- Family and Society
- General Questions
Defending Yourself from a Parent
Various Rabbis
4 Cheshvan 5765
Question
If a parent hits you out of rage are you allowed to take self defense and hit him back?
Answer
Shulchan Aruch YD 240:3 wrote that even if one is sitting at the head of a table of honor, and his parents came and hit him on the head and tore his clothes, he should be silent and not hit them back, and he shall fear Hashem who ordered him so.
Rabbi Ro'i Margalit
Paternal Obligations
Rabbi Chaim Tabasky | 22 Elul 5765
Obligations To Father
Various Rabbis | 21 Tevet 5764
Mourning for a convert’s biological parents
Rabbi Yoel Lieberman | Tammuz 29, 5770
Kibud Av V’aim
Various Rabbis | 25 Shevat 5764
Various Rabbis
Various Rabbis including those of of Yeshivat Bet El, such as Rabbi Chaim Katz, Rabbi Binyamin Bamberger and Rabbi Yitzchak Greenblat and others.
Scotch Whiskey
14 Kislev 5763
Backyard Eruv
15 Kislev 5763
The Blessing of keeping The Laws of Niddah
15 Cheshvan 5763
Destruction of Divrei Torah
2 Kislev 5763
Naming a baby girl Romi
Rabbi Ari Shvat | Nisan 18, 5774
Exercise on Shabbat
Rabbi Jonathan Blass | 9 Nisan 5763
On which day may one start wishing "Shabbat Shalom"?
Rabbi David Sperling | Iyyar 9, 5780
Mezzuzah for Non Jew
Rabbi David Sperling | Iyyar 18, 5773
How can someone change their community?
Rabbi David Sperling | Shevat 11, 5783
Dairy mug and meat sponge
Rabbi Yoel Lieberman | Shevat 10, 5783
How to split expenses for a group event
Rabbi Moshe Leib Halberstadt | Shevat 9, 5783
