Total questions:  234

The Previous Lubavitcher Rebbe writes that it says that At that time, he secretly visited Shklov, Minsk, and Vilna. The Alter Rebbe ...

• vilna-gaon
• jewish-history
• chassidus

plato 167

Asked 11 years ago
Active: 9 years ago

Why do men wear black hats? What does is symbolize and what is the purpose behind it?

• yeshivish

Rachel 3

Asked 10 years ago
Active: 9 years ago

Why does Rosh Chodesh vary between one and two days? For example this year Nisan is one day, Iyar is two days, Sivan is one and Tammuz is ...

• rosh-chodesh

morris altschuler 3

Asked 9 years ago
Active: 9 years ago

A friend asked me to read tehillim for his uncle, also my friend. In order to spell Bob's Hebrew name, Dovber, I need a resh. What do ...

• numeric
• aleph-bet

sashamarie 3

Asked 9 years ago
Active: 9 years ago

I have just found out that I am R"L a mamzeir (Bastard). What should I do? I was about to propose to my future Eishes Chayil. Should I ...

• shidduchim
• mamzeirus

David Stern 8

Asked 9 years ago
Active: 9 years ago

My friend asked me that he davened shachris with tefillin and a tallit from beginning until end and only afterwards realized that he was ...

• davening

Ariel goldberg 8

Asked 9 years ago
Active: 9 years ago

You should probably begin by going to the person you slandered. The Shulchan Oruch tells us that if a person approaches a person that ...

• teshuvah

basmelech1402 8

Asked 9 years ago
Active: 9 years ago

Is one allowed to eat one's own skin? Obviously I dont mean taking a chunk out of your leg but a bit of lip skin here and there?

• halacha

King of Kings 110

Asked 11 years ago
Active: 9 years ago

is the carvel in delaware rest stop kosher?

• kosherornot

ezzy 3

Asked 10 years ago
Active: 10 years ago

I am a cashier at walmart and normally very conscntlyientious. However, recently a box of eggs came open while baggin and 1 broke. I did ...

• halacha

rivka d 3

Asked 10 years ago
Active: 10 years ago

Rashi says that It was Pesach when the Angels appeared to Abraham and informed him of the upcoming birth of his wife Sara. The Gemoro says ...

• agadah
• tanach
• yitzchok-avinu

Shmuel Yaacovson 118

Asked 11 years ago
Active: 10 years ago

See this answer by SJR about Chilul Hashem. I am not saying he is wrong but I would like to understand something. Why is it that when we ...

• goy
• chilul-hashem

disgruntledGoat 515

Asked 11 years ago
Active: 10 years ago

Are you allowed to listen to tame music like classical music during the 3 weeks and during the Omer, is it only lively dance music that ...

• halacha
• music
• 3-weeks

shteeblehopper 220

Asked 11 years ago
Active: 10 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 11 years ago
Active: 10 years ago

I learn in the morning in a shul which does not have an offical Kolel. I sit in the same place every day. Occasionally someone will sit ...

• chazakah
• kolel

shteeblehopper 220

Asked 11 years ago
Active: 10 years ago