Bemare Habazak - Rabbis Questions

Ask the Rabbi: Not Taking Vacation Time on Chol Hamo’ed

Ask the Rabbi: Erev Pesach That Falls on Shabbat

Ask the Rabbi: Taking a Different Object than Lost

Ask the Rabbi: Owning Guns

Ask the Rabbi: Watching a Bar Mitzva Videoed on Shabbat

Ask the Rabbi: Purim Meshulash

Ask the Rabbi: Indirect Responsibility for Theft

Ask the Rabbi: Halachic Status of Hydroponic Maror

Ask the Rabbi: Amen on a Non-Beracha

Ask the Rabbi: Fundamental Questions about Lifnei Iver

Ask the Rabbi: Beracha upon Returning Tzitzit

Ask the Rabbi: Bishul Akum on Food that Is Improved by Cooking

Ask the Rabbi: “Cooked” and Sweetened Wine for Kiddush

Ask the Rabbi: Right Pronunciation of Shehakol

Ask the Rabbi: Chanuka Lighting Soon Before Leaving House

Ask the Rabbi: Switching Mantels Back on Shabbat

Tallit and Tefillin During Selichot

Double Wrapping Food in a Treif Oven

I know that sometimes when warming something in a not kosher oven or a milchig food in a fleishig oven, he double wraps the food. When is this necessary and why?

seudat hodaya

Why Can’t Women Blow the Shofar for Men?

Restrictions of Motzaei Tisha B’Av

How Many Eggs Should be Boiled Together?

When making hardboiled eggs, may one cook one or two eggs or must there be at least three? Also, does it make a difference if there is an even or odd number

White and Nice Clothes and Gold on Yom Kippur

Is it indeed proper to wear white clothes and not wear gold on Yom Kippur? Is there a difference between men and women? Should one wear or avoid nice clothes on Yom Kippur?

Hamapil for Those Who Take a Long Time to Fall Asleep

Siyum for Taanit Bechorot Via Live Streaming

On Erev Pesach, I will be in a small Jewish community that will not have a siyum. Is it permitted for me – a bechor – to break the ta’anit bechorot based on a siyum in which I “participate” via Skype?

Shehecheyanu, Clothes, and Renovations During Sefira

Working in a Non-Kosher Establishment

Tefillin in Pre-Dawn Hours

work at a hospital and, some days, I am unable to wear tefillin during the day, but only pre-dawn. May I then put on tefillin before its regular time? [Our staff knows the querier.]

Washing Hands with Soap on Yom Kippur

Encouraging a Child to Criticize His Parent

Use of a Heter Iska when Lending Money to One’s Company

I am a general partner (having special authority and responsibility) in an LLC (Limited Liability Company) with only Jewish partners. In order to facilitate a real estate purchase, some of us lent money to the company (we have the authority to do so at market rate interest or invest for equity) without a heter iska. Does one need a heter iska to lend money to an LLC, and if yes, can we do one now?

Rearranging Aliyot to Enable a Levi’s Aliya

Is a Professional Believed

Special Halachot of Motzaei Shabbat Kiddush/Havdala

Pumping Air from a Wine Bottle on Shabbat

Making Up a Tefilla With No Net Gain

Announcements before Shemoneh Esrei of Ma’ariv

I thought that at Ma’ariv of Rosh Chodesh (or other times there is something new to say), the gabbai calls out “Ya’aleh V’Yavo” (=YVY) before Shemoneh Esrei. But in many shuls, someone just bangs. Which way is correct?

V’ten Tal U’matar for those Returning Abroad in the Fall

I am in my second year in Israel but have to go back permanently soon, before Dec 4. I started saying “v’ten tal u’matar” on 7 [Mar]Cheshvan. Should I have? Should I stop now, when I get back to chutz la’aretz, or not at all?

Reciting Holy Things Near Garbage Containers

Tosefet Yom Kippur

When and how should one accept Yom Kippur?