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Halachos of Daily Living

Halachos of Zeicher Lechurban What is the proper way for one to make a year round zecher l’Churban (a remembrance of the destruction of Yerushalayim and the Beis HaMikdash) in the construction of one’s home? One who builds a new…

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Corresponding Respect: Privacy in Personal Mail

Rav Yitzchak Grossman Shlit”a, Dayan and Lecturer at the Bais HaVaad Reading the Correspondence of Others Parshas Shelach contains the tragic narrative of the spies sent to survey the Land of Canaan. While their task was to observe and to…

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Eric Garner: A Police Force to be Reckoned With

Are Police Above the Law? Rabbi Micha Cohn On July 17, 2014, Eric Garner died in the New York City borough of Staten Island after Daniel Pantaleo, a New York City Police Department (NYPD) officer, put him in a chokehold while arresting him, and was subsequently…

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Daf Yomi in Halacha Topics Parshas Vaeschanan

Meseches Temurah Daf 28 - 34 Paying for the Prohibited: Part I Paying for the Prohibited: Part 2 Paying for the Prohibited: Part 3 The Kashrus of Gelatin & Confectioner’s Glaze The Broken Pittam Are my Chanukah Candles Treif? Siyum:…

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Halachos of Daily living

Halachos of Tefillas Haderech I had just started out on a business trip and recited Tefilas Haderech, and then my boss called to cancel the trip. Am I obligated to travel a parsah out of the city so that the bracha should not be a bracha…

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Ribbis: Matters of Interest

FILLING UP THE GAS TANK Sometimes a person lending their car to a friend may request that the car be returned with the same amount of gas as when it was lent. Is this an issue of ribbis (seah beseah)?…

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HEAR MY TESTIMONY: KRIAS SHEMA BY PROXY

The pasuk of vedibarta bam- Gemara: teaches that a person’s primary speech should be Torah. Yerushalmi- teaches that certain obligations can only be fulfilled by the person himself. It isn’t sufficient to just listen to another person and discharge his…

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RAISING THE MINIMUM WAGE

Halacha and Minimum Wage Regulation / By Rav Yitchak Grossman, Rosh Chaburah, Senior Lecturer Greater Washington Community Kollel and Dayan at The Bais HaVaad Increasing the minimum wage is in the national debate again. In this article, we consider the…

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