- 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
Mourning for a convert’s biological parents
Rabbi Yoel Lieberman | Tammuz 29, 5770
Obligations To Father
Various Rabbis | 21 Tevet 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.
REDEMPTION, Why - What did I do!?
4 Cheshvan 5763
Non-Kosher wine for cooking
7 Kislev 5763
What is happening to me?
4 Cheshvan 5763
Length of Sleeves
15 Kislev 5763
On which day may one start wishing "Shabbat Shalom"?
Rabbi David Sperling | Iyyar 9, 5780
Whiskey glasses on Pesach
Rabbi David Sperling | Adar 17, 5773
Carrying firearms on Shabbat
Rabbi David Samson | 18 Elul 5762
Cannanites, Amalekites, genocide
Rabbi Daniel Kirsch | Shevat 21, 5782
Bar mitzvah
Rabbi David Sperling | Shevat 25, 5782
