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what makes city streets a karmelit, and does a tzurat hapetach eruv always work
following up on the eruv answer, which explained that chazal created the karmelit restrictions so people would not get used to carrying and end up carrying in a real reshut harabim. if most modern...
why is olive oil kosher by default, and why do some rabbis say it needs to be cold pressed
why is olive oil kosher by default, and why do some rabbis say it needs to be cold pressed?
if a city had real walls and locked gates, would that fix a reshut harabim
a real reshut harabim d'oraisa, on the shitos that require 600000, seems impossible to enclose with an eruv. but chazal also talk about genuine enclosures, walls with gates that lock at night, like...
why is davening shacharis exactly at netz so valued, even alone without a minyan
why is davening shacharis exactly at netz so valued, even for someone davening alone without a minyan? if tefilla betzibbur is its own thing, what does netz add when there is no minyan anyway, and...
what is eruv tavshilin actually doing, and where does it come from
what is eruv tavshilin actually doing, and where does it come from? how does setting aside cooked food before yom tov make it mutar to cook on yom tov for shabbat, what is the logic behind it, and...
why do we still keep a second day of yom tov outside israel, and why is it one day in israel
why do we still keep a second day of yom tov outside israel as minhag avoseinu when the calendar has been fixed for ages? why is yom tov only one day inside israel? and why does an israeli who...
can you use an electric toaster on shabbat, or is toasting bread a real bishul
connected to the reheating question about the plata but a different case. you paskened that a fully cooked dry food can be reheated even past yad soledet bo, ein bishul achar bishul b'davar yavesh,...
what is muktzeh actually, where does it come from, and how do the categories work today
you explained on the site that the basic test is whether an item's main use is for something assur on shabbat, that anything with a real permitting opinion is not muktzeh, and that muktzeh can be...
asher yatzar after the bathroom, every single time or not
the bracha of asher yatzar, which ends rofeh chol basar umafli laasot. what are the actual rules of when it is said? 1. is it said after every single time using the bathroom, even several times in a...
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