Bemare Habazak - Rabbis Questions

How/When to Start Breaking Yom Kippur Fast

Shofar Blowing during the Silent Amida

Ask the Rabbi: Shehecheyanu on Winning a Court Case

Can One Fix an Unwarranted Beracha on Netilat Yadayim?

I came out of the bathroom and did netilat yadayim for that purpose, but accidentally I recited the beracha of netilat yadayim. I tried to salvage the situation by indeed eating bread as fast as I could. Did that help?

May Panim Chadashot Leave Sheva Berachot Early?

Do Panim Chadashot have to stay until Birkat Hamazon?

Cowbell for Help

Stopping a Charitable Hora’at Keva

Hagomel after Losing the Way

Using Dishes of Unknown Type

An Oleh Who Wants to Lain His Aliya

Extent of Partnership – part I

Based on ruling 81096 of the Eretz Hemdah-Gazit Rabbinical Courts

Based on ruling 81096 of the Eretz Hemdah-Gazit Rabbinical Courts

May we make the Kiddush before Kri’at Hatorah?

Hinting One Does Not Want an Aliya

Planting a Fruit Tree he may Uproot

Rearranging Aliyot to Enable a Levi’s Aliya

Who Breached the Contract? – part I

Based on ruling 81087 of the Eretz Hemdah-Gazit Rabbinical Courts

Based on ruling 81087 of the Eretz Hemdah-Gazit Rabbinical Courts

Tallit and Tefillin During Selichot

seudat hodaya

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?

Why Can’t Women Blow the Shofar for Men?

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

Restrictions of Motzaei Tisha B’Av

Hamapil for Those Who Take a Long Time to Fall Asleep

Shehecheyanu, Clothes, and Renovations During Sefira

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?

Working in a Non-Kosher Establishment

Washing Hands with Soap on Yom Kippur

Crock pot use on Shabbat

Tasting Non-Kosher Wine

A Teacher’s Responsibility for Theft of Phones

Mistake in Beracha on Delayed Laying of Tefillin – part I

After I fastened the tefillin shel yad, I realized that the beracha I had recited was not the one for tefillin but that I had instinctively said Yotzer Ohr. I continued davening with just the shel yad until the next semi-break, Yotzer Hame’orot, at which point I put on the shel rosh and the hand wrappings. Was that correct, and what should I have recited when?

Using an Hourglass on Shabbat

This past Yom Kippur, I was a few days after birth, and so a rabbi said that I could eat small amounts of food. He lent me an hourglass set to give the correct amount of time for “eating in intervals.” Is it always permitted to use an hourglass on Shabbat, or was it a special leniency because of my medical status?

When to Say Yehiyu L’ratzon

Does Yehiyu L’ratzon come before or after Elokai Netzor and/or personal requests at the end of Shemoneh Esrei?

Shaming those who do Not Vaccinate

Is it permitted to publicly shame those that do not vaccinate their children for measles and put people in the community at risk in order to get them to vaccinate?

Kohen and Others Joining for a Minyan “In” a Cemetery

I was in a cemetery with several people (nine men) at different graves. Someone wanted to make a Kaddish, and a woman said her husband, a kohen standing on a path 50 meters away beyond a 2 ft. wall, would recite it (loudly). Were we right in doing such a Kaddish, considering he was forbidden to come to us?

Wearing a Reflective Armband on Shabbat Without an Eiruv

Air Conditioner Drain Pipe during Shemitta

In preparation for the upcoming Shemitta year, should I reroute my air conditioner drain pipe so that it does not drip in an area around vegetation?

Tosefet Yom Kippur

When and how should one accept Yom Kippur?

Mistakes in Kiddush of Yom Tov that Falls on Shabbat

I sometimes get confused in the Kiddush of Yom Tov that falls on Shabbat. What does one do if he did not say all of the correct elements?

To What Does Havdala Relate?

This is more of a philosophical than halachic question, but is Havdala a mitzva of Shabbat or a mitzva of chol (weekday)?