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    Education

    For Love of the Holy Tongue

    Rabbi Moshe Erenreich | 17 Av 5783
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    Wedding and Sheva Berachot

    Sheva Berachos

    The time between the Three Weeks and the Yamim Noraim is a popular time to schedule weddings

    Rabbi Yirmiyohu Kaganoff | Av 5783
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    Marriage and Relationships

    May Panim Chadashot Leave Sheva Berachot Early?

    Do Panim Chadashot have to stay until Birkat Hamazon?

    Rabbi Daniel Mann | Av 5783
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    Mezuza and Ma'ake

    Does an Elevator Require a Mezuzah?

    Rabbi Yirmiyohu Kaganoff | Av 5783
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    Bemare Habazak - Rabbis Questions

    Differences of a Second Marriage

    At a second marriage for both chatan and kalla, what is different from at a regular wedding?

    Rabbi Daniel Mann | Tevet 5783
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    Bemare Habazak - Rabbis Questions

    Mezuza for a Storage Room

    I am moving into an apartment and want to know whether the storage room (in the building’s basement) requires a mezuza.

    Rabbi Daniel Mann | Kislev 1 5783
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    Modesty - Tznius

    True Modesty

    There is a heated debate about physical or financial modesty. But it overshadows a more important discussion—what is modesty?

    Rabbi Haggai Lundin | Tamuz 19 5782
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    Pregnancy

    Where is the Limit to Permissible Abortions?

    Do you believe that these abortions are moral in terms of a woman's sacred right over her body? And what would you say about a woman who takes the life of her fetus because she wants to complete a degree, buy a car or travel abroad? Where is the boundary?

    Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu | Sivan 28 5782
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    Kashrut

    The Milky Way or Does Chalav Yisrael Apply Today?

    I do not understand why some people keep chalav Yisrael today. Do they really think that someone is adding pig's milk? My friend quoted his rav that it is more important to keep chalav Yisrael today than it ever was before. How could this be?

    Rabbi Yirmiyohu Kaganoff | Sivan 2 5782
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    4 min
    Various Subjects

    G-d's Waiting Room

    With its abundance of retirement homes for the elderly, Miami Beach is often called, with macabre humor, “God’s waiting room”. Retirement isn’t as notorious as heart disease or cancer but it’s still a major killer.

    Rabbi Yaakov Asher Sinclair | Iyar 3 5782
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    Various Subjects

    Cutting Corners

    What does my style of haircut have to do with idolatry? Are women included in the prohibition of shaving? May I tweeze out my facial hairs? Where are my head’s corners? My head is round!

    Rabbi Yirmiyohu Kaganoff | Iyar 1 5782
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    Achrei Mot

    Prepared to DeLIVER

    In many places, the Torah forbids the consumption of blood. In the parsha of Acharei Mot, this prohibition of blood is mentioned. In Kedoshim there are nine references to blood, in the context of different prohibitions. This makes it appropriate to discuss the laws of preparing livers according to halacha.

    Rabbi Yirmiyohu Kaganoff | Nissan 28 5782
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    Rabbi Mordechai Eliyahu

    An Unusual Circumcision

    One Shabbat, a mohel came to Rabbi Eliyahu with a question. He was supposed to be performing a brit that day, but just an hour earlier, the father of the baby told him that his son had been born by Caesarian section and so the bris should be on Sunday. What was Rabbi Eliyahu's solution?

    No Rabbi | Adar I 22 5782
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    Bemare Habazak - Rabbis Questions

    Sheva Berachot Every Day of Sheva Berachot?

    Is it necessary, proper, or at least recommended to have a sheva berachot celebration every day of the week of Sheva Berachot?

    Rabbi Daniel Mann | Adar I 14 5782
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    The Marital Relationship

    Stories from the Mikveh

    Translated by Hillel Fendel

    Two small stories on how keeping the family purity Halachos come with devotion.

    Various Rabbis | Tevat 10 5782
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    Bemare Habazak - Rabbis Questions

    Tevila of Something that Turns into a “Meal Utensil”

    I received an ornamental honey dispenser and glass plate. I want to use the plate every Shabbat to hold challa rolls for lechem mishneh. Does it require tevilat keilim, assuming that it was made by a non-Jew(ish company)?

    Rabbi Daniel Mann | Cheshvan 25 5782
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    Toldot

    A Layman's Guide to Marriage

    I was told that I should not include quotations from pesukim on my daughter’s wedding invitation. Yet, I see that ‘everyone’ does! Could you please explain the halacha? "I wish someone could walk me through all the halachic steps that we need in planning our daughter's wedding. I am afraid I'll forget to take care of something.

    Rabbi Yirmiyohu Kaganoff | Cheshvan 24 5782
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    The Jewish Household

    Do not turn away from your own flesh

    All of us aspire to have those ideal families which we read about in stories. All too often our families fall short of this ideal, often quite short.

    Rabbi Michael Linetsky | Cheshvan 24 5782
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    Various Subjects

    Can/Should a Jew Be Named “Yishmael?”

    Rabbi Stewart Weiss | Cheshvan 15 5782
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    Bemare Habazak - Rabbis Questions

    Is a Difficult to Remove Residue a Chatzitza?

    Rabbi Daniel Mann | Cheshvan 11 5782
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