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# 1120 It’s Complicated
I heard its a sin from a Jew to tell on another Jew. Is this right? What if a Jew commits a serious crime to another Jew?. Regardless, of religion, its moral and ethical to report any crime to the pol...
# 1119 Mazal Tov! You Are Married
If after a chupa, it became known that the witnesses were related to each other with a disqualifying familial closeness, does Rav Miller hold that the kidushin have to be repeated, or we can bedieved ...
# 1118 Write or Right?
If you find a common ordinary ballpoint pen that is similar to many others on a table in a shul or other frequented Jewish institutions, can you use it or even keep it?...
# 1117 Go to G-d to Godol
Is it correct for a teacher to keep on telling his students that they can all grow to be Gedolei Yisrael, when it is obvious that they don’t have the mental or any other abilities to be so and later i...
# 1116 Avoid the Avoda Zara
Hi, I wonder if it would be OK, halachically right to use a golden cross and melt it to make it into a Magen David necklace? I was thinking about the golden calf that was destroyed and it’s gold ...
# 1115 One At A Time
Is there a problem for a Beis Din in a time of need to take a group of gerim and do the tevila and kabalath mitzvoth together?...
# 1114 Love the Ger
Is there a mitzvah to accept proper gerim?...
# 1113 Red Tape on a Red String?
What is the source of the red string or roite bendl that some people wear on their wrist? Is it permitted or is it Darkei Haemori?...
# 1112 The Plot Thickens
Re: question 1107 and 1111. Could a person who wants to become a ger, and accepted keeping all mitzvos except being buried in a Jewish cemetery, be accepted for gerus?...
# 1111 A Good Plot?
Re- question 1107. Is there an actual prohibition to be buried in a non-Jewish cemetery?...
# 1110 A Kashe Oif a Maisse
There is a famous story where the Chofetz Chaim tells Rav Shimon Schwab that he is a Kohen while Rav Schwab is not because when Moshe Rabbeinu called out "Mi Lashem Eilai", his father answered the cal...
# 1109 Have you Heard?
If one recited Shema before davening, may he skip it during davening (and just say the brachos) in order to have tefilla b’tzibbur? A similar question, If one davens ma’ariv after plag, ca...
# 1108 Too Little Too Early?
My nine year old daughter attends a Bays Yaakov type school. Can she in the hot summer days wear short sleeves in the backyard or house?...
# 1107 The Promised Land
A widow who has become very interested in converting to Judaism. She is quite serious and committed. However she promised her late husband that she would be buried next to him. Obviously the cemetery ...
# 1106 Of Little Interest
If i gave a school 50 cents more than I owed but they didn’t know how much i owed, is it a problem?I did it for convenience ($10 bill as opposed to $9.50)....
# 1105 Lost His Pants?
I was in a clothing store trying on a pair of pants. One of the employees in the store began marking the pants I was trying on for the purpose of alterations. Just then, the fire alarm went off and ev...
#1104 Don't Fall Into the Trap
This may sound silly, but I have often wondered why, when putting an energetic, running toddler on an enclosed crib or playpen on Shabbat or when closing the door to children in a room, there is no pr...
# 1103 Scroll Down For The Answer
I have mezuzos that were checked properly when bought and they are stored in transparent glass tubing containers where you can clearly see that even the plastic they are wrapped in, is sealed and inta...
# 1102 Able Kaddish
I have seen different minhagim with regard to saying kaddish in shul. Specifically, if there is no person saying kaddish yasom after aleinu, should a person who has previously been an avel say kaddish...
#1101 Hot Shayla
Can I do all the above (ask a Goy or place a hot item on the thermostat, see prior questions) if it is too hot and we need to turn on the AC?...