eirusin?

Proposed Solutions to the Agunah Crisis

Ani LiDodi, VDodi Li: Towards a More Balanced Wedding Ceremony

Levels of Obligation in Shemirat Negiah

Taking Valium to Tolerate Sex

Condoms in Halakha

Separating on Marriage Night (Dam Betulim)

Female Masturbation During Sheva Neki’im

Is the Ketuvah d’Oraitta or d’Rabanan?

Two Stages of Marriage

Kiddushin as a Speech Act

Kiddushin: Acquisition or Partnership?

Birkhat Eirusin: Birkhat Ha’Mitzvah or Birkhat Ha’Shevach?

Symmetry in Marital Sex

Two Approaches to Marital Sex

Niddah

Split California King Adjustable Beds with Separate Bedding During Niddah

Does a Dammed River Have the Status of a Mikveh?

Bedikah For a Women With a Longer Than Average Period

Traveling to the Mikveh by Car on Yom Tov

Supportive Touch During Niddah in Case of Psychological Distress

Hefseik Taharah Before HaNeitz HaChamah

Number of Bedikot during Sheva Nekiyim

Abortion in Halakha: A Study Guide

May a Husband Give His Wife Supportive Touch During Childbirth? – Part 2

May a Husband Give His Wife Supportive Touch During Childbirth? – Part 1

Public Displays of Affection

Mikveh During Aveilut

Harchakot During Aveilut

Levels of Obligation in Shemirat Negiah

Separating on Marriage Night (Dam Betulim)

Female Masturbation During Sheva Neki’im

Two Approaches to Marital Sex

Sex

Does Zoom Solve Yichud Problems?

Abortion in Halakha: A Study Guide

Yichud in a Shul

Public Displays of Affection

Harchakot During Aveilut

Levels of Obligation in Shemirat Negiah

Taking Valium to Tolerate Sex

Lesbian Sex in Halakha

Condoms in Halakha

Separating on Marriage Night (Dam Betulim)

Female Masturbation During Sheva Neki’im

Symmetry in Marital Sex

Two Approaches to Marital Sex

Interpersonal Ethics

All Interpersonal Ethics Posts

Employer’s Delayed Payment of Bitcoin to Employee

Lo Techaneim and Supporting Non-Jews in Need

Regifting Gifts

Lying to Children about Tooth Fairy

Kashrut

All Kashrut Posts

Sous Vide – Tevilat Keilim and Warming Food on Shabbat

Gifted a Blender Used with Non-kosher Protein Powders

Tevilat Keilim for a Mug with a Rubber Stopper

Refusing Delivery to Allow Delivery Driver to Keep Non-Kosher Wine

Accidentally Cooked Possible Dairy in a Meat Air Fryer

Status of Keilim Used With Tablet-K Cheese

A Sandwich Maker of Unknown Kashrut Status That Has Not Been Used in Over a Year

Washing Pareve and Dairy Keilim Together in a Dishwasher

Kashering a Griddle for Pesach

Defining Kitniyot

Peanut Oil On Pesach

Eating Egg Matzah On Erev Pesach

Eino Ben Yomo Kitniyot Keilim On Pesach

The Status of Utensils Never User With Chameitz That Are Stored in Proximity to Chameitz

Washing Kitniyot Vessels in Kosher for Passover Sink

When Bacon Falls on the Food: Bitul of Dry Food

Meat and Milk Mix-Ups

Kashering Kitchen Counters

Kashering a Ceramic Titanium Pot

Staying in a Hotel Next to a Hospital

Use of Wine-grown Yeast in Green Coffee Bean Fermentation

Non-Hekhshered Butter

Kashering a Frying Pan

Bishul Akum with a Boarder

Tansfer of Smell in Basar BeChalav

Fish Sauce in Meat Dish

Meat Deep Fryer for Pareve to Be Eaten With Dairy

Using a Pre-Seasoned Pizza Steel

Kashering Painted Glass

Kashrut Status of Sinks

Permissibility of Pizza Oven Grill Combo

May My Toddler Drink Milk When She is Eating Meat or Is Treif Food Bad For Your Soul?

Buying Non-Kosher Food

Snow for Tvillat Keilim

Mesechet Menachot: The Taxonomy of the Gemara’s Grains

Hilkhot Kashrut: Even Separated Meat and Milk Can be Treif

Hilkhot Kashrut: Taste Transfer and Pickling

Exploring the Prohibition of Meat and Milk Part 2

Exploring The Prohibition of Milk and Meat Part 1

Hilkhot Kashrut: How Does Taste Transfer?

Why Can My Pot Be Treif?

Is a Bad Tasting Food Mixture Treif?

Hilkhot Kashrut: Forbidden Today, Permitted Tomorrow

Bugs in the Broccoli: The Concept of Biryah

When Bacon Falls on the Food: How Treif is Taste?

When Bacon Falls on the Food: Bitul of Dry Food

Land of Israel / State of Israel

Agricultural Mitzvot

Orlah and Kilayim outside of Israel

Lifecycles

Aveilut

Aveil Serving as Shaliach Tzibur

May an Aveil Purchase a New Car? Can someone do so during the 3 weeks?

Ending Shivah on Shabbat Before Shacharit

Mourner’s Kaddish with a Minyan Created by Zoom

Mourner’s Kaddish Connecting to a Minyan over Zoom

Aninut and Aveilut for Delayed Funeral

Biodegradable Burial Pods and Composting a Corpse

Honoring an Abusive Parent?

Saying Kaddish for a non-Jewish Parent

Mikveh During Aveilut

Harchakot During Aveilut

Birth

Pidyon HaBen over Zoom

Planning for Going into Labor on Shabbat

Milah

Day of Brit When Father’s and Doctor’s Time Conflict

Using a Mohel Who is Not Shomer Shabbat

Are There Limitations on an Uncircumsised Levi?

Can a Geir Perform Hatafat Dam Berit On Himself?

Should a Father Personally Circumcise His Son? – The Mitzvot of Bris and Milah

May a Woman Be a Mohelet?

Bar/Bat Mitzvah

Does Someone Who Becomes Bar Mitzvah During Sefirat HaOmer Count With a Berakhah?

Conjugating Chazak Chazak veNitchazeik in the Feminine

Death and Dying

When Does Aveilut Begin When the Body is Sent to Israel?

Performing Taharah on a Transgender Meit

Aninut and Aveilut for Delayed Funeral

Conducting Medical Tests on a Corpse After It Has Expired

Yerushah and Halakhic Wills

Aveil Joining Zoom Birthday Party

Kiddushin and Ketubah

Birkat Eirusin When the Bride or Groom Cannot Drink Wine

A Non-Literal Translation on the Ketubah

Does a Chuppah Needs Poles?

Ketubah in Hebrew

Ketubah for Wedding in Rural Area

Ketubah with Signatures in the Middle of a Line

When does a Kallah Say Harei Ani Mekabelet?

Ketubah for Financially Independent Woman

Weddings with No Minyan

Hefseik in Sheva Berakhot

Sheva Berakhot Over Zoom

Marriage for People with Down Syndrome

May a Woman Recite Birkat Eirusin?

Is the Ketuvah d’Oraitta or d’Rabanan?

Kiddushin as a Speech Act

Kiddushin: Acquisition or Partnership?

Moadim

Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur

A Woman Holding the Sefer Torah During Kol Nidrei

Splitting into Two Minyanim for Chazarat HaShatz

Use of Asthma Inhaler on Yom Kippur

Kol Nidrei on Zoom

May a Woman Lead Selichot?

Sukkot

Eating in the Sukkah on Simchat Torah

Hilkhot Lulav on Yom Tov Rishon vs. Yom Tov Sheini

Supporting Sekhakh with Plastic

Hiking During Sukkot

Preparing for Second Night Yom Tov Kiddush on the First Day

Hoshanot Without a Bimah

Limited Access to a Sukkah During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Saying Kiddush Outside of a Sukkah

Sukkahs in the Wind

May One Take Down a Sukkah on Chol HaMoed in Anticipation of Hurricane Joaquin?

Yom Tov

Showering on Yom Tov

Employing a Jewish Babysitter on Yom Tov Who Lives Outside of Walking Distance

Traveling to the Mikveh by Car on Yom Tov

Preparing for Yom Tov Sheini on Yom Tov Rishon

Backyard Campfire on Yom Tov

Rolling Sefer Torah on Shabbat in Preparation for Yom Tov

Preparing for Second Night Yom Tov Kiddush on the First Day

Simchat Torah Hakafot Before Tzeit HaKokhavim

Chol Hamoed

Getting a Haircut on Chol HaMoed

Simchat Torah

Outside Hakafot on Simchat Torah

Eating in the Sukkah on Simchat Torah

Birkat Kohanim During the Pandemic

Simchat Torah Hakafot Before Tzeit HaKokhavim

Chanukah

Public Hanukkah Candle-lightings

Warming Oneself with Chanukah Candles

Lighting Chanukah Candles in Public Without a Shul

Assisting Non-Jew in Performing a Mitzvah

Pirsumei Nisah over Zoom

Less Fire, More Light – Lighting Hanukkah Candles Without Burning Your House Down

There’s No Going Home Again? – Where Do Travelers, Guests, and College Students Light Hanukkah Candles?

Purim

Berakhot for Latecomers to Megillah

Repeating Berakhot for Megillah if Interrupted for a Medical Call

Megillah Reading between Shekiah and Tzeit HaKokhavim

Afternoon Purim Seudah Going into Shabbat Dinner

Zoom Crashing in Middle of Megillah

Men and Women Counting for Minyan for HaRav et Riveinu

Megillah Over Zoom

Rolling Out a Megillah for Reading and Preparing on Shabbat for Megillah Reading

Collective Mishloach Manot

Listening to a Recording of Keriat Megillah

Keriat Megillah Without Trope

Keriat Megillah With Multiple Klafim

Dividing Up Megillat Esther When Reading by Zoom

Pesach

Eating on Ta’anit Bechorot After a Women’s Siyum Masechet

Starting Seder Earlier

Halakhic Status of Bread Made With Both Wheat and Almond Flour

Ordering Chameitz During Chol HaMoed Pesach

Getting a Haircut on Chol HaMoed

Kashering a Griddle for Pesach

Use of Hamster Food on Pesach

Defining Kitniyot

Peanut Oil On Pesach

Eating Egg Matzah On Erev Pesach

Preparing for Yom Tov Sheini on Yom Tov Rishon

Eino Ben Yomo Kitniyot Keilim On Pesach

The Status of Utensils Never User With Chameitz That Are Stored in Proximity to Chameitz

Ashkenazi Roommate of a Sephardi Using Kitniyot Pots

Washing Kitniyot Vessels in Kosher for Passover Sink

Chametz She’Avar Alav HaPesach

Being In A House With Hametz

Sefirah

Does Someone Who Becomes Bar Mitzvah During Sefirat HaOmer Count With a Berakhah?

Shome’a Ke’oneh for Sefirat HaOmer

Sefirat Ha’Omer: Whose Minhag Counts?

Shavuot

Starting Shavuot Early – Day 1 and Day 2

Accepting the Mitzvot as a Convert: Does it Matter What You’re Really Thinking?

Science and Medical Ethics

All Science and Medical Ethics Posts

Conducting Medical Tests on a Corpse After It Has Expired

Abortion in Halakha: A Study Guide

May Kohanim Become Doctors – Part 2

May a Kohen Become a Doctor?

Mesechet Menachot: The Taxonomy of the Gemara’s Grains

Rabbeinu Tam’s Two Sunsets: When is it Nighttime?

Brain Death and Organ Donation

Sefer Torah, Tefillin, Mezuzah

Mezuzah

Mezuzah on Permanently Closed Door

Staying in a Hotel Next to a Hospital

Mezuzah on a Garage Door

Mezuzah for Bedrooms off Hall

Time to Check the Mezuzot?

Magical Mezuzahs? Not so Much

Sefer Torah

Where Can an Aron Kodesh Be Put?

Cloth Covering on the Shulchan During Keriat HaTorah

Rolling Sefer Torah on Shabbat in Preparation for Yom Tov

Unrolling the Entire Sefer Torah on Simchat Torah

A Woman Holding the Sefer Torah During Kol Nidrei

Tefillin

Laying Tefillin for Chinukh

Magical Mezuzahs? Not so Much

Shabbat

Amirah LeGoy

Non-Jew Warming Fully Cooked, Dry food in an Oven on Shabbat For Kiddush

Taking an Ill Baby to the Doctor on Shabbat

Traveling to the Mikveh by Car on Yom Tov

Being Mesadeir Kiddushin for Saturday Night Wedding for a Non-Shomeir Shabbat Couple

Asking a Non-Jew to Turn Off a Propane Tank on Shabbat

Choleh

COVID Vaccine for a Child on Shabbat

Ordering Fresh Food On Shabbat for Someone with an Eating Disorder

Taking an Ill Baby to the Doctor on Shabbat

Receiving COVID-19 Vaccine on Shabbat

COVID Vaccine on Shabbat

Speaking Machine on Shabbat for Person Who Lost Ability to Speak

Checking Email on Shabbat to Receive COVID-19 Vaccine

Planning for Going into Labor on Shabbat

Asking a Non-Jew to Turn Off a Propane Tank on Shabbat

Use of Hand Warmers on Shabbat

Taking Your Temperature on Shabbat

Kiddush, Seudah, and Havdalah

Non-Jew Warming Fully Cooked, Dry food in an Oven on Shabbat For Kiddush

Starting Seder Earlier

Havdalah on Tisha b’Av By Someone Not Fasting

Kiddush Without Mezonot

Havdalah for Kids Before Tzeit

Afternoon Purim Seudah Going into Shabbat Dinner

Lost Sense of Smell and Borei Minei Besamim

Volume Needed for Shabbat Morning Kiddush

Someone on the Atkin’s Diet and the Requirement of Mezonot at Kiddush

Preparing for Second Night Yom Tov Kiddush on the First Day

Saying Kiddush Outside of a Sukkah

Prohibitions

Non-Jew Warming Fully Cooked, Dry food in an Oven on Shabbat For Kiddush

Putting Uncooked Food in a Crockpot Before Shabbat That Will Turn On Via a Timer on Shabbat

Sunscreen on Shabbat and Yom Tov

Taking an Ill Baby to the Doctor on Shabbat

Using Whitening Toothpaste on Shabbat

Receiving COVID-19 Vaccine on Shabbat

Being Mesadeir Kiddushin for Saturday Night Wedding for a Non-Shomeir Shabbat Couple

COVID Vaccine on Shabbat

Rolling Out a Megillah for Reading and Preparing on Shabbat for Megillah Reading

Sledding on Shabbat

Checking Email on Shabbat to Receive COVID-19 Vaccine

Wrapping Food in Foil and Putting on a Blech on Shababt

Wearing a Seiko Spring Drive Watch on Shabbat

Does a Water Urn Require Tevilah? May It Be Used on Shabbat?

Tree House on Shabbat

Using a Grinder Pump for a Toilet on Shabbat

Planning for Going into Labor on Shabbat

Preparing Coleslaw on Friday Night for Shabbat Lunch

Making Sushi on Shabbat

Is a Ladle Keli Sheni or Keli Rishon

Use of Hand Warmers on Shabbat

Walking a Dog on Shabbat

Putting Sticky Notes in a Book on Shabbat

Rolling Sefer Torah on Shabbat in Preparation for Yom Tov

Setting Up a Hammock on Shabbat

Snow on Shabbat

U’vda D’chol on Shabbat

Technology

Sous Vide – Tevilat Keilim and Warming Food on Shabbat

COVID Vaccine on Shabbat

Speaking Machine on Shabbat for Person Who Lost Ability to Speak

Wearing a Seiko Spring Drive Watch on Shabbat

Does a Water Urn Require Tevilah? May It Be Used on Shabbat?

Using a Grinder Pump for a Toilet on Shabbat

Asking a Non-Jew to Turn Off a Propane Tank on Shabbat

Divine Sparks: Shabbat, Electricity

Shulchan Arukh

Choshen Mishpat

Employer’s Delayed Payment of Bitcoin to Employee

Can a Lender Charge the Borrower for the Opportunity Costs of a Loan?

Is a Kohen Married to a Divorcee Able to Be a Witness?

Traveling to the Mikveh by Car on Yom Tov

The Requirement to Construct a Parapet

Reporting Jewish Businesses for Not Following COVID Protocols

Yerushah and Halakhic Wills

Regifting Gifts

Lying to Children about Tooth Fairy

Indoor Minyans if Prohibited by the State

Even HaEzer

Birkat Eirusin When the Bride or Groom Cannot Drink Wine

A Non-Literal Translation on the Ketubah

Does a Chuppah Needs Poles?

Ketubah in Hebrew

Does Zoom Solve Yichud Problems?

Ketubah for Wedding in Rural Area

Ketubah with Signatures in the Middle of a Line

When does a Kallah Say Harei Ani Mekabelet?

Ketubah for Financially Independent Woman

Ketubah for Groom Named Tzvi

Weddings with No Minyan

Hefseik in Sheva Berakhot

Sheva Berakhot Over Zoom

Taking Valium to Tolerate Sex

Lesbian Sex in Halakha

Orach Chayim

Sous Vide – Tevilat Keilim and Warming Food on Shabbat

Non-Jew Warming Fully Cooked, Dry food in an Oven on Shabbat For Kiddush

Eating on Ta’anit Bechorot After a Women’s Siyum Masechet

Public Hanukkah Candle-lightings

Tenth Man for Minyan Outside

Starting Seder Earlier

Sephardic Haftarah in Ashkenazic Context

May a Son Sit on the Women’s Side of the Mechitzah With His Mother Who Has Dementia?

Havdalah on Tisha b’Av By Someone Not Fasting

Washing off Makeup on Tisha b’Av

Kiddush Without Mezonot

Saying The Bedtime Shema If Going to Sleep in The Morning

Birkat Eirusin When the Bride or Groom Cannot Drink Wine

May an Aveil Purchase a New Car? Can someone do so during the 3 weeks?

Mechitzah on the Bimah

COVID Vaccine for a Child on Shabbat

Is There a Time Limit to Say Birkat HaGomeil?

Putting Uncooked Food in a Crockpot Before Shabbat That Will Turn On Via a Timer on Shabbat

Showering on Yom Tov

Sunscreen on Shabbat and Yom Tov

Continuing to Listen to a Shiur While Entering the Bathroom

Ordering Fresh Food On Shabbat for Someone with an Eating Disorder

Tefilah and Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

Mourner’s Kaddish with a Minyan Created by Zoom

Taking an Ill Baby to the Doctor on Shabbat

Does Someone Who Becomes Bar Mitzvah During Sefirat HaOmer Count With a Berakhah?

Permissibility of Praying Barefoot

Halakhic Status of Bread Made With Both Wheat and Almond Flour

Using Whitening Toothpaste on Shabbat

Receiving COVID-19 Vaccine on Shabbat

Ordering Chameitz During Chol HaMoed Pesach

Saying HaGomel When Receiving the COVID-19 Vaccine

Shome’a Ke’oneh for Sefirat HaOmer

Getting a Haircut on Chol HaMoed

Employing a Jewish Babysitter on Yom Tov Who Lives Outside of Walking Distance

Kashering a Griddle for Pesach

Use of Hamster Food on Pesach

Defining Kitniyot

Peanut Oil On Pesach

Eating Egg Matzah On Erev Pesach

Preparing for Yom Tov Sheini on Yom Tov Rishon

Eino Ben Yomo Kitniyot Keilim On Pesach

The Status of Utensils Never User With Chameitz That Are Stored in Proximity to Chameitz

Ashkenazi Roommate of a Sephardi Using Kitniyot Pots

Being Mesadeir Kiddushin for Saturday Night Wedding for a Non-Shomeir Shabbat Couple

Havdalah for Kids Before Tzeit

Berakhot for Latecomers to Megillah

Mourner’s Kaddish Connecting to a Minyan over Zoom

Repeating Berakhot for Megillah if Interrupted for a Medical Call

Washing Kitniyot Vessels in Kosher for Passover Sink

COVID Vaccine on Shabbat

Megillah Reading between Shekiah and Tzeit HaKokhavim

HaTov VeHaMeitiv on Wine for Poreis Mapah Seudah

Afternoon Purim Seudah Going into Shabbat Dinner

Zoom Crashing in Middle of Megillah

Men and Women Counting for Minyan for HaRav et Riveinu

Speaking Machine on Shabbat for Person Who Lost Ability to Speak

Megillah Over Zoom

Rolling Out a Megillah for Reading and Preparing on Shabbat for Megillah Reading

Lost Sense of Smell and Borei Minei Besamim

Collective Mishloach Manot

Sledding on Shabbat

May a Son Say HaTov VeHaMeitiv When His Father Receives the COVID-19 Vaccine

Listening to a Recording of Keriat Megillah

Checking Email on Shabbat to Receive COVID-19 Vaccine

Keriat Megillah Without Trope

Wrapping Food in Foil and Putting on a Blech on Shababt

Keriat Megillah With Multiple Klafim

Kashering a Ceramic Titanium Pot

Wearing a Seiko Spring Drive Watch on Shabbat

Kiddush Levanah 15 Minutes After Sunset

Does a Water Urn Require Tevilah? May It Be Used on Shabbat?

Tree House on Shabbat

Reciting a Berakhah on Hearing Good News

Calling Up a Kohen Married to a Divorcee to the Torah

Dividing Up Megillat Esther When Reading by Zoom

HaGomeil or She’Asah Li Neis for Potential Accident Avoided

Using a Grinder Pump for a Toilet on Shabbat

Projecting Vowels on Torah Scroll for Weekday Reading

Warming Oneself with Chanukah Candles

Lighting Chanukah Candles in Public Without a Shul

Pirsumei Nisah over Zoom

Laying Tefillin for Chinukh

Planning for Going into Labor on Shabbat

Chametz She’Avar Alav HaPesach

Preparing Coleslaw on Friday Night for Shabbat Lunch

Berakhah on Steamed Bread

Making Sushi on Shabbat

Asking a Non-Jew to Turn Off a Propane Tank on Shabbat

Is a Ladle Keli Sheni or Keli Rishon

Receiving an Aliyah From Your Seat

Use of Hand Warmers on Shabbat

Volume Needed for Shabbat Morning Kiddush

Walking a Dog on Shabbat

Conjugating Chazak Chazak veNitchazeik in the Feminine

The Exact Calculation of “East”

Saying Kiddush Levanah Before Tzeit HaKokhavim

Putting Sticky Notes in a Book on Shabbat

Backyard Campfire on Yom Tov

Cloth Covering on the Shulchan During Keriat HaTorah

Someone on the Atkin’s Diet and the Requirement of Mezonot at Kiddush

Rolling Sefer Torah on Shabbat in Preparation for Yom Tov

Outside Hakafot on Simchat Torah

Unrolling the Entire Sefer Torah on Simchat Torah

Eating in the Sukkah on Simchat Torah

Hilkhot Lulav on Yom Tov Rishon vs. Yom Tov Sheini

Birkat Kohanim During the Pandemic

Setting Up a Hammock on Shabbat

Supporting Sekhakh with Plastic

Hiking During Sukkot

Aliyot While Social Distancing

Preparing for Second Night Yom Tov Kiddush on the First Day

Taking Your Temperature on Shabbat

Hoshanot Without a Bimah

Simchat Torah Hakafot Before Tzeit HaKokhavim

Limited Access to a Sukkah During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Saying Kiddush Outside of a Sukkah

A Woman Holding the Sefer Torah During Kol Nidrei

Splitting into Two Minyanim for Chazarat HaShatz

Use of Asthma Inhaler on Yom Kippur

Kol Nidrei on Zoom

Women Leading Selichot: A Response to Rabbi Ysoscher Katz

Yoreh De’ah

Sous Vide – Tevilat Keilim and Warming Food on Shabbat

Gifted a Blender Used with Non-kosher Protein Powders

Tevilat Keilim for a Mug with a Rubber Stopper

Refusing Delivery to Allow Delivery Driver to Keep Non-Kosher Wine

Split California King Adjustable Beds with Separate Bedding During Niddah

Using Antique Serving Dish with Image of Hindu Deity

Mezuzah on Permanently Closed Door

Aveil Serving as Shaliach Tzibur

Accidentally Cooked Possible Dairy in a Meat Air Fryer

May an Aveil Purchase a New Car? Can someone do so during the 3 weeks?

Do Reused Glass Bottles Require Tevilah?

Status of Keilim Used With Tablet-K Cheese

Does a Dammed River Have the Status of a Mikveh?

Ending Shivah on Shabbat Before Shacharit

Day of Brit When Father’s and Doctor’s Time Conflict

Bedikah For a Women With a Longer Than Average Period

Using a Mohel Who is Not Shomer Shabbat

A Sandwich Maker of Unknown Kashrut Status That Has Not Been Used in Over a Year

Are There Limitations on an Uncircumsised Levi?

Halakhic Status of Bread Made With Both Wheat and Almond Flour

A Playing Field Above a Former Jewish Cemetery

When Does Aveilut Begin When the Body is Sent to Israel?

Washing Pareve and Dairy Keilim Together in a Dishwasher

Performing Taharah on a Transgender Meit

Kashering a Griddle for Pesach

Traveling to the Mikveh by Car on Yom Tov

Can a Geir Perform Hatafat Dam Berit On Himself?

Eino Ben Yomo Kitniyot Keilim On Pesach

The Status of Utensils Never User With Chameitz That Are Stored in Proximity to Chameitz

Orlah and Kilayim outside of Israel

Siyum over Zoom

When to Give Ma’aser Kesafim

Aninut and Aveilut for Delayed Funeral

Conducting Medical Tests on a Corpse After It Has Expired

Kashering Kitchen Counters

Biodegradable Burial Pods and Composting a Corpse

Lo Techaneim and Supporting Non-Jews in Need

Kashering a Ceramic Titanium Pot

Staying in a Hotel Next to a Hospital

Supportive Touch During Niddah in Case of Psychological Distress

Use of Wine-grown Yeast in Green Coffee Bean Fermentation

Non-Hekhshered Butter

Hefseik Taharah Before HaNeitz HaChamah

Mezuzah on a Garage Door

Does a Water Urn Require Tevilah? May It Be Used on Shabbat?

Kashering a Frying Pan

Number of Bedikot during Sheva Nekiyim

Assisting in Solstice Ritual

Bishul Akum with a Boarder

Tansfer of Smell in Basar BeChalav

Assisting Non-Jew in Performing a Mitzvah

Fish Sauce in Meat Dish

Meat Deep Fryer for Pareve to Be Eaten With Dairy

Aveil Joining Zoom Birthday Party

Mezuzah for Bedrooms off Hall

Pidyon HaBen over Zoom

Quilt Embroidered With Sheim HaShem

Nusach of Berakhot for Mitzvot that One Performs for Others

Buddha Statues for Art

Using a Pre-Seasoned Pizza Steel

Selling Keilim to a Non-Jew When a Mikveh is Available

Kashering Painted Glass

Kashrut Status of Sinks

Handling Sheimot That are Soaking Wet

Permissibility of Pizza Oven Grill Combo

Trying on a Suit That Has yet to be Checked for Sha’atneiz

Using Text of the Chumash for Blackout Poetry

Is My Electric Shaver Kosher? (short version)

Honoring an Abusive Parent?

Saying Kaddish for a non-Jewish Parent

May a Woman Be a Mohelet?

For Real This Time, What’s the Story With Christmas Gifts?

Levels of Obligation in Shemirat Negiah

Separating on Marriage Night (Dam Betulim)

Female Masturbation During Sheva Neki’im

Status

Geirut and Geirim

Receiving COVID-19 Vaccine on Shabbat

Can a Geir Perform Hatafat Dam Berit On Himself?

Accepting the Mitzvot as a Convert: Does it Matter What You’re Really Thinking?

Women

Men and Women Counting for Minyan for HaRav et Riveinu

A Woman Holding the Sefer Torah During Kol Nidrei

May a Woman Be a Mohelet?

May a Woman Recite Birkat Eirusin?

Women Leading Selichot: A Response to Rabbi Ysoscher Katz

Tzniut, Halakha, and the Male Gaze

Tzniut, Halakha and the Male Gaze: Lecture and Sources

May a Woman Lead Selichot?

Ani LiDodi, VDodi Li: Towards a More Balanced Wedding Ceremony

Tzniut: Whose Obligation?

Women in the Synagogue – the Mechitza and the Ezrat Nashim

Non-Jews and Other Religions

Refusing Delivery to Allow Delivery Driver to Keep Non-Kosher Wine

Using Antique Serving Dish with Image of Hindu Deity

Lo Techaneim and Supporting Non-Jews in Need

Use of Wine-grown Yeast in Green Coffee Bean Fermentation

Assisting in Solstice Ritual

Bishul Akum with a Boarder

Assisting Non-Jew in Performing a Mitzvah

Lying to Children about Tooth Fairy

Buddha Statues for Art

Abortion in Halakha: A Study Guide

Saying Kaddish for a non-Jewish Parent

Praying with a Cross in the Room

For Real This Time, What’s the Story With Christmas Gifts?

The Holiday Season – What’s A Frum Jew to Do?

So, What’s the Story With… Christianity?

Is Christianity Avoda Zara to Christians?

Tefillah

Berakhot

Public Hanukkah Candle-lightings

Saying The Bedtime Shema If Going to Sleep in The Morning

Birkat Eirusin When the Bride or Groom Cannot Drink Wine

May an Aveil Purchase a New Car? Can someone do so during the 3 weeks?

Is There a Time Limit to Say Birkat HaGomeil?

Tefilah and Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

Does Someone Who Becomes Bar Mitzvah During Sefirat HaOmer Count With a Berakhah?

Halakhic Status of Bread Made With Both Wheat and Almond Flour

Saying HaGomel When Receiving the COVID-19 Vaccine

Berakhot for Latecomers to Megillah

Repeating Berakhot for Megillah if Interrupted for a Medical Call

HaTov VeHaMeitiv on Wine for Poreis Mapah Seudah

Afternoon Purim Seudah Going into Shabbat Dinner

Men and Women Counting for Minyan for HaRav et Riveinu

Lost Sense of Smell and Borei Minei Besamim

May a Son Say HaTov VeHaMeitiv When His Father Receives the COVID-19 Vaccine

Kiddush Levanah 15 Minutes After Sunset

Reciting a Berakhah on Hearing Good News

HaGomeil or She’Asah Li Neis for Potential Accident Avoided

Lighting Chanukah Candles in Public Without a Shul

Laying Tefillin for Chinukh

Weddings with No Minyan

Hefseik in Sheva Berakhot

Nusach of Berakhot for Mitzvot that One Performs for Others

Sheva Berakhot Over Zoom

Solar Eclipse: To Bless or Not to Bless

Tzniut: Whose Obligation?

Keriat HaTorah

Where Can an Aron Kodesh Be Put?

Sephardic Haftarah in Ashkenazic Context

Calling Up a Kohen Married to a Divorcee to the Torah

Projecting Vowels on Torah Scroll for Weekday Reading

Receiving an Aliyah From Your Seat

Conjugating Chazak Chazak veNitchazeik in the Feminine

Cloth Covering on the Shulchan During Keriat HaTorah

Rolling Sefer Torah on Shabbat in Preparation for Yom Tov

Unrolling the Entire Sefer Torah on Simchat Torah

Aliyot While Social Distancing

Kaddish

Mourner’s Kaddish with a Minyan Created by Zoom

Mourner’s Kaddish Connecting to a Minyan over Zoom

Saying Kaddish for a non-Jewish Parent

Minyan

Tenth Man for Minyan Outside

Where Can an Aron Kodesh Be Put?

Shacharit, Mincha, and Ma'ariv

Indoor Minyans if Prohibited by the State

Shema and Shemoneh Esrei

Saying The Bedtime Shema If Going to Sleep in The Morning

Tefilah and Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

Permissibility of Praying Barefoot

Birkat Kohanim During the Pandemic

Splitting into Two Minyanim for Chazarat HaShatz

Tallit and Tefillin

Tzedakah and Social Justice

All Tzedakah and Social Justice Posts

When to Give Ma’aser Kesafim

Where Does Ma’aser Kesafim Come From, and What Can it Be Used For?

Donating to Shul Building Funds with Ma’aser Kesafim Money

Friends, Romans, Countrymen: Lend Me Your Money

Mitzvah of Lending Money

Using Ma’aser Money for Other Mitzvah Obligations