- Shabbat and Holidays
- Cleaning and Hygiene
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Question
Is one allowed to floss one’s teeth on Shabbat if one pre-rips floss? Would it be considered borer?
Answer
If when using floss during a long period you have found that it does not cause any bleeding than you may use it on Shabbat. If it does cause bleeding it is forbidden.
Rabbi Yitzchak Grinblat
Showering on Shabbat
Rabbi Chaim Tabasky | 9 Elul 5766
Cleaning floor on Shabbat
Rabbi Chaim Tabasky | 19 Tishrei 5767
Shower on Shabbat
Rabbi Chaim Tabasky | 3 Cheshvan 5766
Hands Washing on Shabbat
Rabbi Jonathan Blass | 24 Adar 5766
Warming Drawer on Shabbat
Rabbi Jonathan Blass | 11 Nisan 5764
Genesis 24: 2-9 – Put your hand under my thigh
Rabbi Moshe Leib Halberstadt | Tevet 26, 5770
number 26
Rabbi Ari Shvat | Sivan 25, 5778
Are vaccinations kosher?
Rabbi David Samson | 18 Elul 5762
Gentile inferiority due to genetics.
Rabbi Yoel Lieberman | Adar 6, 5785
Which Prophets did Israel kill?
Rabbi Ari Shvat | Adar 25, 5785
Follow up to "outdated Mitzvot", Sanhedrin, morality etc.
Rabbi Ari Shvat | Nisan 18, 5785
