Total questions:  234

Can i put aside money for tzedakah with no one in particular in my mind for it to be called Tzedakah or does there have to be a poor needy ...

• tzedakah

Yehuda HaMaccabi 441

Asked 13 years ago
Active: 12 years ago

Thats it, i know that Belzers have a minhag to eat before davening, how do thery get round the Halacha forbidding it

• halacha
• eating
• davening

shteeblehopper 220

Asked 13 years ago
Active: 13 years ago

How can I tell my 14 year old son that he cannot have a phone when he sees me on mine all the time?

• chinuch
• hashkafah
• parenting

huh 8

Asked 13 years ago
Active: 13 years ago

What legitimate reason can the English version of the Hamodia have for omitting the story of the cinema killer who went on a rampage and ...

• hamodia

LunarWaveYid 10

Asked 13 years ago
Active: 13 years ago

We all say loads of Pesukim which refer to the Geula which will come speedily in our days. What I am looking for specifically, can anyone ...

• galus
• geula

Pinchas 44

Asked 13 years ago
Active: 13 years ago

Does anyone know if the Sefardi Hechsher Machpud is OK for Ashkenazim to eat? The restaurant Cafe Rimon in Jerusalem is now Machpoud and ...

• hechsherim
• machpud
• jerusalem
• restaurant

Shmuel Yaacovson 118

Asked 13 years ago
Active: 10 years ago

Over 2 years ago I lent my son-in-law a substantial amount to buy and completely renovate a house for his family to live in. He said he ...

• repayment

avrohom 8

Asked 9 years ago
Active: 7 years ago

The Chofetz Chaim says that even if someone whom you utterly trust tells you Loshan Hora, it is Ossur to believe him. How is this possible. ...

• halacha

Emes Veyatziv 8

Asked 13 years ago
Active: 13 years ago

I'm planning a business investment with a jewish partner. Since we already have a contract, do we still need a heter iska? If yes, why?

• ribis-interest
• partnership
• heter-iska

sheilah 8

Asked 13 years ago
Active: 12 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 11 years ago
Active: 11 years ago

Hope this is not too off topic but I have an English license and I am coming to America for the Holidays. Will they let me drive with my ...

• practical-advice
• driving

Rule Britannia 8

Asked 13 years ago
Active: 12 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 11 years ago
Active: 11 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 11 years ago
Active: 11 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 13 years ago
Active: 11 years ago

If you eat outside how far can you walk without having to make a another bracha because it is not considered the same place?

• halacha
• brochos

King of Kings 110

Asked 13 years ago
Active: 12 years ago