- Halacha
- Idols and Idolatry
Dealing in figurines
Various Rabbis
Tevet 9, 5768
Question
As a Jewish antique dealer, am I allowed to buy and sell figurines or statues of people and animals?
Answer
You are allowed if the figurines or statues are not idol for worship and the buyers will not worship them. This is the Minhag also regarding dolls. Some Poskim say one should break a bit off the doll.
Rabbi Yitzchak Grinblat
Mercury Dimes
Rabbi Elchanan Lewis | 23 Tammuz 5764
Kosher yoga
Rabbi David Sperling | Av 12, 5776
Art & Avodah Zarah/Taliban statues
Rabbi Jonathan Blass | 26 Adar I 5763
Avoda Zara
Rabbi Chaim Tabasky | 5 Tammuz 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.
A Convert Who Does Not Keep Shabbat
23 Cheshvan 5763
Panim Chadashot
15 Kislev 5763
Non-Kosher wine for cooking
7 Kislev 5763
Potential wedding date
9 Kislev 5763
Mezzuzah for Non Jew
Rabbi David Sperling | Iyyar 18, 5773
Mezzuzah for Non Jew
Rabbi David Sperling | Iyyar 18, 5773
Genesis 24: 2-9 – Put your hand under my thigh
Rabbi Moshe Leib Halberstadt | Tevet 26, 5770
Mosquito netting on top of Succah
Rabbi Chaim Tabasky | 10 Tishrei 5767
Original Passover Meal
Rabbi Yoel Lieberman | Tishrei 3, 5784
Soup Status
Rabbi Daniel Kirsch | Tishrei 9, 5784
