Express Fast

If you fly on a fast day, you’ll skip over a few time zones, and you’ll end the fast about six hours earlier than you would if you were to stay in your place. So you’ll get to break your fast before you get too hungry! is that OK?

Baffled Raffle

Yossi Swapped his raffle ticket with Shimmy's and Shimmy won the first prize. who owns that prize?

Piece of Cake

We’re going to be cutting up the cake with a picture of Mommy and Daddy, and then everyone will be eating their picture. Isn’t that a little odd? is it even allowed?

Pray Day

Sasha glanced at his watch. A small delay wouldn’t set him back too much. If the man only needed “a tzenter” – a tenth man – for the minyan, that meant that davening would start as soon as Sasha joined.

Tooth Sensitivity

With great passion, the rabbi waved his hands for emphasis as he spoke, and… knocked his dentures out of his mouth! Did the people in attendance commit a sin by laughing, or was it considered oness (a forced act)?

Rewards Program

What did the Chafetz Chaim demand from the person who asked to join him in heaven? did he agree?

The Kipa Caper

A boy got hit by a car next to Rav Moshe Fienstien's house. What was Rav Moshe's surprising response...

Bottled Up

Yair give Avi Champagne by mistake on Purim. Does Avi have to compensate Yair for the bottle of champagne?

Bless You

One of the prayers was greeted with the Aliyah of the admonishment and a hassle broke out. David, one of the prayers, gave a solution, but was he right?

Ink(not)well

Rabbi Alpert was once visiting Rabbi Feinstein. He accidently knocked over the inkwell, spilling the contents on the Rambam and the new gemara!

Praypal

Should the person who organized the minyan lead the prayers, or does the other man take precedence, because he is observing a yahrtzeit?

Change of Policy

Do we have to allow beggers from out of the city to come and collect donations in our city? r\Rav Neventzal answers with a story from the Gr"a.

Wired

Lifted Spirits

At the Shabbat Table

At the Shabbat Table

Raising Doubts

At the Shabbat Table

At the Shabbat Table

Accident by Design

At the Shabbat Table

At the Shabbat Table

Carpet Diem

Burning Passion

At the Shabbat Table

How did Yisrael Cohen light the menorah during the holocaust in Auschwitz?

Rescued from the Ashes

At the Shabbat Table

At the Shabbat Table

Mayor May Not

At the Shabbat Table

The cleaning lady who became the mayor of the town.