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Travel Sukkas
Here is a perfect example of the disconnect between Halachah and what communal and corporate Judaism has become. Halachah says that when you are traveling, you are exempt from eating in a Sukkah. So...
chazara on shabbos, taking the pot off to serve and putting it back, what are the conditions
the family is at the shabbos meal, and the pot of stew or meat is sitting on the hot plate or covered stove. it gets lifted off to serve a portion, and the rest needs to go back on the heat because...
cooking on yom tov, the existing flame rule and electric appliances
the gas stovetop answer on the site paskened that lighting a gas stove on yom tov is fine, a candle or pilot light is best but the regular igniter also works. following up on what is still not...
tzitzit, is a person actually obligated or is it optional
the mitzva of tzitzis is written in bamidbar 15:38 to 39, make fringes on the corners of your garments, look at them and remember the mitzvos. but the way it is written, the obligation only turns on...
tefillin taken off and put back on, is the bracha said again
if someone takes off their tefillin for some reason, like to shower or for a break in the middle of the day, and puts them back on later, do they say the bracha again? and does it matter how long...
when yom tov falls on shabbos, how does cooking work and what takes precedence
yom tov has a melacha allowance that shabbos does not: "no work at all shall be done on them, only what every person is to eat, that alone may be prepared for you" (shmos 12:16). cooking for the...
what are the main mitzvos of rosh hashana, and what should a person focus on when davening is so long
rosh hashana is called "yom teruah" (bamidbar 29:1), a day of sounding the shofar, and the davening is the longest of the year. between shofar, musaf with malchiyos zichronos and shofaros, and hours...
what bracha do you say on rice, mezonos or something else
rice looks like a grain, grows like a grain, and fills the plate like bread, but it is not one of the five grains. so what bracha does it get? 1. plain cooked rice: mezonos, ha'adama, or she'hakol?...
with a plate of many kinds of food, which one gets the bracha first
a plate lands with ten things on it: bread, meat, rice, salad, fruit, a dessert. several different brachos are represented. which food gets the bracha first, and does the order even matter? 1. is...
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