Total questions:  234

If the Smichas that the early Achronim received when the Rabbonim of Eretz Yisroel got together would still be around, would they be able ...

• hashkafah

Yehuda HaMaccabi 441

Asked 14 years ago
Active: 14 years ago

Which chapters of Shema do we have to say to be Yoitze our Chiyuv. Rashi in the beginning of Brachos says just the first paragraph is required ...

• shema
• halacha

gadol hador 351

Asked 14 years ago
Active: 13 years ago

How much does a Kesubah cost nowadays to pay, I have heard around 10,000 dollars. Is that right?

• marriage
• kesubah

Shmuel Yaacovson 118

Asked 13 years ago
Active: 13 years ago

I seem to remember reading somewhere that Dovid Hamelech and Esau were intrinsically very similar. Esau could have been David had he wanted. ...

• tanach
• esau
• david-hamelech

shteeblehopper 220

Asked 13 years ago
Active: 13 years ago

Hi My car is presently by my mechanic and I want to know if I can ask him to take care of it's registration He would have time to do this ...

• chol
• hamoed

Emyy 8

Asked 13 years ago
Active: 12 years ago

Can anyone suggest me a good social worker, that can talk to a 20 yr old girl & explain her situations in a torah point of view?

• hashkafah
• torah
• help
• guidance

shaindy 8

Asked 13 years ago
Active: 12 years ago

The Rosh in Parshas Vayeshev asks a serious question. How could it be that a Tzaddik like Yehuda had relations with a random woman, for ...

• parshah

Yehuda HaMaccabi 441

Asked 13 years ago
Active: 12 years ago

Is it Muttar to plant a seed from an already existing Klayim/Hybrid fruit (Ie grapefruit seed) or is this Assur as well? Please provide ...

• halacha

SJR 896

Asked 13 years ago
Active: 12 years ago

I am seeking to dig deeper into the language Yiddish. What are common phrases said in Yiddish? I am not seeking translations of text. I ...

• jewish-language
• yiddish

deepThinker 118

Asked 13 years ago
Active: 12 years ago

Someone pointed out to me this morning that during Selichot we say a very interesting thing. We say May the one who answered Yitzchok ...

• source
• selichot

Danny 396

Asked 14 years ago
Active: 14 years ago

We arent allowed to use a Beis Medrash as a shortcut, the Halacha that if a person wants to take a shortcut through a Shul he should either ...

• halacha
• beis-medrash

Oiker Harim 218

Asked 14 years ago
Active: 14 years ago

Why do Ashkenazi and Sephardi Poskim follow different Rishonim? I understand that during the era of the Rishonim natural borders, (Pyrenees, ...

• halacha
• rishonim
• poskim

dash 747

Asked 13 years ago
Active: 12 years ago

Gedolim produce Gedolim. Success breeds success. Is it fair to say that the Ovois and the Shevatim would have been the same great had they ...

• hashkafah
• forefathers

boy scout 20

Asked 14 years ago
Active: 12 years ago

I was in a large shopping center today. I was walking past a woman who was saying to the person selling ice scream in the booth next to ...

• halacha
• choshen-mishpat

Yehuda HaMaccabi 441

Asked 14 years ago
Active: 14 years ago

Based on this question I thought we should have a thread that people can relate the war stories that there Grandmother and relatives have ...

• war
• world-war-2

Shmuel Yaacovson 118

Asked 13 years ago
Active: 12 years ago