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can you eat breakfast before davening? the actual source and what if food helps you concentrate
People say you cannot eat anything before davening shacharis. What is the actual source, and how far does it go? The Gemara (Berachos 10b) learns it from the pasuk "you shall not eat with the blood"...
do you have to wait after dairy before meat? hard cheese, parmesan, and the actual source
Do you have to wait after eating dairy before eating meat? And what changes with hard cheese like parmesan? The Shulchan Aruch (Yoreh Deah 89:2) says after cheese a person can eat meat right away,...
Birkat Levana with Clouds
Hello Rabbi, I have a couple of questions about Birkat Levana: If one clearly sees the new moon and 10 seconds later it becomes obscured by clouds, may they still proceed with the berakha? In...
is a hechsher a business or a halacha, and what did people do before
rabbi, a hechsher question. every package today has a symbol, OU, OK, star k, a whole industry. but where does that come from halachically? 1. business or halacha. is kosher certification a halachic...
why is chicken meat for basar bchalav
rabbi, a chicken and milk question. the torah says "do not cook a kid in its mother's milk," and the shulchan aruch (yoreh deah 87) says chicken with milk is only derabanan and fish is not forbidden...
shabbos candles and two havdalah questions
rabbi, three quick shabbos and havdalah questions. 1. shabbos candles: is the mitzva only for women? if a man lives alone, is he obligated to light, and does he make the bracha? and if a man lights,...
riding in a car on shabbos as a passenger, when the car is going because of me
rabbi, i read the teshuva about trains and buses, where the route runs anyway and i am just one of many passengers, so there is no lifnei iver and no problem. my question is the case where the whole...
is an electric car halachically different from a gasoline car on shabbos?
rabbi, a follow up on the electricity sugya. on the electricity thread the Rabbi wrote that Rav Yitzchak Abadi zt"l did not see using electricity itself as one of the 39 melachos, and did not find a...
thinking Torah in the bathroom or bathhouse, what exactly is the issur
Hi Rabbi, Everyone knows you don't speak in a bathroom or bathhouse, and the Shulchan Aruch (Orach Chaim 84 and 85) says you also can't think words of Torah there, and the Rambam brings it in...
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