Bemare Habazak - Rabbis Questions

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

Ask the Rabbi: Changing Diapers in the Proximity of Sefarim

Ask the Rabbi: Wrong Beracha on Tefillin Shel Yad

Ask the Rabbi: Should Kiddush Levana Be Done with a Minyan?

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

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

Crock pot use on Shabbat

Responsive Baby Bassinet

There is a special bassinet that provides motion and soothing noise and reacts to an infant’s crying by intensifying them. Is it permitted to use this bassinet on Shabbat, and if so, are there special instructions?

Effect of Wrong Type of Bitul Chametz

What are the consequences if, after bedikat chametz, one recited the daytime bitul chametz?

Listening to Laining During Shemoneh Esrei

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?

Continuing to Pray for Rain

Receiving Video of Personal Event on Shabbat

At my son’s recent Shabbat bar mitzva, a non-Jew who is close to him came to shul. It turns out he videoed some of the proceedings on his phone (if I had noticed, I would have asked him not to) and offered to send it to me, which, of course, would be nice. May I accept the offer?

Ask the Rabbi: Shehecheyanu on Winning a Court Case

Does Acknowledging Lag Ba’omer Count as Counting?

If one mentions, before counting omer, that “Tonight is Lag Ba’omer”, can he subsequently count with a beracha?

When to Attend a Levaya

It is difficult for me to know when to attend a levaya (lit., accompanying the deceased) of people I know but am not close with. Can you give me guidelines?

Do All Tzitzit Knots Need to be Double

When I tied a pair of tzitzit, I tied a double knot to the garment and for the final knot, but for the three knots in between the chulyot (subsections of string wrappings), I tied single knots. Is that sufficient?

Davening Late with a Minyan

I went for Shabbat for a family simcha to a community with one shul, which started tefilla at 10:00 AM, after sof z’man tefilla. Was it better to daven with a minyan or by myself at the right time?