What requires going to sheimos /geniza. Can I just burry it in the yard?
Month: August 2022
K’zayit at Meal
My doctor has ordered me to keep my carbohydrate intake to a minimum. I know that there is a machloket if a k’zayit of bread at the beginning of a meal exempts all food from a brachah, or if one must continue eating bread throughout. What is the helachah? Can I measure out 6 grams […]
Saying Tehillim for the sick
Here is the source for saying Tehillim. I know it is difficult to accept, but it is unfortunately true. The Gemara and Shulchan Aruch say it is not allowed. Rabbi Abadi was very against it. You can study Tehillim. That is different, but saying it to help sick people is prohibited.It is based on Christian […]
Tisha Be’Av 2022
This year is a NIDCHEH, which means the fast day was postponed. The actual fast day would have been Shabbat, and we don’t fast on Shabbat, so it was postponed to Sunday. It has the same level of stringency as the other fast days, like Taanit Esther and Tzom Gedalia. You should not fast if […]
Nestlé Kit Kat Canada
Kosher? I heard somewhere that Kit Kat in Canada and the USA aren’t the same. Milk chocolate (sugar, milk ingredients, cocoa butter, cocoa mass, whey powder, lactose, soya lecithin, polyglycerol polyricinoleate, natural flavour), wheat flour, sugar, modified palm oil, cocoa, sodium bicarbonate, soya lecithin, yeast, natural flavour. Thanks!
eating dairy dark chocolate after meat
These chocolates have milk listed in the ingredients. Must one wait after eating meat to have them?
Trader Joes Cocoa Almond Spread
Trader Joes Cocoa Almond Spread Ingredients: Sugar, Vegetable Oil Blend (Canola Oil, Palm Oil, Sheanut Oil, Coconut Oil), Almonds, Cocoa processed with alkali, Nonfat milk powder, Whey powder (Milk), Soy flour, Soy lecithin, Hazelnuts