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Eating first
Is it permitted to eat before feeding your own pet?
Feeding the Birds
On Shabbat Shira, many have the custom of leaving out food for the birds. Is it permissible to feed birds, or any other animal, on Shabbat?
Praying in the presence of pets
What are the guidelines for davening in front of pets? Should I ignore the pet or should I find a solution to get rid of it?
Lessons on Plants and Animals
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Various Events FOR WHOM NOT TO VOTE
Rav Zvi Yehuda Kook stressed that Israeli politics is G-dly, so I have no problem answering this common question on a Torani blog. Also, Free-Will is a G-d-given right and obligation, to "destine one's fate" (R. Soloveichik, Kol Dodi Dofek, 67), so I obviously don't tell others how to vote. But once not a few (especially young) have already asked, a couple of personal words from experience and thoughts from chazal & Rav Kook which may be of help to others, mainly for whom NOT to vote.
P'ninat Mishpat Fallout from Failure to Install Elevator – part II
based on ruling 85007 of the Eretz Hemdah-Gazit Rabbinical Courts
