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Eating Fish on Shabbos · Shabbos Goy · Adding Wine to Charoses on Shabbos · Breaking Shabbos to Prevent Conversion · Crockpot on Shabbos · Cutting a Cake With Writing on Shabbos · 66 more

Are Pets Muktzeh · Is a Get Muktzeh on Shabbos · Moving a Trapped Animal on Shabbos · Moving Muktzeh on Yom Tov for Food · Rocks and Sand as Muktzeh · Saving Baby Fish on Shabbos · 1 more

Carrying on Yom Tov Without an Eruv · Eruv Chatzeiros Beracha · Eruv Chatzeiros in Apartment Buildings · Eruv Chatzeiros With a Non-Jewish Neighbor · Mavoi Entrance Rectification · Measuring the Techum of a City · 1 more

Learning Yom Tov Laws Thirty Days Before · Melacha on Chol HaMoed · Yom Tov Sheni for Visitors to Israel · Carrying on Chol HaMoed · Cooking on Yom Tov for a Weekday · Eruv Tavshilin · 7 more

Lettuce for Marror · Siyum for Firstborns on Erev Pesach · Washing for Karpas · When Erev Pesach Falls on Shabbos · Buying Chametz After Pesach · Charoses Ingredients and Symbolism · 41 more

Counting the Omer After Bar Mitzvah · Missing a Day of Sefiras HaOmer · Counting Forty-Nine or Fifty Days · Counting the Omer in English · Counting the Omer Without Intention · Death of the 24,000 Students · 2 more

Davening After Staying Up Shavuos Night · Learning Masechta Shavuos Before Shavuos · Shavuos and the Oath at Sinai · Why Shavuos Starts Late

Apple Dipped in Honey · Hataras Nedarim on Erev Rosh Hashanah · Rosh Hashanah Simanim · Bentching on Rosh Hashanah · Financial Losses Decreed on Rosh Hashanah · Hearing Shofar Without Intent · 6 more

Confessing Sins You Did Not Commit · Eating Shiurim on Yom Kippur · Kohen Gadol's Prayer on Yom Kippur · Backup Wife for the Kohen Gadol · Eating on Yom Kippur When Ill · Going to Shul Sick on Yom Kippur · 6 more

Building Your Own Sukkah · Maximum Height of a Sukkah · Snow on the Sukkah · Sukkah Walls Not Reaching the Schach · Adding Schach for Warmth · Beautiful Esrog of Questionable Validity · 24 more

Why Chanukah Is Eight Days · Olive Oil for Chanukah Lights · Chanukah Menorah Above Twenty Amos · Miracle of the Chanukah Oil · Congealed Olive Oil for the Menorah · Did the Chanukah Menorah Burn Continuously · 7 more

Haman's Daughter on the Roof · Height of Haman's Gallows · Using a Messenger for Mishloach Manos · Why Esther Invited Haman · Achashveirosh's Feast · Anonymous Mishloach Manos · 28 more

Asarah B'Teves · Fast of the Ninth of Teves · Shabbos Leftovers During the Nine Days · Breaking a Fast When Rain Falls · Fasting for Rain · Kinnah for the Destroyed French Communities · 4 more

Adar Rishon or Adar Sheini · Adding a Leap Month · Diminishing of the Moon · Festive Meal on Rosh Chodesh · Kiddush Levanah Before Yom Kippur · Messengers Announcing the New Month · 7 more

Davening for Others With Feeling · Davening Shemoneh Esrei Sitting · Being Specific in Prayer · Chazzan Who Mispronounces Words · Days Without Tachanun · Kavanah in Shemoneh Esrei · 31 more

Chassan Saying Shema on Wedding Night · Birchos Krias Shema Out of Order · Interrupting Shema for Business

Berachah HaSemuchah LeChavertah · Hefsek After a Berachah · Birkas HaGomel · Birkas HaGomel for Women · Bracha on Dessert During a Meal · Forgot to Say Asher Yatzar · 25 more

Washing Hands for Wet Foods · Burnt Challah for Lechem Mishneh · Toothpicks for Lechem Mishneh · Where to Cut the Challah · Braiding Challah on Yom Tov · Buying Bakery Challah for Shabbos · 12 more

Birshus HaKohanim in Zimun · Fourth Berachah of Bentching · Hat and Jacket for Bentching · Leaving Before Sheva Brachos · Melech in Yaaleh VeYavo in Bentching · Removing Knives During Bentching · 3 more

Kiddush Cup Size · Kiddush on Liquor · Plastic Cups for Kiddush · Chamar Medina for Kiddush · Children and Late Havdalah · Delaying Kiddush on Friday Night · 9 more

Half Hallel on Pesach · Hallel in Shul on Seder Night · Half Hallel on Rosh Chodesh · Hallel After Chatzos on Seder Night · Hallel on Purim · Saying Hallel Out of Order

Walking to the Bimah for an Aliyah · Aliyos When There Is No Levi · Chazak Aliyah · Four Aliyos on Rosh Chodesh · Minimum Length of the Haftarah · Seven Aliyos on Shabbos · 2 more

Drawing Lots for Shul Honors · Building an Office Inside a Shul · Kedushah of a Shul's Airspace · Reward for Steps to Shul · Bringing a Weapon Into Shul · Chazzan With a Pleasant Voice · 10 more

Earliest Time for Minchah · Davening Maariv After Chatzos · Is a Deadline Day Inclusive · Rabbeinu Tam Zman for Ending Shabbos

Tallis or Tefillin First · Tefillin for a Lefty · Tefillin on Chol HaMoed · Wearing Rashi and Rabbeinu Tam Tefillin Together · Checking Tefillin in a Mirror · Shehecheyanu on Bar Mitzvah Tefillin · 2 more

Mezuzah on a Walk-In Closet · Taking Down Mezuzos for Checking · Thirty Days to Put Up a Mezuzah · Two Mezuzos on One Doorpost · Why the Mezuzah Is Slanted · Fallen Mezuzah on Shabbos · 7 more

Wool Tzitzis on a Linen Garment · Age to Start Wearing Tzitzis · Beautifying the Tallis Garment · Bracha on Borrowed Tzitzis · Moving Tzitzis Strings to Another Garment · Silk Tzitzis · 5 more

Last Eight Pesukim of the Torah · Presidential Autopen · Raffling Off a Sefer Torah · Sefer Torah Position in the Aron · Turning Your Back on a Sefer Torah · Which Sefer Torah to Read From · 2 more

Disposing of Old Tzitzis · Repurposing Garments for a Paroches · Reusing Mitzvah Objects · Used Items for a Sefer Torah Cover

Acting on Inspiration Without Delay · Ein Maavirin Al HaMitzvos · Searching for Reasons for Mitzvos · Spending Money to Avoid a Sin · Switching to a Nicer Mitzvah Item · Bal Tosif Adding to Mitzvos · 18 more

Bris for a Baby Born at Twilight · Bris Milah for a Jaundiced Baby · Bris Yitzchak Night Before the Bris · Lighting Candles at a Bris Milah · No Bris Milah in the Midbar · Order of Two Brissim in One Shul · 1 more

Bas Kohen's Husband at Pidyon HaBen · Firstborns Offering Korbanos Before the Mishkan · Pidyon HaBen on Shabbos · Pidyon HaBen Without a Kohen

Calling a Parent by First Name · Friend With a Parent's Name · Fulfilling a Parent's Last Wishes · Which Twin Is the Older Brother

Does Tzedakah Protect Your Wealth · Charity for Ulterior Motives · Anonymous Giving · Camp Nageela Founding Story · Delaying a Tzedakah Pledge · Giving More Than Twenty Percent to Tzedakah · 7 more

Bikur Cholim Benefits the Visitor · Hachnasas Orchim Before Shalom Aleichem · Hosting Guests Greater Than Greeting the Shechinah · Korach and Bikur Cholim · Bikur Cholim by Phone · Chesed and Long Life · 7 more

Yissachar Zevulun Partnership · Learning Torah Alone · Learning With a Chavrusa · Making a Siyum on a Masechta · Toiling in Torah · Baby Learning Torah in the Womb · 39 more

Bikkurim Declaration · Buying Potted Fruit Trees and Orlah · Feeding Untithed Produce to Animals · Orlah on Blueberry Bushes · Orlah on Transplanted Trees · Paying Workers With Shemittah Fruit · 2 more

Shatnez in Suits · Shatnez in Ties and Costumes · Which Fibers Are Shatnez · Wearing Shatnez in Mortal Danger

Shiluach HaKen on Your Own Property · Birds Eligible for Shiluach HaKen · Bracha on Shiluach HaKen · How to Send Away the Mother Bird · Shiluach HaKen and Tzaar Baalei Chaim

Grafted Fruit Trees · Horse and Mule Pulling a Wagon · Plowing With an Ox and a Donkey · Pluots and Hybrid Fruits

Cutting Down a Fruit Tree · Throwing Away Food and Bal Tashchis

Using a Non-Jewish Barber · Haircuts and Shaving on Chol HaMoed · Peyos of the Head and Beard · Trimming Peyos Near the Ear

Temporary Tattoos · Writing on Your Hand

Men Looking in a Mirror · Men Dyeing Gray Hair · Woman Wearing a Man's Raincoat · Women Carrying Weapons · Yael and the Tent Peg

Baking Challah Every Week · Separating Challah From Matzah

Paying a Ransom and an Old Loan · Paying a Ransom for a Friend

Faverolles Chicken Controversy · Is Bison Kosher · Is Civet Coffee Kosher · Is the Braekel Chicken Kosher · Kosher Chicken Breeds · Nat Bar Nat · 36 more

Hot Water Urn Used for Meat · Waiting Between Meat and Milk · Dairy or Meat Bread · Milk and Meat Served to the Angels · Non-Dairy Creamer After Meat · Pet Food With Milk and Meat · 1 more

Ben Pekua Meat Without Shechitah · Covering Blood With a Gold Coin · Eggs From a Treifah Chicken · Lung Lesions in Cattle · Tzomes HaGidim in Chickens · What Glatt Kosher Means

Bishul Akum and Factory Foods · Mevushal Wine · Wine Touched by a Non-Observant Jew · Jew Lighting the Oven for Bishul Yisrael · Oven-Ready Lasagna and Bishul Akum · Pas Palter · 2 more

Borrowing Utensils to Avoid Tevilah · Tevilah for a Keurig Machine · Toveling Mishloach Manos Containers · Trusting a Child About Tevilas Keilim · Using a Utensil Before Tevilah · Far Rockaway Keilim Mikvah · 6 more

When New Grain Becomes Permitted · Yashan Outside Eretz Yisrael

Non-Dairy Creamer and Cholov Yisrael

Is Your Bashert Predestined · Marrying an Older Woman · Using an Egg for Kiddushin · Value of a Perutah Today · Being Too Picky in Shidduchim · Chizkiyahu Refusing to Marry · 24 more

Father-in-Law Guaranteeing the Kesubah · Replacing a Lost Kesubah · Value of a Kesubah in Dollars · What Makes a Kesubah Invalid

Coerced Get · Freeing an Agunah After a Disaster · Using a Found Get · Who May Write a Get · Writing a Get on Skin

Chalitzah With a Left-Footed Yavam

Bar Mitzvah Boy and Torah Mitzvos · Bar Mitzvah in a Leap Year · Teaching Weaker Students · Age of Chinuch · Bar Mitzvah Seudah · Bar Mitzvah Speech in Shul · 15 more

Does a Name Affect Destiny · Marrying Someone With a Parent's Name · Name of Avraham Avinu's Mother · Naming a Child After a Rasha · Stepfather's Name for an Aliyah

Filling a Mikvah With Ice · Minimum Size of a Mikvah · Rainwater for a Mikvah

Adopted Son Called to the Torah · Raising an Orphan as One's Own

Thanking a Lender · Ribbis Devarim Verbal Interest · Borrowing Groceries From a Neighbor · Lending With Interest and Resurrection · Repaying a Loan With a Larger Item

Lender's Ownership of Collateral · Unspecified Payment Toward a Debt · What a Creditor Must Leave a Debtor · Borrower Claiming He Returned an Item · Refusing Payment in Unwanted Coins · Repaying Loans Used to Save Lives · 1 more

Indirect Damage Liability · Breaking an Object Already Falling · Learning Nezikin for Protection · Ox That Gores Only on Shabbos · Poisoning a Neighbor's Animal · Damage That Saved a Life · 13 more

Spiking Food to Stop a Thief · Asking Forgiveness After Theft · Borrowers Who Never Return Items · Eating Stolen Food Unknowingly · Paying for Benefit Received · Returning a Stolen Item That Lost Value · 2 more

Keeping Unclaimed Lost Items · Taking the Wrong Coat

Boycotting Price Gouging · Recommending a Cheaper Store · Tenant Farmer and Crop Disaster · Ani Mehapech BaCharara · Kofin Al Middas Sedom · Meddling in Other People's Affairs · 7 more

Forgiving Negligent Workers · A Worker's Right to Quit · Changing an Employee's Shift · Employer's Responsibility When an Agent Dies · Paying Wages for Failed Work · Paying Workers at Day's End · 3 more

Agreements Made Under Duress · Chinese Auction Halacha · Easements and Access Rights · Acquiring a Trapped Animal · Kinyan Chalipin With a Pen · Kinyan Meshichah on an Animal · 6 more

Using a Neighbor's Well Water · Choosing Between Access Routes · Dissolving a Business Partnership · Lost Right of Way to a Field · Public Use of Private Property · Taking the Law Into Your Own Hands

Dividing an Inheritance by Lottery · Paying Off a Parent's Debts · Deathbed Gift to One Sibling · Gift Given for a Specific Need

Eved Ivri Gets the Only Pillow · Eved Ivri Who Becomes Ill · Eved Kenani Status

Annulling Vows Based on New Circumstances · Annulling Your Own Vow · Default Length of Nezirus · Leftover Meat After a Vow · Oath Not to Sleep for Three Days · Saying Bli Neder · 22 more

Trusting Hashem for Parnassah · Following Your Father's Trade · Living Within Your Means · Why People Lose Their Wealth

Humane Execution by Beis Din · Death Penalty in Beis Din · Unanimous Guilty Verdict Acquits · Can a Woman Serve as a Judge · Compromise in Beis Din · Disagreeing With a Mistaken Psak · 4 more

Proving a Boy Reached Bar Mitzvah · Warning Before a Capital Sin · Converted Brothers as Witnesses · Identifying a Body to Free a Widow · Signing a Document With a Symbol · Single Witness in Monetary Cases · 5 more

Doing a Mitzvah Yourself Versus an Agent

Ad VeLo Ad Bichlal · Applying Talmudic Principles to Modern Questions · Authorship of the Mishnah Berurah · Choosing the Lesser of Two Sins · Divine Help in Reaching the Correct Halacha · Following the Later Talmudic Authority · 8 more

Checking Every Chicken for Treifos · Doubts Eliyahu Will Resolve · Majority and Fixed Location in Doubts · Safek Derabbanan Lekula

Rabbinic Control of Food Prices · Raising Chickens in Yerushalayim · Yehoshua's Water Rights Enactments · Food Owned Before a Ban Takes Effect · Maaris Ayin · Raising a Ben Pekua Herd · 1 more

Avoiding Sour Foods on Rosh Hashanah · Celebrating Birthdays in Halacha · Chickpeas at a Shalom Zachar · Following the Customs of a New Home · Following the Customs of Our Fathers · Haircut on Rosh Chodesh · 8 more

Mesorah for Kosher Birds · Decline of the Generations · Innovation Versus Tradition in Judaism · Mesorah for Kosher Animals · Torah and Science

Semichah Under Roman Decree

Anonymous Mishnah With Two Opinions · Disagreeing Without Personal Animosity · Letting Someone Win an Argument · Oven of Achnai

Taking On Stringencies · Chumros at Others' Expense · When Extra Piety Leads Astray · Mocking Others' Stringencies · Pesach Chumros Versus Halacha

Replicating Temple Vessels · Airspace of the Beis HaMikdash · Collection Boxes in the Beis HaMikdash · Fruit Tree Wood on the Mizbeach · Keeping a Stone From the Kosel · Mishkan in Shiloh · 19 more

Lechem HaPanim · Eating Korbanos Like Royalty · Eating the Korban Pesach in Yerushalayim · Eizehu Mekoman · Honey in Korbanos · Korban Chagigah on Erev Pesach · 10 more

Kohen Flying Over a Cemetery · Kohen in a Non-Jewish Cemetery · Matanos Kehunah to a Kohen's Daughter · Kohen at a Tzaddik's Grave · Rotation of the Kohanim's Shifts · Answering Amen to Birkas Kohanim · 16 more

Average Height of a Person in Halacha · Everyone Is Tamei Meis Today · How the Chanukah Oil Became Tamei · Kohanim Walking Under Trees in a Cemetery · Meis Mitzvah · Produce Made Susceptible to Tumah · 7 more

Yerushalayim Destroyed for Strict Justice · Kamtza and Bar Kamtza Story · Takanos After the Churban

Me'ilah for Sound, Sight and Smell · Me'ilah From Temple Stones · Offspring of a Redeemed Blemished Korban

Is Anyone Beyond Teshuvah · Shame That Remains After Atonement · Are Sinners Still Hashem's Children · Atonement After Death · Atonement for Indirectly Causing a Death · Baal Teshuvah Shaving His Head · 8 more

Humility and Torah Greatness · Moshe Admitting He Forgot a Halacha · A Rebbe Learning From His Student · Arrogance as Self-Deception · Arrogance in Torah Learning · Asking Advice From Those Less Great · 7 more

Appreciating What You Have · Birthday as a Day of Thanksgiving · Gratitude to Those Who Protect Us · Saying Goodbye to a Delivery Driver · Thanking Service Workers

Donating Ill-Gotten Money · Admitting a Mistake · Falsifying Torah to Avoid Danger · Honesty in Yeshiva Finances · Keeping a Promise Made in One's Heart · Lies That Will Be Exposed · 5 more

Getting Angry Over Spills · Raising a Hand Against Another Jew · Using Delays to Build Patience

Publicizing a Wrongdoer's Actions · Taking Blame to Spare Another's Shame · Believing Lashon Hara From a Trusted Source · Calling Someone Bald · Excessive Praise and Lashon Hara · Lashon Hara in Front of Three People · 10 more

Misjudging Others' Intentions · Chassid Who Slept in a Cemetery · Confessing to Clear Others of Suspicion · Lying for Shalom Bayis · Suspecting the Innocent · Torah Scholars Increase Peace

Meaning of Yasher Koach · Bilam's Talking Donkey · Judging People by Appearances · Declining Food Without Offending the Host · Fifth Shulchan Aruch · How to Refer to a Convert · 3 more

Calling a Rebbe by His First Name · Daas Torah · Paskening in Front of Your Rebbe · Praising a Dvar Torah · Serving Talmidei Chachamim · Student Who Surpasses His Rebbe · 1 more

Negios and Bias in Judgment · Abandoning a Plan at the Last Stage · Daily Mussar Study · Responsibility for Unintended Consequences · Believing in Someone's Potential · Ben Sorer UMoreh Lesson · 14 more

The Ten Martyrs · Avoiding Suspicion · Arguments That Cause Chillul Hashem · Fear of Ridicule When Doing a Mitzvah · Paying a Bill Promptly · Posing as a Non-Jew to Survive · 2 more

Choosing a Rosh Yeshiva · Famine in the Days of Dovid HaMelech

Overcoming Jealousy of Others' Success

Seeing Potential in Every Jew · Kol Yisrael Areivim Zeh LaZeh · Loving a Wicked Person · Feeling Another’s Pain

Tu B'Av

Responsibility to Protest Wrongdoing · Protesting Public Embarrassment

Desires Behind Disbelief · Needing Heavenly Help Against the Yetzer Hara · Spiritual Struggles and Setbacks · Tzaddikim Struggling With Temptation

Shabbos Spending Repaid From Heaven · Finding the Positive in Hardship · Hidden Providence in World Events · Not Leaving Food for Tomorrow · Bitachon Versus Tefillah · Family Time Versus Communal Work · 5 more

Nakdimon ben Gurion Rain Miracle · Nature as a Hidden Miracle · Miracle of the Ner Maaravi · Miracles for Ordinary People · Hidden Miracles of Purim · Miracles for Resisting Sin · 4 more

Selling Your Share in Olam Haba · Do the Dead Know What Happens Here · Kings With No Share in Olam Haba · Martyrs in Olam Haba

Nations Claiming Reward in the Future · Prayer to Bring Moshiach · Third Beis HaMikdash Built of Fire · Birth Pangs of Moshiach · Sin Delaying Moshiach · Valley of Dry Bones · 1 more

Divine Protection of Tzaddikim From Sin · Rainbow and the Merit of Tzaddikim

Halachic Weight of Dreams

Nichush and Forbidden Divination · Changing a Name as a Segulah · Eliezer's Sign at the Well · Havdalah on Wine Segulah for Children · Ketores Parchment Segulah · Praying on Your Birthday · 3 more

Angels in the Purim Story · Angels Not Singing at Krias Yam Suf · Let Us Make Man Meaning · What Sheidim Are

Death of Yeshayahu HaNavi · Elisha and the Bears · How Many Times Hashem Spoke to Yonah · Moshe's Forty Days Without Food or Sleep · Yonah's Refusal to Go to Ninveh

Drawing the Sun and Moon · Aharon and the Golden Calf · Making Sculptures of People · Pictures of the Moon in Textbooks · Worshipped Water Sources · Bowing to an Official Wearing Idols · 6 more

How Long Can a Person Stay Awake · Medicines From Non-Kosher Animals · Two Travelers With One Canteen · Walking After Eating · Choosing the Lesser Melacha in an Emergency · Doctors Charging for Medical Care · 10 more

Burial of Jews With Tattoos · Burying Objects With the Deceased · Saying HaMakom Yenachem · Shemuah Rechokah · Telling Someone a Relative Died · Waiting for the Mourner to Speak First · 1 more

Misinterpreting the Actions of Gedolim

Opening the Freezer on Shabbos · Self-Driving Cars on Shabbos · Texting on Shabbos · Voice-Activated Devices on Shabbos

Pope's 1964 Visit to Israel · Translation of the Torah Into Greek · 1848 Cholera Yom Kippur in Vilna · Burial of the Beitar Victims · Derech HaOfel Road History · Granada Massacre of 1066 · 7 more

Making Aliyah on Yom Tov Sheni · Dividing Eretz Yisrael by Lottery · Learning Torah in Eretz Yisrael · Reunification of Jerusalem in 1967 · Meaning of Me'aras HaMachpelah · Owning Land in Eretz Yisrael · 1 more

Converts From Amalek · Ger Toshav Before Conversion · Answering Christian Virgin Birth Claims · Convert Is Like a Newborn · Converts in Positions of Leadership · Moabite Converts and Dovid's Lineage · 1 more

Feeding Stray Dogs on Shabbos · Muzzling Animals to Prevent Theft · Understanding the Speech of Trees · Vegetarianism in Judaism

Davening on an Airplane · Davening While Driving · Saying Tefillas HaDerech After Another Bracha · Adding Personal Requests to Tefillas HaDerech · Crossing the Date Line During Sefirah · Emergency Landing for a Sick Passenger · 2 more

Is an Unwitting Attacker a Rodef · Sacrificing One Life to Save Many